Road Runner Posted April 10, 2021 Share #1 Posted April 10, 2021 Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Mayberry anymore. Aunt Bee would be flabbergasted! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #2 Posted April 10, 2021 Thankfully, the Hays code Greenville 7.223 will stop that from ever reaching our airways. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share #3 Posted April 10, 2021 I need likes, not confuse-isms. Two can play that game! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #4 Posted April 10, 2021 I was confused by the commercial. It was tawdry. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share #5 Posted April 10, 2021 Lydia Crosswaite would have had a heart attack. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #6 Posted April 10, 2021 We need another example of inappropriate commercials. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #7 Posted April 10, 2021 I remember the screen going blank and the "technical difficulties" placard when this commercial aired. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some Old Guy Posted April 10, 2021 Share #8 Posted April 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said: I remember the screen going blank and the "technical difficulties" placard when this commercial aired. I don't think she was talking about her hair "down there". Aunt Bee might have blushed, but she would have found it acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #9 Posted April 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Clark said: I don't think she was talking about her hair "down there". Aunt Bee might have blushed, but she would have found it acceptable. Agreed. No, the commercial was banned in Greenville because it was Farrah. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Tizeye Posted April 10, 2021 Solution Share #10 Posted April 10, 2021 26 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said: We need another example of inappropriate commercials. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #11 Posted April 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Tizeye said: I can't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #12 Posted April 10, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share #13 Posted April 10, 2021 15 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said: Agreed. No, the commercial was banned in Greenville because it was Farrah. Farrah and Ryan were sleaze-balls. Lee was stabbed in the back, but he was the eventual winner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #14 Posted April 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Road Runner said: Farrah and Ryan were sleaze-balls. Lee was stabbed in the back, but he was the eventual winner. I agree about O'Neal, without question. However, Farrah was above reproach and completely innocent. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #15 Posted April 10, 2021 1 minute ago, AirwickWithCheese said: I agree about O'Neal, without question. However, Farrah was above reproach and completely innocent. This same perspective allows me to see Jonathan as a whorenonger yet see our Zooey as beautiful as a Campobello peach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share #16 Posted April 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said: This same perspective allows me to see Jonathan as a whorenonger yet see our Zooey as beautiful as a Campobello peach. But Ryan was a close friend of Lee's (supposedly). That makes Farrah and Ryan much scuzzier that Zooey and Jonathan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #17 Posted April 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Road Runner said: But Ryan was a close friend of Lee's (supposedly). That makes Farrah and Ryan much scuzzier that Zooey and Jonathan. No, I will NOT allow you to trash Farrah. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 10, 2021 Share #18 Posted April 10, 2021 You awarded Tizeye the solution! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted April 10, 2021 Share #19 Posted April 10, 2021 Those ads are not new lows, the real lows were the political ads. They should have banned all of them. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted April 10, 2021 Share #20 Posted April 10, 2021 About the OP: that commercial could run on the Lifetime channel or maybe between yoga programs or beach volleyball and it would make sense. Commercials don’t run outside their target audience viewing habits. So, how is it you know about this commercial? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted April 11, 2021 Share #21 Posted April 11, 2021 21 hours ago, roadsue said: About the OP: that commercial could run on the Lifetime channel or maybe between yoga programs or beach volleyball and it would make sense. Commercials don’t run outside their target audience viewing habits. So, how is it you know about this commercial? I long ago learned to stop questioning RR's Internet travels. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted April 11, 2021 Share #22 Posted April 11, 2021 Thanks for sharing the reasons I stopped watching television years ago. Still haven’t missed anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted April 11, 2021 Share #23 Posted April 11, 2021 I remember when there were all kinds of restrictions - and not just commercials. And because of them, I don't have a problem with any risque commercials because they made no sense. Here are two: When people appeared on TV talk shows in the 60's - 70's wearing homemade shirts made with the American Flag as a design - no one sold such an insult to the flag commercially - they were only shown from the neck-up on TV. Making clothing out of the U.S. Flag was considered almost as bad as burning it although the wearers meant the opposite. Now it's considered by all a salute to the flag to wear such stuff! Once - and only ONCE - when the National Anthem was played before our high school track meets in the 60's, I put my hand over my heart. I was punished for that insult to the flag by having to run 4 miles as soon as the team bus returned to our school. Hand over your heart was officially for the Pledge of Allegiance ONLY and it replaced what my parents did in school: hold their right arms straight out toward the flag - which was changed because it was the same as the Nazi salute. Before the change, hand-over-heart was not part of patriot salutes or positioning. Standing at Parade Dress, with your hands joined together behind your back, was THE accepted way to stand during the National Anthem. When our school's Varsity Club attended Navy Basketball, Orioles Baseball, etc. as a group, we all wore school-owned blue blazers (we thought we looked like the midshipmen at Army-Navy, etc. games). When we stood for the National Anthem at Parade Dress, we got lots of smiles and positive comments from those around us from those who knew how it was supposed to be done! Since then, hand over heart has been made the official accepted way to stand during the National Anthem and people would think you're insulting the flag if you stood at Parade Dress! At the major meets that still do the National Anthem at the start, the kids I coached - and me - did the hand over heart throughout my 1980's to 2002 high school coaching career. Now if you think all that pickiness about the flag was ridiculous - that's what younger people tend to think today about being prudish during commercials! The last time I was in France, I saw a broadcast TV bra commercial where a chant kept repeating in French, "Show me your tits!" and the models did. For me, the low point of today's commercials is that they focus on cuteness and cleverness to the point where sometimes you don't even know what the product is if you missed the first five seconds or you don't know what it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted April 11, 2021 Share #24 Posted April 11, 2021 I watch different channels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted April 11, 2021 Share #25 Posted April 11, 2021 Life was better then. Your ad is gosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share #26 Posted April 11, 2021 1 hour ago, MickinMD said: For me, the low point of today's commercials is that they focus on cuteness and cleverness to the point where sometimes you don't even know what the product is if you missed the first five seconds or you don't know what it does. I've noticed this a lot on drug commercials. They mention what the drug is for at the very beginning of the ad, and then spend the rest of the time telling you how great it is and all of the possible side effects. I'm usually not paying attention in the beginning, but about halfway through the ad, I become interested and want to know what the drug is and what it is used for, but they never address that info again. Luckily, I can usually go back and repeat it, if I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted April 11, 2021 Share #27 Posted April 11, 2021 52 minutes ago, Road Runner said: I've noticed this a lot on drug commercials. They mention what the drug is for at the very beginning of the ad, and then spend the rest of the time telling you how great it is and all of the possible side effects. I'm usually not paying attention in the beginning, but about halfway through the ad, I become interested and want to know what the drug is and what it is used for, but they never address that info again. Luckily, I can usually go back and repeat it, if I want. They use coded TLAs and FLAs. Now that I finally caught on that COPD is the disease formerly known as emphysema, there are new ads for diseases with other new inscrutable TLAs and FLAs! But I do enjoy all the entertainment value of auto insurance ads, but none of them ever entice me to switch. Mike Mike Mike Mike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share #28 Posted April 12, 2021 20 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: But I do enjoy all the entertainment value of auto insurance ads, but none of them ever entice me to switch. Insurance companies are smart. They must have done some in-depth studies and polls to determine the validity of their ad campaigns. Or have they? I guess I at least know that Progressive and GEICO exist, but not much else. Even if I was wanting to switch insurance companies, the ads are all stupid and unenticing. Except for the USAA ads. Unfortunately, I am not ex-military, so I don't qualify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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