Just saw DQ baby for the first time. Stupid. The kid's foot shouldn't even be able to reach his dad's crotch; it looks like it stretches as he kicks (freaky!), and of course since the kid isn't really kicking, he has no expression on his face. Didn't see the head-butt.

Well, they are all white meat now. Or hadn't you heard? ;)

Yay! I just saw a new spongmonkey commercial! My heart is now filled with "big love". You gotta see it!

You're sure it's David Spade that does the Sierra Mist VOs? 'Cause the last one I heard sounded more like Steve Buscemi to me.

I just saw a commercial claiming that the SBC Yellow Pages is "life's most used book".

Bible Schmible.

So are the Gideons the people who are delivering the Yellow Pages now?

How is the new commercial different?

Yeah, are you sure sure? It still sounds more like Lovitz than Spade, although I can imagine it might be Steve Buscemi as well.

Here's a new one, I think. It may be only local NYC though.

It's the Digital Cable DVR commercial with "Harold/Harry" having to be told to get away from the TV to go to bed/school/mow the lawn, etc. I. Hate. That. Commercial. The voices, the rolling of the eyes, the sheer laziness, the nagging parents/wife cliches - UGH!

That website (URL upthread somewhere) was one of the cooler ones I have ever seen. I loved how the clock shows the real time and how the projection screen goes up and the lights dim when the movies and slides are displayed.

Include me in on the Lucy-gets-Shroeder's-undieing-love-with-a-card ad. I hate how Peanuts became ad-whores before Shultz's body even achieved room temperature.

I've been wondering! People were talking about it and I've been hoping to see it, so I could hate it, but alas, no head-butt. I bet they realized, as was pointed out upthread, that perhaps having a still-soft-headed baby doing head butts was not such a good idea. Maybe, but doubtful.

I think it's just a short form of the ad, because I saw the head butt again last night.

I also saw a shortened version of the Steven Seigal commercial which omits the policeman getting hit in the head with a door. Still stupid though.

I haven't seen anyone comment on the truth ads for Shardsoglass popsicles. I am usually on the truth ad hate train but this one cracks me up. "There is no such thing as a safe glass pop. For adult use only."

According to the IMDB, it's Spade in the Sierra Mist ads. If it were my boyfriend Steve Buscemi doing the ads, I'd know it.

I remember people commenting on this one a while back, but I only recently saw it. I think it's pretty damn clever for a truth ad, too.

Oh, I heard, Poodle Hat. I just didn't believe it. :)

Actually, the Shardsoglass popsicles are the only Truth ads that haven't pissed off this smoker.

WORD.
Although there would be a Darwinian sort of justice if someone was inspired to sneak out to Old Faceful....


Yes, I did. Up until the end I was thinking it was one of those Rum and Coke commercials.

There's a new background, and I swear I heard music. The old ones were just bare-bones minimum for commercials.

That one's been around for a while. I like the music, and the series of actors who play Harry through the years all look sufficiently like each other that I think the gimmick works. However, the wife is annoying. "It's time to mow the lawn!" Like, if it's that important that the lawn be mowed right this minute, mow it yourself, bitch!

To be fair ubi, Met Life licensed the Peanuts gang from Schultz years ago, with his full cooperation.

Even CNN is wondering about Bob Dylan in those VS ads. Excellent Vincent Price imitation in the picture.

I'm not sure which Sierra Mist commercials Spade was in, but in the one where Patton Oswalt from "The Kings of Queens" is a bagpiper standing on top of a street vent, it's undeniably Jon Lovitz.

No, it just sounds like him to me. And apparently IMDB is its usual level of help (i.e. both Spade and Lovitz are credited because IMDB believes everything it hears).


Now, be fair. The Peanuts were ad-whores long before Shultz passed. And I don't mind the Lucy/Hallmark ad because I can accept that she really does believe that the right card can win Shroeder's heart.

Yeah I think I remember them on Zingers boxes. Or was it Butternut bread? Butternut... hee!

Thanks to this thread I switched channels just in time to miss my first viewing of the baby kicking the dads' nads.

