Yeah, I don't get it either and I hate that commercial because she very smugly says, No, I'm only 28, when she clearly is NOT! I am 36 and I don't have crow's feet (Thank You, God! Good genes, you know!), but I have been seeing a new trend in these reality shows with these contestants who are in their very early 20's have huge crow's feet.


LOVE the Advair pug, and I, too, noticed that he was not in the back seat the last time I saw the commercial. I was going to post, but I was beaten to it. My favorite part is when he is standing in front of the picture of Dogs Playing Poker and his owner can't see him.



This? Cracked me the hell up!

Stupid double post! >:(

Agree with you on this. Even the one with "Tommy time to mow the lawn" digital TV commercial bugs...Why do married men have to been shown as being whipped. If they're not whipped, they are incompetent at caring for home or children. Arrrgggh. No wonder men hang out at bars drinking invisible "light" beer.

I finally saw the bossy wife giving washing instructions. Gah! Begone, wench!

Is it just me, or are there a TON of "get your degree now!" ads? And scooter ads. Lots and lots of scooter ads.

Weighing in a little late here, due to it taking a long time to make it from the recliner to the computer with my walker, what with me apparently being old enough to be y'alls' mother, thank you very much! (I like to think of myself as wise)

Anyway, that van commercial bugs me too (with the daughter telling her mother she's pregnant while ignoring the kid she already has). My question is, why oh why is grandma still driving around in one???? Unless her sole purpose in life is to play chauffeur to spolied brat daughter there.

Another van ad I hate is with the (dare I say) middle-aged woman talking to the hot Italian (?) guy and he's going on and on about how he loves his van and it'll be great for when he meets a woman and has kids and all. She is soooo turned on by the fact that he has a van before he has kids.

Now, I've been away from the dating scene for a little while, but I seem to recall that a guy (even a hot one) driving a minivan would not be such a turn-on to a young woman. Neither would a guy who talks about having kids on your first meeting. If a woman did that, the guy would go running so bloody fast, a minivan couldn't keep up!

I've seen this phenomenon around here a lot (elderly driving minivans) and I've wondered the same thing. My aunt and uncle (who is 65) have one, but not even any grandkids in the vicinity. I've seen or known too many elderly that have them for reasons not immediately apparent.

I realized it, though, when my stepdad, who has a minivan as a company vehicle, said that it was the easiest vehicle to get into he's ever had. Plus, it can haul a ton of stuff. That's all I can think might compel people without a ton of kids to buy one.

And, after seeing the ad a couple times, I think the girl is saying (as the other kid gets into the van) that they are getting a T&C too, "now that we have two and all". My reaction wasn't that she was having twins, but now that she will eventually have two kids, she needs the van. Did I misread this whole thing? Why did I spend 5 mins of my life overanalyzing a minivan ad? Maybe because I'm being paid to do so? <shrugs>

Tornado25, I also heard it as "now that I'm expecting another baby", not "I'm having twins!". I think that's the correct interpretation we're supposed to go with.

:-)

This thread makes me yell more at the television than I used to. Where's the bloody dog now? Yeah, the song about suicide really makes me want an HP printer! Aaaagh, creepy Snuggle!

Ah, now it all makes sense. Sadly, the other child was so neglected that I never even noticed that he (or she?) entered the vehicle. I assumed she was just telling her mother she was expecting twins. I'll have to change the name of that trend. But I won't change my opinion that this actress is really awful and that I will never own a minivan.

Oh, they both suck and I too will not be owning a minivan. That's what I thought.

Hee!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I HATE the asshole Hemi dad. Not because he's pointing out important car features; no, I loathe him for his, "Honey, what're ya doin' to him?"

That's the impression I got, too. But wouldn't the ad make more sense if she already had a couple of kids and was expecting another? Why would you absolutely need a van with only 2 kids? You'll only get stuck being the default carpooler or something with a big car like that. Most cars seem plenty big enough for 2 kids plus whatever you need to haul around in the trunk. (It's not like the van is really going to give you that much more hauling room unless you take the back seats out - you're still going to have trouble getting wood home from the depot) I don't like minivans anyway - I'd rather get one of those 4-door trucks, like the Toyota Tacoma.

