Strudel-Boy and Cawowine: Irritating Kids in Commercials

[RealityGal]

This is even worse.  Death threats?  Really?

 

This kid doesn't need halos, she needs a psychiatrist, and probably some anti psychotic drugs.

 

Even creepier is the end of the commercial where she is brushing the tail of the headless pony.  She isn't right, she is going to kill you in your sleep and wear your skin. 

 

Don't say you weren't warned Halo parents.

Edited November 15, 2014 by RealityGal

[xls]

Hers another Halos,I found it hilarious, but I'm also posting it here to give equal time to my friends who find it bratty.:)

[RealityGal]

Hers another Halos,I found it hilarious, but I'm also posting it here to give equal time to my friends who find it bratty.:)

I do find it bratty, but damn if I don't want a Halo now!

[potatoradio]

I love Clementines, but I cringe every time I buy some because I feel like I'm supporting this trope of clueless, spineless "parents" cowed by their ain't-right-in-the-head, bordering on Twilight Zone creepy, brats.  I rolled my eyes when I bought Cuties because their commercials were just overly precious, but I would give anything to be able to buy them now --Halos is the only brand available in stores. 

 

And what's with "wonderful" being a trademarked part of their brand? The hell? 

 

These kids need a trip to Wonka's chocolate factory so they can be weighed on the golden goose egg scales and go the  way of Veruca Salt. Did these parents not listen to any Oompa Loompa stories?

 

In other exciting news - I saw a new Toaster Strudel commercial, minus the possessed blonde boy AND scary "now with more fruit" grandpa! Nothing but a lame old comparison to a symphony. I'll take it! Keep it up, Toaster Strudel! 

Edited November 18, 2014 by potatoradio

[Brattinella]

These are mandarins, tangerines, right?  What the HOLY HELL is it that children can forbid ADULTS from eating these???  Gah.

[peeayebee]

I don't think they're the same as tangerines. I think clementines and mandarins are the same.

[Maverick]

 I think Cuties just rebranded themselves ass Halos.  I have no idea why, though.  

 

 Who the hell green lit the commercial with the girl decapitating her stuffed pony and leaving the head in dad's bed?  That;s some fucked up shit right there.  You don't take your kid to a store after that, you take them to a shrink.  Or an exorcist. 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

 I think Cuties just rebranded themselves ass Halos.  I have no idea why, though.

 

LMAO, ass Halos. How fitting.

[Brattinella]

 

commercial with the girl decapitating her stuffed pony and leaving the head in dad's bed

 

Wow I have not seen this one yet.  Is that a commercial for little oranges?

[xls]

Oh, you're going to love this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtYcAmRkB-g

[Moose135]

Now you see, I've often recommended duct tape for dealing with those little "special snowflakes", so I don't have a problem with what she did to her brother.

[Brattinella]

 

And what's with "wonderful" being a trademarked part of their brand? The hell?

 

They also have Wonderful Pistachios.  Trademark of Paramount Farms.

[Rick Kitchen]

And Pom Wonderful.

[cynicat]

I should probably hate this kid, but for some reason he makes me smile. 

 

 

Edited November 19, 2014 by cynicat

[Prevailing Wind]

Clementines are a different fruit from mandarins and/or tangerines.  I never knew this until y'all prompted me to look 'em up...

 

http://www.producepete.com/shows/clementines.html

 

All I've known is I couldn't stop eating them last winter & gained 3 pounds.  Now, with these hideous commercials, I think I'm gonna bypass them completely.  So there!  (did you hear my lil foot stamping in defiance?)

[peeayebee]

Thanks for that link. Pretty interesting and informative. From now on I'll keep an eye out for fresh mandarins.

[riley702]

These are mandarins, tangerines, right?  

According to this, clementines are a type of mandarin, as are Satsumas. And tangerines were "brightly colored sweet mandarins that were originally shipped out of the port of Tangiers Morocco to Florida in the late 1800s and the term stuck." So it sounds like they're all the same thing, sort of.

 

http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/libraries/Questions_and_Answers/?uid=159&ds=267

 

Personally, I'm waiting for blood oranges to come in (late Dec.? Early Jan.?). I think they taste like a combination of orange and berry.

Edited November 19, 2014 by riley702

[Rick Kitchen]

I just saw an ad for a local grocery chain where they were touting Cuties.  I wonder why they don't make their own ads, like Halos do.

[Aquarius]

 I think Cuties just rebranded themselves ass Halos.  I have no idea why, though.  

 

 Who the hell green lit the commercial with the girl decapitating her stuffed pony and leaving the head in dad's bed?  That;s some fucked up shit right there.  You don't take your kid to a store after that, you take them to a shrink.  Or an exorcist. 

