The flaw in YOUR logic is that all broadcast television has commercials and they all suck, IMHO. The Simpsons has seen better days, and one of the main reasons I decided to pull my cable was because Andy Richter left Conan and it just wasn’t the same after that. What I’m saying is that you have to draw the line somewhere. Is there no point at which you would say, “you know what, TV is for idiots and losers who have nothing better to do with their time, this sucks, I’m going to go read a fucking book, tell the cable company to kiss my ass.”
What logic? Where was I trying to show any form of logical argument? I was saying that there are a bunch of commercials that annoy me. How can there be a flaw in a statement of my personal opinion?
Who on Earth ever said that reading and watching TV are incompatible? I often do both at the same time. If Saruman Rex doesn’t wish to watch TV, fine, but stick your condescending air of intellectual superiority up your Funk & Wagnalls. (old Laugh-In joke)
I do this, too. I will usually watch a show and read during the commercials. My husband thinks I’m nuts. 
You know what commercial I LOVE? I can’t even tell you the product, but it’s the one where this young guy is in a job interview with an older guy. The nameplate on the interviewer’s desk says “Dumass”, so the guy keeps saying “I know I’ll be able to contribute to this company, Mr. Dumb-ass. Thanks again for agreeing to meet with me, Mr. Dumb-ass.” hee hee
I often find the commercials more entertaining than the television show but there are some I could do without. Am Ithe only person who hasn’t seen this notorious Taco Bell Ad? I guess I don’t watch enough T.V.
That little Pepsi girl belongs on Celebrity Death Match.
That “d d d different” commercial for Dodge is a truly annoying piece of work.
Those “Whasup” guys are really pissing me off.
One of my favourites is for a local hardware store:
A man and a visibly pregnant woman are looking at paint colours and we presume this is for a nursery. They finally choose the perfect colours and the scene switches where we see the man and the woman at a sporting event, the woman has painted the team colours on her face and is going off like the world’s biggest superfan.
Our beer commercials are often the best done, our infamous IamCanadian ad actually was nominated at Cannes and did very well.
The Pepsi girl really has to go.
So your local hardware store ripped off Visa’s commercial? The colors she had on were orange, and navy blue, right? And they were at a Denver Bronco’s game?
Sorry if I seem like a jerk for correcting you. I just happen to love commercials…and sometimes I skip the show, and just watch the ads. (Yes, I know I need therapy)
But, yea, that Visa one you mentioned above is great.
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So your local hardware store ripped off Visa’s commercial? The colors she had on were orange, and navy blue, right? And they were at a Denver Bronco’s game?
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You want a rip-off commercial? There’s the funny one by Bud (I think) where the guy’s at the checkout counter at the grocery store and the bag-boy is cramming everything into the bag…The best one is where he takes the plant and turns it upside down and shoves it in…anyway, when he gets to the Budweiser he wraps it in bubble-wrap and writes
“Fragile” or “Handle with Care” or something. Really funny stuff.
Then, a couple months ago, I see a commercial for some other beer or coffee company or something. It’s almost IDENTICAL. The plant part and everything. It made me so mad. It almost makes me think they came up with it first and Bud stole the idea before they released it and by then it was too late or something, but it was such a blatant rip-off. And it wasn’t as funny, either!
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That show sucks now. Conan isn’t even funny! Why did you leave, Andy? Why??
Seriously, though. Does anyone know why Andy left? It’s been bugging me since the first time I saw an episode without him in it.
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It’s for A&W Rootbeer. “You think your thick headed? Try an A&W” or some damn thing like that.
It’s No blue Aqi
Did you know Conan wrote for The Simpsons before he got his own show?
It’s for Heiniken (SP?)
Ok, done nitpicking for now.
Andy left Conan 'cuz he wasn’t making a whole lot of money. Let’s face it… they’re on at 12:30 AM (2:00 AM in Houston, Texas)… they’re a good show, but their audience is gonna be small at that time.
I also heard Andy’s got a TV show deal going… anyone confirm/deny?
And am I the only one who was a fan of those Excitebike 64 commercials? One showed a guy fishing in a small row boat out in the middle of a lake for several seconds. Suddenly, a dirtbike splashes into the water… and a few seconds later the rider follows after it.
The weirdest part about the talking M&Ms is that the adorably dopey yellow M&M’s voice is performed by J K Simmons, the actor who portrays the violent, cruel, butt rapin’, murderin’, hatemonging Aryan Brotherhood prison leader Vern Schillinger on Oz. Easily the most evil character on TV.
I really like the new Taco Bell commercials. I find cheesy rap to be amusing, and the singing version is just silly. Besides, the ratdog gets minimul(sp) exposure in the new commercials, and that’s a Good Thing.
The dodge D-d-d-different commercial would have sucked back in the days of Max headroom. Nowadays, a commercial like that is just plain sad.
The Pepsi one girl really needs to go away. That’s all I ask. Just go away.
