Around 23 seconds in the guy is shaving with Barbasol and a DE. Funny maybe they are trying to appeal to wetshaver market.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80v5Wueed10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80v5Wueed10
Barbasol "Close Shave America" Commercial, with DE Use
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Well look at that. The good people at Barbasol know that you can't get closer shave than a good DE. I mean he has to look his best for his wife right?
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Well that is one take on it. My take on it, is that it is the easiest solution to not promoting a Schick, or Gillette product in your commercial.
Any guesses on what the razor actually is? To me it looks a lot like an Edwin Jagger DE89L.
Well that is one take on it. My take on it, is that it is the easiest solution to not promoting a Schick, or Gillette product in your commercial.
Any guesses on what the razor actually is? To me it looks a lot like an Edwin Jagger DE89L.
I'm sure it's just me but I think it would odd if they had a modern cartridge for some reason. Perhaps it's decades of exposure to cartridge commercials. In any event, if they stuck a cartridge razor in the advert, it would be more like a razor commercial than a shaving cream one.
I see what looks like distinct knurling, so I'm going with Mühle R89 or Merkur 34C.
Wow, check out that blade angle!!!
The man shaves with a DE razor, so obviously the faceturbation early in the video is a hatred for the beard he is growing. Like most of us obsessed with shaving, despite a hot wife waiting for him, with some yummy pancakes, he has to shave first!! While his pancakes get cold.
This comment on the video was the best:
I hope the commercial is meant to be deliberately humorous. He drives truck for Barbasol, so his wife's gift to him is a can of Barbasol?? Huh??
Gee, thanks honey, I will just add this can to the 10 cases the company gives me for FREE. Your $1 gift is so thoughtful....
Plus, the implication is, don't even think about being intimate with me until you shave that ugly scruffiness of your face!!
The pancakes seem really out of place too. After driving all week out on the road, you would think a manly man would want a traditional American breakfast of Eggs, Bacon, Hash-browns, and Toast!! Pancakes?? Seriously??
This comment on the video was the best:
I hope the commercial is meant to be deliberately humorous. He drives truck for Barbasol, so his wife's gift to him is a can of Barbasol?? Huh??
Gee, thanks honey, I will just add this can to the 10 cases the company gives me for FREE. Your $1 gift is so thoughtful....Plus, the implication is, don't even think about being intimate with me until you shave that ugly scruffiness of your face!!
The pancakes seem really out of place too. After driving all week out on the road, you would think a manly man would want a traditional American breakfast of Eggs, Bacon, Hash-browns, and Toast!! Pancakes?? Seriously??
I assumed it was at night when he got home and was expecting a nice steak dinner waiting for him.
I re-watched, and it is clearly dark outside. So yeah, the pancakes are really really out of place.
Unless of course, he got home in the wee hours of the morning which would explain his SO being in pajamas, and then the pancakes don't seem so out of place....except who has a candle lite pancake breakfast??
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Blade angle?
I don't even think there's a blade in that razor.
From what I can see, this guy already has a clean face with shaving cream on his face.
It also looks like the kitchen is upstairs.
I hope the commercial is meant to be deliberately humorous. He drives truck for Barbasol, so his wife's gift to him is a can of Barbasol?? Huh??
Plus, the implication is, don't even think about being intimate with me until you shave that ugly scruffiness of your face!!
you're missing the point though. his wife is hot. plus the can could have a double meaning. the first being go shave before coming upstairs and the second meaning is "hey guess what i shaved while you were gone?!?"
anyway his wife is hot. i wouldn't complain.
All I know is that this advert has left me with an annoying tune rolling around inside my head.
Off on a slight tangent. Is there any mileage with any of these modern canned goos or gels? I have honestly never tried them I have been using a brush and soap since I was 16. I had to wait till I was 36 to try real shaving.
Off on a slight tangent. Is there any mileage with any of these modern canned goos or gels? I have honestly never tried them I have been using a brush and soap since I was 16. I had to wait till I was 36 to try real shaving.
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Good job by Barbasol! I got 2 cans in the Den for those " I'm late, I'm late for an important date" mornings.
Gillette Foamy and a DE go together as well.
As a real cheapskate, I have used Barbasol many times. It is pretty good stuff, for coming out of an aerosol can. It's cheap, too. I don't have any in the house, but it is not a bad idea.
The commercial is less silly than some. I like the DE in there associated with "getting close". It's okay.
The commercial is less silly than some. I like the DE in there associated with "getting close". It's okay.
