Stupid Commercials
I'm on a bit of a Hulu kick recently or rather a slight obsession with a certain actor. Good thing the shows are good. Anyway, I've sat through a ridiculous amount of the same commercials while watching the shows. I absolutely love when I get the option to see the 2.5 minute NuvaRing commercial because then I get my show uninterrupted. However, this commercial is seriously the most ridiculous thing ever.It follows the typical MO for "As Seen on TV" products (i.e. make something very simple like shelling an egg seem absolutely impossible to do). Anyway, this girl is talking with her friends about how she dropped her birth control pill on the subway (one pill) and the resulting chaos caused her to switch to NuvaRing. The story seriously cracked me up because she trailed around to pharmacists trying to replace her one pill and it! was! awful! I should not be analyzing this commercial, but all I could think was well just take tomorrow's pill. If it was her last pill then why couldn't she just get a refill and why hadn't it been refilled earlier than the day of her last pill anyway? Otherwise, just use another pill and then refill it later. They couldn't think up a better reason for her to decide a different method of birth control might fit her better?
In other commercial news, the Verizon "Big Red" commercial is seriously awesome. Someone at their ad agency had some love for the Big Red commercials of the past. The spoof is fantastic. "You'll surf YouTube on a horse while you use it" vs "Your fresh breath goes on and on while you chew it" and the visuals are spot on. SNL and others do spoofs all the time but it's really cool to see it done as an actual campaign.
posted by E @3:03 AM