The Etrade Baby is NOT FUNNY

[MadBadger]

Stop Laughing at that stupid baby!

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. -I agree

it is annoying

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Absolutely not funny. Makes me wonder about the intellectual

heights we are hitting.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. I guess I am just not as sophisticated as you guys...

Because I think he's cute and i love the commercial where he's been put in his crib for riding the dog. And his dumb baby friends are just too much. I think it's just a matter of opinion.

[kentauros]

4. Dad? DAD???

I like them, too, but I haven't seen the one with the crib. I guess it's YouTube time

I still love the Little Piggy Geico ad

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. hi Duckie!

one of my girlfriends thinks I am an old fuddy duddy about him .

Where ya been?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. I got sick of the Popularity contests so I bolted...

...and then the dems were back in charge of everything and there wasn't really anything to bitch about. LOL So I took some time away. I'm back though, and just mainly reading, but sometimes, I can't resist. And I have to share my puppy news when it happens.
Nice to see you again.

[WilliamPitt]

23. Duckie!!!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

24. LOL, William.

I've been back and posting since before Christmas. Where ya been, babe? LOL

[WilliamPitt]

27. Head in arse, apparently.

[Missy Vixen]

41. I must not be an intellectual, either

They had to quit showing my favorite E-trade baby commercial after they got sued by Lindsay Lohan.

Milka-WHAT?

I also love the one in which the baby gives the older golfing guy a beatdown at the skins game. Yeah, I loves me some lowbrow humor.

[LucySky]

5. whether or not the baby is funny is debateable

but what is certain is that the baby doing his job...making you remember the etrade name.

[MadBadger]

6. You're right...

Now I'll remember to never use Etrade!

[madinmaryland]

7. Lighten up, Francis! Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS!!

[CLANG]

34. GET OFF MY PHONE - YOU LITTLE PINHEADS!!!!!

[Kaleva]

9. I think they are funny.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. I think it's stupid. The one on the airplane.

Especially the part about going to a strip club with his buddies. Gak.

[Initech]

11. Bill Maher had a great new rule about that:

"New rule: no more talking babies. It's not funny now, it wasn't funny then, it never was or will ever be funny."
Seth McFarlane (as Stewie): "Oh give me a fucking break you asshole!"

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. Stewie is now and always will be

funny

[arbusto_baboso]

16. Without Brian as his foil, he wouldn't be funny at all.

[Godhumor]

13. You realize they're making a movie starring the baby, right?

Just in case you thought the commercials were annoying...

[Fire Walk With Me]

39. Movies from commercials...why have I lived long enough to see this?

[pokerfan]

45. You lived long enough to see a commercial spawn a TV series...

...and if the quantum immortality hypothesis is correct, the future is only going to get weirder and weirder for you, my friend.

[Fire Walk With Me]

46. Actually, I completely missed that...

...so thanks for making me aware of pain I'd otherwise avoided

[petronius]

14. I can't recall ever being amused (or swayed) by a commercial with a child

acting as spokesperson for a non-child-related product. And, I'm actively turned off when the adults interacting with the child are presented as dimwits.

I'll bet the people who like those commercials are the same people who let their precious little brats run screaming through nice restaurants and eat off other people's plates...

[MadBadger]

17. Darth Vader Super Bowl commercial made me smile

[petronius]

18. You're right - I liked that one too. It's more when the child is the speaker or advocate

that I get turned off - like the etrade baby or that kid in the SUV and so on...

[fizzgig]

30. that was a cute commercial

[CLANG]

35. oh!

[blogslut]

47. Behold the power

That is Rodney Allen Rippy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zS5yDj4n-M

[arbusto_baboso]

15. It's funny in the way a clown is funny.

Which is to say not funny at all, but creeepy in a skin-crawling kind of way.

[Withywindle]

19. I think it's funny.

Reason: there's so much saccharine babble about babies being these sweet innocent little angels from heaven that a cynical, rude, potty-mouthed one IS amusing.


I say this as someone who has no particular love for the little squirts. Truth is, some babies ARE future assholes waiting to happen.

[CLANG]

36. It's a commercial!

Those babies are cute and innocent too. It's the ad agency, and the writer/director/producer of the commercial that makes them look like the cosa nostra bebe. And the assholes at eTrade that thought it was funny.

[WinkyDink]

20. I think he's hilarious! "NObody's SEEN,..."

[Bucky]

21. He's not funny because it's a baby with the personality of smug yuppie douchebag

I'm more annoyed by the self-obsessed asshole daytrader than by a cloyingly cute baby.

Anyway, the point of an ad is to be remembered, not to be cute. The fact that we're discussing it here tells me that it's a successful campaign.

[Arugula Latte]

25. Sorry. Must laugh.

Can't help it -- those are some of my favorite commercials.

[jxnmsdemguy65]

26. The young fratboy assholes with degrees in business from a state university ...

and get the few entry level jobs available in business think that sort of thing is just fucking hilarious.

The Etrade baby is a perfect illustration of the shallowness and absurdity of modern American capitalism...

[eyepaddle]

38. So why take the shot at state universities?

Condescend much?

[WinkyDink]

40. "State university"?! How about MBA's from the Wharton School, smart-arse?

[Missy Vixen]

42. Well, I'm not young, a fratboy, and don't have a degree in business from a state university

I'm an author.

>shallowness and absurdity of modern American capitalism<

I think I need a nap.

[Iggo]

28. Talking babies are NOT funny!

[Badfish]

29. Funny ??? ... yes.

"Just a man alone ...with his thoughts .... and a smart phone , with an Etrade app"

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. i love etrade baby. "baby can i hit you back" was one of my fav ones.

[Auggie]

32. Talking babies and talking animals are the solutions of lazy ad people

lazy ad creatives -- copywriters and art directors, to be specific -- and spineless account executives and stupid clients

[pokerfan]

33. It's a little funny

“Apparently riding the dog like it’s a small horse is frowned upon in this establishment!”

[Missy Vixen]

43. "Could I get at least a courtesy bark?"

I hated the spitting up one, but I at the rest.

[TK421]

37. I couldn't stand that one where he starts spitting up...can't seem to find it

but it played in the theater when I went to see ( I think it was ) X-Men Origins-Wolverine

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. Agreed. He's CREEPY!