They had a commercial a couple of years ago for the Tacoma that I liked a lot - the 4 guys getting chased by a rhino or something. It was advertising the truck's bed extender. The rhino (or whatever animal it was) head-butts the extender, and it folds up back into the bed of the truck.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow, when there will (presumably) be considerably less campaign ads on around here.

I hate the Dayquil commercial too. Go shovel the driveway yourself, lazy-ass woman.

Weighing in on the current minivan craze: Just because you have a child or two does not mean you need a minivan. I spent the first 8 years of my life riding around in the back of a Dodge Shadow with my older sister and we turned out fine.
Oil of Olay: Well, if using Oil of Olay makes you old then I've got one foot in the grave because my mom had me using that stuff at the age of 6 y'all.
The "I'm Jenny and my number is 867-5309" commercial: I was watching this show on VH1 show called "True Spin" awhile back and the lead singer of Tommy Tutone (or however the hell you spell it) said that the name and number came from writings on a bathroom wall which advertised Jenny's sexual services; so, you know, if I were Jenny I wouldn't be happy to be sharing my name and number with a famous slut (or supposed-slut, we don't really know what happened.)



I knew I wasn't the only one who saw this crap! In the words of Margaret Cho: "Okay honey, I know way too much about your vagina."

P.S. Don't worry Vermicious Knid, those Fired Up! commercials get me too 'cause I grew up on a lot of bad dance music. Although, I am confused as too why "Crossroads" by Bone Thugs N' Harmony is included on both the Thug Life and Down Low collections; maybe the producers are going to use it on their inevitable future collection, Thug lovin'.

Last night I saw a different, yet equally horrible, "I'm lovin it" ad. A girl is sitting in McD's with her boyfriend, eating nuggets. He's babbling on about some crap, and she's thinking "Mmm McNuggets... now with all white meat. Still good, but better now." Then some hot guy walks in and she eyefucks him a little while her boyfriend's trying to get her attention. See what they did there? Boyfriend is ok but the fresh meat that just walked in is even better! What a great story to tell your kids - we met over the new all white meat McNuggets!

There's meat in McNuggets? You learn something new every day!




Not only is it a dumb commercial but it keeps with the tradition of commercials depicting all fathers and husbands as incompetent, lazy, unscrupulous morons.

I must be hallucinating. I just saw a Chevrolet ad that didn't suck. Well, there's more than one version of it out, and at least one of them doesn't suck. I think it's for the Malibu. It shows the car passing from person to person (a family, some single people, a group of friends, etc.), and each group uses the car's various features without a single word of voiceover until the very end.

See? It is possible to make a car ad without pretending that Hemi engines make you manly or that people will be drooling with jealousy over your Kia.

I finally saw the Creepy Snuggle Pool commercial, and I apologize to all of you for thinking maybe you were exaggerating a little bit.

Good my Lord, my jaw dropped and I broke off in mid-sentence, staring in horror. It's all kinds of wrong.

JHeaton wrote:

Bwah! Good one!

Tornado25 wrote:

I for some reason remember her calling herself Jenny as well. Maybe they took it out in later showings?

Ernos wrote:

Contains 15 mg of prozac in every drop! Heh.
Didn't SNL do a fake ad like that with Jane Curtain once? Her husband got her the product because it made her become a Stepford Wife ™.

I forgot! I caught this the other night, and phxguy just looked at me. I told him if that woman was feeling that much pain, she had larger problems than just what kind of tampon she was using.

I mean, a couple times, she was acting like she had arthritis of the hoo-hoo.

This is a Dodge commercial, you say? I'm not surprised. They seem to have the same recurring theme in all their ads now. The New England Dodge Dealers are currently running a blatantly sexist joint campaign with Home Depot right now that basically runs along the following lines: Women want nice kitchens. Men want power tools. Go buy a big Dodge truck. You'll like it because it's powerful. She'll like it because it's safe and there's a DVD player for the kids. "It's a Guy Thing."

Or some such happy horseshit. It annoys me so much I want to write a mean letter to someone. I'm a woman and I LOVE power tools! Although I do hate trucks, DVD player or no.

This is priceless. I can't wait to find an excuse to use this. And now I badly want to see this commercial.

The worst thing about those Dodge "Hemi" ads is that they actually validate this feeling these guys have that their loud, obnoxious engines in giant cars make them manlier. Thus putting more of these behemoths on the road.

