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The worst commercials to grace your TV in the past decade
NY Post ^ | 12/28/19 | Paula Froeich

Posted on 05/22/2024 9:37:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Dove, 2017

Jaws dropped when Dove debuted a three-second Facebook advertisement in which an African-American woman removed her shirt and magically transformed into a white woman. Critics decried that it was reminiscent of racist soap ads from the last century that showed black people scrubbing their skin to become white. Dove removed the clip almost immediately and apologized, saying the post had “missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: commercials
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Gawd the commercials today are so woke, looking back the best was the Calgon commerciak from the late 79's.
1 posted on 05/22/2024 9:37:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

There have been good ones? Not since I was a child was there a commercial that was entertaining, or even memorable.


2 posted on 05/22/2024 9:48:32 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DallasBiff

The real trick is trying to find a commercial in which the actors are not POC.


3 posted on 05/22/2024 9:49:06 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic.)
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To: DallasBiff

I saw utubes of that commercial.

LOL’d!

Especially the black dude buyind up the stuff.

As if negro chicks do not have a chip on their shoulder already about not being wanted by men of most colors.


4 posted on 05/22/2024 9:57:26 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Right Brother
Every TV show, every commercial, every movie is POCmarked.

5 posted on 05/22/2024 9:57:59 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: DallasBiff

The TurboTax commercial where two losers, one black and one JewFro owner, are sitting next to each other at a table. The black guy gets coffee, and when he hears how awesome TurboTax is he turns to the JewFro, and spits the coffee in his face. Then he does it again. Imagine if the roles were reversed.


6 posted on 05/22/2024 9:58:59 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: DallasBiff

Wait until they see this Chinese commercial....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY


7 posted on 05/22/2024 10:01:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

The one that always stuck in my craw was the Nissan Leaf commercial with the polar bear hugging the guy because he drove a Nissan Leaf.


8 posted on 05/22/2024 10:04:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff; All

One of the best…Coke commercial from Argentina about a decade ago…

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1732427491204304896/pu/pl/vV0Lb9xdeFQAt9Y8.m3u8?tag=12&container=cmaf


9 posted on 05/22/2024 10:24:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What is that link, it wants to be downloaded.


10 posted on 05/22/2024 10:33:08 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

“ Critics decried that it was reminiscent of racist soap ads from the last century that showed black people scrubbing their skin to become white”

There was a Chinese commercial like this, not in the last century.

Otherwise it’s made up crap.


11 posted on 05/22/2024 10:35:30 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ansel12

That’s weird. It plays a Twix commercial for me.

Try this Redstate link. Scroll down to the one with the red car in the carport.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/05/20/sometimes-an-ad-is-more-than-just-a-commercialthis-one-touched-my-heart-n2174410


12 posted on 05/22/2024 10:39:23 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: DallasBiff

I recently saw a Biden ad where a female doctor laments that she had to go to another state to get an abortion. She claims that under Biden she somehow wouldn’t have needed to go. Totally idiotic.


13 posted on 05/22/2024 10:40:40 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: Robert DeLong
Speedy Alka Seltzer.

https://youtu.be/iENQXIQ8wH0?feature=shared

14 posted on 05/22/2024 10:46:49 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Right Brother

Coppertone ads run about 3:1


15 posted on 05/22/2024 10:47:41 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Robert DeLong

The Geico commercial
with the little girl
(in kindergarten) was
pretty good.


16 posted on 05/22/2024 11:28:30 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: DallasBiff

Are any Superbowl ads among the ads on the bad commercials list?


17 posted on 05/22/2024 11:40:09 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: DallasBiff

Not woke but I HATE that commercial where the couple is selling their car and the woman keeps screaming “Hold!”...grrr...seems to be on all the time.


18 posted on 05/22/2024 11:47:37 PM PDT by BamaBelle
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To: BamaBelle

The overweight lady in green dancing
makes me mute the tv.

…..


19 posted on 05/22/2024 11:52:29 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Yeah, I hate that one too! One I think is really clever and funny is the new Heinz commercial where the lady is in the fancy restaurant asks for Heinz because she is part of the Heinz family. The ending is funny!


20 posted on 05/22/2024 11:56:41 PM PDT by BamaBelle
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