Lindsay Wagner, who first came to the attention of the public-at-large as Jaime Sommers, The Bionic Woman in the '70s (but then did a lot of those movies you mentioned.
You apparently raced past the first word in the thread title.
wow i cant believe someone corrected me about sleep numbers. the point is that whatever the number was, it was NOT her actual age.
These ads are so bad, I’m not even sure who’s doing the advertising, but I think it’s Sonic (a chain of drive-in burger shops out here). They always have a couple in the car, and the couple is always completely unattractive and argumentative. Why would i want to be like those people and eat there?
We’ve got armadillos in our trousers.
The Sonic ads are really dumb around here. What makes them particularly dumb around here? There are no Sonic Drive-Ins within 100 miles of here! Yes, they keep plugging away. Only thing I can think of is that they’re hoping people will say “Hey, that looks good!” go to the website, be disappointed to find none around and possibly email them to ask when they’ll be in the area. Yeah, a bit of a long shot…
Those Carl’s ads that sound like there’s a microphone in the guy’s mouth as he eats? Repulsive. Are they trying to differentiate themselves in the fast food market by making you sound like the grossest slob in town when you eat their burgers?
You can’t dust for vomit?
Those ads that start out “When you were a kid, what did you dream about?” go along pretty good until the announcer starts saying that maybe you dreamt about magic screens. Ugh. I’m guessing that stunted imagination marketing people might have dreamt about magic screens, but for the rest of us, magic screen dreams are the epitome of stupid.
This was hashed out in a thread a while back, but I think the new “Little Deviants” ads for the Scion car brand are worse than ineffective, they actually make me actively dislike the product.
They are that much dumber up here. 
Oh, and of course there’s Hasbro’s bio-ooze squirting Oozinator which looks in the ad as though it is spurting ounce after ounce of spooge onto young boys’ chests and faces. I think any parent who saw this ad would refuse to buy this product for their child.
Well, for the longest time the Kia series of ads featuring very stupid scenarios, and customers really pissed me off. I couldn’t imagine wanting to own a car where their marketing gimmick was that they were trying to sell to the stupidest people around.
Yeah, I don’t get those either. Horrible, unlikeable people. Why would I want to have anything to do with anything associated with them? I actually change the channel when a Sonic commercial comes on.
Sonic, on the other had, is actually quite good for traditional fast food - they actually have tater tots. And fried japapenos. Yum. They need much better commercials.
There’s a radio ad here for a cell phone provider (I think it’s Sprint) where the little boy wants Mom to help him with his math, because school will be starting soon. The mom says “Okay, which is greater, 6 or 9?” and the little boy answers that Dad says 6 is greater than 9 (because cell phone provider’s evening calling rates start at 6 instead of 9).
First of all, no kid in the world is going to ask mom for math problems a month before school starts. Second, how the hell is that lame question gonna help the kid with math? Why would it be the first question that comes to mind when asked about math rather than something normal like “What’s 2 + 2?” Third of all, I can definitely see a Calvin’s Dad scenario here, with the Dad making up silly reasons that 6 is greater than 9, but just how did that come up in conversation between them. Fourth, how old is this kid that he didn’t already know that 6 is greater than 9? Is he in Remedial Math and that’s how come his dad is able to sucker him in with that?
In short: Kid: Unrealistic and stupid. Mom: Out of touch with reality, weird and stupid. Dad: No wonder he makes up stories to fool his kid.
Anything with Gary Coleman. Or that shrieky Billy Mays.
Agreed. They almost made me embarrassed to be a Scion owner.
I hate Ovaltine commercials.
“HAY GUISE MY MOM IS MAKING RICH CHOCOLATE OVALTINE!!!”
“I LOVE RICH CHOCOLATE OVALTINE!!!”
“YAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!”
Oh, God, yes! No one in the world is going to call it “rich chocolate Ovaltine” even once, much less every time they mention it. Just call it freaking Ovaltine, man!
This was unintentionally effective by way of incredulous incompetence:
It was, I think, and AirWick commercial. It was CG animated. But it was so incredibly amateurish, that my wife and I had to rewind the tivo 3 times to watch it with our mouths wide open in shock. I’ve seen bad CG. And I’ve seen dumb-ass commercials. But the level of quality was so poor, for such a national brand, I couldn’t even hear a word it said out of sheer disbelief that this somehow made it past anyone with an IQ higher than 14.
In looking for it on YouTube, there are some quite well done CG animation for thier commercials like This One, that all I can imagine is that later on, at some point, the CEO’s 8 year old son made some piss poor animation using a SIMs engine, and being blinded for the love of his son, he/she couldn’t see that it was utter horse piss. Either that, or he/she was trying to save a TREMENDOUS buck.
Well, at that age, I thought 9 was greater than six, because Nine is to right of six on the number line. I guess they have Mobius teaching math, now.