Yeah! Somebody has to smoke Kools!
Ditto on these. Also, the antidepressant ad with the little cartoon oval/egg that was sad? Holy shit, that made the depressive feelings come right back again. I felt really awful for that guy.
Another ad along this theme is the one with the guy sitting down to a bowl of salad in what looks like a dingy little apartment, all alone, it’s pouring rain outside, and tasting the (Hidden Valley?) dressing brings him back to warm memories of being with family at a picnic. Hide the razor blades, please.
Anybody see the Apple Superbowl commercial from 1999?
Gives me the mad wiggies, 7 years after Y2K proved to be a sniffle. :eek:
I’ve never seen this before - awesome.
Was that Douglas Rain doing the voice? It sounds close to HAL, but not quite exact, though 30 years would do that to ya.
I still change the channel for those. Not that I don’t think they’re effective, but I already own a V-Dub (in da house!), and I don’t need to watch people getting in accidents. Not even staged ones. In fact, there’s some other, unrelated commercial out there that shows to women sitting in a car talking, and I cringe every time I see it because I could swear someone’s going to hit them. :mad:
And, and Robot Arm? I am so with you on that. I like the other random Starburst commercials, but that one is just wrong.
You know what? I’ve honestly been wondering how they did that commercial. I assume they didn’t just have the two actors go through the dialogue and then plow into a pickup truck, but I don’t know that, you know?
Stuff like that fascinates me.
Two that disturb me:
Mastercard:
Ring $9000
Flight from Japan $6000
OK, they’re youngsters just starting out; who has $9K saved for a ring? Oh right, you’re supposed to put it on Mastercard and pay it off for months! And $6K for tickets from Japan? I just looked it up and it’s $700 round-trip. Who ARE these people?
And Kay Jewelers:
First Valentine’s dinner, and the guy’s clearly giving the girl the largest of the diamond studs, which the commercial helpfully tells you are $3500! $3500?!?! for the first Valentine’s?!?
Me bitter because no one’s ever loved me or spent any money on jewelry for me? Nah. 
The poor little puppy asks why he can’t go home and my son says, “Obviously you were a BAD DOG! BAD DOG!”
He also, out of nowhere, continued the (I think) Kay Jewlers little diamond Christmas poem.
Twas the night before Christmas and mom didn’t know
That dad was behind her with a box in a bow.
To which he added:
And there all nestled in the box inside
Was a rock for which many Africans died.
You don’t want to be around us when we watch the news. We are awful, awful people.
I would love it. I say snarky things to the TV all the time (usually geeky grammar things :o ) but there’s no one there to amuse but myself. Plus I would stop by on an American Idol evening–that would be a blast in the Biggirl household.
I always change the poem thusly:
Twas the night before Christmas and mom didn’t know
That dad was behind her with a gun and some rope.
We’d get along pretty well.
You forgot the most outrageous part - the Japanese family’s name in that commercial is Suki. Suki’s not a Japanese last name, it’s a girls first name. This is the age of the internet, they couldn’t even put the most half-assed effort into finding a real Japanese family name?
Was seriously creeped out by the – Domino’s, I think? – pizza commercial where they’ve morphed these guys to have a HUGE nose, HUGE lips, HUGE eyes, etc. Ugh. It’s like the Quiznos’ spongmonkeys all over again: looking at freaks of nature does not make me want to eat something!
How difficult is it to understand, if you’re selling food, make the advert appealing?
My vote goes to the recent Rembrandt commercial. It shows a very up-close view of a couple making out. Lip nibbling, sucking, spit sharing… Get a room!
I need to chime in for the UK Human Society commercials. I saw them one year at the Cannes Commercial Festial at the Art gallery.
They were suicide inducingly depressing.
[dog’s thought] I love going for walks. Of course you don’t take me for walks very much anymore, not now that I have gotten a little slower. Down by the river? Oh what a treat! Wait a minute, why do you have that sack? Wait a minute, I can’t swim well in here and with that rope around…"[/dog’s thought]
I am surprised there are still animals in the animal shelter in the UK. I would adopt them all after that one.
Just *reading * about that one makes me want to go adopt them all! How sad… 
Part of me wants to see the commercial (couldn’t find it on YouTube, looking up under ‘UK Humane Society’) and part of me thinks it would just upset me too much.
[Family Guy]
Diamonds: She’ll pretty much have to.
[/Family Guy]
-Joe
Reminds me of this movie I just saw on Lifetime: He says I don’t give him 50% and she gives 120%!
What does that even mean, 120%?!? OOOH. :smack:
We are talking about blow jobs, right?
I just saw that one the other day. TMI
The other one I hate is a commercial for some kind of cold remedy featuring some nasty mucus monster (not entirely dissimilar to the icky toenail fungus monster) I really don’t need to see living snot.
I definitely don’t like the Pepto commercials with the people doing the gastrointestinal distress dance. We all know where diarrhea comes from. You don’t need to grab your ass to remind us.
Along that same vein, I find the toilet paper commercials with the bears taking a dump disturbing. The bear squatting behind the tree reading the newspaper is really more than I need to see.
It’s not that I am squeamish or prude, but between changing diapers and picking up after my dog, I got enough crap in my life.
Not if I throw it back in his face. As I would as it shows an amazing lack of imagination (“I heard a commercial tell me to do it”), it shows the guy has no idea who I am (I don’t wear diamond, I don’t wear gold, I fell in love with my SO because before we every met [offline] he sent me silver jewlery that was exactly to my taste. He knew. We chicks just want to be paid attention to.
And finally because he should know how warped the diamond industry is.
Just fix my computer (that’s what I need guys for) and come into the room naked and that’s pretty much all you need to do.
Just don’t bring diamonds. Come bearing updated modems.
Sorry for the hijack but the diamond thing always gets to me.