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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Both radio and TV
Makes my ears explode.
Oak Street Health with the black guy shuckin’ and jivin’ in the doctors office.
https://youtu.be/5kHvrBg54kc?si=dMh-6n0beCETl7vP
I think this is the one:
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/5veo/the-benefits-network-attention-medicare-beneficiaries-partners
That's as hard as finding a commercial in which a white male isn't a wimp.
I miss the Old Milwaukee commercials “......and Old Milwaukee both mean something great to these guys.” There were also the Lowenbrau commercials.
I don’t watch what someone might consider to be normal TV, so I don’t view today’s commercials. But Calgon, oh yeah!
The “pound me too” thing probably went away when they figured out the alternate meaning of the phrase.
It goes with “moms demand action.”
😁
Pardon me, would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
“...remember to tell your doctor if you may have been to areas where certain fungal infections are common.”
Which area? Ive travelled a bit. Is it that alley where those drunks were peeing?
What kind of infection? What are we talkin here, Athletes foot or an outbreak of portabellas?
“makes me mute the tv”
I’m surprised TVs are allowed to have mute buttons.
Commercials are also chopped up into pieces about 1 second long. And commercials can have two simultaneously running, unrelated “plots”. There’s the commercial with one plot being a corporate jet setting, and the other being rock climbing.
I suppose the commercials are tested for creating attraction to the product being sold, not on whether they are liked.
Yeah, it was right around that time that commercials lost appeal due to lack of creativity. That was a hold over that had been around for years before 1976. 🙂
Not familiar with that one.🙂
Thanks for the video. I watched and didn’t see anythng that looked or sounded artificial. Now Joe Biden...
Just wait...it’ll get a lot worse.
Reminds me of the movie THE COMIC(1969) in which Isabel Sanford advertises a product, “WHITEE WASH” with Billy Bright(Dick van Dyke)
There used to be a photo on line of her holding the product I can no longer find it as that photo has been scrubbed. Here are similar ones.
https://www.thegoldencloset.com/merchant/graphics/00000001/MU0024k.jpg
https://www.thegoldencloset.com/merchant/graphics/00000001/MU0024j.jpg
I haven’t watched shows with commercials in years. I did start again a few weeks back. The announcers talk too fast, too loud or mumble. the commercials go by so fast I cannot figure out what they are trying to sell.
One goes by so fast they mention the name but not what the product does!
TV has come a long way from “He really got STROKED this morning!”
or “I can’t believe I ate the Whole Thing!”
Or the chorus girls singing “What do you want! Good grammar or good Taste!”
How about “ THE FLINTSTONES” advertising WINSTON cigarettes!
How about her Ivory Snow photo on the grocery shelves!
I’m always struck by how many products and services are so wonderful that a whole group of people start dancing. Real dancing, not just bopping around like a 7th grader at his first Junior High dance.
I am not a fan of dance as an art form (I appreciate the work and fitness put in to be good at it. I just get nothing out of watching it.) So those commercials just seem like a really really bad musical about some random product.
No thanks.
When you said Calgon, I was thinking of the the commercial with the Chinese laundry. Where the husband tells the customer the reason their laundry is so great is an “Ancient Chinese secret.” Then the wife tells us, “My husband, some hotshot...”
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