Sad Commercials

[Lump]

Remember Sally Struthers with that one? Or was that kids? Regardless it as irritating as all get out.

I remember her more with the children.... those didn't make me sad.

 

[stgislander]

we dont need commercials with gay couples, with purple hair selling laundry bleach....and a Hallmark christmas commercial where two gay men are sucking face on the back porch... their kids are currier and ives too....

I think that's Lifetime. I think that's still a bridge too far for Hallmark. They've only just gone interracial.

 

[SamSpade]

I remember a Pedigree commercial that used to get me - it was speaking in the dog's voice, saying he knew how to play, and fetch and do all those things - and you'd see all these happy dogs in cages and crates, unaware that their life is miserable - and then it would say "but I know I am a good dog - what I want to know is - how did I end up here?".

My wife would always tell me to turn it off. It was too much for her.

I always mention I don't want to watch another dog movie - I've never seen one where the dog DOESN'T die.

 

[Sneakers]

The feminine spray commercials. The one in particular where they show a crotch shot of a bikini of a probably-not legal age teen. "Oh you're an evil person to look at a woman's body, and you know how uncomfortable you make everyone by diverting your eyes away from a woman's body, so we'll eliminate all that by just showing you a crotch and demonstrating to you where and how this product needs to be used."

 

[PeoplesElbow]

The feminine spray commercials. The one in particular where they show a crotch shot of a bikini of a probably-not legal age teen. "Oh you're an evil person to look at a woman's body, and you know how uncomfortable you make everyone by diverting your eyes away from a woman's body, so we'll eliminate all that by just showing you a crotch and demonstrating to you where and how this product needs to be used."

Mom, can I ask you a personal question....

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I remember her more with the children.... those didn't make me sad.

As Al Bundy would say if she only opened that perse of hers I'm sure a few twinkies would fall out.

 

[mitzi]

I remember a Pedigree commercial that used to get me - it was speaking in the dog's voice, saying he knew how to play, and fetch and do all those things - and you'd see all these happy dogs in cages and crates, unaware that their life is miserable - and then it would say "but I know I am a good dog - what I want to know is - how did I end up here?".

My wife would always tell me to turn it off. It was too much for her.

I always mention I don't want to watch another dog movie - I've never seen one where the dog DOESN'T die.

That one got to me too.

 

[NextJen]

It doesn't make me cry, but Life Alert commercials got a lot more believable and authentic when they did the one where they panned through a darkened house - while in the meantime, you heard a faint, wavering voice crying for help. Then they ended up showing an elderly lady laying at the bottom of the steps with a laundry basket.

 

[Lump]

Gag?

I was pretty young when those commercials were all the rage. They scared me more than anything!

 

[Kyle]

The commercial that always made me sad was the Bud Lite Rocket Sleigh commercial.

 

[stgislander]

I turned the channel to Curse of Oak Island, "more mud" part 58...

And I bet you were entertained for two hours weren't you?

 

[luvmygdaughters]

It doesn't make me cry, but Life Alert commercials got a lot more believable and authentic when they did the one where they panned through a darkened house - while in the meantime, you heard a faint, wavering voice crying for help. Then they ended up showing an elderly lady laying at the bottom of the steps with a laundry basket.

My youngest granddaughter, I think she was about 5 or 6 at the time, saw that commercial and started crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said, "Nanny, you have to go down the stairs to wash your clothes, I dont want that to happen to you". Made me

 

[vraiblonde]

I remember a Pedigree commercial that used to get me - it was speaking in the dog's voice, saying he knew how to play, and fetch and do all those things - and you'd see all these happy dogs in cages and crates, unaware that their life is miserable - and then it would say "but I know I am a good dog - what I want to know is - how did I end up here?".

I don't like those commercials because they make me want to go get all the animals out of the shelter, then punch the people who abandoned them. What I do instead is grab up Apollo and moosh on him and tell him what a good boy he is.

I guess it's just that I know there is bad in this world and plenty of sorrow. I don't need to be reminded of that when I'm watching TV to escape it.

Also the charity commercials. Alec at Shriner's got me for a grand two years ago because he was so appealing. I give to Fisher House every year and that has to be it. I'd like to give to all of them but then someone would have to give to me so I could feed and shelter myself.