Ohwell December 6, 2015 Share December 6, 2015 That Stevie Wonder commercial for Apple: Is that his daughter and grandkids, or his wife and kids? Link to comment
Cobalt Stargazer December 7, 2015 Share December 7, 2015 According to youtube, the woman in the video is someone named Andra Day, who I've never heard of, but she's a singer. She seems to be pretty new to the music scene, since she's only got one album out. 1 Link to comment
Ohwell December 7, 2015 Share December 7, 2015 According to youtube, the woman in the video is someone named Andra Day, who I've never heard of, but she's a singer. She seems to be pretty new to the music scene, since she's only got one album out. Ah, ok thanks. There was something rather annoying about her singing, like she was trying too hard. 2 Link to comment
CarpeDiem54 December 7, 2015 Share December 7, 2015 Ah, ok thanks. There was something rather annoying about her singing, like she was trying too hard. Yeah, she pretty much ruins that commercial. 2 Link to comment
Haleth December 7, 2015 Share December 7, 2015 I had the sound off when that commercial was on and it seriously looked like she was in tremendous pain. 3 Link to comment
peacheslatour December 8, 2015 Share December 8, 2015 I just saw the Snoop pistachio commercial and the VO goes "Snoop does it ...habitually. Shouldn't that have been ...chronically? 7 Link to comment
CarpeDiem54 December 8, 2015 Share December 8, 2015 I just saw the Snoop pistachio commercial and the VO goes "Snoop does it ...habitually. Shouldn't that have been ...chronically? I think they're referring to his drug habit. Which isn't funny. I stopped buying those pistachios after that commercial came out. 1 Link to comment
Ubiquitous December 9, 2015 Share December 9, 2015 (edited) Thanks, Riley! When TSS came out, it really scared me off tampons, too! Kinda funny story about another one of my brothers. He was 5 or 6, maybe. Digging around in my purse, and said "Why do you have so many toothbrushes?" So, forevermore, they were called toothbrushes. I remember an ep of The Young Ones in which pRick (the "p" is silent) grabbed a girl's purse at a party, pulled out a tampon, and thought it was a little mouse puppet and started making it kiss people. ETA: Found it! Edited December 9, 2015 by Ubiquitous 2 Link to comment
Ubiquitous December 9, 2015 Share December 9, 2015 Speaking of grody things, there's this ad for Mucinex in which their snot-mascot is pestering a woman on a plane that ends with the stewardess grabbing him and shoving him into the overhead compartment. Eww! Why the hell did she grab him bare-handed? 3 Link to comment
Ubiquitous December 9, 2015 Share December 9, 2015 There's a new Old Navy ad with a couple who were apparently banished to the "children's table" and ignored because of what they wore. After an annoying smart-ass child tells them to get some cheap decent-looking clothes from the sponsor so they will be allowed to join the adults, they run off for some quick shopping. Isn't it too late at this point? 4 Link to comment
mmecorday December 9, 2015 Share December 9, 2015 I just can't even with this commercial: How is faster Internet speed going to help this kid make actual food with a 3D printer? And someone please get this kid to Supercuts soon, mkay? 2 Link to comment
peacheslatour December 9, 2015 Share December 9, 2015 I think they're referring to his drug habit. Which isn't funny. I stopped buying those pistachios after that commercial came out. They are obviously talking about his love for the herb, but it's legal here so I don't think it's any different than a beer or wine commercial. *shrug* 5 Link to comment
Bastet December 9, 2015 Share December 9, 2015 I just saw the Snoop pistachio commercial and the VO goes "Snoop does it ...habitually. Shouldn't that have been ...chronically? Ha! Yes, that would have been much funnier. 3 Link to comment
peacheslatour December 9, 2015 Share December 9, 2015 OMG, there's an Iams ad going on right now with talking cats. The voices don't sound like cats would if they could talk. Are these people completely unfamiliar with I Can Haz Cheesburger.Com? Or Caturday? 1 Link to comment
ABay December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 I Can Haz Cheeseburger is actually a pet peeve (see what I did there...) of mine because cats would NEVER talk like that! Cats have perfect grammar and judge you if you don't. They all have vaguely British accents, too. Have these imbeciles with the website never seen Dodsworth? Do they not know of the god Morris? Ignorant savages! 15 Link to comment
Prevailing Wind December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 I Can Haz Cheeseburger is actually a pet peeve (see what I did there...) of mine because cats would NEVER talk like that! Cats have perfect grammar and judge you if you don't. They all have vaguely British accents, too. Have these imbeciles with the website never seen Dodsworth? Do they not know of the god Morris? Ignorant savages! Well, I wouldn't go *that* far - Brit accents & all - but they are definitely not illiterate. My cat has a "Facebook" account where he tells everyone I'm his typist. He had a "friend" that spoke in that baby-talk shit & Bosco called him out on it. We understand - cats do not have the physical equipment to speak properly, but, by gum, when they've got their Yumans typing for them, they can post in proper English. Sid, the baby-talking cat, immediately unfriended Bosco. Some Yumans are just SO touchy. And we never posted a word about how freaky a nekkid cat looks. (Sid's a Sphynx.) Apparently, those chezburger folks never watched a Henri, the Existentialist Cat video, either. Henri would sniff in disdain at them. 4 Link to comment
