# Commercials I'm enjoying right now **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011 "2005-12-10T05:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/41 "2005-12-11T20:21:09Z")
Thank you for that link. I just teared up at a commercial for United Way/Toys for Tots. Little boy asking the Marine guard if he’s Santa, and giving him a note. The Marine continues to stand at attention but slowly opens his hand and takes the note. Little boy runs off saying “He **is** Santa!” Kids and Christmas, they’ll get me every time – unless they’re kids in a huge and beautifully decorated living room sitting around a huge tree and tearing open fifty presents. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/42 "2005-12-11T20:42:14Z")
Love the Peyton Manning ads. "Hey, nice salad bar, man ". Today I just saw the new Nike ads starring “The LeBrons” as in LeBron James who plays all the roles a la Eddie Murphy in “The Nutty Professor”. Hilarious and fun. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/43 "2005-12-11T21:10:35Z")
I pretty much love all of the ESPN commercials but the one that is currently tickling me at the point is the one with LeBron James (nicknamed King James). LeBron walks into a generic office space with cubicles and looks into his cubicle and sees a crappy run down office chair. He goes over to the next cubicle and sees one of the ESPN anchors sitting on a big throne who denies having taken his chair. Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/44 "2005-12-11T21:32:52Z")
- The one for (internet radio) where Snoop Dog is searching high and low for his SNOOP chain, and it winds up with David Bowie lovingly wearing it while Snoop walks away. - And the Dunkin’ Donuts one with the guy happily greeting people in the Wal-Mart-like store with Xmas Latte in hand (“You’re reindeer, you’re reindeer!”), the manager asks him, “Um, do you _work_ here?”, and then his wife comes and drags him out of the store. Just makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/45 "2005-12-11T22:08:42Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > One of the cell phone companies has a series of ads where people try to use up all their minutes while in a big operating theatre-type area. They all suck, except for one. The one with the little pre-teen cheerleader chattering on about typical pre-teen girl stuff is hysterical. As the mother of a 13-year-old girl, I cracked up when I saw this commercial. I screamed “Look! It’s Ivygirl!” to my husband. Of course, my daughter just glared at me, but dayum, she gets more phone calls after school then I get all day at work. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/46 "2005-12-11T22:42:24Z")
There’s a commercial for a Monster-type job search agency where the job seeker is told by the agent that there’s a job in Arizona. The seeker says he doesn’t want to live in Arizona and the agent goes back to searching, then spins the monitor to show some cacti and says something like “You’ll love Arizona. Dry heat.” It makes me giggle every time. The expressions are priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/47 "2005-12-11T23:56:37Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > As the mother of a 13-year-old girl, I cracked up when I saw this commercial. I screamed “Look! It’s Ivygirl!” to my husband. Of course, my daughter just glared at me, but dayum, she gets more phone calls after school then I get all day at work. I just saw that again: “You got your head stuck in the sunroof? That’s so not cool!” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/48 "2005-12-12T01:17:02Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It really should’ve gotten old by now, but for us, it just doesn’t. And I think part of the reason why is the contrast. To anyone who’s seen Manning in an interview, he’s fairly straight-laced and humorless, almost to the point of being uncharismatic. He’s just that focused and professional when it’s about football. In the commercials, he’s showing a different side of himself, and he pulls it off nicely. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/49 "2005-12-12T01:44:50Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > One of the cell phone companies has a series of ads where people try to use up all their minutes while in a big operating theatre-type area. They all suck, except for one. The one with the little pre-teen cheerleader chattering on about typical pre-teen girl stuff is hysterical. I love her voice when she says “I love chewing gum!” That always makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/50 "2005-12-12T02:19:18Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > For the first time ever, I like the current crop of Old Navy commercials for that little blonde cutie with the high voice, Kristin Chenoweth, who it turns out is a major Broadway star. I’m not sure I like those commercials, but I HAVE been wondering who exactly is tehg spokesperson. thanks. Brian ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/51 "2005-12-12T03:28:39Z")
That Super Bowl commercial made by Budweiser, where a bunch of horses playing football are standing around waiting for the umpire (played by a zebra :D) to review their play. “What a jackass.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/52 "2005-12-12T12:30:01Z")
I love the Peyton Manning commercials–all of them! Gotta second (or third, fourth, whatever!) the caveman ads! I laughed out loud when I saw the “I smell feet” ad for Guiness! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/53 "2005-12-12T12:40:05Z")
> [@ephemeral1](#): > > Oh, definetily the new [Bravia commercial](http://www.bravia-advert.com/) from Sony. And they dropped 250 000 bouncy balls in San Francisco to make it. But then again, I am easily amused, and watching colourful bouncing balls can make me happy. > > …it’s just so pretty to look at it makes you happy… Holy cow, I hope they cleaned all that up! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/54 "2005-12-13T18:53:07Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > And I think part of the reason why is the contrast. To anyone who’s seen Manning in an interview, he’s fairly straight-laced and humorless, almost to the point of being uncharismatic. He’s just that focused and professional when it’s about football. Perhaps he is also mindful of the stir that he caused when he called the Colts’ Mike Vanderjagt “our idiot kicker who got liquored up” and wants to make sure that he doesn’t give the press any more ammunition. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/55 "2005-12-14T04:16:19Z")
Car commercial, Nissan I think, with the song, “Goin’ for a ride in my car, car” complete with human “brrrm brrrrrrm” sounds accompanying shots of zooming car. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/56 "2005-12-14T04:25:06Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Perhaps he is also mindful of the stir that he caused when he called the Colts’ Mike Vanderjagt “our idiot kicker who got liquored up” and wants to make sure that he doesn’t give the press any more ammunition. True. And that’s why I used the word “uncharismatic.” Then again, Manning had a legitimate gripe. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011/57 "2005-12-14T15:30:36Z")
First a shout out to the Russian Fashion Show: “Is next, Day Vear” I loved that commercial! Too bad about Capital One, along with their excellent Barbarian series of commercials, I LOVE the one where the family shows up at the grandparents house. “The credit card company blocked out all the good dates, kids go put on your Halloween costumes while your mother hides the Easter eggs. You gonna cook that?” “We’re all hot.” Just a great commercial. Yes, [Overstock.com](http://Overstock.com) appeals to me on a more animalistic level. Geico’s “Kung-Fu Fighting” commercial is great, but I don’t think it’s currently in rotation as was their visiting the house where the lady had all the cats. That’s all I got right now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-im-enjoying-right-now/335011.md?page=2)