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08-15-2004, 06:42 PM
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Television Commercials You Like
Someone suggested here on the SDMB that I begin a thread like this.
My favorite commercials are these All of the Excedrin Commercials in which the people look into the camera real seriously and talk about how they have tension headaches with pain in the neck and shoulders and at the end they say "You get tension headache, you take tension headache." American Airlines in which the cartoon like guy picks a rose and all throughout the commercial they are playing this jazzy music and at the end of the commercial we see he is not visiting a girlfriend but he is visiting his mother. A car commercial in which a guy has one foot bigger than the other waaaay bigger but it doesn't matter when he gets into his car, a volkswagen I think it was. T-Mobile where the guy faints because of his high phone bill and they need to cut it out of his hands and at the end he is walking around in a hospital gown and sees a hot lady and he says "I feel better". 
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#2
08-16-2004, 02:15 AM
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Not one person likes one TV Commercial?
Oh yes and I have to add the one where the girl is trying to magically START the car and her dad presses the remote control and the engine revs up and the girl becomes all happy...c'mon people, your saying no dopers like any TV commercials?
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08-16-2004, 02:25 AM
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Oh, forgot to mention something.
I absolutely cannot stand the new "Thank You" (CitiBank, I think) commercials. If some bitch in a grocery store started patting my fat gut and asking when I was due, there's a decent chance she'd get knocked out and no "thank you" is going to help that.
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08-16-2004, 02:30 AM
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Well, there are a handful that don't make me want to throw things at the television and boycott their products, but I wouldn't exactly say I like them.
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#6
08-16-2004, 02:31 AM
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Oh, and you have to have patience, darlin'. Sunday night is kind of a slow time for threads like this. You'll probably get a lot more responses tomorrow when people are at work.
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08-16-2004, 03:02 AM
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Glen! Glen, Glen, Glen.
Though I have no idea what the product is being advertised, I love this commercial. I'm also quite fond of Jack in the Box commercials in general. Each one tells it's own complete story, they seldom repeat a joke, and they're consitently funny.
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08-16-2004, 03:11 AM
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All you footabll fanatics will be seeing this one in the upcoming months during the season.
A guy is walking through a supermarket ailse, when a cashier yells "I'm open". The guy makes the "I'm about to complete a TD pass" face, and lauches a pineapple at the cashiers head. I can't remember what the comercial was trying to sell, but for the last 2 seasons this comercial is a sure highlight to my football seasons.
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#10
08-16-2004, 03:20 AM
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Whoops, sorry START. I should have mentioned in my first post that the linked thread is fairly "old" (:gasp!: five months), so it was being used as a point of reference. We should continue this discussion here because bumping threads is A Bad Thing now. I didn't mean to imply that we should all go post to my thread or anything, and I hope it didn't come off that way.
 More from me, because I watch entirely too much television: OnStar - All of them. There isn't one OnStar commercial that I like. Not one. In fact, the whole idea of OnStar creeps me out. I once again saw the one I'd mentioned in That Other Thread and it is, indeed, 28 weeks. There's another one now with some chick who feels "pressure" and "not quite right", so she thinks she might be in labor. She's 31 weeks along. I love Qwest's "Dex" commercials. "What do you need, Grandpa?" "Coffee." "I know # coffee shops!" "No, there by your feet." This one's old. They don't run it anymore and I can't even recall the company, but there's a woman sitting at a table, blahblahblahing about something (probably the company... heh), and her face is polarized (digitized? whatever) to mask her identity. At the end, she reaches for the (milk? creamer? something), which reveals her face. WTF? Hate it. I hate any commercial about a prescription only medication that features a woman running through a field of daisies, a child playing with a small animal, or any such other "happy" thing, then simply mentions the name of the drug and instructs the viewer to see their doctor. To ask if it's right for me. Yeah, okay, I'll run right out and pay a $20 copay so I can ask my doctor about something that turns out to be herpes medication or the next Viagra. Or not. Body by Victoria ("It's" Back! -- btw, what's up with the quotation marks there?) has a new-ish commerical with... shit. Drawing a blank on the model, but she was in a Disney movie (she played a Barbie come to life opposite Lindsay Lohan) and, I believe, she started the whole "Target = Tar-ZHAY" thing on Oprah. Anyway, it sucks, whatever. I think the quotation marks bother me most, overall. BANKS! Right? What's her first name? I think this entire post is evidence that it's no longer a good idea for me to remain conscious, so I'll leave it at that for now.
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#11
08-16-2004, 06:37 AM
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The Staples ads in general are fairly decent... and they wear pretty well, in that seeing them for the umpty-fifth time you don't get the urge to heave a brick through the tube.
We should be seeing the "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" back-to-school ads fairly soon now... the deadpan expression on the kids' faces is priceless.
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#12
08-16-2004, 07:21 AM
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The Honda commercial with the 16 shots of people shown next to the shots of 16 cars that they look just like, with the tiny music in the background. I will drop everything and run to the TV as soon as I hear that music.
