Lovelyish

Lol, those are all hilarious.

The Doritos commercial where he brings back the guy’s grandfather wasn’t offensive, exactly, but made things somewhat somber where I was.  Several people in the group had recently lost a grandparent, so the commercial made things awkward.

And I think the Pepsi one was aiming to use the oldest stereotypes in the book to be funny, not actually buying into it.

wow, that’s low.

UGH. Agreed, especially the Tibet one! I also hated the GoDaddy.com one with Jillian Michaels and Danika Patrick that are “forced” from their contract to be, what we can presume, naked or close to it on the set. So degrading. And I only watch the last quarter!

Love the Debbie Downer gif.

Not only was the Pepsi Max commercial offensive, but I couldn’t even see it being funny.

@nico__tine@xanga - Ditto on Debbie

I actually found the Pepsi Max commercial hilarious–probably because I live in an area where people still think like that.  As for the vacation commercial, I think they were playing on how hectic and stressful vacations are with the baby violence.  I don’t think they intended it to support violence against children, but to show families how much simpler it would be to use their site.  Meh, I thought it was funny.  (And my thoughts went no where near violence against kids.)

@TruthOfRain@xanga - Thank you! I am so glad someone here has a sense of humor!

I thought the test baby commercial was hysterical. IT WAS FAKE.

The only commercial I didn’t think was funny was the Groupon one but I do love Groupon and I will continue to use Groupon. They have some great deals especially on paintball! The pepsi commercial was actually pretty funny and I would watch it over and over again.

@SuburbanSweetheart - i did too LOL

i liked all of them. they’re just commercials, jeez.

ha, these were all my favorites. thank God i’m not as much of a tight-ass as you.  

Disclaimer: I didn’t watch the soup or bowl…

The only one that I found to be honestly a LITTLE disturbing whatsoever was the baby one… The Tibet one is not one that you could even REMOTELY take seriously (Come on, it wasn’t like they were showing kids starving in africa or something.) As for the pepsi one… Erm… Maybe IIIII am the one off of my rocker, (or maybe I’m sorry to burst your fairy tale bubble?) but science, psychology, etc, all will tell you that men DO think about getting to the bedroom WAY more than women and women DO think about the things that they think matter/make a good family. In other words, the comedy of the comercial is that it is exaggerated truth. THAT is why it’s funny.

i thought the baby one was hilarious.

The first and the last one were a little bit too much. But I don’t see how the second one might be offensive.

test baby was awesome.

I think the second commercial was satire. The first one was actually very offensive. I don’t think you’re a tight ass.

HA Groupon. Slick.

…..they are all a joke. nothing serious. not offensive at all. they are only commercials. big deal.

Sorry, but I think the Debbie Downer gif should be directed towards you for taking these so seriously.

I actually loved the pepsi one commerical, it’s actually true. You can deny it. you all do it.

LOL i thought they were all hilarious….they’re just commercials no need to get all pissy about it

I didn’t really get teh first one, but the rest were funny :] 

The baby thing isn’t meant to be serious. It even states that it’s not a real baby… Tibet, okay I can understand that. And I thought that Pepsi commercial was really funny. Rawwrr people these days need to lighten up.

I liked the Pepsi one a lot (come on, some stereotypes are definitely true!). The Tibet one made me laugh even thought it was un-PC. The baby one didn’t really bother me morally (although I also didn’t find it funny)…but me and my friends were all like OMG at first cause we thought it was a ‘real’ baby. 

I laughed at the Pepsi one, but the other two, I agree with you.

I can’t tell if you’re serious. If you are, lighten up? 

People just always have to find something to bitch about, even stupid commercials.

And the Pepsi commercial was sooo not even that serious.  Wow.

i thought all the commercials where guys got hit in the balls were offensive and im not even a guy.

why was the pepsi one offensive? i saw it last night and didn’t think anything of it.  and i guess you have to have kids to understand what the problem was in the last video cuz i didn’t see anything wrong with that either. 

@TheDarkAndMisleadSoul@xanga - Agreed. Everyone at the party I was at burst out laughing during the Pepsi one – girls and guys. Ditto with the baby. I missed the Groupon one in real time.

oh my gosh. they were all hilarious, grow a funny bone.

I love a society which thinks sexism, baby abuse and desensitized commercialization is funny. We need more of this more! Oh wait, this is what I already see in every damn commercial!

If you really want to joke about it, let’s first make sure these never happen IRL. It’s only funny if it’s fiction.

TWAP.

Test baby.

LOL.

The Tibetan one was the only one I found offensive..

the second one made everyone at the party i went to laugh a lot. the other ones not so much.

