Every time I see the We Are the Champions viagra ad, I can't help but think that Freddie Mercury must be laughing hysterically from the grave at the whole idea.

Anyone see the new ad for the Nextel (I believe) coast to coast walkie-talkie plan? A guy is all panicked because emus are running all over town so he calls someone else and she puts the "mama emu" on the phone - he broadcasts this annoying bird shriek, rounding up all of the emus. I hate to admit it, but I kind got used to that shriek after awhile, lol.

Dr. Scholl's commercials squick me out. I don't like knowing about random peoples' feet. Is that proper grammar? Probably not.

George Foreman is now doing Casual Male Big & Tall ads? Doesn't that man ever go away?

Yeah, Prairie Fire, I'm loving Guiness's St. Pat's holiday commercials (you must be watching BBC America, no?) -- they make me giggle every time. I caught the HBO Sunday night 'family' commercial for the first time on Sunday night -- a couple of the splices are a little less elegant than others, but the final pan around the table, with Brother Justin sharing a table with Larry David et al. is amazing.

I hate hate hate the evil asthma monster commercials, as an asthmatic, I now visualize those monsters while I'm having an attack and then compound my attack with trying to hold back the laughter, at the image of two-headed gorillas invading my lungs.

New Ad to hate:

Lexus has a new ad where kids are at school on a snowy day waiting for their parents to come pick them up. The roads aren't plowed yet, so a lot of the parents are late, except the Lexus driving mother! She rescues her kids and everyone else is jealous.

It's seems like a blatant ripoff of the ad where the kids wake up on a snowy day and are going "NO SCHOOL!" when the dad interrupts them telling them to get their clothes on. I believe that one was a Mercedes Ad. The Lexus people were pretty uncreative with their ad.

Some sad news, off TVGuide.com:



I guess the Staples Ad was his last huzzah.

I know it's been mentioned before, but can I register my hatred for and disgust with that freaky AT&T ad with all the half-faces pasted together on the screen? Some weird commercials I get used to - I didn't much like the spongemonkeys the first hundred or so times I saw the Quizno's ad, but I got used to them at least to the point that I didn't have to avert my eyes and sing "la la la la I can't hear you la la la" when it came on. The AT&T ad? Disturbs me so much that I cannot watch it. I never much cared for the half-man/half-woman freakshow act, either (gives me the same willies as clowns do), and the ad just resembles the freakshow too much for my taste. Almost enough to make me ditch my AT&T cell plan.

Totally agree with whoever said that the IBM spots suck balls. I really hate the obnoxious ThinkPad guys. Since when did having a laptop make one a playa? And the other smug little guy, the one who disillusions PlayaMan? Could easily get a job on a Total cereal spot )"Hope yer hungry!"). Since when did being obnoxious become a good selling technique for any product?

It's probably before. I watched the commercial again and the tagline is "Relax. Trust Dulcolax." If I just took a laxative, I sure as hell wouldn't have people throwing me up in the air. We're trusting Dulcolax to work, and I really don't want Dulcolax "working" down my leg.

I need to chime in on a commercial a multitude of pages back: I finally saw "Tha Down Low" CD ad. I snickered at the end when they said "Nobody has to know!" They sure don't.

Darn. When I first read this, I thought it said "the We Are the Chipmunks Viagra ad." Now that's one ad I'd like to see. (The Chipmunks could sing the old David Bowie song "Sufragette City"--"Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am!")

Okay, um, I know that the coke ad where the guy, post sports, gives the second can of coke that he had held against his neck/abs/under his arm etc to his buddy who just comes in the door is probably intended to gross me out slightly... but my mind didn't get anywhere past a nice sweaty body with tight abs to register that *grins*

"Swoops! There it is!"

First: that damn song is very annoying. Whoever thought it would make for a good commercial should be locked in a room and forced to listen to it for hours on end.

Second: what, they're like chocolate Pringles?!? And I'm supposed to find this cool because...?

Just saw another nasty ad, this time for Nexium, the acid-reflux medicine. This family's sitting down a huge dinner with meatloaf and stuff. Wife goes around pouring gravy over everyone's meatloaf, but when she gets to the husband, the gravy turns to a bunch of thumbtacks that pour out and stick to his food. It just looked so beyond gross. But then again, I still haven't seen the nasty Fructis dandruff ad yet...

anyone notice on the Beavis and Butthead Time Life video commercial that they colored out the AC/DC and Metallica logos on their shirts?

Oh, thank dog you pointed that out. We beat the shit out of Carmina Burana in high school and I thought my memory was faulty. That ain't right.

Haha, this cracked me up!

Just saw another one of those Guinness St. Patricks holiday ads. This one had them all shopping. The part that weirded me out though was the guy sitting on the Irish bishops lap. It looked just...not right.

Ohmygosh! I never noticed that until now! I guess in addition to being whiners about people downloading their music, Metallica doesn't like having their logos on things in cartoons (without a hefty fee, of course).

