Say What?: Commercials That Made Us Scratch Our Heads

[PrincessPurrsALot]

While most brands will allow you to request adjoining rooms if any are available at the property, Hilton is saying they will actually reserve the adjoining rooms together so that they are guaranteed on your arrival.  Of course, the fact that so much discussion is needed to clarify the intent of the commercial makes it a big fail. 

[proserpina65]

On 8/12/2022 at 5:47 PM, dleighg said:

I keep seeing this commercial for Hellmans Mayo (I think) where it has this earworm song "making nothing into something" or something like that.

So they take what looks like leftover stir-fry and.... add mayo to it?

The leftover stir-fry looked fine to me. Does adding mayo actually improve it? Yuk.

The thing which bugs me about those commercials is that when you first see the contents of the fridge, there's almost no food in it except the mayo.  Then all of a sudden they're making these chicken dishes and stuff full of veggies and I'm wondering where all that food came from.

[Tom Holmberg]

33 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

The thing which bugs me about those commercials is that when you first see the contents of the fridge, there's almost no food in it except the mayo.  Then all of a sudden they're making these chicken dishes and stuff full of veggies and I'm wondering where all that food came from.

Maybe their Hello Fresh delivery arrived in time.

[InDueTime]

Today, I learned that people can order sex toys though DoorDash. Somehow, I still find that less off-putting than Gwyneth Paltrow taking a bite out of one of those candles she sells.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/b9uz/doordash-nobodys-business

[dleighg]

So we've gone from being embarrassed as we buy sex toys at some "novelty store" at the mall (that also sold lava lamps and black lights-- yeah I'm old--I think the store was called Spencers--and OMG they apparently still exist) and hoping the clerk won't give a snicker, to sighing a breath of relief when we can buy those things online by mail in brown paper wrapping, to now having a real person pick it out for you at the store and then hand it to you at your door? No thanks!

[janie jones]

It's not like the Door Dash person picks out your dildo and then has to look you in the eye when they hand it to you. The sex shop person picks the item and puts it in the bag and gives it to the Door Dash person, which is exactly what happens when you buy anything online. The only real difference is that the UPS person may not have a clue what they're delivering, but the Door Dash person has an idea.

It makes sense if you want to support a local business but don't want to buy your sex toys in person for whatever reason.

Edited August 31, 2022 by janie jones

[proserpina65]

18 hours ago, janie jones said:

It's not like the Door Dash person picks out your dildo and then has to look you in the eye when they hand it to you. The sex shop person picks the item and puts it in the bag and gives it to the Door Dash person, which is exactly what happens when you buy anything online. The only real difference is that the UPS person may not have a clue what they're delivering, but the Door Dash person has an idea.

It makes sense if you want to support a local business but don't want to buy your sex toys in person for whatever reason.

Yeah, I'm not down with some Door Dash driver knowing I ordered sex toys.

[Annber03]

4 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Yeah, I'm not down with some Door Dash driver knowing I ordered sex toys.

I read "Door Dash" as "Doo Dah" at first and was briefly confused :p. 

[mmecorday]

The Ancestry commercial with the woman who was blown away that her grandmother worked at a five and dime when she was 16. She never knew that! Hon, your granny worked at a five and dime, not NASA.

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, mmecorday said:

The Ancestry commercial with the woman who was blown away that her grandmother worked at a five and dime when she was 16. She never knew that! Hon, your granny worked at a five and dime, not NASA.

And the dad in his 70s that wondered about his childhood address for years!  You don't remember your childhood address???  I use mine sometimes as my password. LOL.  About a week ago, I looked at the house on Google Streets. Still looking good!

[Bastet]

15 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

You don't remember your childhood address??? 

My parents moved into mine a month before I was born and still live there, but I know plenty of people whose childhood spanned several addresses; I doubt many of them remember all those addresses.  (But I can't find the commercial, so maybe it's clear there was only one childhood address.)

[proserpina65]

10 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

And the dad in his 70s that wondered about his childhood address for years!  You don't remember your childhood address???  I use mine sometimes as my password. LOL.  About a week ago, I looked at the house on Google Streets. Still looking good!

Isn't that how you're supposed to determine your stripper/porn star name?

[meep.meep]

12 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

And the dad in his 70s that wondered about his childhood address for years!  You don't remember your childhood address???  I use mine sometimes as my password. LOL.  About a week ago, I looked at the house on Google Streets. Still looking good!

I had about 10 of them.  No, I do not remember any of them, except the last one.  But I've not seen the commercial.

[peacheslatour]

7 minutes ago, meep.meep said:

I had about 10 of them.  No, I do not remember any of them, except the last one.  But I've not seen the commercial.

Same. We moved from Texas to Pa to Chicago and then several places in western Wa. I can't believe he can't even remember the neighborhood or something that would help identify the house.

[chessiegal]

Am I the only one who had to Google to confirm the actor in the Behr paint commercial in the lounge chair by the pool was George Hamilton? Just me?

