Ads that make you do a double take

[Gotherella]

I'm listening to the TV and I hear: "Wouldn't it be nice if everything in your life were soft and comfortable?"

Okay, so I'm thinking maybe a Tempurpedic or Charmin ad or something. Then it goes on:

"Dulcolax stool softeners..." Aaaaaaaagh! No! No! Reaching for the remote....

"It doesn't make you have to go, but it makes it more comfortable when you do."

Too late.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

The period commercials they have these days look like an Aaron Carter video.

[Denyse]

Dude...That's just so wrong.

[psychofiend]

You bet your sweet Apercreme!
http://akimages.crossmediaservices.com/dyn_li/200.0.88.0/Retailers/MarshSupermarkets/aspercreme_05703cf.jpg

[jjcourtright]

The period commercials they have these days look like an Aaron Carter video.Does your thin pad stay moist and sticky? What the fuck is that about?

[Gotherella]

The period commercials they have these days look like an Aaron Carter video.

My daughter asked me, "Mom, why does mother nature put her periods wherever she wants?"

[Gotherella]

You bet your sweet Apercreme!
http://akimages.crossmediaservices.com/dyn_li/200.0.88.0/Retailers/MarshSupermarkets/aspercreme_05703cf.jpg

"Yes, Preparation H does feel good...on the whole." -- Scotty Don't

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Does your thin pad stay moist and sticky? What the fuck is that about?
Pad companies are trying to 'pimp out' a feature called 'Dry Weave' that 'locks' leaks dry so it doesn't have a huge odor.

Actually, I have no flippin' clue. :D

[ILovePapaSmurf]

My daughter asked me, "Mom, why does mother nature put her periods wherever she wants?"
Awww how cute!

[Matt1]

Not really, considering she's 25.

[jjcourtright]

Pad companies are trying to 'pimp out' a feature called 'Dry Weave' that 'locks' leaks dry so it doesn't have a huge odor. I just threw up a little bit.

Edit:Re-read my post to make sure it was cool...and I threw up a little bit more.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

I just threw up a little bit.

Edit:Re-read my post to make sure it was cool...and I threw up a little bit more.
Hey, you asked!

[jjcourtright]

I was just wondering what the fuck it was doing on during something other than a soap opera. I know that I fit right into the key 18-54 male demographic, but no matter how many times they pimp their non-moist non-sticky pad to me...I'm not gonna buy it.

[DarthMaulRat]

I recently saw ads for shower wipes, for when you don't have time to shower. Nothing too crazy, but it makes me think of the simpsons episode where Flander's vegas wife asks where the wetnaps are.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

I was just wondering what the fuck it was doing on during something other than a soap opera. I know that I fit right into the key 18-54 male demographic, but no matter how many times they pimp their non-moist non-sticky pad to me...I'm not gonna buy it.
They are making pad commercials seem like having your period is cool, when in fact, it five days of hell. Ok, so I am overreacting, but still.

[FanGirl]

I just hate how they keep changing the designs every couple of months. You never know what marketing gimmick they are going to go for this week. Wings or no wings. Longer, short. Then there was the whole symbol instead of just labeling the kind it was like a hot air ballon meant overnight. Makes no sense to me, but there is no way on god's green earth I would ever use the reusable/washable kind. EWWWWWWWWW!

[Dave]

backing away from "female issues" and back to Ads that make you do a double take, the Geico commercial "Tiny House" totally fooled me the first time i saw it. It's so well done that i actually want to see the show. "Not Awesome", indeed.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

I just hate how they keep changing the designs every couple of months. You never know what marketing gimmick they are going to go for this week. Wings or no wings. Longer, short. Then there was the whole symbol instead of just labeling the kind it was like a hot air ballon meant overnight. Makes no sense to me, but there is no way on god's green earth I would ever use the reusable/washable kind. EWWWWWWWWW!
"Honey, will you add bleach to the load with the pads?"

That is just nasty!

[ILovePapaSmurf]

backing away from "female issues" and back to Ads that make you do a double take, the Geico commercial "Tiny House" totally fooled me the first time i saw it. It's so well done that i actually want to see the show. "Not Awesome", indeed.
Dave, I fucking love that commercial so much!

