Category — *Advertisements

Admittedly, I’m not in Jack-in-the-Box’s target demographic. I haven’t eaten fast food in years, and frankly? The “Jack” mascot rather freaks me out. He’s edging far too close to clown territory for my peace of mind, thank you very much. …

It was a long, rough week for me. Actually, it’s been a long, rough month. I’m not here to whinge, just prefacing this with a disclaimer that I’m exhausted and this is going to be a very quick drive-by post. …

Advertisements for men’s deoderants and skincare products have been advising them, essentially, that the products emit scents that don’t so much appeal to women as whip us into a hormonal frenzy that forces us to jump the bones of whatever …

Well sort of. The latest ad I’ve seen from the delightful studio of Burger King is for the so-called “polygameat” - a burger made up of more than one kind of meat - the ad can be seen …

I know what you’re thinking: why is SBG harping on commercials so much? Doesn’t she have anything better to do with her time? Trust me, I do, and I do better things. Really!

But for now, I have a real problem …

Swiffer has a whole line of commercials featuring women breaking up with their old mops and brooms to hook up with Swiffer, or the rejected cleaning tools sending flowers in an attempt to woo back their former owners. All …

I’ve been watching commercials again. I can’t help it. There isn’t much else on I’m interested in. I don’t pop a bowl of corn for the DNC/RNC. (All politicians tend to make me uncomfortable when they pontificate.) Commercials catch my …

I can go months without being bothered by ads on TV, and then suddenly they come out of the woodwork all over the place. Take the following ad for Dixie paper plates, for example. Everything about this ad is wrong….

I enjoy most M&M commercials. They’re often cute and clever and nothing says fun like anthropomorphized chocolate candies. But lately, I’ve become annoyed at the very obvious differences between Green, the only female-gendered M&M (to my knowledge), and, say, Yellow or …

While we’re on commercials, I have a very brief post. For the longest time the following AT&T commercial bugged me for reasons I couldn’t quite pinpoint. I found it somewhat amusing, but that unnameable thing niggled at the back of …