I’d do her.
I like Mike Rowe when he’s sitting in a septic tank or even telling me about crab fishing. But the scripts from the Ford commercials are painfully unfunny (the radio spots for tires he does are worse) and even he can’t do anything with them. As a result, unless he’s sitting in a septic tank or talking about crab fishing, I’m just as happy not seeing him.
The Alice Cooper version is good, too.

The Alice Cooper version is good, too.
See, I don’t care for that one because he lies. His kids are all mad he’s back-to-school shopping for them, and the daughter says:
“I thought you said school’s out forever?”
And he responds:
“No no, I said school’s out for summer.”
LIAR! You bold-faced liar! You sure as fuck DID say school’s out forever! It’s the next fucking line! Your daughter is right, you’re wrong.
A MUCH better response would have been something like:
“Honey…that’s just a song! Now go pick out some pencils.”

Direct TV’s NFL Sunday Ticket campaign.
Apparently, if you have the temerity to cheer a team other than the local one, your neighbors will:
- Let their dog tear up your stuff and pee on your carpet.
2. Send over a meat and cheese tray calling you a jerk.- Serve you iced tea made from dirty dishwater.
- Try to break your storm-door by throwing shovels of snow at it.
- Set you up with a horny old woman.
What are they selling? Order our programming and get attacked neigbors? NFL Fans are asshats? What? Where’s the joy of “I’ve got the Sunday Ticket”?
I haven’t seen all of them but the second one you mentioned bothers me because it doesn’t make any sense. Why should a Packer fan hate her neighbor because he’s a 49er fan? There’s no long-standing rivalry between the two teams (unlike, for example, the Cowboys and the Redskins). They’re not even in the same division. If the “ad wizards behind this one” knew anything about the NFL, they would’ve made her neighbor a Viking or Bear fan. That way her conduct would’ve been understandable.

Those Jamie Lee Curtis ‘shit your brains out’ ads for yogurt.
The original run with the parrot was worse.

The other one that is sticking in my craw is the one where the guy is on the train platform, catches the eye of some chick on the train, has a premonition of their entire married life (starting with their child being sworn in as President of the United States), and decides to buy a ticket to get on the train with the woman. The President? Really, cellphone company? Why not show them winning the lottery while you’re at it.
This. The whole president flashback crap is totally unnecessary and doesn’t really follow.
ALL of the Volkswagon “punch your friends and family” commercials.
Agree with the OP: I would slap that bitch down to a lower credit limit for using up our Chase points of a 1950s era dress.
Why is Geico trying to hard to convince us that their CEO is a total moron?

…Anyway, the worst of these us the one with Heidi Klum …
I love this one. It makes me fantasize about Heidi giving me oral sex. I’m sure that was exactly what they intended.

ALL of the Volkswagon “punch your friends and family” commercials.
<SNIP>
Good one! VW has convinced me that I don’t need their cars.
Not exactly a commercial…
Those ads that are running for the series Memphis Beat. They end with a still pic of the guy leaping/sliding over the police car hood. It gives me flashbacks to TJ Hooker – very disturbing and almost nauseating.

Those KFC commercials with the Colonel…and his weeeee beedy eyes. You’re going to buy my chicken aint you!
Awesome

I hate the HH Gregg mascot. What the hell is he supposed to be, an upside down exclamation point? I hate it when he sings disco songs announcing sales. I hate it when he sings Christmas carols announcing sales. I hate it when he talks with store employees and asks them stupid questions. I just hate him period. I will never shop there because of him.
I can’t stand that little bastard! I’ve been in an HH Gregg once…there was hardly anyone there (shopping or working), and the whole place gave off a Brendle’s/old Circuit City vibe.
There’s one running right now for some kind of Avery sticky labels, where a screaming biatch of a wife takes a leaf blower to her husband’s fantasy football chart to show him how Avery labels are superior to whatever he’s using. The poor guy barely fights back.
Oh, there’s one that runs late nights around here for some bookbag with an alarm on it…your kid or vulnerable female relative simply pulls the little cord when in danger, triggering an alarm that sends antagonists packing and apparently lasts for hours (in case the kidnapper dumps the bag in the woods). The language and tone of the commercial are so ridiculous (though the acting is funny).
J. G. Wentworth is back, with a clip of the old fart from the 1st run (I guess he croaked or something in the interim)-but it’s those stupid idiots chanting “It’s my money, and I need it NOW!” that gall my bladder to hell and back. No it’s their money, and they just stole it from you. That they are so generously willing to give part of it back to you doesn’t change the reality of the situation. And to top that there’s this “Peachtree” company selling the exact same service, but 1/1000th of the audience at best has one of these annuities, so why are two companies using the most lowbrow of sales strategies (advertising on TV) to reach a tiny fraction of the population? Never grasped that at all.
People keep mentioning “eating sounds” commercials, which reminds me of another one:
The kit-kat commercial where they make the “gimme a break” jingle…with munching and chewing. Not only does that not make any sense because it’s completely atonal, it’s just plain gross. I don’t want to hear people eating, for fuck’s sake.

J. G. Wentworth is back, with a clip of the old fart from the 1st run (I guess he croaked or something in the interim)-but it’s those stupid idiots chanting “It’s my money, and I need it NOW!” that gall my bladder to hell and back. No it’s their money, and they just stole it from you. That they are so generously willing to give part of it back to you doesn’t change the reality of the situation. And to top that there’s this “Peachtree” company selling the exact same service, but 1/1000th of the audience at best has one of these annuities, so why are two companies using the most lowbrow of sales strategies (advertising on TV) to reach a tiny fraction of the population? Never grasped that at all.
What? Given the ubiquity of these commercials, I thought every other person out there must have a structured settlement, and I was starting to wonder where mine was. But I have to admit, I like the opera-style ones.
What??? You’re not getting your check?? It’s YOUR money and you want it NOW!!

Really, any ad that shows kids being excited to start school just seems so phony to me. I much prefer this ad, which is not only more honest in terms of how kids (and parents) feel about back-to-school, but also because the holiday tune is used so brilliantly.
Liked the commercial, but the end tag of “…experts since 1986…” for the company just made me feel old.

I haven’t seen all of them but the second one you mentioned bothers me because it doesn’t make any sense. Why should a Packer fan hate her neighbor because he’s a 49er fan? There’s no long-standing rivalry between the two teams (unlike, for example, the Cowboys and the Redskins). They’re not even in the same division. If the “ad wizards behind this one” knew anything about the NFL, they would’ve made her neighbor a Viking or Bear fan. That way her conduct would’ve been understandable.
Agreed (though it would have also worked if the neighbor was a Cowboy fan; we Packer fans hate the Cowboys an awful lot, too).
It would have also helped if they had gotten the Green Bay accent right. The lady sounds too Minnesotan.
Doesn’t everyone outside of Dallas hate the Cowboys?