Old Spice Commercial

Commercial #1 Old Spice- The Man Your Man Could Smell Like The commercial opens with a man standing in the bathroom wearing only a towel. He says hello to ladies and tells them to compare their man to him, and says they could smell like him if they use Old Spice body wash. A series of unlikely events quickly unfold and then the man says, “Anything is possible when your man smells like old spice and not a lady.” This commercial falls into the is/ought category of fallacies. This commercial places value on the product, Old Spice body wash, that it has some sort of ability to be able to these promise things. The final statement in the commercial insinuates that because your man uses old spice that anything is possible, such as him “having tickets
A man is on hold with his cable company, and he gets angry. When he gets angry he goes to play racket ball and gets hit in the eye. When he gets hit in the eye, he goes to the doctor and gets an eye patch. When he has an eye patch people think he’s tough. Then people wonder how tough and chase him and he ends up in a roadside ditch. The fallacy that this commercial has is slippery slope. It is obvious that the commercial falls under this fallacy because the events in this commercial escalate very quickly. There is an unreasonable pace of how this man goes from anger with his cable company to waking up in a roadside ditch. Slippery slopes typically have extreme outcomes, which this commercial did a very good job at achieving. It is highly unlikely that because someone gets angry with their cable company that they will soon end up in a roadside ditch, but this is an example of how direct TV offers to not make their customers frustrated. This commercial offers humor to try and convince people that what they offer is better than the experience of having cable. My reaction to this commercial is thinking that it is funny. Although I have never experienced the extreme events that are displayed, I can relate to the frustration that the guy in the commercial is feeling. Since I have experienced the frustration that happens when you have to sit on hold I can identify with what he feels. This commercial, like the last,