Offensive commercials witnessed during the Packers/Redskins game on Fox

[yendi]

1. Wal-Mart ad in which a woman tells us that she and the girls aren't really football fans; they just like having a big social event each week. The commercial shows all the wimminfolk in the kitchen, missing the game (but wearing their stylish NFL-licensced jerseys) while they make dips for their Manly Men, who are, of course, actually football fans.

2. Budweiser commercial that actually uses the phrase, "your best beer ever," to describe a potential bottle of Bud.

3. Mitt Romney campaign ad in which he gripes about Republicans who act like Democrats.

4. Eight million promos for Back to You and 'Til Death implying that the shows are comedies, but not actually showing anything funny.

5. Constant stream of Visa commercials implying that people who use cash are horrible people (and non-conformist, because we all know that not fitting in leads to drugs and other bad stuff), and that cash slows things down compared to Visa.

5.5. One of the Visa commercials, in particular, uses Louis Armstrong music in ad.

6. Any and all Burger King commercials that don't feature The King.

7. The Taco Bell commercial in which the older (and "manly") brother turns out to be "whipped" because he has a wife and the responsibility of walking his dog.

I swear, if it weren't for sports (and the fact that I prefer only using my Tivo to pause or run replays during sporting events, not recording them to watch later), I wouldn't have to put up with commercials at all.

Comments

[ckd]

You could do what we do, which is set the event to record, and start watching 20-30 minutes after it begins. Then you can fast forward through commercials until you catch up with the broadcast.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

lol, that's what we do too! :)

[yendi]

The problem is that our Tivo is relatively full, so I didn't want to devote a huge chunk of time to a game that I was only watching casually.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

OMG that is TOTALLY the only way I watch TV anymore.....

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, lynx is also watching that game, but had to do laundry earlier so has a nice lead with the Tivo, thus skipping past as many commercials as possible.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

The "gender bashing" commercials are de rigeur these days... Women are vapid, men are emasculated... it's because Madison Avenue can't figure out who else to mock anymore, since it's not politically correct to mock anyone else, and they are trying to be funny.

The Visa ads drive me nuts too... because you want to say "um, so it's 'normal' to pay an additional 10-20% interest so that you don't have to slow down when getting your egg mcmuffin or chotchkes...?"

The Burger King creeps me out - any ad that has him is paused and then Fast-forwarded thru. *shudder*

We DVR the game and start watching about 30 minutes after kickoff usually, so that there's a nice buffer to skip commercials and so that whenever we replay a particular bit, it replenishes the buffer. :)

[yendi]

I find that half an hour usually isn't enough in football, since the networks frontload commercials (to ensure that ads get properly placed in the quarter sold, no matter how many timeouts or scores there are).

In fairness, the Visa ads are for the debit cards, which leaves interest off the table, but opens up speed, fraud, and lack of credit protection.

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I HATE HATE HATE those stupid Visa commercials. Hate. A, most people I see pay with cash. B, as long as I'm paying with legal tender, I WILL PAY WITH WHATEVER THE FRIG I WANT. Take my business and shut up. The credit card machines usually take no less time to work than it takes me to fish out my cash, anyway. I hate conformist commercials like that, which try to convince you that every single person on the planet is doing something X way and you'll be a pariah if you don't do it, too.

Sorry, I've been wanting to rant about that for awhile.

[booticon.livejournal.com]

On the same token, I almost never carry cash with me, and I'll sometimes get dirty looks when I whip out my credit card.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

and you'll be a pariah if you don't do it, too AND the happy music will stop playing....

[niftybabe313.livejournal.com]

5. Constant stream of Visa commercials implying that people who use cash are horrible people (and non-conformist, because we all know that not fitting in leads to drugs and other bad stuff), and that cash slows things down compared to Visa.

Oh geez, I HATE those commercials! Cash is so much faster than Visa (not to say that I use cash all the time, I hardly ever do...but anywho...misleading obnoxious commercials!)

