The lady is trying to get into the headquarters and finally finds out the password is “hey guys.” One of the words she says is Tapioca. I had been wanting that desert FOREVER, and had been bothering my mom about fixing it for a few months. After watching it I’m like “Tapioca sounds good. Can I talk you into making it tonight?” She agreed, reluctantly, but then after it was made and we ate it, she said “remind me how good the tapioca was so I make it more often.”
The commercial sold me something: tapioca, but that wasn’t the purpose of the commercial. Did this ever happen to you?
© 2026 – SoulSequel
19 responses to “How influenced are you by commercials?”
commercials do not sway me in the least.
but as a whole, we are so enamored with ‘people on TV’ that we will buy anything they want to sell us.
we think that because they are so much richer and better looking and just more awesome than us regular people, they must be doing something right, and if that means using ‘Product X’, then I must too use ‘Product X’, and ONLY ‘Product X’ for life. Then maybe I can live a life like a real famous person. or at least until they get a better commercial offer than the last company (read: Sprint guy who used to be the Verizon guy)
LOL@sheep
I cannot think of one thing I have bought because of a commercial, but then, I don’t watch the commercials on the few shows I see on tv. I use that time to run to the kitchen and wash a few dishes out, or attend to the laundry for a few minutes. I come back when the show is back on.
sometimes flyers help me decide which shop to shop at for certain things but other than that i am not really that exposed to advertising currently.
those subtle effects though! thats something, about the tapioca. im not a fan :D but im glad you got to have it
@BelleMadre most of the time I only get it at restaurants
Do you think ‘Big Tapioca’ is in cahoots with Progressive Insurance?
@Fletch LOL. There’s not many companies that go around selling raw tapioca (the type you have to cook yourself).
As a person with experience in marketing; you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
Be prepared to be making personal relationships with your brands as “voices” are used as a part of the branding treatment to connect you to buying from “friends” instead of companies.
Would you rather buy a pizza from Domino’s or a guy named Dom that takes your call after you ask Google to find you a local pizza? Dom is a robot, but that is inconsequential when he see’s on a database that you haven’t ordered a pizza in a month and says, “Yo Jear, dude, we missed you, whereyabin?” with a Joisey accent and the intonation that you were really missed. Your seratonin levels shoot up. You feel good. Next time you need to be cheered up…just give Dom a call. Oh, and he upsold you to the second pizza while he was at it because a popular guy like you might have friends drop in and you gotta be ready just in case. Good idea Dom. Talk to you Friday. See ya buddy!
@spitfire3dc My patterns are of purchasing are erratic according to my mood, income, etc. So if i ever got such a message, I’d likely ignore it., simply because I don’t buy into that type of a thing. Mom and pop greasy fast food joints won’t have the money for such marketing sophistication.
@spitfire3dc
and with it comes the elimination of 1,000 and millions of paying jobs…..
@Fletch I am more the buy local. I was a part of a business called “For Sale Local” (it closed because the guy couldn’t do MY job and refused to give me more help or more money) Local businesses were there LONG before the big box and will be there LONG after they close the doors and are just big, useless buildings. It’s just a matter of funding them.
@Jear77
“Local businesses were there LONG before the big box and will be there LONG after they close the doors..”
– yea, not so sure about 99.9% of local businesses. Amazon etc are making it too easy to use online shopping. Maybe some, but the majority will have to close.
@Fletch But who’s going to supply Amazon with the stuff? Mom and pop stores. They’ll change their model, but they will still exist.
@Jear77
Cheaply made knock-offs will be made by cheap non-American labor.
You really think Amazon is going to pay Mom & Pop their price? Why not order a million widgets from China at $0.00003 each instead of the Mom & Pop price of $0.25 each.
Mr. Amazon didn’t get to be the richest person in the world by supporting Mom & Pop.
Service stores (I own a couple) would be the places that would survive, not goods.
@Fletch not if people refuse to buy foreign. I look at labels. If not made in America, i typically don’t buy.
I see TV commercials the same way I see used car salesmen…get the fuck away from me, stop trying to sell me something I don’t want, don’t need. or cant afford.
Thank Goody for the Mute Button!
With the tech we now have I don’t see too many commercials, but old tv ad spots from the 70s really entertain me to no end.
There are some videos games and movies that the commercial sells me on, but I don’t usually fall for commercials outside of those. I love the dumb Sonic commercials, but they never sold me on what they were selling.
@yin I love those Sonic guys too. I understand that they get a lot of hate though lol
Easily. I’m naive and gullible so I have to be careful and apply method to a lot of things.