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Charlene forwarded me this link to a flash advertisement sequence for Reversa. If you load the Reversa website at seemoresideeffects.ca you can “Step into the Living Room.”
Select a product (I selected the UV Anti Spot Lightening Cream which is the first box on the left and then clicked “See more Side Effects")
Wrinkly suit blonde lady gets up, and then a sullen chef walks in (WTF?).
Here is where I ask: Hot or Creepy?
Click “Make Bread.” Sullen chef kneads bread. Mantitty jiggles. He spanks the loaf of bread and does a half-assed job of accurately kneading it.
Charlene says, “I’ve never seen the product on store shelves, and I’m not sure what skin cream has to do with a half-naked guy kneading bread, but hey.”
Now, if I looked at everything BUT his face, because he was sneering and kind of smarmy looking in a “Yeah I know I’m hot” way, he was hot. But include the face? Creepy.
Another person I showed it to? Desperate to find out who that guy is so she can wallpaper her phone with his mantitty.
So I ask you - Mr. Bread Kneading Chef Mantitty: hot or creepy?
Edited to add: I checked out “Pastry Making” with sullen shirtless chef mantitty? I had to run away while the other woman nearly ran away with my monitor so she could be alone with it. In my mind? OMG CREEPY RUN RUN!
Really, really, really, REALLY creepy.
Nice. Love that disclaimer that it may offend women under 35. Because we all know that those of us over 35 are desperate for little bemantittied beefcake (BEEFCAKE!).
I chose eating oysters, btw. Nice phallic pepper grinder in the foreground. Subtle!
I vote creepy.
creepy but hilarious
the anti wrinkle cream one has a dude in the bathtub pulling rubber duckies out of his nether regions LOL
I vote for a cross between creepy and hot, but all hilarious.
Oh, everyone must see the one for the skin smoother with the guy mowing the lawn. It ends with him completely naked holding a leaf blower covering up the naughty bits. The phallic imagery on that is so subtle I almost didn’t get it.
Ewwwww.
Even now that I’m forty, and therefore sexually deprived (heh) I don’t find that sexy AT ALL.
I chose running away while screaming, and then returning to the monitor so that I could email a similarly aged friend. (Myabe viral marketing DOES work?)
Mmm that guy can wash my car anytime. ]:)
I thought it was hilarious.
I liked him eating oysters. It produced a fucking pearl!
Is he pulling those ducks out of his ass? Cuz that is creepy.
“What a pretty little tart.” WTF? Did she really say that? And then the whipped cream all over his body? No, no. It’s too ‘stripper guy’ for me. I mean, sure he’ll bake for you, but it’s going to cost you. The master chef charges by the hour if you know what I mean and I think that you do.
Probably a sign of my old age, but I was also grossed out when he took off his shirt and started drying the glass with it.
Ewwwww!
The whipped cream one disgusted me. I couldn’t watch the whole thing. GROSS.
CREEPY. I feel sexually harassed.
Hot and creepy. Luckily the chef has a shaved chest. Hairs in food gross me out.
Definitely, definitely creepy! The “pastry making” one is just gross. Does he have to spray so much down his groin and then rub it all over him? Rather reminds me of the money shots in gay porn.
This advertising campaign probably looked great on paper. It’s really insulting to women in actuality… well, and to those men, too. Why am I having flashbacks to Mardi Gras? “Show us your mantitty!” Just ugh.
Oh, and I didn’t have my headphones on before. Now that I hear Ms Porn Voice murmuring in the background and the little moans whenever you click something, it’s even creepier. Exponentially creepier.
I am NEVER buying this shit.
I thought it was hot, but that’s because I read the look on his face as “I’m your hot boyfriend being a goofball while I cook for you”. He had a twinkle in his eye that made me giggle.
Hilarious.
Ummm… TOTALLY AWESOME. Try watching with the sound off. I found I appreciated the comic value SO much more. And what exactly was the point of the firefighter?
OMG TEEEHEEEE!!!!
I just about split something laughing so hard. It may have been cause it was a long day but it was all hysterical. The porny voice just made it more hysterical.
But if I was terribly tired I think I’d find it a bit creepy. Just because all those things that they were trying to sell as “sexy” I don’t find sexy in the least. Sure he’s got a nice bod but is that it? That’s kinda boring…
Aw c’mon y’all. It’s funny and sooo goofy. OK maybe a little bit eeewwww. LOL
I’m not sure....
