Oh man, you’ve got to be kidding, even with TiVo, you can’t miss that guy’s revolting grimace.
I pitted these lying ass dogs for this last year! The reaction was split right down the middle. Either posters got lower quotes or the were quoted double. (like me)
I can’t undertand it. Why woudn’t they want my business? Theyd just collect checks and never pay anything out! (I know, we can’t say that for certain blah blah blah…) I could understand it if it were more but in the same ballpark, but DOUBLE??? I hated going through the motions of getting the quote just to find out they didn’t want my business.
It’s my new act! **Gonzo Fiddles…
…while George Burns!**
I like how the hair loss guy tried to lay claim that his tenis game got better since he got his new hair.
Hair loss guy: “It seemed like I was always ace-ing the guy”
The first time I saw this commercial I got whooshed too. And I couldn’t believe that a hair loss company would actually try to give its costumer the impression that their tenis game would get better.
I like to think of the guy in the DiTech ads as the unacknowledged son of the Maytag repair man. Less sympathetic, and playing for the losing team besides, but rooted in the tradition of workaday slob mired in an unsatisfactory life. How this man is supposed to encourage thoughts of buying a house rather than thoughts of self-defenestration, however, is beyond me.
And I like Sweetums’ idea of turning the tables on the smug Geico clients. While I think that basically the stooges in the joke are pretty unsympathetic (prisoner, white collar criminal, wannabe rapper, yuppie scum), the heroes are all people who are supposed to be invested in these people’s problems, are in a position to help, and instead are self-absorbed and callous. Geico could reconfigure the spots to end with something truly horrible happening to these guys, the stooges plucking a Geico flyer of of their cold, dead hands, and deciding that the extra 15% might help them out of their difficulties. That might give the campaign a few more minutes of life.
In general, I am dissuaded from buying any product shown in ads wherein the users of the product are portrayed as incredibly self-centered jerks. I want to share any characteristics with these creeps? Why no, and thank you for bringing it to my attention that your company’s idealized customer is a stupid, self-centered, ignorant twerp.
On the other hand, I can tolerate pretty much anything, now that I am no longer being told to avoid the Noid.
That must have seemed especially mean to you at the time. Did you get the leave?
Now that would be funny!
The Noid is?
The Noid was a claymation character used in Dominoes Pizza commercials circa 1984-1992. He had an obsessive hatred of pizza and a bunch of Wile E. Coyote-ish schemes to destroy it, all of which humiliatingly failed.
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Moe You learned your lesson before it became painful.
Don’t fall in love with it until the foundation, roof, windows, electrical and plumbing are a-ok. Everything else inside and outside is just cosmetic.
No one sells a house because it’s in perfect shape. They are all hiding something. Every.one.of.them.rat.bastidges.
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I like how Enzyte Bob claims that he’s got a bigger pennis now.
Well, I’m still whooshed. “Ace-ing”?
I kinda like the Geico commercials.
The one product I’ll never buy however, is McDonald’s Chicken Select Strips. Apparently they induce some form of Hallucinatory Paranoid Schizophrenia.
The one about the kid in the OP sounds pretty tasteless, but I have to admit I bought the hair loss one hook, line and sinker! I really thought it was another hair club type of add. There is a radio spot that sounds like a weather person giving a report about how totally suckey the weather would be this weekend, when it was supposed to be gorgeous. I bought that one too! DUH! :smack: