SmithW6079 June 10, 2015 Share June 10, 2015 (edited) I think the Trivago guy is cute, but I guess I should post that over at "Unpopular Opinions." I hate the new Yoplait yogurt commercials. I get they're going for an Audrey Hepburn/ingenue type of thing. However, the commercials are subtitled -- except the actress is speaking English, just with an egregious French accent. Either go all in and have her speak French, or don't do it at all. Edited June 10, 2015 by SmithW6079 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231094
Brattinella June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Okay, "Cholera's a beautiful thing, I know, I know" just HAS TO GO! Enunciate, lady! 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231230
AntiBeeSpray June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Okay, "Cholera's a beautiful thing, I know, I know" just HAS TO GO! Enunciate, lady! Lmao XD. Yea it does! It just ain't right! 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231248
editorgrrl June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Okay, "Cholera's a beautiful thing, I know, I know" just HAS TO GO! Enunciate, lady! Is it just me, or is that Behr commercial racist? http://youtu.be/8NKLnPaCXpU Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231299
Cobalt Stargazer June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Is it just me, or is that Behr commercial racist? http://youtu.be/8NKLnPaCXpU I don't see how. Did I miss something? 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231322
AntiBeeSpray June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 I don't see how. Did I miss something? I'm guessing here... they're saying color is a beautiful thing. But tbh, they're talking about paint. Not skin color. Don't really find it racist. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231341
bilgistic June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 I don't see it either, but I do hear "cholera's a beautiful thing", and then the song goes trailing off into kiddie music land, or something. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231351
CarpeDiem54 June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Okay, "Cholera's a beautiful thing, I know, I know" just HAS TO GO! Enunciate, lady! And what's that weird semi-Chinese sounding shit in the middle? 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231352
bilgistic June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Jinx, CarpeDiem54! 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231362
AntiBeeSpray June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 And what's that weird semi-Chinese sounding shit in the middle? I heard that. Definitely weird. A little out there. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231378
Prevailing Wind June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 The video after the commercial on YouTube (at least on my browser) has Nina Simone singing the song - apparently, she wrote it and she's got that weird ching-ching stuff in the middle, too. And I'm guessing in her case, it is about race and not house paint. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231407
Watcher0363 June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Do fuck and marry have to be options? No, there is string them along in friend territory so long that they begin to think of themselves as your girlfriend. So they opt to become a transgender person to better fit the role. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231445
AntiBeeSpray June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 The video after the commercial on YouTube (at least on my browser) has Nina Simone singing the song - apparently, she wrote it and she's got that weird ching-ching stuff in the middle, too. And I'm guessing in her case, it is about race and not house paint. Ah. So maybe that's why it's in its shorter version on tv. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231454
SoSueMe June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 I like him as a rare example of white guy diversity. To me there's nothing wrong with his looks, he just doesn't dress or look like every other American white guy in that age range on TV. I hope the company doesn't give in to pressure to make him just like everyone else. I think Trivago guy is HOT (okay, I'm ducking now). But I've got to admit the "getting Lucky in the room" does kind of creep me out. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231567
CarpeDiem54 June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 The video after the commercial on YouTube (at least on my browser) has Nina Simone singing the song - apparently, she wrote it and she's got that weird ching-ching stuff in the middle, too. And I'm guessing in her case, it is about race and not house paint. Since this was apparently a real song, I had to go look it up. NINA SIMONE "Color Is A Beautiful Thing" Color is a beautiful thing I know, I know Color is a beautiful thing I know, oh yes, I know Color is the E Ching Chang For sure, ding-dang Color is a beautiful thing, I know Still makes no sense, but at least I know I haven't totally lost my hearing. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231719
SoSueMe June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Since this was apparently a real song, I had to go look it up. NINA SIMONE "Color Is A Beautiful Thing" Color is a beautiful thing I know, I know Color is a beautiful thing I know, oh yes, I know Color is the E Ching Chang For sure, ding-dang Color is a beautiful thing, I know Still makes no sense, but at least I know I haven't totally lost my hearing. A very short real song, lol. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231724
Brattinella June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Wow great lyrics. :P 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231770
photo fox June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Aw, I love Nina Simone! It's just the time-honored jazz tradition of scat singing. It's not so much about the words as it is the emotion in the voice. :-) 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1231836
RedZoneTuba June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Since this was apparently a real song, I had to go look it up. NINA SIMONE "Color Is A Beautiful Thing" Color is a beautiful thing I know, I know Color is a beautiful thing I know, oh yes, I know Color is the E Ching Chang For sure, ding-dang Color is a beautiful thing, I know Still makes no sense, but at least I know I haven't totally lost my hearing. Nina, your lyrics stink wink For sure, fink-blink Your lyrics are a hideous thing, I know 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1232339
janie jones June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 I haven't heard the Nina Simone version, but the way the people are singing the lyrics in the commercial is unpleasant. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1232453
