Has anyone seen that Vermont Teddy Bear Valentine's Day commercial?

[Stinky The Clown]

Sparkly pointed it out to me. An awful portrayal of women. And they have this faux office set with the women supposedly "at work" ....... acting really silly and giggly and dressed like they're off to the club (at best) or to work their corners (at worst).

:puke:

[skids]

1. "Wow it's bigger than I thought I could kiss it all day"

Yeah, I saw it. :puke:

[eleny]

2. "I didn't know it was so big! I could just kiss it and kiss it!"

Some new dialog they added this year. One way to get men to spend money is to promise a blow job.

Women aren't the only ones demeaned by this advertisement.

Thanks for bringing it up, Stinky. It's been bugging me for days but I felt odd bringing it up myself. Thanks for opening the door.

[bdamomma]

9. I watched it but maybe I wasn't paying attention

did they really say that? that could have a different meaning you know!!

[eleny]

20. Sounded to me like it has that underlying meaning

Now, I'm not a prude. But it just seemed like such a cheap way to advertise the bears.

Btw, I like your new nickname! :thumbsup:

[bdamomma]

25. thanks eleny!!

[JerseygirlCT]

23. Yes! Been bugging me, too! nt

[glowing]

3. Yes, I cannot believe anything that stupid is coming out of VT.. did they let a puke run

the marketing dept. I mean the VT teddybears are an it staple item.. overpriced and made to order.. ever since they went "big", they've been soooo stupid. Who where's that to the office and the men look like idiots too. It looks more like it belongs to a 900 commercial ad they sponsor on late night.

[Raine]

27. Ironically they give to Democrats

someone looked it up and told me that they're a blue company. :shrug:

[johnfunk]

37. So they take money from regressive troglodyte guys and...

... dnate some of it to progressives. The ads are clearly aimed at knuckledraggers.

So there's a little bit of schadenfreude to go with the irony.

[RoccoR5955]

4. Funny, aside from their physical appearance, they look like a lot of offices I visit.

I am a computer field technician, and see all kinds. Many, are just like the office pictured in the ad, albeit the woman are not as made-up.

[Ikonoklast]

But do they fake an orgasm over a stuffed toy?

That commercial sounds like a sound track to a badly-made porno.

[RoccoR5955]

38. They fake orgasm whenever possible, as well as other things. n/t

[leftyclimber]

5. Yes. Ugh.

I am not in seventh grade.

Do not buy me one of those, anybody.

:puke:

[FloriTexan]

6. Agree completely...

The creep licking his lips at the end while he placed his order on the computer pissed me off the most.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. They are encouraging guys to send Teddy Bears to their /perspective babes.

[Control-Z]

39. Yes, with the promise of

a great f@#k in return, from the recpient. ack!

[physioex]

8. To each his own....

I think of as cleaver marketing geared to the male audience.

[Cerridwen]

29. The only thing that could have been funnier that your inadvertent typo

of "cleaver marketing" would have been if you'd added the word "member" to the end of "male audience."

edit for some atrocious grammar and spelling

[physioex]

35. Well....

That's what is was implying. :evilgrin:

[Cerridwen]

36. LOL

Thanks! I needed a laugh.

:D

[Hissyspit]

10. Yeah, I saw that the other day. That was my reaction, too. They think women stay at nine years old

mentally?

[prairierose]

11. Yes, I feel like I have fallen through a time warp back to...

a very unenlightened time where the little girl/daddy fantasy lives right next door to the madonna and the whore. I get so tired of the images of both men and women that I see on the television machine. There are more children than adults and there is so much pretend reality that there is very little not guaranteed to :puke:

[Ilsa]

12. Has anyone NOT seen it? It is on at every commercial break.

And yes, it is a terrible portrayal of women.

"Work their corners" -- yeah I wondered if a couple of them had been porn stars.

[drmeow]

14. Those of us who only watch

video taped copies of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report and fast forward through the ads haven't seen it.

[Blue Diadem]

17. I haven't actually seen it. It was on a couple times earlier

but the TV is behind me so I never actually saw the commercial. I only remember hearing them say they would ship it overnight.

