Commercials That are absurd

Parent Cafe
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<p>The concierge service commercial for Time Warner. We can’t quite figure out what the hell that is, for one thing. But the couple lives a perfect existence - young and beautiful, fabulous apartment, adorable kids, richrichrich. And apparently on one income, because the wife floats around and doesn’t seem to lift a finger except to change from one outfit to another.</p>

<p>The service “coordinates” all your Time Warner stuff, with a promise of personalized service 24/7. If you’ve ever waited 45 minutes to get one of their customer reps on the line, or 3 days to get your cable re-connected, you might wonder exactly how much extra money in their pockets it takes for TW to pay attention.</p>

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<p>My 75-yr-old mother doesn’t understand the two tubs either. She asked, “Wouldn’t they rather both be in the same tub?” …My thoughts exactly, hahaha!</p>

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<p>…There is another car commercial where the woman comes back from the grocery store, and the man opens a can of soda from the grocery bag…it sprays all over his face and he says, “I guess you took my car…” Camera shows sleek car going fast around curves, etc. DH and I both agree that the spraying soda implies more of being shaken up violently (sort of like riding in DH’s Jeep), not sleek, fast cornering of a sports car???</p>

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<p>What about the new Jenny Craig commercial with Mariah Cary? My husband is totally perplexed by that one. Apparently he doesn’t recognize Mariah’s various body parts and had no clue what the ad was for.</p>

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<p>Maybe we’re just unromantic, but H and I always have a good laugh at the De Beers “show her you love her” diamond commercials. No diamonds please, show me the beach house…</p>

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<p>I know exactly what Porsche my husband wants, down to the options for brakes and drive train. Were I so inclined and we had the money, I could certainly “surprise” him by getting it for him. </p>

<p>My guess is that someone who gets a new car for birthday/Christmas/anniversary has been hinting around for a new car for a long time, and would really like someone else to go through the pain of negotiating with the dealer.</p>

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<p>My brother-in-law explained to me that the two bathtubs is a way to get the couple as close to *** as possible (naked) but still not cross the line allowed on public tv. It’s ok to be naked alone in a bathtub, apparently.</p>

<p>I hate, hate, hate the ED commercials.</p>

<p>ETA: Can I use these words here? Changed to ***.</p>

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<p>I like the diamond commercials better than the Lexus commercial.</p>

<p>I like ad with the young couple walking by the older couple…</p>

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<p>The Folgers commercial is better than the last movie I saw. More pathos. More meaning. Better filmed and acted.</p>

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<p>One of my favorite ads is the cell phone ad where the employees get together to eat tacos…and one of the employees has a cell phone with old technology. </p>

<p>The employee With the old technology doesn’t get the text message to meet his fellow employees.</p>

<p>Then he stumbles on his fellow employees eating lunch.</p>

<p>“I like tacos”.</p>

<p>“I thought Eric gives you the creeps”.</p>

<p>Then he finally gets the text message to meet for lunch.</p>

<p>I love the reactions of the actors in this ad. </p>

<p>I can’t remember the product though.</p>

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<p>Double post</p>

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<p>I haven’t seen the bathtub ads…</p>

<p>Or the Folger ads…</p>

<p>I will look for them.</p>

<p>I don’t like the ED ads either.</p>

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<p>The Subway ads where all of the actors sound like they just sucked on a helium balloon.</p>

<p>The Target ads for Black Friday with the annoying blonde. Now that Black Friday is over, I hope she is gone for good.</p>

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<p>I love the annoying blonde commercial where she records her voice on on those different Christmas cards!</p>

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<p>I have noticed that a lot of commercials are intentionally bizarre, e.g. Dairy Queen and Old Spice. I don’t like that this has become a trend.</p>

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<p>I can’t stand the Target blonde. I hope she is gone for good. I tear up EVERY time a service man (or woman - nice touch Walmart) comes home on a commercial :-).</p>

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<p>There is one where a preteen girl is in a crowded airport terminal selling access to her wifi hotspot for five dollars in order to supplement her allowance. Then the parents, who’ve been completely MIA the entire time, come back and wonder how long they’ve been away. Lovely.</p>

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<p>Also love the cell phone commericial with “Tacos in front of Bill’s Office.” Laugh every time I hear “you invited Eric? I thought Eric gave you the creeps.”</p>

<p>As for cars, I haven’t seen it in a couple of months but the Audi commercial wherein desperate Audi lovers climb a tractor trailer in moving traffic to race to get to an available car is hilarious. When a poor sap tries a audi door only to find it locked and the guy behind the wheel shaking his head ‘no way,’ I nearly fall off my chair every time.</p>

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<p>The Wounded Warriors commercial gets to me. I signed up.</p>

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<p>It’s funny that the car company FIAT thought it would be a good idea to have J Lo endorse their cars on their commercials. Anyways, it doesn’t matter who they get to endorse them because their cars will always be ugly…</p>