Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[ennui]

That's Kelly Hu.

OMG! Seriously!? Wow. I remember her in The Scorpion King, amazed that she was comfortable in that non-costume.

Wow. Kelly Hu.

Well, I would guess that just about any man would pop a blue pill for her. 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

That's Kelly Hu.

 

 

Kelly who?

 

*rimshot*

OMG! Seriously!? Wow. I remember her in The Scorpion King, amazed that she was comfortable in that non-costume.

Wow. Kelly Hu.

Well, I would guess that just about any man would pop a blue pill for her. 

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[janie jones]

When you said, "I'd like to meet the people they surveyed," I assumed you meant you'd like to meet the people they surveyed. Sorry I misinterpreted.

Well...I had been being sarcastic.

[Moose135]

Oops, I thought it was Grace Park.

 

Me too...

[backformore]

I just saw one of those lawyer commercials.  You know, the ones that target a specific product, and try to get people to sign up for a class action lawsuit.

This one is for TIDE laundry detergent pods.  Little plastic packets of pre-measured detergent  for the washing machine.  they make similar ones for dishwashers.   Well, apparently these are DANGEROUS - when ingested.   Yes, some parents didn't bother to put their colorful detergent packets somewhere that their kids couldn't get them, and the kids chewed, sucked, ate them.  The company failed to PROTECT  these kids by not warning consumers that eating detergent can cause severe and even fatal injuries from poisoning.  

Gee, when my kids were little, I always thought it was MY responsibility to supervise them, and to keep potentially poisonous stuff in high cabinets and out of sight.  If my kids had gotten into cleaning stuff and poisoned themselves, I would assume I was to blame, not the manufacturer of the cleaning product for not telling me "don't let your kid eat this".

[BW Manilowe]

Oops, I thought it was Grace Park.

Well, they both have connections to the current Hawaii Five-0, so you weren't terribly off-base.

Kelly Hu played a recurring character in H50 S1, Laura Hills. She was the Public Safety Liaison for then-Governor Pat Jameson (Jean Smart)--she also personally gave Five-0 their cases in certain eps where the Governor wasn't around to do it or where they weren't called in by phone. Laura also attempted to help Five-0 leader Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) solve a mystery left for him, involving miscellaneous items in a battered old toolbox, by McGarrett's father who was murdered in the Teaser to the Pilot. If you don't watch the show, Laura & Governor Jameson were killed off by Wo Fat in the S1 Finale & McGarrett was framed for both murders.

Grace Park, on the other hand, has played Five-0 team member Officer Kono Kalakaua--cousin to her fellow Five-0 team member, Chin Ho Kelly--since the Pilot & still plays her as of the upcoming start of S6. But Kono might have a new last name this season. In the S5 Finale, she married her longtime boyfriend, Adam Noshimuri, former heir apparent to a Japanese Yakuza (Japanese equivalent of The Mob) Boss.

[smittykins]

I just saw one of those lawyer commercials.  You know, the ones that target a specific product, and try to get people to sign up for a class action lawsuit.

This one is for TIDE laundry detergent pods.  Little plastic packets of pre-measured detergent  for the washing machine.  they make similar ones for dishwashers.   Well, apparently these are DANGEROUS - when ingested.   Yes, some parents didn't bother to put their colorful detergent packets somewhere that their kids couldn't get them, and the kids chewed, sucked, ate them.  The company failed to PROTECT  these kids by not warning consumers that eating detergent can cause severe and even fatal injuries from poisoning.  

Gee, when my kids were little, I always thought it was MY responsibility to supervise them, and to keep potentially poisonous stuff in high cabinets and out of sight.  If my kids had gotten into cleaning stuff and poisoned themselves, I would assume I was to blame, not the manufacturer of the cleaning product for not telling me "don't let your kid eat this".

Tide has actually made an ad explicitly telling parents to keep pods out of their children's reach. Which, again, should be a given, but...