[Jason_Brown]

Tiny House is genius.

The wife yelling "Are you kidding me!" while she rejects her husband's amorous advances (under the night vision cam, no less) kills me, every time. :D

[Dave]

yeah, she has got the pitch down and everything, it seems very real, and that's what's great about it. Love Tiny House, so Awesome.

[ratm1966]

I like the Geico one where the guy is at the kitchen table reading a paper and the wife walks in.

She asks, "Honey do these pants make me look fat?"
Not paying attention to her, he say, "You betcha."
She gives him that look and then walks away.

The announcer then comes on and says....

"In the time it takes you to pull out the sleeper sofa, you could've saved hundreds of dollars on Geico Insurance."

That one cracks me up all of the time.....:D :D :D

[Matt1]

The best Geico commercials are the one's with the cavemen. Those are priceless.

[Gotherella]

The best Geico commercials are the one's with the cavemen. Those are priceless.

"Not cool, man! NOT cool!"

[JK]

Dairy Queen was running an ad a while back for some sort of burger with peppers or pepperjack cheese... anyway, it some sort of hot and spicy burger... the guy was sitting at his desk and took a bite. When he wiped his mouth the napkin caught on fire... from there, the hilarity ensued...

[Efexeye]

Anyone remember the anti-drug ads a while back that said if you did drugs, you were responsible for funding terrorism? Those made me physcially ill- along with the ones where the kid high on pot shoots his buddy by accident, the car full of kids coming out of the drive-through smoking weed runs over the toddler on the bicycle, etc....

But, yeah, the period commercials gross me out too. How come the fluid they use to show the effectiveness of their products is always this nice, cool blue color? Who are they trying to kid?

[JK]

Anyone remember the anti-drug ads a while back that said if you did drugs, you were responsible for funding terrorism?

Yeah, they also ran ads saying if you drove an SUV, you supported terrorism...

http://home.comcast.net/~joehulon/meandthejeep.jpg

LOOK AT ME!!! SUPPORTING TERRORISM!!!

whatever...

[slizzelizzel]

I don't know... I always considered Jeeps just Utility Vehicles, not Sport utility vehicles.

They add the 'Sport' when the vehicle is never, ever, ever intended to be used on off road terrain.

[JK]

Most people see the 4X4 and make the assumption. In any case, I actually drive a Humvee Recovery Unit.

[ozchick]

I just hate how they keep changing the designs every couple of months. You never know what marketing gimmick they are going to go for this week. Wings or no wings. Longer, short. Then there was the whole symbol instead of just labeling the kind it was like a hot air ballon meant overnight. Makes no sense to me, but there is no way on god's green earth I would ever use the reusable/washable kind. EWWWWWWWWW!

Actually the brand I use has taken to putting bits of trivia on the wrappers! So now they're educational too! And stupid mindless trivia too like bats not having eyelids or some such BS.

[FanGirl]

My favorite commercial to this day was an Orange juice ad.

Mom: Tommy, drink your orange juice.
Tommy: I won't do anything unless Robert Loggia says to.

Robert loggia appears in the kitchen.

Robert: Drink your orange juice, kid. it's filled with vitamins, etc.

Tommy: Wow, Robert Loggia.

[actualsize]

The best Geico commercials are the one's with the cavemen. Those are priceless.

The newest Geico spot using Speed Racer footage is awesome.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

The newest Geico spot using Speed Racer footage is awesome.
Ha, I saw that this morning and was laughing for about 5 minutes straight.

However, my favorite Gieco commercials featured the squirrels.

[Denyse]

Favorite commercial of all time...for California Cheese.

Two cows, sleeping in a barn. Rooster crows. One cow says to the other, "Should I hit snooze?" Cut to the rooster flying (involuntarily) out the barn door and hitting the side of the house. I laughed so hard, I peed a little.

[Gotherella]

Just saw an ad for Lunesta, a prescription sleep aid.

"Side effects may include headache, a bad taste in the mouth, drowsiness and dizziness."

