Bach-us
Feb 23, 2004 @ 7:32 pm
Now I'm embarrassed. DeeJayEnki your version of the old McDonald's joke is much less vile, or else mine is a mondegreen.
Why do the execs for Pringles think their hot and spicy chips are worthy of Carmina Burana? I have no ethical problem with using it, unlike Snickers using the Bach Passions, but there's a strange cut in the music from the middle of the second line to the third to something unrecognizable, where I guess the sound editor thinks the cadence works.
O Fortuna,
velut [luna,]
semper [variabilis]
"O Fortune, like… always…" makes a surfer version of Carl Orff's classic. Great job, dude!
TheCustomOfLife
Feb 23, 2004 @ 7:39 pm
I have loathing for that sketching of a Dulcolax commercial, with the people throwing this one lady up and down on a blanket. That would make me shit myself, all right.
dorabelle
Feb 23, 2004 @ 7:45 pm
Has anyone seen the Brawny paper towel ad that's running now? There are two armchairs pulled up to a TV, and there's an "old" Brawny roll (with the guy who has the 70's porn star mustache) in one, and a "new" Brawny roll (with the guy who looks like an Ambercrombie & Fitch model) in the other. A&B Brawny is going on and on about the soap opera that's playing on the TV ("but Brandi's about to hook up with Todd!", etc.), while 70's-porn star Brawny's all "I can't believe we're watching this".
Paper towel HoYay? Now that's what I like!
gondee
Feb 23, 2004 @ 8:19 pm
Just have to say, I LOVE the new Burger King ads where the people are comparing toppings, and the guy who orders the most on his burger runs around going "I AM THE CHAMPION!" That is so something I would do.
jadefox
Feb 23, 2004 @ 10:15 pm
Big Mac
Fillet o' fish
Quarter Pounder
French Fries
Icy Coke
Thick Shakes
Sundaes and
Apple Pies!
Wooooooowwwwwwwww. You just took me waaaaaayyyyyy back.
Damn, I'm old. *sniff*
Ernos
Feb 23, 2004 @ 10:38 pm
Suddenly, I'm in fifth grade again myself. Sigh.
Ambrosefolly1
Feb 24, 2004 @ 12:42 am
I usually think the Cingular commercials are cute, but there is this one that boils my blood. A girl confides to another girl about a date she goes on with some guy and asks if said girl can keep it a secret, and what does said girl do, email the secret to all of her friends in half a second. Then she goes "It's my I didn't saaayyy anything plan. Bitch. I'm probably taking this personally because it happened to me a couple times with some pretty big secrets. ( not the text messageing , just the secret getting out). I want a commercial with where that bitch falls on her ass or rips her pants and the wronged girl is there with her camera phone saying "It's my payback is a bitch plan."
StephenTrendy
Feb 24, 2004 @ 12:45 am
That's hilarious Ambrosefolly1. I hate that commercial, too. Only because I'm a gossip at heart and there's no way that I would realistically be able to spread that in that amount of time. And word to the bitch thing. Technicality much?
Sincerity
Feb 24, 2004 @ 6:31 am
Oh, word, Ambrosefolly1. Although I hate all Cingular ads, regardless. Man, I'd punch that bitch in the face. "I didn't saaaaayyy anything!" Bitch.
SVNBob
Feb 24, 2004 @ 7:29 am
mlooney, I owe you thanks. It was a post you made a couple pages back that reminded me of the commercial I wanted to rant about. I don't know if it's the same Burger King commercial you were talking about, but it's the one where 2 guys ordered their Whopper the same way. "Did you copy my Whopper?"
Seriously, WTF?!? I mean, it could be a coincedence, it could have been a matter of convenience, it could have been that the other guy put in his order first and you copied him. But why does it matter? Is this a problem in offices, lunch-order copying?
I've spent too much time thinking about this...I'll go away now.
charlieboo
Feb 24, 2004 @ 8:26 am
Different versions of this ad have been discussed way back, but I need to say how annoying the new Aleve ad is. Where the wife comes home and says the doctor told her she has arthritis and to take Aleve.
And what does dumb-ass husband say? "But we've always taken Tylenol!".
Yeah, shithead, and your wife still has pain, so perhaps it wasn't working!!! Why send her to the doctor if you're just gonna question whatever he tells her to do??? (and don't get me started again about how pissy I get when you go to the doctor with a serious problem, pay a bloody fortune in insurance deductibles and get told to take an over-the-counter product! If I'm paying real money I want real drugs - go ahead - knock me out; cause halucinations, don't let me operate heavy machinery).
formergr
Feb 24, 2004 @ 9:21 am
...they're for GE water purification services. Anyway, the first time I saw this ad, I was like WTF is this for?
