I like that one. It makes me laugh, too. I like the end when Glen gets off the elevator and the other guy gets on so they just switch to his name. Is it Jim? “Jim! Jim, Jim, Jim!” 
Yeah, that one’s pretty bad. Besides, you have to go to the vet’s anyway to get the prescription in the first place.
And we all how much (most) dogs just hate to go for car rides. Especially Golden Retreivers like the one in the ad. They just hate sitting there, hanging their head out the window, ya know? :rolleyes:
I like the one where this guy gets into the hottub with two women and one of them asks, “What do you do?” And he goes, “I sell paper products.”
Then she gets this interested look and says, “Oooo, thats soooo sexy!!!”
The he looks like he is getting a cramp and the announcer chimes in with, “Where will you be when your diarreah starts up?” :eek:
While any commercial for a prescription drug fits in here, the one with that little creature who props up the toenail makes me want to scrub my feet, my eyes and my brain.
“Digger the dermatophite”. Yeah, that’s the one I saw just before starting this thread.
Speaking of drug ads, there’s one that’s morbidly amusing. I think it’s for psoriasis. (What’s the difference between psoriasis and exema, anyway?) “Potentially serious side effects, possibly fatal may result.” “Well, he’s dead. But he sure has nice skin!”
[sub]My friend did a couple of take-offs on drug commercials in his film Night for Nixie. “Clearatin” (contains hydrochlorocabalanol 
)is brought to you by your friends at Monsan… erm, “Sanmento”. [/sub]
I’ll chime in for radio ads. There used to be a series of ads in the Raleigh/Durham area for Chris Leith Chevrolet and their No Hassle prices. Chris Leith sounded creepy, like a playground stalker.
“At Chris Leith Chevrolet, we won’t hassle ya. You pay the lowest…price…period. No Hassles, No Pressure. At Chris Leith Chevrolet, we understand.” I have to go to the bathroom. Want to come with me?
Then he got all full of himself, and started putting out really smarmy commercials, including one of him singing along with an acoustic guitar:
No Hassles and you know it clap your hands
thump thump
No Hassles and you know it clap your hands
thump thump
and he’d sing it really slooooooow like a dirge. There’d be a noticeable pregnant pause before the thump thumps.
Anyone from the L.A. area will certainly have suffered through this one: “We’ll beat anyone’s advertised price or your mattress is FREEEEE!!!” Oh, the horror.
And I wonder…how many free mattresses has Sit & Sleep delivered in its history? Think about it, someone comes in with an ad that’s $10 cheaper, and the salesperson says, “Oh my, I can’t knock ten bucks off this bed. So here, you might as well just take it.” Yeah, riiight. That doesn’t stop their obnoxious slogan, however. And their toll-free number is 1-800-FREEEEE. Ugh.
On the other hand, I liked Crazy Gideon’s commercials. Haven’t seen them in a long time, though.
It’s the look on the lead singer’s face. He just looks so genuinely pleased to see the guy. And that purple silk shirt over what is obviously now a beer gut, half tucked into those nasty yellow spandex pants. I always miss a few minutes of sports center because I’m laughing so hard.
The Starbucks ad with Survivor is my absolute favorite current commercial. “ROY! RoyroyROY! RoyroyROY!” I don’t want any part of the nasty drink they’re pimping with it, but the commercial is pure gold.
I’m in Houston, so I know all the ones **edwino ** was talking about. Ick.
One I hate is for Office Depot (I think), where the jingle goes something like,
“If you want it, if you need it,
Just ask for it, and we’ll get it.”
Thank you, annoying jingle, for explaining the concept of retail to me, for I have just arrived here from Jupiter and I need some office supplies.
AAAAUUUGGHH! I almost forgot about those! Thanks a lot, KGS!
My new abode, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, is now trying to corner the market on bad commercials. A small (yes, this is no means all of them) sampling:
Fuccillo Chevrolet: “It’s HUUUUUUUUUUU-JUH!”
Ognibene Ford: (car dealer jabbing furiously at the ground) “We’ll-SEE-YOU-RIGHT-HERE!”
West Herr Auto Group: “Need a Ford? West Herr Ford Chevy. West Herr Ford Chevy. West Herr Ford Chevy.” Repeat until blue in the face.
Hughesco Builders. “Call Hughesco at XXX-XXXX. Call Hughesco at XXX-XXXX. Call Hughesco at XXX-XXXX. Call Hughesco at XXX-XXXX. Call Hughesco at XXX-XXXX. Call Hughesco at XXX-XXXX.” They repeat the same freakin’ sound clip six times during the ad.
William Mattar, attorney. “Hurt in a car? Call William Mattar!”
When I lived in Burbank, every Christmas they ran the same commercial for Circuit City. It was just the standard voice-over low price junk but the film was of a Santa Claus shooting hoops at the ghetto playground. It made no sense, but at the end, he dunks it and swings from the rim and I almost wet my pants laughing.
It got funnier every time.
If I had not moved away I might have needed therapy.
I still chuckle when I think about it.
That sounds so much like Crossroads Ford in Cary, NC. The guy runs religious-themed commercials every Christmas and Easter; one year, I swear I heard him say “Praise the Lord, buy a Ford” in an Easter commercial.
Ugh. People always say they change the channel when certain commercials come on, and that one does it for me. I hate it. When he lifts up the toenail and climbs under, it just skeeves me out. Ick, ick, ick.
::: shudder:::
The other guy’s name is Roy.
Roy! Roy, Roy, Roy!
Words fail me…
I love the local cable system’s ads for local businesses… especially the ones where the small business owners host the commercials themselves.
God, I swear it’s straight outta Second City TV…
Egad, did they have it pegged!
Here in Arizona we have a guy who must be Cal Worthington’s long-lost brother–Tex Earnhardt. His basic shtick is riding on the back of an enormous steer and announcing, “This ain’t no bull!”
Ugh is right. I hate that guy, and I will NEVER buy a mattress from him. I once called the company and tried for nearly an hour to get someone to provide me a copy of the policy and procedure in place to back up this claim. They refusing to admit that there was no such policy. So I called the Attorney General’s office, hoping I could get them to come down on the guy’s okole. They said I had to petition in writing to have a false/misleading advertising complaint filed for investigation and action.
Nope. Way too much trouble for me. Sorry I brought it up. I’ll just keep on hating the commercials, while the resentment and contempt build up in my gut.
Why do all of the L.A. mattress (And did those feet/In ancient times/ Walk upon England’s mountains green… Sorry. It slipped out.) all have “camp” accents? (i.e., they all had syllibant esses.)
Anyone remember “Al the Bedspread King”? Old dude was whack. Kevin and Bean used to have him as a “guest commentator” on their morning show on KROQ. Although I never saw him there, Al was apparently also on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. (Al died in June 2001 at the age of 93.)
“I’m Earl Scheib, and I can paint any car for $99.95! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!”
Why the “RIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT”? I always wondered. That, and I remember the price going upward from $29.95, when I was a kid, to $109.95. By that time, I was amazed ol’ Earl was still around.
Who’s the mattress guy in the New York Capital District whose commercials feature him singing in a horrible, tuneless, kill-me-now manner? Especially at Christmas? His billboard on the highway (I think there’s one at the intersections of US Routes 9 and 20, and there used to be one on I-90 westbound) have a giant caricature of him in a stripey nightgown and nightcap. His voice is so awful.