Dude, if your car has heated leather seats, a DVD player, or smooth shocks, you left manly about three exits back. Manliness is driving a half-rusted pickup with heat that barely works and shocks that beat your head against the ceiling if you hit a pebble. And loving it.

(Disclaimer: I say this as a man who drives an average-sized sedan, and can't live without his 6-CD changer. But at least I don't have delusions that my car makes me manly)

Re: new Dell kidnapping father ad.

While I understand the complaints (stupidity, perpetuates the dumb commercial father, etc.) I see it as a godsend. The Dell interns appears to be Off. Of. My. TV.

Let's hope, FORFUCKINGEVER!

What confuses me about this commercial is the panty hose. Now, the kids appear to have the tummy/crotch area pulled over their heads. Everyone knows that you just use the toe part and cut it so you don't have this long tacky train of panty hose running down your back. Plus, they could have saved money. Two kids could easily have worn just one pair of panty hose--one kid to each leg. Are they new panty hose? Or did they grab some old hose of their mom's? In which case, it's rather nasty that their faces are roughly where their mom's crotch used to be.

But the interns are gone like jkingstl said so I should probably just count my blessings and quit focusing on the commercial.

Go to hell, Dodge.

Hee!

crazy_girl, this kind of vomit-inducing thought is the stuff I have come to depend upon from TWoP. Eeeeewww! Image!


For which reason I am certainly glad I am neither a husband nor a father. People have figure out that I am an imcompetent, lazy and uscrupulous moron all on their own. Sometimes, I can even fool them! ;-) I do have to say I can't wait until I get a company truck--in which I will get a Hemi! Woo-hoo!

crazy girl, you owe me a new keyboard and possibly a new job. This seriously cracked me up so much that I had tears rolling down my face, especially after reading the last sentence. Now every time I see this commercial I will ponder if those hose are new or slightly used.

I don't care if HEMI! is the best invention since oxygen. I don't care to have another shitty Dodge blow up on me (the last one made it TWO).

As someone who knows jack shit about cars, I hate those Hemi commercials because every time I see them I say "What the fuck is a Hemi?!?"

Really, not to get too OT, but what the fuck is a Hemi?

Seriously [nm], the Dodge ad with the screaming Hemi-husband... he's practically evangelical in his fervor. Put. Down. The. Levitra. Now.

I know a pair of size 9s may be in my future for this, and I did read that he MoveOn/PETA issue was covered a few days ago.... but why is CBS choosing to air a White-House-sponsored ad during the Super Bowl if they won't take one from MoveOn or PETA?

And? "Schrodinger's Pug" would totally be my handle if I could change it. Hee.

As someone else who knows jack shit about cars, what the hell is a jag-u-ar?

All I want to know is when did the Adkin's Revolution become gospel? Didn't Adkins die last year? Why do we now have to live by the low carb/no carb rules? I just saw a commercial for TGI Friday's advertising their new Adkins Approved Menu, which amounts to a piece of meat and 2 pieces of broccoli. Oh yeah, I'd pay $11.99 for that. [/sarcasm]

But what really took the cake is the commercial for ...... Low Carb Beer! Are the inmates running the asylum again?

A very cool, powerful engine. It was big in racing cars in the 70s, but it does not get particularly good mileage. Go get one. If you like Dodge, that is. (Dodge/Jeep - official cars of Dukes of Hazzard)

FWIW, my dad is a Chevy man, and he swears Dodges have only a three-year lifetime. My dad is that angry guy behind you/whooshing by you, in the SUV, the man who instilled in me a deadly fear of any car not large enough to park a Miata on the hood.

Topic? Toby Keith, who is pimping Fords, is exactly the sort of jackass I should not be attracted to, yet inevitably I think he's hot.

They have Atkins food at TGIFriday's? What the hell is the point?

No. No. No. It's Jag-u-ah. As in, "See your Jag-u-ah dealer."

Okay, when I first read this, I thought it said "Hoo-hoo" and was frightened by the thought of a Hemi-powered hoo-hoo.

Speaking of hoo-hoos (yeah, words I never thought I'd say), I hate the Playtex commercials that tell you their tampons are so comfortable "you can't even feel them." Yeah, dumbass, just like every other tampon is when inserted properly.

Eep! But also, hee!

For them to be able to sit in different rows and save mom from the "He's touching me!" "Quit Rae!" "Stop looking at me!" whining. Or maybe that was just my reason. (Nah, I bought mine to haul stuff - girl scouts, buttloads of girl scout cookies, etc.)


