Ooh, cronox5, another "wanna get away?" ad? I'll be looking out for it... They're hilarious.

Woo-hoo! Saw Coors "Wing-Dog" ad tonight and it was hilarious! Wing-dog makes all pickup lines go away...heh.

I just want to profess my love for the "dad" in the AOL ads. Saw the one where the son goes back in time. "Don't be stupid". A good theory, at any time.

Wing dog? Like Wing Man? Do tell.

How much do one of those Vermont Teddy Bears cost anyway? Their ads always say that you can customize it any way you want, so that must cost a pretty penny. Heh, that "undercover lover" bear that was posted above reminds me of Mr. Bear from Full House.

The funny thing about Airborne ads is that I only recognize Greg Brady from them. Their website is having a contest to win a year's supply of Airborne (you know, so you can be practically immortal) if you can name all of the people in their ads - who the hell are they?!

Speaking of NOT recognizing people, am I the only one who does not recognize like 3/4 of the women in those stupid Oh! Oh! Oxygen Channel ads? Was that their intention? Throw in "typical" women and add a dash of Madonna and Whoopi for flavor?

Yep! Ad is on a beach with our guitar guy singing. Ordinary guy with dog hanging out and dog runs over to group of hotties. Dog gets you in without having to think up a pickup line or actually approach the women. I had the cc on, so I wish I paid closer attention to the lyrics. One of them, though, was what I put in my above post.

(Etain looking like she's seen the other side) Oh sweet Christmas, it IS.

(Etain looking like she's seen the other side) Oh sweet Christmas, it IS.

(Etain looking like she's seen the other side) Oh sweet Christmas, it IS.

I've gotta see that Wing Dog commercial. Can Wing Cute Kid be far behind?

The thought makes me kinda nauseous. But then again, so does Coors

"Hey Ya" is this year's "Clocks".


The Sock Puppet is back!

**pauses to do happy dance**

You know, the one from pets.com? Now he's hawking a company that helps people with terrible credit.
Tagline (delivered by the puppet): "Everyone deserves a second chance".

In the famous words of Guinness: Brilliant!

I wondered that myself and concluded "Greg Brady" is the only celebrity in their ad.

New ad hate goes out to Ford for their crappy new ad campaign with the "auto expert" going on and on about their new van.

Random comments:

1) This guy's voice and mannerisms just bug. Hey, you stupid fuck, you're a paid endorser, what makes you think I'm going to listen to you? I don't care about all of the cubby holes that you love thankyouverymuch.

2) Honda has had the disappearing third row seat for years. Ford, you didn't invent it and I believe that you're the last automaker to join the party.

3) The version with the woman that's having trouble removing her rear seat from her Dodge Caravan should tell him to shut. the. fuck. up. and get away with that smug and annoying knowitall attitude.

While I'm on the subject of auto ads...

[creepy Harley Earl voice] psst, The Buick Ranier is just an Envoy in a new dress [/creepy Harley Earl voice]

Okay, I feel better now.

The only thing I like about the Ford Freestar ad is Kate Mulgrew's voiceover at the end. And that's only because I recognized it before my friends did.

Commercial I'm hating at the moment: The commercial for Angel Season 3 on DVD that comes on during FX's Buffy reruns. It's on at least every commercial break and it's so damn repetitive. They did the same thing with Buffy Season 5 and Firefly.

I was just coming on here to post that very sentiment. I loathe, yes, loathe, that commercial. It's on all the time here in NYC and it just makes me want to throw something at my television.

And *that's* Greg Brady? Oh, that is just wrong on so many levels.

Love the Wing-dog and the Roaming Gnome!

Really? I kinda like that ad - see, I figure that it's fairly safe to assume that any car/van I buy will run, so the whole hemi-crap does not impress me. I do believe that most people make their final decisions on "silly" things like cup holders and how convenient the radio knobs are, etc, etc. So I think it's kinda smart for them to focus on this in the ads.
But maybe that's just me.

hancox17, don't forget your hat!

