steering fish
Feb 22, 2004 @ 12:57 am
You just know that kid has all kinds of fun when his friends come over!
I can't imagine any kids wanting to be friends with someone whose father is such a freak. If anything, the poor bastard is probably ostracized in school.
Tanathir
Feb 22, 2004 @ 12:59 am
Backing up the thread a bit:
I want a pet spongemonkey. That is all.
skittl3862
Feb 22, 2004 @ 1:03 am
They started using the 867-5309 song in yet another commercial (I think it was for a car, or a candy bar, who knows?) - what's with the comeback?
It was a Milky Way commercial. What the song has to do with a candy bar is beyond me. I loved the song previous to the commercial comeback, but now that it's played once every commercial break, I barely listen to it anymore. (No, I'm not stuck in the 80s, I wasn't born when the song came out, but I've loved it from age 13 on.)
StephenTrendy
Feb 22, 2004 @ 1:04 am
I'm a huge fan of white chocolate, so when I saw that commercial for the white chocolate Reese's cups, I was excited. Then, I tried one. They're okay, but the original is better.
ChinkyGirl
Feb 22, 2004 @ 1:19 am
I have a new commercial dog love! Just saw an ad for Zyrtec where this lady's walking her dog - I believe it's either a black/white
French bulldog or
Boston terrier, but it's oh-so-cute! Gives my Advair pug a run for its money :)
As you can tell, I'm obsessed with dogs, lol.
Vermicious Knid
Feb 22, 2004 @ 1:47 am
I remember going to some strange off-off-off Broadway drag vampire review (don't ask) in the '80s that featured the line "Blood of the innocents? You're soaking in it!" Everyone in the place cracked up.
I wonder if was the same guy responsible for
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, also a drag vampire show down in the Village. Freakin' hilarous too.
The Two Guys I remember was in Hackensack, so I don't know if they were outside the Jersey area. It became a Bradlees, which also went out of business a few years back. No idea what's there now because I don't live in those parts anymore.
I have been wracking my brain trying to remember what was on Channel 11 that was so facinating we would sit through that stupid PIX game. It was after school cartoons but I just can't remember which ones.
You think the Jumbone commercial is bad, remember the horror of 'Snausages'?
Felt sick yesterday so I went to sleep right after work and didn't get up until this afternoon. Otherwise I would have inflicted this on everyone a day earlier.
I'm a pepper
he's a pepper
she's a pepper
we are peppers
Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?[spongemonkey]"They got a pepppaaar baaaahrrrr!"
biakbiak
Feb 22, 2004 @ 4:54 am
Are we supposed to infer from the Jack in The Box ad about the chicken monster taco that the only reason it is on the menu is because his wife performed sexual favors to get it on the menu? Because that is what I got out of the commercial.
And it is an old ad but everytime I hear the Tommy Lee Jones SBC internet ad, I expect him to add a line about how his college roommate helped to secure funding for the creation of the internet.
steering fish
Feb 22, 2004 @ 5:01 am
The image of Jack in the Box getting laid is not one that I need in my mind right now. Doesn't that damn head of his get in the way?
OK, you know what I mean.
Sincerity
Feb 22, 2004 @ 6:13 am
Are we supposed to infer from the Jack in The Box ad about the chicken monster taco that the only reason it is on the menu is because his wife performed sexual favors to get it on the menu? Because that is what I got out of the commercial.
...Ew.
Although now I want a chicken taco. Damn, I'm hungry.
Bach-us
Feb 22, 2004 @ 9:56 am
Vermicious Knid, you forgot "you're a Pepper!"
mlooney
Feb 22, 2004 @ 10:01 am
No one has said any thing about this one yet, so here goes.
This weeks WTF was that award (TV Commercial branch) goes to:
Burger King for the "Who's the Champion".
I mean really. What is going on with that? I have zero idea what that whole ad is about. Any body that acts that way about a burger in any office I have worked at would be the next person for the "random" piss test. So putting double mayo on your cheese burger makes you the champion? What. The. Fuck.
glstx
Feb 22, 2004 @ 10:04 am
I hate the Applebees 3 course meal/do you love me now that I can dance commerical. But I don't hate it for the commerical itself. If I see that commerical, then walk away, and I find myself singing the song. But, not the real song, or even the Applebees song.. I find myself singing "We love you subs" AARRGG! Spongemonkeys have invaded my head!
ubi
Feb 22, 2004 @ 11:16 am
They started using the 867-5309 song in yet another commercial (I think it was for a car, or a candy bar, who knows?) - what's with the comeback?
