posting in the pit seems to annoy you just as much as this ad campaign you are talking about!!!
-sorry, not related…
bj0rn - chickens for sale…!
(You know, I find it helps to copy it to WordPad and then fix all the punctuation errors, etc., so they’re not so distracting. Then I usually light some incense, sacrifice a chicken to the spirit of Kate Turabian, and get really drunk. Then it actually starts to make sense.) - notthemama
Who the hell is Tom Bodette when he’s not doing Motel 6 ads? Am I supposed to have heard of him? I can’t even describe how irritating those ads are
“We’ll leave a light on for ya”
ARRRGH!!! FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU DIE DIE DIE DIE D I E DIIIIIIEEEEE!!!
I’m surprised MENTOS haven’t been mentioned. Those things drive me nutty! Everybody is crawling around with smiles and apparently in their world it’s ok to go through someones car. I would personally shove that little roll of Mentos up your @%##$% if you did that. But that’s just me.
Whooosh!!
The exception proving the rule, I don’t remember the foodie dotcom that perpetrates these abominations, but the commercials all feature obnoxious people, revolting looking food and the most grating, weird, rip-your-ears-off music.
One spot shows distinctly unhappy-looking people shoving one another around a kitchen and staggering to the table with huge platters filled with something that looks like steaming offal.
Another shows an inane couple on a patio proudly creating their prized recipe: enormous hamburgers the size of Pirelli tires, only less appetizing.
I’ll never understand the psychology of making the end product repellent.
Veb
Cumberbunk, have you ever seen the Foo Fighters video for the song “Big Me”? I haven’t the faintest idea how the song goes, because the video makes me laugh so hard I can’t hear the music. It’s a great spoof of several Mentos commercials.
Ads I hate:
All of them. Hrm, but I probably hate some more than others. Let’s see…
the radio ad for some .com where this guy tries to get a reservation at a restaurant by explaining that he’s the brother-in-law to the chef’s frat brother’s niece’s dentist or something like that. It makes me want to break the radio.
Tom Shane’s voice. Need I say more?
Paul from the Diamond Center. I haven’t seen one of those for a long time, but I - and every other Bay Area resident, probably - remember those ads with horror.
psychic hotline ads on the Prevue channel.
ads for anything on Fox Family Channel on the Prevue channel.
all of them.
informercials. All infomercials.
car commercials. God, I hate car commericals. They’re all the same, and they’re all stupid! Look at me, I’m driving around in the middle of the desert/water/wheat fields/mountains. Like anyone ever drives in any of those places.
perfume ads. I saw the Calvin Klein He/She ad today, and it made me want to puke.
Thats all for now. I guess. I really hate ads.
The one I hate is the one on spanish TV, with the young Hispanic couple w/ a truck, suddenly arriving in the past & helping the Aztecs build a temple or something. The next scene should be the priest ripping their hearts out w/ an obsidian knife!
My local NBC sta runs CONSTANT commercials for any made-for-tv “special”, so much so, that by the time the “special” comes around we are so sick of it that they couldn’t PAY us to watch!