Gotta love the first line of the wikipedia article on this commercial. Yes, there is a wikipedia article on this commercial.
“Coming Home” (commonly referred to by unofficial titles such as the Folgers Incest Ad
Wiki here
“She peels off the red bow and sticks it on his shirt. “What are you doing?” he asks. “You’re my present this year,” she responds. The camera zooms in on her shy glance, then cuts to his furtive, flirty smile.”
Totally normal sibling banter, nothing to see here folks.
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Webtreads get crazy
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Wikipedia page about the things some treads imagined
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“Things some fringe group went crazy over” is how we define ‘edgy trauma’ now
By that logic, the pizza basements were real.
You mean threads?
Also, no, it’s not fucking normal to say “you’re my present this year” to your sister. Shit’s creepy, the only way someone thinks it isn’t is because they’re either socially inept or a KHV.
What if your sister lives in a different country, and you haven’t seen her in ages, and she comes to visit you, and then you find out she packed her really sexy lingerie?
it’s not fucking normal to say “you’re my present this year” to your sister.
socially inept
Oh, the irony.
You may not have caught it, but that phrase isn’t what’s innapropriate about the commercial.
I had never viewed this commercial before today. After reading the comments here, naturally I wanted to see it for myself and followed a link. I honestly didn’t see anything other than standard sibling interactions. The early morning “dreamy-style” lighting (prime coffee drinking time) is the only thing that gave off a romantic atmosphere of any kind. From the comments here it’s clear others see something between the two across but it feels like a bit of a reach to me.
I thought it was referring to the parody continuation.
Sorry, but gen Xers weren’t allowed to express genuine feelings for siblings.
Do you have siblings? Because the way they are portrayed on pornhub is not how it really is
I think if you go into it knowing they’re siblings, it’s all fine and normal. The rest of us saw the commercial blind, naturally interpreted the relationship as romantic and then were surprised to learn they’re siblings and the recalibration was funny. If you have no context, and you’re trying to interpret what the relationship is, at the beginning it definitely resembles a romantic relationship more than a sibling friendship
The rest of us saw the commercial blind, naturally interpreted the relationship as romantic
But… the first single word the actress said was “SISTER!” while pointing at herself…
I’m in the Don’t Know camp. What’s the deal with the commercial?
It’s about a brother and sister being happy to see each other at Christmas after he comes home from some volunteer thing overseas. For some reason, people have been shipping them as a brother/sister incest pairing. There’s legit porn fan fiction about this one commercial, it’s super weird
Some days I forget I’m on the internet and then I read some shit like this. I woke up 20 minutes ago and that’s already enough internet for me today.
Hey, don’t be like that, remember that the problem is the people not the internet.
“Some reason”
The reason being that anyone who has siblings and watched that commercial thought they acted like lovers, not siblings.
I only have same-sex siblings and thought it was weird, so when I saw the memes and stuff, I asked my friends with opposite-sex siblings what they thought. They said the same.
It’s because the commercial looked very “more than brother and sister” during the commercial. It was pretty abnormal behavior.
I was fully prepared to think people were overreacting, but it really is bizarre. The cherry on the cake is the brother’s lip bite toward the end. He must already know his sister adores him, right? So WTF is he getting all bashful when she expresses that? I can easily imagine the excitement depicted here in myself when I see my distant siblings. I can also easily imagine knocking on my sister’s door, and then joking I must have the wrong house, but it didn’t seem like it was a joke for him - it seemed like genuine surprise that his sister is all grown up to the point he didn’t recognize her. Shit is weird. But fuck, the lip bite?! I know I’m not everybody, but I feel like a more normal response to a sibling expressing “you’re my present this year”, would be like, “awwwww” and a hug. It sure was fuck isn’t a lip bite.
FUCKING. BIZARRE.
The way they filmed the commercial is bizarre. It’s a 20ish year old coffee commercial. The sister gives her brother a cup of coffee and the whole thing is filmed with an odd romantic tension. It’s just strange.
After viewing it, it seems like the writer envisioned a much younger actress.
That makes it so much worse.
You see how he bit his lip? Now that’s some sexual tension.
First eww.
Second, why is he missing coffee when coming back from a coffee producing region? (And I know this is a matter of taste, but I personally think Ivory Coast produces some of the best coffee in the world)
I wouldn’t say Folgers is worse than incest, but their have been cases of separated siblings hooking up unknowingly, and how can you blame them? But nobody could mistake Folgers for a good cup of coffee.
Kinda wanted to avoid extra tracking on this one :D
https://piped.video/watch?v=uMwFWDIFVCU
…it’s weird.
Fun fact: the sister in this commercial is played by Catherine Combs, the daughter of Star Trek everyman Jeffrey Combs.
Well that explains it. She obviously also plays his lover in another commercial, as well as his nemesis, and also the Folgers QA rep, so he was confused.
I love that man. He’s a fantastic actor and I get a bit of joy whenever I catch him in a show or movie
In The Frighteners, he plays this guy, who is an absolute treat:
It’s definitely one of my favorite things to watch, and I’d absolutely recommend it! (Definitely not safe for children.)
Only in an American advert could a character come back from a major coffee producing region and think the shit in that tub is real coffee.
I worked at the Starbucks HQ for a bit and the running gag was that when they would tap out the used espresso, they were making Folgers