And what really annoys me is that the voiceover says something to the effect of, "Making water for industry that's even more pure than drinking water". Hello? Drinking water is not that "pure"! Depending on where you live, etc. it can have a decent amount of minerals and/or bacteria in it, and it's pH can be pretty far from neutral. Lots of industrial applications require distilled water to run, and everyone involved would certainly hope it's a heck of a lot more pure than
drinking water.
I realize I've overthought this quite a bit, but after working in a lab where distilled water was key, it just really irks me every time I see the ad.
FfrauleinN
Feb 24, 2004 @ 9:33 am
I have loathing for that sketching of a Dulcolax commercial, with the people throwing this one lady up and down on a blanket. That would make me shit myself, all right.
Ew! Ew! And hee! Y'know what kills me about this one? She seems to be really enjoying the blanket-tossing. It always makes me wonder: "Is this before the Dulcolax or after?"
And what does dumb-ass husband say? "But we've always taken Tylenol!"
I hate when people in ads are such giant babies about shit like this. Dude, you can keep on popping Tylenol! Nobody's stopping you! Hell, pop sugar pills if you want to; just leave me alone with my pain meds.
Tornado25
Feb 24, 2004 @ 9:43 am
I don't know if it's the same Burger King commercial you were talking about, but it's the one where 2 guys ordered their Whopper the same way. "Did you copy my Whopper?"
But why does it matter? Is this a problem in offices, lunch-order copying?
The worst part of this entire ad,
SVNBob, is the HOOOOGE pause after he says that. Cameras to everyone's eyes, all "I can't believe he copied him" but it's like 15 seconds of nothing. It's stupid. I always wonder how this shit gets approved. Hey genius, maybe he did copy your Whopper. But maybe it's because "Oooh, I never thought of that--I wanna try it"? Christ on a cracker. People complaining about Whoppers.
Lastly, I love the Pringles Fiery Hot ad! (Man, I hate the English language sometimes--how can "fiery" be an adjective of "fire"--the root is spelled different! Grrrr.)
jennifuh
Feb 24, 2004 @ 10:22 am
Oh my dog. The Fructis commercial where the guy is shaking his head and pounds of dandruff are flying out of his hair? I just threw up a little.
FfrauleinN
Feb 24, 2004 @ 10:32 am
I definitely threw up a little. That is so ... so vile. I feel itchy just thinking about it.
Penfold
Feb 24, 2004 @ 11:10 am
Yeah, that was gross. Especially how the girl, rather than... I don't know, getting up and moving away from the blizzard of dandruff falling on her!, solves the problem by unplugging the guy's headphones so he stops thrashing. Way to go, MacGuyverette.
ajra
Feb 24, 2004 @ 11:27 am
Is this a problem in offices, lunch-order copying?
In my office? Yes. There's a woman here who won't let certain people see the Chipotle fax sheet (you have to tell her your order and she will write it down) because
her Burrito Bol has been copied in the past.
(I should mention, she also keeps track of who gets the corner pieces of the monthly birthday cakes.)Topic? I love the Sprite commercial with the Million Dollar Slam Dunk truck, but why does the guy in the house
still have his coffee cup in his hand when he attempts the dunk?
formergr
Feb 24, 2004 @ 11:42 am
In my office? Yes. There's a woman here who won't let certain people see the Chipotle fax sheet (you have to tell her your order and she will write it down) because her Burrito Bol has been copied in the past.
Jabba whu? I mean, there's only so many combinations you can have for a Burrito Bol (love them, btw). And anyway, I frequently recommend food to people and am happy if they try it and end up liking it. Why would this woman not want to get "copied"? How odd, and so 4th grade.
Topic? I know a lot of posters here hate the Microsoft "Great Moments at Work" ads, but one of them cracks me up every time. It's the one where the guy spins his tablet PC on the floor while his coworker watches him through the window with a big WTF? expression on his face.
peachpye
Feb 24, 2004 @ 12:21 pm
Jael started it, but I have to finish it.
Big Mac, McDlt, Quarter Pounder with cheese, Filet o' Fish, Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Happy Meal, McChicken, and McNuggets, tasty golden french fries - regular and larger size. And salads, Chef or Garden or a Chicken Salad Oriental.
Big Big Breakfast, Egg McMuffin and hot Hot Cakes with Sausage. Maybe biscuits, bacon egg and cheese, (? I'm unsure of this part), danish, hash browns too!
