Friday, May 17, 2013

Truth in advertising? I'm thinking NO.


Have you seen that SC Johnson commercial with Fisk Johnson (WE MISSED THE BOAT ON THAT NAME, NATE) where he talks about how their products are all natural blah blah blah and then they show a woman cleaning the window? Specifically, this woman cleaning this window?


Then a little girl runs up right after and puts her booger hands right on the newly cleaned window.


And then, the mom laughs and hugs the little girl and life is perfect.


I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU...

But if I was that mom and my kid ran up and put their hand prints all over the window I had just finished cleaning, I sure as shit wouldn't be laughing and hugging him right after like he just created the next Jackson Pollock masterpiece with his fucking hands all over my newly-cleaned window. 

More likely, I would flip out and be all, "Get your hands off the damn window! I just cleaned it for the first time this year! GAAAAHHHDAMMIT!" 

And then I would mumble to myself about why do I even bother and I just wasted five minutes of my life and this is why I stopped cleaning once the boys were born.

So, SC Johnson and Fisk, I don't think many mothers relate to your commercial- at least, none that I know- hard as you tried to get us to do that. Yet, I will still use your window cleaner once or twice a year. I'm on the same bottle from 2005.



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bean_mama · 620 weeks ago

Even worse than that commercial is the one where the Pledge people lock that woman into the glass cube and she just happily uses the Pledge to clean everything up. Because woman love nothing more than forcible confinement and cleaning, am I right?!
1 reply · active 620 weeks ago
I know, what the fuck?
The paper towel commercials always get me too. Either the kids or husband spill shit all over and the woman just smiles and grabs one tiny little piece of paper towel and basically cleans the whole kitchen with it. Then they all hug and giggle. Yeah, eff that.
1 reply · active 620 weeks ago
My scenario would involve LOTS of swearing.
1 reply · active 619 weeks ago
I do love love the Clorox commercials where the kid sh** in the tub! Haha now that's real motherhood! She wasn't smiling either!
1 reply · active 619 weeks ago
Oh yeah! That one was a good one, and I like how they had her being not happy, way more realistic.
Ha. I gave up cleaning too. I put books on the shelf, H comes along all pissed off and acts like I ruined hos masterpiece. And pulls them out again. My kid is kind of an asshole.

He's lucky he's cute.
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1 reply · active 619 weeks ago
Yeah, most kids are (unwittingly) little assholes and their cuteness saves them.
My husband thought this was hilarious. He is not much of a cleaner, but he is very efficient at picking up (he'd rather be doing anything else so gets it done fast). I take forever to pick up because I can't stand it and I'd rather be reading a book or cleaning, but i can't clean until I pick up. The two of us got most of our downstairs done yesterday in spite of the kids and you should have heard him every time someone set a toy out. I think I threatened dismemberment during dinner if I saw any food land on the floor that I had actually mopped that afternoon. Clean is so rare in our house that we try to hold on to it a bit aggressively when we have it. I honestly don't MIND cleaning, IF it's picked up. If I have to pick up after 4 (soon to be 5) guys' worth of crap to get to wash a toilet, I'm pretty pissed off when I'm finished and woe to the boy who leaves a dribble in the bathroom first...
2 replies · active 619 weeks ago
And I guess an advantage of cleaning mostly with vinegar is that I don't have to care that much if my kids ingest anything I'm using. It still stings when they spray each other in the eyes, though. :)
I know, it's all a terrible, never-ending cycle!

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