Since this Axe commercial uses a Daniel Johnston song that makes me cry, I get to weep 3-4 times an hour now. I’d change the channel, but I don’t think any of us will hear too much Daniel Johnston before we die. I apparently haven’t. Thanks for using a great song, jackasses.
Yep, I couldn’t stop myself from listening to it again when looking up the link.
Seriously, your biggest issue with that commercial is the music?
One of mine is this one:
“Uuuhhhh, Bonjour.”
Yep. Axe commercials are stupid. I’ve learned to live with that. Stupid commercials making me cry? Yeah, that bugs me.
I like this here one (stumbled across it on the Information Superhighway):
Commercial
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I wanted to mention the commercial with the most god awful, homicide inducing, stabby making song I’ve ever had the displeasure to hear, but couldn’t remember what it was for, mostly because when it comes on I make a beeline for the mute button. Lo and behold, this thread provided me with the unholy answer. Thank heaven for this thread, so I’m not forced to defecate copiously in that one.
On a similar but unrelated note, someone started a thread about the movie Rashomon, which to me is undoubtedly the most overrated piece of cinematic dreck that I’ve seen (not the worst movie ever made, just the most overrated).
It’s like I’m on a contrary, psychic wave with my fellow dopers!
That darn Vonage commercial! Every time I talk to my dog now, I call him “Puppy” in that same creepy tone of voice.
The Ricky Gervais commercial that starts out with someone, for some reason, throwing a hand-grenade at him. It’s such a busy, big budget commercial that they apparently have to play it fifty times a day in order to get their money’s worth out of it. And for some reason, I detest the zombie girl who appears about half way through it.
Progressive and Flo and getting a little old, but I still snicker at “Flobot is broken!”.
The McDonald’s commercial that is currently driving me crazy is the one where the whiney-ass guy in a hotel calls down to the concierge and wants him to go fetch breakfast for him at the McDonald’s across the street. Uh, dude, the concierge is not your personal gofer. Get off your lazy ass and walk across the street for your own damn breakfast. (Which is what I would tell the guy if I was the concierge!)
Usually I bitch about commercials, but there is one I absolutely love right now for Ruffles Potato Chips. You have to watch it: fairly dowdy GF tags along with BF’s poker game. She has a Ruffles chip… then she has headphones and sunglasses, and so on. I love the headphones. She’s also cute, but it’s not selling sex… just coolness magically coming from Ruffles. And I am adding “ba-ZING!” to my vocabulary.
This other one… I think I hate it in the short version, but I’m intrigued by the long version. It’s for Heineken, “The Switch.” Dudes go into a dive bar, and magically, by pulling a giant gear shifter, it turns into the most happening spot in town. Replete with a Amy Winehouse look- and sound-alike. The long version has some funny bits, like the piano player hanging on for dear life. The short version, IMO, is badly edited, and the barkeep comes across as spasmodic and creepy. The Winehouse clone is also a little WTF.
I think she is an actual professional poker player.
I’m actually on the opposite end of this and I don’t like the commercial because it makes no real sense, eating ruffles chips and the dip makes you cool? I guess?
There has been this loathsome commercial running, where I live, all summer. I despise it.
I believe it’s for allergy medicine of some sort or other. There is a woman on a floating chair in her pool, in a large summery back yard. Then the announcer says something along the lines of, ‘Don’t let your allergies steal your summer…’, and BLING, in a flash, the same yard, covered in several feet of snow, her, freezing on her chair, in the middle of her frozen over pool! They have a second similar ad, with the same drastic climax, that also seems to run endlessly.
All summer they’ve been running them! I love the summer and do not, repeat DO NOT, need to be reminded of the brutal winter, that may lay ahead. I am busy basking in the sunshine and heat, sucking in all the heady scents and lush greens. Leave me the hell alone!
Another company runs one, this time of the year, that I quite enjoy, I’m not even sure now, what they sell, to be honest. It’s a woman happily walking down a sun dappled street, in summery clothes, under green trees. All of a sudden, right before her, a golden leaf slowly falls gently to the sidewalk. At which point she let’s out a most unholy scream! Yeah, I kind of enjoy that one, when I see it.
Now there’s a new Geico commercial with Eddie Money. How happy are Geico customers? Happier than Eddie Money owning a travel agency. And he’s singing “Two Tickets to Paradise.”
Have you seen Eddie Money lately? :eek::eek::eek: He looks like Rosemary Clooney in a leather muumuu. The whole thing gives off the desperate reek of they’re using Take 117 but they’re going to have to wrap because there’s just nothing else they can do. His voice is gone and he just . . . he’s a zombie.
That one. So the premise is that the first thing women notice about men is their hair, like the first thing men notice about women is their cleavage. Thus one person is all hair, the other all cleavage. Great. So, why did you pick such a godaweful haircut for your “use axe to make a good impression”? Maybe you should pick someone who actually brushes his hair, or something? Not a shaggy dirty old mop.
The one with “happier than Gallagher at a farmer’s market”, with Gallagher running around with his giant mallet, smashing watermelons at a roadside fruitstand. Hey Gallagher, you gonna pay for that watermelon you’re smashing all over the place?
And I’m not sure why a bodybuilder would like to direct traffic. Maybe because it gives him high visibility, and an excuse for all the posing?
Does Aaron Rodgers live in hell?
Check out this video on YouTube:
That’s just one of three ads that I’ve seen that are overly red. And it’s not just his man cave. One of them is an all red locker room.
God, I hate that one too. Hello, your reefer is full to the brim, go ahead, find that thing you want in the back, go ahead, pull out every damn thing and stack it somewhere while the thing heats up.
Besides, a refridgerator runs better when there’s some space. Freezer run better full.
But that’s what I love about it. It’s so… random. Ruffles has the ability to de-nerdify.
Also, her contented sigh. Them’s some good chips!
On a personal note…that dip is yummy as hell