Saturday, June 30, 2018
A 9-year old Black and Decker Commercial....
...is all I've got on a day in which the mercury is expected to hit 95 and feel like closer to 102 which is following two days of much the same and will be followed by two days of much the same before I can fly out of this nightmare and get to Vermont, which is expected to be maybe five degrees cooler.....
.....and I'll be at the Baltimore Orioles game today.....pretty sure I'll be in the shade, but still.....
But anyway, nine years ago Black and Decker made this commercial about two zombies and their dog. Seriously, this couple died ages ago- who has been feeding that perfectly-groomed Toy You Have To Clean Up After? Certainly not these people, who act as if getting off that couch requires a call to hospice services.
The joke is that the dust is so deep under that couch that it turns the perfectly white dog black- never mind that the rest of the house is flawlessly, almost obnoxiously clean. Why couldn't the ad show these people living in a filthy house? Oh, because even nine years ago, ad companies simply didn't do that. Back then, as now, everyone on television lives in a gleaming house. Even when the point of your ad is to show extreme dust buildup.
Why is the "guy" in this ad wearing that robe? Sorry, I drifted off again. It's very hot out.
So Black and Decker makes a vacuum that can reach under couches, which is a good thing 'cause it's clear these people aren't about to move it two feet so they can vacuum there. These warm corpses just don't do stuff like that. Because they are dead.
Ok I'm done. I have to shower and change and get to that ball game in the steam bath which is currently my world. Stay cool and safe and check pets and elderly people, etc.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Napoleon Grills is making me hate summer
My favorite YouTube comment associated with this commercial is "this ad gave me cancer." I'd just suggest a slight amendment to "This ad IS cancer."
Every single one of these Napoleon Grill commercials feature males of my species acting like total dicktards for absolutely no reason except They Are Males In The Suburbs And This Is How They Act We Guess. If a guy is humiliated, that's worthy of a laugh. If a guy is hurt, even better. Now, let's get back to grilling that meat because, well, Remember What We Said About Males in the Suburbs.
How bad are these ads? So bad, they are going to make summer feel too long. In other words, they are cancer. And we aren't even into July yet. Sigh.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
For When the Commicrats come for you....and they will.....
Sometimes, the snark just writes itself. And those are the commercials I live for.
This ad is allegedly for cheap-quality non-Blublocker sunglasses called "Special Ops" (I guess. I'm not watching this more than a few times.) It's actually a parody for every product peddled by phony weekend warriors and pitched to paranoid survivalists who have already maxed out on Glenn Beck's Emergency Food and guns....right?
I mean, this can't be real. Kris "Tanto" Paranto (whose nickname is known only to himself) can NOT be serious with his schtick, can he? All that "matter of life and death" to "know your surroundings" while crawling through the desert or a swamp....that's either a joke or an Alex Jones wet dream, take your pick.
Anyway, these amazing sunglasses are just what you need to spot the enemy- Obama or Hillary, specificially- before they get close enough to make a grab for your Bible or your gun. So they are an absolutely essential addition to any Patriotic, Freedom- Loving American who wants to do his part to Make America Great Again.
Or, like I said before, this is a joke. I'm going with joke. I have to. This is the world I need to live in, after all.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Roman.Com's "Funny" Erectile Disfunction Ad....
First, let me point out to all of you who are not regular readers of this blog- and that's pretty much all of you, based on the numbers- that I don't do erectile disfunction ads here. I mean, I've done like three of them over the course of nearly ten years. That's three out of more than a thousand posts. I don't do them.
Second, let me assure you that the only reason I even looked at this ad was because I was searching for a particular Napoleon Grill commercial and found this instead. I was not looking for an erectile disfunction ad, I was looking for one about these obnoxiously overpriced grills.
But, since I've found this ad and actually watched it, I'll take a moment to snark on it's rank offensiveness anyway. We've got a white guy and a black guy standing next to a grill while insisting to a disembodied voice that they've got no-- um-- problems. I'm frankly surprised that no women make an appearance to give an eye-roll to their "if anyone here as an issue, it's the guy standing next to me" defensive stutterings. I'm not at ALL surprised that one of them spends the entire commercial holding a hot dog impaled on a fork, because that's how Subtle works in these ads. Which is why I don't do them.
Ok, now back to the great Napoleon Grill Search. Sorry about that.
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Rocket Mortgage continues to hate on women
Here's yet another Rocket Mortgage/Quicken Loans commercial which is willing to concede that a woman can be extremely smart and successful and even exciting (Megan is a lawyer who totally demolishes the other side AND is on the verge of confirming the existance of Bigfoot?) but when it comes to doing the Maths is basically just a helpless, silly, addled little girl.
