Ditto for the multi-orgasmic woman getting her hair shampooed commercials. (“Work it, work it, wooooooh!”)
There’s one that runs on Canadian TV, a public service ad, that I’ve seen a few times, part of a series, shot in grainy black and white. The narrator says “It only takes sixty seconds for your life to change…”
The first: two kids are climbing on a train that’s slowed right down. One falls as the train speeds up, and you see the shocked face of the friend as the other is run over by the train. You hear his screams.
The second commercial is worse. A dad is driving his family in a minivan, and then pulls around one of those “stop for the train” signs. Then you see an overhead shot of the train, wheels screaming and whistle blowing, smashing into the side of the mini-van! Cut to a farmer-type driver, just outside of his car, saying “Oh my God…”
I’m stunned that these commercials made it on TV, but if they work, I guess. (shudder) They’re like the Union Pacific be-careful-around-trains safety film that MST3K spoofed.
The local radio stations in the Twin Cities are playing an Arby’s ad these days that makes me switch over to the CD player every time.
Their current promotion is based on a refutation of TANSTAAFL. If you walk into an Arby’s, order a specific lunch, pay for it and say, There’s no such thing as a free lunch, they give you a coupon for another lunch. They say this proves TANSTAAFL is wrong.
They’re wrong. That’s a twofer. It’s not a free lunch. They can bite me.
It’s for real all right, although they’re only on TV in Japan, as far as I know. This is the same English school that makes a selling point out of how badly they treat their teachers, then wonders why none of their employees stick around.
The first time I saw this commercial I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s like some Saturday Night Live skit, I figure they’re doing it on purpose. (Please? Please tell me they’re not serious.) The guy is waxing all philosophical on his clothing designs and this freak chick warbles “Speedy motorcycle” apropos of nothing.
The latest one that drives me nuts is “Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go!”
It’s for some bladder control medicine and shows a woman fidgeting wildly on a golf course while her partner lines up her shot. It’s so spazzy.
(I actually liked the one with the women screaming over their shampoo/hairspray. Don’t you get it? Didn’t you know people like that in high school? I cracked up.)
I kind of look funny at that commercial for (I think Valtrex), where the main selling point is that you don’t have to take pills quite as often as the leading competitor. A woman looks at the screen and says, “I have a LIFE!”
Well, yeah, I guess you DO! And that’s why you’re taking those pills!
I’m pretty sure Teri and Howie of Radio Shack fame have been mentioned. They’re annoying to say the least.
But for the past few weeks, they’ve been showing another commerical - Howie is Frankenstein and Teri is Bride of. She just hisses, and he just grunts, while subtitles flash on the bottom of the screen.
I want to throw something at the TV when that stupid commercial plays.
Any prescription drug commercials. Especially that Viagra one where the hick sounding NASCAR race driver advises you to come by and pick up a free sample. HUH??? What if you’re a woman…I’m not, but what if you were??? They treat drugs as if it were candy.
Funny, I like the Jack in the box commercials (at least most of them) but I actually hate the food. Burgers are extra greasy and shakes taste like paper. I hate the Carl’s Jr. commercials but actually kinda like the food, especially the onion-rings and good ol’ Folgers coffee.
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Actually of all the fast food joints I probably like Wendy’s the best: cheapest and bestest.
There was a thread (I believe in the Pit) about Subway. Man their stuff is BAAAAADDDDD. Not fresh at all and I’m never sure what hands have touched things, ugh!
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That bear is entirely too happy about taking a crap. He is just tickled pink. I have never seen someone come out of the bathroom looking that happy! It grosses me right out.
The other commercial that bothers me is for Dempsters bread. This very smarmy, better-than-thou-based-on-my-brand-preference lady says “Dempsters is the only white bread made with unbleached white flour.” What? If you had ever been allowed out of your containment unit long enough to see wheat in its natural state, you would have noticed that it’s all brown! That’s right, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNBLEACHD WHITE FLOUR! Grrrr.
Am I the only one who thinks the guy in this commercial looks like a pedophile? He gives me the creeps and I guarantee you that if he was rolling that wagon around MY neighborhood, there is absolutely NO WAY that I’d let my kids anywhere near it!
Also, I hate this commercial because there’s always one kid in them who is an absolute dope with an IQ of 2. How do I know this? Well, when the guy comes by with the cart, all the kids yell," The Ovaltine Man!" “Ovaltine” is written all over the cart and they’re drinking from cups that have the Ovaltin logo on them. And one kid always says something like, “This chocolate milk is great! Is it NesQuik?” GET A CLUE, KID!!! :rolleyes:
Am I the only one who thinks it’s hilariously ironic that just after exhorting someone to “pick a language,” babydrln lapses from English into Yiddish?
The singing bellybuttons make the Baby Jesus cry, too.
Little singing-bellybuttons trivia for you folks: did you know that the woman who provided the singing voice for the singing navels is the actress who plays the daughter on The Sopranos? I guess she wanted to show her range - you know, take on a gutsy role.
Am I the only one annoyed by the Friends knock-offs hawking Frothes instant coffee drinks as a wonderful addition to their lifestyle? Is it cool to be that ditzy?
Word of warning… we’re about to enter the McDonald’s warm, fuzzy holiday ad season.
Here’s a foreign word for ya! Flibbertygibbit! You know, I was thinking about it this morning, and I just KNEW you were going to say EXACTLY what you said.
To further clarify myself about my original post, and DEFEND MY POSITION TO THE DEATH let me say this:
I was not complaining that the woman in the commercial used two different languages within the same sentence. I was complaining that she switched in the middle of the same PHRASE. It wouldn’t have bothered me at all if she’d said “I like them just like my grandmother used to make…pappas con huevos!” --OR-- “just like my grandmother used to make…eggs with potatoes!” It DID bug the “everliving” out of me, however, when she mixed the two; because in trying to sound authentic, she sounded–as MAYFLOWER put it–steeyupid. And I hope the Hispanic-American community laughed its collective ass off each time the commercial played! (As I did. LOL)
In my post, notice that I didn’t say “Pick a language, Lady! Good pena!” --OR–“Bueno Grief!” (And before anyone comes back with a Spanish lesson for me, I know that the phrase “Good grief” is really translated as “¡demonio!”)
And as long as we’re being technical, Brits, Australians and Americans all speak the same LANGUAGE, but with different DIALECTS.
Now that I’m through hijacking the topic, back to our regularly scheduled program. (Is nah-nah-nah-nah-NAH-nah a foreign word? ROTFL)
The tackiest one I’ve seen is for toilet paper although it starts out looking like a laundry detergent commercial.
There are baskets of laundry on a table with a roll of toilet paper unrolling itself across the table. Then here comes a bottle of generic detergent and it/she is TALKING about how much easier her job is now that the owners of the laundry “her family”, are using this great new toilet paper.
Hey, I knew that! I got a huge kick out of the whole thing! No offense was taken, nor was any meant by anything I said. I enjoyed the mutual ribbing session. It was too much fun! LOL
As to the original topic, I have another to list on the commercials I hate. I usually love the Geico ads, but the one where the dog is laughing about his owner’s outrageously high bill makes me want to whack him with a newspaper! I think the owner of that dog, instead of just sitting there stunned, ought to turn to the dog and say, “Well, Pooch, I guess since my car insurance is so high, we’re going to have to make some cutbacks. What say we start with DOG FOOD?!”
I got a huge kick out of the whole thing! No offense was taken, nor was any meant by anything I said. I enjoyed the mutual ribbing session. It was too much fun! LOL