Anyone else sharing the tax season pain of too many sightings of Roni Deutch, who can settle my IRS debt for only Twenny Dollars? Lord, I hate her.

Also, saw the weirdest vacuum cleaner commercial this morning. It was one of those super long ones (okay, two minutes, which is e-ter-ni-ty in ad world) with a plot. A stupid plot. Superyuppies get call from friends that the dinner they thought was next week is really tonight, and friends are coming right over. Shot that goes from red sports car to red vacuum, trying for analogy that doesn't work. Superyup couple goes into clean the house mode, except the house is minimalist-ly bare. However, their hobby appears to be walking around the house with cookies, because crumbs are everywhere in their very white home. So, instead of, I don't know, making dinner for the people coming over to be fed, they vacuum. A lot. The floor, the stairs. The light fixtures. Because, as we all know, the first thing guests do is check the light fixtures in a judgmental way. They finish vacuuming in the nick of time, then break out... the champagne. For two. WTF? Where are the friends? Where's dinner? Why are the light fixtures so ugly and dust free? Will this commercial ever end? Okay, it did, yet still managed to leave plot holes. I hope there isn't a Part II.

Caught the singing bunnies ad this afternoon. Liked it.

Saw the clucking bunny at Shoppers Food Warehouse in northern VA tonight. Almost bought it, but Mr. Puckish gave me a look that said, "You've already bought angel food cake, jelly beans, and a pot of roses tonight. Let's get real groceries from now on." So I put it back down. He was right - I'd overindulged as it was. I'll just have to get the kids a couple of bunnies for Easter and commandeer them now and again.

I liked the Zoom Zoom kid, too. Wasn't he killed during the filming of a Mazda commercial, or is that urban legend?

Edited to add that I've seen way, WAY too much of Ronnie Deutch. "Twenny dollars. TWENNY DOLLARS!" Though I admit I am fascinated by the hair on the lady who gives the first testimonial. That is the smoothest mullet I've ever seen. I don't mean smooth as in "she pulls it off when so few can," but smooth like literally - it's a mullet helmet. So I suffer the Ronnie Deutch commercials to stare in awe at the smooth mullet.

Ooh! And I saw that weird vacuum commercial, too. Had the same thoughts you did, Shelwood.

I can't help it, I love the Office Max commercial using the Spinners Rubberband man song. It's just entertaining to me, and I love The Spinners.

I also like that Six Flags commercial, only because of the song played always made me dance. I also remember the cheesy video for that song, and Six Flags copied it somewhat because I remember people all getting on a bus to go to a party and alot of dancing.

Aww Dance music.

senor coconut, that's awesome about Dick Vitale. Heh.

screamapillar, I'm excited to have an "I hate..." twin! I'll even forgive the non-hate of Dicky V.

On-topic, why is the Trivial Pursuit DVD ad with the girl eating worms (seriously - makes me want to vomit) still running??? Why? And that's the first image, so I have no time to turn away and hide my eyes! You're making me hate you, Trivial Pursuit!

I don't feel so alone anymore.........

I too love the Rubberband Man ad.

And the singing bunnies of Toys R Us.

And the Six Flags dancing man.

And spongmoneys, God bless 'em.



I think I need help............or maybe a hobby?

the funniest part of the Rubberband Man is the part where's he's stocking a first aid kit in a cabinet while a guy using a paper cutter looks at him, away from the cutter. Great humor in foreshadowing the injury about to happen.

I have seen the horror that is Bob Dylan in a Victoria's Secret ad. Just, ew. EW. Bob Dylan and panty-drawers? EW. [Phoebe Buffay]Oh! My eyes! My eyes![/PB]

Dude. I thought Roni Deutch was a man. A man, baby! I really did.

Aw, me too. I thought I was the only one. I'm pretty sure the thing about his death was an urban legend.

The best part of that commercial is the small print across the bottom of the screen "Does not come with DVD player." Thanks, genius ad execs.

