"Do you ever want the ability to either talk back to or challenge statements in TV commercials?"

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What are the most blatant mis-statements in TV commercials you have seen recently? Not counting political ads. There, everything is BS.


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"Those that claim '25% improvement' or similar ..."
 by EnglishLady on Nov 19 2007 (27 months ago)
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Those claims really get my goat, to the point of shouting at them or wanting to write to the advertisers. Also, the ads than claim '25% more glumph' when the claim may actually be true, but nobody knows whether glumph is a good thing. I've always wanted to be in charge of a science class where I could get my charges to apply the latest beauty cream to just one-half of the face (vertical slice) and after a month go to the relevant cosmetic counter and ask the assistant whether they could tell which half. And I don't believe that anybody's hair could move like those in the advertisements.

 

Tell you what, though: in New Zealand there used to be an ad in which a small (but beautiful, of course) child is asking a sad father 'Daddy, where's Mummy?' and Daddy says that Mummy's gone to Heaven, but at least they'll be financially OK because Mummy's life had been insured. I think they actually lost business through that one.

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"If there is a possibility......"
 by Violet1 on Nov 19 2007 (27 months ago)
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please let me know so I can send my husband to do it.  His constant talking and ranting when he watches something he does not agree with on TV is frustrating to some of us hard of hearing.

 

I agree that just because is on TV is not written in stone. 

 

Thank God for the TV remote.  Move on to another channel.
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"That would make them so much more fun"
 by Mistral on Nov 19 2007 (27 months ago)
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I already will give commentary on some commercials, particularly prescription medicine commercials.  I think that it would be fun to be able to ask people on exercise equipment commercials exactly how much time they spend on that particular machine each day and doing other exercises, I suspect it is much more than the equipment manufactures are pushing that you should use them per day, if the actors actually do use the equipment.

But I think that the most blatant misstatements I have seen recently are in diet commercials and various male product commercials (particularly hair dyes) that seem to imply that using their product will result in a woman my age being attracted to a man older than my father.  Sorry gentlemen, it's not your graying hair that prevents you from picking up women in their twenties, it might be more to do with being somewhere around twice her age (depending on where in her twenties the target woman is).
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"There is one commercial in particular that causes my wife to yell at the TV."
 by KingofRandomCrap on Nov 19 2007 (27 months ago)
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It is for a creel and I think it is Honey Bunches of Oats. She saw the commercial and decided to try some and the stuff was awful. I tried it too and it was awful so whenever that commercial comes on and they talk about how good it is my wife is yelling, “No it’s not! It stinks!” She’s right and I don’t care how big of a smile those people on the commercial are wearing when they eat the stuff. I have to give ‘em credit though, I don’t think that I could force any kind of smile while eating that crap.
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"Yes! I can, in a way, with Reward TV!"
 by NanaSha on Nov 19 2007 (27 months ago)
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You play the game and get an opportunity to rate commercials! Love it!
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