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[ubi]

Anyone else here being bombarded with "Great Places! Great Spaces! South Dakota!"? Or are we just lucky in Texas?

Oddly enough, I saw one just hours after you asked! I am not certain, but I think they were playing this same ad back in the 80's.

[jw7579]

This was, of course, not the age they wanted to target.

Why would Chrysler want to target the Gen Xers? Aren't they mostly an old people's car?

saw an ad for a stand that hold your blow-dryer so you have 2 hands free and don't have to handle that heavy, heavy piece of machinery. Is this really necessary? Is this a major problem in America of which I have been unaware? Are that many people really hair-dryer challenged?

I'm not really hair-dryer challenged, but that is something that I would like to have. I think it'd be easier when you have both hands free to fix your hair.

I've never even seen a Sonic in real life.

I've seen a Sonic. But that was on The Simple Life, so that doesn't really count.

Has anyone seen the Jack in the Box commercial for their new caramel shake? Basically a staff meeting breaks out into a '60s go-go party with giant ice cream scoops, milk shakes and a couple of people are dancing in a vat of caramel. Very bizarre.

Never seen them, but I'd just like to say that the caramel shakes sound good. I can't have chocolate and vanilla is starting to bore me.

I can't get past that image of the guy in the recliner fanning away behind his chair. I keep seeing him fanning away a big stinky... "Oh no, not me dear"... when it's an ad for.. wait for it... yet another plug in air freshener but this one has a fan!!

I hate this commercial because it shows the flowers flying around while they are talking. So stupid.

[DoctorNeon]

Sonic is awesome. Breakfast all day, all night. I like eggs for dinner, and burgers for breakfast.

[TheCustomOfLife]

Sonic is a Deep Southern thing, I think. I may be wrong but I haven't ever seen them in Virginia, and that's just reg'lar South. We have many of them here where I am now (Pensacola, Florida).

ETA: I did a search and they're really in like 38 states. Just not in the very north, and not anywhere in the Middle Atlantic corridor.

Wow, you learn something new every day! Just like when I was shocked when I found out there were Albertson's in Oregon!

This post has been edited by TheCustomOfLife: Dec 31, 2003 @ 7:40 pm.

[Miss Pandora]

I have this whole scenario in my head where a week prior to this, the wife is deathly ill from the flu, throwing up in the bathroom, and the husband wanders in, dropping dirty clothing randomly throughout the house, and asks "What's for dinner?" Now she's like "Oh poor baby, your nose is a little runny - too f*****g bad!"

When I saw that commercial, I felt sorry for the husband and thought the wife was a lazy bitch. Your way sounds more realistic.

[Alexandria Bay]

Yes, my eyes have been opened regarding the cold-suffering husband shirking his shoveling duties. Bust his inconsiderate, lazy ass, shovel-wielding wife!

Yesterday I was watching "I Love the 70s". I don't know why, since I hated the 70s, but they showed two vintage kitty ads! His royal finickiness, Morris, and the Meow Mix singing cat. Awww! You just can't go wrong with cats.

[Jamoche]

Why would Chrysler want to target the Gen Xers? Aren't they mostly an old people's car?

Gen Xers spend more, so they thought Celine would change their image.

[TheCustomOfLife]

On SoapNet, they keep showing the female horny drug...the "female answer to Viagra" or whatever. I don't know if they name it. They just have a montage of women talking about how horrible and dead they felt, then three different women utter, "I have passion!"

Eh. With the male horny drug, at least their euphemism is "talking to the doctor."

This post has been edited by TheCustomOfLife: Dec 31, 2003 @ 10:28 pm.

[Puds38]

Why would Chrysler want to target the Gen Xers? Aren't they mostly an old people's car?

That was the imagine they were trying to change. Apparently Celine only managed to re-enforce it.

[vorpal_poet]

Aw, you guys, SD isn't all that bad. Especially if you love beautiful scenery, endangered herd animals, the best fishing anywhere, and big ass monuments. Which I do.

Is anyone else seeing the Chocolate Factory commercials? It comes with a dipping ladle! And it's good for chocolate, caramel, or cheese fondue! Bleh.

[milhomie]

Has anyone noticed this one commercial actor that seems to be in a lot of commercials? He's a light skinned black guy with a goatee. He was in a Mountain Dew commercial (the Mountain Dew was orange for some reason and he gets attracted to it in the window and hits the glass). He's in a Best Buy commercial where he talks a guy into getting smaller speakers. He's been on a Got Milk? commercial, and Foot Locker commercial, a commercial for some fast food restaurant (Burger King?), and a new one where he's in bed (forgot what it's for). Anyways, I see this guys everywhere and I think I might be going crazy.

[Alexandria Bay]

He's not one I've really noticed, milhomie, but there are a couple of other guys I keep seeing in ads. One is the guy in the Dell boot camp ad who ends up doing the push-ups in the mud. He was also in a Christmas ad where he was at the checkout and the scanner did the first couple notes of Jingle Bells and he sand "jingle all the way" then claimed he was in choir. He looks very similar to the Dell guy who takes all the kids' jobs, but I don't think they're the same guy.

Then there's the other guy with dark curly hair who's in the Bigfoot cell phone ad. He was in that great check card ad with the Sheens.

[Lufah]

The commercial actor I notice the most is "Guy That Looks Like Beck." He was the geeky guy in the office-themed Ebay commercial (most notable moment: the way he freakishly spat out the words "This PDA!" and ended the commercial with a backflip), the geeky lab guy in the motor oil commercial where he daydreams that he's drag racing or something, and the geeky guy in one of the Cingular commercials ("They're my minutes!"). I love this guy! He's in a bunch of other commercials too, I think, but I know I always say, "Hey, it's that guy that looks like Beck!" whenever I see him. I think my GTLLB love started during the Ebay commercial, when I just decided to pretend he actually was Beck in order to enhance my viewing enjoyment.

[crazy_girl]

I always notice Anna Bocci from While You Were Out but I also always see this woman who was in one of those first Crest white strips commercials. She was the one who restored paintings and likened that to restoring her smile's whiteness.

[Trilobyte]

Anyone else see, and grin manically through, the Office Max commercial set to "Rubberband Man"? Hilarious stuff, especially the guy who has the "accident" with the toner cartridge.

Yes! I just saw this while I was falling asleep. Is it as really as bouncy and sexed up as it seemed to my sleep-fogged brain? I seem to remember giggly women going off with a guy in a...elevator?


From further back,

The answer? She took Chaser ™, a hangover remedy now available in your finer drugstores.

This ad cracks me and my partner up because "chaser" is a slang term for a heterosexual man who has a fetish for pre-op transexual women. 'Sides, the best hangover remedy is Gatoraide.

My friend's brother made the genius decision to take a hit of ecstasy a half-hour or so before a baseball game (he was on the team). A few minutes before the game started, a female teacher walked by him; the guy got a massive erection,and was unable to stop grabbing at his crotch. He ended up not being sober enough to play and had to sit out the game.

Why don't we ever see this in a drug PSA? Not only is public humiliation the most likely result of drug use in an inappropriate venue, but I would think it would resonate with the target audience.

Oh, and one of my office mates fell hook, line and sinker for that stupid Leptoprin product that's "not for casual dieters". Her reasoning is "They advertise it on the (local Fox affiliate) and Fox has a good reputation so it must be okay." I have not the words.

This post has been edited by Trilobyte: Jan 1, 2004 @ 1:59 pm.