Hee! This quote in the same post as "glittery hoo-hoo"!

I would say I'm 12, but that would be too mature.

Thought I'd put my useless research on work time to good use. The M & Ms are B&W as part of a contest. There will be six bags of M&Ms that have all ONE color in them. If you get that bag, you win a VW Beetle convertible in that color, a trip to LA and $20000. I think they are just doing for something fun to do.


To be honest, I saw the "not a real Jeep" to be a Hummer, which as you are probably are aware, are much more expensive than any Jeep, including a loaded Grand Cherokee. But, that doesn't make much sense, since a Hummer probably is very capable--but, it isn't Trail Rated, either. At any rate, most SUVs that have any real capability are as expensive or more so than most Jeeps. I didn't see it as snobbery--just the fact that the kid's SUV couldn't do what the Jeeps did. And I have no idea why I just defended this ad and Jeeps with such vigor.


It is? I thought he was doing an internet search and did Swimsuit Model to find pics/mpegs/etc of mommy. Maybe I misunderstood. I thought the ad was cute and knowing Elle is pushing 40, I had no idea that was her. She's hot!

Some of the McDonald's commercials I'm seeing end with some sort of weird techno-videogame music, it mostly makes me think of the crappy music for the NES game "3-d Worldrunner". You know, the one that had the nonsense ending and the 3-d glasses? Okay, I'm old.

I have GOT to stop reading this forum at work! They will only replace so many keyboards.

OK, I got a list of my own for commercial loves and hates:

HATE the Goodbye Girl video that I am subjected to multiple time during the day. I also hate myself for singing along with it if I am legitimately watching TV and not using it as background.

LOVE the AOL baby ad, even though I was more than prepared to hate it. I just can't help it, that baby makes me smile.

HATE the Dentyne Fire ad waaaay more than the Dentyne Ice commercial. Why? Well you know how everything is all black and serious, then hot latin guy pops in a piece of red gum. So of course the table and his date's clothes explode into shades of fire engine red. So hot latin girl pops a piece into her mouth and the club, including the band, explodes into red. Everyone and everything except hot latin guy. He still wears black. WTF?

LOVE some new Efferdent ad. I've only seen it once, about a couple of days ago. There is this yellow smiley face on the screen, on a white background. I think there was this fizzy sound going on in the background, I don't know, but by now I'm getting bored. Then the smily face erupts into the biggest, most huge Enzyte looking grin I've ever seen. GAWD I laughed so freaking hard.

LOVE the T Mobile ad with people looking at their cell phone bills. First is this 30-something black couple. The husband walks into the kitchen (or dining room, whatever) and drops a thick white envelope on one of those extendable end of a table. His wife says "What's that?" "The cell phone bill." It looked like my college orientation envelopes, geeze! Then they show this older woman in front of the mailbox, looking at her bill and screaming uncontrollably before she stops. Then she flips the paper over and screams some more (My favorite part BTW. I know, I'm so easy.)Then they show a guy in like his home office and he starts shredding the bill like a dog. Go back to the first couple, and the extendable ledge collapses under the weight of the envelope. I don't understand my fascination with this commercial, but I really really love it.

That's it for now.

I confess to loving this jingle but reserve the right to change my mind at any moment. But the commercial? Not so much. I'm supposed to eat two bowls of Special K instead of two meals every day for two weeks? No thanks.

Finally saw the M&Ms with Dorothy. I don't understand how they were able to get away with this - The Wizard of Oz was declared a "National Treasure" several years ago which is why it can no longer be edited for television - supposedly it can't be shown in any altered form (although this didn't stop TBS from showing a "Sing-A-Long" version of the film last year so who knows?)

Still, it's so wrong on so many levels. What's next, Scarlett O'Hara, stepping over miles of dead colored M&Ms strewn about the streets of Atlanta?

Whatever happend to "Melts in your mouth, not in your hand?" Now that's a selling point. Animating the candies and giving them faces, arms and legs does not make you want to eat them. Unless you're Hannibal Lecter, I guess. I predict B&W M&Ms last about as long as New Coke.

Amberosia I love those T-Mobile ads too, especially the screaming woman at the mailbox.

I was in the grocery store today, and saw Turkey Hill ice cream, which reminded me of one of my favorite ads ever. Because I'm 6. The ad is a guy saying (paraphrased) "We've been in this business for x years, and if there's one thing we've learned, it's that Giant Cow makes people smile." Something about the truck just pulling a massive cow statue down the street just amuses the hell out of me. Giant Cow made me smile.

