[QUOTE=LilGypsyGirl]
Heh. Noooooooooooo thank you. There’s something about that guy that bothers me. Maybe it’s cause he’s a lawyer…I dunno.
So like, did the MDJD Guy do that on purpose - like get his MD and then run off to Law School for get his JD? Cause that kinda seems like overkill to me…What’s his story, anyway?
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He went to med school at Brown, graduated, and went straight to UF’s Levin law school. I’m guessing he decided that practicing medicine wouldn’t give him enough time to work on his hair.
Not to worry, though, because there are more than enough people in the state faking injuries to keep all the ambulance-chasers busy.
Extra credit: The Morgan and Morgan guy has been arrested three times for DUI. His license is suspended pretty much indefinitely.
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Extra credit: The Morgan and Morgan guy has been arrested three times for DUI. His license is suspended pretty much indefinitely.
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Ahhhh, that explains his perpetual morose yet sanguine look
[QUOTE=Max the Immortal]
Oh, and your food looks like it tastes awful.
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If you like the taste of vaguely pulverized cardboard with delightful hints of salt it’s fabulous.
Even the chocolate tastes ‘off’.
Luckily, I never actually bought into the program. A friend was quitting and gave me some of her leftovers that she no longer wanted.
The commercial that oogies me out for no real reason is the Dairy Queen one with the floating mouth and at one point he has a devil mouth on one shoulder and an angel mouth on the other telling him to “do it” (buy cheeseburgers, I think). I flip channels when it comes on.
[QUOTE=Wile E]
The one that really gets on my nerves right now is the Pizza Roll one where the mom takes a plate of pizza rolls out of the microwave and sets it on the counter and a hand punches through the wall and grabs the rolls and a voice yells “thanks, mom!”. And the mom, instead of screaming her lungs out at the brat and making him clean up the mess and patch the wall, just laughs and says “ok”.
I have to tell myself that she knows her child is deranged and incredibly strong and that’s just a nervous hopeless laugh because otherwise she would cry as she fears he will one day kill her while she sleeps.
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Word. For me, this is an example of how the SDMB has infiltrated my life. I saw that commercial and heard the mother’s weak “ha, ha, okay” response to the destruction of her kitchen and thought, “Obviously her child will wish her into a corn field if she objects.” I only know about the “wished into a cornfield” story/meme because of hanging out here. Thanks, Straight Dope Message Board!
[QUOTE=AskNott]
There’s not a faint glimmer of humor in Coke Zero trying to sue Coke.
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I like those commercials.
That’s the only kind of hidden camera routine that I like. I don’t want to watch people’s buttons getting pushed, or when they’re made to look stupid, or when someone close to them does something humiliating. Those are just icky.
But having to explain to someone that they can’t sue their own company and having to respond to ridiculous arguments is funny.
Ok, the Cheetos one made me laugh. I couldn’t help it. It didn’t make me sick. I don’t want to eat them, because I’m not a big Cheetos fan to begin with, but it did make me want to shove them up someone’s nose that’s annoying me. Hehe!!
So I’ve mentioned before that I have some really gnarly insomnia for the last couple of years, so I get a lot of late night tv in. It’s really the only time I watch tv anymore. There’s two commercials playing constantly right now that wreak havoc on my homicidal impulses. The latest one is a Kotex commercial that is done in a very graphic and very matter of fact tone about ultra thin pads with wings. It ends with a shot of a mother and daughter talking over unloading the days grocery sacks. There’s a box of Kotex right next to the celery! How wholesome! But the tone of the whole thing just pisses me off.
The other is a Long John Silver’s commercial that shows three people sitting outside on a beautiful day lamenting that they’re having hamburgers for lunch again. Suddenly, an enormous wave of water crashes the whole scene and they’re happily munching away on LJS’s food. Dripping wet as though that’s perfectly potty with them as long as they have something different for lunch. The repetitiveness with which they air this shit is one thing that drives me nuts, but the thing that I find unforgiveable about it is that because I’m watching tv late at night, I don’t want really loud sounds disturbing the 3AM peace and quiet of my room. The sound of the water crashing is way out of proportion to the rest of the tv sounds, so I have to be ready on the remote when that sonofabitch comes on. I HATE that sound. Whomever in advertising thought it was a good idea to use amplified sounds on commercials need to be raped with coke addled eight dicked walruses with a mean streak.
There is a simply awful commercial, actually two now, that I have seen this week. They are for a hotel chain, maybe Holiday Inn Express, and the concept is built around their new “Breakfast Bar”. In each there are people standing around, eating, and the guys hit on the women. Get it? It’s a Breakfast BAR.