I’m 50, and well, I’ve got a better chance of being killed by a stampede of rabid armadillos than I do of even dating again, much less seeing a semi-nekkid hunk.
However, I found this to be a cross between funny, hot with dashes of creepy. Cuz this is as close as I’m ever gonna get, so I’ll enjoy it :)
The humor was there, for sure.
PS,
for fun, you can actually make a tune with the little sighs and moans on the links. Ya know
sigh moan sigh,
moan moan moan
sigh gasp sigh gasp
moa moan moan, SIGH!
O, Canada.
While I appreciate the guy washing the car, I must say yesterday was just awash with mantitty in my neighborhood. It was miserably sticky-hot in the West Village and as I was running errands I walked past a basketball court and there was SO MUCH MANTITTY. Like, I-never-leave-the-gym-so-please-feast-your-eyes-on-my-glistening-musculature mantitty. It was so excessive. I was kind of wondering if there was a Harlequin Blaze covershoot in the neighborhood.
My security word is volume38. Yes, there was a volume of mantitty. Voluminous, even.
okay, I’ll admit that the chef kneading the bread was hot...but when he went all stripper with the whip cream, I was pretty grossed out.
The fireman testing the smoke alarm and the lawn guy made it up to me though.
I liked the single mantitty jiggle when shaking up the whipped cream. The look on his face… definitely creepy.
OH goodness… Just saw the rubber ducks. Nice phallic symbol with the faucet (or whatever bath hardware is to the right).
How could I not go and watch this after these comments??
I didn’t find it creepy - maybe because on my monitor the chef’s face was so dark I couldn’t see his expression. Car wash / bath guy was fun. That last duck had to hurt though.
PS - I didn’t necessarily find it hot either. Just funny.
Watch it in French. It improves imensely and is hilarious!
You have to click on the anti-wrinkle cream and get the plumber. Seeing a man do dishes, no matter what he looks like, is hot to me.
heeeeeeeeee...the guy was only slightly creepy for me. now, the porn-voice lady in the background did scare me. i mean, just...ewwwww. lady. go get laid. srsly.
my word: thing73...hehee…
It’s got to be the facial expressions the teeter into full out smary leer that make it so creepy, but the images are cracking me up.
Am I the only one anal enough to notice that when she stands to answer the doorbell, the couch cushions were skewed, but then when you click on the next product and another guy comes in, the couch is back to normal?
I am so sad. Noticing couch cushions instead of hunks. Fireman was ok tho.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Nothing in this is as creepy as the woman in the book trailer for THE MANNY.
Fireman, very much hot. He didn’t look smarmy and even had that crooked grin you sometimes read about, in books, ya know, those books we sometimes talk about here....
It ends with him completely naked holding a leaf blower covering up the naughty bits. The phallic imagery on that is so subtle I almost didn’t get it.
Yes, and did you notice the exhaust fumes coming out the other end of the leaf blower? Very Laird of the Wind or Savage Thunder.
My word: services79. My answer? No thanks!
The fireman was hot. I thought the whole thing was very tongue-in-cheek. Of course, I’m old, and I need this stuff. All of it.
“You have to click on the anti-wrinkle cream and get the plumber. Seeing a man do dishes, no matter what he looks like, is hot to me.”
I so totally agree, If this shit would make the hubby just HELP with the dishes I would so buy a truckload
You’re welcome.
It’s just so bizarre!
They’re much less creepy with the sound off. The woman talking and moaning as the guys do whatever really skeeved me.
I loved the gardener. He was hilarious. Even his sexy looks looked like he was trying to not laugh.
Okay, definitely creepy in the bread-making, he looked like he was trying not to laugh in the pastry-making one, and not gonna lie...he kind of turned me on in the oyster eating one.
I thought duck guy and fireman guy were pretty cute… It’s more funny than creepy but I did have my sound off so I missed all the moaning!
Amusing, not creepy...but didn’t make me want to turn on the A/C or buy their products.
For some reason, I kept flashing back to Not Another Teen Movie (I swear I didn’t pay money to see that movie!)
And you have to wonder what’s going on in the heads of the slashies (actor/model). I would like to think there’s more to them than just man-titty.
The Gardener’s face when he’s washing windows - Too funny! Car washing was hot. The chef just makes me think, ‘What an major A-hole.’
Oh, and Jane, you’re not the only one who was grossed out by the shirt drying.
