Is anyone else tired of some of the stupid assumptions being made in tv commercials these days?
Diet Dr. Pepper tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper -- Than what? Diet Coke? Miller Lite? Vicks Formula 44D, Ecoli laced water? Pond Scum? It's only half an assumption.
The Pepsi One rock the boat commercial -- Yeah right, like a person can take a sip of Coca Cola, then a sip of Pepsi One and not make the infamous bitter beer face. You know how to make Coke taste like Pepsi one? Take a can of Coke, open it, put it out in the sun for 3 days, then refrigerate it, and it will taste just like a nice cold can of Pepsi One. Or you could just drink Big K cola.
The Curly haired, multi voiced, Pepsi girl -- It wasn't bad enough we had to put up with the stoopid voices, now we're expected to believe that Faith Hill doesn't know how to sing a simple commercial jingle. And I remember how people were saying that KISS was in league with the devil -- if that's Pepsico, then I guess they are now -- can you say sell out? And poor Albert Einstien is dead and can't defend himself from being used by a huge conglomerate to hawk a beverage he himself probably never drank.
Anything that comes from the mouth of the NRA -- Mr and Mrs America, our gun laws are not only adequate enough, they're too restrictive. Just pray you don't attend or work in a High School, or post office, or fast food resturant. Oh, in case you don't realize this, Charleton Heston is not really Moses -- he doesn't have a direct line to God, he isn't any smarter than the average person, in fact -- it's quite possible his advaced age is affecting his mental abilities.
Limited edition Bug Colors -- Ok, the commercials aren't so stupid, but the subject is pretty close. The original Bug was a genuinely unique car -- you could leave it alone and drive it until it rusted too bad to drive anymore. Or you could start swapping pieces around until you had an entirely different car. It only takes 2 guys, a brick and a floor jack to change the engine (lift the car, put the brick under the engine, lower the car onto the brick, undo the bolts, lift the car off the engine, then pick the engine up and put it in a truck -- or at least that's how Kevin always did it). 1 single barrell carb, 2 single barrell carbs, 2 double barrell carbs, 1 double barrell carb, or even a kit for a 4 barrell carb. Any exhaust system you could manage to fit under the car. Body panels that let you create every car in Death Race 2000, the worlds silliest Rolls Royce, 2 styles of Dune Buggy, or one that looks real close to a Porsche 356 (which wasn't that different from a bug to begin with). Today's Bugs are Golfs with round body panels. In case you don't know what a Golf is, maybe you remember the Volkswagen Rabbitt -- same car. Still clueless? Think Chevette, Metro, Lemans, Escort (only smaller), Fiesta -- certainly one of those cars rings a bell. I suppose having a heater that works is a plus though...
Anything from Mountain Dew -- enough of the extreme sports geeks already.
Fortunately, we have some intelligent commercials to counter the above cerebrally challenged advertisements.
Sprite -- The anti-Mountain Dew commercials. Extreme Sports Geeks, and what really happens to them -- cool.
The Truth ciggarette ads -- The original tabacco sponsored ads were borderline lame -- the kids were scripted to look almost like losers. Call it some subtle subtext in the ads -- the new ads though are a delicious irony -- tobacco money telling you flat out that tabacco kills. Keep 'em coming.
(ed. update, Aparently I wasn't the only one who thought the original ads were made to make non-smoking kids look like losers...
MIAMI (AP) - Youth anti-smoking ads produced by tobacco companies are actually recruitment pitches for new customers, a public health expert testified Tuesday in a landmark smoking case. Dr. Michael Siegel, a specialist on cigarette promotions, singled out the industry's "Think, Don't Smoke" slogan for conveying the opposite of its stated message. The campaign seems to tell youngsters, "if you want to be thought of as a nerd like I was, then go ahead and don't smoke," the Boston University professor said. "But if you want to avoid that kind of ridicule, man, take up a cigarette and be cool." Siegel is testifying on behalf of 300,000 to 500,000 sick Florida smokers in a class-action lawsuit seeking billions of dollars in punitive damages against the tobacco industry.
Duhh)