coffee comercials. the best thing about waking up is not a steaming cup of fruitpit soup.
Local commercial in Houston - 20 years of Mattress Mac shouting “Saves you munnnnney!!”. Arghhh!
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I love the car safety one (I forget the brand of car) where they crash the car to the tune of The Beegees’ Stayin’ Alive. Excellent!
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I agree with the poster who complained about radio commercials with sirens and squealing brakes. They should not be allowed!
All infomercials…
The YAHOO! ad with the guy in the outback where the satellite is going to come down right on top of him… so he orders a truckload of THROW CUSHIONS and covers his trailer (and his dog) with them, just in the nick of time.
GRRRR
Why not save some money and just get a tow truck to MOVE YOUR TRAILER!!!
First, guilty pleasures: I kinda like Taco Bell’s “steak, Zeke”, mainly because I’m so glad to not be seeing the dog anymore. And I like Mazda’s “zoom zoom”.
What I hate: Carl’s Jr, people slobbering, smacking and dripping, as has been mentioned before.
And one that hasn’t been mentioned, incredibly–Nescafe Frothe. As if there aren’t enough stupid sitcoms on TV, they’ve made a serious of commercials that mimics a stupid sitcom. Complete with lafftrak, for chrissake.
There’s a commercial I’ve been seeing for the past week or so that’s been driving me insane almost from the start. Its (another!!!) car ad,but whats odd about it is that it’s done all in FRENCH!!! Starting with the voice over by some guy talking seductively (but whats he saying?!?) to the written line at the end, also done in french. Even just watching it seems pointless. One spot shows a dog looking at this car while the guy raises the convertable top then drives off;another spot shows a bunch of guys on bicycles who stop suddenly when they see the car, then they all fall over(o.k. I admit I kinda like it when they fall) but generally the whole thing seems dumb,I mean how do they expect a person to want to buy their car if no one knows whats going on in the ad???
Oh yeah, I also hate those Taco Bell spots where the guys are banging their elbows on the table to the tune of “We Will Rock You” by Queen, then biting very loudly on their tacos. Don’t they realize how irritating that is to the people around them?
Thanks for the nice words, FireUnderpantsBoobs!
Also,theendisnear said:
Amen to that! Especially the ones with the old hag in the enormous eyeglasses.
Two groups of people that I don’t take my fashion cues from: Teens, and 90 year olds.
Parsnip mentioned the Gap a few posts back…How about the Gap Christmas commercials, with all the offbeat retoolings of tired old Christmas carols, hmm?
About that car comercial in french, the announcer is talking about the car (only gettin 1 word out of 10, hs french is failing me…LOL) I am waiting to see if they do the spot in english on the station out of Quebec.
OK…anybody see the Maalox commercial where they show everybody racing around the hospital pharmacy, to show how FAST Maalox works? I’ve worked in a hospital pharmacy for 15 years, and yes, we do run around some, but we don’t keep our Maalox neatly displayed in a well-lit industrial refrigerator, for pete’s sake…I can just see the director now…“OK, empty out all those boring insulin vials and vaccines! We need the entire fridge–floor to ceiling–to display our great product!”
Or are we the ONLY people who saw that commercial and thought “…why are they keeping thirty cases of Maalox in the fridge?..”
Palandine and Legomancer got there first. I really, really hate the Hardee’s commercial where the pudgy guy is being inspired by their biscuits to keep on trying out for the track team.
But do you know there is a NEW version of it out? Just when you think the bozo is going to fall flat on his face again, going over the hurdle, this time he actually MAKES it!
Oh God, I hope this doesn’t mean we are in for a series of this dolt’s sports accomplishments.
Four words: “be legal with Eagle”
Sunny Kobe Cook. No, I did not buy a mattress from you nor will I. Please go away. Anyone that lives near a Sleep Country USA knows what I mean.
The kid in the Dell commercials. Has smart ass written all over him. Now he is going to get his own TV show. Glad I don’t watch any primetime TV.
For those who lived in the Seattle-Tacoma area in the early 70’s, you may remember Dick Balch. Had a Chevy dealership in Federal Way and he would smash the hoods on new cars with sledge hammers. I got to know him after he got out of the car business and he wasn’t anything like he was in the commercials. We would go salmon fishing at Westport and he always brought a bombshell babe with him. But it use to bug him when folks would tell him that they did not like his commercials.
