I don’t know about you, but the Dodge advertisments are too fucking much! First there was the, “Shama Lama Dodge Trucks”, pseudo-rap style ads.
Now there’s the, “Drive! D-O-D-G-E, live!”, WTFever weird Mitch Miller chorale fuck wits. As a musician, I am forced to dive on the remote like a live gernade in a trench full of buddies.
Anyone out there hate this as much as I do? This set of ads really makes me want to go the big spit. I do not know if I will ever buy a Dodge vehicle, just because of this ad series. BTW, feel free to unload on other submoron car or product ads in this thread.
As to favorite ads, the “You’re so fired”, series by Jack In The Crack was great. Go ahead and mention the good ones too. However, we shall assume that all ads are evil in nature. Except, of course, the ones that promote our favorite products.
Dodge can kiss my ass! Especially the Viper! After seeing and hearing their stupid ads for months, I’d rather keep my wimpy little Ford Escort than a Dodge (never, ever at sale price with the rest of our line) Viper.
No, the worst ones, are those by a certain german automaker, which always show their cars splashing gutterwater on the poor “peasants” who are (oh-my-god) pedestrians(!).
Ok, Kinsey, I’ll admit it too. I love the Zoom Zoom ads. I sing the zoom zoom song to my dog and she goes ape over it. Jumps up on her hind legs and wants to dance. But she does that with Guess Who CD’s too, so who knows. Yes, we are a wierd, strange, and somewhat disturbing family.
Anyway, my favorite ads are the ones for the yellow pages. Dad walks into kids room - kid is playing video games or something. Dad asks kid to do something - clean up his room or whatever. Kid says “talk to the hand cause Jimmy ain’t listening”. Yellow pages comes flying out of nowhere and hits the kid upside the head, and flops open to “Military Schools”. Voice over says something along the lines of “find the answer to all your problems” or something like that. They crack me up.
Welll… earlier this month we were on vacation and this group is playing croquet beside the tennis courts where my husband and inlaws are playing. After the game ends, the croquet folk ask us to take their picture with their camera. We oblige, then head up to the bar for drinks. Croquet Folk follow. We were there for probably ten minutes before I realized that one of the fellows in the party is the actor (whose name completely escapes me–that is, if I ever knew it) who does many of the Dodge ads.
I was like, hey, cool… then I thought, no it isn’t. He just some guy who chose acting as a career.
But Zen, if I’d known how you felt about Dodge commercials, I woulda gone right up and slapped him for you. That’s the measure of devotion I feel for you. Your posts make me laugh like a banshee, so now my crush is official.
Damn, I missed a chance to smack a tall doughy-faced croquet-playing stranger!
I have the solution. We got a DSS system, and accidentally let our “lifeline” cable (local channels, ABC, CBS, NBC) lapse. We didn’t really notice for a while, so we didn’t renew. We mostly watch movies on premium channels, plus we watch Iron Chef, South Park, and Farscape. Hence, I have never seen most of the complained-of ads.
Unfortunately, some car ads do show up - my favorite stupid one (I have no idea what car its for), uses the slogan, “Go farther.” Fine. But they spell it out one letter at a time on the screen, so at one point in the ad, it says, “Go fart” - never fails to crack me up.
My least favorite ads are the “Sci-Fi Prime” ones with the chick in black leather. I just want to push her face in!
Another one I like (for Geico insurance) is the one with the guy at the hospital making a collect call. Man: I’d like to make a collect call. My first name is Bob, last name is We-had-a-baby-it’s-a-boy.
I used to do that in college when calling home. I would call home, collect, for the dog (named Susie), and my parents knew to just decline, and then call me back.
What gets my goat is car commercials that show a full front wheel drive sedan (like a Maxima or Pontiac) in a four wheel power slide with the back of the car sliding around.
What the fuck! They are fucking front wheel drive cars! Do you know what you have to do to get a front wheel drive car to slide like it’s in oversteer? If I ever see a FWD car in a slide with the rear end trying to pass the front end I know that the driver of the vehicle has just lost complete control of his/her car and I am heading as far away as possible from the pending disaster.
Please, marketers, learn something about driving. Get a fucking clue for christ sake. You are not fooling anyone pretending to powerslide a FWD car. We all know you just yanked that hand break and essencially lost control of the car on some loose gravel for effect. Knock it off you major wankers!
The annoyance in question is Edward Herrmann, a character actor who has been in a jillion things, but whom I best remember as appearing in The Lost Boys with all those insufferable Coreys.
CrankyAsAnOldMan, you realize, of course, that I am now your slave? Let us meet at the Cult of the Spastic Weasel’s next conclave to discuss this amazing turn of events. Thank goodness this is my own thread so that I can get away with such a blatant hijack.
As to the Dodge ads, it’s the writer of the jingles that I want shot and hung after torture.
Bottle Of Smoke, you just had to remind me of Edward Herrmann, didn’t you? Now that I think of this smug, smarmy fucknugget, is perhaps drawing and quartering him in the traditional fashion (first they pull your entrails out through your anus and burn them in front of you), just too good for him?
I hate those “Like a Rock…” ads, I think they’re Chevy? Just hearing the beginning of the song makes my flesh crawl.
My current favorite is the Got Milk one with the guy going through his day and comes home with the groceries, at the end the voiceover is “Do I really have to say it?”
Drawing and quartering is far too good for him. I propose instead that he be tied to chair and forced to watch every single Dodge commercial in which he has appeared, over and over again until his mind snaps and his gray matter oozes out through his ears.
I can’t stand those zoom-zoom ads. Especially the kid. He says zoom-zoom as if it’s some big secret, and as if he really cares that an SUV is more powerful (at least, that’s what I think they’re trying to say).
And what the hell is a little kid doing on a test track anyway?
But the ad I have to mute the nanosecond it starts is the Herbal Essences ad in the courtroom. It pisses me off to no end that I can’t get that song out of my head once I’ve been exposed to it.
slackergirl wrote: I hate those “Like a Rock…” ads, I think they’re Chevy? Just hearing the beginning of the song makes my flesh crawl.
Which is another wonderful thing many ads tend to do–take an existing song and use it for their commerical. Play commercial ad naseum. Hear the “real” song on the radio. Break land speed record changing radio station.
Commercials have ruined many a semi-decent song out there for music lovers.
I muted the “zoom-zoom” shit with the comment that I hated the stupid fucker. Now Marcie sings it to me at odd moments.
She dearly loves to sing it when we are in a traffic jam, going nowhere.