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The Ad Council Commercials: Stupid or Super-Stupid? You Decide
by Larry Jankens 8/4/2009 - 9:52 pm
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Oh, how I disdain the Ad Council and their stupid commercials. Just look at these. Few things boils my blood more than seeing our government piss away our tax dollars. Our hard earned capital is routinely spent on frivolous endeavors that benefit few while burdening the majority. While I think government spending in certain areas is absolutely necessary, spending money on stupid stuff is deplorable. An awesome example of horrible government spending is the Ad Council. While the organization itself is not a governmental agency, it accepts millions of dollars in public funds. Let’s review some of the ads tax payer money goes towards.
Example #1: What Are Your Kids Learning on the Internet?
That’s right America, if you don’t put parental blocks up on your computer, your kids will rape your pets. The internet is full of non-kid safe material, but I’m pretty sure that if your kid is twisted enough to try to roll over on Rover the internet is the least of your concerns.
Example #2: Caring vs. Controlling
You think it’s just a regular commercial for some wireless company introducing its “stalker plus” program that enables you to bother 5 people of your choice with no charge, then you think it’s a commercial selling big foam cell phone costumes, and just when you think it can’t get anymore weird comes “Nude pics, send me some.” This commercial was better when it was a movie staring Marky Mark and Reese Whitherspoon called Fear.
Example #3: Extra Arms
I’m not saying that having two extra arms would be a good thing, but shoot, the freak-of-nature angle has worked well for the Pregnant Man and Octo-crazy-mom. If growing extra arms is your penance for being an asshole, sign me up – my penance could be worse and a lot less practical. Plus, the girl tells the guy he should do something to change his karma, it's interesting that she didn't include "Buy back your grandpa's power tools, you tweaker prick." Maybe she doesn't like gramps either.
Example #4: Father involvement
If the Ad Council wanted to get across the importance of being involved with your daughter, they’d be better served showing a teenage girl acting like a slut. Because let’s face it, most teenage sluts are sluts because they have some daddy issues. This commercial should be something like “Don’t want your daughter to be a dirty teenage slut or a stripper? Get involved in her life so she doesn’t pierce her tongue and give BJ’s like they was going out of style.” Don’t get me wrong, a lot of the Ad Council commercials have good points to them. Of course you should make sure your young child isn’t surfing for porn on the net, you should avoid stalker-ish people, do good things, and pay attention to your children, but is it really necessary to spend our tax dollars telling people these obvious facts?
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Interesting post. I agree that some commercials are good and some seem stupid. I understood that television stations must air a certain number of psa's to maintain their licenses but how does one document the tax dollars flowing to the ad council? Not that I don't believe you but where is this confirmed?
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The Ad Council teams up with govnermental agencies to produce commercials on certain issues. The DOJ and DOT along with other governmental bodies have poured millions of dollars into the Ad Council over the years.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ad_Council
And yes, television and radio stations must air PSA's in order to keep their license, air time that could be sold to advertisers and revenue from those sales taxed by the government.
But the PSAs can just as easily be from nonprofits and I'm guessing that the network's PSAs (like NBC's "The More You Know") is a way that they can meet their PSA obligations while promoting their own stars. The government does have an obligation to provide information that promotes public safety and well being. My guess is that Ad Council funding started out as a way to do that. Like anything that involves money, the agencies receiving the funding don't want it to dry up and the agencies sponsoring the ads don't want that money out of their budgets, so they come up with ridiculous ads that somehow still meet the threshold for government funding.
Our tax dollars at work. Yay, America.
Oh, it's better than that! The Ad Council was originally created as the soft-propaganda arm of the the government during WWII. I agree that ostensibly, it isn't a bad idea to have the government pay money for PSA's, but I can only assume that you are right that it has morphed into a money-hungry-tax-cow that has our tax money go to telling people that kids are raping poodles.
This is an excellent example of the #3 I just discussed. Andrej bemoans the liberal propaganda of these advertisements, despite the fact that it's usually Republicans who style themselves as the party of morality and family values.
Nice collection. I like the 4-armed slacker and child-puppy-beastiality. I also think you're overlooking the value of these ads. In a few years, they will be retro gems on YouTube 34.0.
Pee in the shower, ya'll.
Now this is a PSA I can get behind. Pee in the shower, ya'll.
Awesome finds Larry. That child bestiality one ooks like one of those SNL faux PSAs gone horribly wrong.
I'm glad I lived in the golden age of quality PSA's like my fave below:
Dij, I am certain that this will come as no surprise, since I'm your "Indianan" doppelganger, but I've been singing that song for 30 years. It's a PSA that ran like crazy when I was a kid living in Minnesota, but when I moved back to Indiana nobody had ever heard it, so they just thought I was crazy.
That's from memory. I can't do the youtube at work.
Screw the stupid Ad Council. Not one of their ads serves a useful purpose, because the people who need to learn whatever they might say obviously aren't sitting around waiting to learn good behavior from an idiotic commercial on TV. If there were no such thing as the Ad Council, the whole country would be a little richer, and much better off.
Check out Top 50 Stupid, Bad, Banned Ads and Commercials
Just as I suspected, We are paying to fund this left wing, agenda, and there Lib lip service propaganda, next we will be funding propaganda which is not as dumb, but but much more dangerous, to our society, like brain washing our children into believing that having a dictator would be a good thing!
My previous comment applies to you, as well. Not everything you think is stupid automatically qualifies as being "left wing". You really ought to invest in a dictionary.
But you have to admit that 99.9% of stupid is left wing.
A new Ad Council gem: Some unknown man gets a little boy excited about going to the State Fair, then tells him he can't go this year because his parents wasted energy. The kid is crushed. Better luck next year--if his parents change their ways. That's Big Brother creepy, vs. merely stupid.
definitely have to agree, especially with the good karma one. who are they targeting? the brainless? if you haven't already, check out their post-9/11 campaign. more ridiculousness.