Ha. My son (age 11) told me very seriously the other night, "Mom, those Kids Bop singers ruined that song." Way to hit the target audience. However, since he wants the real song, I'm going to have to listen to the lyrics very carefully; I didn't catch the adult reference on casual listening before. Thanks, guys!

Arabella, re: the Honda ad: Love it! But I think it got discussed when it first came out.

So, someone explain this question I've had for several years. A land with elbow macaroni living like people, bathing in cheese, and having tons of fun. So were does freaking Cheesasaurus Rex fit into this wonderful world? Is he that giant clump of partially mixed fake cheese powder that would inevitably end up in my bowl as a child?

This question has been brought to you by too much Nickelodeon... and the letter "F".

Hey Ya? Do the kids sing "Don't want to meet your Mama, just want to make you come-a?"

eta- Sorry about that, Vermicious Knid. Didn't mean to salt your game.

It's terrible, but there's a local commercial for a nursing home around here, and all the people in it look like serious dementia cases. Like a shot of this woman clapping her hands with this spacey smile on her face, and old people standing in a circle throwing a ball that looks like it could kill them around. And the worst part? I can't help laughing every single time I see it. I am so going to hell.

Mr. Smee and I went to "Return of the King" on Christmas Eve. When we went in and sat down they were playing the trailer/video/commercial/whatever for this. I asked "Why is Hootie singing to Mrs. Raymond?" "Why does Mrs. Raymond look so constipated?" "Why did they remake this movie? What was wrong with the original one?"

He had no answers. This looks seriously bad. Jeff Daniels even does the "I. Don't. Like. The panties. Drying. On. The. Rod." thing just like Richard Dreyfuss. Patricia Heaton didn't do much in the "video" except stand in the rain and make anguished faces and cry.

I bet she's the producer or something, and made it as a "vehicle" to showcase her "talent".

Awww. don't deprive him of some good Hey Ya! just because they talk about coming. Most kids won't pick up on that. Well, I wouldn't have but I was a pretty stupid kid. Besides, I think you can buy a radio edit version.

I thank God that there was no "GoodByd\e Girl" trailer before Return of the King. The seven hours I spent in the theatre watching that damn hobbit were bad enough--if Patricia Heaton was there too I would have been suicidal.

TexasGal, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who loves the Michelin dog. I was starting to feel a little lonely.



Between sparkly pits, glittery hoo-hoos (my new band name) and the above, I've been laughing like a drain for the last 10 minutes. My husband thinks I'm nuts. Not that that's new, or anything.

My second time seeing RotK we got the trailer for Hidalgo. I just can't buy Viggo Mortensen as an Indian half-breed whose greatest love is his horse.

Thanks to you guys, I have the melody for Band of Gold running through my head, only she's singing about 'Pons of Gold. Thanks guys.

Glittery hoo-hoos must fit somewhere in Lady Marmalade.

I just want to admit that I like the Whoopi Goldberg Slim Fast commercial.

I like it for two reasons:

1. She names sizes 10 and 12 as examples of the dieter's goals. As opposed to, oh... say, every woman's magazine out there that considers 10 and 12 to be plus sizes, and focuses more on sizes like 4 and 2.

2. I just really like the goofy way Whoopi dances out of the frame at the end. It's so random. It's made me laugh every time I've seen it.

Especially when they are pushing it as a true story, despite the fact that the whole thing probably didn't happen. I never understand movie promos that know they are going to have credibility problems trumpeting the "true story" aspect. Most times people don't give a damn.

Maybe someone else out there remembers my all time favorite commercial. I saw it a total of two times during commercial breaks for The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. Here is what I remember of it:

It opens with a close up on a guy wearing ski clothes pulling his goggles down onto his face. The camera pulls back to reveal him getting ready to ski down a mountain of fertilizer (the kind you get from cows), and the VO (announcer, male) says "Bandini Mountain dares to go where only cows have gone before!" The skier launches himself down the "slope". Cut to the skier doing a face-plant in the stuff while VO (sexy, female) says "Looove that fertilizer."

I would give both of my cats for a tape of that commercial.

I got "Purple Rain" when I was, like eight and I confess "Darling Nikki" flew right over my head. And there is indeed a clean edit to the song anyway.

Topic: Have y'all seen the "Cheer!" video-- where they show you how to do the top cheerleading moves? You get a free set of pompoms if you order it RIGHT NOW. Hate that commercial almost as much as I hate the Kidz Bop commercials. Kidz Bop still wins though. Mind you, I also had a Mini Pops album back in the day. I taped it over with a Police album when I hit eleven.