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

2. Budweiser commercial that actually uses the phrase, "your best beer ever," to describe a potential bottle of Bud.

Well, I suppose that if you had just reached drinking age, had never had anything before, and this was the very first time you had ever had a beer (note I am being generous in allowing the use of that word to describe Bud)...

Of course, by the same token, it could also be the worst beer ever

[brak55.livejournal.com]

Growing up in a town that was the home of Genesee Beer, Budweiser was right up there with the best beer ever.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe the first time i saw the Visa ad, everyone acting like happy zoned out 1950's robots who get all freaked out, come to a dead halt
(invasion of the body snatchers style) and stare at the poor guy
who uses actual money to pay, supposedly slowing down the
mindless consumer dance everyone else is going through.

None of the "Creepy Plastic Burger King" ads were ever quite as bad as the very first one with that poor guy waking up with "that" in his bed. Stuff of Nightmares.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

(invasion of the body snatchers style) and stare at the poor guy

THANK YOU!!

Did anyone go to church and be told horror stories about the end times when you will be given the mark of the beast and if you don't wear it you will not be able to buy food???

Dude, those commercials are, like, RIGHT out of the book of Revelations.

[afeldspar.livejournal.com]

The Taco Bell commercial in which the older (and "manly") brother turns out to be "whipped" because he has a wife and the responsibility of walking his dog.

Well, let's be fair. The "manly" brother is the one who has just set forth the "rules" a man should follow, those including to never date a girl with a dragon tattoo and never to own a lapdog. He is not laughable because he has violated some objective standard of manliness, he is laughable because he has violated his own rules, the ones he is still promoting to others.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I'm more annoyed that the Devo guys let the song "Whip It" be used in that context. It's a thuddingly literal use, and it plays to a stereotype that bugs me. Maybe the "rules" guy is laughable, but the ad isn't funny. (And too many commercials have idiots in them! That's the bigger annoying thing for me.)

At least the wife with the dragon tattoo was kind of hot.

And I felt good about the Lincoln commercial with Harry Connick, Jr. that focuses on New Orleans...though how does buying an SUV help New Orleans? OK, TILT, I obviously can't ponder this well enough right now.

(Ooo. One of Bruce Campbell's Old Spice commercials just ran on the Seahawks-Saints game. One more good ad...)

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

Burger King's advertising for about the past five years has been counterproductive in my case. Maybe I'm not their target demographic, but watching any of their ads (Darius Rucker in the land of the over-boobied? The Whopperettes? Anything with the King in it?) makes me less, rather than more, likely to go to Burger King next time I'm after fast food.

Actually the Whopperettes were so creepy that, on the rare occasions I went in there while that ad campaign was on, I had to move the table tents featuring them to other tables, because it was either that or eat with my eyes closed.

[brak55.livejournal.com]

Back to You is semi-passable comedy, mainly because of Fred Willard. What it really does is show off just how horrible 'Til Death is.

[phantom_wolfboy]

Budweiser commercial that actually uses the phrase, "your best beer ever," to describe a potential bottle of Bud.

Well, a potential bottle of Bud has a greater chance of being your best beer ever than an actual bottle of Bud.

Any and all Burger King commercials that don't feature The King. Elvis is making Burger King commercials now?

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

the baseball games got it worse, with the terrible frank caliendo ads, dane cook b.s.ing about things he's never seen before (does he even know where the rockies play? or anyone on the diamonbacks for that matter?), and the intense boston love. yes, i get that david ortiz and manny are good players. could the announcers just shut up about them for 5 freaking minutes? i now am rooting for cleveland, or failing that, a rockies sweep of boston just to shut the entire new england area up.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I HATE those commercials. If everyone in the musical-dance-number stopped and looked at me, I'd be all like flipping them the bird.

5.5. One of the Visa commercials, in particular, uses Louis Armstrong music in ad.

Because all the Jazz musicians were FAMOUS for being good conformists.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

I thuroughly thouroughly thorowly REALLY REALLY enjoyed the discussion on That Annoying Visa Commercial and made reference to it on my live journal. Thanks.