Say What?: Commercials That Made Us Scratch Our Heads

[Aquarius]

Those Panera commercials grate.  And this latest one. Who the hell is Dan and why should I give a toss that he's "back"? 

 

It's such a non-sequitur, too.  Soup and sandwich and wonderful salads and - DAN IS BACK! - fresh ingredients.  It's so weird.

Edited February 10, 2016 by Aquarius

[St. Claire]

Denny's is running an ad wih the line "Pancakes and eggs, bacon and sausage, coffee and O.J. and a killer price?" Did they not realize that people are going to associate their breakfasts with a double-murder now, at least subconsciously?

I think the Denny's ad folks are in cahoots with FX, which is now running a 10-part mini series about the OJ trial as season 1 of American Crime Story.

[xaxat]

 

So . . . Priceline can prevent incest?

 

(Second cousins marrying isn't legally incest, but they are clearly going for the ick factor.)

[Rick Kitchen]

I swear this box says "shit me to the lab".

 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Which would be fitting, but the box actually did say 'ship'.

[shapeshifter]

This commercial has always seemed half-cute/half-weird, but tonight I finally heard, "side effects may include...hallucinations...," and now I get it. Still, it's probably not necessary to give the ad team a dose of the pharmaceuticals they're hawking, because then you get ads like this:

[Qoass]

 

a mother embarrassing her daughter with her rad yoga (?) moves

 

Speaking of which, why does it seem like every single ad that features people doing "yoga" show them doing it wrong?  Take a single class and any teacher worth a damn will caution you to be careful of overextending your knees.  So what do I see in commercials?  People balancing in Tree posture with the sole of one foot pressed hard against the inside of the opposite knee.  Or some semblance of Warrior with the participants lunging deep so their knees are far past the line of their ankles.  Way to risk injury so you'll need more than whatever pain reliever they're shilling.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Why does this dude look like he just cut a huge fart?

 

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AnFX/trident-courtroom-innocence

 

Because I have news for him - no gum is going to help cover up that smell.

[riley702]

He's massively creepy, too.

[CarpeDiem54]

I HATE that ad! The constant phone buzzing makes me want to reach through my screen and beat that creepy guy to death.

[DeLurker]

There's a Disney commercial I've seen recently where they have Mike and Sully (Monsters Inc) creepily opening the door to look in on a girl sleeping in bed. 

The whole set up makes me think Mike and Sully are pedophiles who are going to molest your kids if your stay at the Disney Resort. 

[SmithW6079]

So buy a Toyota Prius if you need a good get-away car?

"Prius, the choice of four out of five criminals."

[stillhere1900]

There's a Disney commercial I've seen recently where they have Mike and Sully (Monsters Inc) creepily opening the door to look in on a girl sleeping in bed. 

The whole set up makes me think Mike and Sully are pedophiles who are going to molest your kids if your stay at the Disney Resort.

SERIOUSLY ? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What  an awful thing to say.

Edited February 15, 2016 by stillhere1900

[90PercentGravity]

I can't figure out who is playing the fat colonel Sanders. Someone enlighten me? I keep thinking it is Nick Nolte but it can't be. ..

Edited February 15, 2016 by 90PercentGravity

[Jaded]

I can't figure out who is playing the fat colonel Sanders. Someone enlighten me? I keep thinking it is Nick Nolte but it can't be. ..

Jim Gaffigan

[Brattinella]

There is one KFC commercial with a voice-over I suspect of being Bill Hader.

[Jaded]

http://www.thebraiser.com/jim-gaffigan-is-an-interesting-choice-for-colonel-sanders/

[bigskygirl]

What is the reasoning behind the new Fiber One commercial with the guy looking like he is pregnant. He goes into the bathroom and comes out with a flat stomach. WTH?!

[Rick Kitchen]

What is the reasoning behind the new Fiber One commercial with the guy looking like he is pregnant. He goes into the bathroom and comes out with a flat stomach. WTH?!

 

Gas baby.

[chessiegal]

Gas baby.

I'm thinking more something in the solid state. :)

[bigskygirl]

The commercial is weird and freaky.

[90PercentGravity]

I swear I just saw a Church's Chicken commercial were people were being mouth-raped with invisible dongs... I can't find it anywhere online.

[Aquarius]

The commercial is weird and freaky.

 

Yes, and the less said about it the better.  LOL.

[Brattinella]

I swear I just saw a Church's Chicken commercial were people were being mouth-raped with invisible dongs... I can't find it anywhere online.

 

WHAT???

[90PercentGravity]

I don't know how else to explain it. People are just standing around and then all of the sudden their cheeks bulge out like someone stuck an invisible dong in, they seemed confused for a bit and then get happy and go eat chicken.

[InDueTime]

I swear I just saw a Church's Chicken commercial were people were being mouth-raped with invisible dongs... I can't find it anywhere online.

Is this the ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ck8rMiVTg

It's advertising their seafood line. It's making like the people have invisible fishing hooks in their mouths reeling them to the Church's food.

[90PercentGravity]

That's it. Still looks like invisible dongs to me.

[Ubiquitous]

I can't figure out who is playing the fat colonel Sanders. Someone enlighten me? I keep thinking it is Nick Nolte but it can't be. ..

So I wasn't imagining things? I assumed it was my cataracts all this time.

[chessiegal]

Jim Gaffigan.

[Sandman87]

I was amused by one of the "this program sponsored by" commercials on PBS today. I learned that "...Sierra Nevada Brewing Company made bold beers that helped launch a movement." To me, "launch a movement" is something that happens during a particularly energetic session in the bathroom, meaning that their beer is a particularly powerful carbonated laxative.

