The purpose of commercials is to get us to buy the product advertised, or at the very least get us interesting in it. I’ve seen thousands of commercials in my lifetime and most of the time my eyes glaze over when they come on. Now I have a DVR so I hardly ever see commercials anymore. But sometimes I’ll see a commercial that causes me to hate the very characters I’m supposed to like, makes me not want to buy the product, or sends the opposite message intended. There are quite a few that fall into those categories, but here are a few of my favorites.
Is this a public service announcement for parents or kids? Or maybe both. When I see commercials like this, any bit of illogic will stand out and I’ll totally miss the message. In this case I was wondering why the dad would ask his son a dumb question like, “Who taught you how to do this stuff,” when the dad was using drugs. A friend of mine summed it up quite nicely: This commercial gave kids everywhere permission to do drugs.
Obviously this commercial is advertising Big Red gum, but what I really wanted was the gum with the white stripe. Don’t ask me why I thought it was cool that gum had a stripe on it, considering that you only see the stick for a second before you chew it up. I was always very disappointed when I could never find the striped at the grocery store or any other place. Only recently did I realize that the “stripe” was probably there to obscure the Trident gum Big Red was being compared to. Oh yeah, the kid with the Tuba is Ralphie from A Christmas Story.
I really hated these Apple Jacks commercials. I always thought it was kind of lame that the parents cared so much about why their kids liked a certain cereal. You have the annoying mom doing what moms do best: nagging the kids about what what their eating. Then you have the bitchy middle school girls who think it’s cool to eat cereal with your friends on the stairs. Lastly you have the dumb mom asking why they eat Apple Jacks. Duh, bitch! They eat what they like! Anyway kids, you too can be a rebel by eating surgary breakfast cereals, just like you’re told to. Personally, I gotta have my Pops.
WTF?! I hate Big Red now. I never chewed the stuff so I didn’t know that the striped gum wasn’t Big Red. Why would someone want the dusty red gum over the cool looking red with white stripe gum?
The Apple Jacks commercial doesn’t make any sense. The kids are eating Apple Jacks because that’s what Mom bought for them. Why does she have to ask them about it later? Does she have amnesia? Or did she buy it at the store on faith, and only now questions its validity? Then when she asks the girls why they like it, the girls are puzzled, and can only reply “… we just do.” Is that the message Apple Jacks is trying to send to potential customers — we can’t think of a reason for you to buy this, just buy it.
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the commercial advertising insurance or somthing and theere is a football ref he says i just made a completely un fair call on this team but i will make an completely unfair call on the oposing team in the next quarter… i dont understand what message they are trying to send across to us in that one can ayone tell me?