Who thinks this stuff up? Better yet, who approved this stuff for broadcast?

Makes me not want to buy what they're selling.

very sexist. A man whose partner is wooden, scantily dressed, etc.

I think the concept was probably clever...the execution has been creepy and poorly thought-out. The one with the son is better than the one with the wife...the wife ad is filled with, what I assume were unintentional, sexist tropes.

Especially the one with the wife asking her husband if he likes what he sees, or whatever she says. Ick. I can't even watch.

I mute most commercials anyway and when I really get fed up, I switch to my Roku.

They frankly are disturbing.

Those ads are weird and disturbing and definitely do not make me want to buy the product.

but I guess it got people talking.

That's the message I get from it.

That's the creepiest one of all!

That's the word you want. I can't believe somebody actually got paid money to come up with these.

I'm not creeped out by them. I just find them plain dumb.

I thought their previous campaign with the magic-genie was fine. They're still advertising the same product, and having a magical genie is appropriate.

What's odd about their use of the super-marionation people is that they're contradicting themselves. They're advertising for a media-system that is wireless by using 'people' that can only function with wires.

Seems to me that a better way of getting that point across would be for the marionettes to be shown being freed of the restriction of their own wires, too. Pinocchio comes to mind in that light...

That's what stands out for me.

It's so bad, I don't remember what product it touts.

So I will NEVER buy it.

The last ad campaign I felt that strongly about was the "ring around the collar" ads from Wisk. I've never bought Wisk since and avoided Unilever products completely.

DirecTV is dead to me. If I go back to satellite TV, I will go with DISH.

that make me never to want to buy the product.

To ask my doctor to give them to me!

I even liked the Russian(?) guy with his mini giraffe more than this

I've been out of the country for six weeks. I hate those commercials.

and his pet daughter…. r e a l l y fuckin creepy…

Can't stand those spots - and I have DTV.