The commercial begins with a Genuine Testimonial from some lady complaining about how the sun ruined her outdoor party on the deck. The announcer kicks in: "Tired of the weather ruining your outdoor activities? Get the Sun-Saver awning and never worry about heat and the sun again!"

Please explain to me what mental defective decided to air this ad in January.

Apparently they thought their signal was strong enough to reach Australia.

Commercial that I hate at the moment, it has some guy eating Triscuits. It shows him sitting in an apartment just munching them. What HUGE nostrils this guy has!! I bet you could cram three fingers in one hole!!
One commercial that I don't understand is the one where a blonde woman in a black dress with black high heels is waiting for the elevator and she is holding a glass of orange juice. She takes a sip of oj, looks both ways down the hallways and not seeing anyone, she judo-kicks the elevator button with the heel of her shoe. The elevator opens up, she walks in and all of a sudden, there is a black guy in a black and white striped shirt outside the elevator looking at her. Where the heck did he come from?? He was not there when she did the kick, but man, he sure popped up from somewhere. Kinda creepy to me, like he is stalking her, as he doesn't get on the elevator, but stands outside the elevator and looks in as she is getting in.

My new hate is for that car. In that commercial. With all that STUFF!

Huh? You mean Ikea, with the Ikea employee cramming all this stuff in the car and opening the door to find the husband squashed under all that crap?

You'd have trouble getting it up if you were trying to make whoopi in the open, where everyone can watch you.

[QUOTE]God, I miss those Massengill commercials. I remember when The Onion did a Top Ten list for "Euphemisms For Getting Your Period" and one of them was "Walking along the beach in soft focus." QUOTE]

Bwah! I remember that one. My roommate and I especially liked "It's my 'time of the month' when I'm 'not at my best' because my 'vagina is bleeding.'" It cracks me up every time.

[QUOTE]My new hate is for that car. In that commercial. With all that STUFF![/QUOTE]

I haaaaaate that commercial. And they play it in the movie theater, too, which makes the hate triple.

No. It's for Mazda or someone, and this guy keeps talking in choppy sentences. "There's this car. With all this stuff! And there's this OTHER car! With all this STUFF!" Fucking HATE.

Thanks for the link, rosiebloom, the article was hilarious.

Sorry, got no commercial hate at the moment...

Oh god, the Quiznos ads? That was in my pre-TWoP days, I just thought they were wrong, so very wrong. Any fast food or somewhat fast casual dining chain can earn my sales by presenting in their commercials that they have reasonably competent employees mostly contempt-free for their customer base. Like Chick-Fil-A is.
Topic: I will admit to liking Wayne Brady singing anything.
Back in the 1990's, one SuperBowl, there were really lackluster commercials, and you couldn't tell what product they were selling!!
I'm hoping this Superbowl has some good ones. They played the Britney/Beyonce/Pink/Pepsi/"We Will Rock You" one, nearly in its entirety on Fox News this morning.
And I hate the lite beer commercial where everybody is drinking air and pretending it's spilling on their dresses, and whatnot. The Low Carb business is silly, like bodybuilders are swilling ultra low carb beer inbetween deadlifts and lat pulldowns. Please.

Anyone remember the '80s Gleem ad campaign regarding "adult bad breath?" Does anyone else get images of stanky hoo-hoos? And...how one would get "adult" bad breath from stanky hoo...and I'm just gonna end it right there!

Oh, I'm not touching that one with a ten inch pole, TheCustomofLife. Nope.

Has anyone else seen the commericals for Resident Evil:Apocalype (which is sure to suck on toes)?

Instead of being all shoot-em-up, it has some woman promoting Regenerix products which cause her to age backwards until we see her get all Resident Evily. All I could think of was the Oil Of Olay lie detector commercial...hell, the commercial up to the woman's face going blue and veiny reads as a OoO ad.

Amen. I love,love,love the Isaac Mizrahi commercials.

