Incidentally, at the end of the ad the gator gobbles down a whole Peking Duck in what’s obviously Geico’s shot at the spokesbird for one of its competitors.
Earlier in the thread someone said they found Norm McDonald as the Colonel in the KFC commercials creepy. The newest ones with George Hamilton (extra crispy indeed!) make me long for the days of Norm McDonald.
Ok, I misspoke. The turd emoji on my old phone wasn’t steaming, but it did have flies buzzing around. On my new phone it looks like the one in Skywatcher’s link, with the face. Which I don’t like as much.
She doesn’t really get mad, it’s just exasperation. Anyway, I think she is hot. Haven’t been able to find her name to see if she has done anything else.
Which one? This one? dealdash commercial - Google Search
Added: serious question.
I’m talking about this one. And as you can see by her face in the picture, she is clearly angry. And she gets angrier and angrier the more someone besides her buys something cheaply.
I’m having a love/hate relationship with the current Toyota commercial. I love that it has this actor, but I hate the part where the lady is asked to sign the contract and she says, “I can’t. I literally can’t even.” I understand the phrase she is using, but the misuse of literally still gets my goat! :mad:
I don’t recall which specific truck this one is for, but it includes a line that includes the words “perfessional” and “percision engineering.” Apparently the voice-over guy can’t pronounce professional and precision. I get aggravated every time I hear it.
Any of the BMO commercials where idiots are amazed that they’re talking to a real person or that someone is helpful/friendly are awful, but the one with the smug little Cranky Sue in the blue sweater is the worst. Quit being such a bitch and finish your transaction. Does anyone really care whether or not customer service people are genuinely nice or just being nice because that’s their job? Jesus.
Well, we clearly see it differently. It is perhaps my favorite commercial. Alas, it seems to have run its course. Heck, I have a couple of screen caps of her on my desktop.
Now, the Bon Jovi “Turn Back Time” commercial, to quote Ebert, “Hated it, hated it, hated it…” I’ve gotten so quick in my reflexes that I often mute it before I hear anything.
Dennis
Why we really are on opposite sides of the commercial divide. I think Bon Jovi’s Turn Back Time commercials are hilarious. As that great philosopher of the '80s, Alan Thicke, so eloquently put it: It takes diff’rent strokes to rule the world!
I hope you’re being facetious, because “aggravated” is the wrong word here. “Irritated” is the proper word.
The Bon Jovi commercials are losing their edge. In the first one, he performs a retroactive abortion; in the latest one, he’s practically the good fairy.
I wasn’t being facetious - I grew up in a world where *aggravated *was a nicer way of saying pissed off. Dunno if it was a family thing, a regional thing, or a facetious thing.
Any commercial that uses kids for a non-kid-specific product, particularly when the child is set up to appear smarter than any of the adults. Around here, the home improvement companies are particularly bad.
Marygrove Awnings: Marygrove Awnings $300 off - YouTube
Hansons Windows: Hansons Kids Commercial - YouTube
Hansons Windows: https://vimeo.com/20779570 - This one is particularly annoying starting at the 0:30 mark.
I am very disturbed by Coke’s Ed Gein Airlines commercial. The one where the girl is on a plane, sips a coke and starts singing, “You’re so cute I wanna wear you like a suit. I think you’ll look pretty good on me.”
Too late for edit but— There’s also a guy making out with a dog. Not really, but-- kinda.
I actually kinda like the song. But the video for it is…disturbing.
Geico has a commercial with kids playing “Marco Polo” in a swimming pool with merchant-explorer Marco Polo.
Behind Marco Polo is a… llama? :dubious:
For those who had to work in a cannery and thus never went to elementary school, Marco Polo was known for introducing much of Europe to Central Asia and China via stories of his travels, centuries before the discovery of the New World.
Dr. Pepper has resumed those ads with the smirking elf who sings falsetto and which causes me to dive recklessly for the mute button on my remote. I really don’t know why falsetto bothers me so much but it does.
I have never drunk Dr Pepper, but I suppose I should buy one so I can then boycott it.