And for dessert hot apple pies and sundaes three varities, soft serve cones three kinds of shakes and chocolatey chip cookies. And to drink a Coca-Cola, diet coke or orange drink, Sprite, a coffee and hot chocolate and apple, orange or grapefruit juice.
I love McDonalds, good times, great taste - and I can't believe I can get this all in one place!
Good lord. I have issues.
DramaQueenLite
Feb 24, 2004 @ 12:37 pm
I hate. Hate. HATE. The stupid McDonald's commercials with the people talking smack to imaginary people about their chicken tenders. I don't really care so much about the one with the guy in it- just ordinary random stupidness that I expect from McDonald's. But the one with the girl...rrrrr. "Step away from the chicken." "You lookin' at my chicken? You lookin' at my chicken?"
No. I'm not looking at your chicken. Nobody's looking at your goddamn chicken. They're all looking at your throat and wondering if it would really be considered murder, or a mercy killing, if they strangled you.
killershrew
Feb 24, 2004 @ 1:04 pm
The Quaker Oatmeal Squares commercial with the large oatmeal square following the guy around cracks me up. I like the OS getting stuck in the revolving door, but I really like at the end where the guy's obnoxious co-worker says "What's that?" referring to the OS and the guy said "Breakfast", and the obnoxious co-worker does this goofy little thumb-up hand-jive thing. Makes me smile every time.
Boton
Feb 24, 2004 @ 1:08 pm
My new favorite is the commercial for Tylenol Sinus. Before you ever see the product, several people pop up saying (paraphrasing, here), "I wish the pressure would go away," "I wish the weight would lift," "I wish I felt like myself again."
In that split second before the big green sinus pill box shows up, I have a little thrill of hope that they've come out with an OTC version of Prozac.
kswat
Feb 24, 2004 @ 1:10 pm
The Quaker Oatmeal Squares commercial with the large oatmeal square following the guy around cracks me up.
That commercial freaked me out the first few times I saw it--it reminded me too much of the "donuts and bad breakfast food stay with you all day and make you fat and unhealthy" commercials. I was thinking- why would they want to advertise that this chunk of oatmeal sits in your stomach all day like a big block. Then I realized that the guy with the square on him isn't the guy who ate the square, he's just following the guy around like a cute puppy. Awww. I still think it was dumb advertising on there part to use something so similar to the bad donut people.
Princess Fred
Feb 24, 2004 @ 1:19 pm
My new favorite food commercial is the Boston Market ad with different types of people ordering - the hippie chick is on a vegetarian diet, the jock is on an all protein diet, the dieter is on a low carb diet, and a very pregnant woman is on the "all mashed potatoes diet". The best part is the tag line at the end where she just repeats, "Keep it comin'. Keeeeeeep it comin'." The expression on her face is priceless.
And it totally makes me want Boston Market mashed potatoes.
charlieboo
Feb 24, 2004 @ 1:33 pm
I hate. Hate. HATE. The stupid McDonald's commercials with the people talking smack to imaginary people about their chicken tenders.
What is it about chicken fingers/tenders that make ad execs dumb it down so much???
I hate the Wendy ad with the guy driving home and VO asks "is it possible to get Wendy's chicken fingers home before eating them?" and then the stupid guy has to stop and put them in the trunk.
First of all, who walks out of a fast food place with a to-go order without a bag? Do you really just take the little box they pack the chicken in? And what about the sauce, which everyone knows is the only thing tht makes the damn chicken worthwhile to begin with? And finally, if a guy is buying a 5-piece chicken finger order, he's obviously either single or looking for a quick snack, so just eat the damn things while you're driving, for God's sake! Don't worry about getting them home when they'll be cold anyway and all the grease will have congealed!
mlooney
Feb 24, 2004 @ 1:52 pm
Just have to say, I LOVE the new Burger King ads where the people are comparing toppings, and the guy who orders the most on his burger runs around going "I AM THE CHAMPION!" That is so something I would do.
The scary part is one of the people I work with *has* started doing that.
Wizz Quiz is net month. I got $5.00 that says he gets it.
sonja516
Feb 24, 2004 @ 2:35 pm
Someone, anyone who lives in Southern California, please share my pain. It's the commercial that a pussmonkey wouldn't touch. What's the business's name? The Insurance Place (what could they possibly be selling?). What does the commercial consist of? A dyed blond wearing hot pants and no bra running around all Baywatch and shoving a megaphone into people's ears. Literally. To people eating lunch, to people driving their truck, etc.
Someone kill me now.