Okay, I just saw the greatest ad mistake. It's a Kool-Aid commercial featuring cutesy black girls making Kool-Aid ice cubes which they then share with their dad (I guess that's who he was). While their sitting down at the table enjoying the cubes, the phrase 'Kool-Aid Krazy Kubes' appears on the screen; how the hell did no one catch this?

Has anyone seen the commercials for KY jelly on TNT? Wrong. Just, wrong.

Oh, Good God yes, Skippy Devereaux! This commercial bugs me to no end! First, who the hell walks around an office building holding a glass of juice????? And you're right - where do all those people come from all of a sudden, just to stare at her like she's the.hottest.thing.on.wheels. just because she drinks OJ! Aaaaargh.


Saw a new ad I like last night for, of all things, the IRS! Guy drops his tax return in a mailbox and then realizes the stamp stuck to his finger. In trying to retrieve the envelope, he manages to get his head stuck in the mailbox just as a police car drives by. The ad is pushing the IRS' file-on-line tax service.

Who knew the IRS had a sense of humor? Good to see my tax dollars finally going to good use.

And, finally this morning, something to allow all of us to sleep better at night (even without a Sleep Number bed): check out http://adtunes.com. Answers all your questions and then some!

Comment on the Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo commercial (which uses "There She Goes," mentioned upthread): if this is an advert for a birth control pill, why are there no m/f couples in this commercial? Not that I care about one's personal preferences; just trying to follow the logic here.

There she goes! Alone! But look, fellas, she's on the Pill!

This? Is truly frightening, because he puts the same thought in my head! I think you can see his brain.

There are no words.

Granted, it's pretty early in the morning for me, but can someone elaborate on what the mistake is? Am I missing some alternative meaning? Am I really, really dumb? I'm just not getting it.

And thanks to the posters in the know who shared about Sleep Number and Tempurpedic beds!

Kool-Aid Krazy Kubes. There are three Ks. KKK

formergr, I agree. I don't think it's a mistake at all--purposeful alliteration.


As soon as I heard it, I said to myself, "I hope I hear it soon on the radio"--a lot of Mitsu ad songs make it--which I think is cool.


ET said that this ad is not going to be aired in the US, it's for Europe and other areas only. Which, if true, would explain why they played the whole thing.

Ad hate today, folks. Saw a Leptroprin-type ad (you know, the $153/bottle diet pill). Well, this one is also so wonderful, you can lose weight w/o diet or exercise. It's called Neoprene (not really, ha!) or Leoprene or something like that. Anyway, the part that got my hate was this guy who says "my doctor told me if I didn't lose weight, I would die and I started using Leoprene. I lost 80 pounds w/o diet or exercise." Um, excuse me there, you doofus, but if your weight is such an issue as to present an immediate threat to your health, don't you think modifing your diet and exercising to lose the weight (i.e., 2 good things is better diet overall and more exercise for your heart, etc) is more important that losing the weight in and of itself? THis is the sheer idiocy of weight loss, etc in this country. Yes, obesity is bad for you--it makes your heart work harder, increases blood pressue, wears out joints, etc. But, fighting obesity through a good diet (which may help prevent cancer, heart disease, etc) and exercise (for all the same reasons) is better than if you drop down to a normal weight and eat at McDonalds all the time and don't exercise at all--like me, for example. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

I don't know if this counts, but I saw a hysterical "no smoking in the movie theatre" commercial (or is it a PSA?) with John Waters. He's smoking and saying that you can't smoke in the theatre, even though you should be able to. Hey, why not smoke and keep those ushers employed? Well, actually, you shouldn't smoke in the theatre, so don't. But I can! *takes a huge puff* MMMM! Bet you wish you had one right now!

It was funnier than the whole movie.

I don't think of this as a mistake either. I knew someone in high school whose initials were KKK...obviously on purpose, because 'K' is a strong letter and people like alliteration. I knew someone else with those initials but he was Pakistani so the KKK probably didn't mean much to him. Anyway, I don't expect you're supposed to make that connection, any more than 3 A-words would make you think of various Triple-A orgs.

By the way, if you listen to online radio stations (like kexp.org) you will hear indie songs well before they become commercials.

