Ohhhh...so you're, um, "sensitive" for 36 hours on this stuff? Gotcha...thanks Tornado25!

Well anyways, I hate these cheesy scenes in impotence drug commercials. Viagra, et al is to men's commercials as what tampons and douche are to women's commercials...miracle drugs that allow you to ride horses and dance!

Hey, wait a minute! Not me...the user! Seriously. I hope I'm too young for it, yet!

Yes, yes, we know it's not you, silly! I mean, thanks for the info...that was obtained in a totally non-user way, and wasn't disclosed in a weird TMI moment *ahem*

I'm new to this thread so I'm not sure if this was already covered but did the much hyped Pepsi Superbowl commercial featuring Britney,Pink and Beyonce ever air during the Superbowl?

And now I know way too much about Clyde11.

Grimlock - I'm not sure if the ad aired, but you can watch it here.

I am also new to this thread, but I had to stop by to mention those Southwest commercials that have been playing lately. They're for $39 one-way flights anywhere in California, but it looks like the actual part before they mention the promotion could be used in other areas, I'm guessing.

Anyway, they have one where a woman is in a bathroom and says, "I love how you decorated in here" to someone outside. She gets a sneaky look on her face and opens the medicine cabinet, reaches for a tube of some sort of oinment, and makes a funny face. Then the shelves of the medicine cabinet come crashing down and the woman takes on a panicked look. Then the voiceover is "Wanna get away?" -- I laugh EVERY time. The facial experessions on the woman are perfect.

And then there's another one for the same promotion, with two business people sitting in a meeting room next to each other. One man is facing forward and the woman next to him is working. He says, "You know, this probably isn't the best time to say it, but you're beautiful," or something. The woman says something to the effect that she's flattered and has always felt the same way about him, and the guy turns and says, "Excuse me?" with a bewildered look as the wire on his hands-free phone headset become visible. Then it's "Wanna get away?" again.

They crack me up every time.

That Pepsi commercial is only for Europe I believe.

I have to know. Does Quiznos really have a pepper bar, and how does it add to your culinary experience?

What the heck is this Eden show that Fox is relentlessly pimping on every AI commercial break?

The Total cereal commercial with the girl standing on her bathroom scale in her towel totally irritates me. I've always found the nosey disembodied voice really annoying, and never really payed attention as it goes on about adding X vitamins and minerals to your diet and the bla bla studies that prove this helps one to lose weight. And then tonight I saw the ad again and happened to catch the small print - the whole damn point of the commercial is to tell us how great Total cereal is, that not only will you get all your vitamins and minerals in one bowl, but now you'll Lose Weight! Yay!

the small print: this study not tested on cereal. (or something like that)

I think I've found Total cereal kind of suspect ever since my HS chemistry teacher poured a bowl of Total in class, let it get soggy, and then stirred it up with a magnetic rod, collecting a whole bunch of iron filings and stuff.

Hee! I knew you meant it that way. I'm just messing around! ;-)

Geez, I have to go back to my method of writing down ads that I want to comment on here, because I forget them. There is an ad out there I sooo want to snark on and I totally forget what it was!

Oh, and on a somewhat topical note, I see the Men's Wearhouse ads where the CEO states they use same quality materials as suits that cost twice as much, they are cheaper because they sell more suits, blah blah economies of scalecakes. I also know that MW suits are derided as low quality, as in "looks like you're wearing the Men's Wearhouse special." So ANYWAY, I can understand the difference between an Armani and a MW suit (maybe), but aside from it not being custom-tailored, what is the difference between a MW suit and a non-tailored suit you might get at a quality men's clothing store?

Yup. There's a little counter by the drink machine that has different types of peppers. Jalapeno, green chili peppers, sport peppers, that pepper relish with the terribly difficult name, giadiniera-something, and whatnot. So you can put 'em on your sammich, make it all spicy. If you like that kind of thing.
Quizno's! Where they toast the subs so hard that they scrape up the roof of my mouth something awful.

Yes, pradolimon, Total cereal! The cereal with the multi-vitamin added right in!
Or you can eat any cereal you like and take a multi-vitamin with it.