I haven't seen it in a while though.
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08-16-2004, 09:44 AM
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That's why she reaches for the milk. I thought it was an amusing commercial. The one that always cracked me up was for the Burger King (?) chicken sandwiches. In it, they had people randomly burst out into chicken imitations - with flapping elbows, clucking, bobbing heads, etc. The best part was when two guys are moving a large, heavy mirror down the back of a moving truck, and one of the guys suddenly breaks out into acting like a chicken and drops his end of the mirror. Just cracks me up. Good times.
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08-16-2004, 10:09 AM
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Click the button beside the yellow corvette to see mine.
Brought to you by the president and founder of the Official Unofficial Guy Ritchie Fan Club.
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08-16-2004, 10:25 AM
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Oh yeah, the new Corvette commercial. Saw it last night for the first time.
But my current fave is the one for the new DQ iced coffee drink. The woman is blindfolded in a taste test, and runs into a door to get away when the Testing Guy tries to take her drink away. You know it had to hurt filming that.
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08-16-2004, 10:29 AM
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08-16-2004, 10:35 AM
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Here's a current one I like.
A middle-aged guy is giving his at-last-restored Mustang a last stroke or two with a rag as his wife comes home, and he says "Want to go for a ride?" They're driving along and he turns into the A&W burger joint. She says "I thought we were going for a drive?" He doesn't answer, just leans forward and flashes the lights. She says "They don't still do that, do they?", he answers "Nope", and as she looks out the front, here comes an equally middle-aged manager with a tray of burgers and root beer. (Can't you just see her melt?) As he's passing over her food, she looks at him and says "But you know, I still have to be home by ten," and they both crack up. (Yeah, it's sentimental, but I like these people!)
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08-16-2004, 10:41 AM
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By the way, Number Six "Glen, Glen, Glen, Glen" is one of my favorites, and its for Starbucks' DoubleShot drink. That commercial rocks! Although I pointed out in another thread that the lead singer of Survivor looks an awful lot like Jack Black, and someone else pointed out the he even *acts* like him in the commercial.
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#21
08-16-2004, 10:44 AM
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Oh, and when I was in London, there was a great one (car commercial) where a woman was driving, and her husband was asleep next to her. She's driving like mad trying to wake him up - down stairs, over curbs, taking turns at 90, no luck. She stops at a light or something and there's a good-looking guy standing on the sidewalk. He smiles at her, she smiles back in a dopey kinda way, and her husband, whose face is turned towards hers (and away from the gent on the sidewalk) opens one eye and says "OY!"
Love it.
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#22
08-16-2004, 10:49 AM
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It's really hard to remember a commercial you like until you see it again. The only ones I can think of are the one with the Pouty Goth schoolgirl in the office supply store and then she says "I thought you said 'School's Out Forever'!?" Then the camera pans over to Alice Cooper in full makeup, tossing school supplies into a shopping cart who says in a sweet voice, "No, I said 'School's out for summer'. Nice try though." Then he shows her some colored pencils or something.
I don't even know if it's for Office Depot or Staples or what, but I like that one. The other one I can think of similtaneously annoys me because of it's stupidity and makes me smile. It's the one where the women are trying to inconspicuously sniff their armpits to make sure their deodorant is working. The one that makes me smile is the chick who's dancing, I just think she has the best armpit sniffing technique.
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#23
08-16-2004, 10:50 AM
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I saw a new one last night that made me giggle, and that's a rarity. It might have been for a Citibank credit card, but I may be wrong.
A magician was onstage and put his hand into a top hat and screamed with pain and pulled his hand out, a white rabbit clamped firmly onto his finger. The magician jumped around the stage trying to shake the rabbit off, screaming in pain. At one point he got it free and ran into the audience but the rabbit took a flying leap from the stage and got him by the jugular. The rabbit, BTW, was CGI, of course. Yeah, I know, a blatant ripoff of The Holy Grail, but it was still funny. Why this would make me want to have a Citibank credit card is beyond me, though.
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08-16-2004, 11:04 AM
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I like the Rubberband Man one for (IIRC) Office Max. I also like the Ev'rybody was Kung Fu Fighting and CD Song ones for GEICO.
The one I absolutely hate right now is one for Toyota. "It doesn't even look like my car!" Lady, you drove in with a rustbucket Ford Falcon. That's a brand new Toyota. Of course it doesn't look loke your car!
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08-16-2004, 11:12 AM
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My absolute favorite was the Sprint commercial (one of the ones where someone misunderstood someone else over a cell phone) where the misunderstanding was between "oxen" and "dachsunds" and you see dachsunds hooked up to plows and things like that. At then end someone off-screen yells "stampede!" and about a dozen dogs run across the screen.
Another is the Kevin Bacon commercial for a Visa Checkcard. He tries to write a check and when asked for ID he runs out and grabs six people, then shows how they connect him to the store clerk. Kevin Bacon playing the Kevin Bacon game on a commercial. Actually, the Charlie Sheen/Martin Sheen checkcard commercial is pretty funny too.
