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This commercial just came on, but YouTube shows it's over a year old.  Anyhow...

 

 

From 0:09 to 0:12, it looks to me like the hearted "LAX" is written on the inside of a car window.

 

On TV, steamed-up car windows usually mean someone's gettin' it on.  Pardon my 12-year-old mind, but apparently the activity in which they engaged made someone love a laxative.  I have to stoop to a double entendre like "backseat action," because the other possibilities are very, very wrong.

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There is a Cialis ad where the narrator says "When the time is right, you don't want to have to stop to take a pill..." and then it shows a man and woman watching a baseball game and he says "or take time out to find a bathroom." Um... are they going to do it in the bleachers? I don't understand.

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I think they are saying "Make a change ala carte".

 

This cracked me up. I'm notorious for mishearing lyrics, so I didn't even bother trying to figure out what in tarnation they were singing, but I have to say I'm impressed with your interpretation! :)

 

 

I admit that actually find the song sort of catchy

 

Sort of?! I'm jealous of you -  total earworm for me and I cannot stop bopping my head like a muppet when I hear it.

 

The latest Taco John's commercial is a wee bit of a head scratcher/head tilt. "Originality doesn't come in a box, so we use a wrapper." Um...huh....OK...wait, what? First of all, doesn't Taco Bell also use wrappers? Come to think of it...aren't a lot of burgers also wrapped?

 

Also, the "best part of your day" also appears to include the Taco John's spokesperson who follows people around as they sit down to eat; the look the woman gives him is a cross between "Ok, dear, go play with your potato oles" and "creepy stalker, don't make me get Mandy Patinkin all up in here." She doesn't look like she's having the best time of her day.

 

So, color me unclear on your advertising vision, Taco John's.

 

 

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I have never, in my entire life, been told to "tame my curls". Now that may be because I have board straight and fine hair and can't have curls. But even friend with curls have never said they were told that. They may want to for themselves and because they are jealous of my board straight hair. But I'm jealous of the curls!

 

And I do not "love my laxative". I don't have a laxative. I find a couple of days eating shredded wheat or grape nuts takes care of any need for laxatives - tmi, I know.

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I have never, in my entire life, been told to "tame my curls". Now that may be because I have board straight and fine hair and can't have curls. But even friend with curls have never said they were told that. They may want to for themselves and because they are jealous of my board straight hair. But I'm jealous of the curls!

 

And I do not "love my laxative". I don't have a laxative. I find a couple of days eating shredded wheat or grape nuts takes care of any need for laxatives - tmi, I know.

I'm confused. Nobody told you to tame your non-existent curls?  Ok then! 

 

As for your friends, I would consider them anomalies. Because most of us natural-curlies have been subjected to the ever-so-helpful suggestion to straighten our curls. When a boyfriend in my mid 20s "suggested" that I looked more attractive with my hair straight, I FRIED my hair straightening it into submission for an entire year.  Now, of course, that's on ME, and looking back I could kick that dumb girl for giving in to his dumb-ass suggestions. But, in any case, it's not uncommon.

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There is a Cialis ad where the narrator says "When the time is right, you don't want to have to stop to take a pill..." and then it shows a man and woman watching a baseball game and he says "or take time out to find a bathroom." Um... are they going to do it in the bleachers? I don't understand.

The thing that makes me scratch my head about that commercial is, is it the end of the world to stop to take a pill?  I mean, people stop to put on condoms, stop to "freshen up," stop to pee, etc.  Why not stop to take a pill?  Or are they referring to the time it takes for it to kick in?  Because if that's what it means, they should be clearer, in my opinion.

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The thing that makes me scratch my head about that commercial is, is it the end of the world to stop to take a pill?  I mean, people stop to put on condoms, stop to "freshen up," stop to pee, etc.  Why not stop to take a pill?  Or are they referring to the time it takes for it to kick in?  Because if that's what it means, they should be clearer, in my opinion.

When the time is right, you don't want to have to stop to take a pill, wait for it to work, and hope you don't end up with a four hour erection.  Because even though the time was right, it wasn't four hours worth of right. 

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Can anyone explain to me why Geico & Helzberg diamonds are advertising together?

My first snarky thought was that somehow the EHarmony dude had brokered a deal with the gecko and Jared to provide his perfectly matched couples with some savings on insurance and rings.  Yeah, I got nothing.

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GaT and riley702, you inspired me to google that.  Helzberg and Geico are both owned by Berkshire Hathaway.  Lots of articles about that, actually.

 

I can understand wanting to stretch the advertising dollar, but it still makes no damn sense.  Aren't they worried about diluting their message, or (horror!) "confusing" the audience?  Johnson & Johnson don't do it with their products ("K-Y Jelly was involved in the production of this baby, and now we wash her hair with No More Tears Shampoo.  We take Tylenol for the headaches she gives us").