On a tangential note, does anyone remember Mr. Yuk stickers? I admit I've always wondered if they foster a false sense of security by making parents think they don't have to properly store cleaning supplies and the like as long as long as they use the stickers.(Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against them, but it's still up to the adults to keep their kids safe.)

[DeLurker]

Saw the latest Viagra ad and two things kind of struck me. First off the "actress" is wearing a football jersey so I guess it's timed to the start of the football season. Are they going to release these with seasonal themes now? Guess can look forward to Christmas with the model wearing a sexy Santa outfit. And also it seems like the women are getting younger in these. The first few they were a little older looking and now they're just going for the idea of take the Viagra so you could keep with the young hot chicks. All subtlety shot. Geez, I'm thinking too much about this shit....

If we judge by the VW commercials, all the guys in their pre-viagra years are being hit on/harassed by the cougars there are no age appropriate men left for the younger women.

[TattleTeeny]

On a tangential note, does anyone remember Mr. Yuk stickers? I admit I've always wondered if they foster a false sense of security by making parents think they don't have to properly store cleaning supplies and the like as long as long as they use the stickers.(Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against them, but it's still up to the adults to keep their kids safe.)

 

OH MY GOD! I have a vague recollection of these (I was born in '71)! My parents didn't use them but I feel like I know about them. 

 

And your point reminds me of the "Do Not Eat" packet things that come in shoeboxes or purses and things like that. Who the hell would eat that...except someone--a dog, a baby--who didn't know how to read the "Do Not Eat" anyway?

[merylinkid]

 

The company failed to PROTECT  these kids by not warning consumers that eating detergent can cause severe and even fatal injuries from poisoning.

 

Actually Tide does tell the parents not to let the kids eat them.   The lawsuit is that Tide made the pods colorful and pretty -- just like candy.   So the little rugrats who can't read, just see candy and try to eat them.    So in a way, Tide is not taking reasonable precautions to keep them pods from being eaten by small children.

[Bort]

Actually Tide does tell the parents not to let the kids eat them.   The lawsuit is that Tide made the pods colorful and pretty -- just like candy.   So the little rugrats who can't read, just see candy and try to eat them.    So in a way, Tide is not taking reasonable precautions to keep them pods from being eaten by small children.

What a bullshit lawsuit. Windex is pretty and blue like Kool-Aid, where's that lawsuit? Tide has said since Day One that Pods are not candy. If the kids can't read the warning, the parents need to get it away from them.

[Flnurse]

"Ba-Da-Ba-Ba-BAAAAA...."

MIND BLOWN.

Not quite sure it's his voice per-say in the actual commercial, but the jingle comes from 'straight outta' one of his unknown songs.

Edited September 5, 2015 by Flnurse

[peacheslatour]

Tide has actually made an ad explicitly telling parents to keep pods out of their children's reach. Which, again, should be a given, but...

On a tangential note, does anyone remember Mr. Yuk stickers? I admit I've always wondered if they foster a false sense of security by making parents think they don't have to properly store cleaning supplies and the like as long as long as they use the stickers.(Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against them, but it's still up to the adults to keep their kids safe.)

When my son was a toddler, the local drug store gave those out for free.  I used to let him affix them to all the hazardous stuff in the house so he would know what was bad to eat.  Anyway, I STILL kept that shit the hell out of reach. Edited September 5, 2015 by kariyaki
Fixed quadruple post hiccup

[ennui]

Tide isn't the only manufacturer of detergent pods. Also, bubble bath comes in little clear beads which look like candy (or it did, when people used bubble bath).

 

I've heard that elderly people with dementia and Alzheimer's can also confuse pretty soaps with candy. I don't see how manufacturers can be held responsible for sloppy caregiving.

[Maharincess]

Okay, that's outside my realm of experience; I'm calling a local Italian restaurant, not a chain, when I order pizza delivery. They ask what I'd like, I tell them, they tell me approximately how long it will be. Done.

If that's what calling Domino's is like, I can see why one would rather order electronically. I still think the commercials are annoying, though. Especially since at least one of the ordering options they're touting as being so fast only work if you order the same thing every time.

