Aah!It's a giant baby!Nationwide, stop! |
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Ken 1802 ![]() Junior Executive ![]() Joined: 19 Jul 2013 Location: Miami Florida Status: Offline Points: 986 |
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Nationwide ad agency has finally lost it's damn mind! Their newest commercial features a giant baby for no apparent good reason. What kind of idiotic agency came up with this obviously stupid, asinine, moronic bad idea?
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Ad nauseous ![]() Revolutionary ![]() ![]() Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 23609 |
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Ken, if you payed attention there's a brief second where a blue Mustang with damage, can be seen in the baby's place. The car is "his baby" hence the giant baby. Get it?
I thought it was clever quiet non-idiotic commercial, that's my opinion anyway. |
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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Whitedog127 ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Location: East Coast Status: Offline Points: 701 |
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At least the giant baby isn't screaming...
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Braaaandy Aaaaalexaaaaaander!
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aka ron ![]() Honor Roll ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: WI Status: Offline Points: 33609 |
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DarkRealmStar ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Location: Undisclosed Status: Offline Points: 3182 |
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I'm with Ken. Just saw this ad and had to log on to CIH to see if it was listed yet. It's creepy. The giant baby is creepy. Even if it's a visual substitute for the man's car being "his baby" I don't like it and I don't like the ending song. I'm also tired of the voiceover lady who always announced that Nationwide doesn't have shareholders.
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Papa Lazarou ![]() Ad Exec ![]() ![]() Formerly Codtaro Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Location: New Mexico Status: Offline Points: 7715 |
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I don't find it creepy. I like it, but I also agree with DarkRealm in that the voice over and jingle are irritants.
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Banana!
BANANA!! BANANA!!! BANANA!! Banana! |
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DarkRealmStar ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Location: Undisclosed Status: Offline Points: 3182 |
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Thank you Codtaro, but I'm surprised you like babies (in commercials that is, I'm not saying you're a mean, baby-hating person).
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Papa Lazarou ![]() Ad Exec ![]() ![]() Formerly Codtaro Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Location: New Mexico Status: Offline Points: 7715 |
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I like giant babies.
You have to. Make that thing upset it'll sit on you and use you as a rattle.
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Banana!
BANANA!! BANANA!!! BANANA!! Banana! |
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Ad Endless Nauseum ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Location: San Diego Status: Offline Points: 1044 |
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A long time ago, i started risking whiplash from lunging for the remote every time I hear "in the nation..."
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"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
Defense de fumer et de cracher A message brought to you by this station and the Ad Council. |
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DarkRealmStar ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Location: Undisclosed Status: Offline Points: 3182 |
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It is arrogant and annoying that they say "in the nation" like their insurance company is the whole country. What also irritates me about the giant baby is that he's just sitting there in his diaper with no clothes on. They didn't even put a cute outfit on him, or have him holding a rattle. At first I thought we were in a diaper Pampers or Huggies commercial. It's also exploiting a little baby, although his bank account (or his parents' bank account) would disagree.
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Oldiesmann ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Location: Cincinnati, OH Status: Offline Points: 212 |
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I'm getting tired of this ad. It was cute at first, but it's getting annoying now, and I never have liked that song (in case anyone's wondering, it's "Love Is Strange" by Mickey and Sylvia).
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Michael "Oldiesmann" Eshom
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Lucian ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 May 2009 Location: Fredericksburg Status: Offline Points: 116 |
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The is the worst commercial on right now. You know, everybody likes that song when they hear it in (the movie) Casino for about 15 seconds. But when you hear it over and over, the fact that it is a huge pile of crap becomes apparent. Love is shtrange? what the F is shtrange? I hate the stupid f*$&ing guitar part. It's quite possibly the worst pile of crap I've ever heard. I mean, forget Nationwide, right? Might as well be a Geico or Allstate or Esurance commercial. Nobody is paying attention to the product and nobody is going to be switching to Nationwide because of this horrible commercial. But the song... Great gods above, the song is just so terrible. Oh and Nationwide? That CGI crap STILL looks fake as f*$k.