 

Berkshire Hathaway owns many companies.  Check out this Geico link:

http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/corporate-ownership

 

There's a Valentine's Day commercial from Dairy Queen where the dude is acting like he's about to give his gal a necklace, but it turns out to be a red plastic spoon.  Berkshire Hathaway also owns Ben Bridge Jeweler and Dairy Queen.

 

This collaboration thing may become a trend.  "Eat See's candies while sitting around in your Fruit of the Loom underwear."  Both B-H.

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So commercials are inadvertently turning into their own king of disparate TV things? Previously.tv, leading the curve!

I don't understand what King of Disparate TV Things is. :-(

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GaT and riley702, you inspired me to google that.  Helzberg and Geico are both owned by Berkshire Hathaway.  Lots of articles about that, actually.

 

I can understand wanting to stretch the advertising dollar, but it still makes no damn sense.  Aren't they worried about diluting their message, or (horror!) "confusing" the audience?  Johnson & Johnson don't do it with their products ("K-Y Jelly was involved in the production of this baby, and now we wash her hair with No More Tears Shampoo.  We take Tylenol for the headaches she gives us").

 

Berkshire Hathaway owns many companies.  Check out this Geico link:

http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/corporate-ownership

 

There's a Valentine's Day commercial from Dairy Queen where the dude is acting like he's about to give his gal a necklace, but it turns out to be a red plastic spoon.  Berkshire Hathaway also owns Ben Bridge Jeweler and Dairy Queen.

 

This collaboration thing may become a trend.  "Eat See's candies while sitting around in your Fruit of the Loom underwear."  Both B-H.

B-H is obviously Satan.

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And I wish folks would stop mentioning See's candy!  I can't get it where I live! (Bordeaux Bar!)

You aren't missing anything.

 

Oh, in general I can take or leave See's, but I might fight to the death over a Bordeaux bar.

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I'm confused. Nobody told you to tame your non-existent curls?  Ok then! 

 

As for your friends, I would consider them anomalies. Because most of us natural-curlies have been subjected to the ever-so-helpful suggestion to straighten our curls. When a boyfriend in my mid 20s "suggested" that I looked more attractive with my hair straight, I FRIED my hair straightening it into submission for an entire year.  Now, of course, that's on ME, and looking back I could kick that dumb girl for giving in to his dumb-ass suggestions. But, in any case, it's not uncommon.

 

Very true.  Too many people have told me, "but you look so much better with bone straight hair," even though when I've straightened my hair I look like an alien from outer space.

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No Dairy Queen, I don't want to eat a Red Velvet Blizzard Pubic Cake on Valentine's day. Yuck.

OK - I think it's actually supposed to be Cupid Cake, but damn if the woman isn't saying Pubic Cake.

 

I was just about to bring this up!  The first time it played, my partner and I looked at each other and were like, "Did they just say PUBIC cake?" It really does like it!  And I was like--WELP that is one really solid way to turn me off of DQ.  Thanks, commercial!

 

Kinda like Katie Holmes taking "beady" into her own hands.... 

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And I do not "love my laxative". I don't have a laxative. I find a couple of days eating shredded wheat or grape nuts takes care of any need for laxatives - tmi, I know.

Is that the ad featuring the animation of a pinkish-purple turd exiting the colon? Ewww...
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You know the commercial for mini Baby Bell cheese snacks, with the lunchbox, and the Jamaican accent? Well they changed the voice, so now there's no Jamaican accent. Did they get complaints?

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Probably as many as had to sign off on the "Enjoy the go" slogan with Charmin.

Charmin has lost me with that shit, pun intended.

 

First off, if you don't "enjoy the go," it's probably due to dietary or medical reasons (or, if you watch House Hunters, you know that dated bathroom decor ruins the go, and linoleum floors prevent the go altogether).  If you have a particularly harrowing go, the toilet paper afterwards won't make you remember that go fondly.

 

Secondly, is the competition for consumer loyalty so fierce Charmin had to invent a benefit of its product?  Watching toilet paper absorb gallons of blue liquid and then hold a stack of quarters didn't win over enough customers?  Now it retroactively makes a bodily function enjoyable.

 

Thirdly, when did our lives become so dreary that they needed the go to become a ray of sunshine?  Charmin, ship your toilet paper to the third-world countries where people are dying from the go and tell those people to enjoy it.

 

And finally, the bears and their lack of moderation...  Peeping-tom children...  Harassment of TSA workers...  Those bears passed enjoy; they're proselytising zealots for asswiping nirvana.

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So I can't find it on youtube, but Totino's has a new commercial for their pizza rolls, and their new slogan is "Fun harder." Three guesses as to what I thought they were saying, and the first two don't count. I don't know what their advertising people were thinking.

ispot.tv usually has all the ads

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