That's how I order pizza too, I usually make my own pizza, nothing tastes better than homemade. When I do order pizza, I never buy pizza from chain restaurants because most of them are gross I buy my pizza from a small local place. I call, tell them what I want and they deliver.

Edited September 5, 2015 by Maharincess

[Neurochick]

Speaking of the Viagra commercials, there's one with the Asian-looking woman who looks so smug and walks like she just knows any man would take a Viagra pill to bang her.  When she's walking along like that, trying to look all barefoot and sexy, I just want her to step on a nail.

 

I don't see any of the women as smug looking.  I think they're supposed to look "alluring," which is the point of the commercial.  She's so hot what man wouldn't want to have sex with her.  So, better get Viagra guys.  

[editorgrrl]

Maybe I haven't gone far enough back—but have you guys covered the Magnum ice cream bar ad? I can't hit mute fast enough: "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets..." The voice that sings is just horrible and scratchy. I'm sure it's someone famous from the past but aaargh! SHUT UP.

Ugh, I was just shopping for ice cream and caught myself singing that stupid song. It's Della Reese: http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7aBk/magnum-double-caramel-celebrating-25-years-of-magnum-pleasure

[Ilovemylabs]

I just saw one of those lawyer commercials.  You know, the ones that target a specific product, and try to get people to sign up for a class action lawsuit.

This one is for TIDE laundry detergent pods.  Little plastic packets of pre-measured detergent  for the washing machine.  they make similar ones for dishwashers.   Well, apparently these are DANGEROUS - when ingested.   Yes, some parents didn't bother to put their colorful detergent packets somewhere that their kids couldn't get them, and the kids chewed, sucked, ate them.  The company failed to PROTECT  these kids by not warning consumers that eating detergent can cause severe and even fatal injuries from poisoning.  

Gee, when my kids were little, I always thought it was MY responsibility to supervise them, and to keep potentially poisonous stuff in high cabinets and out of sight.  If my kids had gotten into cleaning stuff and poisoned themselves, I would assume I was to blame, not the manufacturer of the cleaning product for not telling me "don't let your kid eat this".

I so agree!  But this is our society now.  No one takes responsibility for themselves.  There's always someone else to blame.  Ergo all the lawyer commercials.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I so agree!  But this is our society now.  No one takes responsibility for themselves.  There's always someone else to blame.  Ergo all the lawyer commercials.

 

Which brings us to this:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORbg6J0LEk

 

What kind of kid apparently doesn't know how to unbuckle his belt? What kind of parent doesn't teach their kid how to unbuckle his belt before he pisses on himself? If that's not how I'm supposed to see it, this ad is a fail.

Edited September 6, 2015 by Cobalt Stargazer

[legaleagle53]

I so agree!  But this is our society now.  No one takes responsibility for themselves.  There's always someone else to blame.  Ergo all the lawyer commercials.

 

So the answer to everything is "crap happens"?  Sometimes manufacturers DO screw up and need to be held accountable for it.

 

I'm sorry, but I spent the first ten years of my legal-assistant career doing personal-injury work (Plaintiff's bar), and I've seen first-hand what happens when businesses are allowed to get away with virtual murder because "hey, crap happens, and it just sucks to be a consumer sometimes."

 

And kids do have a rather horrifying tendency to get into things they shouldn't despite the precautions of even the most conscientious parents or caregivers.  It really doesn't take a smart kid very long to figure out how to get past even the most sophisticated amount of "kid-proofing." So I'm firmly on the side of the consumers whose kids are injured or killed because the company didn't take a moment to foresee that Junior might eventually get into the bad stuff the moment his parents' backs are turned and think, "Ooh, pretty, what does this do (or taste like)?"

Edited September 6, 2015 by legaleagle53

[Cobalt Stargazer]

So your answer to everything is "crap happens"?  Sometimes manufacturers DO screw up and need to be held accountable for it.

