Chips Ahoy ads for the past few years have been (for a lack of words) retarded. I saw the punky one today on Food Network, and I swear to god, the Cookie & The Punks said a line along the lines of, "And mom will like giving us to the kids?" It seems like in this day in age, a lot of moms don't want to give their kids fattening coookies with lots of preservatives and what not.

Thank you, Knee High Boots! I kept thinking, couldn't they have done another take so that she could actually get the sentence out without choking on the cake/losing her voice? Very irritating.

Also, last night, I was watching tv at 2 am (oh, insomnia) and that cereal commercial (for General Mills, maybe?) came on and the part where the woman yells "We make a lot of cereal here!" was just so damn loud that I literally fell off of the bed. Haaate that commercial and it never. stops. airing. It's on ALL the time! They're trying to kill me. I have the strangest responses to random commercials.

I just saw the "punky Chips Ahoy" ad for the first time this evening (on Food Network). How... surreal. I guess on some level it works, because I can't get it out of my head however much I try; but on the other hand it doesn't make me want their cookies.

However, ConnieVandelay, I think you're indulging in some wishful thinking; the world is still full of moms who'll let their kids eat cookies (thank goodness).

I know, and I totally agree. I just knew someone was going to complain about the "mom's love us!" line in the song.

Oh. I have another Chips Ahoy! commercial memory. I was watching MSNBC in 2002 the day this bridge collasped in Oklahoma I think, and sadly some people died in the incident. The people died trapped in their cars. MSNBC went to commercials and the first commercial was the Chips Ahoy! ad for the Chips Ahoy! sandwich cookies, and the cookies were singing that they were, "sqeezed in the middle! Trapped in the middle! with you!" it was something along those lines. As a melodramatic 18 year old at the time, I thought that it was kinda crass that MSNBC ran that ad, but I guess I was just taking things too seriously, and MSNBC couldn't help it anyway I suppose.



It's a commercial for Post Honey Bunches Of Oats. That ad is finally starting to grate me after 10 years of Post airing varations of it.

NBC has started airing an Olympic commercial set to a lovely little song by Badly Drawn Boy, which would be great if the song wasn't written for the attempted suicide scene in "About a Boy." The lyrics are the suicide note! Memo to TV people: check the original context of the song before using.

In my WTH Were They Thinking file: the cereal commercial where kids are in a pseudo karate class and their sensei is teaching them tongue exercizes in order to prepare them for the taste sensation of whatever the hell cereal it is. Old men should not be teaching kids how to use their tongues, ad execs!

I actually saw an ad I liked last night, for Red Bull... the one with the astronauts who land on the moon (I was 8 when that really happened and I remember it) but since "Red Bull Gives You Wings" they can't really walk on the moon because they're flying, so one astronaut says to the other, "Let's just go back to earth and shoot the whole thing in a studio". My friend has an elderly family member who steadfastly maintains that nobody ever really walked on the moon and the whole thing was faked, so I found this particularly amusing.

Those ads never bothered me before - I actually liked the woman who says "Are you hon-GRY?!?" - but with a 2-year-old in the house (2yo = tape recorder with repetitive playback), I could really hurt the Post people.

But bats don't wear sunglasses!

"Punky" Chips Ahoy? I thought they were singing "Funky Chips Ahoy!" Oy!

That little "I LOVE Totino's Pizza Rolls" jerk needs a swift kick in the face. Shut up, little boy.

Is that the one with the cartoon of a woman molesting an armchair? If so, then yes. I just ... they could have come up with something than her rubbin' up against a chair.

I think they look like complete strangers, actually. Especially the one where they're all kissing. Are those supposed to be real-life couples in those ads? They all look like they just met on the set five minutes ago.

"A Minor Incident" ("There's nothing I can say to make you try to feel OK")? Yeah, that's a real little cheerer-upper, as Holden Caulfield would say. I don't know why these ad people use these songs out of context when there are SO many people who recognize said context and thus for whom the juxtaposition is discordant. I think even my fogey old mom realizes that "Lust for Life" is not about a wholesome joie de vivre.

