Sunday, February 11, 2018

BEST AND WORST COMMERCIALS

I can't decide what I consider the best and worst ads of the past year. I have never seen so many lame commercials, messages that I couldn't understand, productions that seemed to have nothing to do with the product, poor grammar, pathetic attempts to use a pun designed to be heard as a swear, incredibly vulgar commercials for toilet paper and air fresheners, consumers dancing or singing rapturously over products as ordinary as bottled water or cream cheese, and insurance company commercials shown endlessly when they were boring the first time. I do know the commercial I hated the most: It was the talking car from Alfa Romeo: Julia or Betty or whatever the hell the name of the red sports model was who insisted: "You were looking for me." There were moments I liked in commercials. The few seconds when one kid says, "Is this a lug wrench, and the other answers 'maybe" but don't ask me why. I also like the kid who approached his parents in bed to admit to a "minor" car accident. There was a commercial for the pharmaceutical industry, but I only saw it once but was impressed. This is odd since I despise the pharmaceutical industry. I don't know if it's true, but I recently heard that the United States is the only country allowed to advertising prescription drugs. Did I have a favorite prescription drug ad? Absolutely not.

1 comment:

  1. Re vulgar toilet paper commercials: Is there any tagline more off-putting than "Enjoy the Go"?

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