It's pretty clear that advertisers think all humans are stupid and pathetic if in bizarrely spcific ways.

"What" "Is it a pop tart?" I don't know why I find it so funny

90% sure the joke with the clumsy guy saying he got the job was intended as "he's clumsy, he destroys everything" because he got a job in demolition, which they say.

The main difference between Married With Children and those other "dumb dad" shows is that no one on that show had a brain cell to share between them. The dog was the only intelligent character on the show.

You guys do watch these videos, right? You're just not copying and pasting your comments from other videos?

Those women in the Dove True Beauty ads must be actresses right? I mean no woman is dumb enough to buy that a patch on her arm can give her confidence.

Is it a pop tart? - BEST LINE EVER!!

There's no reason for the delivery man *to* expect that she's the boss. There's no reason for him to assume the first person he talks to is the boss. Do you think he should say, "are you the boss?". He didn't even insinuate that she isn't the boss, as he just said, "I need the boss's signature."

"Omg I'm so manly, I'll drink a Bud Light to underline my masculinity" - said no one ever.

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one who noticed lol The google thing is quite amazing, though. I signed up for a website that I needed for college while using google chrome, and when I checked the 'female' box while making my profile, google took note of it. After that I've gotten more ads for shoes, dresses, kitchen utensils, and house cleaning products than usual. I'm not mad, I just find it funny.

#2 is actually just a placebo affect

The part with the cars/ bad drivers was the best: "What, is that parking gate made of sword?" XD ... I'm still laughing.

I'd rather go "Antiquing" than watch a Bears game.

Usually the boss isn't working the counter. their in their office doing other boss stuff.

men and boys spend a lot of time shopping and primping. the boys at my kids elementary school go all out with the bright socks and shoes and hats. stuff looks expensive, too.

"Is it a pop-tart?" I just cracked :D

I can sense the fedoras coming.

what i especially like about that whole Dove thing... Dove is owned by the same company (Unilever) Axe is... so yeah the same company which wants woman to be proud of their not super model bodies... made the Axe effect commercials in which *thousands* of woman with super model bodies, in bikinis no less run frantically to one guy on some beach...

Has anyone here brought up the idea that these commercials are the very reason people don't like ads and block/avoid them whenever possible? Put all the agendas and poorly-thought-out-defensive-arguments aside for once because all that stuff is ultimately just a never-ending circle of distraction. A few ads are genuinely funny the first time you see them, (if you're not trying to come up with content for a Cracked video) and so you might chuckle, or ever-so-slightly grin for a moment. But I'm pretty sure no commercial has any actual likeness to reality. Consider the people who come up with them--really think about it. They're not actually busy trying to push an agenda, at the very least not consciously, because their main focus is getting your money. They're trying to find some way to get people to nod along with the commercial and at least subconsciously think "yes, I should buy/do this thing because it aligns with things I like or believe". These are people who are desperate to advance in their given field, but also pretty arrogant because they give their audience zero credit. They are the ultimate of cynics (right behind insurance folks and anyone working in the judicial system) and hold everyone in contempt. Every single commercial and advertisement is insulting in some way. The good ones hide it well. But they are targeted toward morons, because for advertisers everyone else in the world is an idiot to be manipulated.

Whenever I walk into a cafe, I also assume whoever is at the counter is the boss.

I love how much effort they put into the end card video just trying to make it sound awkward and scripted as possible; so good.

How would the delivery guy know she's the boss anyway? She's not wearing any indication and is standing behind the register liek...

I died at "is it a pop tart?" Lmao

Love how they show the "husbands are stupid" stereotype at the very end then do their best to explain it away....

Ok, normally I only get a chuckle from these videos. But that poptart line actually got me good lol.

Oh, hey, a new Cracked video! ::clicks on video:: ::sees comment threads:: ::backs away slowly to the sane portion of the internet::

Is it a pop tart?!😱 😂😂😂

Well to be fair to the UPS guy the boss usually doesn't sit behind the front counter.