Megan has the Sads because for all her brilliance, mortgages are full of percentages and numbers and all those other things that hurt her little Girl Brain. Law is words and talking and we all know how women can talk the bark off a tree, but when it comes to numbers, well, let's not get silly. And let's not judge, either- we wouldn't expect a man to be able to diaper a baby without stabbing it or cook a meatloaf without burning down the kitchen, so it would be totally unfair to expect a woman to work out a mortgage schedule. Everything- and everyone- in their place, as they say.
Fortunately some GUY invented Quicken Loans and since there aren't THAT many numbers on a phone (not that it matters- who has ever met a woman who doesn't know how to use a phone LOL!) Megan can use one to find the perfect mortgage. After all, it's "simple," and nothing appeals to women more than stuff that's simple.
Now she just needs to use that phone to find herself a man, because when you think about it, she looks like she's around thirty and no way a female should be worrying her pretty little head about mortgages at her age.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Galaxy Presents: A woman going nowhere fast
The woman in this ad....oh, I could spend all day on this post, but I'm tired after a long week of classes and have other things to do.....
1. She's at the airport and she's holding up the people in line because she didn't think to upload her boarding pass until she reached security. Um, I'm 54 years old and I know enough to TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF MY BOARDING PASS so nothing needs to be loaded. I also know that boarding passes can still be printed up- and I ALWAYS get a printed copy of my pass, because, you know, stuff still happens.
2. She's on the plane and oh noes she can't use her phone to keep what's left of her atrophied brain amused for a few hours, meanwhile she's got a case of the jealous sads because everyone else on the planet is watching movies on their Much Better Much Faster Phones. You know, stupid woman, there are these things called "books" and "magazines" that don't need to be streamed or downloaded, right? Even better, they don't need any external memory. They just need you to have a vocabulary, but you probably tossed that out a few years ago when you discovered Grammarly and talk-to-text, right?
3. She's trying to get a taxi- oh what am I saying, she's trying to get an Uber, taxis are so 20th century- but she can't because her phone is, again, too slow. So she's in the rain (we can assume she didn't know it was going to rain because her phone failed to tell her, so no umbrella) and totally helpless because she's tossed aside all her life experience and sense to lean on her ubiquitious electronic crutch.
4. She finally does get a ride, but then she sees a Samsung store and tells the driver to let her off so she can run in and get her slow phone fixed or something. It takes no time at all for the commissioned salesperson to convince her that there's nothing she can do to make her phone be at her beck and call to save her from her helpless self. I mean, she COULD get rid of some apps but that's just silly. So she'll just shell out some more money and upgrade, problem solved. In the final scene, we find her Loving Her Phone Again 'Cause It's Fast Enough to allow her to sit in an easy chair and stare at something on the screen. We don't see the phone actually saving her from a situation her non-cellphone owning parents would have had no problem dealing with. She's just watching something, giving her atrophied brain yet another vacation.
(Oh, and we get some weird scene where a total stranger and his kid stare at her like she's the last free human in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." They can just TELL she has an inferior, slow phone and she MUST be assimilated or she can expect to be sneered at for being such a luddite. How do they know that her stress is being caused by her phone and not the heavy rain or some unspoken problem in her life? There's probably an App for that.)
Seriously, WTF Samsung? Paper boarding passes. Books, Magazines, Daydreaming. Taxis. How freaking helpless and dependent on electronics do you want us to be? Do I really want you to answer that?
Friday, June 22, 2018
Up into your neighbor's Napoleon Grill? Get help!
I've had more than enough of these Napoleon Grill ads which feature rich white guys standing outside ridiculous suburban mansions playing with equally ridiculous, utterly opulent grills which feature more bells and whistles than most automobiles.
In this one, a creep is so damned obsessed with all the fun he can have with his neighbor's grill that he's actually snuck on to the property in the middle of the night to engage in a little fantasy grilling. He doesn't steal the damn thing, he just shovels raw food on and into it so he can engage in what can only be described as illicit grill sex. I'm sorry, but I don't know any other way to put it- the weirdo is having an affair with his neighbor's grill.
And of course the punchline comes when the seriously disturbed jackass is interrupted in his fantasy play by the grill's owner, who doesn't seem at all surprised to find a guy he clearly knows very well cooking with his grill, right in his yard. Maybe this is just something that rich white twads in the suburbs expect from eachother, I don't know.
What I do know is that the grill featured in his ad retails online at the official site for something north of $5000. No, I'm not kidding. This grill costs more than a two-week, 4-star tour through Europe. So maybe that's why I don't understand the guys in these ads- I don't know anyone with that kind of money to throw away on an outdoor kitchen, and I don't WANT to know anyone who covets his neighbor's barbecuing system. Just too disturbing.
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