Gollum Girl! Hee!!!!

I haven't seen Adam Corrolla pitching Vermont Teddy Bears, and actually shudder at the thought. I love Vermont Teddy Bears. They are my standard gift for friends when they have babies, you can personalize with names and birthdates. And yes, they are quite pricey.

I really want to see Wing Dog. I might never get to hear the lyrics though since my dog finds it necessary to bark and growl at every animal that appears on our tv screen.

Fortunately, it's just Adam Corrolla's voice. You don't actually see him.

You only see them once in a blue moon, but I just lurve the commercials for the Daily Buzz, the Wb's crappy morning news show. It captures the wackiness/train wreck quality of the show in quick takes of Mitch English running around, Ron Corning getting disgusted with him, Andrea, well, she just smiles. But they play this really rare ska cut you've never heard of, The Pietasters "Factory Concerto", which is just wicked cool.

I never watched Buffy:TVS all that much, I am aware of who Michelle Trachtenburg is. The commercial really seems like all the best moments are in the commercial, just another lame Road-Trip type movie. Maybe in about five years I won't feel icky if she appears in a bikini again.
A good kids' commercial is for Corn Pops, the kids are playing in the hallway, breakdancing to some generic techno music, and then suddenly somebody changes it to a generic love song, and the guy pops and locks anyways. Not too annoying, and makes me remember that Corn Pops are good.
I'm debating whether to qualify it as a commerial for "Ed, Edd, and Eddy", but there's a really cool bit on Cartoon Network that features "Plank", the piece of wood one kid carries around, it has a smiley face drawn on it, you've seen it , right? Well, it's a live action with some type of (Chroma-key, I would think?) stop-motion animation of Plank, and a beautiful song plays about "My best friend Plank." I so want that song. It's actually really nice.

They have the full-length clip here. It's such a cute, funny video.

Okay, I have finally seen the Clorox commercial with the Bubbling Goo Pit of Death (discussed in ye old ages) and I am completely disgusted. My skin was literally crawling when they showed it. Ick. Word about the scariness of Nona Mecklenburg/Harriet/Dawn/Michelle Trachenburg being a teenage sex kitten now. My fond memories of The Adventures of Pete and Pete are now completely and finally tainted ,a process which began when I saw older Pete in 40 Days and 40 Nights (Um, I didn't purposefully watch this movie, I swear. The remote just, uh, it uh, it fell behind the couch. Stop judging me!)

JenD, the girl starts by saying that her mom is having a seizure. That one pulls at my heart every single time.

"Plank" sounds really familiar...and not from EEE. I couldn't get the clip to load to jog my memories of anything besides that show. Although perhaps I'm just confusing it with "Little Wooden Boy" from the original Tick cartoon. But...it's the word "plank" that's ringing the bells...

Rawr. I guess this was OT.

A local talk radio station here pipes the Fox News Network, so all I heard was the audio portion of this new ad that made me luagh. It was for Fed-Ex and featured some co-workers talking about getting this package out overnight or they'd be "DOOMED!DOOMED!DOOMED!" in loud dramatic voices. I was laughing too hard to catch the ending, but apparently the woman they passed the job to (who was going to use FedEx) didn't make exclaimations of "DOOM!DOOM!DOOM!", causing them to say something or other.

Oh yeah, I saw a new ad for Brawny that just oozed of HoYay! this evening. This ad features two rolls of the paper towels watching TV and them kivitching about the soap opera the one is watching. Apparently there are two versions of the towel with two different men on it now, for some reason, but I am sure they're gay lovers, heh heh. "Quite smiling like that!"

Eeeeeep! I too, got the HoYay vibes from the Brawny ad. Well, it was more like HoNay! The Brawny dude gives me Chuck Norris vibes. Chuck Norris = Hate of 1,001 blazing hot suns. I don't wanna think about him involved in any sort of sexual activities. I don't wanna think of him at all.