Anyone see the new Nike commerical with the soccer-playing secret agents breaking into the hi-rise (I’ve only seen it at the movies during previews)? One of the agents sees that the object they’re supposed to steal is a soccer ball and he says “It’s just a ball.” The leader replies “No it isn’t. It’s rounder.” followed by a moment of silence as the field agents stare at the leader in confusion. what can i say, I think it’s pretty funny.
Did anyone else here know that Conan actually went to Harvard?
P.S., I agree, Late Night should bump up to some other time slot, I really would not miss Leno.
SPOOFE Bo Diddly: Did they seriously discontinue Josta BECAUSE of Pepsi One? Either way…THOSE BASTARDS! I’LL KILL THEM ahem…
I also hate the Pepsi One commercials, but not because of the premise of the commercials. What pisses me off is the slogan: “Pepsi One Tastes More Like Regular Cola.” More like regular cola than WHAT? Horse shit? I’d probably agree with you there, but compared to, say, another diet cola, I’d say no.
Also, there’s another, even funnier, commercial for A&W Root Beet with the “thick-headed” campaign. I forget all that it had, but it included a guy looking in the mirror at lipstick on his cheek and saying “Wow, honey! This doesn’t look like YOUR shade of lipstick!” Then he’s watching TV saying “Hey, honey! Come look at this! It’s the video of my bachelor party! Oh man, what was I thinking there? Hahahahaha!” Followed by the “[THICK HEADED]” stamp. I love it!
Another ad campaign that really pisses me off are those beer commercials (forgot which brand) that just have the guy sitting there talking about things that have nothing to do with beer. Then something about beers needing to be original, so you should buy that beer for no particular reason. Those commercials are illogical and they piss me off for some reason.
Also, it’s “¡No blue aquí!”
And re: the Mach 3 commercial: There’s one that says “This fathers’ day, surprise him with a Mach 3,” and it shows a guy waking up and his son giving him a razor. Awww. I think this is one of the “so-bad-it’s-good” commercials. It’s bad because even though I’m not a father (and not even old enough to shave yet) the last thing I’d want is a razor. But it’s good because it reminds me of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer buys a gun:
Homer: Open your eyes, Marge. I’ve got a surprise for you!
{Marge opens here eyes to the image of Homer pointing a gun straight at her face.}
It would be so funny to parody that commercial with that same theme.
Son: HEY DAD! {slash slash slash slash slash}
And re: the Taco Bell commercial, I don’t really like the one with the rappers (1 table, 4 guys, 0 talent), but I do like the one with the little guy singing “encharito-rito” really high.
Ahhhhh! The atmosphere! AHHHH!!
Has anyone mentioned that Monster.com commercial were a pack of wild wolves was released to maul a marching band? It was so unexpected, I almost laughed myself sick.
I thought that was Outpost.com.
'Twas Outpost.com. They had the one with the wolves-eating-marching-band thing, then there was the shoot-the-gerbil-through-the-“O”-in-“Outpost”, or something like that, which I though was much funnier.
There seem to be a lot of bad commercials on TV now…
The absolute worst comercial on TV (at least in my neck of the woods) is that “Dempsters Hearty White Bread” commercial, with that little kid in it (“You just have to wear them down. They keep trying to feed you brown bread with those yucky fiber bits, but you keep refusing to eat anything but white bread…”). Unfortunately it’s on like twice per ad break.
Those Dodge commercials suck.
Everytime I see that Pepsi One commercial with the barge I have to say “Meningitis!” out loud (there was a minor meningitis outbreak here in Edmonton and it was pretty much the only thing in the news for a week and everyone got vaccinated, and I remember that every time I see that commercial).
The Evil Pepsi Demon Child must be exorcised from the airwaves immediately, never to return.
That Brisk Iced Tea commercial with Elvis, James Brown, Willie Nelson, and Coolio, all in claymation, is just diabolically horrible. What the fuck were they thinking when they made that garbage?
The enchirito commericals suck, too.
1-800-COLLECT services should be abolished based solely so that they wouldn’t run any horrible commercials anymore. I have never once seen a commercial for one of these services, whose very existence didn’t diminish the universe (how’s that for an insult?).
I hate all of those commercials. There are a number that I like. The IBM commercials with Avery Brooks are good. Those A&W commercials are good. The "Make 7 Up Yours" commercials are funny.
My favorite commercial at the moment is one of the Molson "I AM CANADIAN" commercials, that starts out: "Canadians are polite...". The part where they say: "Canadians are passive???", then it cuts to an old shot of Canadian hockey player AT THE OLYMPICS who has just been thrown into the penalty box, who gesture at someone as if to say, "As soon as I get out of here, you're goin' down!!!"... Makes me smile every time I see it.
Damn… I watch WAY too much TV…
What make the Pepsi One “tastes more like regular Pepsi” commercials even more obnoxious is the fact that it was kinda good with Diet Dr Pepper (which is a tolerable, if not good, product). It was just great to lean over to someone and say, completely outta nowhere, “you know what I heard about Diet Dr Pepper?”…“It tastes more like regular Dr Pepper”. You either creeped them out or got them to play along. Then Pepsi One came along and killed that joke.
And the Pepsi girl should just be lined up next to all the performers that agreed to appear with her and just shot.