Oh, that reminds me of commercials, that I don’t hate so much as think that they’re stupid. Any movie ad about a fictional story and the announcer says, “You will believe.” Uhm, it’s no guarantee I’ll believe if a movie is based on a real life event and it’s impossible I’ll believe in a fictional story.
I remember that in the ads for the first Superman movie – “You will believe a man can fly”. And Superman’s not even a man! And I didn’t believe anyway.
As God is my witness… 
Not turkeys, dammit!
“Smokestack Lightning”, by the incomparable Howlin’ Wolf. Way to forever ruin one of my all-time favorite blues songs, shameless advertising mooks.
Meanwhile, what is it with trying to sell all manner of products through pure grotesquerie? Tonight it was one for Degree deodorant in which a short guy is dancing with his much taller, sleeveless-dress-wearing wife, in such a way that he constantly ends up with his nose in her armpits. “It’s working”, he actually says to her. What the effing aitch?
There an ad-trope that I hear an awful lot…if only because they play the same goddam commercial 6 minutes after my alarm goes off EVERY SINGLE MORNING.
Smug yet stupid woman “We all want a better earth, just like we all want a better (stupid product I am intentionally unable to remember).”
Any time a scummy, lying, unimaginative ad firm tells me what I want, my suspicion-o-meter pegs and I change the channel…except in the mornings, before I reach consciousness…ugh.
It’s freaking hilarious. I loved it the first few times I saw it.
No idea how to find out the credits.
I know, right? I mean, it would be funny enough if they were newlyweds, but this is a couple who have been married for years. They have kids old enough to have their own cell phones, and yet all this time the wife has regretted not marrying John Clark. We get to see a failing marriage fall apart in front of our eyes. Friggin’ hillarious!!!
I’ve been meaning to post that one. It is not only stupid, it’s disgusting.
Holy shit, you mean it’s real?
John Clark is the name of the badass CIA agent from Tom Clancy’s novels. I like to think he chose his profession to get as far away as possible from this hag.
Going beyond reality TV, we’re now in the age of reality commercials.
“I’m Bonnie, and this is my CVS.”
I’m Sigmagirl, and this is my tire iron, with which I’m going to smash your Segway into indistinguishable bits. I hope your flu shot is tainted, too.
Between Bonnie and the harpy twins I’m beginning to think CVS wants me to hate both their store and the elderly.
When the one twin brags about being first on everything I keep thinking, “You’re older, you snagged the first guy you could just to claim you accomplished something and you think that haircut’s something to be proud of?”
I give you, an a**hole man-child.
What does he do to merit that label – post YouTube links with only the vaguest hint of what they contain?
Granted, her husband is being a bit of a jerk. But her response just makes me want to tell her where to go.
You wouldn’t mind being around that guy? I’d find that behavior very childish and annoying.
I can’t say I hate it exactly, but it irritates me - The one on TCM with Robert Osborne, in khakies and a blue sweater, looking…awkward, saying “Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to work I go…” about coming back to host TCM after his “vacation”. He’s been gone for months and months, don’t tell me it’s a “vacation”. He either had some illness or surgery they aren’t telling the viewers about (and of course the viewers don’t have to know any details). Far as I can tell he didn’t have a facelift or sex change operation, and far as I can tell, he’s hopefully recovered from whatever it was. But don’t tell me he was “on vacation”. On hiatus, taking personal time off sounds more likely.
I nominate the Wal-Mart layaway one with the Stepford wife who goes merrily spastic upon hearing that Wally World has layaway and finishes up with “Ring-a-ding me up!!” or something like that while the cashier just stares at her like, “what the fuuuuu??”