I saw that song in a THIRD commercial now, but don't remember what it was for because I thought it was the Mily Way ad.
Burger King for the "Who's the Champion":
I mean really. What is going on with that? I have zero idea what that whole ad is about. Any body that acts that way about a burger in any office I have worked at would be the next person for the "random" piss test. So putting double mayo on your cheese burger makes you the champion? What. The. Fuck.
What the fuck indeed! BTW, the guy ordered double meat and double bacon (and triple cheese?) on that burger too. Yuck.
DoctorNeon
Feb 22, 2004 @ 11:40 am
Screamapiller , you should heard the ska bands "Mephiskapheles" version of the Bumblebee Tuna song. It's awesome.
As long as they're using people who create wacky flash animations for commercials (Joel rocks), they should consider.
..this sort of thing for Burger King. (It's not super-work friendly, so use headphones.)
I think they should consider having brochures for anti-cholesterol type medication with the way they're promoting the whole Atkins thing everywhere. Imho.
screamapiller
Feb 22, 2004 @ 12:52 pm
I have been wracking my brain trying to remember what was on Channel 11 that was so facinating we would sit through that stupid PIX game. It was after school cartoons but I just can't remember which ones.
VermiciousKnid, I'm pretty sure it was Tom and Jerry.
You think the Jumbone commercial is bad, remember the horror of 'Snausages'?
How could we? Brought to you by the same people who created the tragedy of "Pup-peroni"...
DoctorNeon, I actually have heard tale of the Mephiskapheles cover (a good pal is nutz for Ska), but I think I'll have to search it out for myself!
spork
Feb 22, 2004 @ 1:47 pm
Oh yes. I had a ska phase in junior high. This was before my goth phase. I remember the Mephiskapheles cover of Bumblebee tuna.
And I so love the spongmonkeys. They're so cute. I like the commercial version as much as the original version. "We loooooove the mooooooon. It is up in the sky. It's up there very high. But not as high as maybe dirigibles or zeppelins or lightbulbs. And maybe clouds. And puffins although I think maybe they go very high but maybe not as high as the moon because the moon is very high."
Sandman87
Feb 22, 2004 @ 2:21 pm
Speaking of retromercials:
Ooey gooey rich and chewy inside.
Golden flaky tender cakey outside.
Wrap the inside in the outside. Is it good? Darn Tootin'
Doin' the Big Fig Newton,
The Big Fig Newton.
Here's the tricky part...
The Big Fig Newton
One more time!!
The Big Fig Newtonnnnnn!
Does anyone remember who the actor was that played Big Fig? I want to say Charles Nelson Reilly, but I'm not sure.
phxchic
Feb 22, 2004 @ 2:33 pm
Not remembering that one. I only recall the "It's not a cookie--it's fruit and cake" in a snooty bad English accent that we spoofed in middle school.
I was watching Family Guy, and they had a gag based on the old Frosted Mini-Wheats commercials, where the adult would become the child but in the same clothes. You know, "The adult in me loves the fiber--but the kid in me loves the taste!"
Last night, I saw an Arizona Lottery ad I hadn't seen in forever. A guy goes to bowl, but he throws his arm back, the ball slips out and goes flying behind him. The ball comes all the way up to the TV screen, almost like it'll fly out. Like a moron, I flinched. Not just flinched, but put my arm up to block the big bowling ball flying at my head. I'm such a dork. A drunken dork.
Oh, and the bowler was the Honda raised by wolves guy, so now we've come full circle!
gemini_girl
Feb 22, 2004 @ 2:41 pm
The commercial I love at the moment is the Roaming Gnome for Travelocity. I giggle at that commercial every single time. "One's in danger of getting bubbles up one's woopsy daisy." and "Here's me on the luge and I feel, dare I say rather sexy."[/paraphrasing] Bwah!
NumberSix
Feb 22, 2004 @ 3:07 pm
Has anyone else seen the new Tacoma truck commercial where the girlfriend pushes the truck off a cliff and is shocked it isn't damaged. What exactly is the point: if your girlfriend doesn't "get" the truck, she's a shrieking destructive shrew?
xaxat
Feb 22, 2004 @ 3:14 pm
Miller beer has an ad featuring a middle aged man bicycling along in a snowstorm with a sixpack safely ensconced in the front basket. The voice over talks about neither rain nor snow will stop people power blah blah fishcakes.
