Actually, this makes me and my wife laugh really hard, just because it’s so aggressively idiotic. Naturally, that’s the point; advertising succeeds these days if they can just get you to remember the fucking thing amid the onslaught of marketing. In that respect, that stupid little gumball would be judged a success, except that, like you, I can’t remember what the fucking product is either. Just the mascot.
In any event, my wife and I like to surprise each other by suddenly spouting out “I’m an angry gumball” at random moments. We crack right the hell up.
Yeah, WTF is that all about? Can anybody explain it?
To clarify:
HE (admiring his own animal magnetism): “I think she likes me.”
SHE (adoring & agreeing): “Of course she does!”
HE (turning and snarling, sarcastic): “You wish!”
The one that drives me nuts is the local ad for the cheap-booze-and-cigarette store Dirt Cheap. They feature a giant dancing chicken in a bathing suit saying “Cheap! Cheap!” in a shrill voice. Also, at one point, the voiceover says “The more she drinks, the better you look!” Ew. Just…ew.
Less repellent but just plain annoying: any commercials with alarm clocks in them. I fear and loathe alarm clocks.
Ergh. The JC Penney’s commercials. “Where’s your mother? I’m a stupid ass who doesn’t understand how to feed a baby!”
Any car commercial, really. Bothersome. Do car commercials on TV actually influence anyone? Ever?
Prescription drug ads bother me a lot, too. It’s like…'kay, let’s let the folks with MDs decide what the best meds for me are, right?
But the ones that get me really pissed off are the anti-drug ones. Pot impairs your judgement, so you’re gonna go and run over a kid who is inexplicably riding her bike through a drive-through.
Cervaise, the product is Wrigley’s Extra chewing gum.
Even though you might not remember the product, I think this one works for the type of product it’s selling. Who wants a stale old gumball when you can have a nice, soft piece of chewing gum? I can see why the gumball’s so upset.
However, the Verizon commercial with the chimpanzee with the banana that pokes fun at Verizon’s own commercials is hysterical. I love it! (And I HATE monkeys of any kind.)
But the thing is, we all KNOW that the “Can you hear me now?” guy is selling VERIZON. Can we connect any commercials for any other cell phone service with the product they’re peddling. I don’t even know what Catherine Zeta-Jones is selling!
One of the most inadvertantly funny ads here are the ones run by an ambulance chaser lawyer. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a commercial for a new Wayans brothers movie. The guy looked like one of them, and he sounded like them when they were doing their “Mo’ Money” routine. I was shocked to find out that it was a real ad! A friend of mine got sued by the guy, and evidently, “Homey the Lawyer” (as he’s called by everyone who’s seen his ads) can’t afford a spellchecker, because the legal documents were filled with lots of misspellings of common words. Yeah, my friend won.
Like those 3 burly guys who sell plywood or cabinets or some such thing and they line up, hunch over, swing their arms like apes and make guttural caveman noises. Now why is this supposed to make me want to go anywhere near them, let alone buy a product from them.
But the commercial that drove me the craziest was the specific Herbal Essence ad (though they are all annoying) with Jane something or other who used to be in Ally McBeal.
<comic book guy>Worst fake orgasm ever.</comic book guy>
I’m Tony Little! I sell some sort of exercise product! I’ll be on this channel for the next 30 minutes! I’m a 5’ 6" barrel chested freak with a girly hair pony tail! BUY MY PRODUCT! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
“The last refuge of the persecuted smoker.” “Cheap! Cheap! Fun! Fun!” “The more she drinks, the better you look.” Great messages for kids who watch Cardinals games (these commercials play at least once every commercial break during games).
there are a few commercials that make me want to stick my finger into my eye socket until it hits brain, then whirl it around a bit…
the worst ones are of course those completly idiotic PSA’s for smoking and drugs. “Marijuana, its more dangerous than we all thought”. So what the hell was it before this commercial? and was there some sort of astounding breakthrough recently that would prompt them to update us on there retarded opinons? (and did anyone else think the “pregnant” teenager in that commercial was hot?)
or the stupid smoking commercials that always start with a red curtain that will be drawn back… espicially the one with the bum… that one makes me want to hunt down the producers and the writers of it like a pack of dogs…
The anti-drug commercials are so random. It’s like…three guys are sitting on a couch smoking weed. An anvil crashes through the ceiling, taking one of them out ACME style…
I don’t remember the specific product, but there’s three women standing around chatting and the voice over says something along the lines of: “Some things are easier when you share them with friends. Even painful feminine itch.”
WTF?!
NOOO! Don’t share the painful feminine itch! I’m a guy and yet I feel confident that’s something best left unshared.
There is one that makes me want to put my foot through the tube every time I see it. I think it is for some form of headache relief and the guy is sitting there staring SO INCREDIBLY moist-eyed and sappy looking into the camera that I just want to kick his puny peice of shit ass!
BOOHOO I don’t have any water to take my pillsy-willsies wif…<sniffle sniffle>
GAH! I sure hate that guy…
Oh, oh, oh…there’s this great one on 'round here for some local hardware/building supply store.
It opens with a couple approaching some sort of in-store display that is mocked up to look like an actual house.
SHE: “Oooo, what’s this?”
Cut to a view of a doorway with fog (like from a fog machine) billowing out. Then this 60 something guy walks out in an ill-fitting (read: too tight) shirt and ‘stars and stripes’ pants.
“Hi. Welcome to suchandsuch building supply’s new showroom. Where you can see, feel, and even touch all of our products and blah, blah, blah…”
So, not only I can see them, but better yet I can feel and touch…wow!
So the ad goes on in similar fashion until the best part:
Right at the end this old dude tears off his too-tight shirt Hulk Hogan style while stating “suchandsuch building supply hasn’t changed, we just got better”.
Granted, the guy’s in good shape…very muscular and all…but what the fuck does that have to do with building supplies?
There’s a radio talk show host with a theory about car commercials…the louder they shout, the cheaper the car.
Think about it. When was the last time you saw a screaming car commercial for a Jaguar?
Wasn’t there some DJ who got fired for going to a Toyota dealership and screaming at the salesperson while trying to buy a car, trying to make the point that they were doing the same to their potential customers?