crowsworks December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 (edited) Years and years ago, my parents went out to dinner with a guy my dad worked with, and they brought me and my sister along as a treat. Medium-priced place, with tablecloths and such, so we were supposed to be on our best behavior. Halfway through the meal, my sister left the table to go to the restroom, and when she returned she asked our mom if she could have a dime so she could "get a napkin from the machine on the wall". This was back in the late seventies or early eighties, so she couldn't have been much more than seven or eight, but man. I'm laughing just thinking about it. My mom called them mouse beds. Estée Lauder Modern Muse commercial. Kendall Jenner walking down the street to the tune of "Lady Marmalade." Do people forget the song is about a prostitute? And....? Do publicity whores count? They could have a family sing along. Edited December 10, 2015 by crowsworks 8 Link to comment
theatremouse December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 I just saw the Snoop pistachio commercial and the VO goes "Snoop does it ...habitually. Shouldn't that have been ...chronically?I would not be surprised if they shot it both ways (or planned to) and the latter got censored or something. I mean, it's the same pun but it's funny what sometimes gets a No, word choice wise. 3 Link to comment
zentropa December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 My two cats have Sicilian accents. 6 Link to comment
Ubiquitous December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 I just saw the Snoop pistachio commercial and the VO goes "Snoop does it ...habitually. Shouldn't that have been ...chronically? Heh. I was thinking "medicinally" would fit in with them being in pill bottles, but I dislike that pothead so it doesn't matter much to me. 1 Link to comment
LoneHaranguer December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 We understand - cats do not have the physical equipment to speak properly, but, by gum, when they've got their Yumans typing for them, they can post in proper English. Who says it isn't the cats who are speaking properly? Researchers have been able to teach cats to understand hundreds of words of English; what's the most cat-speak any human has been able to manage? Although, to be fair, what cat has ever been interested in teaching a human more than a few basics? 6 Link to comment
peacheslatour December 10, 2015 Share December 10, 2015 My two cats have Sicilian accents. My cats are lying liars who tell lies. 6 Link to comment
crowsworks December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 I love the Friskies "Dear Kitten" videos. They are usually with the "sad cat diary" hilarious. A very sad cat posits that because someone moved the folded Black slacks from the couch it has no where to sleep! Heartbreaking. 8 Link to comment
Sandman87 December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 One wonders what the people at Chili's (or whatever eatery chain it is) were thinking when they picked "Danger! High Voltage" as the music for their latest commercial. I've seen the video of the song, so it doesn't make me think of food. It makes me think of a moose wearing a flashing codpiece. 1 Link to comment
WescottF1 December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 One wonders what the people at Chili's (or whatever eatery chain it is) were thinking when they picked "Danger! High Voltage" as the music for their latest commercial. I've seen the video of the song, so it doesn't make me think of food. It makes me think of a moose wearing a flashing codpiece. I haven't seen that ad, but is it the same song as from the JK Simmons ad for Farmer's where he says, "You think you're paying for this, but you're really paying for THIS." and there's the stereotypical Guido fixing his hair outside a yellow Lamborghini? Link to comment
peacheslatour December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 (edited) So Olay wants us to be age agnostic? What does that even mean? Are we supposed to question the existence of aging? Edited December 11, 2015 by peacheslatour 6 Link to comment
Brattinella December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 Is Olay the one that guarantees it will make you look ten years younger? 2 Link to comment
Ubiquitous December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 What is the woman saying in the ad for the wireless doorbell webcam when the guy caught trying to case her place and weakly offers a tree-trimming service? I swear she says "Sorry, I'm dating my children right now", maybe "Sorry, I'm beating my children right now", but I just cannot tell. 2 Link to comment
Bastet December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 Feeding, perhaps? (I haven't seen it, but thinking of words that would make sense in that sentence and could be misheard as beating and dating, that's what springs to mind.) 1 Link to comment
theatremouse December 11, 2015 Share December 11, 2015 What is the woman saying in the ad for the wireless doorbell webcam when the guy caught trying to case her place and weakly offers a tree-trimming service? I swear she says "Sorry, I'm dating my children right now", maybe "Sorry, I'm beating my children right now", but I just cannot tell.Haven't seen it in a while but first thought (and sort of jives with your mishears) was "bathing". That's a hazy memory though. I am not confident in this guess. 3 Link to comment
Brattinella December 12, 2015 Share December 12, 2015 I vote for "Beating my children". Sounds right to me. :D 3 Link to comment