Three ads last night that have to be mentioned:

• Lassie Kung-fu! In glorious B&W! Timmy and Lassie are going fishing. A cougar bounds out of the rocks and confronts them! Lassie goes all-Matrix Kung-Fu, and ends up in that still position where the only motion is the beckoning of the fingertips (well, claw-tips) of one outstretched hand (again, well, paw). Cougar runs away! I LMAO! But what the hell does that have to do with the Security Products branch of GE? Lassie will protect us?
• RedShopper.com! Is this on all the Fox channels nationwide? Or maybe only small TV stations? The guy is made up like a member of Blue Man Group, but in RED! He looks like a burn victim! I can only watch in horror.
• I've gotten used to to the sex hotlines with the HOT HOT HOT women, but now the Gay Sex Hotline ones are moving their way into prime time. The one I'm talking about is the one with the ranch hand at the stable, wearing a black tanktop and cowboy hat, throwing bales of hay to his horse, and inviting people up to his ranch. At first, it only aired after midnight. Then it showed up on our WB channel during "Blind Date" 11-11:30 pm. Now it's on during the "Dharma & Greg" repeats 10-10:30 pm. And, of course, to quote Seinfeld, Not that's there's anything wrong with that.

There was an ad a year or so ago for The Pill with 3 women talking about how good their skin looks when they take the pill. I guess allowing women to safely prevent the creation of a human being while still enjoying sex isn't a good enough marketing tool.

Coming soon! New carb-blocking Ortho Tri-Cyclen!

We've been discussing these ads all week. But yes, they are very cool. Especially when the bear runs away at the end.

And thanks all for the Kool-aid Krazy Kubes explanation. KKK, don't know how I missed it. And I knew when I asked, it would turn out to be something I should have caught, but I looked and looked at it, and just couldn't figure it out. Dementia at 26 years old, who knew?



BWAH!

Which is silly, because all Pills pretty much do that. It depends on how you react to it, but it's the hormones that all Pills have that may clear up your skin. There's no magical additional ingredient in them specifically for clearing up your skin. The only difference is that some drug companies put money into marketing that, and some don't.

ETA: I stand corrected, Decormaven. Somebody better tell last month's issue of Glamour!

Don't laugh; Ortho Tri-Cyclen has an additional FDA-approved indication for acne. While all combination B/C pills have essentially the same effect, Ortho-McNeil did the extra studies and got the additional indication OK.

[OT]

Yeah, too bad it doesn't work for everyone. *looks at self in the mirror grumpily* [/OT]

Topic? I got nothing.

Oh, I like that ad, but that's because I find him quite attractive. I couldn't help but notice they removed the springy boing-boing sounds as he chewed, which made it kinda lame.

I hate this H&R Block ad (maybe it's another company, but I don't think so) where the guy is saying that they'll get your taxes done fast. Like, really fast. And then a customer shows up and says, "I saw your commercial." And the tax guy is all, "This commercial? This commecial that we're making right now? Really? You mean it was this commercial? Not a different commercial, but this one? Are you sure it was this commercial? Really, really sure?"

Gah, tax guy! We get it! The guy came over really fast. Stop hammering us with that point. Especially since it has nothing to do with how quickly you'll get his taxes done. For all we know the guy sprinted over from his home and now you're going to take a freakin week to do his taxes.

Ew, is that back? I saw it last year but (thankfully) haven't seen it this year.

OK, another annoying personal products ad: this one is for K-Y Brand Warming Liquid Personal Lubricant. Hey folks, where are we supposed to apply this personal lubricant? The TV ad shows Mr. and Mrs. Average Joe, sitting on the couch, fully clothed. I guess if one considers his/her body "personal," technically one could rub the product all over for that nice, warming sensation. And given the weather this week, that doesn't sound like such a bad idea. Oh, brother! According to the PR on this product, which is "the first personal lubricant of its kind to be cleared by the FDA," "...the new product creates a gentle warming sensation on contact, thereby, giving couples the opportunity to immediately "heat things up.” Grief!

