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Whoami

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate the ones that has "Kid makes mess" and "Mom smiles at sweet messy kid while she cleans up after him."

Like the one I've ranted about before, where the kid scribbles all over the furniture, and Mom smiles at her sweet kid and waits patiently for him to stop scribbling so she can polish it up with her handy dandy furniture polish.

Or the one where the Mom tells her son to wipe his mouth, and he wipes it on his shirt sleeve. Then she just smiles at him and walks away (to do laundry I presume). HELLO! Give the kid a napkin for one thing....

Seems like these just help kids watching that its cute to be destructive and make messes!

Or the "Momma keeps the house clean with Clorox" commercials. AHHHHGGGGHHHHHH!

Midlifer

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 12:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The one that makes my hubby crazy is the JCPenny one where the dad is home with the toddler who is acting up, and the mom is out shopping. The dad looks so stupid/helpless, my hubby thinks it's a real insult to men. And I have to agree with him because he was always a "hands on" type of dad.

Whoami

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Those JCP commercials were probably my very first gripe in the original Critiquing Commercials thread Midlifer!

I agree with your husband, it's an insult to men, making them seem clueless and useless. But its also an insult to women, making it seem they are supposed to be home taking care of the kids!

It just galls me they keep cranking those commercials out. If I hadn't already boycotted JCP over 20 years ago because of a bad experience with them, I would most certainly make sure NOT to patronize them over those commercials!

Heyltslori

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 01:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't you guys think that the marketing dept. could have come up with a better name than "Don't Mop With Dirty Water Again Pine-Sol" ??

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about "This will make your floor really clean Pine-Sol"?

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Or maybe,"Buy this Pine-sol,or we'll send a really big guy with a baseball bat to your Front Door"?

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe,"Don't brush your teeth again,but you're floor will be really clean Pine-sol."

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Hamsters are Wimpy Pets Pine-sol"?

Not1worry

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 05:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have never, ever heard of Suavizante. Is it even real? Why would I care about comparing Downy to it if I've never heard of it.

If my kids sing the theme song to the RoomStore again, I'll tape their mouths. "We put it all together and save you more, at the RooooomStore".

Not a commerical, but the produce guy at Bi-Lo practically forces my kids and I to try a pluot. Its a plum/apricot combo fruit. He would not take no for an answer and by then the kids really wanted to taste it. Now they've decided they are great, and we must have them at all time. They're like $2.67 a lb.! Yeah, let's hook the kids on the expensive fruit.

Midlifer

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 03:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami....I'm just curious...what bad experience did you have with JCP? I don't really shop there anyway because I think that they're overpriced with inferior products, especially clothes. Now, I must say, they do have good underwear.

Whoami

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 11:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll go to your folder and explain Midlifer, so I don't go all OT for this thread!

Calamity

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Jell-O commercial with the three girls in white outfits who dance to some old tinny-sounding record always makes me smile.
(Of course, being a vegetarian I don’t eat gelatin so the marketing effort is actually wasted on me - but I still think it’s a fun ad.) :)

Wargod

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 10:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw this one a few minutes ago and can't stop laughing. The California cheese commercial, where the cows are penned in, standing in the snow. One cow says, "did you hear, Sadie made a break for it. She's going to California." All the cows start passing the info down the line, 2nd cows ask when Sadie left, 1st cow says 2 days ago...and they show Sadie about 100 ft away from the fence, trudging through the snow. One of the cows says, "well, she is facing a head wind."

Bonnyswan

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite commercial is still the one from a few years ago....two kids are making beds (i think) and talking about what they are gonna spend their allowance on....as their mom listens in from around the corner the older boy has a normal kid response (cant remember what exactly)then he asked his little brother "what are you gonna get?"...the little boy says "tampax tampons"....his brother asks why....and the little one replys "because you can go swimming and horseback riding and camping....."

still cracks me up and they dont even show it anymore...

Donut

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok, tell me if i am really wierd, but for some reason the Food Network commercials about the young guy marrying the old lady who cooks, cracks me up everytime. I never get tired of it.
I liked the first one where he is all over her and she says,'not now you bad boy,i cooking', and i like the second one where his friends are chiding him about marrying her while he just stares at her across the room as she waggles her finger and smiles at him. I love that finger waggle..
All their ads are pretty good. I like the 'tastes just like mapani worms, tastes just like chicken' one too..

Melfie1222

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 07:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Donut, I love the food network commercials!! the first one you mentioned is my favorite... I also like the one with the guy on the park bench with a big tray of shrimp, tossing them to a bunch of people standing around like they are pigeons or squirrels... they all scatter when a little kid comes running through.

Although, that one is a lot like another one for some candy bar, Snickers maybe? where a lady is on a park bench tossing almonds down to the ground and there's one guy crouched down like a squirrel and she says "oh would you like an almond? you're a big fella, aren't you?" not sure which commercial came first but I think they are both cute...

Mack

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 11:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yesterday my wife and I were sitting on the couch watching TV. A commercial for KY Warming Lotion came on. When it finished my wife remarked that she'd "now seen it all" in a distressed way. She asked me could I imagine a husband would go to his wife and suggest such a thing. Forgetting my role of husband....I'm a shrink....I answer "yes". Wrong answer..... :-(

Not1worry

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 12:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The kids and I were watching the gymnastics competition yesterday and saw some beer commerical that was a riot. Guy is walking his really, really hairy dog, sort of like a black-haired sheep dog. All the bars have no pets signs. Next thing you know he's plopped the dog on his head and walked in doing a bad Bob Marley acccent. It made for the most enormous head of dreadlocks ever. He got his beer, though.

Ryanc829

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 03:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Anyone else think the popcorn chicken commercial where the dad lets the kid drive in return for sharing his popcorn chicken is getting old?

Whoami

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 03:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes Ryan, that is a dumb commercial!

Has anyone seen that Tampax Pearl commercial, where the girl puts her tampax on the window sill (dumb to do, but no commercial if she didn't!), and it falls out, and down two stories. She looks through the cabinet, and is not happy with what is there. The next shot is the people at the party downstairs talking. Behind them, you see a chain of something being lowered down...the girl is using it to retrieve her tampax. What is that thing? I keep trying to figure out what it is, but can't. Mom thinks it's a chain of "other brand" tampons tied together...but what is used at the end to pick up the run-away tampax? I saw one variation of the commercial, where she uses a toilet paper roll. But that's only been on once.

I'm just dumb I guess! Its probably something very simple, and I'm going to be very embarrassed when someone enlightens me.

Bonnyswan

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 06:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wish I could help cause Ive seen the commercial a bunch of times Whoami, but Ive only seen the toilet paper version...maybe it WAS a rope of tied together tampons and they were made to change it...thats my only guess.

Froggiegirl621

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 07:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's a chain of "other brand" tampons with a sanitary pad attached to the bottom, sticky side out, to pick up the Tampax Pearl. I saw the other version with the toilet paper roll, but that only aired maybe once or twice here...the tampon chain one airs all the time!

Galelia

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 07:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami - I saw that commercial too. It looked like a bunch of tampons tied together with a maxi-pad sticky side out to pick up the tampon she dropped.

Weird commercial.

Ryanc829

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 10:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm sure we've been here, but when did they start being honest about what these products are for? I mean, wasn't the purpose of using blue liquid in these commercials so that we could lie to ourselves? Maybe it's a guy thing, but...

I DON'T WANNA KNOW!

Strawberry

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love the MCI commercial and it has Kieffer Sutherland doing the voice over. Always makes me smile :)