 

I'm sorry, but I spent the first ten years doing personal-injury work (Plaintiff's bar), and I've seen first-hand what happens when businesses are allowed to get away with virtual murder because "hey, crap happens, and it just sucks to be a consumer sometimes."

 

I'm not the poster you're responding to, but IMO it isn't that 'crap happens'. There's a reason that guys like Ralph Nader were/are around, and manufacturers can and do screw up and they should be held responsible.

 

OTOH, I do think there's something to the idea that lack of personal responsibility has grown while parenting has become more lax. I'm in my mid-forties, and I'm constantly amazed in a bad way at how amok some people will let their kids run. And you mostly can't say anything, because if you do then you become the issue, as if you're inventing a problem where there isn't one.

[crowswork]

Speaking of the Viagra commercials, there's one with the Asian-looking woman who looks so smug and walks like she just knows any man would take a Viagra pill to bang her.  When she's walking along like that, trying to look all barefoot and sexy, I just want her to step on a nail.

I HATE the ones with the woman who sits and rubs her legs together like a cricket.... same one with the two bathtubs. Who sits outside in a cold clammy iron tub. alone, next to each other.

 

Or where the woman is working --- painting or gardening and he's all "gotta get me some"

[Maharincess]

Ugh, the world is full of skinny people who eat what they want, when they want. I'm one of them. We don't "know" what she eats (though I hope that if it's pizza, it's better than Domino's) or that she doesn't have a superfast metabolism or work out enough that pizza doesn't matter. She doesn't look remotely "overly" anything to me.

That said, any commercial or campaign about "real women" looking any specific way can suck a ball.

Thank you!!!! I hate that stereotype. I eat pizza at least once a week and at my last appt my Dr told me she wants me to put at least 20 pounds on.

[Muffyn]

 

Which brings us to this:

 

 

What kind of kid apparently doesn't know how to unbuckle his belt? What kind of parent doesn't teach their kid how to unbuckle his belt before he pisses on himself? If that's not how I'm supposed to see it, this ad is a fail.

I think the little crotch fruit is about to crap himself.  That'll teach them to put him in white pants and belt he cannot remember how to take off. Perhaps the wee lad had some bleachable moments when  he was younger in which he was huffing bleach fumes, destroyed brain cells and is thus now stymied by belts.  You should see the little guy with the toilet paper.  He can't figure out how to tear it off, so he just empties the roll on the floor and rolls around on it.  That is, of course, if he was able to get his pants off first. 

[TattleTeeny]

I was just thinking of you, Maharincess! I had a bad day and at around 10, had some wine and a bag of Doritos (classy, especially after eating the entire box of mac & cheese earlier--which is actually on topic) while watching my prized I Love Lucy DVDs (my go-to on days like this).

Edited September 6, 2015 by TattleTeeny

[slensam]

I HATE the ones with the woman who sits and rubs her legs together like a cricket.... same one with the two bathtubs. Who sits outside in a cold clammy iron tub. alone, next to each other.

Or where the woman is working --- painting or gardening and he's all "gotta get me some"

The Cialis commercials always made me laugh. These guys were getting horny over their wives painting, gardening, washing clothes, etc. That's some powerful stuff. Wonder what happens when he sees the wife in a sexy nightgown or swimsuit. Break a few zippers, bust some buttons, and eyes bug out of his head.

[Neurochick]

The Cialis commercials always made me laugh. These guys were getting horny over their wives painting, gardening, washing clothes, etc. That's some powerful stuff. Wonder what happens when he sees the wife in a sexy nightgown or swimsuit. Break a few zippers, bust some buttons, and eyes bug out of his head.

 

I don't know.  I think it's sweet that a husband thinks his wife is hot even when she's not wearing a sexy nightgown or swimsuit.  

Edited September 6, 2015 by Neurochick

[Milburn Stone]

Wonder what happens when he sees the wife in a sexy nightgown or swimsuit. Break a few zippers, bust some buttons, and eyes bug out of his head.