Their website has a note for parents, but they just give you a chance to sign up for updates, not explain their lyric editing process, alas. I have learned that Razor & Tie is responsible for both the Cheer! video and the horror that is Kidz Bop, though, so the day wasn't wasted.

He's pretty clueless too, so it'll probably be ok. I just don't want to get blindsided with a question about a lyric! I do like the song a lot myself!

This message is for BBC America. God knows Robson Greene is a fine, fine man, and his show looked interesting. But when you begin EVERY SINGLE F_ING COMMERCIAL BREAK with a promo for said show, I no longer want to watch it. Especially when he is addressing me, a potentially-smitten viewer, as if I am a serial killer which I totally am not. Your bad.

Knowing me, I'll probably shove a whole handful of M&Ms in my mouth and not realise that one of them was purple, or something, b/c they all end up turning "white" eventually. Well, there goes my fortune. Thanks a lot M&M!

When I was 11, a couple of my favorite songs were "Naughty Girls Need Love" and "Come Home with me Baby." Had the 7" of the former, and the 12" of the latter. Those songs were probably far less subtle than "Hey ya," yet I am fairly certain I was unclear on what "temporary love" (that feels so good) actually meant, and or what the androgynous lead singer of Dead or Alive's intentions were. Ooh, you're just so lucky! You've got the body I want! Like many of you, I find it actually skeevier that the kids are singing the words rather than just listening, but I think this method of sanitizing might work...the words are probably going over their heads and the singing kids won't be adding any inflections that the artists do.


I don't remember this ad but I remember it being referenced on Designing Women (the episode when Charlene tries to become a country singer).

A little poking around reveals that the main character of Hidalgo is real, and the race is real, and it looks like he really did run it. So biakbiak it seem it actually is 'based on a true story'. Of course that won't stop them from glomming lots of sensationalist things into the plot that probably didn't happen.

I saw the black and white M&Ms at Target this weekend. Freaky.

Actually, Vermicious Knid, the race is real, Hildalgo is real, but there is much debate over whether or not Frank T. Hopkins ever ran the race or ever did half the things he claimed to do.

This commercial makes me want to become a serial killer just out of spite.

Okay, so I had a coupon, so I bought a bag of the B&W M&Ms (I swear I had a coupon). They taste the same -- if you close your eyes. If you look, you will swear they taste funny. Like, licorice-y. And they definitely look really, really wrong. The bag mentioned both the contest and the fact that you can order custom color combo M's from some website. I think that may be the point of foisting these freak-of-nature M&Ms on us, to goad us into desperately ordering non-good&plenty-looking "real" M&Ms.

Back to topic, my local cable company is running an ad for its cable modem service that is driving me buggy. It's a bunch of people saying these self-identifying phrases, like, "I'm a grandmother" and "I'm a chick flick fanatic" (no, that's not the worst part, although the woman who says it overenunciates it so much I'm surprised there isn't spit inside my TV). The people are pretty obviously relatives of employees. Especially this pre-school moppet, who screams every line. Her first ear-splitting scream? "I'm A Actress." No, hon, you're the spoiled daughter of the owner of the cable company. Makes me cringe every time. TV is making me hate small children. And candy. Augh.

Sorry, guess I wrote that poorly. The idea is that 6 bags of M&Ms throughout the country each have all the M&Ms inside a single color. Thus, a winning bag of M&Ms will have all red or blue or whatever M&Ms inside. I did see something on the website about M&Ms Mini's. Are these new? Or have they been around for a while?

The M&M's minis have been around for awhile.
The commercial features the Big M&M's chasing around the minis, and they function as one whole unit, doing wacky things all around the CGI landscape, and the big M&M's try to get them back into their tube. If you're in the US you can find them in a convenience store.
Which brings me to the fact I hate seeing 7-11 commercials and we don't have a single one in the whole state of Georgia. Circle K has bottles of beer on ice, but still. My first love, you know.

Ah, here's something I've not seen addressed:

In the NYC metro area, there are ads for Broadway shows (not surprisingly). Just saw a new one for CHICAGO, and it reminded me of another CHICAGO ad a while back that used this GOD-AWFUL, ELECTRONICA mix of "All That Jazz."

Just....no. The clips of "new wave" songs from TABOO are better than that.

Hee, etain, I'd been thinking about posting about this. Because? While most of the "Taboo" ad sounds good, the part where the chorus is singing, "Dressed to Kill/Kill to dress..." sounds like something from a MadTV parody. I giggle every time I hear it. It's so doofy. It's like the "Aida" ads when, after a bit of tres-Broadway ballading, suddenly the cast begins shrieking, "AI-EEEE-DA, AI-EEEE-DA..." like crazed zombies.