Keep an eye out for the commercial on TV, as it is quite wonderful with two guys in the foreground striking Shatneresque poses while shouting "DOOMED!" and a guy in the background who otherwise is minding his own business but manages to chirp in his "DOOMED!" on cue every time.

I totally misread this at Porn Cops. That might be a good kid's commercial anyway.

I looooove that commercial. "We've taken all the drama out of international shiping," heh. Wasn't there a similar commercial with a crisis over a jammed stapler?

Same here.

I adore the Travelocity gnome. The way he says "stinky cheese" makes me titter. The spongemonkeys remind me of this cover.

Ironic that they changed the picture on the package because, according the the Brawny company, "He looked like a 1970's porn star"

I remember that when Liberace died, SNL quipped that Scott Thorson would have to go back to being "the Brawny paper towel guy." There's your HoYay!

(edited because towel ain't spelled "towell")

Is he the one waxing melodramtic about getting a paper-cut and being "DOOMED!DOOMED!DOOMED!"?

I keep seeing the TVland awards ad and have two questions:

• Who is the dorky fellow talking about Andy Griffith being a TV staple in North Carolina and trying to sing the Green Acres theme song?
• Why is John Schneider dressed like a dork? Is he making extra money doing the lawn work at TV land HQ or teaching shop class?

This brings back so many memories. VH1 made fun of this PSA in one of their I Love the 80s shows. It's a classic. I remember so many PSAs from afternoon cartoons like the dancing junkie one. It shows this guy running down the street or having a seizure or something with his arms flapping around and a girl says "I want to be a ballerina when I grow up." Then, "nobody ever says 'I want to be a junkie when I grow up.'"

And the truth PSA with Alfonso from Silver Spoons and Fresh Prince.
"Who broke my window?"
"Telling the truth isn't going to be easy."
"Who broke my window?"
"Why is my stomach getting so queasy?
Mr. Robinson, Mr. Robinson, I broke your window with my ball."
"You?"
"Yes, and I'm here to confess. blah, blah, blah."
"You told the truth."
"I told the truuuuuuuuuuuuth."

Wow, it's scary how these things get lodged into your brain for all eternity.

I remember that broken window PSA. Wasn't it from the Mormons? You know, "A message from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints"?

Has anyone seen one of those Mormon PSAs recently? I think they used to air a lot in the afternoons, during kids' programming, but I don't watch afternoon TV anymore so maybe I just wouldn't see 'em. (Or maybe the Mormons finally gave up on getting people to be honest and nice to each other.)

My hubby got me a Vermont Teddy Bear for Valentine's Day about five years ago. He had it delivered to my work thinking that all the ladies in the office would be jealous of my adorable little cupid bear with his little diaper, and "I love you" sash. And trust me, they were. They're pricey, but well made, with great detail, and they're just so cute. I got the little alien bear for my birthday a couple of years later.

I completely forgot about this one! Classic! I remember cracking up big-time everytime I saw this...

Does anyone remember the ads for some sort of kids' charity? There's this guy who buys a girl a dollhouse and sends it to her, and she writes back, "I never met you, but I love you!" It annoyed me to no end back in the day and I was just thinking about it now, lol

Don't forget the ending: "Parents who use drugs have children who use drugs."

I love that one! I've been looking for a sound clip of that for a while now, but with no luck. I'll just have to wait until VH1 airs "I Love The 80s: 1987" so I can get it on tape.

Oh, speaking of...



Did they show the whole thing or did the commentators just talk over it?



It's a control issue, plain and simple. I can't believe I'm giving this much thought to a commercial, of all things. *hangs head in shame*

No, they show the PSA in all its full length, uninterrupted glory! Yeah! Mr. Btcpossee and I were watching this and remembering when we were kids - this dad was a real junkie! He had syringes, needles, god knows what else was in there. Scared us to death back in the day!

Proof the companies like The Truth, with their aggressively anti-smoking ads, are NOT effective:

The high school that I work at is having a big anti-smoking week, and the company has put up posters on every inch of the hallways. Two girls were walking by and one of them says, "Geez...with all the posters of cigarettes all over, I feel like I should take up smoking."