More funny than anything else. I was never one for male strippers so I find it a bit creepy. And a bit offensive, I’m 33 and I’ll still be offended in 2 yrs!
Neither creepy nor hot. Just funny in an appalled-laughter kind of way. And I actually found myself really insulted, too. Huh.
SO hot. (OK, maybe with just a sprinkle of ickiness.)
The chef guy almost made me pee my pants – he’s got that whole Olivier Martinez thing going on.
I’m only in my twenties. But I’ve always been kind of lecherous. Always.
Ok, I couldn’t finish watching the guy kneeding bread - uncomfortable.
The gardener a little boring,
The guy with the ducks, washing the car, and especially washing the glass (that was interesting) was very hot.
And creepy.
Like that’s a bad thing.
I wonder if it’s an age thing. I wouldn’t have been at all interesting when I was 25.
The only thing these guys make me think of is my brother, who loves doing stripper-dancing to gross his sisters out. So, a combination of eye-rolling and creepy.
Not hot. Not creepy. Both-hands-over-the-mouth funny, though.
I can just imagine the director: “Take 17. Okay, Biff, think sexy. Smoldering look at the camera. Pucker your lips a little. Now SPANK that dough! Ah, dammit, CUT! Can you TRY to keep a straight face this time?”
Nowhere near as “ewwwww” as the Brawny paper towel commercial with the lumberjack molesting the puppy.
*larger99* Pffftt. He wishes.
Luckily the chef has a shaved chest. Hairs in food gross me out
Mantitty hairnet!
Okay, I laughed my ass off watching every single one of the side effects. What was weird was that my kids busted in the room and wouldn’t leave and watched all the men with me and laughed their asses off too! I felt soooooo dirty watching a hot man rub whipped cream on himself with my 2 kids roaring in the background. And now, my son is reading this post and laughing his ass off again. Soooo dirtyyy!!!!
Just a warning: I’m in my 40s, and this made me very cranky.
Guess I’ll have to watch the other videos, because the two chef ones I watched definitely had that unpleasant stripper vibe for me.
My rxn overall was not positive. Cosmetics as sexual aid? Not exactly subtle, and pretty insulting to women, no matter what age you are. And talk about aiming low: are they actually implying that any woman over 35 needs anti-aging cosmetics, and as a sexual aid? Outrageous.
If any woman was in any way involved in concepting this, I’d be amazed. It’s just so male-centric I can’t believe that it tested well with any women, much less older women. It’s all about how sexy the guys are, nothing about how sexy you are. The woman at the beginning is completely passive, then she disappears. Every time I push a button I make some woman moan? That’s...more than a little disturbing. Is it supposed to be me moaning? WTF? Why aren’t I making a man moan? And why is the voiceover a woman? Why not a sexy male voice? At least then I’d feel like he was talking to me. Why not have a couple in the videos? The whole campaign feels like a man’s idea of what is sexy or what older women find sexy.
I could just picture the guy in the chef videos thinking how much those old bitches were digging his action. If you left the room, this guy would still be doing his little whip cream dance because he’s just so into how hot he thinks he is. Physically, he was hot, but his attitude was just so offputting.
But what do I know, I didn’t really look through all of the videos, so maybe I missed the ones where the guys showed a sense of humor and engaged the viewer at all. Ugh. Maybe I’m just not into this idea that sexy woman=younger looking.
capcha was rather82
As in, I’d rather see an intelligent, hot, older guy talking about how he loves older women who are confident in their skin and don’t give a damn about wrinkles. But that wouldn’t sell anti-aging crap, now would it?
Megalith, that was an outrageously awesome cranky. Nice.
I go with hot, creepy and hilarious. Which is kind of fun, in small doses.
Aw, thanks, lovelysalome.
And you guys were right. I looked at the chef clips this morning, but I went back just now and checked out some of the other clips. I had to mute the sound this time because I’m at work. (heh) The fireman and the last guy were both much less skeevy than the chef. You could tell they were thinking what a big joke it was. Much more endearing. Without the smarmy voiceover, they were almost capable of distracting me from the irritating subtext…
hiding your age=sexy. Grr.
The chef was smarmy as hell, but the other three were funny. The creepiest thing about it was the porntastic voice-overs.
Of course, I was supposed to be offended.
Having gone back and seen all the videos, not just Spanky Chef, I hereby revise my opinion. Sort of.