6:05 I NEVER understood the "shock" thing in that ad. You know the reason someone might ask the CASHIER where the boss is? Cause like 90% of those bosses are in a back room at a computer. I have vendors come up to me all the time and ask if I can phone a boss to sign for a package and I've had some vendors come up to my boss while he was walking around the store and ask him to phone a boss to sign for a package. Its not an uncommon question.

I've be disappointed if it was beer and not cheese...

Did anyone check that last "men can't drive" ad. At the end it said, "Why we insure women only." Isn't that kind of sexist? I mean, for an insurance company, not covering someone over something like gender or sex is kind of discriminatory, right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen any insurance company going, "We don't insure women because they're emotional train wrecks who are more concern about their looks than the safety of others."

man, youtube comment sections are scary, scary places I wonder what it says about our current society that people insist on arguing about every single thing? I choose to think of it, honestly, as a sign that individual autonomy is growing - people are finding it easier and easier to espouse and express their own personal views - although an argument could be made (and probably will be) for a widespread de-maturization (not a word but I'm using it anyway) of today's internet-using population. Either way, I'll just sit on the sidelines watching and then run away when I get too frustrated. Ah, how I love the pure, unadulterated freedom of the internet~

And that is why commercials are the worst thing in the world

I hate how in movies or ads that if a woman hits a man, she's defending herself. But if a man hits a woman, ooh boy, he is automatically the villain.

The Dove commercial was not trying to make women look stupid. It was using the placebo effect to show that self confidence has nothing to do with how you look but how YOU perceive YOURSELF. People use the placebo effect all the time. How you guys didn't figure that out is kinda sad lol.

I don't see how it is wrong asking the lady for the boss. How is he supposed to know she is the boss? She might be just an employee.

I got from Undertale is on crack to Cracked talking about stereotypes.

"is it a pop tart?" 😂😂

“and hot ladies don’t think about that as much as you think” Buawhahahaha 😂🤣😩🤭 OMFG! Literally made me lol!

I FCKING DIED OVER “is it a poptart” AND I STILL DONT KNOW WHY

7:51 on the left side of the poster... "return baby to hospital" I DIED 😂

Being a straight white male IS pretty rough. I'm not allowed to watch Project Runway and everyone assumes I'm a bad dancer. Plus, all those opportunities and fair wages are seriously exhausting. Not to mention the fact that cops only pull me over when I'm actually doing something illegal... Now, if you'll excuse me, I really need to get back to running most of the planet.

Like, the UPS guy just assumed the manager wouldn’t be working the counter. She also wasn’t wearing a name tag saying she was a manager, and she wasn’t wearing nicer clothes than the average worker, like most managers do

The ad at the beginning keeps glitching and slows the whole thing down, ohh

this is bullshit! why else would i practice making towers of cards if it wouldn't give me a hot date? I feel so lied to right now

The problem with this kind of analysis, is that it comes from educated young people that have moved away from this stereotypical lifestyle and hangs out with other like-minded young people, and don't realize that unfortunately those ads do really represent what the VAS MAJORITY of consumers actually live like. From the pathetic and dumb football loving bros that hate their wives, to the one diminutional women that buy shoes and nail polish online, people really live like that. the majority of people. The ads are not wrong, you just moved away from their target audience. Be proud. Don't hate the ad, hate the consumers they are made for.

4:25 "You cant just use slapstick comedy as a blank check to kill people!" Yes. Yes you can.

"Oh, I need the boss's signature for this" "I am the boss" OHHHH YOU SHOW HIM GIRL, HE SHOULD HAVE JUST WALKED INTO THE BUILDING, SAW A WOMAN AND WENT "DAMN, SHE MUST BE THE BOSS BECAUSE SHE'S SO FUCKING INDEPENDENT"

I feel like the sneaking around to watch football thing is kind of accurate... Know quite a few others' relationships that were strained over that

Is it just me, or is some of the sarcasm-but-not-really-sarcasm-except-for-the-part-where-there's-sarcasm in this video way too confusing to follow? Maybe it's just me. Also, in the first "bizarrely specific sexist stereotype," we see sexism against men, right? Then later on, mockery of the supposed men's rights movement. So....... which is it? Is there sexism or not?

i love how comment sections on cracked videos always complain about "stop taking this shit seriously, stop talking about this, this is a useless video, why would you even make this" its an entertainment channel. to entertain you. to give you things to watch in your spare time that are interesting and fun to watch. it takes various topics and discusses them. because that is fun and entertaining. because that is what cracked does. it doesn't have to have a purpose. no one is trying to change the world here. this is an entertainment channel. what part of this concept do you not understand

6:53 'Is that a pop tart?'. Instant subscriber.

