A New TV Commercial Thread

[Zimbra]

I think they were counting on the kind of person who buys Fireball shooters at the gas station not being the kind of person who verifies the ingredients of what they're buying.

[Technico Support]

Oh yeah, absolutely dirty pool from the company.  Yeah, the buyers should've suspected something, but the company made a smaller version with the same name and lookalike packaging.  I can't 100% blame anyone for assuming it was the same product, except that the price should have raised some flags.

[Contentious C]

Well, I did some math, because why not?

I found it online for $1.49 a piece and the standard bottles for $15.99.  There are 15 "minis" in a full 750-mL, so that should be $22.35.  You'd think they'd be making more money off the little ones, except...well, packaging.

And if packaging eats into your profits so much you have to use *even cheaper ingredients*, that should tell you how garbage Fireball was in the first place.

But again, here I am expecting this level of critical-thinking skills out of people who drink Fireball, so obviously I'm the fucking idiot. 

[Kuetsar]

They should still be glad to have vision after drinking a $1.50 shot. . . . .

[Technico Support]

I'm an Evan Williams man, myself -- world's greatest cheap bourbon! -- but even I have enough good taste to decline Fireball 100% of the time. 

What I'm saying is, when a reprobate who drinks bottom shelf bourbon with Coke Zero turns his nose up at your nasty-ass shit, you have a problem.

[Curt McGirt]

Mmmm Evan Williams. $7.99 a fifth at the Thornton's back in the day... 20 years ago back in the day. I was in my 20s and my friends were almost out of high school so we were all hype that it was 86 proof instead of 80! 

[Curt McGirt]

Christopher Walken is voicing a squirrel in a banking commercial (Acorns). 

[Contentious C]

"Used to be, when we wanted...to save money, me and your father, we hid it in the only place a squirrel can: his cheeks.  7 years your father hid all those coins, until he died of nickel poisoning."

[Curt McGirt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnAgmbUZ95Y&ab_channel=AdultSwimUK

[Curt McGirt]

In the sweepstakes for annoying Xmas-themed commercials I think maybe the Verizon caroller one is killing me even worse than the Applebees one...

[Mister TV]

Ugh, Geico brought back the caveman. 

[Curt McGirt]

Fresh New Year's Beef: The Jardience commercial with the singing, dancing fat lady. It played EVERY SINGLE COMMERCIAL BREAK during both the national and nightly news. That's like ten commercial breaks. It was like they were using a ball-peen hammer to try and make sure the jingle stayed in there to make sure you bought their diabetes medication. I made an extremely low crack considering that which you can probably guess and my folks got a (heh) kick out of it. 

[Contentious C]

There are so many things wrong with that beef jerky commercial in the bathroom (starting with that sentence).

[The Comedian]

I'm really starting to miss the days when Wayfair and their cute, friendly ads dominated my youtube videos.

Nowadays I get bombarded with Mood Canibus and their obnoxious pothead soccer mom. I think what I hate most are their occasional disingenuous attempts to act like they're pushing the pain/stress reliever element when the other 90% of the commercials are basically, "hey, you can still act like a dumbass teenage stoner in your thirties or later!" Like, how would you go about replacing wine with canibus gummies on a girls' night? I mean, I take half a 10 mg Ozone gummy and I get a nice mild high for a nice peaceful night. A whole gummy is a more potent high. Throwing down gummies all night, especially if you aren't a long-time user, you're just asking for your high to go into paranoia panic attack territory that's gonna be a whole lot worse than a wine hangover...

[Curt McGirt]

Cannabis. It's cannabis. And you can always download an Ad Blocker.

[AxB]

Canibus is a rapper from the 90s. There's a really good F D Signifier video essay about him.

[The Comedian]

Everybody was ready for that guy to destroy LL and then "2nd Round KO" was awful...like "You drippin with wack juice and can't get it off" I could write better bars in my sleep...what a disappointment...

[Log]

23 hours ago, AxB said:

Canibus is a rapper from the 90s. There's a really good F D Signifier video essay about him.

Didn't he have a song or album called "Can I Bus?"

(Googles)

Yes! He did. He also had one called "2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus)".

[Curt McGirt]

Just looked up at the TV and realized I can't even keep from being badgered from the Jardience commercial on mute because it's freakin' subtitled.

[Contentious C]

These Nerdwallet "don't make future you hate you" commercials are idiotic. Have you SEEN the places where these 'poor' old people live? Can't be that fucking poor! I wish my place were that stylish.

[Log]

On 1/13/2024 at 5:41 PM, Contentious C said:

These Nerdwallet "don't make future you hate you" commercials are idiotic. Have you SEEN the places where these 'poor' old people live? Can't be that fucking poor! I wish my place were that stylish.

But in the future, that won’t be stylish! It’ll all be outdated and old. 
 

No, I thought the same as you. I’d like to have a nice little place like that when I’m old. 

[RazorbladeKiss87]

I'm digging the Taco Bell commercial that has a Militarie Gun song in it. Love seeing hardcore/hardcore adjacent bands get some paydays.

[Contentious C]

Yeeeeeeeeesh. Fuck that dumbass Instacart commercial.

[hammerva]

What is the over/under on when you throw a brick at your TV after seeing that Andres Cantor ZOOOOOOOOOM commercial.  

[odessasteps]

Nissan Iron Chef commercials