SmithW6079 December 12, 2015 Share December 12, 2015 (edited) I saw a commercial for perfume last night that featured Julia Roberts in a long white gown slinking through a party where everyone else was wearing black. Except that when I first saw it, I thought it was Caitlyn Jenner, since she seems to favor gowns like that, and I wondered when Caitlyn had started doing commercials. Edited December 12, 2015 by SmithW6079 2 Link to comment
Ubiquitous December 12, 2015 Share December 12, 2015 Haven't seen it in a while but first thought (and sort of jives with your mishears) was "bathing". That's a hazy memory though. I am not confident in this guess.Yeah, that sounds most plausible to me. Link to comment
Sandman87 December 13, 2015 Share December 13, 2015 A correction to my previous post: One wonders what the people at Chili's (or whatever eatery chain it is) were thinking when they picked "Danger! High Voltage" as the music for their latest commercial. I've seen the video of the song, so it doesn't make me think of food. It makes me think of a moose wearing a flashing codpiece.Turns out that it's not for a restaurant; it's one of those "got milk?" commercials. That makes it even worse. Any commercial that makes me associate white fluid with moose codpieces is not taking me anywhere that I want to go. Link to comment
ivygirl December 13, 2015 Share December 13, 2015 There's a new Old Navy ad with a couple who were apparently banished to the "children's table" and ignored because of what they wore. After an annoying smart-ass child tells them to get some cheap decent-looking clothes from the sponsor so they will be allowed to join the adults, they run off for some quick shopping. Isn't it too late at this point? It took me a watch or two to realize they were Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen. Not that it makes much difference to the amount of sense the scenario makes on its own in the commercial, but I can see the two of them doing something like that on Portlandia. Except that Portlandia characters would probably *mock* Old Navy... so... there's that. 2 Link to comment
mojoween December 13, 2015 Share December 13, 2015 I feel like I'm missing something in the Campbell's ad where the little kid wants R2D2 soup and he asks the clerk for it, and then the mother repeats it, and then there's a beat, the clerk gives a weird look, and then he takes them to soup. What's the issue? Is it that R2D2 soup isn't really a thing, and he wasn't very specific about what he wanted, and it took the clerk a sec to figure out what it was? I'm confused. 1 Link to comment
Actionmage December 13, 2015 Share December 13, 2015 What's the issue? Is it that R2D2 soup isn't really a thing, and he wasn't very specific about what he wanted, and it took the clerk a sec to figure out what it was? I'm confused. I think it's that the child is very young and his R2D2 doesn't immediately sound like the cute 'droid from Star Wars at first. The first time I saw the ad, I wasn't sure what he was asking for the first time. It's a cute ad, though. Link to comment
Jamoche December 13, 2015 Share December 13, 2015 There's a new Old Navy ad with a couple who were apparently banished to the "children's table" and ignored because of what they wore. After an annoying smart-ass child tells them to get some cheap decent-looking clothes from the sponsor so they will be allowed to join the adults, they run off for some quick shopping. Isn't it too late at this point? Finally saw this - he's got a hoodie, she's in a Friday-casual blazer; they're not matching each other in style-levels, fine. But the next guy to come in is wearing a flannel shirt, which ranks with hoodies to me. So not getting it. (Also, nobody's forcing them to *stay* seated at the kid's table while everyone else is mingling.) 2 Link to comment
peacheslatour December 15, 2015 Share December 15, 2015 My skin, my story, my True Match..... my own, my love, my Precious! 1 Link to comment
Etaoin Shrdlu December 17, 2015 Share December 17, 2015 I just saw a Walmart ad where a young African American woman is hosting Christmas dinner for her family. She gets all the food ready, then says: "And then comes the best part. Honoring those who are racist." Well, according to closed captioning she said "honoring those who raised us," but that's sure not what it sounded like! 2 Link to comment
Ubiquitous December 18, 2015 Share December 18, 2015 I hate those ads for oranges with pyschotic children, but isn't the little girl who leaves the head of her toy horse on her father's pillow doing it wrong? I thought in the Godfather, the horse head was a prized race horse of the victim. Shouldn't there be something he likes on that pillow? 3 Link to comment
Rick Kitchen December 18, 2015 Share December 18, 2015 Oh, look, there's a new Little Baby's Ice Cream ad. 3 Link to comment
CarpeDiem54 December 18, 2015 Share December 18, 2015 Oh, look, there's a new Little Baby's Ice Cream ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfwdEFl1t4 WTF?! That's supposed to make me want their ice cream? Not! That's disgusting. 4 Link to comment
Brattinella December 18, 2015 Share December 18, 2015 WTF?! That's supposed to make me want their ice cream? Not! That's disgusting. GAH!! What a horrific image! Jeez Louise, folks, not EVERYBODY uses drugs! That one needs to go. 2 Link to comment
cynicat December 18, 2015 Share December 18, 2015 Oh, look, there's a new Little Baby's Ice Cream ad.https://www.youtube....h?v=AZfwdEFl1t4 That is just flat out fucked up. 4 Link to comment
FormerMod-a1 December 18, 2015 Share December 18, 2015 Oh, look, there's a new Little Baby's Ice Cream ad. I think I prefer the eating out of the skull one. 6 Link to comment
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