That’s my favorite in years, I was gonna steal it for my sig but I was too lazy to write it down.
Taco Bell has always had awful commercials. Anyone remember TB’s M.C. Hammer commercials? Anyone remember M.C. Hammer?
Hey, I LOVE that Taco Bell commercial, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. It is, at least for me, one of the best commercials in recent memory. Why do I like it so much? Well, I often find myself doing a boom box beat with my voice, and that’s exactly what one guy is dong in that commerical. So, I do it along with him. Then the Chihuahua sings, “Go David, it’s your birthday, along with the guys.” It’s old school, it’s funny, it’s a good ad.
Ditto the IBM ads with Avery Brooks (a.k.a. Captain Sisco from Star Trek DS9) I like the one about having an epiphone.
And those discovery.com commercials are simply genious. The meteor one is priceless. Our very own Strainger has “Ahhhh…the atmoshphere. Ahhhhh” as his sig.
I LOVE THIS ONE!!! Way back in elementary school, in the early 70’s, we just knew that way off in the future, by the year 2000, we would all have flying cars and wear silver space suits and eat food pills and be living on the moon…oh, never mind…
The Jamie Lee Curtis one is rather ironic, considering her hubby is a Duke or Lord or something, and she probably has to go to stuffy gatherings like that occasionally. I can’t stand her, just for the record.
The one I REALLY freaking hate is the one for Pepsi One, with the people on the rocking ferry boat, sipping the wrong drink each time. I hate it!
now where did I leave the keys to the flying car…?
The new discovery.com commercials crack me up every time I see them! The “atmosphere” one is my fave.
The little Pepsi girl, though…she started out kinda cute, but now she just makes me want to poke my eyes out with sharp sticks. No, Faith Hill taking cues from you is NOT cute! And you look STUPID is the Kiss makeup, okay??? Geez! Just STOP! GAAAAAAH!
Whew. I feel better. Whoops, this is the Pit. Guess I’d better say “fuck” or something.
One more post… honest, then I’ll go to bed.
1-800-call-att. Ick. I’m tired of this submoronic asshole. I’ll never use them.
You know, if I were promoting a channel/website where you can learn things, I’d employ less dumb-as-shit advertising. Hear that, Discovery.com?!
When I read Kinsey’s post, I thought she had written that Jamie Lee Curtis was married to “a Dark Lord or something.”
Just thought I’d share.
Anyway, to actually contribute (or try to) to this thread, I’ll add that I haven’t seen these Taco Bell ads and the more I read about them here, the more grateful I am for that! I’ve mentioned this before, but let me just add that I despise those wretched Toyota ads with the big stupid face on the TV… I’d like somebody to toss a rock through that smug bastard.
Oooh, I agree completely! This commercial is absolutely disgusting!
I hate pretty much all commercials, though. Insane Joe in the Lexus is okay, but nothing else springs to mind as not making me want to shoot the TV.
What really makes my blood boils is those FUCKING Kia radio commercials. [condescention]Nooooooo![/condescention] GOD I hate that guy. Mother fucker. I’ll donkey punch your mama, you worthless bag of sludge!
Oh, and that new Chili’s commercial, where the guy says “Well, your resume looks great. What else ya got?” And that stupid fucking bitch sings the Baby Back Ribs song all fucking diva like, then stands there and twists her arms like she’s a fucking cutesy school girl. My Lord I want to twist her arms right off and beat her about the head and neck with them.
–Tim
Anyone remember the old Martini and Rossi Asti Spumante ad? It’s never on anymore, but I think I was the only one on the planet who actually liked it.
Bella!
Ooh, and that one commercial… I can’t remember what it was for, but it was in black and white, and there were lots of emaciated-heroin-addict-Calvin-Klein-model types lying around dramatically. The voice over yells “Eat something!”