Edited September 2, 2022 by chessiegal

[Bastet]

1 hour ago, chessiegal said:

Am I the only one who had to Google to confirm the actor in the Behr paint commercial in the lounge chair by the pool was George Hamilton?

Who else would be that color?

[chessiegal]

1 minute ago, Bastet said:

Who else would be that color?

I wasn't sure he was still alive. 😅

[Tom Holmberg]

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

Who else would be that color?

Alf?

[Welshman in Ca]

16 hours ago, chessiegal said:

Am I the only one who had to Google to confirm the actor in the Behr paint commercial in the lounge chair by the pool was George Hamilton? Just me?

I didn't google him but I did think "wow I didn't know he was still alive". He seems to pop up every know & then in commercials & tv shows but it had been a while since I had seen him.

[nokat]

On 8/31/2022 at 1:56 AM, dleighg said:

So we've gone from being embarrassed as we buy sex toys at some "novelty store" at the mall (that also sold lava lamps and black lights-- yeah I'm old--I think the store was called Spencers--and OMG they apparently still exist) and hoping the clerk won't give a snicker, to sighing a breath of relief when we can buy those things online by mail in brown paper wrapping, to now having a real person pick it out for you at the store and then hand it to you at your door? No thanks!

I remember Spencers! But then we teens would hang out at malls.

I can just imagine: here's the 12 inch dildo you ordered ma'am. Probably less embarrassing than a Gwyneth vagina candle.

[WendyCR72]

I just saw a commercial that made me scratch my head...if only because of its VERY old age! I had Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on in the background and suddenly, it appeared.

Remember the animated commercial with the owl where it was asked how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? I haven't seen it since I was a kid (and I'll be 50 [ack!] in less than a week...), and suddenly, there it was. Looked like the original print of it, too, since it seemed faded!

Thought maybe it was on as part of some joke or something, but no. Just weird!

This YT link claims it was from 1970! (Could be. I was born in 1972...)

[Bastet]

1 minute ago, WendyCR72 said:

Remember the animated commercial with the owl where it was asked how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? I haven't seen it since I was a kid (and I'll be 50 [ack!] in less than a week...), and suddenly, there it was. Looked like the original print of it, too, since it seemed faded!

Thought maybe it was on as part of some joke or something, but no. Just weird!

I'm the same age and have seen it off and on my whole life.  I just did a brief search and saw it listed several places as the longest-running commercial to date, but I didn't verify that.

[WendyCR72]

Well, if ancient commercials are making some sort of comeback for nostalgia or whatever, I'd like to shout out a request to Coca Cola to rerun the Christmas tree on a hill as people sing, "I'd like to teach the world to sing..."

And yes, I know that sprung from a non-Christmas Coke commercial with the same theme. (Told you I'm old!) I know, decades later, there were newer commercials with, I think, newer generations along with [I think] the original people, but as nice as it was, the classic ones still grabbed me.

[Gharlane]

What the hell does "Stick it in the onion bag!" mean? 

Why is Skittle apologizing for their lime flavoured ones? They're all gross! 

[Prevailing Wind]

31 minutes ago, Gharlane said:

What the hell does "Stick it in the onion bag!" mean? 

Why is Skittle apologizing for their lime flavoured ones? They're all gross! 

You may be deluded if you're expecting a Skittles ad to make ANY sense. LOL

[Welshman in Ca]

5 hours ago, Gharlane said:

What the hell does "Stick it in the onion bag!" mean? 

It's a term used in the UK to mean the netting used in the goal in football (soccer) so "stick it in the onion bag" means to score a goal. And yes large quantities of onions are or at least were kept in bags made of a netting type material.

[peacheslatour]

6 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

You may be deluded if you're expecting a Skittles ad to make ANY sense. LOL

Skittlespox. *shudder*

[Tom Holmberg]

1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:

Skittlespox. *shudder*

Hopefully they'll come up with a vaccine.

[Welshman in Ca]

4 minutes ago, Tom Holmberg said:

Hopefully they'll come up with a vaccine.

They already have one that comes in pill form, it's called M&Ms.

[Tom Holmberg]

On 9/13/2022 at 12:41 PM, Welshman in Ca said:

They already have one that comes in pill form, it's called M&Ms.

Or you can take Necco Wafers and pray.

Edited September 14, 2022 by Tom Holmberg
Necco not Nicco.

[WendyCR72]

3 hours ago, Welshman in Ca said:

They already have one that comes in pill form, it's called M&Ms.

When I was 13, I attended a friend's birthday party. She had a cup of what I thought were M&Ms, so I happily put it in my mouth.

HUGE mistake.

Skittles. Gross. I felt so betrayed. LOL!

[Prevailing Wind]

"Skittlespox doesn't care."

[cinsays]

19 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

Or you can take Nicco Wafers and pray.

where do you find them? i have looked everywhere locally and for some reason i have a mad craving for some.  guess i have to get some on my next amazon visit.

[Welshman in Ca]

19 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

Or you can take Nicco Wafers and pray.

The Ivermectin of Skittlespox?

