[QUOTE=Frylock]
What do you mean by “to get ‘mouth-water’” if you don’t mean “to drink water from his mouth”?
I read the commercial the same way Marlitharn does–the lady is drinking water from his mouth, said water having been produced by the mentos’ quality of being “mouth-watering.”
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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.
[QUOTE=Soul]
I’m sitting here watching The Price Is Right (and might I say, Drew Carey is really coming into his own as a host). I am not furious.
Wait. Here’s a commercial for Charmin toilet paper.
I HATE CHARMIN COMMERCIALS. I cannot stress this enough. Those bears make me want to kill someone. When that one little kid bear starts taking a truckload of toilet paper and says “I’m gonna need all this!” I want to go out into the woods and poison a honeycomb in the hopes that I’d end the life of a cartoon bear.
The one that just came on made me shudder. I do not want to look at a bear’s ass while his dad tries to vacuum fragments of toilet paper off of his fuzzy bum. And what the heck kind of toilet paper are they using that leaves such ass shrapnel?
I hate Charmin commercials. Lady Soul once brought home a pack of that stuff. I got in the car, drove back to the grocery store, and got the one with the puppies on it. If I’m going to wipe myself with something cute, it’s going to be a puppy, not a bear too incompetent to wipe himself and his weirdo molester father.
Anyway, this is way too mild and silly for the pit, so CS, what commercials make you furious?
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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? 
[QUOTE=Wile E]
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?
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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.
[QUOTE=Frylock]
Then there’s that one (though I haven’t seen it in the last few months, I think) where the dad is sorely, sorely disappointed and saddened that his girl (maybe 8 years old?) would rather listen to economic news than kiddiebopper rock, and would rather be read to out of a book of land sales records than a nice book of fairy tales. The commercial warns that my kid could be like this too if I let art education falter in our public schools.
I’m all for art education. I think it belongs in schools, and I would take steps to ensure that it is in the curriculum if the opportunity and necessity arose.
But that commercial is evil. If a kid wants to listen to economic news, and pore through dense legal records, then hell yeah! That kid’s got a future in doing what she loves!-FrL-
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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. 
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
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?
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“Oh, and did I mention I enjoy takin’ a li’l stroll up inside a chicken’s cloaca? Ooh, that’s pleasant.”
[QUOTE=Chefguy]
The seasonal jewelry commercials: Give your wife this shiny diamond thingy to let her know she’s special. She’s so special that you’re giving her the same mass-produced piece of overpriced crap that thousands of other clueless men are giving their “special” someone. “Every kiss begins with Kay.” So does your krap.
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Okay, there is one I hate.
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[QUOTE=FriarTed]
A confession about the Progressive Cashier…
I find her to be Quirky Hot.
That is all.
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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.
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle]
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?
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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?
[QUOTE=Student Driver]
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.
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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.
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]
Enterprise Rent-a-Car. This lady has car trouble on the way to her kid’s soccer game. She gets it to a repair place, and calls Enterprise to bring her a car.
She then gets the kid to soccer on time!!!
Teh stupid. It hurts.
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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.
[QUOTE=Wile E]
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.
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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.”