Dear Advertisers Entry posted by Xiphosis July 14, 2011 338 views Share More sharing options... Followers 0 If you put horrible, snotty children in your advertisements, I will not buy your product. Thanks. Report Entry
Rush Sykes Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Strangely, this blog made me think of the Tide(I think) commerical where one kid is standing on top of the hill, and the other kids are screaming DO IT. About 5 seconds later, a loud shrill voice starts screaming DO IT at a rapid pace and the kid dives head 1st down the hill on his belly, and the mom is happy cuz she uses Tide, so the stain will come out of his shirt. Quote Link to comment
Alfred von Tirpitz Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share A kid takes a dive off a cliff and the mom is happy that the shirt will be clean for the funeral? Some people have strange priorities. Quote Link to comment
Bob Ilyani Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share The only commercials where kids were actually used effectively were the Ally bank ones. Quote Link to comment
Ashoka the Great Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share But if they're in the products themselves, no problemo. Gotcha. Quote Link to comment
Maelstrom Vortex Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share My wife and I do the same thing. Unfortunately, I have to make a single exception for Strudels, but I really despise their commercials. Their marketing has nothing to do with me buying their product... like it should. Quote Link to comment
Bill Wallace Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share I would like to extend Xiph's disgust with children to the sphere of restaurants. Leave your children outside in the car. Don't forget to crack a window at least 3/4 of an inch. Any more than that and the screaming may be heard from inside the restaurant and that would just defeat the whole purpose. Quote Link to comment
CEverettKoop Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share This is the only ad in which children were used in their proper place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63h_v6uf0Ao Quote Link to comment
Aurion Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share But if they're in the products themselves, no problemo. Gotcha. What sort of product has horrible, snotty children in it? Quote Link to comment
Xiphosis Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share But if they're in the products themselves, no problemo. Gotcha.What sort of product has horrible, snotty children in it? NPO Brand Puppy Chow. Quote Link to comment
Aurion Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Couldn't have walked into that one any harder than I did, huh. Quote Link to comment
Locke Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share But if they're in the products themselves, no problemo. Gotcha. What sort of product has horrible, snotty children in it? NPO Brand Puppy Chow. I would buy this. I can pretty much support anything that removes horrible, snotty children from the general population. Of course, I suppose I would need a puppy first. Quote Link to comment
Alfred von Tirpitz Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share No the puppy is in the chow as well. Quote Link to comment
Kzoppistan Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share It should be illegal to put children in commercials. It's pretty much parents prostituting their childrens' looks to make themselves money. Kids don't have money, so it's all targeted towards parents anyway. They only commercials that should feature children would be promos for the anniversary reprint of "A Modest Proposal." Quote Link to comment
Kzoppistan Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Of course, I suppose I would need a puppy first. Not at all, you could feed it to your invalid neighbors, or to the local homeless. Quote Link to comment
CzarBomba Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share I must admit, these are not the only commercials that I feel plague my television. It's not necessarily commercials with children that piss me off (though I'm hard pressed to come up with a good one), it's the laziness (and frequent rudeness) many advertisers display in selling me their product. All I ask from commercials is that they entertain me in some way. I think it's the least they can do to hold my attention. After all, they want me to buy their product. Can't believe people actually get paid to write some of that stuff... Quote Link to comment
SpacingOutMan Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share No, the commercials that get me are the overseas ones where you have some guy trying to guilt-trip you into donating 2 pennies a day to support an African/Asian child for a year. While the premise is nice, forcing that into my face really doesn't incent me to help... at all. Quote Link to comment
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