One of my faves id the monster.com commercial where people on the street are reciting “the path not taken” by Robert Frost. I lovbe the way it comes together.
Homer, you’re not alone in your disgust of those commercials. The one with the little tweens girls singing the same song reminds me of the lyric in it, “girl you really…” as if Gap was advertising that they want girls to like girls. I’m all for that mentality, but at that age, I’d pass.
And I hate Gap. Rage Against The Machine did a wonderful parody of their commercials in one of their videos.
And I also hate the Chili’s commercials. On a related note, has anyone seen the new TGI Friday’s ones? Where the waitress is talking about how she is studying food nutrition or something? And then she talks about a food cleaner caled Fit or something? I’d be happy to buy their product if I could ever figure out what they are trying to sell.
I thought they were selling a product called Fit. Seems that I’ve seen another commercial for that one- with a housewife-type person talking about how it’s better for her family. I’m not positive though.
The one commercial that makes me waste the energy to change the channel is the one for overstock.com, the one with the cops forcing the guy to the floor for apparently dealing in stolen merchandise.
I e-mailed the company to complain with the explanation that it’s insulting to the people who are wrongly arrested, as well as to police officers who do their jobs without engaging in police brutality. I’m boycotting the site until I don’t see the ad anymore.
I may be a little overly sensitive about such things, but I see nothing funny or cute about violating someone’s civil rights.
The only commercial that has ever forced me to change the channel was the atomfilms one. You know, “Angry Kid,” with that Claymation kid smelling his own finger. It got progressively more grating the more I saw it and now I usually have the channel changed as soon as I hear the little song at the beginning. And yes, I too have committed the unthinkable by changing the channel during the Simpsons.
The Dentine Ice where the girl in the balcony comes over to the guy with the fan on and his shirt off.
It comes in a regular and a long version that only plays real late at night. Boy is that a hot scene!
There’s a British IKEA commercial which is so bad it almost defines comprehension. It took me a couple times watching to even understand what the point was, and I’m still not sure I’ve got it, but I think this is it:
The IKEA employees have all been locked in a room for 24 hours. Gradually, after what seems like ages watching it, it is explained to us that a customer had to wait 15 minutes for his furniture, then a supervisor reprimanded the clerk for making the customer wait 15 minutes. The manager wanted to make the point that at most stores, customers have to wait at least 24 hours for their furniture, so 15 minutes is nothing … he locked up all his employees for 24 hours to show them the difference between that and 15 minutes. Make any sense to you??? It’s the slowest moving, most tedious ad I’ve seen in ages and coming from IKEA, I mean, not that I’m a big fan of their furniture or anything but I find it almost shocking that their advertising people would approve this one.
Lizard,
That ad is not for Monster.com but for OUTPOST.COM. So much for image retention. Funny Ads though. Check out http://www.adcritic.com for the series. The one where thy tatoo the heads of babies ‘because we want you to remember our name… send complaints to…’. Hilarious.
In the spirit of expanding our feeble knowledge, would some kind female please explain to us men what ‘sheilds’ and ‘liners’ actually do. Tampons I can understnad, but do women actually ‘leak’ that much? - or is it just a tight-ass thing … (no pun intended…) ?
Dress shields – go in the armpits of fine clothing items such as silk dresses and suits to prevent sweat stains. This is so you don’t have to have the item repeatedly dry cleaned and have it wear out.
Panty liners – for use with a tampon or on a day when “spotting” is expected to occur.
The Keeper – Re-usable fluid recepticle somewhat similar to the Instead cup. Find info at http://www.keeper.com (Opalcat also had a quite popular thread about this a year or so ago, if you’d like to search on the term “menstrual cup” it should turn up.)
For further info about menstruation, you can visit http://www.mum.org (the Museum of Menstruation) and get all the gory details about leaking/spotting/clots etc.
Wow! So THAT’S what those things were. Man, when I undressed … mumble… mumble… and those things fell out, I thought she was storing pads under her armipit for later use… slinky black dress… very small handbag etc… didn’t make the connection.
Man, do I feel stupid. It was hilarious at the moment, and the worst thing was I couldn’t share the joke without saying ‘… that’s where you keep…’.
Thank you very much… 'scuse me, I have to make an apology phone call … dang!
Well ACTUALLY, I believe that some women are such heavy sweaters that regular dress shields are insufficient and they actually do wear maxipads there. I’m pretty sure they look different, you might have been right the first time! (Except for the saving them for later part, heh heh.)
That commercial is for monster.com.
Are you talking about those cereal commercials where some unhip adult would ask a bunch of cool teenagers why they like some cereal, and they’d say “We just do!”? God, I hated those, too!
The Discovery Channel commercials have begun to make me consider assault with a baseball bat. One more meteorite, mosquito or disgusting, partially eaten fish clip and I’m on my way to Discovery headquarters with a Louisville Slugger.
Any cell phone commercial. They drive me nuts, especially the ones showing Mom, pop, son and daughter with their own phones!! (Like that doesn’t cost a bundle!)
Sanitary pad commercials – usually shown when I’m eating – and especially the jell pad one where they cut it open to show you the blood sucking, fluid retaining goop and go into detail about how good it is. (Yuck! That kind of ruins the hamburger!)
The Pepsi commercials featuring that obnoxious little girl.
Any antismoking commercial – especially those starting out like a movie review and winding up attacking the executives and their families.
All infomercials. The guy who invented them needs to be taken out, strapped to a chair and forced to watch 24 hours of those mind numbing, simpering, over blown product hawking, washed up movie star displaying, late night television ruining, bane to mankind, legalizing lying, over priced and soon to show up in Walmart at half price product pushing, pieces of crap!!
Funniest: Don’t know why, but every spring, when Cadbury runs the commercials for their chocolate Easter eggs, that rabbit clucking like a chicken just cracks me up.
A guy holding a picture of a panda bear up to the glass in the door of the office break room going “pretty pretty pretty, look at me, aren’t I pretty?” and moving the picture all around on the window with all the people in the room staring with these horrified looks on their faces. An announcer then says “not going anywhere for awhile?” That commercial cracks me up, I think it’s for snickers candy bars. Also funny commercials are the ones for M&M’s candies are hysterical especially the one with blue m&m and Stephen Baldwin “no blue aqui(sp)” that’s just to funny.
A really bad commercial that just makes me cringe when it comes on. Casa Ole’ has Jose Lima from the Houston Astros dancing and singing with a line of people forming behind him and singing along “casa ole’ every day hey…” I do not know what casa ole’ was thinking when they made that commercial. It’s just horrible.
All of the Clairol Herbal Essences commercials are terrible. The one that really needs to be taken out back and shot is that one where the lady is in the courtroom, and three pansy-looking guys come in singing to wash her hair.
Current favorite radio commercial:
ANNOUNCER: We’ve noticed that some people have an aversion to white blush wines.
“Now, when you hear the bell, drink the white zinfadel. Otherwise, you’ll receive a shock.”
“Okay.”
BRRIINNG
BZZZT “Nygaaahh.”
“You, ah, didn’t drink the wine. That’s why you got the shock.”
“Actually, I, ah, prefer the shock.”
The sound of the guy getting a mild electric shock is so funny as to nearly make me drive off of the road. It’s a dangerous commerical.
I just don’t get that one commercial where they say rip cigarrette (sp?) ads out of magazines, but only ones you own. I don’t get it. Why? What damage to “Big Tobacco” (I hate that phrase!) would that do?
