Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts

Thursday, July 09, 2020

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.

Friday, July 08, 2011

an ad campaign I liked

Wendy's "Good to Be Square," mostly because of this charming commercial.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Friday, June 03, 2011

Friday, April 30, 2010

Lamp

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.