Christmas Commercials
Now, if I were an alien coming from a galaxy far far away to check out earth, and if I were to come at Christmas time and float around up in outerspace just watching American television, I would come away with one conclusion.
Every American gets a new car for Christmas.
Seriously, the number of car commercials on TV is CRAZY. And I don’t even watch that much TV, just a few hours of Law&Order (various brands) every night.
And there’s no cheepo cars. Apparently everyone is getting BMW’s, Infiniti’s and Lexus’s (Lexii?).
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Onto commercial #2. The new coca-cola commercials with the penguins and polar bears. Am I the only one who is totally freaked out by that one?
If I were a polar bear you know what I’d be thinking? What goes well with Coke? PENGUIN!!!
I swear, as soon as that commerical ends there’s major penguin carnage. I actually saw it in the movie theather this weekend and it made me even more uncomfortable on the big screen. Perhaps because the last movie I saw in that particular theater was March of the Penguins.
Anyway, am I the only one disturbed by holiday commercials? Do you have any favorites? Any you hate?
December 8th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
i like the eat’n park commercial where the star is trying to get on top of the tree and it can’t. finally, the tree bends down and picks up the star on its top. not sure why this gives me a ‘warm’ feeling?
December 8th, 2005 at 4:42 pm
Yeah, you always knew it was Xmas when that Eat-n-Park commercial started showing.
(For those not “In the Know”: Eat-n-Park is a Denny’s like restaurant - But WAY better - in Pittsbugh and the surrounds.
December 8th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
I have one… it’s for strepsils. This cartoon guy walks around and gets sneezed on and his throat turns into a saw. (i’m not sure I understand why…) and then he takes strepsils and feels better. Then he walks up to a snowman who’s about to sneeze and steals the snowman’s nose, so his head explodes with the sneeze.
I won’t buy the product just because of that commercial.
Not really holiday, but makes me mad nonetheless…
December 8th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
LOL! The car ones get me every time. I mean, does any man (or woman) REALLY get their spouse a car out of the blue? Do they not discuss finances and cars and things beforehand? I’d KILL my husband if he “surprised” me with a new car. OMG! :shock:
December 9th, 2005 at 11:59 am
One of my favorites is the Heinekin (sp?) one with the guy wrapping the six-pack. He can’t stand it and takes one out, and it becomes the ‘Holiday Five-Pack.’ Too funny. And something only a guy would do, right?
I also had the same reaction when I first saw the Coke commercial. Bears going, “Mmmm. Penguins.” (Put Homer Simpson’s voice in your head with that line…) But then I figured they’re making it like ‘the lion will lie down with the lamb’ kind of thing, so it’s all okay.
And I like just about all of the Capital One pillagers commercials.
December 9th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Pink - That one sounds disturbing.
Larissa - That’s my point exactly!! And it’s to the point where I do see one I have to remind my husband if he ever gets me a car without my knowledge I’ll kill him.
Sherrill - I guess you’re right about the lion/lamb thing but it’s still disturbing. And I guess the beach boys music is supposed to make everything okay. The other 2 you mentioned are funny.
December 11th, 2005 at 12:30 am
Well, what gets me with the penguins and the polar bears is that they live on opposite sides of the planet….
Larissa, I’m with you on the finances of a car. It took us a MONTH to buy a car last year - I can’t imagine being surprised with one. I’ll be happy with a new watch.
December 11th, 2005 at 12:37 pm
Mary, you make an excellent point! See, the commercial just got stupider!