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another disturbing commercial

Started by mr. henry, July 11, 2002, 04:34:41 PM

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mr. henry

b-movies...tv...bad tv...bad commercials...see, it all fits in here.

COMMERCIAL: a guy is swimming and sees two babes in a hot tub. they beckon him over and he goes over. they ask him what he does. "i sell paper,' he replies.
"how interesting" they respond. things appear to be going well. this dork has it made...but then he gets up and quickly leaves the hot tub.

Voiceover: "where will you be when your diareah (sp?) kicks in?"
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SO THIS GUY IS GOING SWIMMING WITH THE RUNS!!!???? Is it ok to go swimming with diareah as long as you pop a pill? There are many infectious causes of diareah. a pill might stop the symptom, but this idiot could still be infectious. i'm never going swimming again.

-mr. h

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I think i saw that one, and the other one with the father buried in the sand up to his head. And just recently after seeing a show about "sinkholes" and the dangers of them on beaches.

One series of commercials that  are disturbingly funny are the ones advertising medicine.

"Take Paxil to get rid of depression and live your life! Side effects may include: decreased appetite, dry mouth, sweating, infection, constipation, sexual side effects in men and women, yawn, tremors, seizures, sleepiness, some rare cases experienced liver failure and death" lol

I dunno, if I had all those symptoms i'd probably still be depressed. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease

mr. henry

even besides the side affects, there's something really disturbing about prescription drug commercials...something very "1984" or "farenheit 451" about it.

does anyone else think that non-prescription drug commercials do such a great job of visualizing their benefits that sometimes you consider taking them even when you feel good?

like "gee, my eyes really aren't red. but seeing that dusty old beachball rinsed off under a shower looks really refreshing!"

or "i don't have stomach problems, but that soothing looking pink liquid flowing down that cartoon esophagus looks really refreshing!"

probably it's just me.

-mr h
(and b'cuz i want to pass 500 hits before i die: www.310am.com)

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I really hate the Herpes commercials. I'm sure herpes sufferers out there know what modern drugs are out there for their benefit through their doctor. But the commercials show something like..for example:

A beautiful blonde white water rafting, hiking, running on the beach, hanggliding, AND she's married to a bohunk.

Man...if that's what your life can be like..i want herpes too!


susan
http://www.geocities.com/smvgrey

J.R.

Yeah, those herpes commercials... They always go, "Wow, now I only have to take one pill instead of the incredible inconvenience of five,".  Yeah, it's hard to swallow five times a day. Actually, I took Paxil for a while, and i didn't have any of the symptoms, except if I forgot to take it I went through withdrawal and got unbelievably sick. That's how it helps depression: It makes you so dependent on something life is worth living! There's a really disgusting one (to me, anyway) where a woman talks about how most maxi pads don't fit plus-sized women, and this new one offers full-figured gals the protection they need. That thing almost always comes on when I'm about to eat or something.

systemcr4sh

i've seen that commercial where the semi-chubby girl comes on blabbing about how maxi pads don't fit her and now there's this new revolution in maxi pads for her and her plus-sized friends. I saw a commercial for something but it just showed a bare ass and then its like "Are you embarrased to talk about it?" and the ass cheeks go red as if its blushing or something. that ones pretty gross. Its for Colon Cancer or something like that. It was on comedy and some other stations a week ago.

-Dan

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hey i've got the cure for overweight people and giant maxi pads

Tampons! Get a clue

And I..as a woman, and greatly offended by the "not so fresh feeling" commercials. Frankly it gives way too many people the impression women enjoy this topic of discussion while walking on the beach. Which is funny since the beach usually smells fishy anyways!