The fireman looked a bit like he was having fun--it’s a good bet enjoyed himself during the filming. I think I saw him genuinely grin once or twice. The chef was an assault on my eyeballs. Overall, the plumber was probably my favorite, because of the thing with the rubber ducks. You knew it wasn’t serious. Gardener, just plain silly. If I looked out my window and saw that guy mowing my lawn in the altogether, I’d phone the police.
Okay, I’ll admit I avoided the baker, and went straight for the fireman. He looked like a little kid who’s just discovered something he knows is both outrageously funny, and very, very naughty. And he’s daring you to laugh.
I agree with everybody else, creepy porn-voice lady is DAMN creepy!
My hubby watched these with me and he still left his coffee cup on the desk this morning - no where even near the kitchen!!!
Gotta go back and see that fireman once I get the little one off to summer camp…
Liked the fireman the best, he was cute and not smarmy like the other guys, plus he can work with animals not just inanimate object.
Great for a laugh
Hilarious! The last time I saw a less convincing carwash Jessica Simpson was wearing denim cutoffs.
And the dishwashing! Yep, didn’t quite THAT sexual reference!
ASS DUCKIES! Doesn’t get better than that.
So NOT hot. I was wavering between extremely creepy (the chef… creepville.. what’s with that little slap? way too porno, especially with the voice over)
and hysterically funny… lawnmower man made me laugh… and bathtub boy because his ass must be huge…
yeah, none too subtle…
I have to say, though, I immediately passed it on to two friends. So there you go. It caught my attention and that’s what they want.
the chef was hot and made me squeal, but when he got trussed up for the plumber, he got stupid. The mowing the lawn was awesome! I laughed so hard. XD However, the reciting the poem I knew was going to be terrible. =w=;; He doesn’t know how to capture his audience with his voice.
The Fireman man me giggle. :3
Hilarious - I kept thinking Duece Bigalo, male gigalo. Crackup.
Mind you I had to watch them all.
Final verdict - I liked the plumber and firemen best :)
The porno voice over was a bit too much for me, but I suppose they chose a woman’s voice because the target audience is women and this way we’re all in the mantitty “together”. I normally laugh with my friend though, no moaning…
I’d probably moan if I ever saw a man wash dishes in real life though.
SOOO funny! I showed all my friends and we want to buy the products JUST for the unique marketing strategy.
But ya, I vote scary. Scary FUNNY!
This is the funniest thing I have seen all day. I think I woke up the baby next door laughing. Oh my goodness. It wasn’t creepy to me, and it only got a little sexy with the oysters (until I noticed the enourmous pepper grinder), but it was all over hilarious.
I think I’m going back to watch them again. The car washer guy throws his wet shirt at you! What could be more sexy than a guy flinging a dirty, sudsy shirt at your cute white suit.
Does the fireman remind anyone else of george clooney? And now that I think of it, the chef looks a bit like antonio banderes(sp?).
It reminded me of an oldish French Canadian movie called “Le Déclin de l’Empire Américain” (I think they translated it to The Fall/Decline of the American Empire...?). There’s a scene in which the Gay Character talks about the firmness of young boys’ butts while he’s kneading dough. I thought it ranked high on the Eeww Scale, just as high as the half-naked chef does. And he was dressed.
I second the mantitty hairnet.
Clearly the key to avoiding the creepy is to watch with the sound off. I watched them at work so I couldn’t have the volume up and I just found them mostly hilarious.
On second viewing I’ve decided it’s better in French. Especially when you don’t speak French.
Creepy. I also vote for no sound, but it’s still creepy! Something about a guy who thinks he’s God’s gift, I guess.
The whipped cream segment was so oogy it hurt my eyeballs… I couldn’t watch it all. I think he made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. Overall, I just wanted to smack the smirk off of chef guy’s face. But I have to admit, I kinda got off on the pearl eating.
And the washing dishes guy. mmm. Washing the car was hilarious! Note the placement of the hose… and in the last shot the way the foam shoots, then he just stands there covered in it. dayam.
I didn’t get Fireman guy, but at least he wasn’t smarmy like chef guy - Oh, and did you see the way Fireman guy was standing there petting the pussy (cat) in the first shot? :D Niiice.
Lawn guy? Hot. Funny is always hot.
I just watched him eat an oyster again.
Soooo hilarious!
The Master Chef? Had the cold, dead eyes of a serial killer.