[Gharlane]

On 9/13/2022 at 10:56 AM, Welshman in Ca said:

It's a term used in the UK to mean the netting used in the goal in football (soccer) so "stick it in the onion bag" means to score a goal. And yes large quantities of onions are or at least were kept in bags made of a netting type material.

Oh yeah, I had totally forgotten about those net bags used to store onions and root vegetables! I'm still not sure why some young American men were yelling that while watching a car race, tho.

[Tom Holmberg]

4 hours ago, cinsays said:

where do you find them? i have looked everywhere locally and for some reason i have a mad craving for some.  guess i have to get some on my next amazon visit.

I would think a candy store would have them.  Especially a Catholic one. 😉

4 hours ago, cinsays said:

where do you find them? i have looked everywhere locally and for some reason i have a mad craving for some.  guess i have to get some on my next amazon visit.

https://www.spanglercandy.com/our-brands/necco-wafers

[peacheslatour]

4 hours ago, cinsays said:

where do you find them? i have looked everywhere locally and for some reason i have a mad craving for some.  guess i have to get some on my next amazon visit.

If OP means Necco wafers, Amazon has them.

[Tom Holmberg]

28 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

If OP means Necco wafers, Amazon has them.

Yes, I corrected that.

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

A dad is in a kitchen and he starts dancing, and a cookie on the counter starts dancing, and then the cookie notices a little girl has entered the room and the cookie freezes in... shock? Fear? Shame? But then the girl starts dancing, and the cookie, now reassured, resumes as well. 

What is the intended message? That cookies are extremely insecure and vulnerable to peer pressure? That they don't mind being eaten alive but can't bear to have their dancing judged harshly? 

[Prevailing Wind]

7 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

If OP means Necco wafers, Amazon has them.

So does Walgreen's. They're on the bottom shelf.

[dleighg]

So Brad Pitt is now doing coffee maker commercials? The guy isn't rich enough yet?

Apparently he's been doing these awhile-- I just noticed yesterday.

[Gharlane]

15 hours ago, Uncle JUICE said:

I have one that's not pharma...fucking Sonic. 

It's the way they make it seem like twelve team members are in there working on whatever you ordered. "Applying the aoli!" First of all Sonic, relax, it's mayonnaise with oregano in it. Second of all, shut up everyone back there, just make the food. "Putting the cheese on the burger!" "Putting burger on the brioche roll!" 

Those commercials make me wonder if Sonic hires maniacs because they're downright excited about their job!

[CrazyInAlabama]

Kathy Lee Gifford, advertising for some Gummy vitamins, she's too over the top perky, and her face improvements were way too much. 

I didn't even recognize her when they first ran it.   

Edited September 16, 2022 by CrazyInAlabama

[dleighg]

So lately I've been seeing these commercials for "Botox Cosmetic" (to reduce lines). And TBH I don't get it. I guess the message is "you'll still look like you," but to me "I can't freakin' tell the difference." For the one I've seen with the blond-ish gal, I actually think she looks older in the "new" version, mainly because she's wearing her hair pulled back and somehow to me that ages her. And I think the laugh lines around her eyes are actually quite attractive! It means you laugh LOL!  For the other one I've seen with a Black gal who's "a sports mom," I can't tell the difference at all. I mean what does this stuff cost? And it's temporary? I don't think you ladies got your money's worth. 

[Haleth]

I scoff at Botox being called a cosmetic, like you are supposed to forget you are injecting a deadly poison into your face and paralyzing your muscles.  But it's a cosmetic, just like lipstick, right?  (And yes, I know it does have its practical medicinal uses.)

[Prevailing Wind]

41 minutes ago, Haleth said:

I scoff at Botox being called a cosmetic, like you are supposed to forget you are injecting a deadly poison into your face and paralyzing your muscles.  But it's a cosmetic, just like lipstick, right?  (And yes, I know it does have its practical medicinal uses.)

My SIL looks great in photos, but in real life, she does look kind of plastic. She got used to Botox when she did transcribing for plastic surgeons. When a patient wants a Botox treatment, they mix it to activate it right then. If the patient doesn't use all of the mixture, the ladies in the office partake in the "leftovers" before it expires.

Now that she's retired, she still goes to get "treatments."  I would hate like hell to be that vain.

I just wonder what the Botox users think the "tox" stands for.

[theatremouse]

I'm pretty sure they're saying "Botox Cosmetic" as opposed to "Botox for Migraine". Not that it changes what it is, but I don't think it's just marketing to make it seem like botox is like lipstick. It's to distinguish it from the botox with a medical purpose.

[Gharlane]

I think of this every time I see the newest Jimmy Johns commercials. 

[mmecorday]

Quote

Kathy Lee Gifford, advertising for some Gummy vitamins, she's too over the top perky, and her face improvements were way too much. 

I didn't even recognize her when they first ran it.   

With this product, she's gotten her "va-va-voom" back. Like she was Jessica Rabbit before.

[mojoween]

In the ad for some car buying service that features brother and little sister, is the brother still using some busted old used car buying book the reason he has apparently never ever heard of remote start?