*disclaimer: i mean no harm in what i am about to say, and i do not intend to be racist in any way.*
i was more annoyed with the pepsi max commercial. not because it was of different races getting a can thrown at their heads, but when i went to look at comments it wasn’t controversy about the white woman getting hit in the head by a black woman, it was anger at the fact that black women came off pushy, controlling, and looked as if they had anger issues. regardless of what pepsi did with that commercial no one would have been happy. if it was a white woman throwing a can at a black woman, hell would have been raised. the woman got hit in the face with the can and people are still bitching because the woman looks like she has anger and control issues, and that portrays both blacks and women badly. if there was no black people in the commercial at all, pepsi would’ve been discriminating or something or other. blah blah blah, whatever, it was just a bad idea altogether. but really, what SHOULD have been offensive in that commercial was the fact that they basically assaulted someone and then ran away from the scene of the crime. regardless of color, race, gender, whatever, it was practically a hit and run.

The Tibetan one was.. not really right. But the other two were funny.

I didn’t think any were offensive. Sorry to hear you’re sensitive but that’s probably because you’re female.

(lol)

I agree with you.

are these really all that offensive?  i feel like lovelyish always has to bring up “offensiveness” 

@muchtragedy@xanga - My point was that the IMAGES were not offensive. Not that people in one situation or another were better off. They were showing children dancing and serving food, not like kids starving or being beaten or something. Hence, really not offensive visually.

@Winsa@xanga - soooo only straving kids in africa get some special exclusion rights, whereas everyone else experiencing war and hunger doesn’t?…? ^_-

having said that, the other two werent that offensive =P

summary imo:

tibet – should not happen

pepsi – stupid

baby – funny

xD

@Winsa@xanga - lol fast reply =P

Ah, ok, got your point about the african kids. Still, to me the point is more like: hey these people are in shit, but they can still serve us food! for cheap! serve serve serve! which is why i dissaproved O.o

I think if a war/political disturbance was going in some part of the US, and civilians were being seriosly hurt, somehow  there wouldn’t be commericials going “hey, but they can still make cheap food!”

@muchtragedy@xanga - I get it. (BTW, i just HAPPENED to sign on right when you replied hahaha) Yeah, I understand what you’re saying, but at the same time, if we were to take all of it seriously at all, then NONE of it would be funny. It was like I said to the girl who posted it, it’s funny because it’s exaggerated truth. That’s what makes humor humor… I don’t always agree with it (Heck, I don’t even really like comedies)… Just so you know, I didn’t really think the commercial in question was funny, I just didn’t think that it was as offensive as the OP was making it out to be.

Once again, Americans prove to be one of the most easily offended group of people.  Congratulations!  Keep bringing truth to the stereotype.

Yeah, because this site doesn’t stereotype men at all.

This is a perfect example of the pansy America mentality. Grow some fucking balls you pansies. 

I like how you snuck in the bed net thing at the end…. charity dropping. how liberal of you.

And every single one of my guests laughed at the Pepsi Max commercial.

The Pepsi one just is a form of humor not everyone will like. Trust me, there are people who think exactly like that couple (granted mainly immature people) and it doesn’t have everyone thinking like that.

The groupon one, I can see. Poor way to get their point across.

I don’t see how the last commercial alone trivializes child abuse like many people are claiming. I don’t think it’s offensive as just not following what society says is appropriate to the letter. It makes clear it’s a test baby and it’s meant to show how being in a tiny hotel room can lead to bad things it seems (it’s an accident and the mother is shown to look kinda horrified at what happened to her “baby”). Now the part I can see comes in when you look at what you could do on the website version. You could apparently put up pictures of any baby and could choose between catching it and decapitating it. Now that I can see.
*Lovelyish, your comments are being weird. If I separate the lines, it adds in another line of separation. If I don’t separate them besides hitting enter for a new line, it lumps them into a whole block of text. Is the site being worked on or something? And sometimes…it apparently does both at once.*

the first two were crap BUT THE TEST BABY OMG i died.

I mean sure theyre all really dumb, but I wouldn’t really be offended by them. They just make me angry by how dumb our culture is.

Personally I thought they were great! Not offensive at all. Someone is reading WAY too much into these if they’re offended by them!

wow. hahaha the baby one…poor test baby x) 

The Pepsi one was extremely stupid. No one at my house laughed.

I thought the Tibetan one was kind of offensive. I started to feel bad for those people before I realized it was a groupon commercial. Made it unfunny.

I didn’t see the Tibet one, but the others are “funny”.  Don’t take things so seriously
If anything, you should have included the GoDaddy ones.  Those annoyed the fck outta me & were inappropriate.

THE TEST BABY WAS THE FREAKIEST LOOKING THING I’VE EVER SEEN… >_>;;;

the test baby was ehhh. the Pepsi one, I’m not offended by. but yeah, the Tibet one was really inhumane and insensitive. it’s encouraging the American mindset that even though everyone else in the world may be suffering, all we should give a crap about is our profit and pleasure. it’s saying, “yeah, Tibet is going through shitty things, but who gives a fuck? what matters is their food is good, and that you should buy it using our coupon!” assholes.

@Eglariel@xanga - I recently lost a family member so while I laughed awkwardly, it did make me think of that instead of how funny the ad was, which it was.

I like the pepsi one. the baby one was awful.

