Haven’t seen this thread in awhile, time to bring it back!!
Those Sprint PCS commercials with the guy that acts like…what? An FBI agent? Those commercials are absolutely idiotic!! Are they supposed to be a take-off on the X-files or on Dragnet? The guy seems like a Duchovny-Joe Friday hybrid, but I just don’t see the point. Give me those annoying Candice Bergen spots over this crap!!
Other horrible phone company spots: Paul Reiser, the 1-800-Collect B-list celebrity calvacade (Arsenio???!!!) and Elaine Benes for 00 Info. Stop the madness!!!
I hate the … oh crap what company is it??? Some online site that has the ugly people helping “you” find “the best price” by leading another ugly guy in a shirt with “You” on it to a third ugly guy with a shirt that says “the best price” and then they do some embarrassingly stupid dance. :::vomit::::
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From an actual catalog: “Disco balls create an enchanting, dazzling effect of light shafts, adding movement and glamour to any occasion” the Abrams’ bris was certainly memorable
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ROFL! My husband LOVES that dollar commercial. The part where he says “It’s so…MONEY” almost makes him wet his pants.
Opal, I think the company you’re thinking of is CNet, and yes they suck big time.
My current commercial of scorn is the one for (I think) Hyundai where the car is onstage at a concert and then drives out into the audiance and “body” surfs…what the hell is that? That is so vapid I can’t even get my brain around it.
voguevixen: and what’s even more pathetic about that car commerical is the little disclaimer at the end that says something along the lines of “Always drive on roads, never on people.”
Um, even a good “Well, DUH!” won’t begin to cover that one! I mean, if they think the people who buy their cars need to be told that…maybe they don’t need to be driving, period. Sheesh!
I’m with TripleAnt—those Geo. Washington commercials skeeve me out. I think I dated him once.
And has William Shatner completely lost his mind, with those price-whatever ads? Doesn’t he realize he is making a total ass of himself? Or are they paying him enough so he just doesn’t care?
Eve–I think Shatner has become a professional self-satirist. He knows he’s ridiculous and peddles his own personal style of camp. Either that, or he’s far more out to lunch than I ever thought (hmmm…)
Eve, Shatner is setting some kind of compensation record for those priceline ads. He was predominantly compensated in priceline stock, which has skyrocketed since the ads have run. Speculation put his take at 20 MM when I heard him on the radio a few months ago. Even if you cut that in half, that’s a good take for a few thirty second commercials.
Admittedly, that’s not “real” money, but WOW.
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Well, blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo,
as far as I can tell.
My, lots of bad commercials out there. You should just do what we(me 'n my friends) do. When a bad commercial comes on, punish the television by hurling nearby objects at it(usually silverware(the simpsons is on right at dinner time)) and shouting “BAD TELEVISION”.
Also we boycott certain products if their commercials are bad enough, hoping to influence the market that way. Of course being college students we really don’t have that much influence on, say, the market for SUV’s, but it still feels good.
The commercials still suck, but hey, it beats just complaining about them…
Profanity is the crutch of the inarticulate mother-fucker.
I, personally, cannot STAND commercials with ultra-cute kids in them. I can’t stand people who let their kids record an answering machine message, either. Cripes, I’m not in love with that kid, and if I was, I’d ask to speak to the kid.
Don’t get me started on the Olsen twins.
Sheesh, wouldn’t you know it? I want to use a smilie here, and there’s no “puking smilie” available.
I really hate the commercials for Disney theme parks and cruises–especially the commercial with the little girl who tells her parents the day’s agenda for what they will do on the ship. I think Disney in general just wierds me out for some reason.
Yeah, the Sprint PCS commercials definitely bite it hard. The only phone commercials I halfway pay attention to are the ones that Sela Ward does–I forget which company they’re for. She’s a cutie, you betcha.
I need to remind myself to e-mail thetruth.com and tell them to shitcan the stupid anti-smoking ads already. They were kind of novel at first, but they keep showing slews of them during my nightly episodes of the Simpsons. Enough, dammit!!
“It’s only common sense,
There are no accidents 'round here.”