Say What?: Commercials That Made Us Scratch Our Heads

[peeayebee]

Nope.

[Jamoche]

 

I was just about to mention that one Rick Kitchen. I bet she met that guy on EHarmony.

I thought that ad *was* for eHarmony - isn't there one where they're speed dating and somehow the guy's got a puppet just like her?

[friendperidot]

Nestle's Tollhouse cookies - "car-a-melify" your cookies? I'm from where we say carmel, not caramel. But I hate stupid made up words.

[Sandman87]

It's election season, and I'm busily applying logic to the various ads that are running. Always lots of fun. There's one running here in opposition to a ballot proposition that will make some sort of unspecified change to trail law. Apparently this law is bad and I should vote against it because...it was written by trial lawyers! Get your shotgun! Circle the wagons! Hide the children!

 

Now aside from the usual argument against accepting an ad hominem attack, or in this case ad homines, who the hell else should be writing changes to trial law? By definition anyone who's qualified to do such a thing is going to be a trial lawyer or former trial lawyer. Would it be better if the proposition were written by chiropodists, archaeologists, and ostlers?

[P2C2E]

I just saw two different Chrysler ads calling themselves "America's Import". That's not a thing!

[turbogirlnyc]

Pretty sure I just saw a commercial for a farmers only dating website. The tagline at the end was, and I'm paraphrasing, "city folk don't know nothing".

[Bastet]

"City folks just don't get it."  If you've gone this long without being subjected to the farmersonly.com commercials, I'm impressed.  I get that stupid jingle in my head every time.

[turbogirlnyc]

"City folks just don't get it."  If you've gone this long without being subjected to the farmersonly.com commercials, I'm impressed.  I get that stupid jingle in my head every time.

 

Thank you for the correction. Yeah, tonight was the first time I saw it.  I don't watch a lot of television despite my love for this site & the forums. I suppose I was suprised because I didn't realize how many farmers, or single farmers are out there. Learn something new everyday!

Edited October 27, 2014 by turbogirlnyc

[friendperidot]

 

Farmers Only.Com - "city folks just don't get it", we get it, we just choose not to live there. I spent time in the country as a child, had zero interest then, have zero interest now. And I do not live in a big city.

my comment on another thread, about a month ago. It's the same thing most people want, people who have common interest and enjoy the same things.

[spaceytraci1208]

Have y'all seen that Overstock.com commercial where that couple is damn near refurnishing their home because they have folks staying with them for the holidays? Who does that?!

Found it...

Edited November 1, 2014 by spaceytraci1208

[Brattinella]

No one.  No one does that.

[Sandman87]

I've noticed an odd general trend in the attack ads this election season. They'll tell you that Candidate A is a bad person who picks his nose and talks on his cell phone in movie theaters (or whatever), and that Candidate B always uses a handkerchief and doesn't even own a cell phone, therefore you should vote for B. But they don't tell you what office the two are running for. Do they just assume that you'll use your psychic powers to figure it out? That may work ok when it's a high profile office like Governor, but how many people are likely to remember who their current State Controller or Insurance Commissioner are?

[Ubiquitous]

Have y'all seen that Overstock.com commercial where that couple is damn near refurnishing their home because they have folks staying with them for the holidays? Who does that?!

No one, save for having a compulsive shopping disorder.

 

Wouldn't one have already furnished thier home with things like that in mind?

[AntiBeeSpray]

Just saw the most random commercial for Pelvic mesh lawsuits XD. All the announcer said during it was, "Ow..."

 

I'm not kidding either. I taped it on my 3ds. Couldn't find a version of it on Youtube.

[riley702]

That what I usually say when I hear the words "pelvic mesh".

[janie jones]

I saw a Zales commercial tonight that didn't make sense to me.  So this guy gets a bunch of balloons and brings them on the train or whatever, and he stands out in the snow outside this building with a ring behind his back.  And then his girlfriend comes to the window, and he's still standing out there and he takes the ring out from behind his back to propose apparently, and she nods, so apparently they're getting married. But why the hell is he standing out in the snow? Is he not allowed to go in there?  Is she not allowed to come out?  All I can think when I see it is that she's in a mental hospital and he's not allowed to visit her. 

 

Edit:  So I found the commercial online, only it's a longer version than the one I saw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4h11Vh-S4

 

The version I saw did not show that she was in a painting class.  So apparently she's an art student rather than a patient?  So now that part makes sense.  But what a fucking inappropriate proposal!  He interrupts her painting class?!  And now she's got to deal with the three dozen balloons?  I liked this commercial better when it made no sense.

Edited November 7, 2014 by janie jones

[peeayebee]

This is the first time I've seen that commercial, and I don't have a problem with it. It's not a head-scratcher.

[Moose135]

But why the hell is he standing out in the snow? Is he not allowed to go in there?  Is she not allowed to come out?

 

Restraining order...

[AntiBeeSpray]

That what I usually say when I hear the words "pelvic mesh".

Same here. But the 'Ow...' kind of seemed out of place, since it was for a lawsuit against the companies who make it.

[riley702]

Xfinity is pushing "Maleficent" as a "heart-warming family drama". Umm, what?

[xls]

O-KAY...

[Rick Kitchen]

I can't find a video for it, but there's a commercial for a Motorola Moto E phone ("exclusively at Walmart") (where the guy talks about bamboozling and malarkey).  Why are the two girls in the ad out of focus?  I've seen the ad over and over again at various times, the sales guy and the malarkey guy (and some guy photobombing in the background) are in clear focus, but every time they flash to the two girls the sales guy is talking to, they are out of focus.

 

Is that supposed to mean something, or is it just bad filming?

