The two dorks with a cell phone that plays music, and it’s playing “Rock the Casbah” by The Clash.
But get this … the LCD screen on the phone tells you the name of the song and the artist performing it.
Yet these two nimrods wander around saying “What’s that guy singing? ‘Watch the cat box?’” or some such crap.
What brain-dead ad rep though up that shite?
The car commercial with that guy living out of his trunk. Is it Nissan? I hate that guy, though I couldn’t pinpoint why exactly. He seems like such a tool.
From Canada (though there is likely a US equivalent):
*Old geezer answers phone, and says 2 nanoseconds later: * “It’s Patrick! He bought life insurance!”
And the evil reverse-mortgage ads aimed at seniors (which basically gives the house to the mortgage company): a suited dweeb (Gordon Pape) with all the presence of a wet teabag intones the shill–while never blinking once through the whole commercial. Creepy. (He’s since been replaced with a much more avuncular type, and a catchy song. Still trying to get grandma to sell the birthright, though.)
And their sneaky little corporate logo–designed to look very much like it’s a Department of the Canadian government. Sneaky shits.
I tend to not notice commercials. I get calls from people doing surveys on ads and they’ll ask me if I’ve seen some ad or other - response is usually ‘no’. Then I’ll notice that very ad on the TV and realize it probably has been aired often and that I’ve heard snippets. I zone out while they’re on even if I’m not doing something else while watching a show. Most of the time I can’t tell you what’s being sold even if I happen to notice an ad. I am a marketer’s nightmare LOL. That said, I have seen the little Geico gekko and I just lurves him. Then again, I’m a big gekko fan even though I’m aware most gekkos don’t speak with English accents. Still wouldn’t buy the insurance.
However it’s impossible to ignore those stupid ads (usually associated with truck-hauling-drag-bigwheels or whatever) where the announcer affects a REALLY DEEP VOICE in an apparent attempt to render ultra-masculinity. I want to throw the entire television out the window when they do that.
I wish you had a mute button.
Another one that has me shaking my head is for Ford (?) – young woman pulls up to the drive-through window at her dry cleaner and notices a hunky guy in the car behind her.
She tells the attendant she wants to pay for a couple of his shirts, and asks the attendant to give him her business card.
The guy in the car behind her is a total stranger. He could be married. He could be Her Town’s serial killer. So yeah, give him your name, and your work address and phone number.
Heh…I had this conversation with supervenusfreak last night after we saw that one. I think it went, "What she doesn’t know is that he’s married. He’ll take the card, laugh, stick it in his pocket absentmindedly with no intentions to actually call her. Then his wife will find it while doing the laundry. They’ll have a very messy fight about “the other woman”. She’ll divorce him. His life, her life and their children’s lives are now shattered by the two-bit hussy in the Ford.
Not good advertising…
I thought that too at first but then I thought of a few women friends I have and it probably works like this:
She’s been seeing him around for awhile. They both use the same laundry and she’s seen him turning into the parking lot of the building across from where she works. She activated the girlfriend phone tree and found someone who knows someone who works where he works. Reliable gossip is he’s single, nice, and as far as anyone can tell, not gay.
Then she makes her move. 
Can someone explain the commercial (I don’t even remember what it’s for) where the young guy shows up at the airport asking if Mr. Whatever’s flight has landed yet. The agent informs him that the flight was delayed, so the guy gets in his car, quickly drives to a different airport, and pulls out a handwritten “Mr. Whatever” sign. I must be missing something because I don’t understand how the sequence of events makes any sense. That commercial annoys me to no end.
“Stop me before I pull out my Big Mouth Billy Bass again!”
Autumn Almanac, it’s another Ford “Bold” ad. The guy looks at the monitor and sees the name of the airport and the flight number, so he zips over there and picks up the man he was supposed to see for the job interview.
It only works if he has time to get to the airport. And if the guy hadn’t already arranged a pickup. And if the guy doesn’t mind getting in a car with a stranger. Etc. etc. 
lowbrass, that type of comment is NOT permitted in this forum. In this forum, we have polite and reasonably well-mannered discussion. It is possible to disagree with people without insulting them.
You’re a guest, so you’re entitled to some leniency… please, review the Forum Rules to get a better feeling for the way we interact here.
This is inappropriate for Cafe Society, lowbrass. It’s only acceptable to attack another poster in the Pit; Cafe Society is meant for you to talk about the art or artist and not the poster. You may want to take a gander at this forum’s rules:
Please do not do this again.
Sigh.
What is this, the second time this week that Dex has beaten me to the punch? You wouldn’t think that a guy who starred in a 1940s movie would be so quick sixty-some years later…
He doesn’t initially show up at the airport. He goes to Mr. Whatever’s office for a job interview, where the receptionist tells him that Mr. Whatever’s flight has been delayed.
However, it still doesn’t make much sense to me, and I couldn’t for the life of me tell you what product is being advertised.
It’s for a car of some kind.
I understand this ad…it’s not really that complicated. The guy shows up at Mr. Davis’s office for a job interview. The secretary tells him Mr. Davis’s flight is delayed and they’ll have to reschedule the interview. The guy runs off to his HOT RED NEW CAR to pick up Mr. Davis at the airport, so he can suck up and impress with his go-gettyness and hopefully get the job he’s there to interview for at the beginning of the ad.
Jebus, is THAT what that commercial’s about?? I always thought he was thinking “Woohoo, no interview today, I can PLAY!” :rolleyes:
I got a serious hating going on for those stinking TomTom commercials. You know, the ones where the driver says “SueSue (or ScottScott, or whatever), we need an alternate route. SueSue, do I turn left here?” I’d jump out at the first light and run away from that stupid looney. Jeezopete. I HATE those commercials. Hatehatehatehate.
I just learned today that ranch dressing is a hallucinatory drug. A guy is sitting in his barely lit, crappy apartment with unpack boxes for furniture. But wait! He eats a bite of salad with ranch dressing, and suddenly he is having a picnic in a beautiful park with his non-existent wife and kids! The tag line is something like, “This is what life should be like.”
So losers should eat ranch. Or, ranch is the Holodeck. The Mirror of Erised. This commercial makes me feel sad and disgusted, and disinclined to eat ranch dressing, which is a pity. Because I really like it.
Ahh, Hallmark. I make a point of setting off every one of those things whenever I walk by one of their stores. On one occasion, there were some women contemplating buying one of the things. One woman bragged about how she kept no fewer than 7 at her workplace during Christmas. :eek:
What possible program is there on American TV that you can’t miss a SECOND of?