Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts
Thursday, July 09, 2020
Monday, March 12, 2012
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Forever Lazy commercial
This commercial is pretty sad, in a "dumbing of America/Idiocracy is coming true/this is for adults?" kind of way. I'm more interested in it as a reflection of cultural norms and, more specifically, gender construction and heteronormativity. Watching not terribly carefully, I see one woman in gray and another in navy blue, plus the magic transition at the end of the commercial. All the rest (notably every woman younger than about forty) wear pink. No man in the commercial wears a pink one. There is a place out there for an American Studies or Gender Studies dissertation, or at least a seminar paper, regarding how gender roles are construed in mass market, direct-order TV advertising.
Also, if I saw someone wearing one of these in public I would assume that person was retarded, not in a pejorative sense but unable to get it together enough to wear anything else.
Also, if I saw someone wearing one of these in public I would assume that person was retarded, not in a pejorative sense but unable to get it together enough to wear anything else.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Friday, July 08, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 03, 2011
Friday, September 24, 2010
that's a REAL panda.
Never Say No To Panda - watch more funny videos
Labels:
animals,
bears,
cheese,
commercials,
not really bears or are they whatever,
pandas
Friday, April 30, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, January 08, 2010
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Chrysler, we hardly knew ye
"a great homage to an (Gerald!) Ford era of spectacularly diminished expecations, as the narration emphasizes the benefits of settling for less in a high-inflation, high-unemployment, high-interest-rate America" -- Nick Gillespie
Friday, June 05, 2009
Let's watch my new favorite commercials
There's an honesty in his "I don't always drink beer" that I love.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Me too -- five hundred of 'em
Remember when this came out? It's one of my favorite commercials ever. Especially the first 10 seconds or so.
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