Hey, that was me! I'm still not used to the spot, but I felt validated when my husband watched it and was creeped out too.

Hey cal331, were you also the one to describe the tinting on that spot as being a "urine-y yellow"? Because that is SO apt. And of course, it's one of the first things I think of when the ad comes on, which serves to compound my disgust with the commercial. Freaks washed in urine. Yeah, that makes me want to use AT&T.

I keep meaning to come to this thread to talk about the Quizno's commercials because not only do I hate them but ... they scare me. It is the first time in my recollection that I could not watch the TV screen when a commercial is on and also I have to mute the TV.

Imagine my surprise at all of the "spongmonkey" fans on this thread.

roosterboy: I love chocolate. Hershey's and Reese's. And actually Pringles too. But having bought Swoops! I can say, they suck. They are just as weird as you think they are. And there is just so much packaging that I cannot rationalize buying them again.

So are Swoops just Pringles covered in chocolate? I saw the ad for the first time last night and couldn't figure out if they were just Pringle-shaped chips of pure chocolate, or actual potato chips (or crisps, whatever) covered in chocolate.

Uggh. More bad Toyota advertising. Don't even get me started on the Tundra ad because any guy who buys a truck in the US because he needs a truck isn't buying a wussy-ass Toyota anyway. Maybe somebody who buys a truck to haul the kids and pick up a planter at Home Depot, fine. But not somebody who needs a TRUCK. Take that picture of your truck in your bathroom and stick up your ass.

No, my real hate is for the Corolla ad that states it costs $2.42/day to operate a Corolla and you've have these mental midgets blathering about what they spend $2.42/day on. Hair gel and beef jerky. Hate to break it to you idiots, but if you're spending $75 a month! on beef jerky, you've got a problem. How about something serious, like $2.42/day on Starbucks or Mountain Dew. The Hair gel is actually worse--you use what, 1/2 or 1/4 bottle every day?

You can have your Corolla.

Swoops are just chocolates shaped like Pringles. And while I like Hershey's chocolate, the packaging of Swoops makes the chocolate taste nasty. Ick.

I finally saw the Snuggle ad. He didn't look like he was leering; he reminded me of the supermodel's baby (lunch!), which squicks me out more.

And, what's with the chick who dumps her Budweiser beer? Lady, it's a freaking bottle of beer. You don't need to talk to it.

I actually love the plain chocolate Swoops but hate all the other flavors -- especially the Reese's ones, which are just pure peanut butter taste. I think the plain chocolate ones taste just like regular chocolate, but that the shape helps it melt in your mouth better, and that it's nice to have them already broken up into thin slices instead of a big ass candy bar where it's a lot easier to eat the whole thing than break it into the squares yourself.

But I liked them before I saw the commercial, and now I'm a little less sure I want to ever eat them again. Because that commercial sucked.

Creatures From the Sandwhich Shop

The Mysteries of Spongmonkeys Explored! This article was on MSN today.

<small voice> Is it wrong that I actually like the little ghetto fab-a-lous "Thirst" characters on the Sprite commercials. Oh No you di'int! <even smaller voice> I think Lebron James is a pretty good actor too....</svoices>

Nothing like an ad that brings to mind both ethnic stereotyping and pedophile priests.

For some reason, even though I've seen this commerical a million times, I still think it's an M&M commercial when I first see it.

I am hating that Twix commercial with pseudo-celebs - Liz Taylor, Chris Farley, Ravi Shankar, Norah Jones, Sandra Bernhard - they are pretending they are those celebs right?

I love these commercials too. Is the little character named Tamato? I love how he has an old english T on his shirt & handkerchief. I want a ghetto-fab bendable figure.

There's the commercial for Dr Scholls Footpads, where everyone's rhyming with the word -gellin'-? Last night, I thought I heard one of them add the rhyme -smellin'-? I don't think that's a word you want in a commercial for foot products, even if your product negates the smellin'.

I've only seen the one with the guy sneaking in with a new case of beer, and trying to explain the different beer top his regular brand found. Weird.

Oh, I thought that was Sandra Bernhard. It's stupid either way. No amount of celebrities, real or fake, can make me want to eat Twix.

And word to whoever called the AT&T "&" tinting urine-y yellow. What bothers me more than the sideshow split-screen effect is the little lisping girl at the end.

ETA: Ooh, tell me I'm not the only one who's seen the ad for the Double Filet o' Fish at McDonald's. Please? Tell me I'm not the only one as giddy as Jack Osbourne was when he found out the McRib was back.

I thought this article was somewhat interesting, I hadn't heard about any of this. Apparently, a federal appeals court ruled that the "Got Milk" promotions were violating the free speech rights of dairy farmers forced to pay for the ads. Lawyers on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture had countered that a joint marketing campaign is the only effective way to compete with other beverages because dairy prices and distribution are tightly regulated.

Similar cases in the past few months won against "Beef: It's what's for dinner" and "Pork: The Other White Meat".