No, that's just her regular face.

I was watching L&O tonight, and Listerine blessed us with recaps of the show during every single commercial. How long has this been going on? Thanks a lot, Listerine. But I was paying attention before the commercial started, and in three minutes I'm not likely to have forgotten. Sheesh.

Another peeve? Since when is the fact that a movie is being shown relentlessly for the next three days been a selling point? Tune in to our channel, we've got ONE movie and you are going to watch it over and over and over and...

That one of my pet peeves. I mean I guess its sort of good because it reminds me that their endless showings of L&O will not be on, but I can't think its a selling point.

Gotta comment on the kid bop cd things. I think they should officially call it quits considering on of the many local "buck or two" stores plays those damn songs over the PA.

Still waiting for those kid bop fucks to do a "cover" of Closer by NIN, i'd actually buy one of cd's too hear that=D

Ohmigoodness, wj... it's like you read my mind. The other night, I had some friends over and we caught that commercial. I proferred that I'd buy it if it were children singing horribly inappropriate songs, i.e. Closer, Untouchable Face (Ani Difranco), etc. Teehee, great (or sick) minds think alike.

Alright, I know it's probably been mentioned at some point here, but has any actually used that Climatique gel? Just curious....

I would pay anything to hear the Kidz Bop version of "Closer." I am a pervert.

Hey, I had one of those as a kid! Sadly, my brother and I were the only kids in the neighborhood, but if there were more kids we would have glady gave them a lift.



Ha! Just kidding, we would've pointed and laughed at them.

Given that I'm sure it's basically just Astroglide with some kind of inert herbal compound added, I'd say any number of us probably have.

I remember back in the old days when those were in comic books and on matchbook covers. There was a cute puppy dog in addition to the pirate and Tipsey Turtle, right?


As God is my witness, I will NEVER be hungry AGAIN!!!!! (Shovels M&Ms into mouth)

Ah, that makes more sense. But, still...it would have been cool to have a whole colorless bag of M&M and find a nice red one in there!

Are mini M&Ms affected by the whole colorless thing? Is it just me, or do mini M&M's "taste" better? They sure do melt better (read: quicker)!


Holy crap. What's the point? However, Kid Bop is a bit more entertaining than the other one they have a commercial for, with kiddy songs like "If You're Happy & You Know It" (take a nap!), and "Ring Around the Rosie", etc.


Fucking. Funny. Please contact the ad agency - as creepy as it may be, I'd still love to see it!

See, kids don't like this crap. I remember when my sister was six and I was five my mom tried to make us listen to the kids music station on the radio; we complained all the way through every car ride we ever took. Eventually, my mom got so irritated that she let us listen to normal music again. Kids aren't stupid (well, most of them aren't).



If I never find a way to work this phrase into a conversation, my life will have been meaningless

I'm waiting to see the Fisher-Price commercial featuring "Strokin'" by Clarence Carter.

'Stroke it Clarence Carter, but don't stroke so fast
If my stuff ain't tight enough, you can stick it up my..." WOO!




Speaking of hard to understand kids, I have no idea what the brat in the AFLAC/Santa coming down the chimney commercial was saying.

Ok. Just this morning saw the most God-awful, warm and fuzzy ad for, of all things, UPS.

UPS guy (average looking. Hello? Most of them used to be HOT!) is standing by a woman's desk. She is looking at a picture, and he says, "Oh, yeah, you have that hot date tonight". She confirms, then her co-worker drops a ton of papers on her desk and says that they have to go to Beijing immediately. UPS guy helpfully says "We go there", and she jumps on the UPS website. Next cut, she is gone, and UPS guy notices that she has dropped her tickets to whatever she is supposed to be seeing. Next cut, he is driving his van down the street and picks her out of the crowd of people to give her the tickets she dropped.

Now, this is so, so wrong on so many levels.

UPS drivers are notorious for being in a constant rush to get to their next delivery, because of the insane schedule they are given every day, not to mention that the handy-dandy tracking scanner tells the powers that be exactly where they are at all times.

So, (1) he would not stand around waiting for her to get a package prepared. (2) He also would not still be in her office after she had gone. And (3) he would not take time from his schedule to track her down on the street, even if it were possible to do so.

Also, why the hell would the UPS guy know so much about her personal life outside the office? My UPS guy barely knows my name, much less anything about my life.

What this ad is is a "soft-and-fuzzy, aren't we the greatest corporation on God's green Earth" type commercial. Sorry, I don't buy it. Just about every person in America knows how you run your business. With military efficiency. Spare us the "oh so concerned about our customers" bullshit. You are only concerned with staying on top and making millions of dollars.