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#26
08-16-2004, 11:25 AM
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You can add pretty much all the Celebrity Visa Checkcard ones to my list. They slay me.
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08-16-2004, 11:29 AM
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I always thought these were hilarious:
http://217.153.29.18/~michal/usa/ps2ratchetandclank.mov http://217.153.29.18/~michal/usa/ps2...ankchicken.mov http://217.153.29.18/~michal/usa/ps2...lanktarget.mov They have the feel of a bunch of college guys filming some dumb stunts with a handycam.
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#29
08-16-2004, 12:05 PM
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Theres also the one where they show the inside of a shoe store. A clerk is down on one knee and takes a shoe out of the box for the lady thats sitting and stands it upright. A guy down the aisle spots this, sprints down the aisle and punts the shoe. "It must be football season" Or how about the workers carrying the 6' x 12' painting through the art museum. Patron see it, sprints at it, and crashes through it. "It must be football season" Or the the crowded aisle in the produce department. Some lady accidently drops a melon on the floor. Some guys all standing around see it hit the floor and immediately dive for it all at once. "It must be football season" (Couldn't find any links to these)
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#30
08-16-2004, 12:07 PM
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My current favorite ad is the one for Staples' office supplies. It features Alice Cooper as himself and a dad getting school supplies for his daughter.
The girl, who kind of looks and dresses like Wednesday from The Addam's Family, says, "You said school was out forever!"
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08-16-2004, 01:16 PM
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08-16-2004, 01:38 PM
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I rarely look at tele in the States, so just about any time I see adverts, I end up just staring! Most, bleah, but the other day was mesmerised by one for laptops, I think, showing a Goth girl in her uni digs, and her very preppy Sloaney new roommate comes in. Partly it's the utter acceptance of the preppie girl; nothing phases her! Partly is the awfully amusing contrast in their archetypes. And partly it's that the diametric opposites who end up bonding cos the whole advert reminds me of a very close friend who is completely opposite me in just about every way, yet we're in thick with each other. (Were we the girls in the advert, she would be the pink girl, and I would be the Goth girl).
PS My partner loves the advert cos he swears, at the end, when the Goth girl is adjusting the snake around the preppie girl's neck, she cops a feel. 
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#34
08-16-2004, 02:18 PM
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Jack-In-The-Box commercials are always entertaining. The new one, where Jack is being interviewed by a French reporter is a classic.
My current favorite is for some cellular company. A couple is driving down the street at night, when a man talking into a cell phone freezes in their headlights. "Oh. It's Joe. Daytime minutes cost too much, so he's gone nocturnal." Follwing shot shows him being chased away from knocked-over garbagecans by an irate homeowner. But the last shot is the classic: He's running through a backyard when the dog, a pretty good-sized beast, hits him with a flying tackle that would do Dick Butkus proud, and knocks the guy over a hedge. 
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#35
08-16-2004, 02:59 PM
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I like most of the trippy Skittles commercials they've done the last few years.
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08-16-2004, 03:25 PM
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#38
08-16-2004, 06:25 PM
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Another fan of the Citibank identity theft commercials ("Fifteen hundred dollars for a leather bustier? But it lifts and separates!") and the macaroni minutes cell phone commercials.
How 'bout the Starburst commercial where the girl eats one of the candies - wrapper still attached - and pulls the wrapper out of her mouth, only to be trumped by the boy, who folds it into a crane with his tongue first? I actually enjoy any commercial where the guy isn't portrayed as a bumbling idiot it comparison to the girl.
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#39
08-16-2004, 07:07 PM
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All hail the Trunk Monkey:
http://www.StupidVideos.com/?VideoID=597 http://www.StupidVideos.com/?VideoID=751 http://www.StupidVideos.com/?VideoID=757 http://www.StupidVideos.com/?VideoID=763 Wish I had one .
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#40
08-16-2004, 07:50 PM
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I just saw a new one I like. I believe it's for some network security by AT&T. It's a giant trojan horse rolling through a large city and talking with a rather dorky voice saying things like "can I use your network?", "Low mortgage rates, attract women, grow um ... hair!", "I have candy". It reminds me of those old Saturday Night Live bits with the original cast where they did the land shark, "Candygram!"
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#41
08-16-2004, 08:01 PM
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Ads for feminine-hygeine-products, and for remedies for bodily functions usually make me giggle.
For example, there's this couple sitting in a rowboat in the middle of a lake, and the boat begins to leak. What does the young lady propose as a solution? That's right! A tampon. Hey, I don't care who you are or what problem you're having, but if it'll plug the leak in a boat....DON'T! Remedies for too much pooping/not enough pooping will also get my attention.
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#42
08-16-2004, 08:16 PM
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I still love that little gecko, esp. the one where he drives into his Employee of the Month parking space.
he he he
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#44
08-16-2004, 08:32 PM
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I just love the ones for Puma running shoes, the official shoe of the Jamaican Relay team.
All of 'em. Too bad they'll be gone forever in a couple of weeks.
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