Thanks to those who finally registered annoyance at "Hey Ya!" in EVERY COMMERCIAL POSSIBLE. And you KNOW "I Like the Way You Move" is next--it's already in several ads so the saturation is imminent. Now, I like Outkast but I am not their biggest fan...every one of their albums was given to me as a gift and I probably wouldn't have bought them otherwise. Very creative for mainstream rap, but hardly the be-all, end-all. And it's hard to believe that people who love & adore Outkast to tiny pieces wouldn't also be sick of hearing one of those 2 songs every 10 minutes or so...

Actually, I'm probably wrong. Last Friday night a drunk friend kept saying he hoped the DJ played "I Like the Way You Move" and singing it non-stop, and I was thinking, you must have already heard it 5 times today, what's the big deal?

ETA: I forgot that "Happy Valentine's Day" is also used, I think for one of those T-Mobile ringtone ads. But that song at least, probably has limited time of usage.

Five times? I've probably already heard the damn thing eight times today.

Hee. Hee!

Not a clue, but I'm tired of seeing that CGI worm already. Somebody please tell me I'm not the only who's seen the promos for "The Littlest Groom." Not that the premise isn't horrifyingly specific, they also had to call it "The Littlest Groom"?! WTF is this, a Golden book?

So true. This goes ditto for trailer overload at the movies. God help The Alamo- that trailer ran as a preview to almost every movie I saw in the fall- and then the studio yanked the release until this spring. You just know it's DOA! And if I see the trailer for the Bertolucci film using Hendrix's Hey Joe one more time...
(An aside rant: For the love of Mike, please quit using Songs of My Youth to sell stuff. There are talented musicians out there who can actually WRITE original music for movie scores. Use them, please! I know that it's easier and cheaper to use existing music, and it's a great way to make an Instant Bond with the Audience, but it's starting to grate on my nerves in a big way. Aargh!)

There was an ad for a cellphone company on last night that really creeped me out. For some reason, it featured images of different people, split down vertically with one half being one person and the other half being a shot of a different person. The picture was a weird uriny yellow and most of the photos just didn't go together, like one half was a guy with a mustache and the other half was a woman, obviously with no mustache. Or the noses or eyes were just too different. It just bothered me.

Saw that last night -- it's for AT&T's "&" service. Didn't bother me that much, though.

I'd like to know why they made the talking stick of gum Scottish. And I suppose I have to wonder why a crabby piece of talking gum would make me want to buy the gum? Unless it's to chew it to shut it the hell up.

I'm betting that Mike Myers was somehow involved. He probably owns stock in the company, or something.

And then the little bastard has the nerve to be mean to the squirrel. Why Scottish? Why talking? Why skydiving? For the love of God, why?

I find it distracting; you wouldn't believe how loud and unruly they get with a couple drinks in them.

Oh my god! I just saw the new Snuggle commercial that you all were talking about a few pages back. I used to absolutely love the Snuggle bear and thought he was so adorable, but what have they done to him?! Now his eyes blink and his mouth moves! Raping and pillaging of my childhood memories! He is now like a creepy Chucky doll to me.

Ditto on the hate for endlessly repeated movie commercials.

One movie commercial that is kind of creeping me out lately is the one for Eurotrip. (And doesn't that look like a quality film!) After a couple of viewings I realized that Michelle Trachtenberg is in this flick and in fact is the girl who takes off her shirt to reveal her bikini-clad body while some guy watches on with a lusty look on his face. I remember watching her as little 9-year-old Nona F. Mecklenberg and now she's the "sexy girl" in this movie?!?? I feel both old and icky now...

Hee! Has FOX completely run out of ideas? I cringe every time I see that ad, so I must ask - was there only ONE tall, model-type woman amongst the whole crowd? WTF?! Who agrees to do these things?! Gimme a break FOX...and NO, I will not watch Who Wants to Marry a Midget Millionaire..um, sorry, "Little Person Millionaire".

All right, what's with the ad, I think it's for flowers, that basically says that if you get your girlfriend the right stuff for V-day, you'll get lucky? I made note of it the other night and have been meaning to post about it, so of course now I've forgotten the details. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I, too, am having serious issues with the Gum of Ambiguous Accent. What bothers me most, honestly, is that the gum is so angry. I may be reading too much into it, but an angry gum? And not really just angry, but surly. And ALIVE... but the anger is really the worst of it.