Okay, that does it. I'm going to beat the IMDb's ass. Ask a simple question, get a million different answers.

Both, actually. For years they shilled Dolly Madison baked goods. More recently, Chex Party Mix as well.

From several pages back, but only a few days:


Sad, but true. Saw them in Target the other week. Luckily, I was alone, so I wouldn't have to shield my 3-year-old daughter's eyes. She's already hip to the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake stuff.

Why exactly is it that TPTB are figuring that Gen-xers will be dying to shove this crap (that was lousy the first time, mostly) on our kids? I wasn't exactly nostalgic for it.

You aren't?! I was terribly thrilled to be able to give my youngest niece the same Care Bear as I had when I was a kid.....

Me too. As soon as I could, I bought my 3 year old cousin a Care Bear.

Alas, I haven't seen a commercial for Rainbow Brite.

Anyone else hate the Clean & Clear commercials with the two girls making orgasmic sounds to signify that they need to share facial cleanser?

The IMDB profiles have different dates. Spade did 2003, and Lovitz is listed for 2004. By my ear, the Patton Oswalt ad is most definitely Lovitz.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Hate, party of two? Yeah, I'll join you. Grr!

Why, you don't moan your desire to partake in facials with your roomies? Good lord, I need to have my mouth washed out with soap. Christ, I just can't stop.

Haven't seen the commercial (thank god) but I am now filled with hate for Clean & Clear. Apparently, things aren't under control...

OK, I am totally on the Clean & Clear hate train. But there's another reason besides this idiotic commercial.

In EVERY single Clean & Clear commerical, they show the girls washing their noses, cheeks, and chins. But not their foreheads.

So, what, are all these women living proof of the song by They Might Be Giants with the line about how everyone buys prosthetic foreheads and wears them on their real heads?

To a certain extent, but not too much. She's gotten enough toys from friends and relatives, it's not something I've had to address too often, though. Rainbow Brite was one I had never liked much from the start, so I will resist any attempts to bring her into the house. (The same thing went with Barney and the Teletubbies.) Care Bears are okay, for the most part. At least the toys - they're cute. The cartoons can be left back in storage, however. I was surprised to find, however, that my mother had hung on to our old Strawberry Shortcake dolls, and they're in good condition. So she's actually played with those at my mom's house.

So when I said not exactly nostalgic, I pretty much meant it to the letter. Somewhat, but not a whole bunch. Not something I feel a big urge to go out and buy immediately.

Topic: I still have to see the commercial with the little bunnies. I never saw it last year, either.

In regard to the Old Navy ad using "The Hustle" theme, anyone get the strong impression that a threesome with the woman and the two "10's" might be in the near future?

Kudos to the store (though I don't shop there) for not wrecking yet another 80's classic.

The thing that bugs me about the Old Navy Hustle ad, is that the Hustle was not a line dance. It was a partner dance, and done right, an incredibly dirty partner dance. (Why yes, I am old enough to have been doing the club scene in the late seventies.) But then they couldn't have had Morgan dancing with two "10's".

Funny, I was taught the Hustle as a line dance. 'Course, I was also eight.

I love all the 80s stuff that's coming back, but the one thing that bothers me beyond all measure is that the latest incarnation of Share Bear has a new symbol. She used to have this adorable little frothy milkshake with two straws poking out of it, and now she's got these ugly-ass crossed lollipops. A sad thing to be irked about, to be sure, but she was always my favorite as a kid and I thought she was woefully underrepresented.

You know, there is just so much wrong with that statement, that I'm just going to give you a "BWAH!" and move on.

As for the Care Bear Comeback, [small voice], I have to admit I kind of think it's neat[/sv]. I have a 5 year old niece and she received Funshine Bear (it is Funshine, right? The yellow one with the sun on its belly?) and it has a way of cheering you up. Wait! Maybe that's it? Cheer Bear? Dammit, I'm a 28 year old guy and I'm obsessing over Care Bears. Clearly the beginning of the end. To atone, I promise to watch 6 hours of nothing but sports and porn tonight. But what is that bear's name?

[small voice] I only wash my forehead in the shower, never with my face cleanser. I hate getting that stuff in my hair. [/small voice] I know, I'm weird.