I just think that it is so nice that 4 DWIs and the forfeiture of his licensce hasn't stopped this guy from taking his daughters bike to get his Miller. That's commitment!
Alexandria Bay
Feb 22, 2004 @ 3:34 pm
I, too, have love for the Roaming Gnome, mostly because I think that's Craig Ferguson doing the voice. (OT: Mimi may have crappy clothes taste, but she knew Mr. Wicke was the goods) I wish they'd do more of the ads, though, because even one's whoopsy daisy is getting a little weary of the same one over and over.
ChinkyGirl
Feb 22, 2004 @ 4:54 pm
I only recall the "It's not a cookie--it's fruit and cake" in a snooty bad English accent that we spoofed in middle school.
Heh, reminds me of, "Pardon me, do you have any Gray Poupon?" said in the bad English accent.
Also reminiscent of "Can ya please pass the jelly!" said in a bad Southern accent, followed by everyone dropping their silverware in disgust. It was for Polaner All-fruit, wasn't it?
Sincerity
Feb 22, 2004 @ 5:50 pm
Also reminiscent of "Can ya please pass the jelly!" said in a bad Southern accent, followed by everyone dropping their silverware in disgust. It was for Polaner All-fruit, wasn't it?
I don't remember what it was for, but the Southern accent got me thinking about "This salsa was made in New York City!" "NEW YORK CEEEETY?" I actually don't know if it says "this salsa", I only remember it at all because of RHPS screamer lines. That WAS a commercial, though, right? For Pace picante sauce?
ubi
Feb 22, 2004 @ 7:37 pm
Does anyone remember who the actor was that played Big Fig? I want to say Charles Nelson Reilly, but I'm not sure.
I'm pretty sure it was Charles Nelson Reilly as well -- he had thst trademark chuckle of his...
Also reminiscent of "Can ya please pass the jelly!" said in a bad Southern accent, followed by everyone dropping their silverware in disgust. It was for Polaner All-fruit, wasn't it?
Yes, it was.
Bach-us
Feb 22, 2004 @ 8:00 pm
"Could you please pass the jelly?" is for Polaner All-Fruit. The commercial is annoying but the product is good.
"Noo Yorrrrk City!" is for Pace. I'm still boycotting them for stupidity and maligning the place where I wish I could live. Who cares where the factory is? What idiot believes there's a cowboy out back of a ranch stirring salsa in San Antonio and that's where all the Pace salsa originates?
*ahem* Sorry.
I have a fun story about a bus driver and "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" but I'm afraid of the spork.
Vermicious Knid
Feb 23, 2004 @ 1:06 am
They played the full Grey Poupon commercial on one of the I Love the 80s specials. Just wait, it will show up again.
This new Skittles commercial, I like the background music and I like the fish popping out of the pet store and floating around, but how exactly is that 'tasting the flavor'?
Ok, so I forgot a line in a song I haven't heard in about 20 years. How about this instead?
My bologna has a first name
It's O-S-C-A-R.
My bologna has a second name
It's M-A-Y-E-R.
'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way
With B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
Cleo256
Feb 23, 2004 @ 1:08 am
Has anyone else seen the new Tacoma truck commercial where the girlfriend pushes the truck off a cliff and is shocked it isn't damaged. What exactly is the point: if your girlfriend doesn't "get" the truck, she's a shrieking destructive shrew?
I think the point is that if you get that particular truck, you can be the world's biggest asshat to strangers, friends, and family. Because even if you piss them off to the point where they're throwing your truck off a cliff, the truck will escape unharmed.
jcpdiesel21
Feb 23, 2004 @ 1:25 am
I just saw a commercial the other day that's a little old, but I still hate it all the same. A woman is searching for her Lean Pocket, and her husband is doing some work or repairs (I believe) outside a window and has said Lean Pocket. When the woman asks, "Honey, have you seen my Lean Pocket?" her husband replies, "No, I haven't seen your Lean Pocket anywhere," just before taking a bite. When he realizes that he's been caught, he pulls down the window shade to conceal himself. The woman pulls up the window shade to find her husband with the Lean Pocket, and he gives her a smug little shrug.
