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Lucian
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Posted: 07 Dec 2013 at 6:47am |
Alright, apparently this commercial went "viral", and the old couple caused a "sensation" and this is "charming" and "heartwarming" and "true love" etc etc etc. Look, I like old people. Helen and Morty have nothing to do with me hating this commercial. Number one, I hate it because it's a commercial and I think you're SUPPOSED to hate commercials. The idea of liking or loving a commercial is alien to me. Waiting for your "favorite" commercial to come on is akin to waiting for your favorite show to come on. All I can say is, when I start doing that, waiting in anticipation of a commercial, you have my permission to extinguish my life with extreme violence, because that would make me an idiot, and I wouldnt want to go through life as an idiot. I mean, if that's the case, why wouldnt I be in the market to buy Geico's Greatest Hit's on DVD? You are not SUPPOSED to like commercials. They're annoying. They're interrupting the show you're watching (which probably sucks too, but that's another subject). They're trying to get you to buy something you either don't need, can't afford, or don't want. If you want it already, you don't need a commercial to remind you. Secondly, and most vehemently, I hate, HATE the stupid xylophone-with-human-whistle-jingle in this commercial, as I hate all jingles. It literally makes me grit my teeth and clench my fists. I don't know why jingles make make me so sick, but they do. This commercial has been around awhile but I just saw it on the tube so it's fair game.
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Amy414
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I'm with you on the hating all commercials. I mute every one of them, as I don't think ANY are the slightest bit cute or funny. They're stupid, loud, and annoying (including this dumb f*cking "heartwarming" one). And I HATE jingles. This Swiffer one is particularly bad. I don't get how these things appeal to anybody, and when a commercial goes viral or I hear people talking about their favorite Super Bowl commercials, I feel like I'm from another planet. They're ALL horrible--how can you have a favorite? It's like having a favorite disease or something.
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Thor
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Zach6848
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Very well said on the hating of all commercials. I completely agree.
Alot of people tend to talk around the break-room or 'around the water-cooler' about commercials such as this, and I'm just reminded of how sterile an existence you must have when you're working at your 9-to-5 office-drone job and the only interesting thing you can find to talk about with your co-workers is a f**king Swiffer commercial. This isn't a bad commercial, it's not really grating, and I do like the people in it, but do I enjoy this commercial? No, simply because I don't enjoy commercials. At all. Period. Enjoying commercials is like enjoying somebody randomly approaching you on the street and screaming in your face, or enjoying seeing a bilboard rather than a majestic forest. We'd all best be ready for these corporate fat-cats to start shoe-horning commercials into many other aspects of our every-day life. Soon enough you'll be watching a DVD and in the middle of the film, you'll have a McDonalds commercial. Just wait. It will begin. Soon enough this commercialism, caused by corporatist greedheads, will invade every avenue of our lives. Perhaps whenever virtual reality or brain-upgrade microchips become a thing, they'll be playing commercials before our very eyes, or invading our dreams or thoughts. |
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Thor
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^ I don't hate the commercials. I hate the commercial breaks. But I figure if we're going to have to have commercial breaks, at least entertain me during them. Most do not. For the most part, I just zone out during the commercial breaks. Or I channel surf.
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PaWolf
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Pretty well said there, Zach.
I enjoy this commercial line - I empathize and sympathize with it.
I understand the product and the benefit of it, as played out - and know it's true as we've friends and family that age with spotless residences, short all the damned Swiffer utensils all over the place... .
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Amy414
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Actually, they are a cute couple. In real life I have a ton of respect for older people and empathy for them and others. I just hate loud commercials. The worst part of this one is the jingle (and probably sound level if I had to hear it on TV), which is my problem with many of them.
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Dr. John Dorian
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Irritating alter kockers...much like Jerry Seinfeld's parents from his sitcom.
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Morons on the loose
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No offense to anyone that finds these old people cute but I wholeheartedly disagree. I don’t really have an opinion on old people one way or the other but the last adjective I’d use to describe the elderly is cute. Secondly, no old people talk / act like these two in the commercial. Pretty big reach here as Swifter is having these old folks talk like hipsters. This commercial = fail. |
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BadAd
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This commercial is an insult to old people. I don't care that this particular old couple volunteered for this. I do not know a single person of their age who would be befuddled about what a Swiffer WetJet is. I also don't know any old people who waltz around their kitchens humming songs that were moldy oldies to their parents. People in their mid-70s today were young romantic couples in the 1960s, fer crissake! If anything, they should be jerking to "Wooly Bully."
The only thing that rings remotely true-to-life in this series is the man calling his wife "Babe" at one point.
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Thor
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Still, I'd like to see them twerk. |
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bwestfall
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This old couple in this are a real couple. They are both 91, and their daughter talked them into trying out for this commercial. There is a blurb about them in this week's Parade that comes in the Sunday paper. It was even shot in their home.
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A new study finds that people who are chipper & happy live longer. Which is surprising because people who aren't chipper & happy want to kill people who are always chipper & happy. David Letterman
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I do. I came out of her clown hole. |
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BANANA!! BANANA!!! BANANA!! Banana! |
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PaWolf
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Never forget you spewed all this B.S. should you be lucky enough to 'get old' with the one you love (dogs, cats, and sheep don't count). Simple technology may even befuddle or discombobulate even you, then make you 'waltz in joy', only to send you two wrinkly selves off the the bedroom to 'celebrate' with your 'Babe', or would 'Puddin'Puss' be more appropriate?
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'Dentures MUST Be Removed During Certain Activities!'
'Put that Tongue Back In Your Mouth!'
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I'm reading your post, but I don't actually know what you're saying.
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"I see the sadness in their eyes
Melancholy in their cries Devoid of all the passion The human spirit cannot die" |
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PaWolf
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...was on a mental-bender after reading BA's BS |
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