I really like the pepsi commercial with the black lady. that cracked me up.

The first one was in poor taste. They could’ve gotten their point across without exploiting Tibetan issues. Especially considering the commercial offered exactly zero potential solutions.

The last two were funny in my opinion. The Pepsi commercial played up an old stereotype. We all know stereotypes are true at least sometimes. It also hinted that the guy might want a Pepsi more than sex. That’s the punchline. Laugh at it.
The last one wasn’t actual violence. It was an accident. This entry was written as though the parents threw the baby across the room as a result of their frustration. Clearly that didn’t happen. A million more violent things happen in cartoons and we don’t bat an eye. People are getting riled up for nothing. 

Okay, let’s be honest, there’s better things to do then sit around and criticizecommercials that have already aired. I don’t really understand how the Pepsi commercial is offensive?  Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past twenty years, this is how some men think and how some women think as well. Mind you, it’s exaggerated, as most (all?) commercials are!! The baby commercial was just quirky to capture the audience’s attention. God forbid a fake baby face plants into a glass wall. Like really? That should only offend you if you’re obsessed with dolls and figurines. The Tibet commercial was a little wrong. But, seriously, lighten up. Today’s society is too caught up in making sure everything is politically correct because God forbid we hurt someone’s precious feelings. It’s a commercial. It lasts thirty five to forty seconds maximum. If you don’t like it, don’t watch television. Simple as that. And don’t bitch about it either, because that’s just annoying. 

i thought they were all hilarious. the baby one had my bf and i laughing so hard when we saw it.

To be honest I wasn’t a fan of the baby one only because it looked like a real baby. If it would’ve looked more like a play baby doll I would’ve found it more funny

I know thatfor the cost of one 30-second Super Bowl ad spot, I could make a half-minute advertisement and air it during the Super Bowl.

“Did you guys know that for the cost of one 30-second Super Bowl ad spot, 167,222 families could be prevented from malaria with a bed net?”

The fact that the “Debbie Downer” .gif was above this is totally fitting.

i didn’t find the first two offensive, i just didn’t think they were funny or got their point across at all.  just terrible commercials. 

the last one was HORRIBLE.  it was just… wow.

all funny, none offensive. but the baby one was the funniest.

I think you’re making a mountain out of a gopher hill (yes, I realize it’s molehill).  The Pepsi one was kinda funny. I like blown up stereotypes, because they make me laugh. The baby one is hilarious, but then again, I’m not an oversensitive prick (like the oversensitive parents). Sit back, loosen up and laugh a little. It won’t hurt. 

@LEW_for_Life@xanga - agreed

@ivarahBharavi@xanga - That’s not just an American mindset, but a human one really. I actually was going to take out money (which I didn’t have) for that Tibet commercial and because of that commercial, I’ve been thinking about Tibet a lot. It may seem insensitive, but it made me care for a bit and keep it in mind. It’s bad humor (I enjoy) but it’s not all bad. Too bad, it wasn’t real =( I found all of the superbowl commercials fun and non offensive at all. People just need to lighten up and have some humor in the world. Things are terrible yes, but adding a bit of joy and humor to it makes it better. I should know, I’m in a bad situation myself but I keep a smile ready and laugh at times. And the exploitation is no worse than what other people do daily to each other. It’s just human nature. It’s just a human thing we do. 

@TooComplicated2Explain@xanga - But as people, we exploit each other all the time. You just don’t see it and this commercial wasn’t so bad. I’m sure real exploitation worse and it actually had me thinking about Tibet and feeling sorry for them.  And apparently Groupon actually sponsors these countries with charities: here. Though I fear with so much PC and humorless people, it goes by the waist side and I’m no cruel heartless person myself. Though it may of been bad, it actually made me think and even consider a lot of things. Too bad I’m too poor to help contribute to any cause I care about.

@Hinase@xanga - and apparently, Groupon does charity work; Though I admit(the ad) that it wasn’t for everyone. That kind of humor. Think Ricky Gervais type of humor and you’ll understand. Just look him up at the Golden Globes. I hate to say it, but Americans and people in general don’t care for too long and if it’s not happening to them, they feign careness. It’s sad but true. People don’t truly care and sometimes, some do, but it’s not enough. Most don’t. That’s the problem. Example: The whole Egypt thing for instant will be forgotten in a few months, barely a bimp in our radar (like the Oil Spill and Haiti). That’s just how it is. And if people truly cared, they would donate (No money. I can’t=() or do something positive for the world. Most people don’t. 

i hated the groupon ad though i thought it was cool to do an ad that was almost like mocking our culture- majority of us don’t know any of the problems going on there, but who cares because we have the thai food- because its sooooo true adn that aspect was totally funny. i just didn’t find it funny to use tibet, since there are human rights issues there and it’s people with actual struggles we couldn’t even fathom, i found it a little distasteful. though the whale comm they had did make me laugh (and i am all for the saving whales cause) 

volkswagen has the best advertising team. the pepsi was funny too!