Vermicious Knid
Feb 24, 2004 @ 2:56 pm
Shack has a shoutout to the spongemonkeys in his latest AI recap.
He's utterly wretched. He's never in tune. At all. Those weird little demon creatures in the Quizno's commercials sing better.
Hee.
TexasTallGal
Feb 24, 2004 @ 3:08 pm
Here is an interesting article at Slate about the spongmonkeys:
The Creatures From the Sandwich ShopThis is genius advertising! You know what? I totally agree!
samsnee
Feb 24, 2004 @ 3:09 pm
The worst McDonald's one is where the guy and girl are obviously on the first date, and the girl is thinking to herself what a great guy he seems to be and wonders why he is single. Then he goes to order for both of them and she concludes that he's a control freak. How about the fact that he takes a girl to McDonald's on a first date? Cheap ass.
Poodle Hat
Feb 24, 2004 @ 3:49 pm
The Quaker Oatmeal Squares commercial with the large oatmeal square following the guy around cracks me up.
It cracks me up that the oatmeal square guy is still in his jammies. I don't know why it makes me laugh, but it does.
I finally thought to pay attention to Background Guy in the "Doomed!" commercial. Hee!
Because the ad for his new Album is all over my tv, I just have to ask: Who is Josh Groban? And if he's so famous, how come I've never heard of him? What, is he this generation's Slim Whitman?
panpan23
Feb 24, 2004 @ 3:49 pm
I caught the latest in that Burger King series of ads yesterday. One guy gets a Whopper with onions and double bacon or something and another guy says, "You copied my Whopper?!"
A few seconds of awkward silence follow with guy #1 getting a really guilty look on his face and then uttering, "Yes."
So hilarious.
kswat
Feb 24, 2004 @ 4:09 pm
Because the ad for his new Album is all over my tv, I just have to ask: Who is Josh Groban? And if he's so famous, how come I've never heard of him?
I'm guessing you don't watch Oprah--he is her Chosen One. That's the only way I know of him, I've never heard him on anything else.
FfrauleinN
Feb 24, 2004 @ 4:12 pm
If it helps, he sings that song that was in all the commercials for the Jessica Lynch TV-movie.
Then he goes to order for both of them and she concludes that he's a control freak. How about the fact that he takes a girl to McDonald's on a first date? Cheap ass.
You know what occurred to me? It's probably not that he's a control freak so much as it is that he wants to make sure his date's eating off the Dollar Menu. So yeah, cheap ass.
screamapiller
Feb 24, 2004 @ 4:22 pm
What, is he this generation's Slim Whitman?
Groban
wishes he were Slim Whitman.
I'd say he's more this generations Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute.
Sleestak Hunter
Feb 24, 2004 @ 4:41 pm
Josh Groban was also on Ally McBeal, which is where my mother first saw him. Guess what she wanted for her birthday? DO NOT buy the CD from the TV commercial, go to Tower and buy it there. Cheaper.
PS: Mom also wanted a Willie Nelson CD, so she's not completely tasteless. Or maybe that just proves it.
LinaBo
Feb 24, 2004 @ 4:51 pm
I wanted to post about it last night, but I couldn't remember what commercial it was that disgusted me so much. Now, regretfully, I remember:
It's that stupid fucking "Lays' Stax" commercial, where Dana Carvey, in disguise, is sitting opposite a dealer at a casino, and he's dressed up in a very matronly, Janet Reno-esque getup (is this a previous disguise from a skit or something? I'm not familiar with all of them). The dealer is showing off his card shuffling skills, and Carvey is one-upping him by shuffling the friggin' chips (which are a years-belated rip-off of Pringles. Idiots.) in what looks like a very Matrix-ey, overly CGI'd attempt, he even flips a couple of chips into his mouth and grins like an idiot.
There's just something about this commercial... not only does it completely detract from the product due to its awful smarminess (I have no idea why this commercial requires Dana Carvey dressed as a woman), but the 'effects' just skeeve the hell out of me.
lmds
Feb 24, 2004 @ 4:58 pm
the guy's obnoxious co-worker says "What's that?" referring to the OS and the guy said "Breakfast", and the obnoxious co-worker does this goofy little thumb-up hand-jive thing.
Isn't the co-worker also one of the FedEx DOOMED! guys?
The commercials that are bugging me now are the IBM ones with the same guys with the laptops. There are 3 or 4 different commercials out with the same guys and they are always either in a diner or a coffee shop in the middle of the day. I understand laptops make them mobile, but it would be nice to know these guys might actually have jobs and aren't goofing off all day.
