The soccer one is pretty clever.
I absolutely HATE those stupid “I’m a PC” commercials. Grates on my nerves something fierce. Humans are NOT Personal Computers!! Drives me totally nuts.
There are a bunch of commercials out there that I enjoy watching, but for the life of me, I can’t think of one of them right now…
Commercials which anthropomorphize cleaning products and let me know that my current products will be heartbroken and despondent if I change to the advertised brand. How is knowing that my mop will awaken depressed in the middle of the night or my stove cleaner will cry alone in the dark cabinet supposed to entice me to switch brands?
That was my immediate response the first time I saw one of those. I literally said out loud, “I’m not a PC, I’m a person”.
Those Windows 7 commercials where the little girl creates a Powerpoint presentation with unicorns and kittens and flowers because of all the “happy words” she saw on her Daddy’s PC make me want to fwow up.
Microsoft just wants to show the world that Windows users don’t all look like this.
We’ve had that discussion here before. Sonic isn’t a national chain (not yet, anyway, though they keep expanding), but they’re in enough of the U.S. that it makes sense, from a media-spending standpoint, to buy their ads nationally (mostly on cable), rather than buying on a market-by-market basis, only in the regions in which they currently operate.
So, if you see a Sonic ad, and there aren’t any Sonics near you, it’s not that they’re specifically choosing to run an ad in your market, despite not operating a restaurant there…you’re simply seeing an ad that’s running nationally.
It could also be argued that the national advertising has helped create interest in Sonic in those areas where they don’t currently operate, but plan to expand into. I know that, when they finally started opening restaurants in suburban Chicago earlier this year, they had massive lines for weeks, likely the result of curiosity created by years of those ads.
The *I’m a PC *commercials are a direct comeback to Apple’s Mac vs. PC ads. In Apple’s ads the players claim to be Macs and PCs, and the PC character always comes off as incompetent. Thus Microsoft shows other people claiming to be PCs, though this time the people are in some way or another winners. They aren’t really trying make an existential statement.
I’m glad someone else already mentioned the “arm and a leg” thing. It infuriates me too.
Two that get me are for yogurt. A woman is on the phone telling someone about the pie-flavored yogurt she has been eating. Her eavesdropping husband thus begins searching the fridge for actual pie. When wife sees this she scolds and shames the husband, who sulks away like beaten dog.
Next commercial shows the husband, who apparently has discovered the secret to pie-flavored yogurt, having the exact same phone conversation wife was having earlier. Wife overhears husband and interrupts him with a scold, at which point he sulks away again.
The first commerical is infuriating for obvious reasons, and is pretty typical of commericals targeting married women. But the second commercial doesn’t even make sense. It just shows a bitch wife heel-grinding her husband for no reason. And somehow that is supposed to make me want to buy pie-flavored yogurt.
I understand that commercials target certain demographics. And these tailor made ads need to appeal to a group by fulfilling a sort of fantasy or psychological need. Thus beer commericals show average looking guys cracking hilarious jokes and performing feats of athletic prowess whilst being surrounded by beautiful young women, and of course drinking beer. But what do these yogurt commericals tell us about women. That their fanatsy is to be saddled to a mentally disabled, impotent, dishrag of a husband who needs to be browbeaten for having the gall to look into the refrigerator without asking for permission first? Where have all the cowboys gone indeed.
The one currently driving me up the wall is the one where the guy is mocking the pandas in a weird baby voice about how he has some nasty-looking Chinese chicken dish and they don’t, then the pandas snare him in a rope trap.
Because pandas are all about eating chicken, you know. :rolleyes:
All I know is, I’d love to see that damned Gecko squashed like a bug once and for all.
Nah, the Gecko is okay; I’d like to see their googly-eyed wad of cash burned, though.
I actually do like the Windows 7 commercials if just for the “dramatic re-enactment” moments with the more “attractive” actors playing the character in the commercial. I don’t know why, but I find them hilarious.
My most irrational commercial hate is the Pristiq commercial with the wind-up doll. Not because of the doll (which almost everyone else hates) but because of the music. I don’t know why I hate it so much, but it just grates on me.
I also hate most cleaning product commercials. Especially the ones showing women–and it’s ALWAYS women–A) being all ecstatic about their new cleaning product (“the only thing holding me back was this sub-par mop! Now that I have [product], I can finally do my wifely duty!”) or B) being locked in a glass box and told to clean with a certain product. If that were me I’d ask for the money first.
The one that drives me crazy is for Sarna lotion (I know, it got me to remember the name – long enough to NEVER BUY IT). Her family can’t stop scratching so she puts them in dog neck cone things.
And that stops them from scratching HOW?? 
:smack:
And “it’s OK you made a god-awful mess in the kitchen! In fact, I welcome it since I can use my super-absorbant paper towel! Whee!!”
My wife and I hate the Sprint commercials that are black and white and feature their CEO talking about how smooth and great they are.
It’s just so…smug.
I also hate the Apple vs. PC commercials. I just don’t see why Apple is so cool. ???
I usually feel bad for PC. 
The Gecko totally sold out, man. He used to be all like “People confuse me for Geico but I’m a gecko, not Geico!” Now he has a giant oak desk at Geico corporate with a frilled lizard who temps for him when he’s on vacation.
But I want the job of whatever costumer got to make that tiny suit featured in one of those.
I want to deliver a savage beating to that freecreditreport.com douchebag.
I don’t think that’s “irrational”, though.
Me too. Apple is such a snide obnoxious hipster, the kind who’s too cool for anything. I’d hang out with PC any day!
I remembered the other one I hate. The woman holding up an arm and a leg from a mannequin and saying “I want a calling plan that doesn’t cost me one of these and one of these”…<OK, got it>…“an arm and a leg.” No shit, Sherlock, what am I, an idiot?