I can't be the only person who blesses the invention of the DVR. Sure, the ability to time-shift programs is lovely, and I appreciate being able to binge-watch series, but most importantly I can avoid Flo from Progressive. Well, any obnoxious commercial, really, but especially Flo.
Which is odd - I enjoy good commercials, heck I even watch the "Funniest Commercials Of The Year" shows every time they come up (although I watch them with one hand on the remote, so that I don't have to watch the commercials. Yes, I know that doesn't make sense.) The one Subaru commercial with Willie Nelson back-up music, where they're going through and checking off the dog's bucket list? That one gets me every single time. I had a long-time crush on the World's Most Interesting Man. But there are so many ads that are misogynistic, or misandrist, or just plain stupid - seriously, Red's Apple Ale - what is it about a concussion that's supposed to make me want your swill?
Also, as a society, can't we make a rule that you can't do commercials for any physical issue below the neck? (Used to be waist, but I'm upping my standards.) No commercials with cartoon plumbing, no medicare supply scams involving adult diapers, nothing that requires a 15 second list of potential side effects - and no ambulance chasing for clients who took the pills that required the side effects list.
But the worst, the ones that have me grabbing for my remote like a lifeline? The ASPCA and Humane Society ads - usually with Sara McLachlan as a background. I love dogs in general and my boy in specific, but these ads aren't celebrating dogs and/or cats. They're torture porn. Seriously, puppies in cages, their big eyes looking up at you? For three freaking minutes? Just no. It doesn't make me want to write you a check, it makes me want to call the cops on your photographer. Same for the ones for human puppies, with the freaking flies - photographers, you're right there. Give the kid a sandwich!
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