Commercials that frighten me

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The fluffy white one looks sooooo much like Alexander. Interestingly, the orange one it was with bears a resemblance to my first foster cat, Tommy. Hmmm...
 

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I'm not the same Michelle that posted above about the Jack-in-the-Box ad. Wish I could have gone to camp, though.
 

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Has anybody noticed that the best/funniest commercials are made by the beer companies?? We have a company called Alexander Kieth's Ales which has commercials that rival the best tv movies. They play like a soap opera..one leads into the other. All is set in colonial days.

Most cat food commercials are ok...some real pretty cats there.
 

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Consider yourself fortunate in respect to beer commercials! Hereabouts, beer commercials are really stupid. I cannot begin to describe the magnitude of the stupidity, some of which features animals being killed. Mind, the local breweries here don't advertise via television: It's the big-shot national-level breweries which put these Bozo-level commercials on television here.

The local breweries around here are so-called "micro-breweries" — in other words, "yuppie" breweries. So television is, I'm sure, a totally-uncool medium for them — which is ironic since television is a "cool" (impersonal) medium from the standpoint of human psychology, radio being a "hot" (personal) medium.

Anyway, I'll take the singing navels any day over the idiotic major-brewery commercials. When I lived back east, as a kid, I recall regional beer commercials — like "My beer is Reingold (sp?) the dry beer." If memory serves they had "dry," "extra dry," and maybe "extra extra dry" beer. I still don't know what the term "dry beer" means!



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Maybe it means you make dust clouds when you..break wind.


Actually,I quit any form of boose years ago,came too close to disaster. But I do remember some good Bud commercials and the Silver Bullet.


It is a shame tho how beer has become so pervasive in everything. It seems you can't go anywhere without some drunk being obnoxious.
 

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Dear Illusion and Alexnell...

Sorry for the mixup! Darn, I must be human and all this while I thought I was a cat! I feel like this rat!
I still go back to check on that site...what riot that is!

By the way Cleo...I do remember and it was a sad commercial, but you were so right...it did stike a nerve!!!
 

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AWWWWW, what a cute picture of the cat & the rat!!! (no I did NOT say the cat in the hat...LOL... :laughing: )
I have a commercial I LOVE... even though this thread is for scary commercials...has anyone seen the sony playstation commercial, with the "good hedgehog...bad hedgehog"?? They both look exactly like my two hedgehogs...Spike and Penelope! I think Penelope looks more like the "evil" hedgie!!! :laughing:
 

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Congratualtons Tina!
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What a wonderful site, I think you should start a thread so everyone will know and go visit!!!
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Love &,
 

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That singing belly button commercial is really creepy:confused3 There was a great commercial on not too long ago, I don't remember what for. It shows a well-dressed couple on their way to the theater or something. They're in a lot of traffic, and it is raining. There is a scared-looking dog on the side of the road, in the rain, and near all that traffic. The man looks at the woman, their tickets, and stops to get the dog. It might have been a car commercial. It brought a lump to my throat, and I usually avoid watching commercials, since they mostly insult anyone with a brain.
 

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Anything with the digitally "talking" babies creeps me out.

The one for cough medicine (implying that men are "big babies" when they are sick) is the creepiest. The baby's head is blown up to be as big as an adult's.

There was a whole movie using this effect a while ago, and it was torture for me to watch TV then. The promos were conatantly on, and I was constantly changing the channel.

There's one now in this style (probably in Canada only)that is slightly creepy; it takes place "in the future" and a just-walking baby is supposedly toilet trained, and is shown heading into the bathroom with a newspaper, hopping on, and reading away.

I have no idea why this is so odd to me; talking animals are OK, why not babies? Any amatuer psychologists out there want to take a stab at it?

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All of those baby/diaper things scare the HELL out of me. Or should I say that the people who find them cute,charming and witty scare me.


While we're at it about ads...why do you women feel you gotta tell everyone about your "feminine aids". Can you imagine the guy version.
"Hey Joe,whadda you do for jock itch?" "Why I use new miracle Dr Whippie's......." Don't think so..
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Hey Kittyfoot, I hate those feminine ads, too. We women are quite capable of making a choice while in the store, we don't need to deal with it being on TV, too. No one I know talks like that anyway.

What is up with the new trend in advertising prescription drugs? The side effects sound worse than the symptoms. I can't stand those commercials. Isn't that why we go to the doctor?


Maybe we don't like those baby commercials because we know that someday those babies will be talking, and we prefer them not to at this point?
 

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Hey Kittyfoot...haven't you ever seen the Cruex commercials?
Haven't seen one in awhile, but they were for a jock itch ointment :LOL:

And the Preparation-H ads really burn my butt...er...chap my hide...no wait, they annoy me, ok?


Cleo
 

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I saw that Levi's,singing bellybutton,"I'm coming out", commercial for the first time the other day. It reminds me of the Aliens' movie when creatures come bursting out of peoples stomachs.
The commercial would have been ok if they used the song but left the bellybuttons still. But, making bellybuttons appear ALIVE just makes me want to cover mine up - not buy the low rise jeans!
 

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My post yesterday seems to have tempted the fates...

I read this morning in the TV guide that there is a new show airing this fall *told from the point of view of a talking baby!!!*
 
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