 

[Ilovemylabs]

So the answer to everything is "crap happens"?  Sometimes manufacturers DO screw up and need to be held accountable for it.

 

I'm sorry, but I spent the first ten years of my legal-assistant career doing personal-injury work (Plaintiff's bar), and I've seen first-hand what happens when businesses are allowed to get away with virtual murder because "hey, crap happens, and it just sucks to be a consumer sometimes."

 

And kids do have a rather horrifying tendency to get into things they shouldn't despite the precautions of even the most conscientious parents or caregivers.  It really doesn't take a smart kid very long to figure out how to get past even the most sophisticated amount of "kid-proofing." So I'm firmly on the side of the consumers whose kids are injured or killed because the company didn't take a moment to foresee that Junior might eventually get into the bad stuff the moment his parents' backs are turned and think, "Ooh, pretty, what does this do (or taste like)?"

I wasn't talking about suits against the cigarette companies, but you have to admit you hear on TV or read about lots of nuisance or idiot suits almost daily.  I read about a burglar who fell through a skylight and sued the owners of the building!  In Scotland we were at Edinburgh castle and there were huge holes in the battlements (cannons used to be stuck through them for defenses).  There was no fencing around them or bars over them.  As an American I thought, ,"Wow!  A kid could fall through there onto the cement 2 stories below."  All they had was a sign that said, "Mind Your Children".  I was told no court in Great Britain would take on a liability case should such a thing occur because the sign was clearly posted.  Not saying there aren't legitimate liability cases that should make it to court, but our society is way too quick to sue over anything.  Just my opinion.

[Cara]

Maharincess, I had the exact same reaction you did. I usually scream at the TV whenever there's a story about a parent who FORGETS that they have THEIR CHILD in the car (sorry for all caps, but it really frustrates me), but when I heard this "helpful tip," I just about lost it. However, I did appreciate that someone had the guts to tell the truth about some people's priorities.

Some people have such mixed up priorities. The Washington Post only seemed to offer excuses about why people were too busy to remember where their child was.

Edited September 6, 2015 by Cara

[janie jones]

Tide has actually made an ad explicitly telling parents to keep pods out of their children's reach. Which, again, should be a given, but...

On a tangential note, does anyone remember Mr. Yuk stickers? I admit I've always wondered if they foster a false sense of security by making parents think they don't have to properly store cleaning supplies and the like as long as long as they use the stickers.(Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against them, but it's still up to the adults to keep their kids safe.)

I was just talking about Mr. Yuk stickers to someone the other day because there was a bottle of something in the kitchen at my work, and we couldn't figure out if it was the actual chemical in the bottle, or just water.  They seem effective to me, but probably only if the parent makes a big thing about them.  I specifically remember my parents making making it clear that they were putting the sticker on the phone so we'd know what number to call if someone got poisoned, so I imagine they made a big show of putting the stickers on the bottles.  I don't imagine it would really work if the parents went and affixed the stickers independently and then were just like, "Hey kids, by the way, don't touch anything with the big green sticker on it."

 

The thing that I don't understand is how a kid could ingest enough Tide to get sick off it.  It would seem to me that one drop of liquid or a few grains of powder would cause a kid to spit the stuff out.

[90PercentGravity]

The pods are soft springy plastic. I can imagine a kid putting the whole thing in its mouth and biting down. They could end up swallowing the whole thing or choking on the plastic.

[Bastet]

My parents use those pods, and when I've done laundry while cat-sitting at their house, I've accidentally broken them open a couple of times (by dropping them).  I would think they're too large for a child to swallow whole, but once a kid bit down they'd have a gush of liquid in their mouth.  So it would be easy to get enough in one swallow to do harm.

 

A dissolving packet of laundry detergent can be made to look like anything.  It's not too much to ask that a manufacturer not make it look like something a child could reasonably perceive as candy.

[Ohwell]

A dissolving packet of laundry detergent can be made to look like anything.  It's not too much to ask that a manufacturer not make it look like something a child could reasonably perceive as candy.

