Citi Bank Smoothie
| QuickTime link to the :30 spot, which will pop in a new window. 1.5 MB. |
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| You are always testing me, woman |
I don’t understand commercials that are just gross. There’s a difference between gross out humor and things that are just disgusting with no punch line. I fail to see how this spot is funny at all.
In the spot, the woman has no blender, so she makes a fruit smoothie in the garbage disposal and serves it to her husband. And now to go get a credit card with Citi Bank!
Advertising and visual images that are disgusting don’t go together unless you’re trying to stop someone from smoking or drinking.
| QuickTime link to the :30 spot, which will pop in a new window. 1.5 MB. |
Comment // September 7th, 2005 // 2:57 pm
And even then it’d better be pretty disgusting to make me quit.
Comment // September 17th, 2005 // 12:21 am
Amen. I have to switch channels when this horrible ad comes on. I’d love to tell Citi how gross it is - to whom can I complain?
Comment // September 17th, 2005 // 12:58 pm
I don’t know, you would think if they field tested the spot to a few people first they would have found out that this commercial is so disgusting you can’t watch it. Maybe they thought if they showed the garbage disposal looking clean it wouldn’t be so gross. They thought wrong.
Comment // September 21st, 2005 // 11:56 pm
THIS COMMERCIAL IS NOT ONLY DISGUSTING…IT IS A SERIOUS INFECTION CONTROL VIOLATION IN THE TRUEST SENSE. IT MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH EVERY TIME I SEE IT RUN AND I WOULD NOT A CITI BANK CARD FOR ANY AMOUNT OF BENEFITS NOW. IT IS SICK SICK SICK. PLUS IT IS VERY DERAGORTOY TO BLACK AMERICANS AS IF TO IMPLY THIS IS ACCEPTABLE TO USE YOUR DISPOSAL WHEN YOU CANNOT AFFORD A BLENDER. GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…AND VERY RACIST IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. I AM STUNNED THAT CIVIL LIBERTIES OR SOME GROUP HAS NOT FORCED IT’S REMOVAL. IF ANYONE WANTS TO TRY I WILL GLADLY SIGN MYNAME TO THE LIST.
Comment // September 24th, 2005 // 12:17 pm
Surely you jest.
Comment // February 26th, 2007 // 10:36 pm
TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THAT CITICARD GOT RIPED OFF WHEN THEY PAID TO HAVE THE COMMERCIAL WITH THE MOUNTAIN BIKERS (2) AND ONE WITHOUT ,WHO HAPPENS TO BE STUPID ENOUGH TO PRETEND HE HAS A BIKE. MAKES ME THINK THAT CITICARD IS SAYING THAT THIS IS YOUR REWARD .( WHICH YOU ALSO PAY A HIGHER INTEREST RATE FOR,AS WITH ANY CARD COMPANY). WHY CAN’T YOU JUST SAY WHAT YOU WANT (OUR BUISNESS) AND LEAVE IT AT THAT. YOU WILL SAVE MONEY, BE ABLE TO LOWER INTEREST CHARGES. QUIT BLOWING SMOKE UP OUR BUTTS. YOU ONLY APPROVE ABOUT 1 OUT OF 35 ANYWAY FOR CREDIT. SO PLEASE QUIT WASTING MONEY ,DO SOMETHING REAL AND PUT MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS WITH THE SAVINGS . ALSO FIRE THE AD COMPANY
Comment // August 14th, 2007 // 12:39 am
The only thing funnier than these CitiBank commercials is how much it upsets you people. Yes. I said YOU PEOPLE. And it wasn’t meant to be derogatory to any specific ethnic community. I think the blender commercial’s implications have handled that rather nicely.
Comment // February 28th, 2008 // 7:40 pm
You can learn more about the juice and smoothie business at The Juice and Smoothie Association, (JASA). There you can find industry information and recipe books with recipes from major juice bar chains. Also, if you have every considered a juice and smoothie bar of your very own, be sure to visit, Juice Gallery. The have start-up concepts to set you on your way - Cheers, Dan ‘The Smoothieman’ Titus
www.smoothiecentral.com
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Comment // February 29th, 2008 // 10:25 am
That is such a polite spam, I am leaving it up.