Truth in
Advertising (An Oxymoron!?)
Mobile Phone:
After a skit is play-acted, Catherine Zeta-Jones peers through a circular window and says: “Pay More.”
Constipate More:
When I first heard this commercial for Thickbergers, I swear I heard the actor say, “It will constipate more.” I was so pleased to see the “Truth in advertising” in action only to have my partner pull the rug from underneath me when she insisted that the phrase was, “it will cost a bit more.”
“We Designed It With You in Mind”:
Caption at the bottom of TV screen reads with the “Glad” plastic container commercial: “As Retarded as You are, We Try to Do Our Best to Make it 10 Times More Expensive. Glad! You Can’t Use Both Your Hands. (No Pun Intended).”
Mitsubishi Inspectors:
With a hundred orange clad inspectors lined up the highway with a single automobile moving, the narrator concludes: “Aren’t you happy that the purchase of one Mitsubishi can keep a hundred inspectors employed?”
“Get Met, It Pays.”:
The period at the end zooms to a readable font size and you see “Us!” within a circle.
The Hefty Garbage Bag:
At the end of pitch, the narrator adds, “You will have horrendous stench in your house with all the accumulated garbage over the several days you use our monstrous Hefty bag. Please, remember: There is no free lunch”
Is Everything Alright Ma’am?:
The home security systems’ commercials are one for the book.
A burglar breaks into a home and has her 45 trained at the mother with children. The security systems’ clerk phones into check when the burglar woman picks up the phone and tells the clerk that every thing was hunky-dory, her hubby just set the alarm.
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