Cracked always hits it home.

Best line: "Is it a pop tart?"

The woman in the windows advert wasn’t the boss. Plot twist She was just a crazy employee and a compulsive liar.

I like how a sexist ad played before this video. It said something like "ladies be sure to tell your boyfriend that this movie is not the only awesome thing that will happen to him by the end of the night.

It's simple really. Privilege has a lot less to do with what is between your legs and what color any part of you is than it does where you were born and how much money belongs to the people who made you.

I think the lesson here is that most human beings are actually stupid, after all, these adds exist because they sell products... so on a twisted level their content is vindicated. Capitalism, showing us what awful people we actually are.

*watching video* "Okay, why does anyone give a solitary fu-" *MRA tirade appears* "...Ooooooh noooooo...what have I found."

You know who's a really bad driver? Toad.

The comments, the comments... I weep for humanity

More like 5 things that literally affect no one who is smart enough to tie their own shoes.

Dove really just showed the placebo affect, can make any of us look dumb

Now I have coffee all over my monitor. Thanks a lot. I hope you're happy with yourselves.

Their is a men's rights organization?! SIGN ME UP!

Cracked is becoming WatchMojo... and that's not a good thing. It means it's becoming crap.

The first few commercials were funny, but you saved the best for last.

I've honestly never understood the stereotype of the "miserable" husband/boyfriend shopping with his wife/girlfriend. I love going with my girlfriend anywhere, I thought that was like... the point lol

Oh my god. The point of the Dove ad wasn't to insult women. It was to show them that beauty and confidence is in the mind, not the body. It's called placebo, DOB. I am disappointed.

Lmao@ the comments. People are taking this video way too seriously.

falling for a placebo effect doesnt make u gullible or stupid, it means your human

Remember folks, the power of advertising in media is a powerful powerful thing. Just because you claim to not be affected by some commercial, you're still affected by another commercial.

Omg, I HATE those "honestly" commercials. And now I hate that song too.

You know what the shitty part about being a white male is? That no matter how shitty your life is or how low you are on the totem pole, people treat you like you've got some wonderful perfect life full of advantages. Like the white guy working near minimum wage flipping burgers has some great leg up on the woman who's a Senior Director of Marketing or some crap because he's the white guy and she's the woman. Because so many OTHER white guys who aren't him and don't know him from Adam have so much power and wealth. I think next time I'm at the supermarket and see one of the homeless white guys with a sign on a piece of cardboard saying "HOMELESS POOR PLEASE HELP", I'll just say "Hey buddy, it aint so bad. You've got white male privilege. At least you're not black or a woman or anything that unfortunate.

In the first segment, why are all the "commercial husbands" preoccupied with football...and...well....that's it? You know what also goes well with beer on a Sunday afternoon? Raking leaves, cleaning the gutters, mowing the lawn, reading a book, or watching a anything else on TV.

"Is it a poptart?" lmao I can't even

I'm glad I'm not the only guy disgusted by that Dove campaign. All beauty product ads take women for idiots, but Dove adds hypocrisy to the mix...