And the "pepper bar"? Mr.Bat will shriek out "They gotta pepper bar" to watch me fall into a giggling fit. I love it. At least the (hamsters? fuzzy anthropomorphic bedroom slippers?) are happy about it.

ETA: Pronouns are special things, not to be misused...

JenEx, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, because to me that sounds like every Valentine's Day commercial ever in the history of the world.

That is one surly little piece of gum. Shouldn't anthropomorphic gum be ... I dunno, sweet? Or bubbly?

Ok, that's a good point. I'm starting to think I imagined it, or something. But I swear to God -- ok, I just remembered something. It featured Jimmy Kimble, and at first I thought it was a joke, bc I was watching Comedy Central. But it wasn't, and while all V-day ads kind of imply, this one basically came out and said "if you buy [blank], you will get lucky". I just can't remember what the hell the actual product was! I'm not making this up, I swear! It's driving me insane!

Edited: THAT'S IT! Thank you, jakes mom. Jimmy Kimble, Adam Corolla, what's the difference. Yeah, the idea that I would sleep with someone because they bought me a freaking teddy bear is so patently ridiculous that I want to gag.

JenEx, are you talking about the Vermont Teddy Bear commercial? It's the one with the Adam Corolla voice-over. There are so many things wrong with this commercial - from the subtext of the women talking about the bear ("It's so much bigger than I thought," "I just want to kiss it all over," etc.) to Adam saying that if you buy your girlfriend a bear, she'll "repay" you over and over. Ick.

roosterboy

Get used to it, boy-o. It's just going to get worse. I remember having the same feeling when Alyssa Milano went from being Tony Danza's little girl to starring in semi-soft-core vampire movies. And let's not forget Drew Barrymore.

TOPIC: Adam Carolla's doing voice-overs for the Vermont Teddy Bear Valentine collection. Very much of the "just buy her this and she'll not only shut up, there'll be sex-a-plenty for you" school of Valentine gift commercials. I may not be the most enlightened male (see above paragraph), but if you buy a teddy bear for your girlfriend or wife (or both) based on this commercial, you're really too stupid to have a mate. Of course, maybe your gal's just as stupid as you. Happy Valentine's Day!

ETA: while I was composing this brilliant post, JenEx & jakes mom have brought up the Vermont Teddy Bear thing.

This creeps me out, too. It's Michelle Trachtenberg. She was in Harriet the Spy and Inspector Gadget. Now apparently she's all sexy.

What bugs me about this commercial is when Michelle takes her shirt off to reveal her bikini top as well as the ribcage poking through her chest. And the boy ogles her, of course. So ribs and bones jutting out is hot now?

Go to hell, Adam Corolla. And take your "bear" with you.

I didn't want to say anything, for fear of kicking off another Great Weight Debate, but I agree, that scrawny torso isn't my idea of "hot." Especially since I loathed MT during her entire reign as Dawn on "Buffy." I was sorta-kinda-almost-vaguely interested in seeing a grossout-road-movie with some friends just for fun, until I saw that commercial with her in it. Ew.

In the true spirit of this thread, I have no idea what this commercial is for (maybe cottage cheese or something?), but the premise is that whatever this product is, it is so great that you won't eat yogurt any more. (Oh, maybe it's a special kind of yogurt, and you just won't eat ordinary yogurt any more.) Anyway, the tag line asks what you are going to do with all that yogurt you have on hand. Then they show a woman sitting in the sun who has applied the yogurt to her nose as a sunblock -- like zinc oxide.

It makes me want to throw up. Yeah, I really want dairy products sitting on my skin, clogging my pores, as they curdle in the sun. Ugh.

For me, the Disturbing Memories Hottie is Kirsten Dunst. Every time I see her nowadays I immediately flash back to seeing her as a six-year-old in Interview with the Vampire and I feel like a pedophile. Michelle Trachtenberg isn't much better, especially since she still -looks- like she's about twelve, scrawny ribcage and all.

I'm just praying Hallie Kate Eisenberg doesn't grow up to be a babe. I don't think I could deal with it.

Add the Olsen Twins to the Disturbing Memories Hottie list while yer at it.

