What gets me is that they’re selling a phone service with a song that first accompanied Uma Thurman slicing up a gang of Japanese thugs in Kill Bill.
After watching Ted Ferguson, the Bud Light Daredevil, I think I’m not stupid enough to drink Bud Light.
Well you shouldn’t.
I’m sorry. It’s like the tape in The Ring. I have to share it to abandon the curse.
Anyone got some Brillo pads? I need to go scrub my brain out now.
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Some store that sells window blinds has commercials with this super-model-perfect store manager raving about the store – while staring about 30 degrees to the right of the camera. It creeps me out so much that I’m glancing over my left shoulder to see what the hell she’s staring at. And she doesn’t blink, either, for the entire 30-second spot. It’s just eerie. I really need new window coverings for my living room, but I’m scared to shop there, because those commercials frighten me.
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This comes to mind: Folgers’ “Happy Mornings”
Damn. That’s…the guy sneaking up on the sleeper at the beginning is just creepy.
Hell, the whole commercial feels like an acid flashback to Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas. Except they had style.
Any McDonalds commercial makes me want to vomit up every Big Mac I’ve ever eaten. I hate them. Hate, hate, hate.
Oh, and the ones for Erectile Dysfunction pills (I forget which brand) where the couples always end up in adjoining claw foot tubs outdoors. Where the hell are all these outdoor tubs, anyway?
Those soft drink ads with the tag line “drinks like a sports drink, kicks like an energy drink” or whatever. Vault, I think. Am I the only one who thinks they are offensively obnoxious, even by TV commercial standards?
Now, I’m not much into the idea of defining individuals by their gender stereotypes. In fact, it bothers me greatly in every other context. But for some reason, beer commercials about male stereotypes kill me (in a good way). I love those commercials. And I also like the Man Law ones, although I dislike that the Padres broadcasters’ selection for Player of the Game is “approved by the Men of the Square Table”.
I don’t get commercials that blatantly rip off other commercials that are still in circulation. I just saw an ad for some cell phone company that took the already borderline-nonsensical racial-insensitivity-themed Jetta commercials and made them even more opaque.
Also, that Pringles ad that baldfacedly cribs from the extremely recent M&M commercial-- who do you think you’re fooling with the mellow cover song and kaleidoscope effects, buddy?
Hummer owns this thread. Now, I would never buy a Hummer to begin with, but I hate how they promote their Earth-raping behemoths as the solution to being cut off in traffic, not being in touch with your inner child, or being ugly.
Case 1: “Happy Jack”
This one has kids making go-karts and one kid is building a mini-Hummer. While the other kids are racing on the track the Hummerito cuts down a hill and beats them all. Yeah, that’s fair.
Case 2: Goldilocks
Three bears come home to see that G. has broken and entered, stole their food and - the ultimate indignity - stolen baby bear’s little Hummer. Baby bear is an asshole as the others try to console him, while that thieving bitch G drives off, committing grand theft auto.
Case 3: Soccer Mom
I just saw this once so I might be remembering it wrong. Soccer mom gets cut off in traffic and feels belittled. So to make up for her shallow self esteem she buys a Hummer and is all smiles now. That’s a great reason to buy a car. (I think Heckxx alludes to it in an earlier post.)
How does one, realizing the environmental impact of a Hummer, and seeing these ads, feel clambering into one of these?
The newest Altoid ones where the people are supposed to be doing blind taste tests. In one the guy giving the test gets up, wearing underwear covered with fruit, and bump and grinds next to the head of the person that is blindfolded.
This is one of them.
Altoids sour.
The Subway Dinner Theatre ads with Jon Lovitz aggravate me to no end. You see I am in fact boycotting Subway until they stop running these ads, and I’m craving Subway subs. I really do want to buy delicious subs from Subway, but I refuse to as long as they run these ads. They irritate me as a viewer, and offend me as an actor. And they keep making new ones. I was dismayed to see new batch of these ads earlier this week; my boycott will be that much longer. Damn you Subway, with your delicious subs and your mind-numbingly stupid advertising!
Almost nuff said…That and Big Buckin chicken makes me want to smack every adman out there.
Taco Bell and their “good to go” hand motion.
I feel bad. I like the Big Buckin’ Chicken and the Subway Dinner Theatre ads.
But that “good to go” hand motion makes me irrationally crazy. I’ll actually mute that commercial. That one and the Pepto Bismol ad where everyone is dancing to a song about various GI ailments.
Hey, hey! Some of us admen retch when this crap goes out, too!
The Gatorade commercials with athletes dripping technicolor sweat. They really want people to associate their product with drinking sweat? 
What it is, is something about the way they chop the v/o track up to remove almost all the pauses and make it sound like some sort of hopped-up cyborg slave with a malfunctioning hard drive.
Glock 9. Apply directly to the forehead. :rolleyes:
yuck. Whatever BK is doing, it’s a waste of money. SOmeone told me that the ad agency is making a movie with the King?
What’s with Taco Bell trying to create pop-culture phrases? “good to go”? “fourth meal?” they oughtta just go back to what they do best. Making cheap mexican food to feed drunk college students.