 

I KNOW, right?  And the way she's humming as she brushes the headless stuffed pony in the grocery store . . . well, no wonder Dad's in a panic that the Halos are gone.

[merylinkid]

Thanks for the info for how Cuties got a divorce and so we have Halos now.

[Prevailing Wind]

At my local grocery, beneath the Halos display, is a stack of empty Halos boxes.  Nobody wants to take 'em home; they just pick the net bag out of the box & leave the box behind.  What a freakin' waste.

[Maverick]

Nope, they are competitors:

 

 Interesting.   Halos must have kept the ad agency in the divorce.  The Halos ads are in exactly the same style as the Cuties and started the same time the Cuties ones stopped so I thought they just changed their names.  Maybe the two sell in different geographic areas for the most part.

[RealityGal]

 I think Cuties just rebranded themselves ass Halos.  I have no idea why, though.  

 

 Who the hell green lit the commercial with the girl decapitating her stuffed pony and leaving the head in dad's bed?  That;s some fucked up shit right there.  You don't take your kid to a store after that, you take them to a shrink.  Or an exorcist. 

 

 

Wow I have not seen this one yet.  Is that a commercial for little oranges?

 

I'm telling you man, the shit gets real in Halo commercials....really real.

[Jamoche]

According to this, clementines are a type of mandarin, as are Satsumas. And tangerines were "brightly colored sweet mandarins that were originally shipped out of the port of Tangiers Morocco to Florida in the late 1800s and the term stuck." So it sounds like they're all the same thing, sort of.

That's pretty much true of all citrus - the lines between the varieties are pretty loose.

[xls]

TMI on citrus!  

[riley702]

We wandered a little OT for a bit, but I think it's interesting. But - back to irritating kids!

Edited November 21, 2014 by riley702

[Brattinella]

There's a local commercial, I think it is for Boy Scouts or something.  There is a group of say, 100 children.  They are CHANTING/SHOUTING  the words to something, maybe it is a song.  FOR GOD'S SAKE, if you can't sing... DON'T!  I remember being in choir, you had to be able to SING A TUNE.  You know, singing at the same pitch, tone, note as the music was written?  If you couldn't keep in tune, YOU DIDN'T GET TO PARTICIPATE.  Spare us this special snowflake shit where everyone has to participate, even if they can't do the job!

[janie jones]

I haven't seen this commercial, so I ask:  Are these kids supposed to be willful participants in the chorus?  Or is it like the performances we had at my elementary school where it was something that everyone did?  In that case, there's no "getting" to participate, only "having" to participate, and I really don't think it was motivated by any "special snowflake" business; it was for music class.

Edited November 21, 2014 by janie jones

[Brattinella]

I'm very old, and back in the olden days they didn't ALLOW children to SHOUT instead of singing.  Even if it was a group event.  If you couldn't perform adequately, you did something else to improve the event.  Decorate or something.

[RealityGal]

I haven't seen this commercial, so I ask:  Are these kids supposed to be willful participants in the chorus?  Or is it like the performances we had at my elementary school where it was something that everyone did?  In that case, there's no "getting" to participate, only "having" to participate, and I really don't think it was motivated by any "special snowflake" business; it was for music class.

 

I'm very old, and back in the olden days they didn't ALLOW children to SHOUT instead of singing.  Even if it was a group event.  If you couldn't perform adequately, you did something else to improve the event.  Decorate or something.

Back in my day, we had enough shame to know that if we couldn't sing we just basically lipsynched, or sang very very soft and let the superstars do the heavy lifting. It was a good way to get out of having to decorate and not embarrass yourself.

[PRgal]

What's with kids over, say, 6 or 7, especially BOYS, not holding spoons correctly?  The kid in this Quaker ad fists his spoon.  He is too old to do that.  Casualization of society or what?  What's worse is when I see teenage boys and GROWN MEN do the same.  I don't see this too often with females.

[Brattinella]

I've seen this also with PENCILS!  Who DOES that?  I haven't fisted a spoon or a pencil since I was an infant.

[Bruinsfan]

I'm more disturbed that someone things Quaker brand should be synonomous with extreme mountainbiking. It's a bowl of oats, not a keg of Mountain Dew.

[RealityGal]

I'm more disturbed that someone things Quaker brand should be synonomous with extreme mountainbiking. It's a bowl of oats, not a keg of Mountain Dew.

I'm more disturbed that someone is trying to make "Quaker up" happen.