Now I have to go check it out.

[jazzjunkysue]

13. Yeah. Their husbands beat them and cheat, but they are fooled by the teddy bears.

Men think women are morons. I'd feel like a child if my husband showed up with one of those things.

I want the roses and the chocolate and the dinner out, thank you. I'm a grown up.

[katanalori]

15. Send them an e-mail, I did

The commercials are insulting enough, but worse - they advertise On the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I let them know that I, and many others, boycott any products advertised on a show that wishes failure to our President. A show of a Traitor.

[Raine]

26. Thye also advertised on KO and Rachel

I don't think politics has anything to do with it because someone who looked it up said Vermont Teddy Bears donates to Democrats.

[Avalux]

16. It's really, really bad.

But then women aren't their intended audience; they want men to buy the stupid bears. For their mistresses? :shrug:

[marlakay]

18. My husband bought me one last year

It had a tattoo of my name on his arm. But I would rather have a softer cuddlier bear. These are kind of stuffed hard if that makes sense.

[Malikshah]

19. It's filled with "masculine men" who completely creep this gay

man out.

I imagine that the office they are in smells like, beer, vomit, urine with a taint of a shootoff in a hay bale...

Who directed this video? Ron Burgundy?

[eleny]

21. !

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

41. The commercial makes me want to vomit but your analysis of it makes

me :rofl:

Thank you; the next time I see that tripe I'll remember what you wrote; perfect!

[JerseygirlCT]

22. I know. And the guy is wearing a white t-shirt

in the office. As in an underwear t-shirt...

Could those women look any cheaper?

And, um, yeah, no thanks to a teddy bear... Bring your baby in and I'll coo for hours, but I gave up stuffed animals, oh 40 years ago.

[Raine]

24. Seen it and seen it and seen it

again and again and again. I like Teddy Bears but I'm going to :puke: if I have to see it again.

[NRaleighLiberal]

28. Funny thing is that my wife and I agree that they are some butt ugly PJs!

Fools and their money are soon parted....

There are suckers born every minute....

etc. etc.

[sad sally]

30. Do that many people (guys?) really buy enough of these teddy bears to run

this commercial almost non-stop today? Kind of like the video professor and bare minerals - who buys this stuff?

[Cerridwen]

31. I wonder how women who are insulted by the ad will respond should

their SO/spouse/partner present them with said stuffed bear.

Maybe the marketing team could do a follow-up, live, on the spot, reactions to the Valentine presentations.

They may be marketing to a certain segment of "men," but the intended recipients may be the ones to determine the success of said marketing.

edit: wow, weird word order. Brain on vacation. I hope it has fun.

[treestar]

42. It's not the bear itself so much as the ad showing adult women

giggly over a bear - seems like a present for a little kid and maybe they could have sold more had they presented it that way.

[blonndee]

32. Ugh. That commercial is the worst. It's like those "LiveLinks" commercials

with the allegedly-horny 20-year-olds so turned on by the possibility of an anonymous male caller. The "oohs" and "aahs" in this commercial are so cheesy-porny, and the "It's bigger than I thought it would be" and "I want to just kiss it and kiss it" (paraphrased) comments are just as cheap-porny. If any guy I dated bought me a Vermont Bear, I'd end it then and there. Not because I would be offended or anything, but because it would be so obvious that he was a FREAKING DUMBASS who believed that stupid commercial!

[Berry Cool]

34. It makes women look like insipid sluts and men look like horndog idiots.

The women look as if they just came off a porn-movie set, and talk like they have IQs of about 8. The men might as well have drool buckets under their chins, because they're practically salivating at the thought of the kind of nookie they'll get if only they buy their girlfriend a teddy bear. It's really insulting to everyone involved.

[Liberal_in_LA]

33. what about the commercial where 2 guys have tiny little burgers. the women act as if

all their brain cells have died off.

[kaiden]

40. If my husband, Larry, got me one of those bears, I'd kick his

'nads so high, he'd be wearin' them for a lavaliere.

Just sayin.