First, stupid man in the commercial, a window shade does not make you invisible. Second, I hate the stupid shrug he gives his wife. Moron.
wdejesus79
Feb 23, 2004 @ 1:43 am
This new Skittles commercial, I like the background music and I like the fish popping out of the pet store and floating around, but how exactly is that 'tasting the flavor'?
Skittles commercials must be what's it like to be high and hallucinating. They always remind me of being completely stoned and/or drunk, they're so strange.
StephenTrendy
Feb 23, 2004 @ 2:07 am
Skittles commercials must be what's it like to be high and hallucinating. They always remind me of being completely stoned and/or drunk, they're so strange.
I think you summed up why I love the skittles commercials. Those are the best commercials for candy, despite the retarded tagline (taste the rainbow? How does one do that?). Beats the Milky Way commercial, anyway.
The Last Dodo
Feb 23, 2004 @ 2:25 am
Another commercial that refuses to die...the Oust commercial with the woman who air quotes that it's an "air" "sanitizer". Why does this "dip" "shit" continue to plague us?
Jael
Feb 23, 2004 @ 3:17 am
My bologna has a first name
It's O-S-C-A-R.
My bologna has a second name
It's M-A-Y-E-R.
Oh, I love to eat it every day
and if you ask me why I'll saaaaaaaay
'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way
With B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
... remembered by someone who actually jumped rope to:
Big Mac
Fillet o' fish
Quarter Pounder
French Fries
Icy Coke
Thick Shakes
Sundaes and
Apple Pies!
roosterboy
Feb 23, 2004 @ 3:35 am
"Noo Yorrrrk City!" is for Pace. I'm still boycotting them for stupidity and maligning the place where I wish I could live. Who cares where the factory is? What idiot believes there's a cowboy out back of a ranch stirring salsa in San Antonio and that's where all the Pace salsa originates?
Apropos of nothing, growing up in San Antonio, we had the same auto mechanic as the founder of Pace. I met Mr. Pace once or twice and he was a pretty nice guy.
And IIRC originally those Pace commercials said "New Jersey?!?" instead of "New York City?!?" Don't know why they changed 'em, though.
Tornado25
Feb 23, 2004 @ 9:48 am
You have to drive the trailer (but not the truck) into the water to get the boat off. You drive in until you can just float the boat off. How else would you do it?
Heh. I know this. My point was he has the boat backed down the launch into the water, but he's
standing in the water holding up the fish! So what, he backed in the boat, got out, fished while standing in the water with a great boat right next to him? Am I totally missing something in this part of the ad? Because it grates. BIG time.
I just think that it is so nice that 4 DWIs and the forfeiture of his licensce hasn't stopped this guy from taking his daughters bike to get his Miller. That's commitment!
You know, I spent a goodly amount of time trying to figure this out. I kind of assumed the dude was supposed to be in WI, but I thought it couldn't be, because we just keep driving without a license. Using a bike or walking is too much like work. Especially in the snow.
Vermicious Knid
Feb 23, 2004 @ 10:39 am
Arggh!
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.
And
"I can't believe I ate the whoooooole thing...."
charlieboo
Feb 23, 2004 @ 11:00 am
I have a question that I hope someone can answer:
In the Viagra commercial where all the guys run down the street singing "We are the Champions", is it my imagination, or do they show a guy in wheelchair at the end?
So, um, does that mean Viagra can "assist" paraplegics? Or are we supposed to assume the guy has bad knees or something and his, ahem, "problem" is unrelated to being on the wheechair?
xaxat
Feb 23, 2004 @ 11:24 am
The other thing that I noticed about that Viagra commercial is that two guys are hugging each other. Are we to assume that they are a couple?
Where I come from guys don't just go running around hugging their neighboors simply because they were able to get a woody the night before.
SusannahDean
Feb 23, 2004 @ 11:27 am
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"Could you please pass the jelly?" is for Polaner All-Fruit. The commercial is annoying but the product is good.
I liked it. That line always cracked me up.
Bach-us
Feb 23, 2004 @ 11:28 am
I think that's Viagra's original purpose, as a sexual aid for para- and quadriplegics and post-operative prostate patients, although I think Christopher Reeve said in a BW interview that he didn't need it. After his "prostrate" operation, Sipowicz used it or something like it on NYPD Blue. Viagra: It wasn't intended to annoy Elizabeth Dole.
I love ya, VK, but you're too funny to resist.
Two raw beef Patties, special Russ, Lester Ching, picking bunyons on a Sesame Street bus.
