John Welsh wrote: In this Viagra Commercial the "Meguyver" character is old enough to know how to fix anything but apparently his dick doesn't always work.
My brother pointed out something about the Viagra commercials - the woman is always wearing a blue dress. Subliminal?
In the sailboat version there was no female or anyone else for that matter. Seems this one was subliminally targeting the "single handed" market.
In reply to John Welsh :
Single-handed plus viagra just could become the next new hot workout trend to take over. Gives a new meaning to "arm day" in any case.
stuart in mn wrote:John Welsh wrote: In this Viagra Commercial the "Meguyver" character is old enough to know how to fix anything but apparently his dick doesn't always work.My brother pointed out something about the Viagra commercials - the woman is always wearing a blue dress. Subliminal?
They may have been subliminal in the past, but they're pretty overt now. "WE SELL BONERS! SEE THIS WOMAN? SHE WANTS YOU TO HAVE A BONER". I enjoy that about them. Far better than the two bathtubs.
Ooo, another fun ad game. Pretend that any drug ad is a boner pill ad. Makes all the slow motion "having a life" stock footage far more entertaining.
This morning I heard a TV ad for a local ambulance chaser law firm with a decidedly Middle Eastern sounding name.
Their slogan was, Don't scream, call Hakim!" 
Seriously?? Who the heck thought THAT would be a good slogan?? I'm sure if we associate a MuslIim sounding name with screaming that it will be really effective in selling legal services.
You can't make this E36 M3 up.
Monica Lewinsky's dress was blue....
In reply to SVreX: We get Hakim's commercials. I thought he was local. We also get George Sink's ambulance chasing commercials. They are even worse.
In reply to spitfirebill:
He IS local to you. (I am working in your area)
SVreX wrote: Monica Lewinsky's dress was blue....
With some white trim.
spitfirebill wrote:SVreX wrote: Monica Lewinsky's dress was blue....With some white trim.
It's called Presidue. 
Youtube doesn't want me to dig it out right now but the worst ad ever has to be the "Just For Feet" 1999 Superbowl ad.
Hunters in a 4x4 shoot a Kenyan runner with a tranquilizer dart and "tag" him with running shoes. So offensive the company was out of business six months later.
RevRico wrote: I still want tires that chirp on dirt and mud.
Never been to a rallycross, have you? We get that constantly.
As someone who has been behind the camera his entire career, I can't tell you how much of a pain in the butt this is. I always insist on having someone from the company with me to help ensure that I am not showing anything the wrong way, but invariably someone looks at the finished product and says "that guy couldn't be in that area because he has a mustache. You can see the label on the wall behind him for Calcium Clorichloratium and that requires a respirator in case of emergency and you can't wear one with a mustache and..." . So I have to go back and re-shoot it.
If I have to go through all of that, Buick with their DEEP pockets, can turn the friggin' boat around!
Knurled wrote:RevRico wrote: I still want tires that chirp on dirt and mud.Never been to a rallycross, have you? We get that constantly.
I have not actually, and I realize I should have been more specific.
It seems every single time any vehicles pulls out even at low speed in every movie and tv show, there is tire screeching. Even on grass, dirt, mud, water, and it's always the same noise. But not hard angry acceleration or things you would see in a race, just normal every day slow speed pull aways.
The sand video posted, that's berking awesome. I've never heard of that before. It sounds like rubbing a glass table, I kinda wanna go see it myself.
T.J. wrote: In reply to John Welsh : Single-handed plus viagra just could become the next new hot workout trend to take over. Gives a new meaning to "arm day" in any case.
In a comments thread on my Favorite News Aggregator, in a story where a 13 year old was taking Viagra...
"If I took Viagra when I was 13, I would have worn a groove in my hand so deep that Bootsy Collins couldn't play it"
edizzle89 wrote:spitfirebill wrote: In defense of the State Farm fisherman, he does look like he's 95 YO.and he's in a clothing store taunting women with a dollar on his hook, i think the least of his worries is how he's holding the rod
Given the circumstances, it might actually be all about how he's holding his rod
4cylndrfury wrote: Not in a commercial, but in the Netflix series "Stranger Things" (incredible show BTW), which is set in the 80s, the boys 20" BMX bikes have threadless headsets, compact bottom brackets, and U-brakes, among other inaccuracies. These werent widely available for another 20 years. Drives me bonkers.
I remember BMX bikes having U-brakes in the early-mid 80s. I forgot why someone thought it was a good idea to mount them to the chainstays.
Someone, somewhere, may have made a BMX with a compact bottom bracket, but there's no excuse for threadless headsets. On second thought, there's no excuse for threaded headsets, if threadless was so simple how come we didn't have that 30 years earlier? I don't know how many hours I wasted trying to bang apart a stuck stem wedge.
Along the lines of seeing "wrong" things in advertising, a promotional still from Lethal Weapon 4: Lethal Hardester:
All it needs is a "You're holding it wrong" caption. At least he's in close proximity to anaesthetics if he were to blow his hand apart, holding a pistol by the slide like that. Of course, it's also pointed at Murtaugh as well as "Uncle Benny" Chang.
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