SoSueMe June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Aw, I love Nina Simone! It's just the time-honored jazz tradition of scat singing. It's not so much about the words as it is the emotion in the voice. :-) Gotta love Sinnerman. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1232629
ari333 June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Oh dear god!! (Frasier voice). I hate that Lincoln car commercial with Mathew McConaughey squinting and whispering. LOATHE. GO AWAY NOW. 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1232722
Ubiquitous June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Oh dear god!! (Frasier voice). I hate that Lincoln car commercial with Mathew McConaughey squinting and whispering. LOATHE. GO AWAY NOW. An online friend made a parody of those ads with himself as the Green Goblin (the Spiderman villain). 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1232757
Brattinella June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 (edited) I know exactly why I hate the Yoplait commercials; I detest yogurt! It is one of the most vile substances on earth! It makes me wonder why the PTB at the networks need to make EVERYONE feel that they really really need to eat yogurt every day! Seriously, do so many people have constipation nowadays? My hatred for the yogurt craze would be equated to my hatred if they started advertising LIVER every day, Yuck! Edited June 11, 2015 by Brattinella 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1233456
blackwing June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Oh dear god!! (Frasier voice). I hate that Lincoln car commercial with Mathew McConaughey squinting and whispering. LOATHE. GO AWAY NOW. I detest him. I hate all versions of the Lincoln commercials with him. But I particularly hate the one where he says something like "I was driving a Lincoln before I started getting paid to drive one". Suck it, you ass. 10 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1233823
CarpeDiem54 June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Oh, I hate them, too, but I can't explain why. When I see them, I get an unsettling feeling like a flashback to when I was a little kid. I must have seen some foreign commercial that had an odd surreal creepiness (it was the late 60s, so who knows?), and the Yoplait ads bring that back. Especially the one where she holds the spoons above her eyes. *shudder* I was just coming here to post about the spoons ad. She looks like she's going to gouge her eyes out. Very creepy. Here's a clue for Jeopardy!: A - Worse than a Yogurt Bitch. Q - Alex, what's a French Yogurt Bitch? 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1233872
mansonlamps June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Ok I've only seen the ad one time and I'm kind of hoping that maybe I just dreamed it since I don't see anything in this thread about it. I'm talking about an ad for razors in which three women are standing at a table trimming bonsai bushes which are strategically placed right in front of....well...their own bonsai bushes if you get my drift and I'm sure that you do. All while chatting about pube hair issues. Yes you read it correctly, this is an actual prime time commercial. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234008
Bastet June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 It must be in another thread, because there's horrified discussion of it somewhere around here. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234018
Brattinella June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 Probably in the other commercials forum. And yes, it IS a horrifying commercial. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234117
editorgrrl June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 http://youtube.com/watch?v=KiHpibGYrew From upthread: Today, while watching a show on Nickelodeon, the network for kids (although that ship sailed a long time ago), I saw an ad for the Schick Hydro Razor. It featured three bikini clad women trimming strategically placed bonsai bushes, to visually suggest they are trimming their pubic hair. The one on the right trims her bush into a heart shape. Really? What is American culture coming to? Commercials about shit smearing the side of the toilet, now women trimming their pubic hair on a kid's network? It left me speechless. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234161
David T. Cole June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 http://youtube.com/watch?v=KiHpibGYrew Test. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234206
millennium June 11, 2015 Share June 11, 2015 I haven't looked lately, but when I read the comments accompanying the commercial on Youtube, respondents seemed evenly split between loving the spot and despising it. Men, it seemed, love it. Women, no. I worked for years as an ad agency copywriter. From that perspective, I think the ad is clever as hell. The risque humor is very European. But here's the thing -- to whom are they marketing the Schick hydro? Men? People who work in ad agencies? Of course not. They made a clever ad, but one that repulses and offends a large portion of the target audience. That's not good advertising. My guess is, Schick's ad agency pushed the spot in the hopes of attracting publicity and/or winning awards, buyers be damned. The advertising managers at Schick who okayed it will probably be looking for new jobs soon. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234215
Brattinella June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 So, they are making the ad for MEN who want to shave the women's bushes? Is that it? 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234312
GaT June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 Actually, all I can think about when I see this ad, was how the casting was while looking for 3 females with crotches at the same height, & then how rehearsals were while figuring out exactly where they had to stand to get the trees in the right place for all 3. It must have been weird. 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234362
CoderLady June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 It's a copycat ad, anyway. I'm at work so I'm not going to go looking for it and have that stuck in my corporately monitored browsing history, but there's a European ad with a tagline of "Time to trim the bush," I think. Same deal. Young women coyly brandishing razors over something green. I think it's clever and funny, but thinking about body hair does tweak some people and they'd prefer not to be reminded it's there. As for it being on Nick, I'll bet it's during the hours they used to call "Nick at Nite" when they stop running wall-to-wall cereal and toy ads and get down into the prescription drug, insurance policy and ambulance chaser ads. Adult stuff. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234420