[BubblingKettle]

This little creep and her "EE-leck-TRRRAWWWWWNNN-ick-ly" makes me so angry.  It's on the Mute List (along with Kit Kat and the Wal-Mart cell phone commercial with the screeching daughter).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eQHJUQc4Y0

[RealityGal]

This little creep and her "EE-leck-TRRRAWWWWWNNN-ick-ly" makes me so angry.  It's on the Mute List (along with Kit Kat and the Wal-Mart cell phone commercial with the screeching daughter).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eQHJUQc4Y0

huh?  why doesn't your dad just pay his bills online at home?  and why does mom have to go with him, does it take the two of them to pay bills electronically? 

[BubblingKettle]

huh?  why doesn't your dad just pay his bills online at home?  and why does mom have to go with him, does it take the two of them to pay bills electronically? 

I don't know what's up with all that.  Amscot seems like an incredibly shady place, and their stores are everywhere here in Central Florida.  I never see anyone going into any of the Amscot stores, but I imagine they stay in business by ripping people off with payday loan interest.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

huh?  why doesn't your dad just pay his bills online at home?  and why does mom have to go with him, does it take the two of them to pay bills electronically? 

 

Because he's too dumb to do it without her?

 

That might or might not be sarcasm.

[CarpeDiem54]

Because he's too dumb to do it without her?

 

That might or might not be sarcasm.

Or maybe she's a control freak Yogurt Bitch.

[Eliot]

I do find it bratty, but damn if I don't want a Halo now!

 

I'm probably in the minority, but I freaking LOVE the Halos commercials. They're so over the top I don't really put them in the same category as ads where parents are truly kowtowing to their bratty kids (like the one with the Fiber One Cereal Brat or the Doritos Twit).

[Prevailing Wind]

I didn't understand a thing that was said in that amscot commercial except for "past my bedtime."  I must be getting old & grumpy & hard of hearing.

[Lola16]

I couldn't stand the Cuties commercials. I absolutely despise the Halos commercials.  Right up to the level of the old Viva paper towel commercial where the brat sprays orange soda on his mother and she in turns squirts him with the sink hose.  To the level of boycott, my hate rises.  Never bought another Viva paper product and when I make my annual purchase of citrus for the holidays, I'll be skipping the Halos as well.

Edited November 30, 2014 by Lola16

[Prevailing Wind]

...right behind you, Lola16.  Last year was the first time I ever bought Clementines, so I can do without them the rest of my life.

[merylinkid]

The verizon wireless ads have some ungrateful brats complaining about their internet speed.   They are unhappy with all the cool electronics they got for Christmas because their wireless is "half-fast."   Yeah, my reaction to that would be -- guess you won't need these electronics then because you will be getting JOBS to pay for the faster wireless."   Oh wait, you don't want to do that?   Then shut the hell up about the wireless speed and be grateful for the gifts you got.    Oh and your blog is to be deleted immediately, you inane twit.   There is nothing of important on it anyway.

[xls]

Can't figure out what he's saying at the end;

[Cobalt Stargazer]

"I rue the day that this product was invented, but I'm not one hundred percent sure what rue means."

 

I had to listen to it six times before it parsed.

[riley702]

OK, that last bit was kinda cute.

[xls]

"I rue the day that this product was invented, but I'm not one hundred percent sure what rue means."

 

I had to listen to it six times before it parsed.

Thank you. I thought he said "room" :)

[Sun-Bun]

I wanna smack this hateful little twerp soooo hard on those Old Navy commercials with Julia Louis Dreyfus playing her aunt, and this brat nastily announces to her aunt as said aunt is giving all the kids Christmas gifts, "Mom says you give fancy gifts because you don't have a boyfriend!"

And then after aunt gifts them with a beautiful pony, this nasty little shrew then snaps while pointing at her brother, "He's allergic to HAY!!!"

What a rude, ungrateful piece of shit that kid comes off as---but sure, by all means, Old Navy crap is sooooo much better than "fancy gifts", therefore it must be okay to be a total asshole to your eccentric single aunt who cared enough to buy you a beautiful pony instead! Bitch.

Edited to mention that the YouTube commenters all seem to agree with me on how awful these kids are, specifically that one bratty girl---because if these kids prefer Old Navy clothes to a badass pony for Christmas, perhaps they have some complex mental issues that extend far beyond being rude and ungrateful to extended family members.

Edited December 24, 2014 by Sun-Bun

[riley702]

Hmm, I saw that more as the girl being appalled that their self-declared favorite aunt doesn't know her nephew is allergic and gets him something that would either make him sick or kill him. That gift was more about Julia trying to score cool points than any effort to please the kiddos. She's trying way too hard. They would have been perfectly happy with hats or scarves. That said, the girl was wrong to repeat what her Mom said, but the Mom was more wrong for having said it to her kid in the first place.