Oh, and one more thing for UPS. Calling yourself "Brown" is pretentious and irritating. "What can Brown do for me?" Quit calling yourself "Brown" would be a great start.

You mean right at the end? I'm pretty sure it's (or something close to this) "At least send down the toys!" HEE! "Yeah, sorry you are stuck in our chimney, but before you die of carbon monoxide poisoning, please gimme what I want."

I love AFLAC ads; each and every one.

Now that Bally's is running ads using Ace of Base's "The Sign," the radio stations have been playing it all the time. Damn you, Bally's!

Hee, you called it "NES." Oh, but wait. I knew what you were talking about. I guess I'm old too. I remember "Genesis does ... what Nintendo don't." God, bad grammar bothered me even then.

Me too, and here's why: everything looks shittier after they pop in the gum. Crappy hair, dress, etc.

Bwah! I know the song, but I don’t know the lyrics (if that makes any sense)? Hmm, maybe its because they used to change the damn lyrics every two weeks? "It's a Muppet Baby-roni" -- no, "it's a Where's Waldo-roni." "New Pee-Wee's Playhouse-roni!" Are they still doing this?

Hey, candy guys? Why the hell would I want to order custom-color m&ms? I mean, there's nothing right about that. Ordering m&ms? No. Custom-colorizing m&ms? No. Word to whoever said this is going the way of New Coke.

Oh, lord. I would not put it past them. Hee!

Plus, it reminds me of poop. Also, no one, in the history of the world, has ever referred to UPS as "Brown." IMO, that makes it more weird than pretentious.

Thanks, Tornado25! That's exactly what I was talking about! I had no idea what she was screeching.

I miss the old Bally's post-Christmas commercials: people opening wrapped boxes and exclaiming "I got a big butt!" or "Thunder thighs, wow!" with these really goofy expressions on their faces. Cracked me up.

Jeaux35, thank you for your UPS rant! See, my UPS guy is actually quite friendly and knows me by name. He always says hi if I run in to him in the street near his truck, or inmy building.
But the point is...who cares! I have plenty of friends, but none of them can deliver a package for me across country in 2 days. UPS should drop the warm, "brown" crap (no pun intended) and pitch themselves as follows:

"We're UPS. We're not your buddies and we don't care about your life. But we'll deliver your stuff faster & cheaper than anyone else."

You may want to track down something called "The Langley School Music Project" or something like that. It dates back to the 70's, and is now circulating in the outsider music fan base.

Topic: There's an ad for Fleet bank that made me go "hmmm" recently. It features a bunch of tellers addressing the camera and saying things like, "If you need a loan processed, I need a loan processed. If you need to transfer funds, I need to transfer funds..." stuff like that. Clearly, the message they're trying to convey is, "We make your problems our personal concern and thus will work to solve them."

However, among the things they're saying are things like "If you have questions about your investments, I have questions about your investments..." and "if you need help deciding between mortgages, I need help deciding between mortgages..." I wonder if they realize that instead of the "your problems are mine so I'll fix them" message, this conveys the message that, "you got questions? Hell, I don't know how to answer them either."

I did a double take on that. For a brief moment I wondered when and how Fleet enemas were being advertised. Now that would be a challenge.

On the hate train this morning for those stupid squirrel boys from Taco Bell. "These docile looking creatures..." can go fuck their burritos and get off my screen.

I'm also seconding (or thirding, or mor-ing) the poster way upthread who mentioned the Durango ad where the dad is apparently worried mom is turning Precious Male Heir gay by telling him about the DVD player and smooth ride instead of grunting "HEMI!"

Now. About M&Ms. I've had a life-long love affair with M&Ms. Plain, crunchy, not so much for peanut although I love J.K. Simmons doing the voice. The Wizard of Oz ad irritates me, and a parody of Casablanca ("The problems of two people don't amount to a hill of M&Ms in this crazy world"), Now, Voyager (Paul Henried opens a bag and gives half to Bette Davis), or North by Northwest (gray M&Ms being chased by plane) would annoy me because I love those movies.

But Gone with the Wind is fair game in my book, and Sharks v. Jets from West Side Story would make me laugh.

Anyone seen the highlighter commercial where the guy successfully gets off work by going into his boss' office saying he doesn't feel well with his face painted highlighter yellow? And a followup commercial where his co-worker fails in the same plot because he used pink highlighter? Hee.

And back to my Guiness love - "Drinking six beers at a time? BRILLIANT!"