[bwdial]

I don't know how many of you play golf, let alone watch the Golf Channel, but there is an ad for the Cleveland Launcher driver that pokes fun at the Cialis/Levitra ads. Starts off with a guy trying to hit balls through a tire swing but they just fall off the tee. The announcer asks "Do you suffer from trajectile dysfunction?" Then it shows his wife watching him pound ball after ball through the swing, just like in the Levitra ads where the dude is throwing the football. Then the announcer talks about the "side effects", focusing on "length" and how if it lasts for more than 4 hours...play 36.
Enhance your distance.
Naturally, safely and permanently.

[jjcourtright]

backing away from "female issues" and back to Ads that make you do a double take, the Geico commercial "Tiny House" totally fooled me the first time i saw it. It's so well done that i actually want to see the show. "Not Awesome", indeed.While the Tiny House ad is awesome(I would love to see that show), it is terrible as an ad as I would have no idea what it was for had you not told me. Gieco puts a gecko in their ads...then I know what the ad is for.

[Dave]

Gecko has a whole campaign of non-gecko ads, the Tiny House one, Speed Racer, the fake Old Navy Ad, i'm sure there are more... as far as how well they work, that's a different story.

[bwdial]

Gecko has a whole campaign of non-gecko ads, the Tiny House one, Speed Racer, the fake Old Navy Ad, i'm sure there are more... as far as how well they work, that's a different story.

We're talking about them aren't we? ;)

[actualsize]

We're talking about them aren't we? ;)

Yes, but do you insure your car with them? Does their smart-assedness make you want to give them money?

[jjcourtright]

[shrugs]
Changing insurance seems like waaaay to big a hassle.

[actualsize]

Yeah, but these ads really have changed their image, IMHO. They used to be the bare bones, no-frills Government Employees Insurance COmpany when I used to work for the D.O.D. You had to be a governemrnt employee, or related to one, to "join" and buy insurance from them, if memory serves me correctly.

But I'm still with you - I'm not changing insurance just because they use Speed Racer cartoons in their ads - although using racing to sell car insurance is a bit ironic.

[Dave]

I had them, and switched to Progressive.

[bwdial]

Yes, but do you insure your car with them? Does their smart-assedness make you want to give them money?

No. But I'd rather "sandpaper the asshole of an alligator in a phone booth"* than change insurance companies.


*Ron White...Drunk In Public

[Denyse]

No. But I'd rather "sandpaper the asshole of an alligator in a phone booth"* than change insurance companies.


*Ron White...Drunk In Public

Shouldn't that be Ron "Tater Salad" White?

[bwdial]

Shouldn't that be Ron "Tater Salad" White?

Are you required to put nicknames in footnotes? ;)

[psychofiend]

It's just too bad that "loose lips sink ships" was already used in the 40s because it would have been great for a vagisil ad.

[Denyse]

Fuck dude...Do you kiss your mom with that mouth???
Please!

[psychofiend]

Fuck dude...Do you kiss your mom with that mouth???
Please!
I only kiss one girl on the mouth...

Yeah... meeting her is the only good thing about working at Friendly's.

[Threadkiller]

Yeah... meeting her is the only good thing Does she have any idea just how deep bordering on stalker your obsession with her runs?

[ratm1966]

Newest Burger King Commercial

Brandon is scratching off a scratch and win card; he wins $1,000,000. The doorbell rings and he answers it....Darth Vader is at the door.

Vader: Brandon.....I am your father.
Brandon: No you're not, you just want my money.
Vader: Brandon.....I am your uncle.

Brandon slams the door in his face.

[highriskrc]

My favorite commerical is a Geico commercial where a guy is sitting at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee reading the newspaper while, with the coffee cup in his hand he turns his wrist so he can see the time on his watch, depositing the coffee in his lap.

[actualsize]

My favorite commerical is a Geico commercial where a guy is sitting at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee reading the newspaper while, with the coffee cup in his hand he turns his wrist so he can see the time on his watch, depositing the coffee in his lap.
I actually did that once - with a boiling cup of hot water for tea - while wearing shorts. Raised up a blister 2 inches in diameter on my "inner thigh." Ouch.