Harrison Fjord
Feb 24, 2004 @ 5:07 pm
(I have no idea why this commercial requires Dana Carvey dressed as a woman)
He's also the dealer, so maybe it's just to offset it all.
But the commercial blows, and Dana Carvey is nothing without Mike Meyers.
LinaBo
Feb 24, 2004 @ 5:17 pm
He's also the dealer, so maybe it's just to offset it all.
Really? I guess I was blinded by the awfulness. I'll keep an eye out for that, next time I see it... and unfortunately, that will be soon. It's getting a lot of play.
Shelwood
Feb 24, 2004 @ 5:18 pm
The commercials that are bugging me now are the IBM ones
ALL of IBM's current advertising bugs me, due to both the weirdness and the inappropiate casting. The Linux ads with little Titus. The "deep thoughts" that aren't. And the dudes in the coffee shop? The one with the leather laptop case (that he thinks makes him hot shit) and the EZPass phobia is played by the guy who was Lex, the computer whiz on
The Agency. So I always end up with the vague feeling that he's just deep undercover for the CIA, pretending to be clueless, instead of actually clueless. Although I'm not sure IBM was going for either of those things. IBM, please send your ad agency to rehab and start again.
senor coconut
Feb 24, 2004 @ 5:34 pm
Why do the execs for Pringles think their hot and spicy chips are worthy of Carmina Burana? I have no ethical problem with using it, unlike Snickers using the Bach Passions, but there's a strange cut in the music from the middle of the second line to the third to something unrecognizable, where I guess the sound editor thinks the cadence works.
You must be one of my fellow classically-trained art school-attending music nerds. I DO have issues with the overuse of Carmina and the other power chord pieces of the 19th-20th centuries. I always think that ad execs are just using the same three or four pieces that everyone knows.
glstx
Feb 24, 2004 @ 6:26 pm
That Burger King Champion guy? Didn't he get bacon and two extra meat patties on his Whopper? I was like, damn I wouldn't be bragging about that in front of everyone. I would be embarassed.
add_duck
Feb 24, 2004 @ 6:33 pm
Okay, I just became a blubbering mess over a Geico commercial. What is wrong with me?! It's a father driving, and his wife and children are sleeping in the car. As is the geico gecko. He's so frickin cute, kicking his little lizard legs in his sleep. As are the little sleeping kids. Awwwwwwww. It's ten minutes later, and I'm still wiping tears from my eyes. Somebody snark on this, to bring me back to my sanity!
ladyDonna
Feb 24, 2004 @ 6:36 pm
Hmmm. add_duck, are you pregnant or nursing?
dorabelle
Feb 24, 2004 @ 6:46 pm
I DO have issues with the overuse of Carmina and the other power chord pieces of the 19th-20th centuries. I always think that ad execs are just using the same three or four pieces that everyone knows.
Of course they are,
senor coconut! Don't you remember in the '80's when every feminine hygiene product and wine commercial used Handel's Water Music? Turned me off it for years, and I'm just a classical music moron ("I don't know nuthin' about no fancy music, but I know what I like!")
Prairie Fire
Feb 24, 2004 @ 6:53 pm
Anyone catch the new Guinness commercial? The first "Treat St. Patrick's Day like a real holiday" one was great, so they added another, complete with grown-ups lining up to sit on St. Patrick's lap.
Between that and Coors Light's "Wingdog", the beer companies are on a roll.
Alecto
Feb 24, 2004 @ 7:21 pm
Hee, scarletine, my family and I are with you on the Beggin' Strips lovin'. Our favorite is the one where the dog's owner brings home a bag of Beggin' Strips, and the dog's all, "It smells like bacon! What's it say? What's it say? I can't read!" To this day, whenever anyone comments that he/she smells bacon, everyone else will chime in with an "I can't read!"
I think my family has a meat fetish -- we do the same thing with Joey Tribbiani's immortal "Meat: gooood!"
ubi
Feb 24, 2004 @ 7:25 pm
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.
I hope that's not the guy who played Al on
Happy Days!
That Burger King Champion guy? Didn't he get bacon and two extra meat patties on his Whopper? I was like, damn I wouldn't be bragging about that in front of everyone. I would be embarassed.
Yeah, I think I mentioned it too. Who the hell eats that? That's like more meat than one should ever have in his mouth at one sitting!
Anyone catch the new Guinness commercial? The first "Treat St. Patrick's Day like a real holiday" one was great, so they added another, complete with grown-ups lining up to sit on St. Patrick's lap.
I'm not sure whether to be amused or shocked at them playing up the ol' "Irishmen are alcoholics" stereotype in those ads.
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