<p>I posted a comment on the political forum about the ‘ick’ factor in the pistachio ad starring (for want of a better word) Levi Johnston. It made me cringe. And some of their other ads do as well. But it really has made me wonder what these people are smoking sometimes - both the people who came up with these sort of ideas for ads *and *the people who said “ooh yea - great idea - that’ll sell our nuts” I would honestly have thought there would be at least one person in the room who would go ‘ugh, no thanks’ when an ad agency presented an idea like that - I know I would. Doesn’t make me want to run out and buy pistachios - quite the opposite in fact. </p>
<p>Do companies really think these sort of ads are a good thing? I know I am talking about it which they may think means it works. But this is not in a good way. I don’t normally think ugh when I think of pistachios and it may be a while before i buy them again!!</p>
<p>I have just seen it once but what I recall is Levi and some tall guy who says “Now Levi does it with protection” then a picture of a pistachio nut.</p>
<p>Apparently on the pistachio web site they add the comment ‘no babies were made in the making of this ad’.</p>
<p>I totally agree. I saw it and told my husband that I refuse to buy those nuts from a company that would use him for their advertising. You know they do it for the outrageousness of it – like the No Excuses jeans campaign from a while back who used Gary Hart’s mistress as its spokesmodel. Ugh!</p>
<p>A little old lady came into the clinic where I’m rotating and asked me if she could get prescribed some Levitra… I was confused, and asked her why, and she said:</p>
<p>“Well, my shoulder has been hurting a lot lately, and I saw on the commercial that you can really throw a football when you’re taking it.”</p>
<p>I had to politely excuse myself for a minute so I could go let out the belly laugh somewhere.</p>
<p>Those ipod-touch commercials with famous people really made me want to go buy one. Seriously, I had to stop and think… why would I want one of those expensive gadgets? Oh, right… I don’t!</p>
<p>Dara Torres did one of these spots as well and I wondered how she feels about the others they chose for ads…I wouldn’t want to be linked in any way. I can see her firing her agent for that one!!</p>
<p>Funny, oldfort! Wow that kid is annoying! Hmm, to share with son, or not share with son. Maybe this will make the point better than I ever could :D</p>
<p>The pistachio ad is just plain unappealing. Why in the world would this make me buy their product? Was this really on t.v.?</p>
<p>The ad obviously worked - people are talking about it and it got attention. That’s all they want. I just hope it’s true and he does do it with protection now. Forget the nuts - anything that calls attention to condom use is fine by me.</p>
<p>Last year Levi’s had some ads that were really offensive. This guy and girl were ripping each other’s clothes off going up a stairwell and ran into this apartment. He confesses that “I’m not really in a rock band” and she says “That’s okay, this isn’t really my apartment”. One of them accidentally hits the light switch and there’s a family portrait on the wall and it goes off again and they continue undressing. I haven’t bought Levi’s or Dockers since I saw it.</p>