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mrjim ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 24 Jan 2013 Location: San Diego, CA Status: Offline Points: 169 |
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These commercials wouldn't be so bad if they didn't play them over and over again. I counted one time and this baby commercial was on 4 times in an hour. Now come on, That is entirely too much.
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Synesthesia ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 16 Jul 2009 Status: Offline Points: 2088 |
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Giant babies are scary.
Giant baby diapers. ![]() |
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Is this love big enough to watch over me?
Big enough to let go of me Without hurting me, Like the day I learned to swim?-Kate Bush The Fog |
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PaWolf ![]() Revolutionary ![]() ![]() Hoary Ol' Chestnut... doncha know.... Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: GreatWhiteNorth Status: Offline Points: 40828 |
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"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
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aka ron ![]() Honor Roll ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: WI Status: Offline Points: 33609 |
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Welcome to crap talk on the mighty WCIH.
Big baby, big load. Someone get some fannie wipes! Your heiney will be happy. Let's talk about your bum. Sweet mother of softness.
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garnet1223 ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 08 Dec 2013 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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Oh yeah I remember that. Yes, very weird indeed..not to mention uncreative. Commercials never cease to amaze me.
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Judge Fudge ![]() Commercial Hater ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Aug 2013 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 23 |
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I actually liked the idea when I first saw it. Okay, the car is symbolized as being the owner's baby. Fair enough. Car = Baby. They even do a good enough job keeping other cars in the background being out of focus so you keep thinking of the metaphor and not just a giant baby, or maybe I just give them too much lenience... but the thing that oddly bothered me the most was at the end when the "Baby" (since remember, Babies= cars) is playing with a tire... so is the car playing with a car part a la Cars or Herbie or is the Baby playing with... well that got dark. It's a stupid small thing, but that's what really bothered me about the commercial.
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robodog ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 18 May 2011 Location: Mississippi Status: Offline Points: 128 |
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Now all we need is a giant dingo and we're golden.
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Meddle not in the affairs of animatronic beasts for you are crunchy and make an excellent fuel source.
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Ad nauseous ![]() Revolutionary ![]() ![]() Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 23609 |
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Okay, Nationwide I've had enough of your damn commercial! It was cute at first, but now? After watching you air it for three hundred billionth time, I'm SICK OF IT!
I've had enough, I'm sick of your dumb big baby ad! Also cut it out with that stupid sh*tty ass junk you call "music" it's grating on the ears AND nerves. No love is not "schtrange"! |
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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Thor ![]() Revolutionary ![]() ![]() Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 61736 |
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You may hate the song, but it's considered a classic. Supposedly, Bo Diddley wrote the riff, and Sylvia (the singer in the version used in the commercial) wrote the lyrics---but that's in dispute. Many people have covered it, including Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Butler, Paul McCartney, Kenny Rogers, Jackson Browne w David Lindley, and others. Here's Buddy Holly's version: |
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BadAd ![]() Junior Executive ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 Apr 2013 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 355 |
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I did not get that. All I ever see is a disturbing giant baby in completely inappropriate places, exposed and in danger. I didn't even realize it was a Nationwide ad until I saw this thread.
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flychinook ![]() Junior Executive ![]() Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Status: Offline Points: 218 |
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I "got" the baby=car thing the first time I saw the ad.
What I don't get is how the guy managed to crash into a fire hydrant on a perfectly clear day, on an arrow-straight road, in a residential area.
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PaWolf ![]() Revolutionary ![]() ![]() Hoary Ol' Chestnut... doncha know.... Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: GreatWhiteNorth Status: Offline Points: 40828 |
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D.U.I./D.W.I.
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Ken 1802 ![]() Junior Executive ![]() Joined: 19 Jul 2013 Location: Miami Florida Status: Offline Points: 986 |
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Fly, it's possible that he was driving distracted... I remember a commercial where women in cars were flashing their breasts at passing male drivers, and a crash occurred... It was for a 411 pain commercial I think...
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