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I find the Jack-In-The-Box "Let's make a Jack Sandwich" ad campaign with the hot tub secne and the "Swingers" innuendo in poor taste. Is it just me? Have I lost touch with what's appropriate for prime time TV? Am I turning into my parents? Arghhhhhhhh.....
After about the umteenth time of seeing it I finally went to their website and told them how I felt. Oh my....IT IS happening....I AM turning into my parents!!!!!!
We thought it kinda funny, and much much tamer than what is on prime time TV these days.
Our kids think it is stupid, because they have no knowledge base in the '70's to relate the hair/hot tub/jewelry/innuendo to.
I am still shocked at what makes it on broadcast TV these days. We have heard words and terms that used to be only found on Cinemax.....lol.
We are trying to be aware of not becoming our parents too. The dreaded thing we said we'd never become.
PC
Well Stu, all I can say is, it just creeps in! Axioms fly out of your mouth, you find yourself saying "Why, I remember when....", you grumble about the price of things....The good news is at least you have moral limits...a good thing for a "mature" man..but.. you are far from old! You rock steady, Saint Stu! Being wise is hot! Cathy
This is a comment from a Fox network executive about their new show "Moment Of Truth"
“This is going to be the talk of the town and knocked out of the park. You’re either going to love it, or think it’s the end of Western civilization. And that’s the stuff that works.” -Mike Darnell FOX
I think that kind of summarizes how reality show programming goes, as well as some ad campaigns. They expect (and want) both positive and negative feedback for it to be successful. We know some people that do advertising for major corporations and when they run a campaign like that they are actually high fiving when the cards and letters start coming in.
Used to people would say that any publicity is good publicity. Today the bar has been raised (lowered) and in order for it to qualify as publicity it has to tread on previously sacred ground. That is what it takes to push your buttons these days and they know it. Some companies take a tongue in cheek approach to it and get in the mud. Others don't; only the market decides the winner.
Either way, it probably isn't the end to western civilization anymore than Elvis was (a lot of parents thought that was bad). Not really comparing the two, they are miles apart, but both could be viewed as bad by parents.
We just don't take it too serious, teach our kids to do the same and value it for what it really is. A 30 sec joke, that is marginal in taste. Like the ones your strange uncle tells at Christmas that keeps the whole family a little uncomfortable...........
We just don't take it too serious, teach our kids to do the same and value it for what it really is. A 30 sec joke, that is marginal in taste. Like the ones your strange uncle tells at Christmas that keeps the whole family a little uncomfortable...........
My uncle tells those kind of jokes at Christmas, but my family tends to be twisted enough that we all just laugh....and then try to top it. We don't stop until someone's face turns red.
I haven't seen the ad, but am feeling like my parents a little more everyday. child #2 turned 17, I had a birthday dinner for him and decided to turn my sirius dial up 1 from 74 to 75 to listen to the Frank Sinatra station for background music...the grandparents loved it...and when Strangers In The Night came on, my hubby and I sang it loud and cranked it up...what a GREAT song!! Frank was such an old fashion romantic!!! 
About Elvis-in retrospect its pretty humorous that the cameras would not look at him from the waist down for a long time...he could shake it and be sizzling with all his clothes on...I think even Elvis might roll over if he saw the trash going down on tv today. 
When I do watch tv, I hate when a blue pill/purple pill or whatever color the pill is ad comes on ruins my mood, especially if I'm catching a show with the kids etc. (along with any bladder commercials). 
Jane-we could start a whole new thread w/KIDS TODAY...pre-teen clothing/teen clothing, hooking up (15 years old)...I hate the texting obsession and rudeness involved...the entire staff was out with the flu, I worked the front desk reception/phones making appointments...my phones are ringing off the hook, I'm one person and this young lady is making me wait at the front window why she's texting her friend...so rude!!! And then there is the cell phones everywhere...
I AM old. Kids will give respect if it's demanded. A lot of parents are too lazy, drunk or stoned to care. Walked into a holding room last week and called a kid by name. He was sprawled out on a bench and he said "Hunh?"
In two steps I was across the room and in his face. I informed him that the correct response is "Yessir or nosir: and since his mama didn't teach him any manners, we would start at the basics. The whole room got really quiet. And when I asked if there was any questions, I got a "No sir!," from every mouth.
I cleaned that up a bit. Nevertheless, life is not a popularity contest. Respect is mas importante.
I'm no saint by any means. I gross them all (my wife & kids) out regularly. We talk at the dinner table and on rides to the games. The kids tell me stuff that runs my BP up, but they tell me.
In public we're kinda old school with the manners thing. We feel it's important.
