Back when I was a teenager, I needed to siphon some gas from my dad’s pickup fuel tank to the gas bucket to fill up the lawnmower so I could finish the yard. I knew it involved a hose, but wasn’t clear on the actual siphoning process. I ended up sucking up a mouthful of gasoline. Yes, I did get some for the lawnmower, but I also got a nice flavor blast.
Ever got some on your hand while filling up at the pump, then accidentally rubbed your lip or something and gotten a taste that way?
TripAdvisor commercial, with split screen… telling basically same story, but in one (couple that used product) has great trip to New York whereas the couple that didn’t = porter abuses luggage and wife has to dry herself with shower curtain instead of towels.
“Happy” couple version is that wife using Egyptian cotton towels to dry herself after shower was the “highlight” of her trip.
I maintain that if the high point of your visit to New York City was drying yourself off with a cotton towel after a shower, you did not have a successful visit to NYC.
I saw a commercial in a bar last night starring what used to be Ray Liota’s face before it was apparently cast into granite. I’m guessing it was a voicey commercial, because the camera was entirely on his creepy ass emotionless face at a boxing ring the whole time.
There is no way I’m ever touching that tequila, just in case it had some partial responsibility for Ray’s zombification.
Be glad you didn’t get hooked on it. Six months of sipping gasoline and the orthocresyl phosphate would have turned your bones to rubber.
The Cottonellecommercials. I thought they’d finally gone away, but a new one popped up.
Yes, Americans find British accents classy and charming, but not nearly enough to enjoy a strange woman accosting us in public and demanding to know about our toilet habits.
I hate the commercial for some luxury SUV which shows rich people throughout history going down the road in their luxurious conveyances — elephant, coach, whatever — presumably while the skeletal masses look on with seething jealousy. All while David Bowie’s “Fame” blares. The couple smugly arrives home and an underling takes the keys and parks their vehicle built from the bones and tears from starving children and they blithely saunter into their elegant million-dollar home.
It makes me want to stage the French Revolution in my living room. Grr.
People on TripAdvisor will report the oddest things as highlights of their stay. So it would not surprise me to see that in an actual review.
Depends on why you needed to take that shower!!!
When I was young
I never needed any bun.
I think that “video” needs children in the background with glowing eyes.
I hate the short one where she walks into the bus billboard. After the music gets cut off at impact, you can hear a car alarm going off. How hard did she hit it? Could it be detected on seismographs?
That whole campaign is just odd. And then to go and ruin a pretty nice song too boot.
I don’t remember the video for All By Myself (presumably there was one), but it’s interesting that the video they did reminds me much more of a Meat Loaf or Bonnie Tyler kind of song.
Did you miss that the underling was white? Interesting.:dubious:
Good tune, tho.
This is an older one, but it’s playing again.
Lady sitting in her car, stuck in traffic. Sees a “Magnum” truck up ahead, jumps out of her convertable and goes running across other cars to get to the truck.
Oh, she’s trying to get an ice cream bar. I was wondering what her urgent need was for extra-large condoms.
Keeps the ice cream bar from melting.
There’s a new “stoner” Jack in the Box one, with a chick asking Jack (who is a puppet) whether he would want spoons for hands or elbows for ears. It looks like it was written and acted by people who had never seen pot in their lives. The woman overacts sooooo much it becomes painful to watch.
Give me the guy in the van who tells the JitB figure on his dash that he wants 99 tacos for 2 cents any day.
There’s the latest ad with the cell phone girl (I don’t know her name, I don’t want to know her name, quit trying to make her happen, she isn’t going to happen). She’s talking to a family about some no doubt amazing family plan and they say “Sign us up”. At which point she says that maybe they should wait til she’s back in the office because they’re in the food court. And then she gives this little sigh as if the audience is too stupid to get it the first time and reiterates “Yes, the food court”.
Well, the commercial is primarily stupid because no minimum wage employee is going to be giving a sales pitch in the food court unless she’s on commission. And if she’s on commission, she’d drag the family back to the store by their genital hairs just to get the commission. But mostly this one gets my goat because of the way she lampshades “food court”. As in this is so “ha, ha, funny, you should all run out and buy our product, whatever the hell it is.”.
And I echo the sentiments about the commercials with Red (that appallingly smug creature from Wendy’s) who they are apparently trying to turn into the Geico lizard by having her ruin songs from our young adulthood by converting them into paean to hamburgers. They should stop trying to make Red happen too.
Except in the food court commercial, the guy asked about the plan first and then she told him what it was. She didn’t initiate the pitch.
The thing that annoys me about the food court commercial is that it looks like they’re holding up a line while they’re chatting about phone plans. If I had been in that line behind them, I would have been pissed off.
There’s a Swiffer commercial with a woman and her family in the Pacific Northwest where she complains about all the rain and mud, what bugs the crap out of me is when she says “BA-BAM!” I can tune it out until she does that. That’s a noise that only annoying TV chefs are allowed to make.