Say What?: Commercials That Made Us Scratch Our Heads

[peacheslatour]

1 hour ago, Welshman in Ca said:

I have 3 packs in the cupboard if you're interested, strawberry, raspberry & pineapple and all with different strains of cannabis. Strawberry are my faves at the moment.

Mmmm, I'll take pineapple!

[chessiegal]

ZocDoc - guy dancing around a laundromat, voice over says he hasn't been to a doctor since 2001. That's 21 years ago! He looks like he's in his 30s. So, the last doctor he saw was a pediatrician. 🤷‍♂️

[janie jones]

13 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

ZocDoc - guy dancing around a laundromat, voice over says he hasn't been to a doctor since 2001. That's 21 years ago! He looks like he's in his 30s. So, the last doctor he saw was a pediatrician. 🤷‍♂️

Makes sense. He hasn't gone to the doctor since he left for college (which would have been 21 years ago if he's 39).

Edited December 12, 2022 by janie jones

[chessiegal]

8 minutes ago, janie jones said:

Makes sense. He hasn't gone to the doctor since he left for college (which would have been 21 years ago if he's 39).

Doesn't make sense to me. I never went 21 years without seeing a doctor.

[janie jones]

I mean, the math makes sense, not that the guy is sensible about his healthcare.

[peacheslatour]

9 hours ago, janie jones said:

I mean, the math makes sense, not that the guy is sensible about his healthcare.

When I was that age, I never went to the doctor unless I was sick. But being a woman I had to have an annual gyno check in order to get my BC pills. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone either.

Edited December 13, 2022 by peacheslatour

[Welshman in Ca]

I think between about 17 and 40 I never went to the doctors except for a set of jabs when I went to Kenya for my honeymoon and the only other time I saw one was in the ER after I had done something stupid. Then I had a heart attack at 43 and haven't gone 6 months without seeing one.

[Moose135]

5 hours ago, chessiegal said:

ZocDoc - guy dancing around a laundromat, voice over says he hasn't been to a doctor since 2001. That's 21 years ago! He looks like he's in his 30s. So, the last doctor he saw was a pediatrician. 🤷‍♂️

Because men typically put off medical care...

[BookWitch]

Pedialyte ad where the guy has been sick all night and is sitting on the floor drinking the stuff.  Kid comes in and says "Hey, that's mine!". 

If I remember correctly any Pedialyte out there tastes like cooking oil with Koolaid in it. No kid I know would drink it and enjoy it. 

[CrazyInAlabama]

Yes, but he says he'll get her a pony in exchange, so it's worth it if she can trade Pedialyte for a pony.   

[peacheslatour]

58 minutes ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Yes, but he says he'll get her a pony in exchange, so it's worth it if she can trade Pedialyte for a pony.   

I think it's more of a gift that a lover would give than a friend or relative so they probably know what you like.

[Gharlane]

2 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

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Yes, but he says he'll get her a pony in exchange, so it's worth it if she can trade Pedialyte for a pony.   

I think it's more of a gift that a lover would give than a friend or relative so they probably know what you like.

What? 🤔

[peacheslatour]

4 minutes ago, Gharlane said:

What? 🤔

Oh dude, I quoted the wrong post🤣. 

[mmecorday]

"When I was a little girl in Poland, we all had ponies. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony. So, what's wrong with that?"

[peacheslatour]

6 minutes ago, mmecorday said:

"When I was a little girl in Poland, we all had ponies. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony. So, what's wrong with that?"

[CrystalBlue]

It's official:. Pedialyte Is For Lovers!  (Move over, Virginia) 😍

[Gharlane]

Speaking of having a "Huh?" moment, there's a commercial for a car rental company that begins "this rental car is so boring to drive!". Have I been using the wrong car rental? 🤔

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

Am I hearing correctly that this electric razor is an "all terrain shaver"? Aren't they all? Are there some electric razors which work in grassland and taiga but not temperate forest or alpine locations? 

[Maverick]

 Some are made for the carpets and some are made for the drapes. 

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

4 hours ago, Maverick said:

 Some are made for the carpets and some are made for the drapes. 

Are you kidding or is this what it's supposed to mean? 

[Haleth]

I keep hearing a commercial on the radio (that counts, right?) for a men's shaver where they say it's for shaving here (buzzzzz) and here (buzzzz) and under here (buzzzzz), and all I can think is eww.

[chessiegal]

I find it amusing that men are being told they need to shave parts of their bodies other than their face. So many decades of women being told they need to be hairless other than their heads.

[peacheslatour]

Nutrfol commercial. "Hair has always been central to my identity, tee hee hee."  I don't get it. Why is that funny?

[Gharlane]

Whenever I see that commercial in which the father thinks his son got him a new car because a ribbon fell off the house and onto it, I think of more questions. Why is the son going along with it instead of correcting him? Why does the father not recognize his son's car? Doesn't he wonder why there's a lot more milage on it than a new car? And so on.

[mmecorday]

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Nutrfol commercial. "Hair has always been central to my identity, tee hee hee."  I don't get it. Why is that funny?

I can't stand the way that nasally woman says, "I was under a lot of stress."

[PrincessPurrsALot]

I hate the statement that the one person now has "the hair {she} was meant to have".  Really?  Are you sure you weren't meant to have thin hair? 

[SoMuchTV]

I just saw an ad for something called “Home aglow” (?) that says they will clean my whole home for $19 (or maybe $19.99). I have to wonder if this falls into the category of “you get what you pay for” or possibly “if it sounds too good to be true…”. Maybe it’s some kind of introductory offer but I’m still suspicious. 