The KKK Kool-Aid? Wow. You know...I'm gonna go with that's reading a little too much into a commercial. It's just visual alliteration to go with the aural. Aside from the stupid spelling, it's not a big deal.

I don't like most of the H&R Block ads. The tags at the end are stupid (how do you stop the vcr from flashing? That's a big do-over! It's like I'm helping myself, only younger!). and the guy with the fivehead is scary.

Ooh, I keep forgetting to register my love for Washington Mutual ads. I love the one where they beam the teller (agent?) into a guy's shower, or in between two people during an, uh, intimate moment. Hope there wasn't any KY Warming Lube in there.

RE: The KKKool-Aid commercial

For those who want to judge for yourself, here is the Kool-Aid link.

They actually call them "Kool-Aid Kool Kubes".

Hmmm, the alliterative words are all in the same white font. Intentional "subliminable" message here? In the eye of the beholder, I suppose.

My interpretation of that commercial is that he wants his son to be into MANLY things like loud engines, not into "nerdy" things like electronics.

That dickwad probably beat up all the guys that were in the Audio Visual Squad in high school.



I hate all this "low carb" shit. And it's so funny that these commercials didn't air until way after Dr. Atkins died. Now when I see these commercials, I always say "I hope Atkins is burning in Hell right now".

And apparently I'll be joining him there. :)



I'm not surprised by this at all. It seems like most stepfathers want to get in their stepdaughters pants. No offense to those that have decent stepfathers.



This commercial made me laugh when I saw it because they are playing the version sung by Sixpense None The Richer, which is a Christian group. And aren't Christians against the birth control pill?

LOL! Genius! Thanks for looking into that and pointing that out! I have not yet seen the ads, but I'll def. keep a look out for them now...

Speaking of no-carbs, Atkins shit, is it really true that Burger King is offering a burger with no bun?? Someone told me this, but I did not believe it whatsoever.

FYI Not all Christians are against the birth control pill, or any responsible birth control, for that matter. It depends on how it works.

And I hate him. Oh, wait, did I mention that already?

Stupid, sexy server.

I think it's mostly Catholics that are against birth control. Other Christians are okay with it.

TOPIC: Wow, I've never seen The O.C., but I've heard that Mischa Whatshername is a terrible actress. Having just seen her in a Neutragena commercial, I would have to agree with that assessment. Wow. Kristen Kreuk is Meryl Streep compared to her.

No. Now I want a commercial for Ortho-Try-Christian, the low-carb, acne-fighting birth control pill for when you've got that spiritual feeling.

Is that anything like that "not-so-fresh" feeling?

Mischa Barton is hawking Neutrogena? Is she supposed to be the "before," or what?

Yeah, them and Sterling Savings Bank. They had a great commercial a while back featuring this tall guy who's talking about how he always feels out of place being so tall, but he fits right in at this bank. He hits his head getting out of a car, on a ceiling fan, walking through a doorway. And at the end, it's clear he's suffered a mild concussion and he even mangles the bank's name ("Berling Stavings Bank") . Now rule one in advertising is you don't do that, but I love that they were willing to go there for the joke.

For some reason, head trauma in commercials is always funny. There's this one, the "reliable data backup" one ("don't worry sir. I've got all the information right here." WANG!), even the old Snickers one where the football player gets smashed and thinks he's Batman.

BWAH!

I just think it's a sad commentary on the level of writing skill on Smallville when Kristen Kreuk has more charisma as a Neutragena pimp than playing Lana Lang.

GAH! Okay, okay! I'll get back to work. Stupid server.

Double post. Nothing to see here.

I thought the same thing, but then yesterday I saw a billboard on a bus stop shelter that said "Responsible Catholics Use Condoms". And I was like, hmmm I missed that lesson in PSR.

Topic?...yeah..I got nothin.

Hee. I loved the snickers Batman commercial. No one I know remembers it. Snickers never show their ads often enough (which I suppose may be better than during every commercial break).

A friend who is an avid follower of Atkins said that he wouldn't allow his name to be marketed but apparently his heirs are ok with it.