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Hezadancer
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Posted: 25 Jun 2010 at 8:31pm |
I can't hold enough of a grudge for this one, because it's aimed straight at my face. I fall right into the target demographic of this ad because I'm a young first time homebuyer with a crappy home myself. I should fall right into Lowes' perfectly executed ::gag:: trap like a moth to a flame then right? NOPE!
The problem is, everything is way too exaggerated to make me relate to them at all. There was a MUCH better way to make this ad to target me. First we see them standing outside their future home, which looks to be quite nice actually. It looks much nicer then the current state of my home from the outside. Can I stop there for a second and mention how much I HATE the way this "couple" looks? First off, the girl has enough forehead to take out ad space on. You can land a freaking 747 on her forehead I sh*t you not. It's worse then Christina Ricci. Second, THEY LOOK LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER. I don't know what it is but the eyes and the face look entirely too similar. It bothers me damn it. Ok, now that we've seen the outside of their seeminly nice house, we are treated to Christina Ricci's uglier sibling holding a phone standing in waist high water. Mom, what do you know about plumbing? She says, and husband/boyfriend/brother whatever emerges from under the water and grabs a wrench from her and dives back down. Um, WTF? I get that you're exaggerating things because we, the audience, is apparently too stupid to get a flood or broken pipe when we see it, but new homeowner or not, half your basement flooded with water up to your waist is no f**king laughing matter. You don't call mom or dad, you call a f**king professional because that's going to take a lot of work. Second, again we see ms billboard head on the phone, stuck in a floor she fell through. Uhhh, what? There's no way in hell she fell through a living room floor in a house that nice. Mom, what do you know about floors? Ugh, do I even have to point out everything wrong here? I don't think so. Next we see boyfriend/brother watching a garage door go up and down like it's a robot gone haywire. "What if it's not attached to anything?" He says to someone on the phone. WTF! Why did you try to hook up a garage door if you don't f**king know how to do it right? It's not rocket science! We next get a glimpse of some room in their house completely covered in a neon green color. I mean completely, like it looks like the walls and the ceiling and wainscoting (WTF!) everything was covered in this paint. The girl cries out over the phone, like a blubbering mess "It's like, reaaaaly green". Oh boo hoo, why did you paint the ENTIRE ROOM before realizing the paint was not a good choice? Wait till it dries then PAINT OVER IT, it's not the f**king end of the world! What is mom going to be able to do about that? Sorry honey you're a moron ::click:: Oh, if only. Second to last we see them outside, the man is up on a ladder doing something to the gutters. The gutters come unattached and he falls. "So what ladder SHOULD we get she says to someone on the phone". WTF! Her man falls from a 2 story house and she doesn't even flinch? He could be dead you twit, get off the phone! Lastly, we see one of those combo washer on the bottom drier on the top units chasing her down the hallway. "I think something's wrong with the washer! she says on her phone". We then finally see them at Lowes next to a pudge guy who I forget the name of. "We should have come to (name) first". "They were fast learners" says the Lowes employee, "they probably don't even need me anymore". ZOMG YES WE DO RAAA" goes the woman. And end commercial. Lowes, you got untold thousands of dollars from me during our remodel. For you see, I bought a crappy home as well. But guess what? IF WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT UP OURSELVES WE WOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT IT! I get it, young couple, first house, but no one and I mean no one in our age group has expressed any excitement over buying a fixer upper unless the guy knows how to do it. My husband knows how, my best friends husband knows how, and that's it. We're the only 2 who went for or plan on going for a home like that. Everyone else I know has decided to stay an apartment dweller until they can AFFORD a house that doesn't come with baggage. You clearly don't know anything about the demographic you are trying to reach. You act like we're idiots who can't use a hammer or afford anything better. HELLO, who buys a house with this many problems anyway? I guess we're supposed to believe they were dumb enough to forgo a home inspection, because apparently they are too dumb to accomplish anything else a home buyer should. So you got me Lowes? Young + First time home buyer does not = complete idiot. You should have shown the REAL reality of being a first time home buyer with a fixer upper. Tools breaking, being covered in a constant layer of insulation or drywall dust, falling asleep in cardboard boxes, not having a working toilet or running water, etc. I would have related to it much better because MY reality is much closer to the actual reality, not the exaggerated slop this commercial I feeding us. |
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Dangerskew
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That commercial came on many times last night and my friend could not watch because of that forehead
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Tiz
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Yikes!! the forehead looks freaky. Plenty of room for paint samples........
