Disturbing Cereal Ad

Cereal dilemma,
Cinnamon-y toasty squares
That are cannibals.

*shudder*

One sticks his tongue in the milk as a lure and eats his brethren.  The whole thing makes me want to not buy the product.

Potentially Offensive

Manly diet drink
That’s 10 calories;
Almost offensive.

manly women

There’s this ad that starts out looking like it’s an ad for an adventure movie, and then the guy in it turns to the crowd and says something like, ‘ladies, are you enjoying this?  Of course you’re not’.  And I can’t help but think, ‘are you serious?  Of course, there are some women who would be interested; but now that you’ve said that, they might not be.’  I mean, I know they’re trying to sell a diet drink to men, but that doesn’t mean that they have to be potentially offensive to that subsection of women.

5th Year of High School

‘Fifth year of high school’?
Did he really just say that?
Yep, I think he did.

Whoomp!: Is and Went

There is an ad in which two friends are arguing (in regard to a bet) over when the song Whoomp! (There It Is) came out.  According to Wikipedia, a song by that title did come out in 1993; but the same group that recorded it also recorded another version of the song, Whoomp! (There It Went), in 1995.  (“It is basically the same song, but with several lyrics altered to depict Donald Duck’s party in this version rather than a generic one in the original.”)  So, in a way, both of them are right, and the bet could  be nullified.  But, since the guy looking up the information is on a phone, he doesn’t know the second bit of information; and perhaps he should lose the bet because of the fact that he didn’t look far enough.  It’s actually a reason someone might not want to get the phone in question.

In any case, I think it’s interesting that both dates are important to the song, and are both release dates of a sort.

Compose A Tweet?

Is there anyone
Who really takes enough time
To compose a tweet?

twit a tweet

There is an ad on television that has a mother asking her daughter if she needs some help to compose a tweet.  But every time I see it I have to wonder about the wording.  I doubt that most people take the time to ‘compose’ a tweet.  They might bang out a tweet, or even write one; but I really don’t think they’d take the amount of time that I’d think was necessary to compose one.

The Rich Man’s Disease

So, I keep seeing this ad for a gout medicine, and keep wondering if we really need a drug for that.  Historically it’s been called the rich man’s disease and thought to be mainly caused by a rich diet.  So, my first thought was that people should be able to just change their diet and that should solve the problem.  But, according to Wikipedia, 60% of cases are partially caused by genetic factors; which means some people are more prone to it than others.  Still, that doesn’t mean that a change in diet wouldn’t help lessen the re-occurrence of gout.  So, my original thought probably isn’t as far off as that 60% would make it seem.  And, considering weight seems to be a risk factor, even if specific foods aren’t the trigger, just eating too much can be; so, changing their diet could help in that case as well.

Parental Miscommunication

I keep seeing this commercial that has a rather old dad repeatedly  telling his teenage daughter that she has to change before he’ll let her out of the house.  First of all, I don’t think the second outfit is that bad; sure it looks ridiculous, but it doesn’t really show that much.  But, how she thought she’d get away with having writing on her butt without even trying to cover it escapes me.  Still, she looks like she’s probably too young to be buying all that clothing by herself (she’d probably be driving herself if she were), so her mother is probably buying that clothing for her.  So, the fight is really between the mother and the father, which means that they should really sit down and have a talk about it instead of taking it out on the daughter.  This idea is further supported by an ad that has a father wiping his dirty hands on his daughter’s short, white denim skirt that’s hanging on a clothesline and hiding it in the hamper so that it will dry and set in.  The mother in that ad helps the daughter find and clean the skirt, giving a sideways glance at her husband indicating that she knows what he tried to do.  I have to say, I tend to agree with the fathers, but sometimes I think they go too far.  In commercials like these it’s probably for comedic effect, but the clothes battle between fathers and mothers tend to follow this pattern.

Good Help

There’s an ad on, at least locally, that has someone saying that ‘it helps in a good way’, and I can’t help but think that it’s a little redundant to say that.  But I suppose that it is mitigated a little bit by the fact that it is said by a teenager, but I still find it annoying.

Creative Evolution?

I recently saw an ad for a show that has both the phrases ‘creation of man’ and ‘evolution of life’ in it.  This has me confused.  Do they belief in creation or evolution?  Now, considering it’s a medical show, I’d lean towards evolution, if I were guessing, but that would only be a guess.  Still, I find it annoying that it has both references in the same advertisement.

It’s Not Gooder

There’s an ad for orange juice that’s in a new bottle and has less sugar, and the girls in it us the word ‘gooder’.  One of them protests the use of the word until they tell her that she looks ‘gooder’.  This kind of response bothers me.  I’d like to see someone portrayed as being smarter than that; someone who sticks to their original stance even after a compliment.  Someone really should be able to withstand that kind of manipulation.