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September 30, 2008
Most repulsive TV commercial of the year
And that's saying something.
There are some where I just mute the TV, others that force me to close my eyes as well and then there's this one, which makes me wish I'd never been born.
Ugh.
Does any man really decide to buy Old Spice Double Impact Body Wash after watching it?
Hard to believe.
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OH.MY.MY.
Posted by: kara | Oct 6, 2008 4:34:49 AM
i thought i saw an aftershave commercial the otherday that had some kinda chocolate man standing in s subway car having his ass being bitten by woman... it was surreal. too bad he wasnt facing in the other direction, the commercial *might* have made more sense. is there really a fragrance for men that smells like chocolate or did i just eat too much spicy food before i hit the hay?
Posted by: jo | Oct 1, 2008 10:30:42 PM
i think u need a better use for your time, Joe if all you have to do is watch a mildly amusing/stupid little blip of a commercial and call THAT the worst commercial of the year? pull-ease!
Posted by: mira | Oct 1, 2008 10:51:54 AM
Cliffy and David, you don't need to hold yourself back. I don't think that Joe of bookofjoe would mind if you wrote what you were really thinking.
This is nothing as bad as the woman's products commercials. Now plugging a leak with in a rowboat with a handy tampon, that's disturbing.
Posted by: Rocketboy | Oct 1, 2008 7:26:03 AM
C'mon ya'll...it is just another in the line of eff'n harr-larry-ous commercials for old spice.
Old people will always buy old spice, but they are a dying market. Its the youngies that have to be driven to it...not you fogies. I find the commercial really damn funny...not as funny as the Bruce Campbell Old Spice commercians, but still...everyone I know under 30 sits back and laughs about it. In fact, I saw this a month ago and said something to a friend and SHE said that it was fricken funny. Knew exactly what I was talking about...kept up with the I'm Two Things jokes for a couple of days.
Would I buy it? No...its old spice. Only old people and perverts use this crap. I might be both, but I don't need to advertise it. And I'm old enough to know this. Anyone that lived through the 70s knows this. Kids born in the 80s and 90s? They don't know the pervtastic nature of it and find it retro. Me? This is the smell I had sneaking into a porn theatre in Arkansas when I was 12.
Posted by: clifyt | Sep 30, 2008 9:46:51 PM
I am not EVEN going to click my flash blocker to look at this. I don't need to see it. I believe you, totally.Do NOT get me started on the stupidity of advertising, and commercials in particular. David Ogilvy is turning over in his grave. Who pays these people? Who let's them keep their jobs after they present this stuff for consideration? Who looks at this stuff and says: "Oh yeah, let's associate ourselves with embarrassing concepts?" What company president, CEO, whatever, doesn't call downstairs and just say: "Don't send the Ad Department up; just tell them to clean out their desks, and tell whoever hired them to clean theirs out as well." I don't get it! And don't get me started on the lies they are willing to tell......Do NOT get me started................
Posted by: David Gray | Sep 30, 2008 9:06:29 PM
It's legal in Alabama.
Posted by: Lloyd Shaw | Sep 30, 2008 8:07:40 PM
That would be "centaur" not "satyr," Flabbynormal.
As for me, I find the mildly amusing. Funnier still is the idea of trying to sell fancy soaps and skin care products to guys. Straight guys.
Posted by: Al Christensen | Sep 30, 2008 4:56:09 PM
Hah -- I KNEW there was something missing!
Looks like it's a girl horse.
Weirder still...
Posted by: Flabbynormal II | Sep 30, 2008 4:48:34 PM
As the saying goes, that is wrong on so many levels.
It was horrible enough with just the satyr/pretty smart shopper/provider-dude lathering him(it?)self up, but then in comes the adoring (shudder) wife...
And grossly unfair to horses!
Posted by: Flabbynormal | Sep 30, 2008 4:30:05 PM
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