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jenjen
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What an idiot couple! DId anyone ever hear of a home inspection?..a walk thru?? If anyone is that stupid as the commercial they deserve all of the turmoil! Our first was crappy too but geesh after we had in inspector we KNEW what needed to be fixed.
In Loew's attempt to try to look funny and cute they looked STUPID!!
Oh yeah a family of 4 can dine nicley on that forehead!! DANG IT'S HUUUGE!!!
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Hezadancer
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Thank you for linking the video Tiz. His face says it all: "I'm a f**king tool". Get an apartment next time you idiots.
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Yutolia
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Wow, these two look like they're just old enough to start high school, maybe. What'd they do, run away?!?
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She looks freaking Cro-Magnon with that giant forehead. You could land a 747 on that thing. It must have twice the gravitational pull of our sun. |
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Ad nauseous
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wow that was stupid *shakes his head* unbelievable.
That forehead is HUGE you can fit the entire planet on it. How in the world was this ad approved!? and how the heck did they pay millions maybe billions of dollars for this crock of !? |
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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jenjen
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An apartment? They could use her forehead as shelter! Sorry I know there are a million jokes out there about her cranium!
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Legoman
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Shine a flashlight on that forehead and you can light up the whole house
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Tiz
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Trying to hide a zit on that forehead would be like trying to hide a cracker in Harlem.
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Thor
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OK. The garage door isn't hooked up, but it's moving up and down as if possessed by Satan. I gotta say---that's kinda funny. But if that was to happen, it'd be time to abandon that house---pronto!
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macpic70
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It's not a forehead, its an eighthead.
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Malorkis
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YEs, they are both bizarre looking and I find the whole commercial difficult to watch. They should have picked actors that are older looking and are not ACTING.
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oozevad
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I think the most unrealistic part is that they portray the Lowes employees as so easy to find and helpful. Granted I like Lowes but like most retail stores they are understaffed and the employees are generally not too happy to be working there...
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Mommacita
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If she cut some bangs, she could hide that forehead. And I am also a young first-time homeowner, and this ad makes me feel like they think we are stupid. Way to make me not want to shop there.
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Thor
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That's funny, but your paint samples comment is funnier.
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Thor
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Seems like an unusually big house for first-time home buyers. They must not live in California, where that'd go for a half-million, at least.
Seems to me, if they're still novices when it comes to home maintenance, they'd have steered clear of an older home on that much property. Plus, didn't they have this place inspected??
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jerkylips
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the first time I saw that commercial, my first thought was that she looked like a midget - except taller! she has weird, dwarfish features, but on a normal size body. It's just.....creepy....
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Tiz
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The Lowes people I go to are pretty helpful. But they wouldn't be able to tell anyone where the main water cutoff valve was....... that waist deep water in the ad is over the top.
He could recommend a gutter specialist so that I wouldn't be dangling off the roof when my 20 foot stepladder gave way.
Why wasn't Miss Forehead steadying the ladder, anywhoo?
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Methinks they should skip the DIY home repairs and take an extra dose of SANITY pills instead of the DUMBASS ones. Their first move should have been to a General Contractor. |
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The ad I'd really love to see has the GEICO Gecko being run over and flattened by the Energizer bunny.
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It's like Sputnik. She's gonna cry herself to sleep on her huge pilla.
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I just have to say I can't stand how much these two look alike. Listen I don't have a home of my own, but my dad has shown me how to do some repair work around our house
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Yutolia
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In my town, there is a local hardware store and a Home Depot/Lowe's. At the local store (McGuckin's, the most awesome hardware store on the planet), they employ people in each section who actually know what they're talking about when you go and ask them a question. I've saved a lot of money and time and gained a lot of knowledge about fixing things by going to these people whenever I have problems.
At the Home Depot in town (and most of the other ones that I've been to) they don't necessarily employ people who know what they are doing, or care about whether they are actually helping anyone or not. However, I think this whole series of commercials is designed to convince people that there is some fantasy Home Depot/Lowe's where the employees are actually knowledgeable and give a sh*t. |
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Let me cut to the chase: These two losers are the personification of stupid, and never be allowed to breed...EVER! Your parents wouldn't know the solution to every problem you're facing! Secondly, what the hell kind of job could you stupid-asses possibly have that enables you to buy such a house? This is very insulting to people of my generation. Yeah, yeah sure? Apparently, the ad execs who created this bastard child aren't able to determine funny from very, very, very, very stupid! |
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