She fucking SCARES me. It’s got to be those serial killer eyes of hers.:eek:
Goddammit, I don’t want half!
See, this would have been a better commercial if it depicted a cat. Everybody knows that if cats had opposable thumbs and they could open the tuna can without human help, they would murder their owners in their sleep. Yeah, the cat is going to pick the couch over you.
At least it’s not a beard of Oreo crumbs!
Yes! This one! I keep picturing people stopping in the street as she walks by and exchanging these puzzled glances, going, “…why is this random chick showing me her armpits?”
He *was *winning. He says, “You might want to read the sco-o-orebo-o-o-ard…” but then we see that GEICO has sponsored the match so has rigged the match so Billie Jean is winning by something like 999-0. So he quits because GEICO is out to get him.
The Verizon commercial with the kid getting out of school only to be met by his dad in some weird rock outfit.
This is almost nothing about the commercial that doesn’t annoy me. The kid, the dad, the mom. All of it.
Ah! Okay.
hurk…hurk…
Yes, thats it. I’d thought it was for condoms but you are correct.
The Nutrisystem commercial with Jillian Barberi (sp?) where she “catches” a football that was pretty much handed to her from off-camera to illustrate that she is capable of holding a ball that’s obviously been created only for guys. She’s so cool. And gorgeous*. And better than the “average” girl. :rolleyes:
The Boniva commercials with Sally Field where she makes a big deal about how much extra time she has now that she’s only taking a pill monthly as opposed to four times a month. Wow. She has saved a whopping–what?–5 minutes a month?
I’ll second (or third) that the I-gave-all-my-fat-clothes-to-my-fat-friends guy should be taken out back and beat senseless.
I can’t stand ads that depict parents tolerating intolerable behavior with a wink and a smile. For instance, the commercial for Totino’s Pizza Rolls where just as the mom gets the plate out of the microwave, a hand crashes through the tiled backsplash, grabs one roll, and disappears. Her response? “Oh my! [chuckle chuckle] Well, okay then! [chuckle chuckle]” Other examples include paper towel ads and almost any household cleaning product ad in which some kid has virtually destroyed a room with mud/orange soda/crayons and mom just laughs and cleans up the whole mess with one swipe.
The Progressive cashier never really bugged me that much. I kind of like the ad where the couple gets to the register and he’s thrown RV insurance and boat insurance into the cart hoping the wife doesn’t notice…“Surprise!..Let’s bag these up.” But the one with the “tricked-out nametag” really gets me. They flash those numbers pretty quickly, and I’ve never caught exactly how much is being saved, but I assume from the woman’s “wow…that’s a new pair of shoes” comment that she’s thinking of shoes in the $75-$150 or so range? Since when is a nametag worth that much? The writers got lazy.
*matter of her opinion
It’s worse than that, actually. I think the disparity between at least the first quote and Progressive is something like $300. Every time that comes on I start screaming (in my head) “A new pair of shoes? How about six new pairs of shoes, since I don’t think I’ve ever paid more than $50 for shoes in my freaking life!”
Another thread reminded me of this: Ruby Tuesday (I think) commercial with a generic couple eating, when some tool pops up to grab the Tiffany lamp and lamely snark “the 80s called, and want their lamp back”.
Only to replace it with a lamp that is just as out of date, and so lamer, 'cause it isn’t even a recognizable style like the Tiffany lamp.
But, dontcha see? The football catch is to demonstrate that the diet program works! She can catch a *football! *So the diet works! You don’t see the logic there? You, too, can catch a football! And lose weight, but more important, catch a football!
Not that the commercials aren’t still annoying, but I’m pretty sure that the benefit for the once-a-month Boniva is that most medications of that type require that you not lie down, eat or drink anything (aside from plain water), or take any other medications for about an hour after taking them. It also has to be taken first thing in the morning.
If you’re relatively healthy that’s fine, but if you need a lot of medications taken throughout the day, have to lie down frequently, are diabetic, are rather ill and/or are confined to a nursing home, etc., then frequent usage of a medication like this can be difficult to do properly. My WAG is that it might have been developed for inpatient-type usage to make it convenient for whoever is giving the medication and monitoring the person afterwards, and then they expanded to consumer marketing to appeal to patients who feel like they take too many medications as it is.
One of the quotes on their website is: “Because you take BONIVA 150 mg monthly, interruptions to your morning routine and your normal activities occur only once a month.” I suspect that if you have other “first thing in the morning” meds or have to eat on a pretty strict schedule due to diabetes, changing the meds timing or one breakfast time, once a month, isn’t as bad as doing it more frequently.
Okay, I don’t even know what the product is because I’m so horrified by the commercial. Woman is behind the counter and she’s got a fake face on the back of her head and she’s saying, “gimme gimme gimme gimme” and then turns around to her normal face again and the customer is saying it cost more than she originally said, and then I’m afraid to fall asleep for fear I’ll see the two-faced head in my nightmares.
HEY! Not on the carpet!
Damn doper hairballs…
Sorry about that.
Good one. It is one of the airlines, but I dunno which one.
I like her but I’m inexplicably annoyed by the fact that her name is Flo.
I think she’s (the actress, not the character) in one of the Glade scented candles commercials, too…the one where the woman has her friends over for yoga class. She’s one of the friends. Her face isn’t visible for more than about 3/4 of a second total, but I’m pretty sure it’s her.