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* Just '''WHY''' does everyone hate that dang Snuggles Bear so much? It's just a bear, what did it ever do to you?
* According to Old Spice Man logic, does the scent make you more -manly-, and therefore more attractive to those that like masculinity (implying that gay/bi men will also be attracted to you), or does it just make you more attractive to women (and therefore could conceivably work when worn by a lesbian/bi woman)? [I asked this of [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
** Guessing from the template Old Spice has laid out: yes, but you will only attract straight women.
** So he's the man your woman could smell like? According to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4eJU2qh3E0 one video, Old Spice causes women to develop a number of masculine characteristics], so I imagine it would only attract women who like women who look like men.
*** Nice to have it cleared up, I thought it would only attract people who enjoy receiving penis.
* Seriously. Doesn't [[Distracted
** It's probably not an accident. The exchange rate of diamonds to panties has always been fairly high, at least in some people's minds, and Jared (not to mention all the other diamond companies) is probably hoping to sell them to gullible men on that basis. Sexual euphemisms sell, after all. Of course, that leads me to my own IJBM, to wit...
* Am I the only one insulted by the implication that a man doesn't love his wife/fiancee/girlfriend unless he buys her a big giant rock? Material wealth =/= personal worth or integrity. Of course, as stated above, I'm fighting against a perception that's been around since people first decided that diamonds were pretty, but still...
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** Not to mention the obnoxious sounding colloquial language makes me want to deck the voiceover man.
** Statistics 101 (well, maybe statistics 99.7): There are, simply, 265 combinations. The 40,312 number is based on the assumption that the ''order'' of your...erm...order matters. When ordering it doesn't matter if you get fries and a shake or a shake and fries. The number in the commercial assumes it does matter. (Maybe it does for you. YMMV)
* This has to do more with movie posters than any actual commercials on television, but here goes. Is there ANY film that's come out recently that hasn't used an overwhelming amount of [https://web.archive.org/web/20101023044645/http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/27/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-posters/ orange and blue] on their posters? It's ugly and makes them all look the same. Not to mention [[Viewers are Morons|insulting]], as the orange/blue contrast is supposed to be the most subliminally pleasing to our eyes, and is somehow more likely to make us purchase movie tickets. (Because you know, actual trailers/actors/directors don't generate any interest in said film, no sir) I'm a big collector of movie posters, and there's hardly any from the past decade I find worth owning because of this hideous trend.
** Movie posters almost always use contrasting colors, just because it's more "vivid". The orange/blue thing is a selection bias originally and a perception bias subsequently.
** We've got that now: [[Orange-Blue Contrast]].
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**** Yeah, because being a reasonable individual with a good moral compass, or in layman's terms: THINKING ABOUT YOUR ACTIONS BEFORE YOU MAKE THEM, won't keep you out of the trouble these people are in. They messed up with these commercials and hit the mark all at once. They made a commercial that won't sell their product, but they took daily occurrences and showed us just how horrible they are. Once you're done laughing, you stop and say "wait...what? THAT'S NOT FUNNY, THAT'S HORRIBLE!!!"
*** The ad campaign actually started innocuously. A guy is chilling at home when his wife comes out and asks, "Do these pants make my butt look big?" (The pants in question are tacky, skintight gold things that make her hindquarters look like she's packing bowling balls in said pants.) An announcer says, "Need a moment? Chew it over with Twix." The guy stuffs his mouth with Twix and gives an unintelligible answer his wife can't understand because his mouth is full, she assumes he said no, and hugs him. So it was still a guy lying to his wife (or else being honest but obscuring the truth with a full mouth) but it was truly funny, because he was trying to preserve her feelings and not being an asshole. It seems really odd to me that the marketing folks at Twix thought that it would be a good idea to go from, "Guy tells white lie to preserve his wife's feelings" to "Guy lies to his wife to not get busted in an affair."
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* Why are commercials so much louder than the show you're watching? I always have to mute my TV because they blast the dang commercials through the speakers. Just because it's louder doesn't mean I'm more likely to pay attention to it!
** The FCC allows any commercial to be as loud as the loudest part of the program your watching, and it also includes, oh, let's say, ''explosions''. So advertisers take ''full'' advantage over this.
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* The Dairy Queen Blizzard commercials where the family stalks the Blizzardmobile. First off, is a Blizzard really [[Serious Business]]? Two, the parents actually have Blizzards in a new one. Isn't that enough?
** They also act as if it's an ice cream truck, with a DQ employee just ready to hand them out a Blizzard. If the mom had actually reached the Blizzard mobile, she would probably just see a box filled with unmade ice cream.
* There was an old commercial for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter with [[Brainless Beauty|Fabio]] and a [[Shallow Love Interest]] in a [[Standard Fantasy Setting|Faux Medieval]] setting. He hands her a muffin with some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter On It, she takes one bite and says "[[Stuck
** YMMV. I'd like bodice-ripper fiction a lot better if they always just talked about food.
*** Would it be the eating of food that causes the bodice to rip?
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* There is political campaign in Missouri right now between Roy Blunt and Robin Carnahan. Both of their ads are attack ads against the other, and neither candidate is saying anything positive about himself. Not only that, these ads are in practically every commercial break. I live in Illinois and I have to put up with this!
** I assume you're still in St. Louis media jurisdiction, which is why you're seeing those commercials. Sadly, a lot of times these fear-inducing ads are far more effective than positive ones, because no matter what a candidate ''can'' promise, they want you under the impression that it's way better than what their incompetent, self-righteous, money-grubbing fool of an opponent will bring to this [country/state/county/city.]
** The strangest thing is that there is another series of ads for [[Distracted By the Shiny|some other candidate]] that says something along the lines of "while candidates X and Y sling mud and throw accusations around, our candidate ''never'' slings mud and throws accusations around, and focuses on [[You Know the One|the issues that matter]]. Vote [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|for Candidate Z]]." Longer cuts of the commercial mention things like abortion and voting, but never the stance. How can these people think they're actually ''helping'' by implying that their candidate approves of implied hypocrisy, and may or may not be highly controversial in some vague, undefined way? [[No Such Thing
* Why do "Heat Surges" (those devices that look like a fireplace) claim they are built by the Amish? Didn't the Amish forego electronic technology to be closer to God, or am I missing something here?
** Short answer: No. (Long answer: [[Zero Punctuation
*** The heating elements come form a factory. The wood frames come from the Amish. If you see that on a heater without a wood frame, a marketer screwed up.
* When it comes to advertising on tv for God-knows how many times, isn't there usually a HUGE cost to dominate the airwaves? Let's take Crazy Frog (Or as I prefer to call it, Stupid Bastard), how did it make so much money in the first place to get played so many damn times? I understand after it got "popular" because people bought it but what about before?
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** It's humor.
* Can someone please explain Dior perfume commercials to me? I don't see how [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1t5s1vao54&feature=related any] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb3ttFa1HGA&feature=related of] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YkN_SH5jKY these] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=w4iOWCXYQIs commercials] relate to perfume, or just smelling nice in general.
* How about those current{{when}} Chevy ads with hip kids doing crazy stunts with the slogan "Let's Do This" while a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen says "Don't Do This"?
** It's a joke. Come on, [[
* [https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AyxK/finish-jet-dry-sorry-dishwasher| This Finish Jet-Dry commercial] apparently has people angry over the guy assuming the dishwasher's gender by saying "'''he''' doesn't know any better". How '''''exactly''''' do you know that the dishwasher is female???
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