I haven't seen it mentioned, but this thread moves fast, so maybe it has been. The Taco Bell Fiesta Salad commercials are all over my TV, and they just kinda squig me out. In the one where the wife visits the hubby at work to find out if he's "cheating on her," the thing that bugs me is that the secretary tries to cover for him by saying he's in a meeting. Why would she do that? It's so shady...dude it's just a salad. A Taco Bell salad. Ugh.

Doubt it, but I'd bet a shiny new nickle that Dick V. gets his breakfast (complete with attention-getting PA announcement) for free, in exchange for a "casual" mention or six on the radio.

Every time I see that zillions-of-bunnies Toys R Us ad (hate Geoffrey. HATE.), I always think it's for Cadbury Creme Eggs, so it kind of defeats the purpose of the add. There are lots of ideas out there...why must they use the same ones over and over?

I don't believe this one has been mentioned yet....

My hate for the Snickers commercial knows no bounds. (More than a thousand nuns.)

"Peanuts! Peanuts! Peanuts!" at the baseball game. Hate. That. Guy. It would be obnoxious on it's own - but then they throw in the "Down in front. My kid can't see". Asshole. Bad father. Narcisistic Jerk.

I, too, love the Toys-R-Us singing bunnies. I think it works simply because the commercial acknowledges that they're annoying... thus negating the annoyance it would create as a commercial that legitimately tries to pass it off as anything more innocent than that.

Another commercial that I'm loving is the Coors 'WingDog' commercial. It's another take on the 'WingMaaaaaan' commercial.

I love the one in the background playing the harp! Too cute! Big joy is in my heart!



I don't know who Dick Vitale is either. So what happened? Did he yell at you because you didn't know who he was? Was there an angry mob?

There's a new commercial that aired during the last 24 that I loved, though I can't remember what it's for. A guy is hanging out at his girlfriend's house, and he tells her that her dad's finally starting to like him. They both look back to see the dad give the boyfriend supicious glances. The boyfriend throws the dad a soda can, but the sun's in his eyes and it hits him in the forehead. The boyfriend and girlfriend look at each other like "Oh shit!" Anyway, it's for this place that sells patio umbrellas. If I could only remember the name, I could show them how much I appreciate this.

So Cingular apparently has a new promotion where couples can sign up for two lines together and call each other for free.

Likin' the ads. They start with a couple at home, each is going over their cell phone bills, saying, "My bill's so high..." "yeah, so's mine." The woman asks the man, "so wait, who have you been calling?" He looks at his bill and realizes "I've been calling you. Wait, who have you been calling?" She looks at her bill: "I've been calling you!"

Then comes the fun part -- a montage of other couples reviewing their phone bills together and saying "You!" as well, in varying tones of voice. My favorites are this Japanese couple, where the woman is pointing at each and every individual call on her bill, saying "You! you! you! you! you!" And a same-sex couple where one guy's in the bathroom brushing his teeth and the other guy comes to the door and just says "YOU!!!" in this VERY somber voice.

Then you get the usual CZJ bit with her explaining to people that Cingular fixes everything which isn't so fun. Okay, I only like about 30% of this commercial, but still.

I thought CZJ was T-Mobile: "Get more."

WingDog is so precious, especially when he's hopping along on his hind legs.

It's IKEA. I love their ads. I miss snarky foreign guy telling us we're crazy for feeling "sorry for the little lamp."

I think Dick Vitale is a sportscaster, or used to be. All I know is that he REALLY HAS A LOUD VOICE! It pisses me off, especially when I'M LISTENING TO DA RAAAAAADIO!

Oh, yeah. As a peanut lover myself, I thought that was amusing the first time I saw it. The subsequent 4,500,000 viewings? Not so much.

