TV commercials pushing some boundaries

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• shadowcat

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  9 years ago

  Commercials is one reason I got rid of my TV service.
• san_jose_guy

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  9 years ago

  No I have not noticed this, but it sounds interesting. I know that in Europe they advertise condoms in provocative ways, ways which actually encourage sex. They could never do that here, not for general audiences. SJG [view link] Jefferson Airplane [view link]
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  I did notice the IKEA commercial. I've seen it several times.
• shailynn

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  9 years ago

  ^^^^ since he saw that commercial, Motörhead has been hanging out in the ikea cafeteria eating Swedish meatballs trying to pick up some trim.
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  I love Swedish meatballs
• mikeya02

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  9 years ago

  That's weird. I have some in the freezer right now.
• tumblingdice

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  9 years ago

  Sea,I grew up in an era where we didn't even lock our doors at [view link] was never an issue for a neighbor to just walk right in.Look,I have no problem with gay or lesbian couples.What I do have a problem with is that fucking far left.Nobody has to work for anything anymore. Case in point ,those little White Hispanics in the Trump [view link] do you think their lives will end?A shot to the head?A heroin overdose?Where the fuck were their parents.They will never have gainful employment for the rest of their lives.
• rockstar666

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  9 years ago

  I don't think they're 'pushing' boundaries at all. Rather they are the reaction after the fact to a changed society.
• JamesSD

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  9 years ago

  Ikea is a Swedish company, and Scandinavia runs socially liberal. Also, people buy way more furniture in their 30s and 40s than 60s. Gen X and millenials yawn at the stuff that makes even boomers blush.
• jester214

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  9 years ago

  I'm with Rockstar, it's underwhelming. Especially when you consider who Ikea is targeting.
• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  I never noticed it. However I tend not to notice very many commercials unless there is a hot girl in a bikini. Now if they put two hot lesbians in bikinis in the commercial, I would remember it if I saw it.
• JohnSmith69

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  9 years ago

  I pretty much only watch commercials during the super bowl. And in you tube videos.
• lopaw

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  9 years ago

  Needless to say I definitely notice it, but even I am rather *yawn* about it by now.
• former_stripper

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  9 years ago

  I don't pay attention to commercials but I mostly watch the classic stations and the Simpsons so I don't see those commercials. The classic stations mostly have commercials with life insurance, funerals, hovercraft, that stair thing and diapers.
• seaboardrr

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  9 years ago

  Yeah, we don't watch commercials at all. It just so happened we were watching something in real time and couldn't fast fwd through the commercials. I agree that the subject matter has no effect on me and the ikea one really was a yawner based on what yall have said where the company is based and who they really target. But the threesome/polyamorous selling point for the mattress did make me stop and wonder what kind of backlash they may get
• PhantomGeek

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  9 years ago

  A relatively recent Pop Tart commercial caught my eye. Peanut Butter and Jelly (Dad and Mom, respectively) are admiring their new bundle of joy in the maternity ward. A nurse comes in and decides the kid would make a good snack. While we don't see the feasting, Dad pounds on the window, "NOOOOO!" Mom says, "Oh damn." It just caught me as odd that a commercial that's pretty much Saturday-morning fare would use the word "damn."
• jackslash

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  9 years ago

  I will never buy Ikea furniture again! (Of course, I would never buy that crap anyway.)
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  The recent commecial that caught my eye (it was played over and over during the baseball playoffs) was a Viagra commericial featuring this really smokin' hot woman wearing a blue football jersey. I thought she looked to be in her late 30's. 1. It my wife was that uber hot, I wouldn't need no boner pill 2. Are guys in their 30's really taking ED drugs?
• sclvr5005

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  9 years ago

  @PhantomGerk- I've also seen that pop tarts commercial and the mom pop tart actually says "oh jammit". A pun on the jam aspect, I guess. They got by the censors with that one.
• sclvr5005

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  9 years ago

  Don't know why phone changed Geek to Gerk!
• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  Hardee's must be targeting me but somehow I missed this one. [view link] Apparently the YouTube censors must be run by someone running the ISIS campaign restricting videos by age that have already shown on tv.
• san_jose_guy

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  9 years ago

  rockstar666 wrote, " I don't think they're 'pushing' boundaries at all. Rather they are the reaction after the fact to a changed society. " I had not thought about this before. But yes, I agree. SJG
• PhantomGeek

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  9 years ago

  Sclvr5005, guess the brain was filling in what it was expecting. I listened a little more carefully to the commercial tonight and, yep, I heard "Oh, jammit."
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  Just saw a Best Buy commercial about Christmas shopping and someone said "your not 'elfing around'"
• former_stripper

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  9 years ago

  How about last year's Kmart commercial where they said "I shipped my pants". Not offensive but sounded different. [view link] Or the other commercial with the sexy men playing jingle bells in their pants. [view link]