Edited February 18, 2016 by Sandman87

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Gives a whole new meaning to 'loving your laxative'.

[NewDigs]

I am going to attempt to forget previously mentioned "launch" interpretations and fondly remember Sierra Nevada's Torpedo IPA.

Not sure if that helps.

[Sandman87]

I don't think it helps, because now I'm thinking of the same thing as "launching a torpedo."

[NewDigs]

Err, this hearty 7.2 alcohol content Torpedo launches a superior, um, buzz?

Closer to better?

Movement. Hmpf.

What were they thinking?

IOW, Say What?

[mmecorday]

I'd never heard of Sunny Sea Gold before I saw her on commercials about Binge Eating Disorder or B.E.D. All I can think of when I hear the initials B.E.D. is Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux.

[OSM Mom]

I'd never heard of Sunny Sea Gold before I saw her on commercials about Binge Eating Disorder or B.E.D. All I can think of when I hear the initials B.E.D. is Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux.

Same here!!

[Bruinsfan]

So buy a Toyota Prius if you need a good get-away car?

"Prius, the choice of four out of five criminals."

I just saw another one where they showed police departments switching to a Prius fleet so they could catch getaway cars. Yeah, I'm sure a hybrid hatchback is going to have more get up and go than the turbo V-6 Impalas and Chargers police use as interceptors. Apparently they're counting on never having to chase anyone up a hill.

 

I was amused by one of the "this program sponsored by" commercials on PBS today. I learned that "...Sierra Nevada Brewing Company made bold beers that helped launch a movement." To me, "launch a movement" is something that happens during a particularly energetic session in the bathroom, meaning that their beer is a particularly powerful carbonated laxative.

I don't know about a laxative effect, but drink a few pints of Guinness and that bathroom session the next day is definitely going to be energetic—like trying to pass a bellyful of crude oil.

[90PercentGravity]

I just saw a Nissan Rouge ad with angry snowmen, which is bad enough on its own, but the crazy thing is the fine print that says "Canadian model not available in the us. " Um okay, why area you advertising it gets then?

[Demented Daisy]

I don't know about a laxative effect, but drink a few pints of Guinness and that bathroom session the next day is definitely going to be energetic—like trying to pass a bellyful of crude oil.

 

A shot of Jaegermeister will help with that.

[Ubiquitous]

There's a new ad in the campaign in which we are to believe people are mistaking an apartment for a restaurant with a food critic muttering to himself about the bagged chips and jar of salsa being "four star"; he's just an insane man who wandered in off the street, right?

[peacheslatour]

There's a new ad in the campaign in which we are to believe people are mistaking an apartment for a restaurant with a food critic muttering to himself about the bagged chips and jar of salsa being "four star"; he's just an insane man who wandered in off the street, right?

I think they say he's a "famous restaurant critic"  I Iove his voice, he sounds like Gregory Peck.

[Demented Daisy]

There's a new ad in the campaign in which we are to believe people are mistaking an apartment for a restaurant with a food critic muttering to himself about the bagged chips and jar of salsa being "four star"; he's just an insane man who wandered in off the street, right?

 

As insane as the people in the art museum who are drinking Bud Light Lime-a-Ritas.

[Ubiquitous]

As insane as the people in the art museum who are drinking Bud Light Lime-a-Ritas.

I hate that ad. Why are they drinking that swill in such a fancy-shmancy place?

[Demented Daisy]

I hate that ad. Why are they drinking that swill in such a fancy-shmancy place?

 

 

Because, duh!  They want to have fun, not be all uptight and stuffy!  And the Bud Light Lime-a-Rita is the perfect beverage for that!

 

In other words, I hate it, too.

[LoneHaranguer]

 

I just saw another one where they showed police departments switching to a Prius fleet so they could catch getaway cars. Yeah, I'm sure a hybrid hatchback is going to have more get up and go than the turbo V-6 Impalas and Chargers police use as interceptors.

Reminded me of the old footage of police chasing OJ Simpson in his white Ford Bronco, trying to talk him into stopping.

[Haleth]

I can't watch the Prius commercials without thinking about an incident that happened almost a year ago.  Neighbors on the next street parked their Prius in the garage, the battery overheated and burned the house to the ground.  The people were about 30 seconds away from dying before they could be rescued.  It was horrible.

[Ubiquitous]

Reminded me of the old footage of police chasing OJ Simpson in his white Ford Bronco, trying to talk him into stopping.

The scene at the end of the first ad in that campaign reminds me of a car chase scene with cops from The Blues Brothers.

 

Speaking of head-scratcher car ads, I see they're playing the one with the couple deciding whether to suffer in the wilderness or at the mall and choose the wilderness. Why?

[Moose135]

Speaking of head-scratcher car ads, I see they're playing the one with the couple deciding whether to suffer in the wilderness or at the mall and choose the wilderness. Why?

 

Because they drive a Subaru, and Subaru owners are outdoorsy, not mall-types...

[Ubiquitous]

Well, they didn't look like outdoorsy types...

[janie jones]

Yeah, that commercial doesn't make any sense.  Because first of all, they don't seem to enjoy the outdoors, and secondly, are they associating khakis with dullness?  Are they boring people because they buy khakis?  I see where they're going with that, I guess, but I associate khakis with safari wear, so enjoying the outdoors and wearing khakis aren't disparate ways of life.  But I also don't even know that they do buy khakis because the someone in the mall announces that there's a couple lost.  So they can't find their way around the mall because they're more suited to a life in the outdoors? 

 

But I admit I'm never paying full attention to that commercial because I'm always wondering whether the lady in that commercial is also the lady in this commercial.

Edited February 21, 2016 by janie jones