[chessiegal]

59 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

I just saw an ad for something called “Home aglow” (?) that says they will clean my whole home for $19 (or maybe $19.99). I have to wonder if this falls into the category of “you get what you pay for” or possibly “if it sounds too good to be true…”. Maybe it’s some kind of introductory offer but I’m still suspicious. 

I saw that too! When they listed all the things they'd clean for $19, I thought not even if they charged $19/hour. I've had cleaning services for over 30 years. Never had anything that cheap. Right now I'm paying $130 every 2 weeks to clean our downstairs which is about 1,400 sq. feet.

Edited December 26, 2022 by chessiegal

[lh25]

On 12/25/2022 at 5:21 PM, SoMuchTV said:

I just saw an ad for something called “Home aglow” (?) that says they will clean my whole home for $19 (or maybe $19.99). I have to wonder if this falls into the category of “you get what you pay for” or possibly “if it sounds too good to be true…”. Maybe it’s some kind of introductory offer but I’m still suspicious. 

I saw that too.  And was tempted, we need to find a housecleaner.  They seemed to get decent review on Yelp, FWIW.

[peacheslatour]

2 hours ago, lh25 said:

I saw that too.  And was tempted, we need to find a housecleaner.  They seemed to get decent review on Yelp, FWIW.

How can they possibly make any money doing that though? Is the $19.99 fr one specific chore like washing tha dishes or doing a load of laundry? I can't see how it would work if they came in and cleaned your whole house.

[theatremouse]

Apparently it's a promotional rate for the first 3 hour session. It goes up after that.

[peacheslatour]

We  can't edit our posts anymore?

[chessiegal]

4 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

We  can't edit our posts anymore?

Go to the three dots in the upper right, and you can get the edit function.

[RedElf]

I just saw an ad for Folgers coffee that touted that their coffee beans are roasted in "our home town of New Orleans."  No.  Folgers is historically from San Francisco.  And their headquarters building is a historical landmark.  And even if they're now owned by Smuckers, their headquarters is Orrville, Ohio.

 

[theatremouse]

Their plant has been in New Orleans since the 1960s. The SF headquarters is just offices now, I think?

[Prevailing Wind]

Colonial Penn's Three Ps:

A PRICE you can afford

A PRICE that won't change

A PRICE that fits your budget

Am I particularly dense or are #s 1 and 3 pretty much the same thing?

[chessiegal]

2 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Colonial Penn's Three Ps:

A PRICE you can afford

A PRICE that won't change

A PRICE that fits your budget

Am I particularly dense or are #s 1 and 3 pretty much the same thing?

Exactly!

[theatremouse]

It's also odd they'd call them 3 Ps when all three are "price".

[dleighg]

1 hour ago, theatremouse said:

It's also odd they'd call them 3 Ps when all three are "price".

isn't it more or less like the three things that matter in real estate? Location, location, location.

Edited January 1, 2023 by dleighg

[chessiegal]

55 minutes ago, dleighg said:

isn't it more or less like the three things that matter in real estate? Location, location, location.

Not really the same thing, because they go on to explain that each P stands for something different. But 2 of the Ps are, in my mind, the same. A price you can afford and a price that fits your budget - how are they different? I guess one could say you budgeted $X for life insurance, but seems to me that's the price you can afford. Seems like they forced things to get to 3.

I have now given this way more thought than it deserves. 🙄

[InDueTime]

Yesterday, they kept playing Planet Fitness ads. This one in particular.

That part where one guy says,

Spoiler

"I can't even blow this guy."

My first reaction was, "Um...I beg your pardon?" I wonder if they'll go back and edit that in the future.

[Prevailing Wind]

23 minutes ago, InDueTime said:

Yesterday, they kept playing Planet Fitness ads. This one in particular.

My first reaction was, "Um...I beg your pardon?" I wonder if they'll go back and edit that in the future.

I doubt it, since she makes the comment about wieners.  They're going for innuendo.

[Gharlane]

Dominos Pizza has been playing commercials in which they announce they'll be using electric cars for their delivery service but why do the drivers in the commercial seem to be making cross-country drives? 

[chessiegal]

8 hours ago, Gharlane said:

Dominos Pizza has been playing commercials in which they announce they'll be using electric cars for their delivery service but why do the drivers in the commercial seem to be making cross-country drives? 

The only place that delivers to my house is Domino's. They have to drive through rural areas to get to me. ☺️

[peacheslatour]

"When I was but a child, eating Heinz on spaghetti..." Seriously? Did anybody eat spaghetti with ketchup on it outside of Honey Boo Boo?

Edited January 6, 2023 by peacheslatour

[janie jones]

Heinz makes spaghetti sauce. It comes in a can.

[peacheslatour]

4 hours ago, janie jones said:

Heinz makes spaghetti sauce. It comes in a can.

But they showed them using ketchup.

[theatremouse]

It's pretty common in two different scenarios:

1) kid is particular about food and likes ketchup and won't eat marinara (and parent doesn't object to the ketchup substitution)

2) can't afford both tomato sauce and ketchup, and have more frequent uses for ketchup, so use ketchup in all tomato-based-sauce applications

[Gharlane]

On 1/6/2023 at 3:38 PM, peacheslatour said:

"When I was but a child, eating Heinz on spaghetti..." Seriously? Did anybody eat spaghetti with ketchup on it outside of Honey Boo Boo?

Sad but true: Mom used to make spaghetti sauce by browning some ground beef and adding ketchup. I'm not sure if that was a quick-meal idea or not.

[peacheslatour]

6 minutes ago, Gharlane said:

Sad but true: Mom used to make spaghetti sauce by browning some ground beef and adding ketchup. I'm not sure if that was a quick-meal idea or not.

At least there was some protein in that. But just straight ketchup? Eew.