Commercial rant time...

[Drtooth]

The voice of Grandma in this ad sounds like the spokesperson for Popeye's chicken. Buy a knee brace and get two sides and a biscuit free.

Actually, it sounds more like the host of Popeye and Friends... a terrible local TV show I've mentioned in this thread.

As in, completely uninterested in her work, if you don't want to follow that link and watch the clip.

Dear GLOB! Okay... Rabbit hole time. I was going to make an addition here about those poorly produced tax specialists they advertise on weekday syndication and I found a jackpot of puke.

First up, a commercial that uses looping stock CGI animations of doctors giving thumbs up and running.

Next up, a terribly animated sea captain begs you to use his services.

Now, the "urban" version of the kneew brace commercial. "Urban" never sounded as painful a euphemism for black until now.

Then I found the motherload.

Entire channels devoted to these terrible commercials...I think they're the actual production companies that fart these things out.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqHgNK3CjYyZtyam4FV2_gg/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/AirtimeAds/videos

The HORROR! The HORROR!

 

[D'Snowth]

Well I guess the most recent Cheetos commercial is going to draw in a firestorm of controversy over the family camping being a black father and daughter, and a white mother and son.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

Well I guess the most recent Cheetos commercial is going to draw in a firestorm of controversy over the family camping being a black father and daughter, and a white mother and son.

Surprised Daniel Tiger's neighborhood hasn't gotten any flack for this. One of the characters on that show has a black dad and a white mom.

 

[Drtooth]

Well I guess the most recent Cheetos commercial is going to draw in a firestorm of controversy over the family camping being a black father and daughter, and a white mother and son.

You know what ticked me off? There was this absolutely sweet commercial for Campbell's Star Wars soups with a baby and his gay fathers. The whole joke ran on the lame father type humor of bad Darth Vader impersonations of "I am your father." "NO! I am your father!" The kind of unfunny but heartwarming joke a father tells to his son. It was one of the sweetest commercials I've ever seen.

And then came "One Million Moms," the fundamentalist group of not moms and there's certainly not one million of them. They wrote a press release that actually sounded like Vader. Campbells didn't boldly stick up and say "you're a bunch of angry internet jerks and we refuse to let those who whine about how we're pushing an agenda push us into their own agenda" like Archie Comics did. Nope. They backed off in a cartoonishly cowardly way and pulled the commercial faster than something something Star Wars spacecraft reference.

 

[mr3urious]

You know what ticked me off? There was this absolutely sweet commercial for Campbell's Star Wars soups with a baby and his gay fathers. The whole joke ran on the lame father type humor of bad Darth Vader impersonations of "I am your father." "NO! I am your father!" The kind of unfunny but heartwarming joke a father tells to his son. It was one of the sweetest commercials I've ever seen.

And then came "One Million Moms," the fundamentalist group of not moms and there's certainly not one million of them. They wrote a press release that actually sounded like Vader. Campbells didn't boldly stick up and say "you're a bunch of angry internet jerks and we refuse to let those who whine about how we're pushing an agenda push us into their own agenda" like Archie Comics did. Nope. They backed off in a cartoonishly cowardly way and pulled the commercial faster than something something Star Wars spacecraft reference.

My ABC affiliate actually recently played that commercial during a break of the muppets. So are you sure it was pulled nationwide?

 

[Drtooth]

Hmmm. I haven't seen it, especially since last night. Maybe it still exists in some areas. Hopefully this thing still exists out there and will get more airtime.

But anyway, I'll just hand things over to Colbert...

Back to the bad advertisements I posted.

I...I think the company that makes them is called Low Cost Commercials. UGH. Well, at least there's truth in advertising there.

 

[Drtooth]

Hmmm... you're right. The commercial all the sudden started back up again. Glad to see that Campbells didn't cower to the whines of the few.

Anyway, I have a small side rant. I'm really sick of seeing the son of Mr. Italy tours commercial. It's not by any means a bad or unprofessional ad, just one they seem to run every commercial break. Seems like a cable thing, how they patch in their own commercials, but it's like every other break, there's that darn ad again.

 

[D'Snowth]

Speaking of gay commercials, I recently saw one for Las Vegas: it starts with a hetero couple checking into a swanky hotel, to which the desk clerk asks, "You two checking in?" The couple just exchange lovey-dovey glances with each other. Then later, two men walk up to the front desk, and are asked the same question: "You two checking in?" The two men exchange cheeky looks with each other. Then you have the tagline: "What happens here stays here." I'm not gay, but I found it to be an amusing little commercial myself.

 

[D'Snowth]

Guess what, Drtooth? TBS just aired that Campbells commercial with the two fathers during THE WIZARD OF OZ tonight.

 

[Drtooth]

I mentioned this in the Sesame Street parade float thread, but I think it deserves a good tongue-lashing here.

Anyone else catch that disgusting commercial for "Biggest Loser: Temptation Nation?" Now, I'm not really one of those "is nothing sacred" types, but I'm going full Sam the Eagle mode on that one.

For those who haven't seen it, it's just inspirational patriotic music playing over footage of national landmarks with food superimposed on them. As if to say "you're all fat fatsos and you should be ashamed of being so fat!" UGH. Now, I've said before this thinspirational nasty little show is pure exploitation and the audience consists of people with great metabolism making fun of the fatties running around and crying. But now they have to be this... up their own butts about it? And "Temptation Nation." How completely classy and not at all exploitational at all.