 

I don't think it would matter.  A small child will pick up a dog turd because he or she doesn't know that it's foul and unsafe. 

 

I honestly think that the parents sue in many cases because they cannot bear to accept the truth that they were responsible for their child's injury or death.  The guilt and pain is too much to bear so it's easier to put the blame on the big bad company that made the product.   

[90PercentGravity]

I've never tasted a tide pod. Ideally, the plastic should be coated with a bittering agent to discourage eating.

[Brattinella]

I think it would really be a good thing if Tide and the other companies, said "We understand your concern about our candy-looking detergent pods, and you all know how GOOD a product it is, so we are making them a dull and an unappealing color now."  Consumers would still use the product, and maybe they would gain more fans by the goodwill gesture.

[FormerMod-a1]

Tide's branding is bright colors.  All their products are bright colors.  Why should they change their branding for this one product?  Keep it out of reach of children, like you do all poisonous things - up high, or behind child proof doors, etc.

[crowswork]

My parents couldn't leave me in the car as I was standing on the front seat between them. My playground  had the monkey bars on concrete. My second grade teacher verbally abused us so badly that several kids would get hysterical and I would just puke to shut her up. Didn't tell my parents though, they'd have gotten mad and maybe in trouble. We lived under a threat of nuclear annihilation. ah...happy days - how did we survive? 

[Watcher0363]

My parents couldn't leave me in the car as I was standing on the front seat between them. My playground  had the monkey bars on concrete. My second grade teacher verbally abused us so badly that several kids would get hysterical and I would just puke to shut her up. Didn't tell my parents though, they'd have gotten mad and maybe in trouble. We lived under a threat of nuclear annihilation. ah...happy days - how did we survive? 

We knew how to duck and cover under our desks when the air raid alarm went off. And the punishment for fighting was corporal punishment. At school and at home.

 

We were Darwin's children. If you could survive crossing the street without a walk-- don't walk sign, playing with 5 gallon empty buckets, in discarded refrigerators with door latches and playing with my favorite toy, the plastic dry cleaning bags. You were special, not in the short bus riding way, but in the you have survived the, "To stupid to live childhood trials."

Edited September 7, 2015 by Watcher0363

[legaleagle53]

 

They go insane?

[backformore]

Tide's branding is bright colors.  All their products are bright colors.  Why should they change their branding for this one product?  Keep it out of reach of children, like you do all poisonous things - up high, or behind child proof doors, etc.

Before the Laundry pods, though, Cascade and some other companies have had the same design for dishwasher detergent. 

I did read that Tide had decided to change the container- so instead of a clear plastic jar, the pods come in a solid, not see-through jar.   

I still have difficulty thinking that a company needs to take into consideration that if parents leave a cleaning product accessible, kids might chew it.

[Haleth]

Before the Laundry pods, though, Cascade and some other companies have had the same design for dishwasher detergent.

 

I was just going to say that.  And Cascade is even more accessible, probably right under the kitchen sink, yet I've never heard of warnings that children are chomping into those.

 

Ah, yes, the Mr Yuk stickers.  I think our pediatrician gave me a sheet of those.

 

We were Darwin's children. If you could survive crossing the street without a walk-- don't walk sign, playing with 5 gallon empty buckets, in discarded refrigerators with door latches and playing with my favorite toy, the plastic dry cleaning bags. You were special, not in the short bus riding way, but in the you have survived the, "To stupid to live childhood trials."

 

Parents who smoked, houses with stairs, no seatbelts, walked (unaccompanied) to school...  It's a miracle the human race hasn't gone extinct.

[90PercentGravity]

In the interest of science, I licked a tide pod. It pretty much tasted like nothing. If Tide wants to make them safer, they should make them taste so disgusting any kid or animal would immediately drop it.

[cynicat]

I think it would really be a good thing if Tide and the other companies, said "We understand your concern about our candy-looking detergent pods, and you all know how GOOD a product it is, so we are making them a dull and an unappealing color now."  Consumers would still use the product, and maybe they would gain more fans by the goodwill gesture.