The Gillette commercial mentioned above (if it's the same one I think it is) seems very disjointed to me. At one point, the voice is talking about the feeling of winning, and about people looking at you because you're a winner. But then we see a pretty girl on the screen, and the voice says something about her going home. Why do you care if she's going home? There's no implication that she's going home with you! Which would seem to be something you'd care about if you were a winner and a Gillette manly man.

It is, FfrauleinN. It also proves how bad a job these ads apparently do, because this ad was mentioned about 3 pages ago and in that post, the poster did not know the name at all, but did know it was CZJ.

P.S., I still need help on those Budget car rental ads--they're driving me because I do. not. get. it. Worse, I noticed in the "bad presentation" ad, the guys come out to a Mustang, but they are advertising the compact car great rate. I highly doubt that the Mustang is either: a)classed as a compact car or b) eligible for a great rate.

From Family Guy:
Vagina junction, what's your function?
Taking in sperm and spitting out babies...


What are those, shoes with boobs on them?


OMG! You mean Roni Deutch isn't just a local Tallahassee fly-by-night lawyer?


I think you just answered your question. Would you admit to eating that?

Yeah, it appears that Dick Vitale is a sports announcer. I had to Google him to find that out.

Heee. Hee hee. Heh. In case you weren't kidding, Hooters Air is apparently an airline with Hooters waitresses as the flight attendants, and you can get buffalo wings in the air. I'm not 100% sure, because the sight of it fills me with such rage I have to change the channel.

it's serendipity, dzdzsty! (sorry, couldn't resist.)

topic? I am SO sad.... the S'Mores candy bar ad with the bear in it has been re-cut. They just show him chasing the family away from the campfire to get their s'mores, and then they show him in the grocery store.

They cut out the middle part, with the bear sitting on the couch flipping channels with his remote, vacuuming his apartment, getting on his scooter to go to the store. Sniff. I hearted that....

screamapillar, it might still be around. A lot of commercials have 2 versions: a long and short one. That's so companies can get the best bang for the buck, depending on when they air and how much they have in their budget. I know I've worked for places that have used this tactic. In other words, the couch potato bear might still pop up!

And they have that loathesome orange owl with the oversized eyes on the tail of the airplane. I saw one at JFK when I went East last Christmas.

Yikes! I hope they don't have the same urinals that are used at Virgin records...


Oh, he's the basketball guy whose catchline is "Oh yeah, baby!", or something like Austin Powers would say, but before Austin Powers was known, right?

I like the Volkswagen commercial where the driver starts laughing hysterically and then screams at the car in the next lane. There is a passenger in the car with him, too. It makes me laugh out loud every time.

Ah yes, Ikea. "You feel sorry for the lamp? Then you're crazy. It doesn't have feelings, and the new one is much better." What I especially love about the new one is the way the guy doesn't really react at all to getting beaned by a soda can. It has the same effect as the woman calmly macing the guy going after the hamster.

Love that commercial. If I was a supply jockey at an office, I'd want everyone to call me Rubberband Man, as I boogie down the aisles.

You betcha! I just saw it last night. Hee! A bear vacuuming makes me smile.

I'd like to see the Labat's Blue Bear & the S'Mores Bear in a steel-cage, ladders & chairs tag-team wrestling match match against the Spongemonkeys. Loser buys the sandwiches, candy & beer.

That would be cool.

I hope the S'mores bear wins. I can't stand that stupid LaBat's Blue bear. He's so cheesy.

Ah, but see- it's a tag team match. Both bears would be on the same team. Against the Spongemonkeys.

But, a good ol' fashioned bear-fight would be cool, too (I would have to bet on the S'mores Bear. He seems to be more of a bad-ass).

Though I know Dicky V (and his deep to the point of weirdness love for Bobby Knight) too, too well, I have never heard of Hooters Air. Thanks for the explanation, guys! I would have thought that it sounds like the emission of air trapped in one's cleavage. Or perhaps a companion to our Hoo-Hoo Hoover. A fan to keep one's breasteses cool? A pump to inflate air pockets in new-fangled push-up bra? The possibilities are endless.

hey, the guy rides a scooter. how can he not be a bad-ass?

