You people honestly do not know how lucky you are. I dare you - dare you, I say - to come to Europe and witness the unspeakable horror of dubbed commercials… ArrrrGH!
I’ll never learn to appreciate the German habit of dubbing movies, but if the movie is good enough, it might survive the treatment.
But a commercial moves from pretty bad to definitely awful the instant it is dubbed in German. Now imagine a dubbed commercial that was definitely awful even in English. Got that ? Now imagine a commercial that was awful in English and is then dubbed, BADLY, in German. Now start reading a lot of books instead of watching TV.
I’ll not even mention bad German commercials dubbed in Danish. Yuck.
Perhaps a website, listing bad commercials and pointing out alternative products, was a way to go ?
GEICO.
I wouldn’t go to GEICO for insurance just on the principle of the lardass jumping up and down while the earthquake people hunt him down. Everytime they find him I scream, “Shoot him, shoot him!”
Same goes for Priceline.com, and the shrill geeks they show using it. Or Petopia.com and the giant toilet they give dogs to drink out of. Or Lexus for the guy who goes outside at 3:00 AM to make sure he really owns it. Or the Weather Channel for the Wayne Newton lookalike who punches a new hole in the ozone just so his hair doesn’t get mussed. Or…
You can see where this is going.
Query: Who is the most annoying child on TV?
The Regan MacNeil-ish Pepsi girl? The bossy Welch’s girl? The smarmy Disney cruise girl? Or the PeoplePC.com Ross Perot wannabe boy?
don Jaime de los Resorbitos
Free the Water Tower 3!
Is anybody tired of seeing Dave Thomas in commercials for Wendy’s Hamburgers yet? He seems like a decent enough guy, but I’m sick of his cameos in every goddamned commercial that Wendy’s does. Dave’s a little on the chunky side, but it doesn’t take a scientist to figure out that he would be a 500-pound heart patient if he ate that crap all the time. That, and I’m sick of the way that he wobbles his head from side-to-side whenever he talks.
As for the Pepsi girl: I’d love to see a commercial where she’s channeling yet another voice and her grandfather cold-cocks her with a bible and shouts “Foul demon! Release this child!” Either that or he could just burn her at the stake–I’m not hard to please.
“It’s only common sense,
There are no accidents 'round here.”
To be totally honest with you, I don’t give a flying crap what anyone thinks about my typos. It’s the message I’m conveying that counts. If you can’t deal with a mispelled word or two, hell, get a fucking life! If it bothers you that much, move on. I won’t lose sleep over the fact you decided not to read what I wrote. I’m a court reporter and I deal with editing and proofreading so much during the day, that at night typos just do not matter. So sue me.
As for the “Great Debate” I sparked, what are you on crack? Do you suck on the tailpipe of your car for a buzz? ALL I said was the commercials we hate stick out in our minds just as much as the ones we enjoy. The only debating came from you and your rants. Everyone else seemed to agree with my statements. I still can’t figure out that “Pepsi” statement of yours.
Sweeping generalizations of you? Methinks not. I was only replying to you in the same fashion you replied to my original post, which mentioned you in no way whatsoever. Oh, hold on a minute. I’m supposed to read about you, and know how your regarded on the board, yet you can bash me on my first post? Ha! Thats funny. I’m sorry but the fact that you’ve posted over 1000 times as opposed to my meger 10 or so times means nothing to me. You remind me of the big bad bully of every neighborhood that has to “establish” him/herself as a badass to every new kid who moves in town. Sorry, that doesn’t work for me. (Before you start crying about sweeping generalizations and me not knowing you, remember this IS the pit, as you’ve told me.)
Would I walk into a new job and start acting like I own the place? Not if I wanted to keep the job. But if some schmuck who is no higher a position than I starts bossing me around as if he’s better, you can be damn sure I’m going to tell him where to stick his attitude REAL quick.
I AM looking to make friends on this board, as I see some of you are intelligent, some of you are funny, and some are just retarded (but hey, thats cool :p), but I won’t let people walk over me for it. Sorry, it’s not my nature.
The pepsi beast with that country singer (just found out from this board that its faith hill) commerical makes me want to kill them, the pepsi company, myself, etc.
“I am so smart, I am so smart, s-m-r-t, i mean s-m-a-r-t”