 

 

Must the world revolve around The Children?  If your kid puts shit in his mouth and you're worried about the colored pods, don't buy Tide.  Don't make Tide change to avoid your kid*

 

*not you personally Brattinella, you in the general sense.

[Ubiquitous]

Oh, Round Table! I'd totally forgotten about them. They had some good pies.

Italian Pie used to be my fav, nos it's Marcos. Oddly enough, I don't recall ever seeing TV ads for them.

I just saw one of those lawyer commercials.  You know, the ones that target a specific product, and try to get people to sign up for a class action lawsuit.

This one is for TIDE laundry detergent pods.  Little plastic packets of pre-measured detergent  for the washing machine.  they make similar ones for dishwashers.   Well, apparently these are DANGEROUS - when ingested.   Yes, some parents didn't bother to put their colorful detergent packets somewhere that their kids couldn't get them, and the kids chewed, sucked, ate them.  The company failed to PROTECT  these kids by not warning consumers that eating detergent can cause severe and even fatal injuries from poisoning.  

Gee, when my kids were little, I always thought it was MY responsibility to supervise them, and to keep potentially poisonous stuff in high cabinets and out of sight.  If my kids had gotten into cleaning stuff and poisoned themselves, I would assume I was to blame, not the manufacturer of the cleaning product for not telling me "don't let your kid eat this".

I always wonder how stupid would a child be to eat one of those things.

I so agree!  But this is our society now.  No one takes responsibility for themselves.  There's always someone else to blame.  Ergo all the lawyer commercials.

Especially ones with deep pockets.

[Watcher0363]

Oh Tide cannot win for losing. I saw one of their commercials for those pods where at the end it says to keep them out of the reach of young children. It then shows a woman tossing a pack back into the new packaging. When I saw the new packaging I thought that is a pumpkin bucket for Halloween candy. Sure enough I go online and find people are re-purposing them into Halloween candy carriers complete with the jack-o-lantern face. AHHH! To tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?

Edited September 7, 2015 by Watcher0363

[backformore]

Oh Tide cannot win for losing. I saw one of their commercials for those pods where at the end it says to keep them out of the reach of young children. It then shows a woman tossing a pack back into the new packaging. When I saw the new packaging I thought that is a pumpkin bucket for Halloween candy. Sure enough I go online and find people are re-purposing them into Halloween candy carriers complete with the jack-o-lantern face. AHHH! To tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?

HA!   What amuses me about that is that one of the original complaints was that the clear container the Tide pods came it was shaped like one of those candy jars - you know, the old-fashioned glass jars with the lid that you used to see in old-timey candy stores?  So that kids might think the pods were candy!  Yeah, because toddlers are so familiar with the penny-candy stores of MY childhood!  

Kids today are much more likely to associate an orange bucket with candy than they are a glass jar!

[bilgistic]

Speaking of Tide, there's a new commercial for the pods that comes on every 1.8 seconds when I'm watching streaming content. It uses a bastardized version of "Rock Around the Clock", and generally makes me quite anxious.

The woman is dancing and biking around and a cloud of flowers follows her. I get that some people like their clothes to smell like flowers puked all over them, but I'm in the "just smell clean" camp. I can't imagine wanting my imaginary kid's bus driver to smell my detergent long after my kid has walked by. That seems kind of obnoxious to me, but I have allergies, and the fewer scents the better.

I'm not posting the commercial here because I care about you all.

Edited September 7, 2015 by bilgistic

[crowswork]

That Belsombra commercial is kind of creepy. I liked it until I was looking away and actually heard what they were saying. Not looking at the cute word-kitty and puppy. Sleep driving? Aggressive? Halucinations? Suicide? Yikes I'll just hit myself in the head with a hammer.

Edited September 7, 2015 by crowswork

[bilgistic]

That's like Ambien. I would wake up the next day and find that I had eaten entire bags of chocolate and have zero recollection of it. I would text people bizarre stuff. It's no bueno!