I was interrupted by an extremely stupid commercial today as I indulged my post-research-conducting-temporarily-on-strike self with a guilty pleasure - soaps. Well, it’s not really plural... I only really follow one with any semblance of regularity. It’s Passions, the stupidest one (if that's possible), so the laughter it generates sort of makes me feel better about watching the drama unfold. I only semi know what is going on with the Days of Our Lives cast and the only reason I care is I started watching when I HS classmate was given a permanent role.
Anyhow...I'm eating my lunch, watching TV, enjoying the nice weather, smiling at the sweet smell of flowers drifting off my coffee table ... and a commercial comes on. Whatever...blah blah blah...another commercial...blah blah blah...then the offending advertisement. There's this woman prancing around a meadow in a black flowing dress with a wrap she is flinging around like its rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics. She is longing for a scent, poking her head in and out of secluded areas as she searches for it. She is a total whiner in that stupid perfume ad whisper and acts like her life will end if she doesn't find the necessary scent. Naturally this looks like a perfume ad, right? No...It’s a Snuggle ad. They've got some new scent about emeralds that they want you to try.
You know what? Your commercial was so annoyingly stupid, I'm not going to try it...just to spite you...you damn Snuggle bear with your damn laugh and damn showing up in the middle of stuff...
Posted by Princess Cat at April 28, 2005 03:11 PM @ 03:11 PM in SSDD // PermalinkThat's Bad Advertising Type #1: The advert that annoys you so much you don't want to try the product (I'm still boycotting Pizza Hut for an ad campaign they ran over ten years ago). Type #2 is the advert you like, but you can't remember what the product was (in my case, a nice family unit is in a restaurant, when 4 or 5-year-old kid blurts out after the Barmaid has passed, "Daddy! That woman's wearing the dress you bought mommy!"
Posted by: Victor at May 2, 2005 10:34 AM