The E*Trade baby is back in this year’s Superbowl lineup. A series of ostensible outtakes are posted on YouTube. Highlight of the bunch: “I want to punch the economy in the face!” (baby cries).
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This one better be good
I frickin hate the Etrade baby. Actually, I hate all advertisements in which creatures who can’t normally talk, i.e. dogs, babies, are made to talk with special effects. The best thing about babies and cats and dogs is that they can’t talk. Not to mention the fake talking is always creepy.
@nicemarmot617: I am the exact opposite. I am endlessly entertained by talking babies and animals.
Now if you try to sell me something with monkeys dressed as people… then we have a problem.
@Spaceman Bill Leah: I just hearted you for that monkey comment. I have a hatred and distaste beyond belief for monkeys dressed up as people!
@MissPeacock: Those old Career Builder commercials were the bane of my existence.
God, fucking moneys, ugh!
@nicemarmot617: The original one looked so… lazy. They must have used a webcam and slapped the effects on afterwards because the blurring around the mouth is so obvious. Oh, and the fact that babies don’t talk like 20-year-old stoners didn’t really add to the illusion, either.
@nicemarmot617: You forgot to yell at all of us to get off your lawn and/or complain that movies are no longer a nickel.
@tc4b: You are a rapscallion and a hooligan and I shake my fist at you.
@nicemarmot617: My sentiments exactly. Those E=Baby commercials have ALWAYS creeped me out.
@TCTH:
Remember, even the baby himself said “I really underestimated the creepy factor”! These ads are simply brilliant. They are clearly going after a target audience of people with a sense of humor, which evidently, is not everybody.
@nicemarmot617: I’ve always been more bothered by the baby being a total D-bag. Ha ha, babies acting like sexist, entitled, finance jerks. So funny. Why am I not laughing so hard?
@Narockstar: Every time that thing appears I think, “douche baby.”
@nicemarmot617: Same here. And the one where he spits up? Gross! Totally *doesn’t* make me want to do business with them at all.
@nicemarmot617:
Lighten up, Francis.
@nicemarmot617: The baby is a douche and probably winds up growing into the guy who spasms with ecstasy as he makes a trade on the Honk Kong market. Hong Kong!!
@nicemarmot617:
I’m pretty tired of this too. At some point, advertisers started to believe monkeys, talking animals and talking babies sell. So now every Superbowl is like a zoo when it comes to commercials.
@nicemarmot617: I hate that baby too.
@nicemarmot617: Amen! My friends think I’m bizarre for having that opinion, because obviously all females must think talking babies and dogs must be cute. Creep city.
“Buy Quiznos stock. Ooga-chaka ooga-ooga-ooga-chaka!”
/sick of babies
@Ash78:
Yeah, but the Ally McBeal baby was SUPPOSED to be creepy.
Wow. Inappropriate behaviour is starting earlier and earlier these days. Lay off the BGH, kids.
Someone actually finds these ads not horrible?
@Plates: The out takes were pretty funny…like when he caught the one kid checking out his mom.
@Plates: Yes, and that would be my mom. She loves the one where the baby uses the money he made to buy a clown for his birthday party.
@Plates: I don’t want to watch anyone barf. Ever. Not even babies. I hate these commercials.
@valsharess1: I’m so with you on that one. Why do people think baby vomit is cute? That is some Trainspotting shit right there if you ask me.
I went to a movie last weekend, and this commercial was shown during the previews. People seemed really into it.
(And no, the movie was not Paul Blart.)
@PoopsieDoodle: Its part of the ads before hand – it played before Defiance AND Frost/Nixon >_<
@PoopsieDoodle: People that are really into it are not likely intelligent, which is most of the public.
@kaptainkk:
That’s a bit of an overstatement that people who like these ads aren’t likely intelligent… The humor in those is pretty wry, and not low-brow… I find those ads pretty funny. I love how the baby’s cellphone ring is Rock Me Amadeus… guess that makes me un’tel’gent.
I <3 these commercials. Glad there will be some new ones. I can’t even say why I love ‘em. I’ll actually stop to watch one when it’s on TV, or if I’ve DVR’ed something and I’m FF thru the commercials, if I see the E*trade baby, I’ll rewind it to watch it. Besides the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials, I’ve never done this to commercials before.
I wonder if this is coming out of the $800 million TARP money they received?
All the finacial institutions buying Superbowl ads since the taxpayer is paying.
@laserjobs:
I’m pretty sure they have only applied for TARP money; they have not actually recieved any yet… therefore, we (taxpayers) aren’t paying for this one…
If I’m wrong, link me a story so I can catch up, please…
@Mirshaan:
Just because they haven’t received it doesn’t mean we aren’t paying for it, really. The money they spent on the ad could have been used for something else in order to take the pressure off the $800 million they WILL get.
I would venture to say that people that find this type of commercial funny and actually laugh out loud when they watch have an IQ of less than 80.
@kaptainkk: You must be a blast at parties.
@larrymac808: Don’t invite me to your parties.
@kaptainkk:
That’s interesting. I’ve always thought that people with a sense of humor tend to have higher IQs.
@kaptainkk:
Attempt to make the same point repeatedly much?
I love this campaign. It takes all the machismo-ball-busting of the trading floor and neuters it.
I don’t think enjoyment of this is based on IQ (sorry, above) — more a matter of how you’re wired humor-wise. You either “get it” or you don’t. This will probably be the only commercial I’ll watch during the game.
I get the humor, I just don’t like all the jokes.
And Etrade is horrible. I had an account when I was new to investing, and the fees are crazy. Check out Zecco, they give you 10 totally free trades a month. The only beef I have with them is that their website doesn’t work on Safari, which is stupid.
I find them weird and a little creepy. But for some reason I always watch.
Not that I would ever use Etrade.
I love this ad campaign. It winkingly acknowledges that most viewers won’t have diddly-squat to invest any time soon, and at least tries to get us to laugh despite the fact that we’re broke.
@kittenfoo: And they needed to spend $30 million… on that?
Talking babies are fucking creepy – Hello advertising people – creepy!
The first time I saw an E Trade baby ad, I thought it was clever and funny. The next 1,000 times: not so much. Now I mute the commercial.
I absolutely love the campaign and this one made me laugh out loud for 20 seconds straight.
As Sergeant Hulka said, “Lighten up, Francis.”
i can’t remember which tax ad it is, probably turbo tax, but it has the presidents who are pictured on US currency all painted green and talking to a guy with a baby strapped to his front about how his baby is a deduction on this year’s taxes… features the line “i think your deduction needs a diaper change”
my sister pointed out that the baby ‘acting’ in that ad is the e-trade baby
Not that my day revolves around it, but did they change the voice of the main baby? It sounds different. Perhaps its just going through pre-pre-pre-puberty.