Interesting -- because the "Got Milk" ads are some of the most memorable I've seen. I wonder if some kind of study has been done on their effectiveness.

And because it's also fun to share -- my favorite milk ad ever showed a guy waking up and going to work, going through his day, and going home -- but all around he was passing signs, carrying shopping bags, etc. with the "Got Milk"? sign emblazoned on them. When he got home, he looked in the fridge, saw no milk, and groaned.

BUT -- the ad went to the white-on-black "Got Milk?" slogan as usual, except instead of saying those two words, the announcer instead said, "Do we REALLY have to say it?"

Just saw this link on MSN, thought I'd share. Spongemonkeys!

Yeah, these commercials (which are for Miller beer) are really irritating. Quality-wise, they're a huge step down from the "human dominoes" spot, which was entertaining even though it didn't make a whole lot of sense ("Be a nonconformist! Drink Miller beer!").

I think that if these people really believe that their beer actually is verbally speaking to them, there are at least three plausible explanations:
A) They need to reduce or eliminate their alcohol consumption, since they clearly have been indulging in it too much.
B) They actually have stopped drinking alcohol and now should be heavily sedated until the hallucinations from their D.T.s resolve.
C) They are outright psychotic.

In any case, what these folks need is professional help rather than more beer.

My fav is the one with the elderly cat lady who discovers she's out of milk and tries to pass off a cofee-creamer-and-water mixture off as milk. The cats don't buy it (they shreak like a vampire hit with holy water) and lock the door, pull down the shades, and turn off the lights...

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No. His last name is actually 'Thirst'. He has a first name (that someone here posted a few pages back) but it escapes me now. Apparently, such things maybe learned at the Sprite website...

To whoever thinks the AT&T commercials are for M&M's: For some reason, I think the commercial is for the new Nabisco "Cookies & ____" bars. Every time. Bizarre. But I don't mind the commercial, otherwise.

It was powdered milk. And the hordes of cats did not go for that shit. Hee. I think that might be my favorite, tied for first place with the "Aaron Burr!" spot.

"Aaron Burr!" is definitely my favorite. I also like the one where this guy dressed in a suit, is crossing the street while talking on a cell-phone. The guy is being a total dick and screams "Your fired!" He then immediately gets plowed by a truck and dies. Guy wakes up in a big white room filled with chocolate-chip cookies and such. Of course, he starts stuffing his face with glee. He then opens the refrigerator and it's filled with cartons of milk. Guy declares, "I'm in Heaven!" But of course the cartons are all empty. The look of panic/horror on his face is priceless.

And doesn't 'Got Milk?' appear with flames around it?

I saw that new Dr. Scholl's ad last night and they're rhyming gellin' with even stupider thing this time.

Just to continue the dog food theme...

Kibbles N Bits,
Kibbles N Bits,
I'm gonna get me some Kibbles N Bits!

Eek! As much as I love the Filet O' Fish, I think a double of that would be overkill. What's the ad like?


I think the same way too! I'm like, "Oh Lord...what other cookie and candy confection did they come up with now?" Fig Newtons & Skittles anyone?

Ew. Me too. I even hate the music. As soon as I hear "Come. Together. Whoooa Whooa! Come. Together..." I scramble for the mute button. I don't think I've ever seen it all the way through.

Me too! Every bloody time, I think it's for the cookie bar things. Not a good marketing ploy on AT&T's part.

Little Sprite guy? Scares me.

Bwah! Aaron Burr!

I was a junior in h.s. when that commercial came out, one of the tests we took in U.S. History had the question...Who shot Alexander Hamilton?

The whole class got the question right :)

"Aaawon Buuu! Aaaawon Buuu!!" Hee. Wasn't that the first "Got Milk?" commercial? It's the first one I remember, and it's a classic.

Has anyone seen the commercial for some wireless system where it appears to be raining binary code? What the hell?

dzdzsty, I've seen the ad you're talking about, and it creeps me out. The translucent "code" looks like it would feel sticky, and would dry to a milky crust if one didn't immediately wash it off. *shudders*

Saw for the first time a horrible, horrible Pepto-Bismol ad with office workers dancing and singing about their various intestinal disorders. The woman with diarrhea was absolutely giddy about it. Plus the announcer seemed to have a phony English accent. Disturbing.

Those of you outside Ontario will have no clue what I'm talking about but...

When a friend first told me about the rapping dairy farmers I cringed. However, with the exception of the "We be chillin'" guy (who missed his entry cue) it's very entertaining.

Not really sure, as I muted it as soon as I heard that "bada ba ba BAH" shit. All I know is I saw a double-decker Filet o' Fish on my TV and turned the volume up in time to hear that it was now at McDonald's. I hope it's not "for a limited time." Between this and the upcoming return of the Shamrock Shake, I don't know how I'm going to contain myself.

Oh, C., I know the torturous dairy farmers commercial you speak of. It's really cringe-worthy but by the time it ends I think "Okay, that wasn't that bad.." But then I remember it later and go *shudder*.