Count me on the Clean & Clear moaning roomates ad hate train. I can't stand that commercial. I understand it's early and all, but really, can you not open your mouth and ask like an adult? Must you be like a three year old and poke and moan for the face cleanser? ASK!!

Edited to spell cleanser the correct way. Misspelling is what happens when you try to carry on a conversation about bar loans & type about facial products at the same time.

Cheer Bear was the pink one with the rainbow, so I think you're right that the yellow was is Funshine Bear.

ETA: Here you go!

Topic: I hate the comercials for crestor. What the hell is it? Stop with your Dr. Seuss rhyming and tell us what the damn drug is! Oh Patrick Steward, you have fallen so far...

Teehee.

(from the Care Bear link) ahem -- Champ Bear? I believe that's a new one...and yeah I don't think Share Bear had lollipops (and for some reason I'm not remembering purple either, but then I only had Funshine and Cheer Bear).

Bring back the Popples!

ETA: Okay, purple was right. But lollipops are new, dammit! Why change the milkshake w/ straws?

I remember Champ Bear. IIRC, he wore a very 80's headband.

You haven't looked up "milkshake" in an adult slang dictionary, have you?

Awww Tornado loving the CareBears. To quote a commerical we are probably all glad has disappeared, "I'm kinda crushin' on you right now."

I still have 2 Popples. I love them.

I also have a big Cheer Bear that I sleep with every night. My friend gave it to me as a going away to college present.

Now, I totally want another Rainbow Brite.

My ad hate goes to Gold Bond. There is one with a woman selling the lotion. She is walking out in the cold talking about how her skin is "dry, cracked and irritated." The problem is that she sounds like early-Anya from Buffy. As in, she sounds very matter-of-fact, forceful and emotionless. It just annoys me out for some reason.

My Share Bear brings all the boys to the yard...

The thing that bothers with the Care Bears, though...the new ones have HUGE HEADS!! I still have my Wish Bear that I got when I was 7 (I lurved it lots, so he's kinda skinny now) and my sister got a Cheer Bear that year (which still looks new). Our old ones had bigger pupils in their eyes and normal-sized heads. The new ones have huge heads and small pupils in their eyes, which makes them look eeeeeeevil.

Aww. I actually liked it the other way. :)

healing fish, I know you did. I saw your "tee hee." :)

Bad spelling irks me, though. So I had to fix it.

Somewhat in line with the Gold Bond powder (which works well, actually, if you can manage to buy it without being afraid someone'll think you're one of the rednecks that touts it) and Blue Star ointment is a spot I hear on the radio nearly every morning.

It's for Tiger Balm. It's got Jerry Rice singing the praises of the stuff, and when he says it, it sounds like he's saying "tiger bomb." And then his mom comes on and she says it's "arthur-itis" rub. And then, in one of the biggest ew moments I have ever heard on morning radio, she asks him to rub some on her feet.

Every time I hear her say "arthur-itis," it makes me think of Gold Bond, Blue Star, and that Black Draught stuff that I think is an anti-constipation medicine. Fortunately, in the market where I live, Gold Bond, Blue Star, and Black Draght don't seem to be high enough in demand to make it to my TV. Or maybe it's that I'm not watching the right kind of TV. Maybe if I watched more Springer or Maury, I'd see more of these remedies.

Oooh! Speaking of products targeted at lower-income, less-educated people, SpikeTV during the daytime is rife with such ads, including the Roni Deutch ones and the Peachtree Settlement one with the lady who has a gap in her teeth big enough to drive a semi through. I've also noticed, though, that there are ads on that try to sucker people into buying kiosks of various types - first a DVD-dispensing machine (like going to Blockbuster or ordering from Netflix is such a hassle), then a web-enabled pay phone. You know, for people to check their mail. But aren't there enough airport kiosks, libraries, and cyber cafes where people can do that? These kiosk/machine dealies just seem like a huge waste of an "investor's" money. Likewise the ads trying to sucker people into selling prepaid debit cards. These things seem so... I dunno, behind the times... and extraneous. I wonder if anyone's buying.