Bowflex. They have these incredibly cut models, men and women whose gyms have stopped charging them dues and started charging them rent, and they say “Only twenty minutes a day, three times a week.” I don’t care how efficient Bowflex is, you ain’t gonna look like those models with thrice weekly twenty minute sessions. --1
Axe, tag, and other cheap colognes that play on young male insecurities and desperation. Sorry boys, but dousing yourself in perfume is not going to turn a bunch of thin pretty women into psychotic erotomaniacs. It’s not going to make you more fuckable at all. There are two kinds of boys, those who don’t need axe, and those it won’t help. --2
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I saw this one! While I’m as big a fan of advertising campaigns inspired by 1970’s Austrian Performance Art as the next guy, I’m pretty sure the old man in the udder-cups is David Groh, who played Valerie Harper’s boyfriend on “Rhoda.” A thirty-year career from the tough Jewish guy who was cast when they couldn’t get Roy Schneider, to an old man with his tits being sucked in a barn. My condolences.
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Tssk. Rhoda’s sister marries Homer Simpson, her doorman becomes a lasagna eating cat, and that’s all her ex can aspire to?
Some insurance company is running one right now that features a mother driving her two kids in an SUV. <snip> Then the woman’s SUV (it’s clearly a Ford, if that matters) hits a pothole and falls apart. -3
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hey, at least it’s honesty in advertising about the [lack of] quality of ford products
Personally, I hate ALL commercials, but the ones that really drive me insane are the stupid “male enhancement” ads, all of them, it’s bad enough that I’m constantly spammed by this crap, the last thing I want to do is to watch a stupid advert for that crap
It makes me want to saturation-bomb the companies hawking this crap with high-yield thermonuclear weaponry
That wretched Arbor Mist ad where the woman uses her beach towel to slide over the pool and get to the wine. Ooohhh, how I hate that smarmy little smirk when she says, “Well, it IS delicious!” Makes me want to slap, slap, slap her smug little face!
I feel a superficial but broad loathing for any commercial that happily suggests that their product or service is putting other people out of work.
That goes for Bertolli frozen dinners, whatever that chocolate-covered ice cream chunk treat is, and do-it-yourself computer tax programs, for starters.
And of course, if a giant Monty Python foot were to come down and squash the Geico gecko into lizard mush, I would not protest. Smarmy little Limey reptile.
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When I am in my car a commercial with sirens in it. Has me scanning all around looking to see where it is coming from. After three or four full speed head whips, I realize that it was on the radio. Bastards.
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Or suddenly hearing a horn blasting at me from all directions. There should be a special level of hell for companies that do this. As a libertarian, I’m the last person to say, “There outta be a law…,” but this one’s an exception. It’s no different than yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
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I feel a superficial but broad loathing for any commercial that happily suggests that their product or service is putting other people out of work.
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So I’m guessing you must really love the Maytag repairman ads.
The commercial that I would rate as currently the single most annoying is the “save the greenbacks” piece of crap. It brings a whole new meaning to “dumb”. Incredibly overly sincere Greenpeace-mocking idiots breathlessly talking about soggy dollar bills as if they are living creatures. Makes my stomach turn. I don’t remember which car company it’s for, but the next time I’m in the market for a new car I’m going to lookup that dumbass commercial just so that I can be sure I DON’T buy from that company.
Personally, I find it kind of amusing, more so than some car ads. “This one’s overspent!”
For myself, I hate any commercial that gets played more than once in a single commercial break. It’s bad enough I have to be subjected to commercials, I’d really rather not hear the same crap twice within two minutes.
For myself, I hate any commercial that gets played more than once in a single commercial break. It’s bad enough I have to be subjected to commercials, I’d really rather not hear the same crap twice within two minutes.
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Ooo! The one that most pisses me off is when there is an advertisement for the very show I’m watching! They really need to plan better. I’m already watching Supernatural, why are you showing me an advert for it?
There was one on the radio awhile back that scared the shit out of me. It started out with the announcer muttering something in a very faint voice. I turned up the radio quite a bit, so that I could understand him.
I barely hear him say something about APA financing. Then, the volume automatically goes up by about 100dB:
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Ooo! The one that most pisses me off is when there is an advertisement for the very show I’m watching! They really need to plan better. I’m already watching Supernatural, why are you showing me an advert for it?
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Maybe for the same reason that they feel the need to put up a giant, moving, distracting graphic that covers the bottom third of the screen, telling you that you’re currently watching what you’re currently watching.
[QUOTE=Jeep’s Phoenix]
Many of Jello’s current ads start out seemingly normal, until they show the logo at the end…it features writhing people on their sides, folded in various ways to form the Jello logo. Nasty. -4
There’s a commercial that seems to run a lot on the local channels (Fox in particular) that features children saying “tick” over and over. I honestly don’t know what this one’s about, I’ve never been able to sit through it. -4
Some insurance company is running one right now that features a mother driving her two kids in an SUV. The kids keep saying things like “This is a comb! A what? A comb!” It makes no sense. Then the woman’s SUV (it’s clearly a Ford, if that matters) hits a pothole and falls apart. -3
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That sounds like part of a play by Stephen Gregg- “This is a Test.” The main character’s subconcious, played by several actors, has a whole chain of items they hand to each other. I can’t explain it very well- but the text in question is available on the This is a Test portion of his website- it’s only a portion of the play there, though, so you don’t even get to part with Chinese.
(The drama 1 class at my high school performed that play as their first semester final every single year I was there. It’s pretty much ground into my head.)
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That sounds like part of a play by Stephen Gregg- “This is a Test.” The main character’s subconcious, played by several actors, has a whole chain of items they hand to each other. I can’t explain it very well- but the text in question is available on the This is a Test portion of his website- it’s only a portion of the play there, though, so you don’t even get to part with Chinese.
(The drama 1 class at my high school performed that play as their first semester final every single year I was there. It’s pretty much ground into my head.)
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I think I would go completely insane at a performance of that play.
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I think I would go completely insane at a performance of that play.
“This is a fist.”
“A what?”
POW!
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It’s not too bad, at least not the first two times you see it. And it’s really good for what it needs to be- a play with lines for everyone in the class, but not so many that you need more than one or two students who can actually act.
On-topic to the thread: I hate all ads that want me to sue someone due to mesothelioma or related things. They seem utterly useless and exploitative.
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That sounds like part of a play by Stephen Gregg- “This is a Test.”
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Yeah, it does! I wonder if the kids are trying to memorize their lines for the play, and in the process distract the mom so much that she drives into a pothole.
