GEICO seems to be on a mission from Satan to produce the most annoying commercials in history. In addition to the already mentioned “I used to have a career and now I’m making fun of my has been stature” commercials already mentioned there are those annoying ass Jed Clampett/Fred Flinstone commercials. The Clampett one makes no sense (he made billions by switching insurance on a truck worth $20? Yes, I know it’s a joke, but for a joke to work there has to be some credence) and both are wwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy overplayed just like the [live-action] Cavemen commercials were before.
And that damned “free credit report dot com” song played on a loop could make Kim Jung Il, Castro, and every other dictator fall on their knees and beg mercy after a matter of hours. I think it’s what’s going to be played on Dick Cheney’s IPOD in hell.
I’m reading this commercial totally differently than you are -
i saw it that she’s the football fan, he’s not so much. So she’s promising, “I’ll only watch on Sundays…” and then the prodding is him (silently) telling her “yeah, right. be honest.” which is why she adds in all of the other days that they show College & Pro football on TV.
It’s still a stupid commercial - but I think they’re going for an “I only drink on days that end in ‘y’” type of joke.
Actually, there not giving you the real reason Jed Clampett became rich. It’s because … HE INVENTED THE INTERNET!!! Yes, it’s true. Don’t let them fool you into believing it was developed by ARPA in 1967. Uncle Jed was using it in 1962. He held onto it for five years before selling it to the government.
Funny, I just found a microwave soup here (no connection to Campbell’s) that has a drawing of a woman on the lid shouting “Ero umai!”, which, as far as any of the native Japanese speakers I’ve asked can figure out (they’re baffled by it as well), means “erotically delicious.”
the face of a woman having a soupgasm
There’s a local one that’s, well… I don’t hate it, but it’s kind of disturbing. It’s an ad for Contac cold medicine. Two samurai with swords drawn are facing off on a wilderness road, obviously fighting to the death. One of them has the sniffles. The sky changes to show that hours have passed with the two of them waiting for the right moment to strike. Suddenly sniffles sneezes, causing him to close his eyes and break his stance. His opponent seizes the moment, brings his sword down with a mighty slash, and the commercial freezes just as sniffles is getting his neck sliced open.
Contac: use it or you’ll get your head chopped off.
I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned the annoying Welch’s grape juice (at least I think it’s Welch’s) commercial wherein a little girl hides under the covers and her dad comes in and she tells him there could be monsters in her closet.
And then she whispers, “But don’t worry Daddy, the antioxidants will protect me!”
And then the camera shows about fifteen glasses of grape juice on the floor in front of her closet.
I FUCKING HATE THAT LITTLE GIRL.
Her dad tries to snag a glass of it on his way out and she says, “Put that back, Daddy!”
I hate her. I fucking HATE HER. She makes me hate the word “antioxidants” now. She makes me hate small children everywhere. She makes me want to drown a kitten in grape juice.
OK, I’d never drown a kitten. But I’ll be damned if I drink any fucking grape juice any time this century.
New York State is running a PSA with the tagline “Keep your germs to yourself.” I agree with the message 100%, but the commercials just make me sick. In one, a guy is sneezing and cuoghing all over his co-workers in the cafeteria. In another, a guy who doesn’t wash his hands is going about his workday carrying a urinal. Yuck.
Tag Line: “Chase What Matters.” Now, I have not actually SEEN the commercial (playing in background while I was doing something), but I REALLY, REALLY hate what it implies–“No, you aren’t happy with your current life…*chase what matters * (material objects) so you’ll feel better.” I don’t know, chasing after anything sounds desperate and so shallow–unless it’s your dreams. Yes, I do know it’s a play on words for Chase Bank (that’s what the name is this year), but if I was in the planning meeting for that ad, I’d have said no way!
That one is bad, but the other one with the “30 minute abs” guy is much much worse. That dude is so incredibly creepy. Everything from his douchey haircut to his little “yeah” or whatever he says just squicks me out every time I see it.
I saw a really gross commercial for what I think was monster.com or something similar last night.
A woman is sitting at her desk, typing, when hear heart bursts out of her chest, lands on the desk, grows arms and legs, walks over to her boss, tells the boss that it quits (with a sign or something, I think), and then marches out the door while the tagline (“Follow your heart”) appears on screen.
This one was discussed in the Superbowl commercials thread. Maybe I’m weird (maybe? nevermind) but I think that last shot of the heart walking out is kind of cute. But yeah, the chest bursting is a little gross…
OK! “FUCK YOU and your smarmy contemporary jazz music, you bottom-feeding fuck! You’re only interest in life is separating people from their money, by taking advantage of them in their times of need (whether or not it’s their own doing).”
Oooohhhh, those commercials piss me off. I’m pretty sure none of us will ever have the “privilege” of “talking to Chuck.”
In general, I don’t mind these commercials, but there is one I find kind of unintentionally hilarious: little girl gives dad his briefcase as he leaves on a business trip; inside the briefcase he finds her stuffed monkey (awww, cute!! blech); dad poses the monkey around various places and takes pictures of him on his cell phone (yay AT&T!); culminates in a picture of the monkey in front of their house - Daddy’s home!! Hooray, it’s cuteness all around, whatever. But the funny part is the song they have playing in the background:
Sweet little thing,
Apple of my eye,
[blah blah blah other lyrics]
You’re the only reason I keep on coming home
You’re the only reason I keep on coming home
Every time I hear it, I think: that doesn’t bode well for his wife.
I can’t stand it when, in commercials, people open their mouths and music comes out. There’s a series of commercials out for some HDTV and this happens all the time.
OTOH, I listened to all 30 minutes of some Time-Life commercial 'cause I liked the music. It was for one of their compilations, something like “Hits from the 70’s that you’re embarrased to tell your dog that you deeply groove on 'em.” I think the “More More More” song was in this commercial as well.
I don’t think that’s the focus behind the commercial. I think the point they’re trying to put across is that they test their network THOROUGHLY. As in “we want to make absolutely sure your wife has coverage if she’s in labor and driving through a tunnel, so we’re going to act it out as realistically as we can in the most dramatic way possible.”
I thought of one that isn’t here but will be. The easy pregnancy test done by a parachuting lady to show how easy it is to use, and when she lands on the ground she knows if she’s pregnant or not it’s that fast. And if you thought spitting in the wind was bad, imagine the ad.
I put up with mouth sores and nausea from colchichine [the nausea is right away, it takes 3 days on colchichine to give me sores] because it knocks down a pseudogout flare from 2-3 weeks to 1 week …
I do the 3 tabs over 3 hours each of 3 days, then drop back to 1 tab a day for another 5 or 6 days - makes a serious difference from before. I have broken bones, and I have done labor, and I get migraines. I would have all 3 at once rather than a pseudogout flare…as I sit here looking at a foot with no edema down from 3 cm edema in 6 days…
What sucks is it is a dependable income … the bitch who whined about losing her job because her company relocated … well. If you take a lump sum, you get nailed with taxes right away. You spend it. It is gone.
I would rather have a little trickle of money coming in while i was job hunting. Creditors are really understanding IF you have a decreased income and actually ask them to work with you, and flip them a nominal amount like $5 a month … and then when you have a job again you set up a repayment schedule.