Oh, Lord, there are so many examples of songs used inappropriately in commercials. Usually I notice more when the the juxtaposition is comic, as in when that theme park ad ran with ""Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right" from Cheap Trick's "Surrender." Of course everytime I saw it I mentally added, "They just seem a little weird...." (As the band's own website describes it, "The song suggests that the 'kids' may have to treat mom and dad like children in order to get by; that sometimes the best way to deal with dim-witted authority figures is to placate them and move on. 'Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away.'")
Or the SUV ad that used Peter Gabriel's "Big Time." They really used their "big, fat heads" for that one.
Sometimes it's definitely off, though. Once I saw a commercial for some kid's craft product, like Playdo or Crayola or some such, that used the line, "I'm gonna use my fingers, I'm gonna use my imagination...." from The Pretender's "Brass in Pocket." In that context, just ew.

In the most recent Nissan Xterra ad, when they say "Show us your X" at the end, to Mr. Shrew and me it sounds like they're saying "Show us your ass". We need a diction coach over here!

I haven't seen this one yet, but I have heard the word "punky" used to describe something defective or otherwise not right... like "punky" wood being rotted-out wood, for example. "Punky" Chips Ahoy, therefore, would not be on the top of my desired snack list.

I am SO sick of the hybrid Olympics/GM ad with the frozen guy. Aside from the obvious Weekend-at-Bernies' ripoff, it's just. not. funny. And I get a sick feeling inside when the guy makes a blue snocone off the frozen dead guy. Great, now you have a paint-and-human-flesh snocone, skiier dude. Hope you enjoy that.

Only one of the many reasons that I can't wait for the damn Olympics to be over.

After many, many hours of Olympics viewing, all I have left to say is, "Shut up Jessica Simpson. Shut up. And quit hitting on that 12-year-old and get your damn hair out of the pizza. Also, Nancy Sinatra? Could kick your skanky ass into next month."

Why does this woman have a singing career, exactly? She has a horrible voice.

We can only hope they will remain wreckless.

Sorry, my inner spell-checker refused to shut up...

So much word to all criticism of the Jessica Simpson/Pizza Hut/poppin' commercial. Pout! It's sexy! Stare intensely! Strut with one foot in front of the other to make your legs look looong! A breathy voice is sexy! It comes off as soooo unnatural and entirely unhot. Not to mention the aforementioned hitting-on-a-12-year-old thing.

As if I needed another reason to hate them--it's the new Bratz Big Babyz Bubble Trouble dolls. They drink soda! They burp! They blow bubbles! The commercial includes a song with the catchy phrase "slurp, burp, bubble" and a preteen girl actually burping while her friends laugh.

Babyz?? For Pete's sake. Kill. Me. Now.

Saw the ad for those dumb Bratz things yesterday. Faces like blowup dolls - just what I want my young girls to play with *rolls eyes*

I know this was discussed at length in the old Commercial Thread, and maybe I'm just an old fogey, but I just don't understand the success of the Bratz. Who would want to buy a hoochie mama doll for their daughter, much less a baby hoochie mama doll?

Instead of Bratz, I call them Slutz and Whorez.

I hate those stupid commercials. They make me want to find their creators and destroy them.

We've all pondered the age old question, which taste do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi? But, which of their commercials do you prefer.

The Diet Pepsi commercial starring Jackie Chan is lame, lame, lame. But, I did enjoy the old commercial that suggested Pepsi was the life of the party, and that was illustrated by Pepsi cans having a major party in the fridge, while the old Diet Coke cans complained about the noise.

I find Coke's ads to be exponentially better than Pepsi's, especially lately. I'm a huge fan of the Coke ad that has people dancing on the boardwalk. I think what makes the commercial is the song that plays over it. I will say that the newest Diet Coke commercial featuring a woman with long hair who gets it lobbed off in barbershop is pretty meh, at best. The catch phrase, Light It Up, isn't bad though.

Oh, and the Put the Lime in the Coke, You Nut! commercials were simply classic. Gosh, I miss those.