TOPIC: Still hate that little Smart & Final Kid. "Get Smmmmaaahhhrt". Get. Lost.

I seriously doubt this will happen.

So, would anyone here be offended if they got a Vermont teddy bear for VD? I have a co-worker who bought one for another co-worker (they're dating on the sly even though most of us know, so he got her the "undercover lover" bear) and the female tasked me to find out if the male got her anything. I told her it was good and has a cute story behind it. Please tell me she's not going to rip my head off come Monday.

I saw the commercial for Eurotrip just yesterday, while watching TV with a bunch of people. And at the end, when little Michelle Trachtenberg rips off her shirt to reveal the itty bitty bikini, I could not help myself from screaming out, "Ah! Dawn Boob! Ew! I did not need to see Dawn Boob!" Everyone thought I was crazy. But seriously, not only is she trying to be all sexy, but her bikini top rides up and you see like half of her breast. It's absolutely disgusting. She's like, five.

All this talk of the spongemonkeys lately has been making me really, really wish we had Quizno's around here. I don't get any fun (or scary as all hell) commercials like that. Unless you count the Bob's Discount Furniture commercials where Bob and his wife rap to convince us to buy their crappy off-brands. Which I do not.

jennifuh

Hmm. How much sick time have you accrued? ; )

How could she not want one of these?

I live about 40 minutes away from the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory-and they have a pretty good reputation here--I guess they're considered high end/expensive novelty bears. I'm surprised to hear about the salacious Adam Corolla ad, and I want to see it!

Commercial I like: The Travelocity "Roaming Gnome" commercial where the Gnome goes on a ski trip. I plan on using the phrase, "One runs the risk of getting bubbles up one's whoopsy-daisy", if I ever get a room with a Jacuzzi.

Commercial I hate with the fire of a thousands suns: that one for Airborne cold medication. I don't know which aspect about it I hate the most:

1)The fact that the narrator keeps hammering into our heads that it was "developed by a kindergarten teacher who was sick of catching colds at work",
2)the man in the action scenes, who looks and acts liked a genetic clone of Kramer who was raised by Adrian Monk since birth, or
3)the fact that the commercial closes with a precocious little kid voiceovering, "Take Airborne, bay-bee!", and thus managing to sound like the unholy love spawn of Austin Powers.

Is Airborne Commercial Guy one of the Bradys, or am I just crazy?

Yep its Greg Brady. Sad, isn't it?

I hate this testimonial-type Hidden Valley Ranch commercial I've been seeing all the time, just because they have a little girl saying, "It really tasteses good!" This is not cute! Learn grammar before you do commercials, Gollum Girl.

Saw a fun ad today while at the gym. Guy drags his girl out of the kitchen, telling her to close her eyes. He takes her out to the front yard and tells her to open her eyes. As she gasps over the pretty red car in the driveway (with a big bow on the roof), he says something like, "Am I forgiven, or am I forgiven?" She continues drooling over the car and says, "How on earth can we afford this?" in a wondering manner.

That's when they flash the Budget Rent-a-Car logo. Heh. I never did like the car-with-a-bow ads. This one made me happy.

Have you guys seen the ad for On Star where they play the call from the little girl?

Do you know what the mom was sick with? I always seem to catch the tail end of that commercial. Also, it made me cry, but that's not uncommon for me. I'm the biggest wuss.

My annoyance is set off not only by Michelle Trachtenberg's aforementioned boniness, but by the ugliness of the guy ogling her. I just want to smack that look off his disgusting face.

there's a great new Southwest ad:

One of those water cooler bottle delivery truck guys is coming out of a house on a sunny day, sees a basketball in the driveway and decides to shoot at the hoop (which is in front of a windowed garage door), right in front of the Homeowners who are doing some planting in the walkway. What happens couldn't be more obvious. It cracks me up everytime i see it.

Shouldn't Travelocity be paying royalties to the Amelie people? Or is the "travelling garden gnome" more common a theme than I had previously believed?

On this Amelie thread I go to they were talking about that- apparently the traveling gnome has been around a long time, far before Amelie. I think he whores himself out quite a lot.
Perhaps the bubbles going up his whoops-a-daisy are responsible for his silly smile.