Ah, I remember now. The title is Diamonds and Guns, still by the Transplants. (Why is it I recognize the songs I hate as much as the songs I like?)
SNL lampooned that advertisement rather well, I thought. Their product was, IIRC, “Bonerol”, and the mainstay of the parody was the thinly-veiled innuendo that saturates the commercial as urine would nurture a houseplant.
No, we’re talking about two different songs.
The song in the Vonage commercial goes “Woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoooo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoooo.” Blur’s Song 2 goes “WOOOO-HOOOOOO, something something something, WOOO-HOOOOOOO, something something something” with a heavy guitar backing.
Definitely two different songs.
My bad. I never saw the Vonage commercial. but whe I heard a reference to the “woo-hoo song,” I immediately thought it was Blur.
U2’s Vertigo seems to be 2005’s X-TREEEM! equivalent of Song 2, although it’s featured in as many commercials as the Blur tune.
PRESS FOUR FOR THE BLING BLING! PRESS FIVE FOR MONIQUE!
I hate that “talking” baby in the Quizno’s commercials. I can’t stand to look at him and must change the channel. Plus his voice is annoying.
I went ballistic at the fact that our government could allow a psoriasis drug that can cause cancer out on the market, let alone allow it to be advertised on TV.
My wife went through 6 excruciating chemo treatments for an illness that the drug company blew off as something minor like dry mouth or a headache.
There are forms of lymphoma that are much more difficult to treat than my wife’s variety. The ad didn’t specify which lymphoma you could get from this drug-Hodgkin’s, non-Hodgkins, large-cell, small-cell, aggressive, non-aggressive; the list of types and subtypes goes on and on.
99% of the ad featured actors beaming ecstatically over being able to wear shorts without embarassment. None of it portrayed hair loss, the look and feel of Death Warmed-Over, nausea, the $6000+ deductibles and co-pays for those with
what is considered to be a “good” group plan for my area these days.
If uninsured, I’d have been on the hook for 300+ for each of 6 trips to the drugstore and 12,000+ for each of 6 chemo treatments. Hardly equivalent to merely having to drink more water or take some aspirin.
Give me “itching, embarassing scales” over lymphoma any day!
Is it just me, or are all the women in ads for feminine hygiene products total hotties? It creates a very disturbing tug-of-war in my head - “Ooo, look at that babe. Oh no, she’s got a yeast infection! Wait, she cured it in only three days!”
I’m still pretty sure I’m right. I say it’s Woo-Hoo by The 5.6.7.8’s. Only reason I’ve ever heard of it is because it’s on the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack.
At first I liked the ad about the young couple dancing/stomping in their apt and after a neighbor complains they use they car to buy a bigger stero and move into a house.
Then I saw 6 BILLION TIMES and now I HATE THOSE KIDS!
Yeah, you’re right about the song in the Vonage and Chevy commercials is the 5678s song. But that’s a totally different song from Blur’s Song 2.
I just wasn’t sure if we’d come to a consensuous on what the original song was.
The part I find odd: “If you have a uterus, this may cause uterine cancer.” Why the qualifier? Is it possible to get uterine cancer without a uterus?
But on the soundrack to kill Bill and watch this
This commercial annoys the hell out of me.
Not cuz I dislike it, to the contrary in fact. I must watch it at least 5x a week and have been hopelessly addicted to it since someone linked it here a few months ago.