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
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"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.
4chan told me that incest is wincest
So
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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.
I watched the ad, never seen before... Am I blind for not seeing the mentioned sexual tension here?
Looks like a common american style ad to me.
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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.
Sorry, but gen Xers weren't allowed to express genuine feelings for siblings.
gen Xers weren’t allowed to express feelings
its why we were the slacker generation and the laziest generation and the .... well they didn't start the generation name calling with the Millennials, you could say.
Nothing more genuine than sex between siblings
You have some massive sexual tension between your siblings.
And that's hot
Do you have siblings? Because the way they are portrayed on pornhub is not how it really is
I'm the eldest of four.
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...
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This is definitely not normal sibling interactions. It is categorically creepy and the direction makes it seem like theyre romantic partners.
It's just the porn addicted weirdos whose first thought was incest.
Pretty much everyone thought it was a weird commercial, that's why it blew up. Even Wikipedia calls it the incest ad lmao
Sis has some hungry eyes
Bro is playing it cool
I agree. It didn't seem out there. Seemed like honest love of another. Idk.
BUT... The incest version is SUPER funny.
I'm in the Don't Know camp. What's the deal with the commercial?
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.
It would have been funny if the actors actually were attracted to each other and that bled through into their performance, lol
After viewing it, it seems like the writer envisioned a much younger actress.
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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.
I wouldn't say Folgers is worse than incest...
If the Folgers marketing team hired you to say that for a commercial, it wouldn't be their worst mistake.
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It was a folgers coffee commercial with incest vibes if i remember correctly
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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.
The first three takes were of her greeting her brother by saying "BRUNT, F.C.A."
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.)
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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
So where did Starbucks get it's used espresso from?
I once found a twig in a folders coffee tub. It makes sense, I suppose.. But also you're drinking twig tea.
Most sexual tension between on screen siblings outside of 'life with Derek'
What?
In the Foldgers Cinematic Universe, these two are siblings. They also give each other looks at the end that said "after we're done with this coffee, we're going to fuck".
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