These always crack me the hell up, the one response in my tiny remote rant thread made me think of these.

I think what makes it work is that the guy helping the homeowners who are becoming their parents is actually their parents age which makes it even funnier and ironic



What are some of your favorites of these?

They are pretty funny. I like the one where they go to the baseball game and one of the guys talks about leaving before they even go in.

I laugh at most of them. Getting a little long in the tooth but far from the annoying Liberty Mutual ads.

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Originally posted by cruiser68:
...the annoying Liberty Mutual ads.

I don't find them too bad, mostly because they are short (15-30 seconds at most), unlike the obnoxious Mike Lindell, Tunnels to Towers, help the Jews in eastern Europe, and various other infomercials lasting minutes the make me dive for the remote.

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
They are pretty funny. I like the one where they go to the baseball game and one of the guys talks about leaving before they even go in.

I have been guilty of something like that, and at least four or five other things portrayed in these commercials like the line wrangling, I guess I truly am turning into my parents

The Dr. Rick commercials are some of the very few that don't get immediately muted upon airing. Funny because I see the "becoming their parents" phenomena in many of my acquaintances, and even relatives.

The commercials that get the channel changed are the ones that feature pathetic animals in cages or other unfortunate circumstances. These images are not taken from life but are manufactured by the videos producers, not at all improving the poor creatures lives. Crueler than the circumstances claimed to be alleviated by the sponsoring organization. The diseased children are a close second, "hold still little Susie while we shave your head. It's for a good cause."

"Who else reads books about submarines?"

The one about the parking. One dude starts talking about how much they make off the parking lot

Sometimes I think Rick is wrong, and his new homeower clients are right.

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Originally posted by cas:
"Who else reads books about submarines?"

“My Dad”

The one with the woman leaving the long voicemail and him asking what was done wrong is a good one too:

"It's a freezer, not a time capsule. I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can tell me what this is."

Love them! While my wife might get a dig on me for emulating my Dad’s personality, she is the embodiment of the caricature of the ad, and “that’s the way we’ve always done it”, i.e., how her Father/family did things....

I find myself in the portrayals. I shake my head in self-reproach, so to speak, and am trying now to recognize the behavior to interrupt and stop the behavior.

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Originally posted by apprentice:
"It's a freezer, not a time capsule. I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can tell me what this is."

That’s me. Girlfriend glares at me every time it comes on.

We don't need to print the internet

My dad.
He went to Staples and bought, an ENTIRE box of printer paper, that's 10 reams!
...he's been retired for twenty years

Those are pretty funny and not yet annoying. Still, I had to look for what the commercial was for and how it related to the skit.

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Originally posted by corsair:
We don't need to print the internet

My dad.
He went to Staples and bought, an ENTIRE box of printer paper, that's 10 reams!
...he's been retired for twenty years

This is my parents, both 77 now

I’ll find dozens and dozens of pages on their printer, they’ll try to print whole websites instead of just saving a bookmark.

I’ve showed them over and over the past 20+ years that you don’t need to do this yet it persists.

“Gotta print that out! It may go away!”

They are some of the better ads on TV.

I find them extremely funny, even though I am almost that age where it will be me.

My Sweet Bride gets a kick out of the giant dog Ralph announcing arrival of the 'peanut butter box' while the tiny dog "Giuseppe/whatever" argues its the CHEWEY box after which comes the peanut butter. Ralph has some kind of accent.

Seems humorous the first dozen times.