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God this commercial is imbecilic. Yet another in a long line of TV commercials that proves only one thing...America actually is as stupid as it looks.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShWp1IbRKQE" target="dunkincommercial"><img src="http://www.waldoland.com/images/blogimages/dunkindonutscommercial.jpg" alt="Dunkin Donuts commercial on YouTube" style="border: 2px solid #666666;" /></a>

It seems like the latest trend in advertising is to produce the most asinine commercials possible. This can be seen in the broad variety of commercials that are prevalent today. Just turn on your TV and flip to any channel and I bet you will come across any number of these commercials. There's something to be said for the basic principle of advertising, AIDA (attract, interest, desire, action), but come on. Why stupid? If anything, it will Annoy, Irritate, Disgust, and Avert.

TV commercials for the past few years have become increasingly stupid. Do you remember the Quizno's commercials with the two singing rats (a.k.a. sponge monkeys)? Did that really make you want to buy a sandwich? Did that even amuse you a little bit? No. It made people want to vomit so much that Quizno's lost business and was forced to pull the spots due to increasing complaint.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrks-BPeLQ" target="quiznos"><img src="http://www.waldoland.com/images/blogimages/quiznoscommercial.jpg" alt="Quizno's commercial on YouTube" style="border: 2px solid #666666;" /></a>

It's like advertising companies aren't even trying anymore. They're just taking money to produce commercials that a first-grader could (and probably did) come up with. "Hey, my son Josh cam up with a great campaign for your product last night after he took a poopie like a big boy" Is it only going to get worse from here?

Remember the HeadOn Apply directly to forehead spots? Where they would chain the same irritating commercial together three times in a row? And then the had the balls to produce yet another SERIES of commercials where people would interrupt the commercial and spout off how much they couldn't stand the commercial, but loved the product! What balls!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE" target="headon"><img src="http://www.waldoland.com/images/blogimages/headoncommercial.jpg" alt="HeadOn commercial on YouTube" style="border: 2px solid #666666;" /></a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0HAmqYTJqo" target="headon"><img src="http://www.waldoland.com/images/blogimages/headoncommercial2.jpg" alt="HeadOn anti-commercial on YouTube" style="border: 2px solid #666666;" /></a>


Please tell me that this trend will stop sometime soon.




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Labels: Advertising, TV