Freebie Post #2: Why I like this Ad.

Turn around Barry. Just turn around and buy some Fiber Ones already. They really curb that hunger you know?

Okay, now that was pretty unnecessary but I just had to say it.

This ad is one of the few ads that I can watch over and over again and laugh over and over again. Yes, it's pretty funny.

I remember the first time I saw it. Well, actually my sister saw it first and she screamed out my name when it came on. After hearing her voice, I ran out of my bedroom to the living-room expecting her to be in a gigantic mess but all she wanted I to see was this ad. Now really? She stopped me in the middle of studying for an ad? I was pretty irritated but I watched it.

And then I watched it, and it was hilarious! I tried not to laugh because my sister knew that I was irritated at the fact that she disturbed my studying time but I couldn't help it. This ad literally hit me at so many different levels! They used a song that I actually knew parts of the lyrics to and they changed the meaning of that song in order to fit it into the ad. IT WAS GENIUS! I can't even sing that song anymore, if I do I wouldn't sing the original one but this one. I just thought that was brilliant, making us, the consumers, able to remember the product even more and many would respond to it by buying the product.

I like how this ad shows a typical man working in a business. Like common, this man is on a diet and all I can see what he grabs to eat are just vegetables while his colleagues are eating chips and meat then at one point of the ad he tries to break open the candy machine. This man is suffering. At the end of the commercial, he sees the boxes of Fiber One and he buys many of them. I just can't believe how easy the advertisers used wit and humor to sell their products. Many people, who are on a diet, could relate to the man in the ad and it makes them want to buy the product because of their similarities. Whenever I see a box of Fiber Ones, I would refer back to this ad because the advertisers did a very great job at making me remember it.