I went shopping this morning and saw a kit where you can make glittery easter eggs (PAAS, I think). Need I say where my mind went? Straight to the gutter, naturally. I do believe the gutter is the rest area right before the ramp to hell.

Topic? Does anyone else get those commercials for (I think) CPI institute? They have this phone ringing throughout, reminiscent of the pledge drive for PBS. All I know is that whenever I it comes on in the background, I think my phone is ringing in my office. Pisses me off to no end.

Hey! Some of us dopey guys do have hot wives.

My only complaint about the 6 Flags Commercial is that they don't show enough of the Old Guy. What I like about him is that it's fun to see such a seemingly old and rickty man could be so limber and hip while dancing, but they cut away from the dancing too quickly, leaving me craving more. Their must be an alpha version of the commerical that I have yet to see or something


I agree totaly; it was just some camera crew breaking into a multi-ethnic family's house one night and turning on the camera for 30 seconds, their was no plot, no punchline to it, it was just one family's night before dinner.

Okay, because I'm anal-retentive, I have to...that was weird. The groundhog from Caddyshack just popped up on my screen, dancing to the Kenny Loggins song "I'm Alright" like he (the groundhog) did at the end of the movie. And suddenly the groundhog is gone. Is this a pop-up ad other people have seen, or do I need to refill a prescription of some kind or other?

Sorry for the interruption. As I was saying, because I'm anal-retentive, I just have to pipe up and set the record straight on the use of "Shout" songs in the Shout stain removal ads:

The Tears for Fears song ("Shout, shout, let it all out...") has not been used.

The song "Shout" by, I believe, Otis Day and the Knights ("You know you make me want to shout, throw my hands up and shout...") was used a while ago.

The song "Twist and Shout" by the Beatles ("Well shake it up baby now, twist and shout..."), I don't know whether or not it's been used to advertise the Shout stain removal product, but that's not the same song as the "You make me want to shout" shout song.

What does it say about me that when people mention using the song "Fire" in a commercial, I immediately think of the song by the Ohio Players, not Jimi Hendrix, the Pointer Sisters, or Bruce Springsteen?

And still others of us would like to think they could get one (sigh).

Topic? I guess that they got Isabel Sanford to provide voice in the Old Navy spot, but couldn't get her in person. I hope she's OK. And Morgan Fairchild should just say "No" to cosmetic surgery.

Well, killershrew, I'm not a medical doctor, but others have seen and discussed the dancing gopher pop-up. So on that subject you're safe.

I read your comment but forgot to quote you. I'm with you on the hate for close-breathing (or close-talking, if you're a Seinfeld fan)

Another set of ads that creep me out are the Burger King ones. Especially the one where the guy sniffs his female co-worker's hamburger wrapper. Yeesh, is that supposed to be a take on panty-sniffing? because if it is, then thats creepy as hell. And lately, I've been seeing a BK ad where the woman licks mayo off the guy's mouth. Sexual connotations there? Maybe I'm just depraved.

Changing subjects, I went to a Bulls game yesterday and watched college basketball when I got back and the thud of the ball I kept hearing reminded me of those awesome Nike ads with sports stars freestyling. The "music" they made was addictive.

Eurgh. I've seen it too. Even if it's not supposed to be sexual (yeah, right), they're COWORKERS, people! And, of course, the guy is a total schlub, and the girl is really hot. Buy this burger and HOT WOMEN WILL LICK YOUR MOUTH!

That brings to mind the A1 steaksauce ad where the guy has to swipe the blob of sauce from his girlfriend's cheek with a slice of meat. Ugh.

Ah, must be the glittery ova accessory pack, especially designed for glittery hoo-hoo owners.

Well, you know, there are plenty of dopey women who would like to have hot guys but we don't get our own special TV cliche.

Not that I'm bitter...

Oooh. I want glittery ova to go with my sanitary pad hat!

How about a steel cage deathmatch between the Fantanas and the Sheer Blonde Twits?

This? Is why I love this thread.

I would pay good money for this. Also, I bet the Fantanas win. And not only because there's more of them.

Just saw this commercial for Hot Pockets breakfast things. It shows this kid trying to get ready in the time it takes for the Hot Pocket to microwave. Unfortunately, it also shows him running down the stairs, and rubbing his index finger over his teeth, instaed of, you know, brushing them! Ewww.

What happened to that cool Peptobismol commercial?
I saw it during Survivor several weeks ago, and I have not seen it again since.
It was the one where the people are doing a Macarena-like dance. Am I the only one who hasn't seen this commercial again?
I really liked it. Do the 'bismol!

I have seen that Pepto commercial once and haven't seen it air again either. I wonder what's up? I really liked it, too.


I can't stand that ad at all. The guy would still be busted if she rubbed the mayo off with her finger and then licked her finger. Not the face. Blech.

Hearing about the tampon ropes reminds me of that commercial where that lady rescues her fallen tampon using a chain of other tampons tied together. I know there was a second version where they changed it to a roll of toilet paper, but it just bothered me that she wasted a bunch of someone else's tampons to save hers.

