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More Bad Ads on TV and Cable – A Critique
American Thinker ^ | 14 Aug, 2025 | Ned Barnett

Posted on 08/15/2025 4:51:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: Thank You Rush

SMH, expensive 72 hour no stink stuff when people are complaining they can’t pay the rent. Psst, take a shower!


41 posted on 08/15/2025 7:16:28 AM PDT by bgill
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The absolute worst for me are the prescription diabetes or weight loss ads. Now we know where overweight theater majors collect a paycheck. Dancing down the street bragging about lowering their AIC like they’re back in HS doing a musical.


42 posted on 08/15/2025 7:17:44 AM PDT by FLNittany
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To: CtBigPat

Wait a few years and those tv pharmaceuticals will be in the middle of lawsuits.

It isn’t as if you can write a prescription for them.


43 posted on 08/15/2025 7:21:57 AM PDT by bgill
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To: CtBigPat
Pharmaceutical ads are the worst

I'm rooting for Kennedy to remove pharma adds from TV

I'm old enough to remember the Marlboro Man.

I'm pretty sure I can recover from the absence of morbidly obese dancers hawking $1500 per dose "cures".

44 posted on 08/15/2025 7:24:29 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: MtnClimber

Prescription drug ads are the absolute worst!!!


45 posted on 08/15/2025 7:31:34 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: MtnClimber

Lume deodorant ads are a close 2nd to those prescription drug ads.


46 posted on 08/15/2025 7:33:01 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: MtnClimber

I recall reading of a study done at least back in the 70s that orange stimulates hunger or desire for food (in this case fast food). Hence the prevalence of orange in fast food colors.


47 posted on 08/15/2025 7:43:04 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: MtnClimber

Here’s an idea: any ad with farts in it will not only stick in people’s minds, they will enjoy gleeful anticipation.


48 posted on 08/15/2025 7:56:09 AM PDT by Noumenon (Duty is as heavy as a mountain; death is as light as a feather. KTF)
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To: Clarancebeaks
...bears...

The commercials are sickening, and I am a long-time user of the product.

49 posted on 08/15/2025 8:02:12 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: BHI2025

There’s a woman who comes up on youtube selling something like that. I can’t even stand to look at her.


50 posted on 08/15/2025 8:04:21 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: MtnClimber

I never knew Asians made up 75% of the American population.


51 posted on 08/15/2025 8:48:56 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (They brought down the WTC now we're electing them to all government positions in the U.S.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I’m surprised Tenneseeans wouldn’t help you even if they didn’t work there...


52 posted on 08/15/2025 8:59:09 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: MtnClimber

I watch many ads on TV and after they finish, I wonder what product they were trying to sell.


53 posted on 08/15/2025 9:03:11 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Chewbarkah

It’s not that they wouldn’t help. They couldn’t help. They were just shoppers like I was, and basically clueless.


54 posted on 08/15/2025 9:05:49 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: bgill

Sorry to say but most of the spokespeople making those commercials have to be foreigners. LOL

I once worked where foreign students were trained as B727 Flight Engineers and every student from a foreign country BATHED IN COLOGNE!! Even the upholstered furniture in the office smelled like them...There were meetings (demanded by other students) with instructors and students when it came time to end ground school and get in the simulator, that the COLOGNE had to go!!!!! SHOWER? Not in their vocabulary! The company should have confiscated the cologne when they were met at the airport and taken to company housing.


55 posted on 08/15/2025 1:29:26 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: okkev68

It would be funny if the guy was a fat slob.

They are selling men’s scent. Would make more sense. “So nice even fat guys get noticed”.


56 posted on 08/15/2025 1:39:35 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: V_TWIN

If the females looked like that I wouldn’t need Blu-Chew.


57 posted on 08/15/2025 1:40:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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