I used to complain about toilet paper commercials having nothing to do with what you use it for (ie: some kid stuffing it in his jersey and running outside to get pulverized playing football) but after seeing that cartoon commercial with the bears rubbing their ass all over the tree...I kinda think they don't need to advertise the product. We're GOING to buy it anyway!

mr. henry

regarding drug commercials for paxil, etc.

not that there aren't lots of people that can use these things...and many of them won't do anything for you unless you need them...like taking an aspirin without an ache...

but these commercials list so many vague symptoms that they include everyone.

kind of like "do you feel bad. or sometimes good but then at other times not so good. and then you feel bad for a while. and then a little bit better. and sometimes feel good again but maybe not?...then you might be a candidate for [insert drug name here]. make an appointment with your doctor. read our add in woman's journal"

-mr. h.

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Not the kind of way to advertise to hypocrondriacs (re: pill commercials listing a myriad of side effects). Why not have an ad for PLACEBO: this pill cures everything and has absolutely no side effects!

systemcr4sh

Hey I'd buy a pill like that! haha!

-Dan

Flangepart

Anyone seen the commercials for, i thinks, Mike's Hard Cider? The one with invadeing alien monsters, and the latest one, the chick who ends up on a date with a two headed freak? Now Thats a b-movies moment!................

Chadzilla

The animated bear is cute, what with his newspaper and cha-cha-cha dance, but that expression of rapturous bliss as he wipes himself is rather unsettling.  Now his kids are in on the act! YUCK!

BoyScoutKevin

As a male, the one that disturbs me, is the recent one for Airhead  Bubblegum. Where one has a group of--what looks like junior high or middle school students--sitting in the school auditorium watching two girls dance the hula, while a boy, dressed in a sailor suit sings. One of the boys sitting in the auditorium gets bored and pops a piece of Airhead Bubblegum into his mouth. Of course, his head swells up like a balloon, and he flies around the audtiorium. Pass the school orchestra which is playing, then on to the stage, pass the girls, which ruffles their grass skirts, and then towards the boy, who is still singing some sea chantey. You don't see it, but, from the way the boy's voice goes up an octave, and the look on his face, it looks like the boy got hit in the groin. Whether deliberately or accidentally, I can't say.
I guess what disturbs me about this commercial, is what is it telling young kids? That it is alright to hit someone in the groin. That it is funny.
When I was in junior high, I got hit in the groin, and let me tell you, there was nothing funny about it. I still remember that it was quite painful. Though, I was lucky.
Hit a male in the groin hard enough, and sometimes you can do some permanent
damage.
b

Susan

It is interesting to see the sexual references in commercials. I remember one I saw (tho i can't remember anything about it now, including the product) where some 10 year old kids or something are watching tv or playing nintendo. All i remember is how one kid was totally drooling over the other kids mother and she was totally into it...the product, whatever it was seemed to be saying "Hey, use our product and you'll have ever minor on the block lusting after YOU!" Hope someout out there remembers this one and can point out details. I know sex is used to sell stuff but involving children is a little unnerving. But hey, maybe it's just me.

Btw - anybody else annoyed by the movie theater commercials? I don't mean the ones that advertise shower heads (of all things) or cell phones, but the public service messages like "Kindness, pass it on"? What the hell is that about? I wonder if anyone out there can claim "Hey, i was once a real @!#$ but then I went to the movies and saw this commercial about a biker being rude to a lady and she was nice to him and he was grateful. Now, my life has changed forever and I am a model citizen"

susan
http://www.geocities.com/smvgrey

John

>Anyone seen the commercials for, i thinks, Mike's Hard Cider? The one with
>invadeing alien monsters, and the latest one, the chick who ends up on a date
>with a two headed freak? Now Thats a b-movies moment!

 Every time I see the two-headed one, and the guy says "I think I'm growing a... second, evil head." I can't help thinking, "What? In addition to your first evil head?"

 There was a local commercial for our cable company's cable modem service and how much better it was than dialup. The way the commercial illustrated this was by showing how you can access better quality information if you have a faster connection. It starts out with an older woman watching a family move in next door and she sees that the young son is deaf. So she decides to learn sign language. It shows her practicing, then she takes a pie out to the boy. After handing it to him, she signs "I baked your dog.". The kid screams, drops the pie and runs in the house.