Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

My in-laws are from the same small, Missouri town, but my MIL says Mu-ZURAH and my FIL says Mi-ZUREE

 

They know what kind of porn you rent?

EDIT: And it's still 1986? WTF rents porn anymore, Killick?!?!

 

I was just waiting for someone to dig out Grandpa Simpson! Thanks for saving me the trouble!

 

I've been to Sea World once and am pretty indifferent on what they do or don't do with their animals. But this new commercial is creepy AF.

 

That SW commercial is the most passive-aggressive spot I've ever seen.

 

Occasionally — but very rarely — I still hear "Ohiah." But mostly from cousins who live in West Virginia. I reach for a brickbat, but have been able to restrain myself. So far.

 

I thought the guy in drag was former Knicks and Hawks coach Mike Woodson for a second when I first saw it.

 

It's good that they're not going to be breeding the whales anymore, and that such a move will, eventually, phase out killer whales in captivity entirely. But that ad is passive-aggressive. It also doesn't in any way acknowledge the real issues involved, or the fact that marine parks may have been wrong in their capture of whales in the first place.

The allusion to there also not being anymore killer whale shows, either, and the characterization of that as Sea World evolving and "changing" with the times also gets me. I'm pretty passionate and knowledgeable about this stuff, and I actually believe that ending the killer-whale shows will be a bad thing for the animals -- at least as long as they're going to be staying there at Sea World, anyway. If they're going to be keeping the whales there, they may as well, and they should, give them something to do.

It's a well-known fact that killer whales in captivity typically are always the most active, interested and engaged in the hours just before and during shows. The thinking -- which I believe to be true -- is that these animals are, frankly, bored for much of each day otherwise, and that the shows and training/preparations and interactions with people and each other while thinking and acting out the shows are good for them, given the circumstances in which they are living.

People compare these animals' lives, at least as occupied and engaged as much as they are right now, to living in a fishbowl? Well, without shows, or some other reason to think, interact or engage about anything, they will really be just like goldfish, just swimming round and round neurotically, or, perhaps worse, just sitting there, just floating (what's known as logging, as in, like a bump on a log) on the surface all day long.

I had heard and read that Sea World planned to enlarge and naturalize a bit its current just-blank concrete killer-whale pools. But I have to wonder now if that's really going to happen. Will Sea World spend the millions that would be involved with that if they're now not going to capture any more whales, or breed any, either, and are just waiting out its current population's death by attrition to end the era of killer whales in captivity?

If Sea World really is to do the right thing, these animals should be housed in wild-ocean pens, at the very least, and re-trained/rehabilitated to the wild to whatever extent they can be (i.e. put back on live food, taught to catch it, or, at the least had it, instead of frozen fish, provided for them). Some whales would probably be more successful in such a transition than others, and even if they were unsuccessful, as Keiko ultimately was, well, then they would at least have a more natural, and yet, relatively safe way to be living out their lives.

The case of Keiko was a failure mainly because his rehabilitation to the wild was never truly completed, because of human bungling and a lack of funding. He actually had been on his way to succeeding before the project fell apart for impatience and the need for some people to be right, rather than to do the right thing. He was deserted in the last leg of his journey by those he should have been able to trust and whom he relied upon the most. He also was likely not an ideal candidate for release to begin with due to his gentle nature and the extent to which he had adapted to, and liked, human interaction.

And what does this all mean for dolphins, which, it can be legitimately argued, are right up there with killer whales in terms of intelligence and the need for social interaction and engagement? Why are they being treated any differently?

We all know the answer to that: Dolphins haven't killed anyone, and thereby haven't drawn enough negative attention to Sea World.

 

Richie Incognito could only do so much.

 

The Gatorade commercial featuring Cam Newton with "We Are the Champions" feels like a bad joke.

 

Planet Fitness spots with "gymtimidation" quotes like "Hulk out with your bulk out, bros!" and "WE'RE SO HOT!"