The analysis is (warning: pdf) here. If that doesn’t work, all analyses are here
There are six exceptions listed, the last one is:
“A pig during the seven day period before the pig’s expected date of giving birth.”
Is it just me, or were they trying really hard to find an actor that you were going to confuse with that Topher kid from That 70’s Show the first few times you saw the commercial?
Yes, I have noticed the similarities too.
The latest Oreo commercials that show people licking furiously on an Oreo. I mean, eyyeeeeww gross!!! I’m a mute-a-holic, so I’ve never actually listened to one of these atrocities, but I’m assuming that the people are in some sort of race to (yuck!) be the first to lick their Oreo dry? I think I will NEVER buy or eat another Oreo for as long as I live. The advertiser achieved their goal of making me remember the commercial. But they probably didn’t intend that from now on, every time I see an Oreo I’ll be grossed out and lose all appetite for it.
Oohh…I just saw this one:
The Volkswagen Leasefernaughten one. Geeez, would I like to pound that smarmy face of his in.
I saw the one with Little Richard. I figured that he must be desperately in need of money. Like how Bill Cosby had to beg his way into those Jello Pudding commercials, because he was flat broke at the time.
Oh, here it is.
They be bouncing they Jeeps in da New York streets
They be bouncing they Jeeps in da New York streets
They be bouncing they Jeeps in da New York streets
They be bouncing they Jeeps in da New York streets
They be bouncing they Jeeps in da New York streets
They be bouncing they Jeeps in da New York streets
Fuck you, DaimlerChryslerJeepMercedes. Piss poor attempt at appealing to the hip-hop generation, stupid fucking song that sounds like something suits wrote, and last time I looked, New Yorkers are probably less likely to purchase big-assed vehicles like Jeep SUVs because they live in NEW YORK CITY.
Bobbleheads are stupid, too. Is this supposed to be the “ethnic” commercial? Because all of the bobbleheads are bobbleheads of color. Which pisses me off even more. They’ve clearly coopted the “Head ON” formula, but executed it poorly and should know better because they can afford to hire an ad agency.
This one has me begging for the return of Dr. Z.
Oh good Lord. I just IDed the song in the stupid Jeep commercial as “Steady Bounce” by KRS-One. KRS-One, people, one of the all-time greatest MCs and originators of hip-hop!
This song sucks. Guess I gotta turn in my ghetto pass now.
I usually hate the Orbit gum commercials, but I do like the one with Snoop Dog. He’s talking to a group of school kids - “…and that’s what it’s like to be a gangsta”
Cut to a group of middle school kids, looking horrified. Snoop drops through the floor into Hell. The always-annoying “Dirty Mouth” lady shows up and offers him the Orbit gum, and he cleans up his mouth and goes to heaven.
What’s funny is the little disclaimer - “Chewing Orbit gum will not actually get you into Heaven”
At least I know what they’re saying now! All I could figure out on my own was New York streets.
Then we have those commercials that were bad enough in 1982, but are so much worse now.
I’ll flesh out the complaint on the MAC vs PC commercial, the hip young guy being the MAC and the dumpy, dressed-in-business-casual guy being the PC.
My annoyance is mostly because PC’s can play music, edit videos, play kick-ass games, etc, etc, etc. just like MACs can. What bothers me is the obvious implication (aka: obvious lie) that only Macs can do this.
Oh - and my PC hasn’t blue-screened in years.
This complaint from a Unix admin that has loved unix and its variants for years and years (OSX, the operating system from Macs is now unix-based for you non-geeks).
Besides, I’m dumpy and wear business casual all the time and I’m hip. Really.
Wait, wait wait… they make games for the Mac?
I didn’t realize they had made any for that system since Halo… oh… nevermind on that count. (Cheap shot of the day 
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Yeah, with the exception of a BSOD, I’ve had pretty much all the problems with Macs (using OSX) that I’m informed only happen to PCs running Windows. We’re talking about system freezes, data being eaten, compatibility issues, etc.
We passed something similar by referendum in Florida a few years ago. My brother told his boss, before the election, that if the proposition passed, he was going to try to have himself legally reclassified as a pregnant sow.
Don’t you know? Only Macs can upload pictures from a digital camera. The cute Japanese chick held hands with the Mac guy, so it must be true!
Oh yeah. I don’t watch much TV, but I’ve seen that one way too many times. It must get heavy rotation during either MLS or the Daily Show. I think it’s for the new Fruit Smoothies as meal substitutes, and showing that “modern moms” are so busy driving around their kids that they don’t even stop to eat, they can just suck their sustenance through a straw. :rolleyes:
I haven’t seen it for a long time, so its probably not aired anymore (I’m in Europe and AFN doesn’t air commercials) but those old hungry man dinner commercials irked the hell out of me.
They would show two borderline overweight beefy guys in a gym or doing something “manly” and one would ask what the other had for dinner. The guy would say something like 'Oh, a chef salad and a roll" or something and his friend would say “I had a pound of beef, big honking potatoes and apple pie” (I’m paraphrasing, but you get the idea). Then the salad guy would get knocked over by a feather or the air from a hair dryer or something like that because, you see, he didn’t eat a hungry man Glutton Size meal.
So what was the message there? You need to eat like a pig to be real man? If you don’t eat a ton of crappy food every day you’ll be too weak?
looks both ways, leans forward conspiratorally
Yaknow… I bet she’s not even Japanese! I bet… she’s an actor! :eek:
And shizaru while the Hungry Man commercials are silly (though the ones you mention are a lot sillier than the one I saw with the two guys stacking up sand bags during a thunderstorm), those things are PERFECT for college households. Buy one of those suckers and a liter of coke (or a six pack of beer, whatever) and you’ve got a meal for the entire household. 
Vonage.
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GAH MAKE THE NOISE STOP. KILL IT!!!
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men in white coats haul Slortar off to be treated
Yeah, there’s…
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…no - wait that’s X-Box…
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Drawing a blank here.
Castlevania?
I actually like the Dr. Scholls commercials. “I’m so happy my eyes are wellin’!” I guess I’m just a sucker for cheesy puns.
The ones I can’t stand are TNT’s commercials promoting their new original shows as if they were the most important cultural events of the decade. “The Closer is the biggest hit in television history!” “Saved has elevated the human species and remade our understanding of what art can be!” Calm down guys.