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[Actionmage]

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!

[BostonsKrissy]

WTF: The Burgerking King.

[McKay]

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

Maybe Stan was their father?

[acatmaylook]

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

[kay17]

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*

[fangums]

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?

[SoniaPL]

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?

[Canadian Tyler]

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.

[FfrauleinN]

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

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

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?

[etain]

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.

[LawMommy]

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.

[Meadra]

LawMommy

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 ?

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.

[anstar]

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

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.

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*

[Jen724]

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?

[anstar]

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.

[etain]

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.

[anstar]

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

[LlamaSpank]

Anstar: it's a ring-shaped device with hormones that designed to fit around the cervix.

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

[etain]

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

We all have our threshholds.

[anstar]

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

<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. :(

Edited by anstar, Mar 15, 2006 @ 3:42 PM.

[tanyak]

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.

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

[under the el]

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?

[Tenderfoot]

there are a whole host of people who think Dennis Hastert says " That's Allstate, Stan."

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

(Allstate's Dennis is Haysbert.)

[cal331]

'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?

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.

[Meadra]

Jen724

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?

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.

[Divaah46]

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

[proudtvaddict]

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.

[FfrauleinN]

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

So that's who he reminds me of!