Phillips Norelco razor ad I’ve been seeing late at night:
“I’d FAQ me”? 
Huh.
Hey, whatever works for you!
But I’m an only child so shouting sibs aren’t a part of my experience, driving or otherwise. And I think I prefer it that way. 
The last frog I saw in the last 10 years was in a pet store, and it cost a LOT. Are there still wild frogs out there or are they all extinct, a thing of the past?
Of course there are! I believe even in the middle of Houston you can still find toads and frogs. As a kid there, I would use mom’s kitchen strainer to catch tadpoles in the gutter after a hard rain (she never knew)(no one died).
Where I live now there are many, many bullfrogs. Granted, I live on a lake, but even when I lived in town I saw frogs in the garden.
Now the “horny toad” - what a magnificent little creature, but sadly they have disappeared from many places where they used to be common.
I found a frog in my house last week. It was lucky I put it outside before the cat saw it. 
A tiny tree frog got in my house a few years ago…it was adorable! I loved the way he (?) stretched out his little arms and legs with every jump. Unfortunately, I was the only member of the household who found the frog to be cute…it was quickly ushered back outside. Amazingly, it didn’t pee all over the place.
I guess I’ll put this here.
I went to a movie this weekend, and they were running ads for a new TV show called “The Last Ship”. It’s going to be some post-apocalyptic story about a navy ship with the noninfected survivors of some pandemic trying to come up with a cure, and a battle against some Russians trying to get the Doctor and the cure for themselves, or some such. Lots of shooting and whatnot.
Okay, what was stupid about the ad, the Cinemark rundown for what they were showing in the theater before the movie began, they described this ad for the TV series as “TNT brought you to the brink of civilization”.
So, what you’re saying is we almost had a civilization, but fortunately we prevented it?
The (Dish?) commercials with the marionette wife who is upset that the “human” husband and his friend are insulting unsightly cables. Besides being dumb in general, they made me ask my wife “Wait, so he married her? How did they meet? They spent time dating and stuff? He saw some strange marionette woman and said ‘she looks nice’ and asked her out? Do her clothes come off? Do they fuck with her flappy uncoordinated limbs flailing about and banging into things? What would that be like?”
Then they had a second commercial with a marionette son so at least one of my questions was answered.
I see dumb commercials like this and picture a group of suits using an elaborate PowerPoint production to pitch it to another group of suits…and everyone thinks it’s a winner?
If I were making this commercial, I’d have the wires spreading out from the TV like those evil vines in the horror movie. Every time mom or dad walked into the room the wires would cover more of the wall. Spooky music would be playing. At the end, the cat would be plastered to the wall covered in wires, and one wire would be inching out toward the baby… :eek:
Let’s see
- AT&T’s cell phone commercials for their new plans
A) Grant Hill, a multi-millionaire former NBA player (who is 6’ 8”) has an "amusing” chat with a clueless AT&T cell phone employee who apparently has no idea who he is. Lady, he’s a 6’8” Black guy dressed in expensive clothes. While he might be statistician for the Department of Treasury, it’s safe to assume that he was/is an athlete
B) The staggering number of people staring at him should be an indicator that he’s someone famous. Finally, a multimillionaire NBA player is unlikely to be shopping for a cell phone at the mall or worried about getting the cheapest cell phone plan.
And he couldn’t give a shit about your lameass high school basketball "career”.
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A local stereo installer/cheap junk purveyor has a series of photos commercial that looks like a cheap 1970s television ad. Yes…I know that commercials can be expensive. However, when there’s a Best Buy about 500 yards down the road from your store and they can also install stereos, you might wish to pick up your game.
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The Sonic drive-in commercial that establishes that the two guys in it aren’t gay - No Sonic, I didn’t think that they were gay, so I didn’t need a commercial where you crudely shove in the fact that they have families to convince me tha they aren’t a couple.
I’m just tired of seeing them in your commercials. Especially since the nearest Sonic restaurant to me is over an hour away.
- Erectile dysfunction commercials overall - Either the ones showing happy middle-aged couples (pretty sure that ED doesn’t lead to “happiness”) or the “I’m a he-man and I know how to get things done” commercials which imply that taking a pill for what is probably a symptom of a more serious physical ailment is a solution.
Sorry if mentioned already but:
The Geico commercial with the old lady who doesn’t understand Facebook. Annoys the hell out of me.
For me it’s the MetLife commercial with the two daughters whose dad fell off a ladder. They come off as condescending vultures, the mother is incredibly annoying and ignorant, and by the time dad enters with his goofy smile I want to take a shotgun to the television.
The leap from a sprained arm to needing final expense life insurance makes no sense whatsoever, IMO.
It’s not a Geico commercial. It’s an insurance company that’s not Geico. It is a lot like a Geico commercial though. I thought it was a Geico commercial the first time I saw it, but it’s not a Geico commercial, it’s for someone else.
Did anyone at the other company think this through? :smack:
There’s a life insurance commercial that I assume is local due to the lower production values and also because (I think) it hasn’t been mentioned here yet.
A woman talks about how fortunate she was that her husband had life insurance and that it allowed her to move on with her life. Things are especially great now that she married this guy over here. The guy starts talking and explains that he’s the owner/president/whatever of the life insurance company that this commercial is about.
I’m all for people moving on after their spouse dies, but I don’t want to pick out a future husband for my wife as part of an insurance package.
You’re talking about the same company that dropped its mascot due to risqué fan art.
These crack me up; of course, I’ve dealt with people like her, so I guess that helps. The thing that actually annoys me is in the commercial where she uses the CD-ROM tray as a cupholder…everything in that scene is spot-on except for the monitor. Why would the producers of that commercial have selected a flat screen??? It’s way too advanced for the tone they’re trying to set in that ad.
They just had a commercial with the marionette wife dancing in her lingerie so at this point i have to assume that they’re screwing with me.
I have no idea who he is, other than he’s a really tall black man in a commercial, he’s probably a basketball player.
That’s what’s funny, the totally deadpan way she lays out her record, and her reaction to his response.
No no no, she’s hip enough to know flatscreens are the way to go.
Yes, this series is bad enough, but her flopping around doing her “sexy dance” boggles the mind.
The DirecTV ads with the spastic marionettes creep me out.
Those are nasty ads. We are supposed to hate those people with “wires” or what? Feel superior?