I looked at the new topics 2, 3 times and couldn't find anything that fit this category. I hope this is ok with the mods.

Anyway on to my head scratcher:

There is a Home Depot commercial where a mom opens up a fridge and her two kids are behind her and she takes out this birthday cake that reads:

Happy Birthday Stan!

Who names their kids Stan these days? Only Stan I know is Stan Marsh from South Park.

I'll bring this bit over here- I posted elsewhere about my total not understanding of why the newest Lexus whatever model needs to be surrounded in flourescent red light?

Is the red light actually an option or did the director think it just looked cool? Either way, I'm really tired of dark cars shot in the dark to show off the shiny-ness of the paintjob or whatever. Show us the car, tell us what it does- either just straight or in an entertaining manner- and just get out of your own way of showcasing the car!

WTF: The Burgerking King.

Maybe Stan was their father?

You know, I'm starting to think the same thing. I'll take a good look at the ad next time I see it and see if I see a dad in the background.

Nice to see people are using my topic.

Stan is the target audience for car insurance- as in the commercial that ends "That's Allstate, Stan."

SERIOUSLY?????? I always thought they said "That's Allstate's stand." *hides head in shame*

You? Are the only one who hears it the way Allstate intended it. The rest of us wait for him to follow up with "get on the bus, gus".

And a favorite headscratcher: How does that guy get back home after work when he parachutes down the car each morning?

There is a new commercial for some Arby's chicken sandwich and at the end of the commercial they say now with 100% real chicken. What was in it before?

I'm just glad they got rid of the talking oven mitt.

Ooh, yes. Voiced by Tom Arnold, wasn't he? So glad he's gone.

Yes! Thank you! Stupid advertising execs, not thinking things through. I imagine he rock climbs his way home. But then he would need a new parachute every day. That, or he'd have to pack it up and take it with him in the morning, but he doesn't do that. Yes, I checked.

And here's one: in that Listerine ad where the man's talking like he's in a movie trailer ("Add Listerine, subtract plaque" or something like that) there is STEAM rising from the sink where he has the water running. Who brushes their teeth with steaming hot water, please?

I...saw it last night. It's for....gum, I think.

But it's a crudely animated cartoon of Rapunzel in her tower watching a prince come slowly towards her, except as he's walking towards her tower he gets attacked by carnivorous radioactive bunnies.

....Someone please tell me I really saw this or else I'm going to check my apartment for a gas leak.

I've just GOT to ask everyone here. .

I see those GEICO "caveman" ads all the time. . like the one where the insurance guy and the cavemen are out to dinner and the cavemen are giving the guy the evil eye because GEICO said that it's online stuff is so easy that a "caveman can do it". What the heck is that supposed to mean ? Is there some really subtle joke here that I am not getting ?

Also, if you check out the " Slow on the Uptake" thread, there are a whole host of people who think Dennis Hastert says " That's Allstate, Stan."

Someone please help me "get" the humor in the GEICO ads.

LawMommy

That's the third (I think) in a series of commercials from GEICO. In the first one, the insurance guy is taping the commercial and says the line about it being "so easy a caveman can do it" and a caveman keygrip storms off the set. The second one has a caveman family at home in a fancy modern house with one of them playing the grand piano when the commercial comes on and they talk about how insulting the commercial is. Basically, the insurance guy is saying that the cavemen are stupid and the cavemen are proving they aren't.

I just love the one in the restaurant for the one caveman ordering "the roast duck with an mango salsa" and the pissy look the other one gives the insurance guy when he says he's lost his appetite.

I'm glad I'm not the only who gets irritated at that one.


OK, someone please explain why we need a hotline for "Is it funny"? Define the parameters and they'll input it in a computer and tell you if you can laugh or not. *confused*

Oooh, those "is it funny" hotline commercials drive me nuts--why would you need to call somebody about that? Did you laugh? If so, then you thought it was funny (whether you should be laughing might be another story).

The commercial that always confuses me is for a home pregnancy test (can't remember which brand), in which a woman is just sitting around and the voiceover lady says, "I can't concentrate. Could I be pregnant?" Because that's what one always thinks when one has trouble concentrating?

The "nuva ring" (or however it's spelled). That new method of birth control that has a CGI belty thing encircling tiny waists. ???? I'm afraid to ask how the actual contraption is supposed to work.

WARNING: TMI below

Anstar: it's a ring-shaped device with hormones that designed to fit around the cervix. Kind of like the patch, only....in a bit more of an intimate location.

Oh. ewwww. Thanks. Teach me to ask questions around here. ;) LOL

Actually, it doesn't fit around the cervix, it just, well, sits in the area there. Yes, TMI.

No worries; for some reason I could handle that, but the carnivorous radioactive bunnies is what creeped me out.

We all have our threshholds.

<sigh> Now I'm confused again. They showed the thing, and it looked kind of like a large squishy washer (as in nuts/bolts tooly things) and all I could think was, "Won't that irritate or chafe, or something"? :(

I've never seen radioactive bunnies. :(

This is quite possibly my fave commericial now. "I don't have much of an appetite. Thank you." (glares at Geico dude) Hee!

Maybe its just me, but the glaring guy looks too much like Val Kilmer.

I'm not sure what thread this would belong to, but there's a commercial with a pork chop and a peach that throw themselves into a fire, rather than be separated. What the hell is this about?

You mean after he says, "The House will come to order"?