You like the diahrhea dance commercial? EW! I see it much too often.

But he's cute (rather than annoyingly childish) in his dopeyness, so I can kinda see how they got together.

And then, I'm presuming, cramming a Hot Pocket right in there, like that's not gonna result in homeroom breath from hell.

I have a question about the Swiffer commercial that shows "famous TV domestic help" living it up at the resort. I know that Robert Guillaume's character "Benson" was originally the butler on the TV show of the same name, but didn't the character in later seasons become some administrative person at the governor's mansion? This bugs me every time I see the commercial, but Mr. Shrew is no help here.

Benson started as the bulter for the Tate family on Soap and spun off to his own show, Benson, where the governor he butled for was a cousin of Jessica Tate. Yes, in later seasons he became the state comptroller (or whatever the budget director is called), then Lt. Governor and was poised to become Governor when the show ended.

Oh, God, the Diarrhea Death Dance? That commercial completely squicks me out. The first time I saw it I just sat there, stunned and appalled. And utterly revolted.

The only good thing I can say about it is that, by posting about it I have at least learned the proper spelling of "diarrhea."

FfrauleinN, I didn't even think of this! I was too squicked out after I saw the kid not rush his teeth. That garnes a whole new EWWWWW.

ETA:

Since they (and probably only they) agreed to give an intership (doing only god knows what) to whomever wins that MasterCard contest.

Wouldn't it be hilarious (and honest, and self-aware) if White Castle came up with an ad campaign along these lines? New slogan: "White Castle. Because you're so f****d up, duuuude."

They could even use the Spongemonkeys for something like this, especially since they're available now.

I'm a little confused by the MasterCard Hoobastank commercial. Since when did Hoobastank morph into an attractive all-female pop group?

In a similar vein, the "Gain" commercial wherein a girlfriend leaves one of her dresses with her boyfriend while she goes out of town ... EW! 1) The dress looks suspiciously like a negligé or some other type of underwhere. 2) He spends the whole time cuddling, sleeping with and sniffing the dress! It's supposed to be to demonstrate that Gain has a long-lasting scent, but I'm thinking that he wouldn't be sniffing like that for the detergent smell. It's just gross and creepy and wrong and now I can never buy Gain, ever.


I saw this one just yesterday, and it's still gross. Except I've now combined my hatred for this commercial with the comment from waaaay upthread about staring at the girl's ass for leaks during the "Always" commercial. So I was transfixed on all the actors' asses during this airing, waiting to see if there were going to be any gastrointestinal leaks.

How can we talk about Fire songs and not mention the one by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown!

To change the topic: I can't taste my beer!

It says that you and I are apparently cut from teh same cloth, killershrew. But as long as we're hovering around the subject of music in commercials, is anybody else waiting for the inevitable use of "So Fresh, So Clean" in a commercial for some sort of feminine hygiene product, possibly a hoo-hoo glitterizer?

I heard the diarrhea dance commercial a few minutes ago on Spike TV. (Heard it because I'm at the computer, my back to the TV.) I could do without it, but hearing it's better than seeing it.

I hadn't seen the Six Flags commercial when everybody was talking about it, but I saw it over the weekend. I couldn't look away. The frenetic dancing and that music (which is, I think, originally from the movie Space Jam) makes it so that I can't NOT watch it. I just can't look away when it comes on. One of the morning drive jocks in the DC area was talking about the spot this morning - and he loves it. He said he'd had word that the old man was actually Anthony Clark, but I wasn't in the car long enough to find out if he'd verified that. Rewatching the commercial on the Six Flags website, I'm inclined to think it really COULD be Anthony Clark. If it IS Anthony Clark, though, I might have to stop hating the commercial no matter how weird and annoying it is. I love that guy.

And hey, at least it isn't Dana Carvey.

Is he going to become the measure of a commercial's badness? A, B, C, D, F, Dana Carvey?

Has anyone seen the new Target commercial? It's hard to explain, but basically they split the screen in two, and have one half with a person doing something, and the other half with some product that completes the image in an amusing way. Like there was a guy playing volleyball and when he hit the ball, the ball turned into an Alka Seltzer, and there's a guy on a motor boat, but the motor is a mixer. I'm sure this has been expressed before, but whoever does Target's advertising and marketing is a genius, and if more people had that kind of creativity, people wouldn't be so pyst off at watching commercials.

I saw a commercial during Alias last night with singing bunnies. No idea what it was for, but, singing bunnies!!

I saw the half-n-half Target commercial the other night. Despite the fact that the AT&T half-n-half face commercial creeped me right out, I like the Target commercial. Very clever.

And is there anyone who doesn't already measure a commercial's badness by its Dana Carvey factor? OK, OK, it clearly isn't a standard measurement. But you CAN be sure that if Dana Carvey's in it, it's gonna suck, so you might as well TiVo right through it.

So the Verizon commercial, are we supposed to believe that the mom married that guy?

