No sports tonight partly because the only sport Im watching is the World Cup and since I cant figure out what a yellow card does then I shouldnt speak about it. But I enjoyed the Australia v Brazil match the other day.
No, tonight I want to talk about a TV ad I just saw. Ive been seeing it for the last few days but having just seen it again I decided it was definitely time to speak up about it.
The commercial is for Baileys Irish Cream and we have this obviously clumsy fellow who has an impossible time taking an ice cube from a bucket with a pair of tongs and placing it into a glass. He has three or four attempts at it while his friends heckle/encourage him. This clever individual then decides to bypass the glass all together and pour the entire contents of the Baileys bottle into the ice bucket and grab a straw. He then goes and sits down as all around are amazed at his cleverness/audacity. One of his friends asks for a sip and is promptly ignored when the man looks up with a what? look on his face.
Now, this is a bad enough commercial at this point but the next moment is the classic thing a voice over comes on and says: The Makers of Baileys ask you to please drink responsibly. Weve just seen a man pour an entire bottle of alcohol into a steel bucket and begin drinking it with a straw but they want US to drink responsibly. How about the fact that this guy is already 3 sheets to the wind, proven by the fact he couldnt put a cube of ice into a glass on three or four attempts.
Im not sure exactly who they are marketing this to. All the actors/actresses in this commercial are Afro-American. Everyone is sitting in the patio area of a very nice house and everyone is dressed nice and preppy. So maybe the target audience for this is the people who drink WAY too much.
Then again, Kaluhas commercial is about people living with exotic animals like a giraffe helping a telephone repair man, a woman walking an alligator or a man grilling on a barbecue as a white lion sits in the tree above him. There slogan For the everyday exotic which is kind of an oxymoron.
Is this really the best ways to sell you product? How about honesty? Drink this and it will fuck you up! Thats an ad slogan I would be ALL over. Or, This stuff is tasty and will make even your ugliest friend good enough for the night. But showing us an idiot who cant work an ice tong or a woman swimming in a pool full of coi thats not going to get people to buy your liqueur. But then again, beer companies have thought women in bikinis would sell beer for years but I enjoy the bikini commercials a lot more.
No, tonight I want to talk about a TV ad I just saw. Ive been seeing it for the last few days but having just seen it again I decided it was definitely time to speak up about it.
The commercial is for Baileys Irish Cream and we have this obviously clumsy fellow who has an impossible time taking an ice cube from a bucket with a pair of tongs and placing it into a glass. He has three or four attempts at it while his friends heckle/encourage him. This clever individual then decides to bypass the glass all together and pour the entire contents of the Baileys bottle into the ice bucket and grab a straw. He then goes and sits down as all around are amazed at his cleverness/audacity. One of his friends asks for a sip and is promptly ignored when the man looks up with a what? look on his face.
Now, this is a bad enough commercial at this point but the next moment is the classic thing a voice over comes on and says: The Makers of Baileys ask you to please drink responsibly. Weve just seen a man pour an entire bottle of alcohol into a steel bucket and begin drinking it with a straw but they want US to drink responsibly. How about the fact that this guy is already 3 sheets to the wind, proven by the fact he couldnt put a cube of ice into a glass on three or four attempts.
Im not sure exactly who they are marketing this to. All the actors/actresses in this commercial are Afro-American. Everyone is sitting in the patio area of a very nice house and everyone is dressed nice and preppy. So maybe the target audience for this is the people who drink WAY too much.
Then again, Kaluhas commercial is about people living with exotic animals like a giraffe helping a telephone repair man, a woman walking an alligator or a man grilling on a barbecue as a white lion sits in the tree above him. There slogan For the everyday exotic which is kind of an oxymoron.
Is this really the best ways to sell you product? How about honesty? Drink this and it will fuck you up! Thats an ad slogan I would be ALL over. Or, This stuff is tasty and will make even your ugliest friend good enough for the night. But showing us an idiot who cant work an ice tong or a woman swimming in a pool full of coi thats not going to get people to buy your liqueur. But then again, beer companies have thought women in bikinis would sell beer for years but I enjoy the bikini commercials a lot more.