(Allstate's Dennis is Haysbert.)

I posted about this in the 'horrifying' thread. It's for the National Pork Council, or whatever. The Other White Meat. The pork chop is icky looking, and pork chops should not make out with fruit, ever.

Jen724

Actually, "inability to concentrate" is common during pregnancy and is one of the questions the doctor will ask you if you suspect you are pregnant.

So how would a woman with Attention Defecit Disorder know she's pregnant?

Thank goodness my office is in the back where everyone can't see/hear me rotflmao.

So that's who he reminds me of!

There's a commercial for Nasonex in which a cartoon bee is romancing a flower, so he brings her a bouquet of flowers. Why? Why bring flowers to a flower?

But my all time WTF commercial is for some feminine product (I refuse to remember which) that shows a woman shopping in the tampon aisle, when a total stranger comes up to her and asks her if she ever worries about odor and wetness. And the woman calmly replies that yes, she does. Because that's exactly what would happen. You wouldn't think anything was the least bit odd about a total stranger inquiring about your wetness and odor, would you? You'd just start sharing.

Speaking of feminine products, I'm perturbed by the Kotex one that implies no females have back hair. Way to make me feel like a freak, Kotex.

The commercial that owns this thread is the Skittles commercial where the guy is interviewing for some job and the woman is making small talk about his resume, all while his GIANT BEARD is traveling all over the desk, the skittles, and the woman's FACE! And then she says "You dobn't have enough experience," and he's like "ah, experience, so funny." WTF?

I can't help but mock those Best Buy ads where someone's watching TV with all the surround sound kind of things, and all the violent action that busts up the place - and the viewer (or, in one, the delivery man) just thinks it's cool. If that happened in real life (odd concept as it is), I'd be both afraid and pissed off. Sure, be realistic and enveloping, but don't vandalize my furshlugginer house!

Now that you mention it, it's kind of like presenting a date with a bouquet of corpses, isn't it? That's really fucked-up. Huh.

The bee shouldn't be romancing the flower anyway. The bee is the matchmaker between two flowers.

There's that Bounce commercial that makes me go "what the fuck?" every time I see it. And it gave me a nightmare. Like, actually. I'm not even joking.

Eek! Double post.

Ah, that's it! The bee isn't "romancing" the flower with a bouquet of flowers, it's a matchmaker presenting the flower with a selection of potential mates to choose from! It's all coming together now...

Which Bounce commercial is that?

This commercial confused me to such an extent that I don't really know how to describe it. It starts off with these teenage girls in a school hallway staring at someone, who you'd guess is the "hot guy" or whatever, but then it shows the guy and he's a fully-grown man. He goes to a classroom where the teacher (who I guess is supposed to be his wife/girlfriend), says, "Hey baby," and THEN you see he's carrying a baby in one of those pouch-sack things on his stomach. Wtf? I don't even remember what the commercial was for, it was so damned weird.

Basically, there's this little girl in some sort of recital or play ... and her makeup's kinda clown-freaky. She watches somebody come in (presumably her mom), who takes off her sweater, but her shirt almost comes off along with it (winter static). And then we go back to the girl's face, which hasn't moved AT ALL through out the entire commercial, and we get a whispered voice over: "Bounce: fight winter static."

My WTF moment in commerical land is when you were supposed to have an orgasm when you used Clairol's Herbal Essence (the organic experience). Yes, yes, yes! Hey, if that really worked, you know that would be the number one seller of any product of all time! I know I feel ripped off after buying it! But I think there was one where there was a filled courtroom and she was washing her hair, or something in the bathroom for all to hear? Hear the major multiple orgasm that is! "I'll have what she's having..."

What? Are you telling me that you DON'T have multiple orgasms when you wash your hair with Herbal Essense? That's just..uh, well, I'm really sorry.

;)

Well, I would...but I'm sure it has nothing to do with that shampoo!

Herbal Essence, the female viagra.

It's for Mazda. The gist is supposed to be that the girls are all staring at him because he's so hot, when really they're just admiring his baby, and he's on his way to pick up his hot wife. It's all about how a little Mazda hatchback is cooler than a minivan so you don't have to compromise if you get married and have kids. Yeah, it's still pretty stupid.

Glad Press & Seal plastic wrap:

There's a peach on a tree in a guy's yard. They put the plastic wrap over the peach, as the seasons change below (shows guy getting tangled up in the garden hose, having trouble starting the lawnmower, etc....) while the peach hangs there, fresh as ever.

At the end, the guy's wife takes half a head of lettuce (wrapped in the Glad stuff, of course) and serves it to him as he comes in all covered with autumn leaves.

WTF? Where's the damn peach?? Shouldn't she be serving a peach salad??!

To paraphrase Checkov, "If you show a peach in Act I, you better use it by Act III...."

Yeah, I don't get that one, either. I think it's supposed to demonstrate the length of time you can keep stuff fresh in the plastic wrap (you know while the seasons pass and everything), but what I can't get over is the fact that she's serving him lettuce. If I'm seeing this right it's not a salad, just a big ass bowl of lettuce. And he's just standing there covered in the leaves. What is that about? Wouldn't he brush them off before coming inside? These people are idiots.

I'm pretty sure that this isn't going to make me look like a genious, but I don't really get the M. Night amex commercial... I get that he perceives creepy stuff, but isn't he already in the restaurant that he walks into at the end? Is that part of the creepiness? I'm not understanding.