We just don't watch TV. It's a conspiracy to dumb down America. Turn the f***ing thing off or not, but don't play victim. I agree 100% with write 'em and tell 'em. Good for y'all!
grumblegrumble
mr.jones
I agree with Stu...poor taste is the first think that came to my mind....my wife was disgusted...she said she's gonna just change the channell when commercials like that are on...that got me thinking of the superbowl show with Timberlake and J.J....when is enough...enough?
Dave
Could someone tell me which commercial you are referring to?!
Cause if I find it disgusting too, then you´re all not old - or I am old too! 
Eva
By God, I remember when I was young. We used to walk 18 miles to school up hill both ways through 10 foot snow drifts and we barely had shoes on our feet. Everyday we had wiener water soup for supper and then on Sunday, we'd actually get to eat the wiener. We didn't have 200 cable stations! Why, we just sat around with the lights off watching the test pattern on the old black and white TV. You know, the one with the Indian head. Sports equipment? I used to steal a pair of my mom's bloomers and bra and wrap the bra around the bloomers so we had a football. And tough? We played tackle-pom on the playground.........during the summer when the asphalt was 175 degrees. At times guys would get stuck after being tackled, so we'd grab their legs and tear them loose. Sometimes skin and asphalt was left behind!
I'll tell ya..............bunch of young wipper-snappers nowadays!!
Old Man Roy
Ha! We used to dream of playing on an asphalt field with a bloomer-bra football!!!
/MontyPython'd
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
Could someone tell me which commercial you are referring to?!
Cause if I find it disgusting too, then you´re all not old - or I am old too!Eva
Here it is -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_jap8Qjzk
PC
We just don't take it too serious, teach our kids to do the same and value it for what it really is. A 30 sec joke, that is marginal in taste. Like the ones your strange uncle tells at Christmas that keeps the whole family a little uncomfortable...........
Thanks Phil. Agreed. I watched it. Not the end of the world, but glamorizing the cocaine fueled, XXX, swinger days is kinda counter productive.
For a sandwich?
myopinion
nothingmore
It's all over now Stu. Next thing you know you'll be yelling at kids to get off your lawn.:D 
It's all over now Stu. Next thing you know you'll be yelling at kids to get off your lawn.:D
HA HA HA! You mean like, "Close the door, we're not heating the outside!"
Hey, I wonder if Pat O'Brien auditioned for the role of that blonde dude in the hot tub?
Keith- That's funny!!
About that hot tub...there's a house on my street that no matter who seems to move in, something just is always happening to stir things up...:lol:
I believe in all that's said about first impressions...1st day of kindergarten, my oldest, her youngest...at the bus stop, she is bragging about her kindergartner (5 years old) being an entrepeneur because he was selling her Victoria Secret catalogs to the teen boys on the next street!! The first time we went to their house, the dad was showing us their family photo album from a recent trip to Tortola (sp?)...his wife and 13 year old daughter were topless!!! They had a party, after we left, the swapping of partners went on in the hot tub...fast forward 2 more years, she's throwing all his clothes out the window, he got his mistress pregnant...YIKES...they are divorced now, she moved to Hilton Head...her new boyfriend is 10 years younger as opposed to 10 years older this time around...2 of the 4 kids dropped out of high school...when they were younger, she would never wake them up for school, she always let them go in late or not at all...
And the new neighbors...different than the first neighbors, BUT just crazy stuff...keeps us entertained...
Keith wrote:It's all over now Stu. Next thing you know you'll be yelling at kids to get off your lawn.:D
HA HA HA! You mean like, "Close the door, we're not heating the outside!"
Hey, I wonder if Pat O'Brien auditioned for the role of that blonde dude in the hot tub?
That´s funny Angela ... got your own soap opera right next door .
I watched the video on youtube, and it´s pretty much the kind of stuff that is on TV here too.
When I talked to an American exchange student a year ago, he was actually pretty shocked about German TV - we agreed that over here it´s more the violence that is a taboo, and that the kind of stuff in the commerical is more a taboo in the US. Don´t know if it´s true though ...
Eva
P.S.: "Close the door, we´re not heating the outside" is one classic sentence - my boyfriend keeps on telling me to turn the light off when I´m not in the room, maybe he´s getting old too !
Roy,
Thank you, thank you for the CLASSIC Monte Python video. I'm still grinning.
As for me, I didn't yell at the two year old I repeatedly spotted halfway up the olive tree in my front yard.....I yelled at her stay-at-home-Dad who remained blissfully unaware of the potential disaster looming. That's my beef.....what's up with parents who don't have a clue what their kids are doing? Whether they're two or twenty-two?
Okay, now, back to grinning.......
Libby
Try this one out, Stu -
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