Stupid commercials...

Ming · DOOM! Gender: Joined: 13 Jan 2003

Having a degree in marketing, and having dealt with advertising before, I often look at commercials in a different light. Although I'm either pleased or indifferent to most, often times I find myself really questioning what the hell they were thinking when they made particular commercials.

Case in point: Has anyone seen this horrendous commercial for Bacardi Limon? The Bacardi bottle is apparently a submarine, with lemon wedges as its propellor, and it comes out of a hole in a lemon that's supposed to be a sub base, I would guess. Then it "swims" around for a while, through a school of martini-glass fish, and into a coral reef that (I think) has a party going on. Seriously, who the hell is Bacardi trying to target with this? It's in fact so bad that it makes me angry.

underpants · awesome sauce! Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 07 Jul 2004

hehehe. You're so silly. But very right. Some of the commericals these days are outrageous! As for the Bacardi commercial those are usually stupid. I think they should look at who does the ads for Budweiser and get them to do their ads.

RivaOni · Full English! Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

ive taken to switching to bbc during the ad breaks, especially coz of that damn crazy frog-axel f ad Evil or Very Mad

Ming · DOOM! Gender: Joined: 13 Jan 2003

shadokastur · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 11:37 am Post subject:

It's a Brit thing...

I just saw the Bacardi Razz thing and aside from the awesome animation it took, I don't get it either.

Then again, Napoleon Dynamite is pretty big and it was rather stupid as well.

RivaOni · Full English! Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

yea its a brit thing, tihs annoying "frog" that maes the most annoying sound ever, and now their releasing a chart single to the beverley hills cop theme (its a mobile phone ring tone thing)

Ming · DOOM! Gender: Joined: 13 Jan 2003

Shinigami Banchou · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

yeah i know what that evil ass frog is... the noise it makes almost made my friend have a seizure Rolling Eyes

im pretty sure the thing was sent from hell to punish mortals

anyway i think most of the marketing people now, are grown in cages... thats the only thing i can think of cuz the majority seem to have there thumbs up there ass far far away from the pulse of society

Excel Zero · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

You wanna talk stupid commercials? What about the T-Mobile Commercials...getting dumb now. Let us also not forget ING. Oh and come on...Pepto Bismol....yeah cuz I so want to hear idiots singing about my diarrhea and heartburn.

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Excel

Kiyomi · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject:

The ones I REALLY think are dumb are the ones that go about promoting a product, but never actually tell you what product they are promoting. Or the ones (especially found in medicine commercials) where they tell you the product's name, but don't give you any real indication as to what it does.