Yeah this commercial baffles me too. There’s this song playing in the background :
“I’m ready, I’m ready ready ready for you - I hope you’re ready for me”.
*Ready ready ready for what - to get a big stiffy ??
I confuse.*
- NM
Jack Batty said, regarding “Bull’s-ear, Catnip!”:
Sorry to call you on this one, especially as I share your dismay when it comes to the commercials mentioned in this thread. But “Bull’s-ear, Catnip” is from a beer commercial series aired in the '70s and '80s. I think it was for Miller Lite. They starred comedian Norm Crosby (the master of the malaprop) and various sports stars.
In this particular ad, Catfish Hunter is tossing darts in a bar and Crosby intrudes on him, calling out, “Hey, Catfood Hunter!” The commercial continues, including all the “less filling, tastes great” crap. The tag of the commercial shows Hunter whipping a dart, which drives the entire dartboard through the wall of the bar. Crosby pats him on the back and says, “Bull’s-ear, Catnip!”
I was gratified to see your inclusion of it here, as it frequently surfaces from the sludge of my cerebral cortex to amuse and distract me in troubled times.
No shit! I stand corrected.
I coulda sworn … ah, maybe I was thinkng of something else. But the late 70’s early 80’s were a pretty hazy time.
Maybe it’s a reference to the old joke “If you’re gonna be impo’tent, you gotta look impo’tent.”
–sublight.
Yesterday in the mail I received a very special offer.
Magdalene, now you can carry the Gold MasterCard that celebrates clowns!
Complete with photos of the clown cards - one is a clown painting his face, one is juggling, one is a group scene of “clowning around.”
I want to meet the person responsible for this piece of marketing genius. Is it a misguided fool, hoping to tap into the general population’s nonexistent love of clowns, or is he an evil genius who hates his job and wants to tap into the ur-fear of clowns?
I put the brochure in the self-addressed business reply envelope, but not before scrawling “I’m ascairt of clowns. Help.” on the insert. If anyone needs me I’ll be in the fetal position.
Next thing you know, them bastids will be selling cards honoring MIMES
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I’ve posted before about the Rogaine ads. My husband is just as bald as can be (he had hair when we met), and the first time he saw one where the guy was just fretting away, he said (in mock announcer voice)
“You’re going bald. How the fuck do you live with yourself?? Look in the mirror, you bald fuck! What a disgrace!”
The second time he said “So you’re going bald. Good thing you’re hung like a mule and have a tongue that won’t quit!”
A-men.
Zette
SOOOOOooooo, ladies, I’ve been using my Rogaine and taking my Viagra, how’s about we take a drive in my Lexus over to the Olive Garden? Afterwards, we can go back to my place for some Digital Cable. Who knows, if it works out, there might just be a nice big Diamond in it for you.
Any takers?
Only until DeBeers is torn down!!!
Diamonds are forever or until the burn up in a fire. Whichever comes first.
No shit - “The Circus Folk Collectors Series Credit Cards”
Clowns, Mimes, Monkeys dressed in clothes, and Freaks. Collect them all!
Sure, he’s got hair on his glans, but at least his scalp is firm…
Advertising in general has become offensive. What say some bright and generous soul pony-up some money for “deconstructing” the worst offenders during prime time? Wanna bet that such a show would go over really big for the vast majority of us?
One question, though… Who’d have the 'nads to advertise on a show that was deconstructing bad advertising?
What about the one where they say ‘Buy Ripp Off, it won’t make your life better, it won’t make you attractive, it won’t help you get laid, it costs an extortionate amount of money and it’s really pointless!’
I know I’d buy their product. :rolleyes:
It’s called advertising, it’s not meant to reflect real life. Half of these adverts seem to be jokes anyway. They’re designed to make you remember the product and it must work quite well if they’re still doing it.
Horse-Shit.
If the underlying message of a product is offensive (i.e. - our product is way more important than actual people) then the only thing it does is, well, offend. And it makes me not want to patronize that particular product.
If an ad is funny, I’ll remember it fondly and place that judgement on the product - as advertising is supposed to work.
Example:
This commercial I saw yesterday cracked me up … we see a bartender behind a bar at a tropical tiki-bar sort of thing on a beach. It is pouring rain outside. He is watching a game show on the television. A man on the game show is being offered the choice of a Volkswagen Somethingorother, or a Tropical Holiday. The bartender pleads with the man on TV to take the Volkswagen. He doesn’t, at which point the bartender says, “What an idiot.” And then turns to see the contestant from TV sitting at his bar, completely drenched with a disgusted scowl on his face.
Ba-dum-bum.
What a bit of fun, no? Makes me want to buy a Volkswagen.
I hate that digital cable commercial too! (Can we say the brand name?)
True, it is frustrating that I can’t tape a show on another channel at the same time, but most of the things I tape are on network TV. I may end up getting a cheap TV/VCR combo where I can tape those shows while watching the others…
[slight hijack]
Anyway, I purposely went to Dish because the cable company who does these ads has more than doubled their rates in the last 5 years! No new channels or services have been offered, they just kept jacking the price up.
I was paying $36.16 a month for basic and expanded basic!! :mad: (I think that amounted to 30 channels or so)
I now have DirecTV and pay 38.00 a month for over 113 channels! I’d be paying only 31.99, but I decided to add the local channels on for 5.99. [end hijack]
There are two other commericals that irritate me to no end:
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The diaper balm (not desitin) commerical where there’s bunch of women sitting around for a baby shower. I assume it’s the pregnant woman’s first child. All the ladies at the shower give her a tube of the diaper balm. What annoys me is the simpering “More <diaper balm>? Do you know something I don’t?” No, moron, they just bought it because they were brainwashed into it! UGH!!
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The old Ameritech add for Voicemail. The simpering woman says “Why do they call them answering machines? They don’t have all the answers!” Everytime that commercial came on TV I had to restrain myself from kicking my foot through the TV! Instead, I’d scream “It’s named so because it ANSWERS THE PHONE, YOU STUPID BITCH!”
Thank you, I feel better now… 
I don’t think you really have a problem so much with the commercial, but rather the fact that Direct TV is GOOD and digital cable SUCKS!!!
I don’t even know what the difference is between the two of them.
I have your basic cable set-up. And if it wasn’t already in place when I moved in, I probably wouldn’t have cable at all. Not that I don’t like TV, it’s just that on a priority level, that’s like the last bill I want to be responsible for.
I make no judgements about digital cable, sattelite dish, direct TV – whatever, as I no shit about any one of them.
But, damn, that Volkswagen commercial is funny.
Of course my post was in reply to the OP and not you FalconFinder. 
Good to see another person has come over from the stinking bowels of hell that is called digital cable!
Jack, this is the single best idea anyone has ever had. Now I have to get a new keyboard as mine is now covered in coffee and the keys between H and ’ no longer function (I hadda move to another computer to post this)
Thanks for a great laugh. I’m gonna go get a sattelite dish RIGHT NOW.
b.