The Splenda commercials, with the children dressed like rejects from a Gloria Stefani video and with the nasty yellow/green tint to everything. Hey, kids! Let’s all go eat plastic food and wear too much make-up. Yeah, that’s appetizing.
And I do NOT need to see anthropomorphized bears shitting it the woods! Stop it!
The best part of those ads was listening to her accent go from Jamaican to Irish in .5 seconds.
Er, would that be the laboratory hybrid clone of Gloria Estefan and Gwen Stefani?
As bad as the original Pepto-Bismal congo line was, they made it worse. There was a holiday version with midgets dressed as santas elves in a holiday display.
Disgusting symptoms? Check.
Symptoms graphicly pantomimed? Check.
Disturbingly clown-like costumes? Check.
Midgets? Check.
All Right! let’s run the public appetite into the ground, people!
Has anyone noticed those disgusting, dishonest new Army recruiting ads? Where the young man or woman is talking to his or her parent or grandparent about this great new career where he or she will get a chance to “help people get a chance at a decent life.” It’s the Army, kids, not the fucking Peace Corps! You join up, your job will be to break things and kill people! :mad:
:smack: GWEN Stefani. Note to self: Don’t talk on the phone while posting.
Not I but I do remember the old Air Force commercial where someone sings the first verse of the “wild blue yonder” song except that they switch to strictly instrumental at the penultimate line “live in fame or go down in flame” before switching back to vocals for the modern non-rhyming last line “nothing’ll stop the US Air Force”.
UT-Austin has had some great whatever-you-call-the-promos-they-run-during-televised-sporting-events. The streak came to an end with the one I saw during the Rose Bowl. The opening shot running through Austin was awesome, but they completely lost it with the voiceover. It’s “What starts at Texas changes the world” but I can’t hear it without thinking “What starts at Texas stays at Texas.”
Haven’t you heard? The US Army is defending freedom and democracy! You must be one of those people who hates freedom. And democracy.
Every time I turn a page in a comic book and find this pic from truth.com it makes me want to run out and buy a carton of Camels for middle schoolers.
The most annoying print ad, bar none.
Celebrity Cruises. Late-middle-aged faintly-obnoxious-customer types quietly nurturing fantasies of being Really Rich Royalty Or Something.
“I was to be awakened at 6 for my morning walks.”
“My butler knew exactly how I took my tea.”
“I consider this a temporary exile.”
Exile? Is this just me, or is there an ever-so-slight suggestion of a world war/iron curtain/refugee subtext about all this?
Have you ever used cottenelle toilet paper? Once i bought the ultra by mistake… it’s so quilted it felt like i was wiping with a bathtowel… i have never bought it since.
Hahaha… Enzyte Bob really pisses me off. You know… The old ironic fifties nostalgia bit wore off for me a long time ago. They certainly weren’t the first, but it just ain’t clever anymore. Plus he’s selling a stupid product. I just wanna slap that "shit-eating " grin right off his face.
Also, I’ll second the toenail fungus commercial. I saw that one in Europe, so I’m not sure if they had it in the US but it shows this cartoonish fungus in front of a big toe that takes up about 75 percent of the screen. Then he lifts up the toenail like the hood of a car to reveal the red skin underneath the toenail and jumps in. Every time I saw this I cringed and had to look away or change the channel!
That Geicko guy kind of pisses me off too. I’ll admit that him doing the robot is mildly amusing, but the one where he delivers the line “I didn’t know that WAS meatloaf” is really bad. I mean meatloaf jokes aren’t really that funny, and they are pretty much overused.