Since I apparently have no fucking life, here goes… Beer: Yeah, okay, these adverts are dumb. This is not why I'm here. Oh, wait, "Man, guys have completely lost their fucking minds, haven't they?" No. These are advertisements made by advertising companies, not magic windows into the collective male psyche. Dove: The placebo effect is a well documented phenomenon and "falling for it" (in some cases people actually recover faster from illness just from the illusion of placebo medicine helping; the power of positive thinking, eh?) doesn't make you dumb. "… women's problems are all in their heads?", when their problem is body dysmorphia, yes, yes it is in their heads. Computers (for her [sic]) - Buying shoes, dancing, going on dates and getting married are all things that many women do. Targeting their ads at the 100 or so female particle physicists in the country might not lead to a huge spike in sales. Plus, it's a fucking tickle-me-PC designed for simple people and folks who already have a computer but want an expensive toy to sit on the couch with. What do you expect her to be doing with it? Calibrating sensitive lab equipment? Maybe the UPS guy doesn't think she is the manager (yes, manager, who the fuck refers to them as "The Boss" aside from some tool trying to establish their own nickname) because she is just standing there behind the counter waiting like a part-time barista. SSD: Yes I too am shocked at the fact that the housewife who barely uses a computer doesn't know what an SSD drive is and the other two do. Housewives are notorious for their tech knowledge, systems analysts from around the world travel thousands of miles to consult the wisdom of the American housewife. All three characters are stupid and fucking weird looking. NEXT. Feminist Bullshit: Does it matter what the adverts are for? Apparently this is just a platform for feminist propaganda. I personally don't give a shit about advertising but you're being a massive hypocrite by first complaining about women being, "made to think they're crazy", or "given a placebo" as normal people would call it; yet when men are depicted as bumbling retards you choose to go off on an unrelated rant about how privileged men are and hold up a picture of a few dozen portraits of white men who have been dead for centuries. What the fuck does this have to do with anything?

That first Dove commercial was actually good. I think it made an important point. I had friends that I thought of while watching it who always describe themselves in terms that do not reflect what I see. I'm constantly trying to convince them other people don't look at them the way they look at themselves. Finally with that ad, I had something tangible to show them to back my claim. But yeah, the dumb husband commercials are getting old and are obnoxious.

The slow rhythmic group sex thing really cracked me up.

I'm just gonna say wedding planning is fucking hell, and I'm still In it at the moment, I have so much shit to do

Commercials tend to portray men as spineless against their wives, and these spin doctors claim it's the women being persecuted. Cracked used to have some good satire, is this all some sort of elaborate joke?

Building a house of cards takes patience, dedication, and good fine motor skills. That's three ticks in the pro column.

"Is it a pop tart? :)" I spat out my drink, that was too funny!!

And yet another strawman of the MRM at the end. I actually liked this video outside of that, though.

6:54 Whose mother here would know what an SSD was? Show of hands. Exactly! What nerds and stock brokers here do? All of you?! Of course!

2 years after this video was released, Cracked now has nearly 10 times the subscribers it had in the outroduction to the video.

I'm so glad they only spent a couple of seconds on the creepy "guy is married to a strangely arousing puppet" ad. I used to have nightmares about that damn commercial.

Whoa, this video is actually funny

Love this because lovely people need to know that good feminists don't think women are better, they believe in equal rights for all genders.

It's easy. Do your ads in a way, that the majority of the people can relate to. It's like stand-up comedy.

As Neil Postman pointed out in Amusing Ourselves to Death, “The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.”

Cracked videos are giggle gold

Uuugh, people take stuff way too seriously.

I actually enjoyed the perspective. Interesting what gets us to switch from observer to consumer. Our common need to feel powerful and not be perceived as weak is sobering. Apparently, not wanting to be gullible often makes us suckers.

The Subaru commercials drive me nuts. They act like everyone (especially your children) are inept and need their car to think for them😂😂

that was enjoyable

Well it makes sense, men see their wives as buzzkills and women like to think their husbands are incompetent. Advertisers exploit that - AND IT WORKS

ahahhaha that popcorn one was funny af.... gonna give it a pass on the misandry critique 😂😂😂

Okay, after legitimately watching that video carefully; I really have to ask how realistic this all is? Please, when answering; keep in mind that I am an 18 year old senior in high school, preparing to major in Psychology when I go to college this coming August.. So yeah; I would love this channel to be completely, 100% blunt, positive yet realistic as well. Thank you ahead and keep uploading. Love the comedy part of the videos. They make it all very entertaining and fun to watch!