I love the commercial from the “Don’t Smoke Weed” people (Under the Influence or something) with the last kid that says “I ditched my friends, and let them find their own way home!” He is my favorite commercial actor right now, something about the way he says it and his big smile is so endearing. However, everything the kids are doing is stuff I associate with being drunk, not being stoned, so the commercial doesn’t work for me at all. I like the music as well.
There’s an ad for some phone service featuring an older married couple. The husband gripes thatt he wife locked them into a year long committment (and what if he wants change?) and the wife cites examples of the husband’s stability. Namely that they’ve been married 38 years and that they’ve owned 11 bulldogs all named Steve.
The commercial doesn’t bother me but I am curious what goes on in that house that they need to replace their dog every 3.45 years :dubious:
I hate with all my heart and sould the Room Store commercials. There’s something about the spokeslady that makes my jaw clench and rage begin to develop.
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Similarly, the Progressive Insurance commercial with the kazoo lady. Urgh.
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Thinking about it, I might just have an issue with “perky” people.
One I found funny recently was the M&M commerical where red M&M is trying to run back up the conveyor belt, then gives up with a sigh and plops himself down to have his ass price scanned.
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Cite? (Not for the ‘he’s French-Canadian’ but for the lip-synching part.)
Yes (don’t ask).
I am going to hijack a minute here. I actually thought about starting a thread on this commercial.
Watching it with my daughter, it sparked a conversation about weed. I told her the truth. I said those behaviors seem more like the behavior of a drunk. I told her that I prefer she never smoke weed…, but if she does, I would not be as stricken as I would be if I heard she did coke or ecstasy or something like that. I told her I find it not to be a big deal, but that with the standards that she has for herself, I would be disapointed if she thought her sharp mind and deep thoughts needed weed’s assistance. My mother was mortified. I think she thinks I child abused the child. My daughter is ten. She already knows I am pro-weed in general, anti-weed for myself and for her.
Continuing with the Volkswagen theme, I liked this ad for the Golf. I’m guessing it was made in the U.K. as that’s where I live and the car in the ad has right-hand drive.
I like this VW ad where the Beetle interviews an astronaut:
The Progressive ads with the wacky saleswoman backfire, IMO. E.g. the one where the customer says, “Wow! I could get a new pair of shoes” and she replies something like, “Or a…tricked out name tag.” Oh, so that’s all I’m going to save if I risk changing to your company?
I like the freecreditreport.com pirate ad. Not that I’d buy the product, and yeah, it’s gotta be a ripoff. But it’s a fresh approach. Most of that serie I liked (e.g. the one where they’re in the basement and his wife is doing laundry), but not all, e.g. the Ren faire.
I thought Enzyte had been ordered to stop advertising.
I like the butt dialing, although him getting the upper hand nullifies their appeal to me that “This is better.” His “get over it attitude” mirrors what I think so they shoot themselves in the foot. The wife is a hottie though.
jali posted:
Son: “I think it’s a three towel spill.”
Dad: “That’s a four towel spill”.
Mom: “We use Bounty, the quicker picker upper so it’s just a one towel spill”.
This gets a pass because unless I’m mistaken, the mom is Corinne Bohrer, uber babe next-door. She’s held up quite well.
I wish they’d bring back those Bud commercials. The guy wants to watch hockey; the girl wants to watch the beauty pageant. Poof, beauty contestants are playing hockey.
The government actually gives you the right to access your report with each of the 3 consumer credit reporting agencies once per year. If you stagger the reports, you can check one every 4 months.
There is an IKEA commericial that is showing bedroom sets and how well you will sleep in one of them. Then a woman is shown sitting next to the bed with a couple asleep in it. She says, “Now all you need are soothing whale noises” and she starts to make the whale noises herself. “OOOOwoooooOOOO.”
I think it’s funny.
I don’t remember the product but the one where the girls set the pig loose in the shopping mall to find a “dirty boy” and the pig dives onto the kid from the floor above… the rest of the commercial is stupid but that one little bit cracks me up.
I also like the Subway commercial where people bite into their fattening hamburgers and their chair collapses or the buttons shoot off their clothes like bullets.
I’m a dork, but I LOVE the hotels.com commercial with the guy and the two shampoos. Every time it comes on, I crack up. “Ahhhhhh, they got me! It’s working!”
I don’t like the freecreditreport.com commercials, but the songs are some damned effective little earworms. Grrrr!
As for commercials I don’t get, there’s just one. It’s for some kind of microwavable noodles in a bag, and this guy is really impressed with them and asks himself if his other dream will also come true. He then proceeds to have a strange daydream about waving to people as the presidential music plays. Suddenly, someone yells that he isn’t the president, and he’s taken down by secret service. What the hell is the point of that commercial? I just don’t get it.
For some reason, the old black VW Bug (it’s very old model of it – like late 40s early 50s) in the VW commercials reminds me of Joseph Goebbels. Whenever I see them, I think, “Really? You couldn’t have done better here, VW?”
Ha! Me too.
I absolutely abhor ALL of the Progressive Insurance commercials with Flo. Horrid and annoying and it makes me feel stabby.
The butt-dialing ad makes me giggle, and I find myself relieved that there’s an equality there. She snarks at him and he “hangs up” on her. It’s a pleasant difference from the man-is-an-idiot that seems to be in far too many commercials.
The shampoo guy in the hotel cracks me up too.
Yeah? I always get more of a Colonel Klink vibe from it; and the vintage Beetle is a beauty.
Thank you! I’m (unpleasantly) surprised.
Another vote for the shampoo guy.
Ok, y’all are gonna be pissed off at me, but I LIKE the freecreditreport.com commercials - and I sing along with them everytime they are on TV. Yes, it makes my husband feel stabby (good one, FCM!) but it’s ok - I run faster than he does.
This is true. And makes the commercials (and service) even more stupid.