In the first one, the dudes debate what to send over to the cute chick, and they send her a plate of bacon.
In the second one, a weird guys asks 2-3 women “Do you come here often?” Apparently, since it’s a bar, you see, he doesn’t realize that these are the women he works with. Including his boss.
I want to smack the person who greenlighted this upside the head with a stale bagel.
[QUOTE=Jodi]
Word. For me, this is an example of how the SDMB has infiltrated my life. I saw that commercial and heard the mother’s weak “ha, ha, okay” response to the destruction of her kitchen and thought, “Obviously her child will wish her into a corn field if she objects.” I only know about the “wished into a cornfield” story/meme because of hanging out here. Thanks, Straight Dope Message Board!
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Then, my friend, do yourself a favor and really watch it. It’s my favorite TZ episode ever.
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth]
There is a simply awful commercial, actually two now, that I have seen this week. They are for a hotel chain, maybe Holiday Inn Express, and the concept is built around their new “Breakfast Bar”. In each there are people standing around, eating, and the guys hit on the women. Get it? It’s a Breakfast BAR.
In the first one, the dudes debate what to send over to the cute chick, and they send her a plate of bacon.
In the second one, a weird guys asks 2-3 women “Do you come here often?” Apparently, since it’s a bar, you see, he doesn’t realize that these are the women he works with. Including his boss.
I want to smack the person who greenlighted this upside the head with a stale bagel.
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Those are pretty stupid, but the one where the group won’t let one of their number eat because he’s the “designated driver” is even stupider, by an order of magnitude. He starts scraping his eggs onto their plates, apologizing for forgetting.
[QUOTE=Li’l Pluck]
I also love that Visa commercial with the dude in the t-shirt with the (I assume) beer and the valley girl voice-over. “It lifts and separates!” Very nicely done, then they kinda went downhill from there. Well, except for the one with the Black woman. Hers was good, too, but the t-shirt guy cracked me up.
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Is that from the same series as the gal going on about her “ahhnkul brayce-lets” [ankle bracelets], and that she’s “gonna be the purtiest girl in the whole trailer park”? I loved that set of commercials.
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]
Then there’s the CoffeeMate(?) ad with the faux jump swing track, yelling “Irish? CREAM! Coconut? CREAM! Chocolate? Vanilla? CREAM!”
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I know I should be ashamed of myself and not admit this but I love these commercials!
Geico should just stop now. Their caveman commercials were near-genius and the celebrity “interpretors” (especially Little Richard, w/ the cross-over “mash-up” with Bush).
What they should have done was done a little “palate-cleansing” in the meantime by reining it it a little bit, then trying for the humor once more. They didn’t. Their current rash of commercials are so totally uncreative, unfunny and so non-substantive, I can’t even describe what they are.
[QUOTE=Jeep’s Phoenix]
Is that from the same series as the gal going on about her “ahhnkul brayce-lets” [ankle bracelets], and that she’s “gonna be the purtiest girl in the whole trailer park”? I loved that set of commercials.
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“…my GIRL robot…”
“…oooh, Mamacita!”
Yep, those were good (and it was for Citibank credit cards)
The Comcast ad with the mother trying to convince the school to let her kid back in. She ignores the destructive brat kid as he destroys things in the house and she continues to lie about him while somehow asserting that her new Comcast voice service has anything to do with anything. Then the message tag, which has nothing to do with any of that.
eharmony: OK, I guess that they use Natalie Cole’s “This Will Be an Everlasting Love” to hook women, since I imagine that it’s tougher to bring women than men. Still, isn’t there some kind of a middle-ground they could have agreed on for a song that could still attract women and not repel 23 year old guys (like me)? I hear a lot of good things about online dating sites, but going to a website because I’ve just heard “Everlasting Love” on TV seems way too gay for me.
Also, I don’t watch a lot of TV, but here in Philly there’s a radio commercial for a strip club with a girl moaning in the background, as the other girl talks. It makes me feel very uncomfortable and kind of sad.
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
Geico should just stop now. Their caveman commercials were near-genius and the celebrity “interpretors” (especially Little Richard, w/ the cross-over “mash-up” with Bush).
What they should have done was done a little “palate-cleansing” in the meantime by reining it it a little bit, then trying for the humor once more. They didn’t. Their current rash of commercials are so totally uncreative, unfunny and so non-substantive, I can’t even describe what they are.
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< James Lipton > I’ve heard they were also beneficent…and magnanimous. </ James Lipton >
