Bad Ads
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First of all FOX, I understand your need to advertise and tell us all about your exciting programming. However, your ads that mimic radio call in shows not only make me not want to watch, they make me change the radio station.
Another radio ad chapping my hide is the one with Tawny Roberts pimping something or other in Vegas. It’s been running for a while now. Every time I hear, “High roller treatment, baby,” I want to swerve into oncoming traffic.
This next one has been running for almost as long. That freaking Junior Nation song for Mountain Dew’s Amp. This one hurts, because Amp is my energy drink of choice, but when I hear that chick with the smoker voice sing about her inflatable chair and her 88 tattoo, I scratch another week off my calendar. At this point, I won’t be drinking another Amp until July of ‘09. The makers of Monster thank you, Junior Nation.
This last one is local, I think. It is for a home builder who is holding drawings for free gasoline for people who tour their model homes. We open with two women. “Funny meeting you at the gas station,” the first woman says as if she has just crapped a golden egg. It’s a gas station, not a strip club, so why is it so fascinating you ran into somebody you know.
Then the second women runs through the list of errands she has been running, hence her need for all the naked women gas. The first comments on how expensive that is, what with the current gas prices and all. Then, with the snotty attitude she has for the whole commercial, the second lady responds with a not for me. Ha ha ha, loser.
She then explains how she won free gas from touring a model home. Then, in the final nut cruncher, she says she liked the house so much, she decided to buy one.
WHAT!
She isn’t talking about buying some sausage she just sampled at Costco. She is talking about a freaking house worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that she decided to buy on a whim because she liked it. Now, I know there are people here in America who can do that, but how many of them are listening to bad sports talk radio along the Wasatch Front?
“Honey, I’m home, and guess what I did today? While out running errands, I bought a house. It was just so cute, I had to have it.”
How could your leave out Mr Tom Shane for the Shane company? I have to admit that I have bought there before and was treated very good and got a great deal but in no way would I ever shop there again. That guy’s voice is enough to make me go Van Gogh on myself.
Oh and my other favorite to hate on is Low Book Sales. Am I supposed to want to buy a car from these clowns because they can take a song and ruin the lyrics with their version of how easy it is to buy a car? I think not. I guess their real hidden agenda is to have me listen to these songs enough that my eyes swell shut with anger. Maybe at that point I wouldn’t see the car in front of me and I would slam into it. Now there are two people that need new cars and one of us just might buy from them.
I WAS too lazy to read. Thank you.
I always get the Low Book ones stuck in my head. I’ll be humming along when I realize the lyrics in my head are from the commercial and not the actual song.