Another old time car dealer that had terrible commercials was Ralph Williams. He was up here in Seattle for a few years then went away.
The comercial for gevalia coffee,
exec 1 offers exec 2 some coffee, exec 2 politly declines, then proceeds to leave the building, passing a coffe wagon, coffee house and boards a bus to go home for…you guessed it a cup of gevalia coffee.
Now this strikes me as 1. the dude is not smart enuff (or has the forethought) to bring in some of the stuff from home 2. he must not be needed at the office if he can take the day off to go home for a cup of joe.
That was the name of my thesis adviser when I was an undergrad. Weird… 
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Fran Tarkenton hawking usurious car loans to deadbeats.
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All ads for overpaid nitwit local newscasters.
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All ads for overpaid nitwit national newscasters.
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Those Verizon “Can you hear me now?” ads.
5)“Feminine hygiene” ads ANYTIME, especially those ones that say"Kotex fits. Period."
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Those “Grow the dick of the gods for only 3 easy payments of $19.95” herbal concoction ads.
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The companion “Grow tits the size of Texas with our new miracle cream” ads.
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Jeff Goldblum gushing over the new Toy-Autos; especially that crappy restyled Camry that, to me, looks like a bad copy of a Mercedes C-Class.
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Those smug Nissan ads.
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Bill Ford’s pallid imitation of Lee Iacocca. But for the good fortune of having been born a Ford, this guy would be sweeping out WalMart til his 80th birthday in order to pay off the loan he took out with Fran Tarkenton. He makes the average newscaster look intelligent.
There’s a local car dealership by the name of North Star Dodge, and they like to make commercials.
The owner, Tim McBee, always like to come on the air with a styrofoam cup and fumble his lines a lot. It’s almost like the thing was never rehearsed! One egregious example was when he was walking by cars, saying the prices…
“Dodge Intrepid, 19,500 . . . Caravan, 22,000 . . . I don’t know what that is, but it’s 16,000”
Apparently, the guy doesn’t know his inventory well enough to recognise the car he’s advertising.
Horrible.
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I just saw this one for the first time tonight - it was for some kind of car, and obviously it wasn’t that good or I would remember. A guy goes out to the car holding his baby, and notices a little water has beaded up on the car. He sits the baby on the car so the kid’s diaper will absorb the water. I dunno, I’m probably not qualified to comment on this since I’m not a parent, but since when are diapers absorbant on the OUTSIDE!!!
And one for a local politician, who states that the opponent voted for XYZ, but this guy thinks it’s unconstituational and will fight to pass legislation against XYZ. Excuse me, but if you think it’s unconstituation, you don’t need legislation to make it illegal. You would appeal to the courts to rule it unconstitutional. Idjit politician.
Yes, I’m feeling very anal-retentive lately.
I work for a hardware/lumberyard in the midwest, Menards. Anyone who has ever seen those commercials knows just how bad they are. Based in E.C. Wisconsin it seems as if they give some shmuck a handycam and tell him to make that weeks commercials. All I have to say is that they fail in comparison to any Home Depot, Lowes, or Ace Hardware commercial.
What commercials drive me to distraction? Any of the Collect Call commercials.
I mean, come on- just how often do you really need to make a collect phone call? I’ve made exactly three in my entire life!
And where do they get these washed-up-actor-and/or-has-been-sports-star? Do the writers of these commecials actually think that what they’re writing passes as humor? Particularly annoying is the teeny-tiny little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen- you know, the one that’s about 3 millimeters in height, a blur on anything other than a four-foot HDTV, and is only on for 1 picosecond- the one that says, “Out of state calls only” along with some other stuff that I’ve never been able to read. Just how often do you really need to make an out-of-state collect phone call, anyway?
I must admit, though… Eva Savealot is nice to look at. I’ll just turn down the sound when she’s on. 
Moving this to Cafe Society.
This thread is huge, and I’ve only skimmed it–so it’s quite possible someone else has said this one. But I swear, for the love of Peter, Paul, and Mary, I’ve going to snap one day and start smashing my radio against the wall if I hear:
YOU’RE KILLING ME LARRY!
…again.
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(This commercial is for a mattress company that may just be southern California–the one with “We’ll match anyone’s price or your mattress is [high-pitched, whiny, annoying as shit voice]FREEEEEEEEE!”[/high pitched, whiny, annoying as shit voice]