THanks for triggering that long forgotten memory.

[ratm1966]

I actually did that once - with a boiling cup of hot water for tea - while wearing shorts. Raised up a blister 2 inches in diameter on my "inner thigh." Ouch.

THanks for triggering that long forgotten memory.
That is why you wear your watch so the face of it is facing into your body. This way, when someone tries to get you to spill your hot coffee on yourself by asking you the time, you will have to turn your wrist out and not in to see it. This will spill the coffee in their direction.

[actualsize]

Another thing someone told me to try is this: Just after you see someone look at their watch to check the time, ask them what time it is. 90% of the time they'll look at their watch again. I've tried it, and it works!

[Matt1]

I think I just witnessed the ultimate "What the fuck?" commercial.

Download it Here (http://www.adrants.com/images/model_miners.mpeg).

Highlight the text below for my take on it. I don't want to spoil it before you watch it.


Black-lung never looked so fuckable.

[JK]

Re: the text I don't want to quote because it might spoil it for others...

I'm sure my great-great grandfather would agree...

[Matt1]

I'm not one of those liberals who thinks that all Multinational corporations are evil, deceptive, soulless fucks, but if anyone was to ever try and convince me of that, that ad would go a long way towards it.

[Dave]

Agreed, i can't wait for the follow up where they show hot sweaty models tearing the top off of a mountian.

[actualsize]

"Imagination at work" indeed!

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Coal; It's for sexy people now.

[Mighty Wingman]

Coal; It's for sexy people now.

Or how about , Coal : it does a body good.

or

Got Coal ?

[actualsize]

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and....Coal.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Okay, the new GM On-star ads with the Salt-N-Pepa song "Push It" (a song about fucking) enticing customers to push the On-star button so they'll know where they are or something. The latest ad I saw made me cover my eyes:

An outdoor park, we see shots of dads pushing their kids on the swings, with one father just standing behind his joyless daughter, refusing to use the required force to propell her forward. Cut to another father, staring at the first father, then cut back to the lazy dad.

Voice Over says: "Saving that push for something really good?"
Cue Salt-N-Pepa song.

Am I looking too far into this, or is this the worst imagery for any commercial I've ever seen? How did the ad-wizards let this one slip by?

And while parusing the GM site, looking for the commercials so I could post a link to those, these ads (http://www.gm.com/company/onlygm/) look strikingly similar to the Pre-Crime ads from Minority Report.

[FanGirl]

If advertising changes to what it was in Minority Report, I am moving to the woods and will make my own clothes and food. I think that was the most horrifing part of that movie when he goes into the Gap store. *shudders*

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Oh, but you know as soon as that technology becomes available, that'll be the first thing that is done with it.

[FanGirl]

*shudders*

[Robbo_the_Hood]

In the words of the Million Dollar Man, Ted Dibiase, "Everyone has a price."

[The Other Dude]

It's just so sad that the general public is so stupid.

<')////)<
That's it for the other one.

[Mighty Wingman]

How about this one. (http://poststuff2.entensity.net/050905/media.php?media=blaupunkt.wmv )

*Edited * Sorry, try again.

[slizzelizzel]

I don't know, how about it?:

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[actualsize]

*Edited * Sorry, try again.

It works! That one IS hilarious. It reminds my of what is going on in the "We haven't tried this in awhile" thread. Which one's PSYCHO?

[JK]

There is an ad we're running to promote the new Gilligan's Island... The first time it aired, I nearly had a stroke, just from the blood rushin' to and fro...

It's a 60 second spot featuring Mary Ann and Ginger fighting over what is so good about coconut cream pie... Holy Crap! I don't know how that ad got past S&P... Sixty seconds of pure softcore...

I need some water... throat's dry...

[actualsize]

There is an ad we're running to promote the new Gilligan's Island... Sixty seconds of pure softcore...
Link????????????

[JK]

Link????????????

I wish...

Let me dig around.

[actualsize]

I wish...

Let me dig around.
"We're"? Do you work for CN? This newb doesn't know.

