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vchimpanzee

This may have already been a topic here and I might even have started it.

But "Finding Neverland" seemed like a family film to me. It was the story of how "Peter Pan" was written, showing the writer acting as sort of a father figure to four boys. Actually, more like a playmate. Like Michael Jackson, he never grew up, and in a way, they implied the same thing about "Uncle Jim" Barrie that they did about Michael, though not in a way young kids would understand.

And Adam and Eve, which sells sex products, was an advertiser. Shame!
 
vchimpanzee said:
This may have already been a topic here and I might even have started it.

But "Finding Neverland" seemed like a family film to me. It was the story of how "Peter Pan" was written, showing the writer acting as sort of a father figure to four boys. Actually, more like a playmate. Like Michael Jackson, he never grew up, and in a way, they implied the same thing about "Uncle Jim" Barrie that they did about Michael, though not in a way young kids would understand.

And Adam and Eve, which sells sex products, was an advertiser. Shame!
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What channel was it on?
 
Two examples - I'm not offended by them but I can see how others would be.

Aspercreme - I think it was about 10 years ago that their slogan was "You bet your sweet Aspercreme". Either there was an outcry, or they realized how it sounded, because not long after it changed to "You bet if it's Aspercreme".

Verizon's "Half-fast" internet commercials. Obviously designed to sound like "Half-assed".
 
Cottonelle's current "Go Commando" campaign is just kind of "ewww". Compared to that, Charmin's "Enjoy the Go" campaign seems somewhat less crass.

I have to admit, I could make a lot of inappropriate jokes about about mythical products, such as "Cover the Crevasse with Crass brand Thongs," but I'll stop with that one.
 
I've got to admit that I laughed my butt off when I first saw the Kmart "I shipped my pants" commercial. Tasteless ... of course.
 
I guess this one fits the thread. Have you picked up on the verbiage in one of the commercials for one of the 'disposable underwear' ads. (It may be Depends but I think it is one of the competitors.) They tout the virtues of being able to keep up your busy life schedule, even though "pee happens".
 
Carls Jr (and I guess Hardees on the East Coast) - did a commercial in the 90s if I recall correctly, that was meant to be funny and memorable, but was spectacularly inappropriate.

Tense mystery movie type music is playing as the camera pans into a house - there are red spots and blotches all over the floor in the foyer and on the stairs as the camera pans up to the second floor. Naturally, you're supposed to think it is blood. When the camera finally reaches inside an upstairs room, there is a pretty young woman lustily shoving a dripping Carls Jr burger into her face. Surprise! the "blood" was only spilled ketchup.

There was a big public outrcry and the ad was pulled after a couple of days.

What were they thinking? Memorable yes, but if you are marketing food, do you really want your product associated with violence, and the main condiment associated with human blood?
 
LKellerIII said:
there are red spots and blotches all over the floor in the foyer and on the stairs as the camera pans up to the second floor. Naturally, you're supposed to think it is blood. When the camera finally reaches inside an upstairs room, there is a pretty young woman lustily shoving a dripping Carls Jr burger into her face. Surprise! the "blood" was only spilled ketchup.
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I kinda love that, on some sick level.
 
I would throw in the "Overactive Bladder" commercials too.....

Cheers & 73 :)
 
Why FX would air a kids' movie I don't know. I had seen this ad during a very grown-up movie and, having heard "The Lorax" (G-rated) would air on the same station, I hoped they would know better.

I've forgotten the name of the product but it's a men's fragrance ad which also mentions Macy's and the women are naked. Obviously only as naked as you can be on broadcast TV (or do cable commercials sometimes get worse?), but not appropriate in a kids' movie.
 
To show that this kind of advertising is not such a new thing, this commercial actually aired on radio in the late '90s. I never heard it until I found this on YouTube a few years ago, so it either didn't air on any of the local stations in Northeast Ohio or it aired on stations that our family never listened to. (I was in elementary school at the time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS18jHMmhAI
 
frankberry said:
I've got to admit that I laughed my butt off when I first saw the Kmart "I shipped my pants" commercial. Tasteless ... of course.
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And then there was the sports betting site last year (Fanduel?) that said you could win "a shipload of money."
 
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