Anyone else seen this?
Husband and wife are sitting on the couch, trying to decide where to haul their dumb middle-class white trash asses off to for the summer… they open up a nebraska tourism brochure and discover that they can run off to the middle of nowhere and… PLAY GOLF, SEE BIRDS and VISIT PATHETIC HISTORICAL MUSEUMS!
The husband runs off excitedly, while the wife phones a friend to declare that mr. dumb and mrs. dumber will spend their vacation visiting GENUINE NEBRASKA.
What’s wrong with vacationing in Nebraska? That’s where some of the best skiing is!:rolleyes:
Don’t forget all of the bars, restaurants, and theme parks devoted to the joys and wonders of Nebraska Cornhusker football.
While I agree that the Nebraska commercial is an incredibly lame new one, my vote has to go with the new Tarot Card hotline commercial.
Card Chick:“I see, Brad, that your girlfriend is pregnant.”
Brad (in the most pathetic acting you’ve ever heard on one word in your life): “No.”
Card Chick (wooden, completely unrealistic): “Yes, she is.”
Brad: (topping his earlier performance on “No”): “Is it … mine?”
Card Chick: “Sorry, Brad.”
Damn, those cards must be good.
The fact that someone would see this commercial and then call, seriously expecting to get similar results, makes me think birth control in the drinking water isn’t such a bad idea.
BTW: At least the Nebraska commercial is a step up from their earlier self-promotion campaigns. Who can forget their former slogan:
“Nebraska: We dare you to drive across us without going insane.”
LOL!!! That is one of the best lines I’ve seen here!
BTW, have you ever noticed on these Tarot card commercials, vary rarely is good news given? It seems it’s always the ‘psychics’ or tarot card readers telling the caller that the SO is cheating on them, or that the caller is cheating on the SO.
What’s the message here? “Call us so we can plant the seed of distrust in your relationship, only $3.99 a minute!”
What a bargain!
Maybe not the lamest, but certainly the (unintentionally)funniest commercial I have ever seen was an infomercial for a facial creme called (get ready): “Nads”.
Its a half hour of “Nads has done wonders for my complexion!” and “Nads leaves my skin silky smooth!”
The best part is the product pitch: “Nads contains special proteins to enrich and moisutrize…” or something to that effect.
The whole commercial begs the question: Do you really want Nads on your face? :o 
You mean you can actually visit Nebraska and there are people who live there all the time? I find that hard to believe… In all my life I have never come across anybody who said they were from Nebraska. It’s probably deserted…
I’ll admit to being underwhelmed by the prospect of a Nebraska vacation. I’ll admit that the discovery.com commercials are the lamest things I’ve ever seen.
TV is lame. 
Reminds me of an article I read about in the WSJ some years ago…it seems that the state of kansas had set up a tourism board, and they were trolling for ideas.
Come to Kansas-see the world’s deepest hand-dug well!
Kansas-homw of the world’s biggest ball of string!
Kansas-visit the original prairie state!
How the heck could you actually GET tourists to come to a place like Kansas? I can’t imagine anybody going there-much less for vacation. Of course, if you like cornfields…
Oh man, bad commercials…I love to hate 'em. One of my favorites, though I don’t know the name of the product, it’s a footpowder of somesort.
Guy in his pajamas, “My feet are so sweaty, my wife calls me swampfoot”
That’s about all I can remember, other than it looked like this was shot with a vhs camcorder from the Sears bargain bin. It looked like such a cheesy, low budget, local piece, but it was for a national ad campaign. (make that national late night ad campaign)
I’ve seens and ad for Alabama just like the one y’all are talkin about fer nebraska.
You are completely overlooking the thrill and wonder of the world’s largest groundhog. Granted, the magic of the moment is lost when one realizes it is made of clay, but a person can dare to dream.
Of course, having my entire family come from Kansas gives me great insight into the wonders of excitement one can expect upon a trip to the heartland of America.
Years ago, I worked for the folks who brought you (at the time anyway) the Ginsu knife, the 7-in-one dress, and Slim Whitman. One of the products was the 5-in-one foot machine…it polished bunions, smoothed toenails, julienned fries…who remembers what else. But the commercial showed the gawd-awful, nasty feet of one our coworkers (the before shot, if you will). On several occasions, when the commercial aired during the morning, we would receive letters from viewers who were so disgusted at the sight of her feet, they couldn’t eat their breakfast.
Arrgghhh! I just did this four days ago…in a U-Haul. I’m still recovering. Nothing, nothing, nothing… Thank god for that bag full of sunflower seeds and the radio.
Aw, c’mon! How can you not laugh at those two mosquitoes??
“How intedesting.”
AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! swat
buzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzz
What’s lame is that C|Net commercial with the “Best Price” hiding behind a large houseplant. But lame in a good kind of way.
Herbal Essence commercials… now THOSE are lame.
Not as lame as a Nebraska Vacation commercial, tho.
Ah Nebraska —
This is a bit of a tangent, but this reminds me of something that happened at a gas station in the outskirts of my beloved Yosemite National Park. There was this loud, large, brash woman, asking the gas station attendants for directions. They assumed she was a tourist, looking to go to Yosemite (Yosemite has incredible tourist numbers) but no. She apparently had been wandering around the country, obviously for days. Was totally lost. The polite attendants were pointing to maps and asking “Do you want to go to the Park?” She bellowed "What Park? I don’t care about any Park! I just want to go home to Nebraska!!!" (For those of you who are geographically impaired, Yosemite is in California - half a continent away from Nebraska.)
I guess all those mountains, varying landscapes, and natural beauty up near Yosemite really threw this woman off. She was desperate to get back to the flat boringness of Nebraska!
Simple…put it smack between Missouri and Colorado!
You ain’t kiddin’ about Kansas’s lameness. We went to a pioneer museum in Colby or Goodland or one of those little spots in the western part of the state off I-70. We’re looking at some pretty interesting looking things, but all the employees come to us to remind us that the barn out back is the biggest barn in the state! Like, whoopee. Is that what really excites you?
I went bezerk over this this weekend, oddly enough. A lame commercial that is.
It’s the one for “Smart Ones” - the Weight Watchers Frozen Dinners and plays that “Lady in Red” tune while some bimbo twirls around in a red dress - SO even commented on it (I had to walk out of the room when it came on it annoys me so much).
Actually, we spent the night in Nebraska, Demo, though I can’t seem to recall the town name(not that it matters).
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to spend a vacation there.
To each his own, I s’pose.
ROTFLMAO!!! Oh my! That put a kick in my britches. What channel did you see this on? What time? It’s worth staying up late for!