On the whole, Coke has far, far better commericals than Pepsi. That said, the one where they dragged out the "I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing" chestnut and had slacker nitwits butchering it made my blood boil.

I hate, with the fervor of a thousand burning suns, that craptastic Verizon ad with the guy singing along with 2 cell phones.

Even though I have Verizon phones, this ad is making me seriously reconsider getting new service.

Gahh, I hate that singer!

The guy in the Verizon commericals looks like the bastard love-child of Will Ferrell and Jim Carrey.

Coke ads are FAR better than Pepsi ads; it's seriously not even a contest. Taste-wise, I don't really prefer one over the other, so I actually do pick Coke over Pepsi on the basis of their commercials alone.

The Diet Coke haircut is one of the commercials I most look forward to seeing. Well, not really seeing, just hearing. All because, even after 20 years, the opening drum riff from Goody Two Shoes never fails to make me smile.

Does anybody know if Haircut girl is the same woman that's in the Whatever Cell Phone commercial two parter where the guy cruises up to San Francisco in a convertible (which I loved because they use The Weight) in Part One to meet his wife/girlfriend who is shown unpacking pictures in Part Two? If she isn't, then there are actually two women in this world lucky enough to win a Famke Janssen lookalike contest.

I think I saw also saw her in a Budweiser ad tonight blotting lipstick on a tissue. Not sure because I really wasn't paying attention until I saw the mole under her lip.

The other commercial that makes me smile? The "wiggle while you jiggle" one with the little boy dancing in the cow suit. I think it might be for Jello, since they're wiggling, but he's dancing with a cow so maybe it's Jello pudding. If I'm still pumped from Goody Two Shoes, I have been known to stand up and do the Wiggle Jiggle dance with the kid and the cow.

Evidently my TV viewing has much in common with that of arthritic seniors, because I keep seeing the commercial for Capzasin cream. In it there are a variety of people saying how awesome it is. One older woman is playing tennis and says, "I can't feel the pain. I'm stunned!"

She's not saying the pain went away, just that she is now incapable of feeling it. And the "stunned" part makes it sound like she's received some sort of electroshock treatment for her arthritis, killing off her nerve endings. It's very odd.

That guy weirdly reminds me of David Boreanaz, and it creates a jarring sensory disjoint with me, because I love David Boreanaz, but I hate, hate, hate this guy.

I'm sorry you all hate him, but I think the "Urgent" Verizon guy is absolutely hilarious. Maybe it's the faces he makes while he sings/dances.

What I do hate is the new Truth.com commercial. The one about methane gas. I'm sorry, I know smoking is bad for me but I do NOT need to see a cow asshole up close for you to tell me where methane comes from. I took science classes in school. I know what methane is.

You've remi nded me of one of my favorite songs, "I am Cow" by the Arrogant Worms. The pertinent verse:

I am cow, eating grass
Methane gas comes out my ass
And out my muzzle when I belch
Oh, the ozone layer is thinner
From the outcome of my dinner
I am cow
I am cow
I've got gas.

Bastard love child of Boreanaz and Luis Guzman was my first thought. And I can't stand him either. Some commercials you can just mute, this one the channel must be changed completely. I hated the jackass who sang along with his Dukes of Hazzard ringtone too. Note to advertisers: asinine singing makes for offensively annoying commercials.

How about the one with her molesting (or having much, much more fun than allowed) a gigantic beach blanket with the name of the product on it?

Lo Anah, Capzasin will STUN you. holy crap. It's made from capsaicin, which is the stuff in HOT peppers that makes them so hot. Yeah, it stunned her pain away and now her joints burn. (Though, after two weeks it shouldn't burn so much anymore - but that's hypothetical, YMMV)

I tend to see this one Comcast commercial twice a day, and just can't get enough of it.
It features a dj spining a track called "dial up" and features this older couple slow dancing. The dj flips the track to "dsl" and the couple separates and dance faster. Finally the dj puts on "high speed" and the couple goes wild dancing.
This commercial cracks me up every time I see it. If I'm in the kitchen and hear it coming on, I run to the telly to see it....

