There’s one where the blond jerk & friends actually rip on Jared right to his face. It’s totally rude and F-ed up. Is that supposed to be funny? Hell, is it supposed to want to make me want to eat at your restaurant? Because it sure as hell doesn’t!
Re: the kid in the Mountain Dew commercial. Isn’t there something really weird and creepy about the way he says: “Ah ferghot my Deeeeew.” He says it in almost a porno way or something. :shudder:
You just saw this one?? Holy frijoles! It’s been on for months around here. Love it when the guy says his dopey catch phrase, walks ten feet, then says it again. In an open field.
And that milk one, where the kid’s chugging it outside the store? I don’t get it. At least, I don’t think I understood it when I saw it last, and it’s been a while.
Oh, and Broodha, it’s a buzz. It’s a brown buzz. heh. Actually, there’s one commercial of theirs I do like - it’s the really big dude who says “Brown says …” and then his last thing is “Brown says… have another slice of pie.”
<pause>
<sheepish look> “Brown didn’t really say that.”
Actually, I’m pretty sure it’s Verizon. Cingular uses an animation of their little stick-figure logo.
I’ve gotta second the Mountain Dew ad with the Trans Am. It doesn’t bother me that he wrecks the car (in fact I just assumed that he does a 360) but he drinks from the can while the car is upside down! That just drives me bonkers!
o-man: amen on Carl’s Jr. Their current marketing approach, starting with “if it isn’t all over the place, it isn’t in your face” or whatever, with people drooling and slobbering and dripping condiments on their shoes, cost them at least one customer (me), forever.
That UPS “Brown” campaign reminds me a bit too much of the “Brown 25” Uranus Corp. ads from “The Groove Tube.”
“At Uranus, things come out a little differently. Brown 25.”
I wholeheartedly second any commercial with that fucking Dell kid.
Verizon makes the ‘can you hear me now’ ads. It played a HUGE part in my choosing of Cingular as my cell company.
I’ll second the kid-with-milk one. I HATE THAT NOISE. Augh.
And I’ll add a local (I think) one for an animal training device. Basically your typical ‘high-pitched noise’ thing. But… oh my god. They have this one scene of a guy chasing after his dog, illustrating the “bad” behavior, and you see the dog run off-screen, then you hear tires squealing and a very distinct “thump.” Completely, totally, horribly, disgusting. It makes my stomach turn. The people who came up with that should be shot.
-BK
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Ah, no it’s not. I mean sure, you can pronounce your name however, dude. But the damn nameplate SAID “Dumass”. Now, if you had put “Dumas” on the nameplate, the joke would have made sense.
Seems that the implication is the GMC SUV is so well designed it can fit into those tight spots. Maybe it’s just me, but maybe the fact that she’s an engineer for GM allowed her to gauge the distance more easily than the previous doofus with the sedan.
The TNN commercial featuring a picture of the female Klingon. You can’t fool me, the Sci-Fi channel is supposed to be the channel for nerds like me.
The chick spasming/“dancing” in the front passenger seat. I loathe that commercial.
Sheri
Any commerical with the Dell kid.
The new “Mike’s Hard Lemonade/Ice Tea” commerial, with some kind of space aliens or evil head.
Those stupid carrottop commercials. HOw is this guy funny?
SNIPERS PLEASE! DO THE WORLD A FAVOR AND PUT HIM OUT OF OUR MISERY!
Thank god I am not the only one who hates this commercial. I mean hate, hate, HATE!. It looks like she is having a seziure in the front seat. And the guy beside her, instead of taking her to the emergency room, where she clearly should be, just smiles blithely and keeps driving his super neat-o keen sports car. Perhaps he hates her as much as we do and wants her to perish from her disorder?
That “Got Milk” ad with the kid eating peanut butter. He’s eating pb off a big 'ol spoon, and sipping from his carton of milk. Running out of milk, he gives the spoon to the dog. The camera then decides to give us an eternity of the dog licking the roof of its mouth. If felching has a sound, I’m sure this is it.
The Carrot Top ads are the worst. Everybody has hated Carrot Top for years, but they still make a commercial with him in it? Especially the one where some people are enjoying themselves at the beach around a campfire, and Carrot Top shows up (with a payphone), grabs somebody’s stick-with-marshmallow, uses it to “dial down the centre”, then eats the marshmallow. If he did that to me, I wouldn’t just sit there dumbly. I’d probably reflexively say, “Hey, fuck you!” and then throw him onto a fire. No jury in the world would convict me.
I hated those “Can You Hear Me Now?” ads until about two weeks ago. I was in a discussion with a friend over whether directors or actors are more important to a film, and it got pretty heated. After I tore most of his arguments apart he finally just looked at me with a perfect deadpan, held up his middle finger, and said “Can you hear me now? Good.”
This was hilarious coming from a person who usually has the same sense of humor as a piece of toast.
I haven’t looked at those ads the same way since.
This one probably doesn’t get airtime in the US, but some Euro-Dopers may know it.
The Loreal commercial with Michael Schumacher, of Ferrari F1 fame.
He’s saying shit like “I want state-of-the-art-technology”, and “Every day, my hair is enriched with vitamins”, as panning camera shots portray him in the pit lane gesticulating whilst talking to his mechanics. Cut to next shot. 360-degree-panning camera shows Michael staring over the long straight whilst his hand runs through his rich, shiny hair. Cut to next shot. Michael puts on his helmet on the long straight as the camera zooms backward rapidly. Cut to end shot. Michael looks over his shoulder (sans helmet now), smiles cheekily, and says, “Because I’m worth it”.
AAARGH. Michael, your salary at Ferrari is $20 million alone. You don’t need to do this, really you don’t.
Ooh, here’s another. There’s a radio commercial out there for Office Max.
The catch phrase is “Max Means More.”
Like hell it does. Max means “most.” - you know, the maximum? You dummies could have marketed your stores so much better by saying it offered the MOST office stuff. What a missed opportunity!
Sci-Fi’s promotions of their “Crossing Over” marathon with John Edward saying it would take too long to explain how he talks to the dead. Yeah, right. It would only take a second to say, “I don’t!”
“If felching has a sound, I’m sure this is it”
Funny you should say that cause a couple years ago I asked my friend what sound it makes
& she said it sounds like a blow job.
The stupidst commercial I saw lately was the Walmart commercial where a woman makes
the sign for a label, but actually uses ASL for ‘vagina’.