Okay, then my money is on the bears. Spongmonkeys should die.

I finally saw the singing rabbits commercial. Too cute!

Hey, I passed people filming one of those Truth commercials today! Just thought you guys would like to know.

But the spongmonkeys can float.

I finally saw that Encyte commercial. Ewwww.

I saw the Six Flags commercial for the first time, and [small voice]I like it[/small voice]. Don't really know why, just that I like the music and the old guy is either computer generated, or some younger guy in super latex makeup.

And I must leap to the defense of my beloved Spongemonkeys. Especially their old-school moon-loving days.

I got money on the spongemonkeys only because I'm sure they don't fight fair. They aim for below the waist. Besides, the one with the guitar has pent up anger.

Two commercials that have been getting on my nerves lately:

1) The anti-drug ones (|c|o|u|r|a|g|e| |r|e|s|p|o|n|s|i|b|i|l|t|y|)
They're completely overacted by all the young kids. Fake plastic-y stares at each other, sappy music playing in the backdrop. Wants to be inspirational, but just seems melodramatic and preachy. Besides, the one-sided look at the effects of drugs reeks of bullshit. The people behind these commercials need to listen to some Bill Hicks CDs.

2) COMP USA
This ad really wouldn't be so annoying, if it wasn't for that awful voiceover guy. He speaks, perhaps deliberately, like he's talking to a dog or a baby or a houseplant and its fucking horrendous. I want to stab him in the face everytime I hear the words "techno boy"

DramaPrincess, you should have disrupted that Truth shoot with some civil disobedience. Just in the name of irony. I would have been tempted to chain myself to a lamp post and shout things like "The Truth is a lie!" and "Cigs rule!" But then the shoot would merely have moved one block down the street, and I'd have been stuck there, chained to the lamp post like a dork. And then somebody would have taken my wallet. Huh. On second thought, you were probably right to leave well enough alone.

I've seen the commercial a few times and it never looked like anything other than a young guy in makeup. I didn't think it was even good makeup, but it must be since others think either he's real or CGI. Naturally it can't be possible that I'm wrong...

Someone thought the dancing old guy was really an old guy? You're kidding, right?

I like it too, much more than the previous one, where the car dealer (that's who the passenger is) shows a woman how she can rev the car up, and then gets nervous when they pass a cop. Wasn't the screamer in another ad, with a guy that looked like he could be his father IRL? His parents were driving him home on college break, and they kicked him out of the car when he started talking about how he was so happy to get this (don't remember the name) cereal, he just might eat it all up.

Hee. You said "breasteses."

What about the bear from the Pepsi ad? I mean, this guy takes it to the next level--identity theft, etc. But, I think he's too much of a wuss in this fight, being a Pepsi drinker and all. To be honest, I'm not sure either of these bears has it in 'em. The S'mores bear vacuums for Chrissakes! Vacuums! The Lablatt bear is too busy trying to pick up the ladies, but he's weak underneath--you know it.

Wait, can the S'mores Bear USE his vacuum in the fight? If the spongmonkey gets a guitar, it's only fair.

Ah, but if the latest Quizno's ads are any indication, if the bears were to kill the spongmonkeys, they'd simply turn into wee, freakish angels and keep on singing (and, presumably, fighting). They're unstoppable, like Terminators or telemarketers.

And I know these have been mentioned before, but may I add my HATE for the disturbing Chex Mix ads? I'd somehow missed seeing them all along until this week, when I was subjected to the Chex-mation drummer and shouting/grunting Chex-mation "natives" about a dozen times. Ugh. Just all kinds of wrong there.

That would be me. I'll be sure to pay more attention next time it airs.

When I read this, in my head it sounded as if it was being read by Scrooge McDuck. Huh. I wonder why.