That commercial is kinda funny Sootie. I also like the Comcast commercial where they have dubbed over an old episode of the $10,000 Pyramid with the last answer being "Things that are Comcastic." I think the did a decent job on the dubbing and I thought it was a creative idea.

I usually don't like old people being supposedly "hip" but the Comcast ad I like. Maybe it's because the couple is actually pretty limber.

That guy weirdly reminds me of David Boreanaz,
Yes! It's like what would happen if David Boreanaz was really, really ugly. I'm always like, "Why are you making weird faces -- oh, your face just looks like that anyway. Damn."

If I remember this right, that's the one where people are tossing her in the air on the blanket. That's just so wrong. When did pooping (because let's not fuck around, that's what they're alluding to) become a group activity?

I finally saw this last night and since I haven't been keeping up on this thread until this morning, I didn't know to change the channel as fast as I could. OH MY GOD! It was terrifying.

It started off innocently enough. At first I was befuddled, 'what is that?'.

Then I was scared, 'My God, soon enough that thing's going to be telling him to murder his girlfriend and dump her in one of the dumpsters behind the nightclubs on Lansdown Street!'

Who ever OK'd that commercial? VW typically have very clever ads, but they really dropped the ball on that one.

Speaking the Verizon ads, that new one with the lady getting a new job and a new Blackberry annoys me too. Plus, it totally looks like her and the new boss are sleeping together. If they haven't yet, they certainly will soon.

I got that same vibe! And here I thought it was just me being weird.

Those damn Hidden Valley dressing commercials that feature a young person stuck in a dank, dark dormroom during (alliteration much?) a snowstorm really piss me off. The college girl (or boy, depending on which commercial) is eating a bowl of salad by herself, pours some Hidden Valley Ranch dressing on it, and after one bite she's transported back to her home during Spring, having a picnic with her family.

I just find it so depressing. Because that student isn't really transported back to happier times with her family, she's just hallucinating it because of the dressing. After that bowl is empty, she'll still be in the dark dorm during a snowstorm. Whoa, that rhymed.

Every time I see that commercial, I swear the woman giving the clues is Loretta Swit. The dub even sounds like her. Very well done commercial.

My poor sister tried that Capazin crap, and her back was sunburn red for a couple of days, and it hurt. like. hell. Stay faaaar away from that shit.

I'm coming here for the answer to my question beause you all know everything there is to know about commercials.

I know some people hate them, but I love the cockney Geiko gekko. Does anyone know who is doing the voice? Mr Hancox and I were trying to decide if it's a fake or real accent. I can't find it anywhere out there.

I absolutely cannot stand the “secret-admirer” Sonic commercial. It features a bald guy (because bald=loser, apparently) and a vacuous, self-centered dimwit sitting together at the drive-through window. The guy hands her a dessert, (which he obviously just paid for), and tells her its from her secret admirer. At which point she starts asking if various guys outside the car are the SA, if HE knows who its from, and ecstatically thanking the air. Then the guy reveals that he is the SA to which she replies disappointedly “Oh, that’s nice, too.” Is the guy supposed to be a masochist? Why on earth would anyone admire such a twit? And WTF does this have to do with selling food?

I haven't seen this one; does anyone know if this is the same couple that's in most of the recent Sonic commercials? Because, if it is...he's a jerk & he had it coming.

Yes, it's the same couple, and I agree he had it coming.

In a way, it seemed more like she was just ignoring him to press his buttons, not that she was really confused on who was her "secret admirer". It's kinda funny, but not as much as the "As a man, I know everything about bacon. It's encoded in my genes" one.

Aww. I LOVE that little guy. "It's pie ... with chips ... for free!"

It is Loretta Swit. It's an old clip from the $10,000 Pyramid. Now, whether or not that's really her voice, I don't know, but the clip is genuine.

What I like about the Comcast old dancers ad is that, while the dancing at the end is fast, it's still conceivable that two such old people could do it.