[AntiBeeSpray]

O-KAY...

I'm not even gonna ask. O_o

[Cobalt Stargazer]

LMAO.

 

That is all.

[riley702]

I can't find a video for it, but there's a commercial for a Motorola Moto E phone ("exclusively at Walmart") (where the guy talks about bamboozling and malarkey).  Why are the two girls in the ad out of focus?  I've seen the ad over and over again at various times, the sales guy and the malarkey guy (and some guy photobombing in the background) are in clear focus, but every time they flash to the two girls the sales guy is talking to, they are out of focus.

 

Is that supposed to mean something, or is it just bad filming?

That commercial irritates me because bamboozling and malarkey do not mean the same thing! Malarkey is nonsense, bamboozling is fooling someone.

Edited November 10, 2014 by riley702

[theatremouse]

I've seen the ad over and over again at various times, the sales guy and the malarkey guy (and some guy photobombing in the background) are in clear focus, but every time they flash to the two girls the sales guy is talking to, they are out of focus.

Not exactly. When the guy in the far back is talking, the girls are out of focus in the foreground, and it's focused on him. Then he slowly sort of...ducks back down behind the shelf he had previously poked his head over? Once he does that, the focus shifts to the two girls in the foreground as they go "hmm".

[Ubiquitous]

So what did the Barcardi's do to get banished from Puerto Rico?

[TheBud]

The Jack Links jerky commercial with the woman on the plane feeding the eagle that pops out of her stomach--she feeds the eagle TURKEY jerky. So the eagle ate another bird. Wonderful.

[janie jones]

Birds eat birds all the time, though.

[Brattinella]

That is true, janie jones.  Squirrels eat squirrels, too. :(

[merylinkid]

 

Squirrels eat squirrels, too. :(

 

Could have gone my whole life not knowing that.   Now I will never sleep again for fear of thinking of the cheesy SciFi channel movie they will make about cannibal squirrels.

[Brattinella]

I'm sorry.  I still love squirrels, though!  I've never seen one kill and eat another one, only a squirrel eating a roadkill.

[heebiejeebie]

So what did the Barcardi's do to get banished from Puerto Rico?

 

I always laugh at these ads in a bit of derision because, correct or not, all I get from those ads is "greedy colonial imperialists" prevail.

[janie jones]

Lots of animals are cannibals, but in the eagles' defense, if an eagle eats a turkey, it's not cannibalism.

[ABay]

If the Youtube file would play, I'd post the link for "The Egg" from 1776 for the argument between Franklin and Adams over whether the eagle or the turkey should be the national symbol.

Edited November 11, 2014 by ABay

[Aquarius]

Lots of animals are cannibals, but in the eagles' defense, if an eagle eats a turkey, it's not cannibalism.

 

My parrot LOVES chicken.  And it's no more cannibalism than my eating pork.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

My parrot LOVES chicken.  And it's no more cannibalism than my eating pork.

 

This post is making me scratch my head. How do you use a keyboard if you have hooves?

[Aquarius]

 

This post is making me scratch my head. How do you use a keyboard if you have hooves?

 

I eat pork.  I am a mammal, and although pigs are also mammals, we are not the same species.  (Which addresses the question of typing with hooves.)  Hence, no cannibalism when I scarf down bacon.

 

My parrot is a bird.  A chicken is also a bird, but they are not nearly the same species.  Family tree speaking, they are probably not that more closely related than me and that bacon (err, pig).  So when my feathered darling scarfs down chicken or chews chicken bones, he is also not a cannibal.

 

So while I have a few issues with the whole jerky turkey commercial, the eagle scarfing down turkey is not one of them.

[Bruinsfan]

I used to live in an apartment complex whose ponds attracted migrating ducks, and found out that they will happily scarf down popcorn chicken.

[merylinkid]

Look all this talk of meat eating birds is scaring me.   Worse, someone from the SciFi channel might see this.   And you will only have yourselves to blame for the resulting cheesy Saturday night movie.   

[EighteenTwelve]

I had a roommate once who had a rabbit that ate leftover turkey.  (She was not given the turkey. She stole it off my roommate's plate and ate it.) 

[ABay]

Worse, someone from the SciFi channel might see this.

Turknado! Look out Cincinnati!

[Watcher0363]

Turknado! Look out Cincinnati!

You had to go there!!!!!

 

It is almost that time again. The West Wing Butterball hotline episode. Followed by one of Les Nessman's best broadcasts ever. "With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

[bilgistic]

This post is making me scratch my head. How do you use a keyboard if you have hooves?

Very carefully! *rim shot*

[Constantinople]

I still don't understand why DirecTV thought it was a good idea to use creepy Rob Lowe in their commercials. All I can think of the time he screwed the just barely legal 16 year old.

[Neurochick]

This new Toyota ad isn't so much of a head scratcher as much as it is "what were you think ad agency?!".

 

 

I don't get what's so wrong about that ad.  

[Cobalt Stargazer]

 

This post is making me scratch my head. How do you use a keyboard if you have hooves?

Very carefully! *rim shot*

 

WAH WAH WAH............

[Sandman87]

A local shop is advertising their organic mattresses. I guess it's for when I'm really hungry, but don't want to get out of bed. Unless they mean that it's a living thing with internal organs, in which case I'd be afraid that it might eat me.

[Bruinsfan]

Is it a goosedown mattress or what? Last time I checked, coiled springs and memory foam weren't organic.

[bilgistic]

I'm actually sort of in the market for one such mattress. They are usually made with wool, cotton and natural rubber (from trees, not petroleum). They are generally at least twice as expensive as standard mattresses, which are made of fairly toxic materials, particularly if they are "fireproofed".