*snerk* My father is a baker and my brother a fireman, so those two categories are now so hella not sexy it’s not funny. But those little videos? Hilarious! I was rolling during the bread scene--I mean, honestly, spanking the dough? Can you get a little more obvious?
These are targeted at the women who want to play Mrs. Robinson once they’re past 35. Only women like me who actually would do a Demi (I’m 33 but I’d take me some barely past jailbait if I could get it, oh, yeah, and train him up but good) aren’t as attracted to it because we know they’re wannabes. If I really wanted some youthful, shaved mantitty like that, I’d put on my push-up and go fetch some, and it wouldn’t be in the kitchen molesting helpless pastry dough. There are far better uses for mantitty than bread making. And if it ever pulled rubber duckies out of its ass, I’d throw him out. They don’t make antibiotics strong enough to tempt me!
I also wouldn’t want anti-wrinkle cream. Attitude, not smooth skin, gets you what you want.
(and mille pardons--I do believe I’m ovulating. You wouldn’t believe the things I’m trying so very hard not to daydream about at work today!)
OMFG! That was hilarious!
The breadmaking lesson came close to being sexy, but that is only because it reminded me of Stuart Townsend in his Will & Grace episode.
Other than that, no, not sexy, the guy was too self aware, but it wasn’t creepy either.
I posted before I read everyone else’s comments.
I got the impression that the woman’s voice was supposed to be the viewer telling the guy what to do. And I agree that this was definately a man’s idea of what a woman finds sexy.
I also went back and watched them both in French and with the sound off. They were even funnier in French and a bit hotter with the sound off.
But I still think a guy absorbed in his task and not trying to be sexy is incredibly sexy.
died laughing! It’s fun to play with the buttons and make the narriator moan and groan loudly. (that was kind of dirty huh)
Um--a little of both? Even though the chef was rather repellant with his smirk, something about the eating of oysters...what was it...reminding me of something....hm, I guess I’ll figure it out later.
It does indeed smack (heh, smack) of a concept thought out and executed by men, appealing to the perceived vanity and desperation of women as they age. Hey, guys, we’re all going to die eventually, and the expensive shit you are asking us to buy will not somehow keep time’s winged chariot from hurrying near, dough-slapping himbo or no.
Liked the fireman with that cute grin. The chef was creepy, the plumber was OK, and the gardener was just kind of there.
The fireman can recharge my extinguisher anytime. Preferably soon (fans self.)
Hmm. Verification word is any78.
Hilarious and not creepy, but different…
Honestly, it reminded me of the voiceover work and setup that you would see in an Andrew Blake film.
OK, the pastry one… so gross. I was desperately pressing the back button to get away once he started smearing the whipped cream. CREEEEEPY. The bread one was fine as long as I concentrated solely on his chest, and ignored both his facial expression and the terrible things he was doing to that poor dough.
On the other hand, I loved the dishes one because he looked like he was trying SO hard not to laugh. But the shirt drying? NASTY. No arm pit residue on my glasses thanks.
The fireman was just totally adorable. But then again man + being cute with a cat = my kryptonite.
Lawn guy? Total pass thanks. Just not my style. I like a little meat on the bones thanks.
Hah… my confirmation phrase? being62. Not quite there yet actually.
Darlene said: “On second viewing I’ve decided it’s better in French. Especially when you don’t speak French.”
I do, and it’s just as bad. And oh, eternal pain, the chick’s voice is a known actress who started out in the business by doing corny commercials during the late 80s for a French Canadian drugstore chain. I still can’t get her voice out of my mind and now THIS!
*one-eyed twitch*
Creepy! Argh, did you see the guy doing the dishes? That was… subtle… Well, it was a little funny when the fireman bent over and showed his ass, and the ducks, but most of it just plain creepy. Creepy/boring - most of the videos involved removing the shirt and perhaps smearing something on the uninteresting torso. But yes, of course I had to watch every single one of them…
Hilarious but very creepy.
i watched it with a friend and we were both laughing our heads off
Why have I never heard the term “himbo” before? I think that’s my new favorite word ever.
Wow, I guess I’m the only one who liked the chef. Please don’t hurt me.
Verification: never62
Sorry to chime in late on this one - but after making myself watch these “vignettes”, I am somewhere between distrurbed and amused. All that man titty must have overloaded my senses. Yikes!
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard in my life - I think I peed a little. I wonder if Fabio had anything to do with Reversa’s ad campaign…
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