Geico. Caveman. Dancing. Hard? Just. Stop.
Now.
Just had to nominate another Bowflex commercial for this. The one where the guy says “I gave all my fat clothes to my fat friends” and laughs. Yeah and you sold your soul to the devil and now youre an asshole… got it makes me want to put my fist through the tv
Smiling Bob.
The guy with the gawdsawful grin because he supposedly got a boner from taking junk that he ordered from a company where everyone has been indicted for fraud.
I gotta pit the "Trident “Splash” gum ads…
They all follow the same formula… some geeky guy in a bikini bathingsuit, comes wandering into a scene (Bus stop, cowboy bar, opera, zoo, etc) with a smug, knowing grin on his face proceeds to chomp down on a piece of gum.
16 tons of water splash all over everyone in the area…
“Funny” reaction shots of various victems follows…
Now get this straight… That guy should have been boot stomped.
Inconsiderate, rude, asshole! If you had a product that actually did that, and used it as advertised, you would get boot stomped.
Bikini clad jerk looks around at all the soaked people with a happy grin on his face…
Boot stomped, I tell’s ya!
I don’t chew gum because it makes me look like a stupid person chewing. With out the gum, I can just look stupid.
Linky… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpx3WpsHlac&eurl=
Boot stomped, while drowning… even better!
FML
Might I add this? http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZH-s9qWStrE
Geoffrey Feiger ran for governer of Michigan back in 1998. His major claim to fame was that he’d been Jack Korvorkian (Dr. Death)'s attorney.
I will not vote for him for governer. I will not vote for him for anything. I just want him to fall back into the primordeal (sp?) ooze from which he & his lawyer kind came.
Love, Phil
Burger King seems determined to establish that all of its customers are assholes. First, they had the “Sorry, we no longer serve Whoppers” ads, where people went ballistic because they couldn’t get a Whopper. Then they had the ads where people were so anxious to get their burgers that they were ramming people in front of them at the takeout window or diving out of their car as they passed the entrance, leaving their car to run free in the parking lot.
Now, they’ve started running ads where people eating their latest product are challenged by some sanctimonious jerk who demands to know what they did to “deserve” it, and when their response is deemed inadequate they are called an “arrogant punk.” The one that really chaps my ass is the one with a lost hiker who hasn’t eaten for days; the person who found him and carried him on his back to safety has earned his burger, but the starving hiker has not. :rolleyes:
I hate any and all radio ads aimed at the “drive time audience” that have sirens, squealing tires, car horns, or sounds of breaking glass/metal hitting metal.
I’m no fan of the Christmas and Valentine’s Day ads for jewelers that imply that you don’t deserve to have your wife/girlfriend have sex with you ever again because you didn’t buy her the bauble of the moment.
I’ve always loved Family Guy’s response to those: a couple in silhouette, he hands her a jewelry box, she takes out a ring and puts it on, then sinks to her knees. The caption? “She’ll pretty much have to.”
It’s crude. It’s gross. It’s sexist. But it’s right on the money as the converse of every jeweler’s ad out there.
Not so much the “converse” of every jeweler’s ad as “logical conclusion”…
Well, since someone revived this thread I will add that those commercials for relearning how to do daily activities without cigarettes are actually disturbing and uncomfortable. Is that man actually taking a dump in the toilet tank with his pants up? Are we supposed to be amused by the woman who appears to be drunk attempting to get in her car and backing out of her driveway hitting things on the way in order to get into traffic? The people in these commercials appear to be drunk, stoned or retarded and it’s just plain disturbing to watch them attempt to perform these tasks.
Burger King commercials mystify me.
Jack-in-the-Box commercials feature a guy walking around with a silly, plastic, logo head. They’re generally funny and make me at least smile, so I know the premise can work. Burger King commercials feature a guy walking around with a silly, plastic, logo head, and they creep me out and make me think that I never, ever want to go to an establishment responsible for that whatever the hell it is on the screen.
I know I’m no longer their target audience, but it seems like a massive failure in execution.
The series of Bank of America ads that have the line “This is America” in them.
The first one was that you 'couldn’t see your money in 9 months. This was silly. You could always see your money in 9 months. You just took a hit if you did. Presumably, this BofA CD has a lower interest rate for a lower fixed time. So it’s the same difference.
Now it’s “we save everything” or “do we just let the wind blow or the sun shine?” Well, compared to a lot of other countries, no we don’t, and yes we do.
The other one that really frosts me is a Cadillac ad that has a close-up of a young beautiful woman who is driving along reciting the things she apparently considers necessities for the summer. “Sandals, sunglasses, the perfect shade of lip-gloss, and the ultimate fashion accessory: metal.” the camera pulls back to show her driving in a car and the overvoice identifies the car. It just sickens me. I haven’t seen that one recently, so I have hopes that they discovered that commercial wasn’t persuasive.
Search “Progressive” here & you’ll find there are lots of Dopers, myself included who find her kinda attractive- annoying perhaps, but attractive.
I don’t find her very attractive (she’s entirely not my type…) but I do think she’s a hoot.
“SURPRISE!..I’ll just wrap those up…”
There’s a radio ad playing in the SF bay area for a nearby valley with a bunch of wine, which claims that many people describe it as the most beautiful valley in California.
Ummm, it may be a very nice valley and all, but I am quite skeptical that anyone in their right mind would say that it was more beautiful than Yosemite Valley.
There’s one going around by a company called “ING”. The annoying part is this horrible music which sounds like what you would hear if you had a bunch of severely inhibited women (no offense intended against said group) all having synchronous orgasms: “unh unh unh unh unh unh unh” over and over. It’s like the music they will play in the Flander’s Center for Reneducation, right before they give you your lobotomy. And I still have no fucking idea what they are selling.
I hate the new Burger King commercial where the mother is attempting to coax her bratty little daughter into eating an apple, but the kid won’t do it.
Then the Burger King enters in all his plastic psychotic glory, and the little girl yells “Daddy!” :eek: and he gives her some Apple Fries. Which she eats. Because apples that are shaped like french fries are obviously so much more superior than apples that are shaped like, you know, apples.
And then we meet the Burger King, junior. That’s right. The sonuvabitch bred. :eek: :eek: And judging by the way he kicks dear old Dad in the shins and snatches his apple fries, he’s even more scary than his father. His mask is a lot more disturbing, that’s for sure.
Yeah, it’s creepy but it’s also kind of funny.
I try not to think about the breeding aspect, or how the woman passed that huge head of that boy child out her vagina, or the fact that the creepy large plastic head gene seems to be sex-linked and only inherited by the males.
There’s an ad for a personal fitness center around here that says something like, “Are you embarrassed to join a gym because you feel you’re too out of shape and don’t know what you’re doing? Welcome to 95% of the world!”, complete with pie chart. :dubious:
Cite? No, the pie chart will not do!
He’s not the only one who bred. Jack from Jack in the box has kids too - normal ones, at least. In fact, in one fairly funny ad he’s at the office late working on the name for a product He’s not happy with the name, and then he gets a call from his wife. He explains what his is doing, says “you’re wearing what?” and tears off home. The punchline is that the name he wasn’t happy with was the name for the product.
Surprisingly funny for this kind of thing.