Truth: Corrupting the minds of teens everywhere.

I am upset by the new Tropicana ad (I think it's Tropicana) about their "healthier" orange juice.

All the oranges are running on treadmills, working out on elliptical trainers, jogging around a track, and jumping rope to try to get "healthy" enough to jump into the carton. They're all panting and groaning because they're working so hard, and I'm sitting there in front of my TV yelling "STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THEY'RE GOING TO SQUISH YOU UP AND SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF YOU! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY, DROP THE JUMP ROPE AND GO EAT A TWINKIE!!"

Oh? And the worst part? Is when one orange decides to go swimming and jumps off a diving board into a BIG POOL OF ORANGE JUICE!!! Now, if THAT doesn't clue them all in as to their ultimate fate, I don't know what will.

It's too much like the Pepperidge Farms goldfish race. Which also upset me terribly.

Hee. I love that one. My friends and I used to fill a lull in the conversation by interjecting, "I want to be a junkie when I grow up." You know, just to prove them wrong.


Yes. As a matter of fact, I saw one just a few weeks ago. I can't remember anything about it, because I wasn't sure where the commercial was going until the end, but it was definitely a "be nice to people because being nice is good" and they said "Church of blah blah blah Latter-Day Saints". It was weird, and I'm surprised I haven't seen it again since.


Yeah, but there's a mile of difference between a sarcastic remark and actually taking up smoking to spite the anti-smoking ads. The thing about PSAs is that it doesn't matter how popular or well-received they are, just how effective they are at communicating their message.

I mean, you hear people say they're going to take up smoking because they hate the ads, but how many actually do?

Word. The funny thing is, the dad was wearing a nice suit in the commercial and looked like he held a pretty good job; I guess he just knew how to hold his drugs. Nothing takes the edge off of that 3:00 board meeting like a nice hit of black tar heroin.

Why all the junkie PSAs during afternoon cartoons? Was there that big a threat of little kids turning into junkies in the 80s? All the would-be junkies were already on the streets doing drugs instead of sitting in front of the TV after school.

I'm hating this new DirecTV ad with all these guys at this one friend's house and their TV doesn't receive their favorite football game. Then the guy's standing outside his house yelling at the viewer, "Are you sad? Boo-hoo-boo-hoo. Don't whine about it! GET IT!" I'm like, yeah, I'm really going to buy satellite TV from you, asshat. Oh, wait. My parents already did. Damn.

The one Truth ad that has really stuck in my mind as being nuts is the one where they actually encouraged people to tear tobacco ads out of magazines. Then a quick little written disclaimer said "Only tear ads out of your own magazines." Well, obviously anyone doing this already knows cigarettes are bad, so what's the point of telling them to "silence big tobacco's voice" and then saying they could only do it to themselves?

Or the title of a Kidz Bop compilation.

Love the Corn Pops kid, the look on his face when the love song comes on is perfect.

Speaking of kids in cereal commercials, the one that always gets me is the Kix commercial, where the kids are struggling to open the box while talking about how it doesn't have sugar or frosting or anything. At the end, the one kid comments that it's really hard to open. Is it just me, or are ALL cereal boxes hard to open? It's not just kids that have issues, in recent years, they've wanted to make you WORK for your cereal, so you always end up either tearing apart the box, or screwing up the bag or something. It's a cereal company conspiracy and this is the first time they've publically admitted to it.

For New England TWOPers: I can't stand the latest "Sullivan Tire" commercial. I thought the one they had a couple of months ago, with all the kids was really cute, but this latest one with just a little girl and the company prez makes my ears bleed.

On a national level, I don't like the Quaker Oats commercial with the kids who says, "she's my mom, and I'm her son" etc. He just bugs me.

They wanted kids to be prepared in case their little dealer friends came knocking on the back door before the parents got home. I guess.