Now that would really drive the guys wild!

Whoa! Now that's power!

From yesterday:


Nothing certain, but I blame Mr. Jiggy Fly for the new interest in Sloppy Joe-hoes.

Also, the last time Hemis were discussed and left me baffled, I went out and found this: How Hemi Engines Work .

Finally, Mr. Shelwood's parents have 2 minivans, because of bad knees and long road trips. I have rheumatoid arthritis, and I love those dorky cars, especially the T&C with the heated seats and remote controlled doors all around.

ARE YOU KIDDING?? I hadn't heard this. F-you CBS, and your goddamn right-wing agenda. I'm sorry, but it was one thing not to run MoveOn or PETA since they are arguably one-sided, but I had no idea that they are now airing a White-House ad. Let me guess: we get to hear about terrorists or something.

OK, I'll go join quotidian in boot-purgatory.

I really like the commercial with Wayne Brady for CoffeeMate??, where he does a takeoff on "Say a Little Prayer". He needs his own comedy series.

Hee. Is it okay that I'm a little disturbed that I know who Mr. Jiggyfly is?

I like him a lot and mostly dig those commercials, but why is his wife so angry? Granted, I'd be annoyed after a few mornings, but why so nasty??

But can it still be glittery?

The commercials at the top of my HATE list now are the ones for Watson's spas and hot tubs. I hate the Watson girl with the fire of a thousand nuns, with her twitchy walk and barely-there clothes. They play them at least four times during the hour I'm watching Andy Griffith every night, so it's especially grating. I'm going to need a new remote, because the mute button on this one is just about gone.

Are these commercials pissing off anybody else or just me in Nashville? Anybody? Nana?

They air the Watson's commercials here in Little Rock, too. A local radio station recently did an online poll of "Most Annoying TV Character" and the Watson's girl won. Heh.

The worst was the one where she had, I swear to God, and entire rosebush in her hair. It was hideous.

(Also, the phrase "hemi-powered hoo-hoo" made my choke on water. HEE!)

Well, sure. Just like the truck, there are features for him and features for her!

(Okay, I GOTTA stop this now.)

I'm from the hometown with the football team that shares the same name. I pronounce it "Jag-wire." Take that for what you will.

I was listening to the radio when the Steeler's Wheel song (ok, so they had only one song to begin with) "Stuck in the Middle With You" comes one. I know most people think about the "ear scene" in Resevoir Dogs when they hear this song, but you know what I think of?

Bunch of thongs hanging on a clothes wire.

I'll be damned if that isn't a blast from commercial past (ok, so it wasn't that long ago) - anyone else remember this ad?

I think I remember that. Wasn't that for Tide?

Some commercial stuff not yet covered . . .

There's an ad for Cottonelle bath tissue with a puppy. The puppy's female owner steps out of the shower and makes a puddle and puppy says "I didn't do it!" then female owner wipes puddle up w/bath tissue. The dog's voice sounds like Michael J. Fox, but it isn't him.

There's another ad for (I think) Johnson's Baby Lotion and a baby says "Hey, is that my mom using Johnson's Baby Lotion?" The baby's voice is the same voice as the Cottonelle dog. It's so wrong.

Another commercial that I hate is the T-Mobile phone or whatever the fuck it's called with the bride who has her cell phone strapped to her garter belt during the ceremony and it keeps ringing with other potential grooms who want her to marry them instead. WTF?? Slap that bitch ass and her damn cell phone strapped to her leg during the ceremony just in case she gets a better offer at the last possible second.

Finally, there's a commercial for some eyeglasses place where they have these photo cut-outs of real peoples' faces; there are about three different poses and the faces are animated to shift from pose to pose to pose repeatedly. Cree. Pee.


It's one of those anti-pot propaganda commercials. And no surprise Viacom-owned CBS would refuse to air anti-Bush ads and promote the Bush agenda at the same time when they contribute major bucks to the Bush campaign and got the government to pass a new law which allows them to increase their already alarmingly large monopoly of media outlets.

Watson's Pool Girl is a coke head. I'm guessing. She'd have to be. Nobody is that chipper naturally.

Crap - double post. Server froze and I must have hit "add reply" twice. Sorry! (Thanks Jamoche!)