What's up with the dog on the table?

hey,aurora, can you imagine that Toys 'R Us rabbit commercial with thousands of Spongmonkeys instead? That would indded be one creepy ass commercial!!!!!!!

The rabbits were creepy enough. I could've dealt with a pair of them singing, maybe a trio, but the hundreds of bunnies? No way. Totally scary. Plus, I kept thinking of the killer bunnies from Monty Python, which made it even sillier.

I think I'd like the Verizon commercial more if the mom was black and the dad was white, to account for the black and biracial kids. I mean, I know they could have adopted, and that's great and all, but it would appeal to me more if I thought that all those kids came from those two adults. And also, I dunno, I'm happy that it's all multicultural and all, but it seems like it'd be busting a bigger taboo if the wife was black, instead of Latina. I grew up in the South, and while my parents (and all the inhabitants of my very small town) had a cow when I dated a black guy (I'm white), I don't think anyone would have batted an eyelash if I'd dated a Latino guy, or an Asian guy. It seems to me like the bigger race "taboo" to get past is the black/white couple, and I'd have liked to have seen Verizon do THAT instead of presenting a family that... well, makes me overthink this commercial the way that I'm doing.

I mean, I'm really glad that Verizon has taken the step that it HAS to help normalize multi-racial families, but I'd like it more if it seemed a little less cobbled-together than it seems to me with the Latina mom, the white dad, and the black kids.

I REALLY like this series of commercials. Not to fond of the one where he sniffs the wrapper, but I really like the original one where one co-workers starts yelling, "I am the champion," and the "we got the same thing" one and I also like the mayo one, because mmmmm... mayo and, well my point is I think they're all good.

Anyway between VH1 and NCAA basketball this weekend I saw a ton of these BK commericals. And they honestly made me want to try the new chicken crisper sandwhich (extra mayo!)

Move along please.

[small voice] I like the Six Flags commercial with the Dancing Junior. It makes me smile [/small voice] *ducks flying tomato*

But before you start slinging things at me, please help me. I know that song from somewhere and it's driving me crazy that I can't remember where. Anyone know?

Yeah, definitely creepy.

OTOH, has anyone see my favorite annual commercial for the Cadbury Creme Eggs? Y'know, with the bunny who clucks like a chicken, and the auditions featuring a lion, pig, etc? Clucking bunnies aren't as creepy as singing bunnies. Plus, I love the tagline: "Nobunny knows Easter better than Cadbury's."

Oh please, please, please! Tell me this is the Toys R Us ad! I love that commercial! (Yes, I'm 3).

Funny, we all loved the singing bunnies here last Easter.

I love the BK commerical just for the line, "I got some more buns in the bag, in case you want to kiss those, too." Hee!

jennifuh, I'm ashamed to admit that I stared at the screen for WAY too long after that line was delivered trying to figure it out. I even started to ask my husband about it when it dawned on me. Duh. Guess it's true that too much alcohol kills your brain cells.

Haven't seen the Verizon commercial yet, but I like the Sprint (? Catherine Zeta Jones) one with the dad timing everyone's phone calls. The poor teenage girl who didn't make the cheerleading squad cracks me up.

Those kids don't look black to me at all. They look kinda like a combination of their "parents." The biggest taboo is if it had been a black guy with a white wife. Then you would have black AND white people going nuts.

I love those ads. "Anything You Want" is playing in the background, right?

I believe the confusion may be coming from the fact that one of the kids is black. The teenage boy's friend (I'm assuming) who's watching the dad blab about how techno-savvy he is.

TenPea said:

I'm pretty sure its the Vengaboys, "We Like to Party!"

I too, once began craving a Burger King sandwich due to its commercial presentation. Tured out to be the Worst. Sandwich. Ever. Smaller, greasier, and less flavorful than the commercial 'wich. Plus I lost my all my keys on the way to the restaurant. Beware the misleading BK commercial!

Oh, Thank you.

Oh, right. That's Jamal, the next door neighbor. :-)

I love these commercials. (It has a little to do with the fact that I lurve Cadbury Creme Eggs. I actually crave them during this time.) And I love that they're selling little stuffed plush bunnies that cluck when you press on of their paws.

Ad Hate: The Mazda commercials. The one where this guy says, "I was looking for this car, and I found it, and it had all this stuff. Then, there's another car, with all this stuff. (Paraphrased.) What I hate is that ALL cars have stuff. What a dumb dickwad.

I LOVE the singing bunnies. I was so excited when I saw them last night. Then I heard them on the radio three times today and now that song won't leave my head.

Here comes Peter Cottontail.. hoppin' down the bunny trail...

I miss the clucking Cadbury bunny too. I haven't seen it in ages. And Cadbury Creme Eggs? Manna from Heaven.

8000th post! Here's to 8000 more wonderful moments involving glittery hoo-hoos, hemis, and pepper bars!

But that so isn't all.

I never thought that Secret commercial was of two roommates. I thought it was the woman's daughter sneaking out and wearing her clothes. It's much more effective that way.