Posted on 08/06/2012 9:17:56 AM PDT by jaydubya2
Ragu dared to go there.
In its new commercial for pasta sauce, a young boy walks into his parents room without knocking.
Need we say more?
"A long day of childhood calls for America's favorite pasta sauce," says the narrator.
Walking in on your parents or having your kid walk in on you might be a moment you want to forget.
However, it would seem that the folks at Ragu want you to remember it every time you have spaghetti marinara.
This commercial aired during NBC's Sunday evening coverage of the Olympics, a time when families might be sitting around to watch McKayla Maroney compete in the gymnastics vault final.
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I didn’t see that one, but I saw the advert for the upcoming sitcom “The New Normal” - apparently about a young woman who agrees to carry a baby for a sodomite male couple, and everyones just so cool about it except the racist, homophobe grandma.
This was after an Obama campaign commercial.
It was probably around 7:30pm, but our minor children were playing in their rooms.
Last night was the first time I’d turned on cable TV in about 3 months. I promptly shut it off after that stupid commercial and said to The Chosen One - “Yep, and that’s why we haven’t watched TV in several months...”
I thought it was hilarious. The look on the kids face and the 80’s style theme song were great.
The commercial is at the link and I think the sauce pouring out of the jar after the child walks out of the room evokes the image of vomiting.
This is why I got Netflix. I can watch older tv shows instantly at night. That is my ‘tv’ now. One of the few ‘new’ shows I watch has been Warehouse 13. Season 3 was just loaded, and I was so disapointed to see that they added a gay character.
My family saw it and our group reaction was, “What the hell was that all about? Is that supposed to sell spaghetti sauce?”
Have you seen the new Liquid Plummer commercial? That one is jaw droppingly funny.
I wasn’t paying attention at first, so I thought, “ That CAN’T be what I think it was.”
I would boycott that product — if it weren’t already crap.
Only Sandusky would think that sexualizing children could be fixed with a nice plate of pasta.
In my neighborhood the thought of sauce from a jar is horrifying.
I wouldn’t have green lighted this, but I’m not the exec at Ragu. Frankly I think the entire “long day of childhood calls for Ragu” theme is weak, so not only would I have not made this commercial, would have nixed the entire tag line/campaign theme.
Overall this is a rather forgettable commercial, it, in my mind, was only put out to stir the free press its getting.
No, I haven’t seen that one yet.
I thought it was a Saturday Night Live spoof commercial at first. My wife and I laughed...in bed, with the doors closed.
No, what that was about was to get some free press, and put the product name out there.. I am sure it will boost sales briefly. End of the day that’s all thsi commercial was about, and we are feeding into it by talking about it.. I’m sure their ad people’s social monitoring are giddy that this thread exists.
Same here. I clicked TV on last night to try and watch some of the Olympics, but most of it was talking and interviews...ridiculous.
Netflix is awesome. I stream it through our nintendo Wii - we were able to introduce our kids to Fraggle Rock - lol.
The Chosen One and I are starting Season 1 of ‘Lost’ this week.
What product would the kid need if he had 2 dads? Vodka?
I was not watching but my family members were and were all saying, “What on earth was that??” “Did we just see what we thought we saw?” “What does that have to do with spaghetti sauce?”
“My wife and I laughed... in bed, with the doors closed”.
And LOCKED. You have to remember LOCKED!! LOL!
I have been seeing more and more inappropriate commercials, at all times of the day.
There’s one running (I think it’s for a travel company) that features a young couple declaring that they will honeymoon “like rabbits” and an elderly woman sitting by the pool resolving to “turn the pool boy into a pool man.”
Then there’s one for a mattress company, that includes a scene of a couple . . . um . . . exercising under the sheets.
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