Ads I Hate, As Of Late

Vince Shlomi.

The Orbit gum commercial with that Big Pak rapper guy.

You know that you can text google, and it will text you back answers, right?

Do they run those trident ads (at least, I think it’s trident) where the actor puts a piece of gum in his mouth and his teeth start chanting “thank youuuuuu, Thank you, THANK YOU!!!” while his lips ripple with the sheer force of volume emanating from his mouth?

Creepy and annoying. Channel changed.

How?

I don’t use text messaging, but if you google the terms “Text google”, there’s an instruction page with tips and such. My boyfriend has been using it for years.

The worst version of this commercial shows the guy IN HIS OWN HOUSE frozen in the act trying to remember some basebase stat. Dude, you are at home, presumbably with access to the internet… GOOGLE IT!

Dumbass.

That’s the point. The whole song is about about which kind of buns make him so horny.

Yeah, which in the original song (Baby Got Back) was big ones. Which is reasonably understandable. Square butts, specifically Sponge Bob’s, however, is just funny.

The original song caused a bit of a stir when it first came out because its crude lyrics (for a mainstream song at the time), and for sexual nature of the video (women, shaking their butt at that camera). The humorous twist here, is that he’s singing the same way about something that’s decidedly nonsexual.

I know explaining a joke is normally counterproductive, but oh well. But really, how can you not laugh at lines like “Swimming through the seaweed tangle / Is a butt with sharp right angles”?

So what’s with the “booty is booty” line at the end?

Some winners mentioned here.

Enzyte Bob, who was supposed to be locked up and doing hard time (or at least the company owner), is back. Yes, with the stupid Christmas ad. It actually says “chubby Santa.” (Good Lord!)

This ad is fucked up for a number of reasons. It’s Enzyte, made up of puppy tails and roach droppings that some tools believe will give them dongs of steel. But we know that Enzyte Bob is married - in fact, Ms. E. Bob is in the commercial. And all of the office hotties are lining up to sit on his todger with her full knowledge! So are they swingers, in an open marriage, or what? One would think the rigor mortis smile that the Bobs have is some weird effect of dick-swellage, so you might want to avoid that, ladies.

Folks, we have those damned Cricket ads in Texas too. The teen brat kicking the glass of water because she wants R-E-S-P-E-C-T needs an A-S-S-K-I-C-K-I-N-G. WTF is wrong with everyone in that family?

Dumbass dad in the Verizon add dumping the sprinkles all over the counter. I would buy a Verizon phone if the wage slave would just deck that douchebag in the face.

I thought Shamwow was busted for punching hookers in the face? He’s already out?

I like those aggressive college commercials. Consider the fact that they run at 2 a.m. during Tyra and Judge Joe/Judy/Hot Chick, their audience probably needs some motivation. Those guys should be in high schools.

My guess is something unrelated they tacked on to the end just to show Sir Mix-a-Lot. It isn’t in the full version, and doesn’t really jive with the rest of the commercial.

Up until the booty moment I’d agree with you it’s an innocent parody, but that put it over the edge. That was the WTF moment for me.

I’m sure they could have showed him in some other, less creepy way.

Yeah, the editor probably didn’t get the joke.

The Direct TV commercial that says something along the lines of “We know you value your friends, so we’re giving you 100 dollars and your friends 100 dollars if you refer them to Direct TV!”

I know the point of companies is to make money, but this commercial is absurd and I’d say even slightly offensive.

You guys are crazy! I love the Enzyte commercials. All of the constant innuendos are hilarious.

Chubby santa. Swelling of pride. How can you not love these? They’re gold Jerry, gold!

This might sound silly, but I have this mild phobia of balloons. I’m skittish, and get startled by sharp noises (like balloons popping) so I get edgy around balloons because I’m worried they’re going to pop…and startle me :rolleyes: lame phobia I know but whatever.

There is an Axe commercial on Adult Swim that has this guy with spiky hair walking at a college campus or something, and this very large (like a weather balloon) pink ballon is following him. It touches his hair, pops, and a woman leaps out of the popped balloon and tackles him :eek:

First time I saw this ad it was like 12:30 in the morning, I was dozing off and the ad startled me awake. Yeah yeah, hot chicks are telling me to use this hair product…hot chicks leaping out of giant pink popping balloons…urghhhh :frowning:

Ah. Well, as comedy it didn’t make any sense either!

They run during the day here and irritate me so much I am about to email the offending TV station and tell them that I don’t see or hear any of their ads because I mute as soon as I know ads are going to be starting. And quit looking at the TV except glaces to see when the show starts again. All for just in case the most irritating one of all (which they show, I swear to God, at every break) might come on.

:o I’m embarrassed - but I love those commercials too, and I KNOW those pills are made from who-knows-what, but I laugh at Smilin’ Bob. The commercials for the ‘real’ boner meds frankly turn my stomach.