There is a new genre in music: prescription drug commercial music. There is nothing like it ever. John Tesh must have peaked when he made it (if he made it). This music puts those drug commercials over the top, those that depict that using their drugs will put you in some Happyland where everyone will smile goofy, dance all day and make paper mache dolls. Te best part is where they gloss over the side effects, while turning up the music: using XXX can cause diarrhea, upset stomach, acne and sometimes death. (Da-da-daaah, Da-da-Daaah!) consult your doctor (Da-da-DAAAH!)
“Eat something”=Boston Market
I was always really annoyed by those adds for the Oxygen network. A bunch of newborn girls in a maternity ward tossing their pink hats off… I mean, I have nothing against starting up a Women’s TV Network… but why’d they have to do it so BADLY?!?
Then there was the great mystery back when the Mach 3 razors were introduced… anyone else remember those? That they showed adds for 6 months or something, saying only “Man has achieved Mach 3!”, and they didn’t reveal what the product was?!? THAT was annoying!!
And, finally, every single Pepsi One add pisses me off to no end. Why? 'Cuz Pepsico cancelled the World’s Greatest Soda, Josta, to produce Pepsi One. Those assholes!! Grr! ::shakes fist::
And, yeah, those Taco Bell adds are really annoying. However, rather than use them as an excuse not to eat there, I just don’t buy the food that they advertise… after all, I just can’t get enough of their chicken quesadillas. But now that Del Taco has that chicken taco, that all may change…
By the way… am I the only one who hear’s Toyota’s “Like a rock” slogan and thinks of viagra?
And don’t even get me started on those The Truth ads!!!
You know the ones in which you are forced to examine the nose hairs of some 17 year old responding to a post on a message board?
If they thought that old tobacco ads were too preachy, then how the hell do they expect to make headway by virtually calling people morons for holding a defensable belief that actually, GOD FORBID, potentially has some intelligent aspect to it.
Yeah, those new Truth ads aren’t nearly as funny as the original ones. You remember them… they all involved somebody randomly exploding! Woo-hoo! “Grab a 'Splode… BOOM!!!”
The best one was the rental car ad… the guy turns the ignition and BOOM!.. and then the clerk just grins.
Boom! Boom!! BOOOOOOOM!!!
It’s 3:34 AM… methinks I should sleep…
If you find commercials annoying then just stop watching television. I had my cable removed last month and I still haven’t missed it. TV both sucks and blows. It is an enormous waste of time.
Chevy Trucks have been, and have always been “Like a Rock.” (I know that slogan has been in use for many years now) It’s not Toyota. It’s Chevrolet.
Personally, I couldn’t take all the 10-10-whatever ads. They really pissed me off. But on the other hand, I love the m&m commercials…no blue a chi!
It just so happens that the little girl from the pepsi ads lives around the corner from me…she doesn’t like the commercials just as much as you don’t.They annoy the hell out of her.
Ah. The atmosphere. Ah. Love it! Probably my fave.
Pepsi commercials - What the fuck was KISS thinking? Are they that hard up for money?
Old Navy - that annoying bug-eye bitch has got to go. She makes me seriously rethink my stance on gun control.
capacitor - I hear you on the bad music thing. That really bothers me. But on a related note (pun intended) has anyone seen/heard that goddam Kid’s Songs commercial? It’s 2-3 fucking minutes of kids singing insipid little ditties like Itsy Bitsy Spider and I’m a Little Teapot. All of the kids are out of tune, and the accompanyment is a horrble sounding toy keyboard and drum machine. And the “mom” seems like the most wholesome, frigid, poor-excuse-for-a-soccer-mom that I’ve ever seen. Someone please hand me an AK-47.
You’re correct. My mistake. But you know what I meant.
Uh… the flaw in that logic is that I love a lot of TV SHOWS. The Simpsons are hilarious, and Conan O’Brian is genius work, just to name a few. These commercials named here are minor annoyances that we can live without, and leave us scratching our heads and thinking, “What the hell were they thinking?!?”
So, Mr. Rex, take your “too-good-for-TV, better-than-thou” attitude and go on a munging spree. Fucker. (Hey, it’s the Pit… gotta play the part, right?)