riley702 June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 (edited) "Time to Mow the Lawn" Complete with unPC racial stereotypes. "Some bushes are really big." (black lady), "Some bushes are really small." (Asian lady, complete with shy tee-hee) Edited June 12, 2015 by riley702 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234448
GaT June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 "Time to Mow the Lawn" Complete with unPC racial stereotypes. "Some bushes are really big." (black lady), "Some bushes are really small." (Asian lady, complete with shy tee-hee) LOL, that is way beyond the US one, complete with starting with a woman with a kitty in her lap. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234524
AntiBeeSpray June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 "Time to Mow the Lawn" Complete with unPC racial stereotypes. "Some bushes are really big." (black lady), "Some bushes are really small." (Asian lady, complete with shy tee-hee) Seriously O_o?! I have no words. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234548
Prevailing Wind June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 starting with a woman with a kitty in her lap. At the end, notice she's now holding a Sphynx hairless cat. I was just coming here to post about the spoons ad. She looks like she's going to gouge her eyes out. Very creepy. Perhaps she thinks she can eat yogurt out of her skull. 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234662
Cobalt Stargazer June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 (edited) Nah, that's just ice cream. Yogurt, as a dairy product, doesn't qualify to be eaten out of your skull. Edited June 12, 2015 by Cobalt Stargazer 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234673
janie jones June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 Men, it seemed, love it. Women, no. I worked for years as an ad agency copywriter. From that perspective, I think the ad is clever as hell. The risque humor is very European. But here's the thing -- to whom are they marketing the Schick hydro? Men? People who work in ad agencies? Of course not. They made a clever ad, but one that repulses and offends a large portion of the target audience. That's not good advertising. My guess is, Schick's ad agency pushed the spot in the hopes of attracting publicity and/or winning awards, buyers be damned. The advertising managers at Schick who okayed it will probably be looking for new jobs soon. I think the European one is kind of tacky, but the one with the women by the pool doesn't bother me at all. But even though I'm a woman who isn't offended by it, it's still ineffective advertising because no way in hell am I going to go out and buy a whole new implement just to manage my pubes. Is this the same company that a few years back had women walking by shrubs that topiaried themselves as the women walked past? 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234675
GaT June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 Is this the same company that a few years back had women walking by shrubs that topiaried themselves as the women walked past? Yep 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234804
CarpeDiem54 June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 LOL, that is way beyond the US one, complete with starting with a woman with a kitty in her lap. Not only that, but did you catch the tulips (two lips) line? 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234952
GaT June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 Not only that, but did you catch the tulips (two lips) line? "So all that's left for me to see are tulips on the mound" they really just go for it, don't they? 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234977
Brattinella June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 Oh dear! Those two commercial are over-the-top offensive, in my opinion. I just don't find shaving one's nether regions as a fun, slap-happy occasion! 9 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1234989
bilgistic June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 As soon as I see an equal number of asinine commercials featuring men standing behind miniature dachshunds sticking out of bushes, I'll get behind these ads. Until then, I stand by my stance that Schick/Wilkinson can fuck right off. 21 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1235068
Watcher0363 June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 I think the Schick razor commercials are sort of a after school PSA for women from men. Because I am over fifty and I have never met a woman who I was intimate with, who was not more than a little concern with their pubic hair. From my first who was so proud that her pubic hairs were shaped into a perfect little isosceles triangle. To most women who are overly concerned about razor stubble. Some how, if I date a woman for anytime before being intimate, I know the state of their pubic hair before hand. I guess most women after awhile adopt the policy of, to be warned is to be forewarned. Which is much better than being an appeaser or a bait and switcher. Speaking as a guy, women discuss their pubic hairs with men, more than they know or care to admit. Almost as much as they discuss their periods and other women's camel toes. Oy with the periods and camel toes already. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1235188
Brattinella June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 I guess most women after awhile adopt the policy of, to be warned is to be forewarned. Which is much better than being an appeaser or a bait and switcher. What does this mean? I really do not understand these references in context. 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1235770
janie jones June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 (edited) I Speaking as a guy, women discuss their pubic hairs with men, more than they know or care to admit. I'm curious as to what gives you the impression women don't realize they discuss their pubic hair or want to admit it? Edited June 12, 2015 by janie jones 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1235839
editorgrrl June 12, 2015 Share June 12, 2015 As soon as I see an equal number of asinine commercials featuring men standing behind miniature dachshunds sticking out of bushes, I'll get behind these ads. Until then, I stand by my stance that Schick/Wilkinson can fuck right off. Schick's manscaping song doesn't beat around the bush No topiaries—just a song that sounds like Flight of the Conchords. And that furry thing at the right of the screen. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/45040-commercials-that-annoy-irritate-or-outright-enrage/page/85/#findComment-1235848
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