Really? I always thought she was just kissing him because the Mentos is so mouth-watering she got confused between the guy and the water cooler.
Soul, +10 for that post.
I’m with you, oh how I hate the Charmin commercials.
I’ll get aggrivated when they come on. Even if I get to turn the channel before a second or two, I’m still pissed off for a few minutes at least.
I wouldn’t say they make me furious, but I’m always amused at low/mid level sit down restaurant chains, such as Chili’s or Friday’s, with ads billing them as some sort of destination.
They are places (at least with my friends and me) that you go to when you just can’t think of anyplace else, or are sick of your regular hang out spots.
Nothing against those places, but destinations they ain’t.
I absolutely loathe every single Orbit chewing gum ad. That chirpy-freaky British chick makes me want to put both fists through the screen.
Regarding the Alltel commercials: I hate how they had to remake one of the old commercials “The who has the better network fight” in order to make us think that the new yellow shirt guy is not a new yellow shirt guy - he’s been there all along. Um, the new guy has a huge freaking 'fro, how could we not notice that he’s different! Also, why remake an old commercial anyway? We were sick of it then, we don’t need to see it again, new yellow shirt guy isn’t going to make it any better. Besides, old yellow shirt guy said “alright, he brought the 'chucks” much more convincingly.
Didn’t old yellow shirt guy also have glasses? Why didn’t they just get a new pudgey guy with short hair and glasses instead of remaking old commercials so we wouldn’t notice the change? Anyone know what happened to old yellow shirt guy?
Debt consolidation commercials. If I said what I really thought I’d be in the Pit. Happy, smiley people joyfully telling you how they got out of debt by taking on even more debt…does not compute. Then the APRs that double the amount and don’t always even reduce the payments. Unethical. Lying. Weasels.
Yes, I did volunteer in debt advice for a while, it shows doesn’t it?
This is the only one I can stand. Who says there can’t be truth in advertising? 
Yeah, I’ve been wondering that too. The old one was kind of cute in a chubby, loserish way. And now he’s had the good taste to bail on those commercials…I want to hunt him down and have sex with him. Where are you, yellow shirt guy?
Great, next time I see it I’m going to puke for real!
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention another one that belongs in its own Pit thread…
Any one of those car dealer commercials that blare they will pay off your trade-in no matter how much you owe on it.
Oh, forgot the !!!.
I mean, D’uh.
Man, I’m with you, that is just wrong. Not only that, but there is another huge error in the ad itself – besides setting up a false-in-more-than-one-way dichotomy (if you’re not into the arts you’ll grow into a soulless moneyhead), the reality is that the public schools cutting down on arts/music programs, are NOT improving teaching instead in economics/finance!
Oh, and the dropped-call cellphone ads? Jeebus on a rollerskate, what grade of moron does it take to not notice a dropped call or interference? Or to not know that is a common problem with mobiles? A Peter Greenberg would say, if you need to make a truly important call that should not get interrupted or h ve pa t f t ut off, go and find a landline telephone and make sure you get the whole thing straight!!
Can’t believe nobody’s mentioned the Geico Gecko-guess it’s too passe to rip on him (them). Lately it seems like anything the little green essobee says is completely content free and totally rambling on about absolutely nothing in particular:
“Oh yah, when I was 3 my mum gave me a cold sponge bath and did I mention that daffodils taste like crickets? That reminds me of time I traipsed through the rye after me lost gumball, which looks like an eyeball, and didja ever eat one of those poofy cheese pastries with the guacamole inside and it all shoots out the sides? Once I was wandering around in Perth and one of those homeless guys told me that if you close your eyes really hard you can see stars-mmm I love those crisp spring mornings, you know the kind…” On and on and on and on and on-this is supposed to get me to buy car insurance? How?
Well done, John. I started to mention the dancing caveman, if that’s any comfort. 
“Oh, and did I mention I enjoy takin’ a li’l stroll up inside a chicken’s cloaca? Ooh, that’s pleasant.”
Okay, there is one I hate.
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So, based on this post, I looked up the commercial on YouTube. I hate to say this, but you’re wrong. She’s not quirky hot, she’s hot hot.
Okay, so maybe hot to me is quirky to most others, you’re not wrong, but… yeah. I’d dig that cashier in a Suicide Girls picture set. Or in person. On my lap. Saying “wow!” really loud.
I feel out of it in these kinds of threads, since I don’t get to watch TV, and I miss the fun… but one commercial I can’t stand based on hearsay-- the Axe commercials from a while back where women said “Bow chick a wow wow.” For months, preteens and teens would raid the Axe displays next to my pharmacy, hosing themselves and polluting the air with the crap, shrieking “bow chick a wow wow!” over and over. It’s bad enough smelling the crap, but the loud approximation of 70’s porno music coming from the mouths of the teens who didn’t know what Axe was referencing… annoying.
Okay, I got curious so I did a search. This guy is rumored to be original yellow shirt guy but it isn’t on his IMDB resume.
This guy is new yellow shirt guy. Maybe original YSG left of his own volition (he is filming a movie) or maybe they felt they needed someone who’s been in a few more popular movies for the extremely difficult YSG role?
It’s so cute that you think teenagers have no idea that “bow chicka wow wow!” is a reference to bad porn music. Trust me, they know.
They had one a couple of years ago with a woman, without kids, who was at the “Repair Shop” calling Enterprise for a ride. It drove me crazy that as she was saying “Hello, Enterprise? I’m at the Repair Shop”, she was turning around to look at the sign, like she forgot where she was and had to double-check.
That’s him! So he ditched Alltel’s sucky commercials and doesn’t even want to admit it on IMDB? Hot.
How about “Every kiss begins with Kay”? I know it has double meaning, but to imply that you need to buy a woman a diamond to get nookie really gets on my nerves. Fuck that.
How about the job search site (I know the name, but won’t mention it lest I further their agenda for them) that billed itself as “The 100k plus job site, for 100k plus people.” Thereby advancing the meme that people making six figures are better or special or somehow differentiated from the unwashed masses. The first time I saw it I was flummoxed that this level of pretentious douchebaggery had made it onto television…until then I realized that anyone who self-identifies as a “100k plus person” probably minored in pretentious douchebaggery at Ogsford. I guess they knew their target audience after all.
They eventually changed the copy to “…100k plus job seekers”-after they’d run the original twice a night in prime time for 2-3 weeks so that the message was thoroughly conveyed and everyone that the commercial appealed to could do some ::wink, wink::nudge, nudging:: if they were in like company.
I can see them running this thing through a focus group. “Okay, how long can we run the original before we start getting death threats from people working two menial jobs? A month, you say? Well let’s not push our luck…we’ll do a heavy saturation campaign for 3 weeks and then switch to the less inflammatory version and pare back to a maintenance regimen…And let’s leave a few cases of ramen noodles outside the door to appease the common nutters who take umbrage a skosh easily.”