Strawberryblonde
Feb 23, 2004 @ 12:44 pm
Does anyone remember who the actor was that played Big Fig? I want to say Charles Nelson Reilly, but I'm not sure.
I remember those commercials! It wasn't Charles Nelson Reilly, but I don't know who it was. You're probably thinking of his "Bic Banana" commercials in which he wore a banana costume. The Big Fig guy looked sort of like Al Molinaro, but I don't think it was him either.
meknownothing
Feb 23, 2004 @ 1:38 pm
If a company does not want to list the side effects of their drug, then they can't advertise what the drug does.
But I can (almost) swear that I've seen medication commercials that never mention what the drug does, but which do fully describe the side-effects.
DeeJayEnki
Feb 23, 2004 @ 1:42 pm
Two raw beef Patties, special Russ, Lester Ching, picking bunyons on a Sesame Street bus.
Huh. I always heard that punchline as "two obese Patties, Special Ross, Lester G pickin' bunions on a Sesame Street bus." But hey, tomayto, tomahto.
These new Sprite commercials with the little action figure guy are...weird. I can't decide if they're disgustingly pandering or just a joke that doesn't quite work.
ChinkyGirl
Feb 23, 2004 @ 2:40 pm
The other thing that I noticed about that Viagra commercial is that two guys are hugging each other. Are we to assume that they are a couple?
Where I come from guys don't just go running around hugging their neighboors simply because they were able to get a woody the night before.
This? Was HILARIOUS! TWOP: Taking the creepiness out of Viagra ads.
Two raw beef Patties, special Russ, Lester Ching, picking bunyons on a Sesame Street bus.
Too funny! How on earth did you come up with this?
I see this ad for a water filter (Pur?) alot, but I don't believe it's been commented on...Anyways, these four figures that can only be described as "water people" are playing string instruments on stage. One of them is horribly off tune and the creature next to him takes what looks like the net used to skim fish tanks and scoops out a bunch of crap from his chest area and everything is a-OK.
What the crap?! It creeps me out. File it under the same category as "eating jelly from your boss's ass".
Tornado25
Feb 23, 2004 @ 2:55 pm
ChinkyGirl, they're for GE water purification services. Anyway, the first time I saw this ad, I was like WTF is this for? Even after they say it at the end, I still had to see a couple times. Lot of GE's ads are like now--just weird.
FfrauleinN
Feb 23, 2004 @ 4:06 pm
But I can (almost) swear that I've seen medication commercials that never mention what the drug does, but which do fully describe the side-effects.
I've definitely seen those. "...may cause irritability, nose bleeds, weight gain, weight loss, and depression. Ask your doctor if it's right for you." To which I respond, "What the hell is it FOR?!"
Bigwheels1971
Feb 23, 2004 @ 4:43 pm
I really like the new commercial for welches grape juice. The kid, and his accent, are adorable :)
A commercial I hate is for the Taco Bell Chicken Club. When the guys are in the car going, "whoo! whoo!" I want to puke.
scarletine
Feb 23, 2004 @ 4:52 pm
This was from a couple of pages back but...
You think the Jumbone commercial is bad, remember the horror of 'Snausages'?
Hee! I loved that cartoon dog that would pop up during the commercial! My cousins and I would be sitting around talking, and one of us would blurt out "SNAUSAGES" in that really nasal voice, and we'd all die laughing. And yes, we were about 12 at the time.
And I still love the commercials for Beggin' Strips. That dog screaming "It's bacon!" as the doctor shows him the Rorschach test pictures still makes me giggle. I think I find it even more amusing that the psychiatrist in this commercial is the same guy that plays the psychiatrist in the IBM commercials.
Poodle Hat
Feb 23, 2004 @ 5:08 pm
We Are The Champions being used for Burger King ads? (Or as the Einstein on Cops kept insisting on calling them "booger king.") I saw it being used for a Viagra commercial. Apparently the whole neighborhood is gettin' some and is celebrating together. <shudder>
ubi
Feb 23, 2004 @ 5:19 pm
First, stupid man in the [Hot Pockets] commercial, a window shade does not make you invisible. Second, I hate the stupid shrug he gives his wife. Moron.
Third, a window shade is NOT going to mask the smell of those things from wafting in through the window.
"I can't believe I ate the whoooooole thing...."
Dia. Reeeeeeeah! (wavy funhouse mirror effect)
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