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There's a discussion of advertising and children in there.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the commercial. If parent's are going to try to imitate what's in the commercial, then that's a problem with the parents. It's not like children are the target audience of the commercial.
I never saw the ad on TV so that begs the question - What were you watching when you saw the ad? You know, tell me if you were watching some kid show or some grown-up guy show or something else. The ad could have been targeting the demo they know watches that show.
I never saw the ad on TV so that begs the question - What were you watching when you saw the ad? You know, tell me if you were watching some kid show or some grown-up guy show or something else. The ad could have been targeting the demo they know watches that show.
It's been on just about every show I watch.
SyFy (A number of shows)
NCIS
Bones
HLN(Nancy Grace)
CSI:NY
Same shows that lots of folks watch.
(AND .. I've yet to see it on Busty Coeds vs. Lusty Cheerleaders)
Guess my mind just doesn't work that way, and I really thought I had a chance at dirty old man someday. The commercial doesn't start the way you described. It actually starts with the little boy giving gifts to all the little girls in the class, and those gifts were more expensive than the candy given to the teacher. The shot you froze in your lead in is an extremely short exposure of the teacher writing on the blackboard as the boy approaches and she turns rather quickly to face him. The leer you notices is a full face shot of the boy after she has turned, so he is actually leering to her face (although I would have called it a smug, self-confident smile.....He is a little smoothie afterall). Every thing you picked up on was very incidental and brief in the overall theme of the clip. I noticed the rapt attention the girls in the class gave him upon receipt of the gift than any sexual tension between him and the teacher.
As to where these teachers were when you were in school, shux, I guess they were all teaching my classes. I remember quite a few.
I definitely agree that this is taking a split second frame (you literally have to try to frame advance to that split second) and making it something it isnt.
I definitely agree that this is taking a split second frame (you literally have to try to frame advance to that split second) and making it something it isnt.
But when you do get to that frame you get a VERY nice view.
All things being equal, I see nothing terribly wrong with that ad. When I was that age, I had crushes on teachers and I even had at least a faint notion of the sexual component of the attractions.
What I find strange is that fears and actual cases of pedophilia in the education system, as are being exposed by the media, are at the highest level in my lifetime, and yet it can still be used to sell candy, ibuprofen, and vodka.
Sexual innuendo + children= not impressed.
They could have gotten the same message across without the butt. However walgreens knows that most of their shoppers are women so it seems likely this is an attempt to appeal to more men and get them into the stores too.
I would find it funny if this backfired and not only do they not attract more men, but in the process offend their female customer base.
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