[JK]

"We're"? Do you work for CN? This newb doesn't know.

I work for TBS.

This is a link to the page where you can view the 60 second ad. Unfortunately, (or fortunately) you can only download it between 10pm and 5am... It's that good :D :D :D It even gets three big grin smileys...

http://tbs.com/stories/story/0,,49762,00.html

[actualsize]

This is a link to the page where you can view the 60 second ad. Unfortunately, (or fortunately) you can only download it between 10pm and 5am... It's that good :D :D :D It even gets three big grin smileys...

http://tbs.com/stories/story/0,,49762,00.html
Dude, the 30 second spot is good on it's own. I can only imagine the 60 second spot.

[ratm1966]

Okay, the new GM On-star ads with the Salt-N-Pepa song "Push It" (a song about fucking) enticing customers to push the On-star button so they'll know where they are or something. The latest ad I saw made me cover my eyes:

An outdoor park, we see shots of dads pushing their kids on the swings, with one father just standing behind his joyless daughter, refusing to use the required force to propell her forward. Cut to another father, staring at the first father, then cut back to the lazy dad.

Voice Over says: "Saving that push for something really good?"
Cue Salt-N-Pepa song.

Am I looking too far into this, or is this the worst imagery for any commercial I've ever seen? How did the ad-wizards let this one slip by?

And while parusing the GM site, looking for the commercials so I could post a link to those, these ads (http://www.gm.com/company/onlygm/) look strikingly similar to the Pre-Crime ads from Minority Report.
That is actually an advertisement for a contest that GM is having. There are several different adds for it. I think the contest entails that while looking at certain GM vehicles, you can push the On-Star button and I think depending on what happens next, you can win a new vehicle.

The people in the commercials are saving up their pushes for when they get a cahnce to push an On-Star button.

[JK]

http://tbs.com/stories/story/0,,49762,00.html


:D :D :D

Did I mention this is up now? (between 10p and 5a)

[actualsize]

Did I mention this is up now? (between 10p and 5a)

Yeah, I saw it. Not really a double take though. More like a quadruple take.:D
Oh, and the kiddes here on the west coast can see it before they go to bed it's on at 7:00 pm. :eek:

[Robbo_the_Hood]

The people in the commercials are saving up their pushes for when they get a cahnce to push an On-Star button.Oh, I get what the song is trying to say, but it's the song that really made me do a double-take. It's clearly a song about fucking. It is ingrained in our psyche as a song about fucking. I'll put it this way: I compare that commercial's imagery to the "Brown Eyed Girl"/catheter scene in Born on the Fourth of July.

[slizzelizzel]

I just saw one of those GM OnStar commercials! They might as well just have kids saying "Why don't you have OnStar, mommy? Do you want me to die?" Not to mention the fact that they are playing The Long and Winding road in the background. I hate how all of these companies are using Beatles and Who songs in their ads, it's getting to be ridiculus.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

The new Pepto-Bismol (http://www.pepto-bismol.com/) campaign made me blush.

[TLS]

That cowboy cracked me up. Just the look on his face was hysterical.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

I wasn't talking about the cowboy. Click past that pop-under, and look at their new slogan.

[Zens7s]

I wasn't talking about the cowboy. Click past that pop-under, and look at their new slogan.
Just remember Robbo...

PINK DOES MORE THAN YOU THINK! :D

[jjcourtright]

I wasn't talking about the cowboy. Click past that pop-under, and look at their new slogan.That made my eyes go all big. You know the ad designer is giggling everytime he sees his commercial.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

And it's talking about Cherries, and it's just all so dirty. I can't believe that slip through. I bet people will buy Pepto Bismol just because of the double entendre.

[TLS]

Oh, OH! That's dirty, but funny cause they don't know (or do they?)

[acid_soda]

You know what they say...


sex sells!

[Zens7s]

You know what they say...


sex sells!Then why the hell do I keep giving it away for free?

[Zen looks frustrated and kicks ground]

[acid_soda]

If only I could think of a smooth comeback to that...

[jjcourtright]

...she is helping out the less fortunate in our country.