Jael, I'm not sure which commercial you saw, but obviously whoever wrote it didn't do a very good job placing their product. Cadillac makes the Escalade; Ford's version of the SUV-O-Saurus is the Navigator.

However (and here's where I'm a tiny bit helpful), if it was an Escalade commercial you saw, the music was probably something from Led Zepplin, which I believe is still used in all Cadillac commercials.

Hope this helps you find the particular song! I spent years searching for a particular version of "Put A Spell On You" that appeared in a commercial, only to come up empty handed.

The song for that particular commercial series is called "Rock & Roll" and is from the Led Zeppelin IV album (aka the "ZOSO album" or the "rune album"). In my youth, I called this song "that song with the cool guitar riff and the kickass drum break at the end." Now it's merely "the Cadillac song." I'm sure that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page would be rolling over in their respective graves if only (1) they weren't still alive and (2) they weren't making a ton of money from Cadillac. Hmph. Maybe they'll sell "Whole Lotta Love" to the Viagra people next.

Edited because "harrumph" (1) has a double "R" and (2) doesn't mean what I thought it meant. Bah!

Bwah! The fact that you (and I) remember this word for word is killing me. Tell me I'm crazy, though: was the last line "black girls ... wow!" or did we just make that shit up? Please tell me that wasn't how it ended.

They still have them. There's an ad here that runs all the time. This really good looking woman says "Tonight I'm going to curl up and get cozy with Live Links - it's the best way to meet local guys!"

There's also one with a really good looking man with his shirt off, who "wants to share his simple country life with someone."

It sounds like it's a party line, but I guess it could also be personal ads. Anyway, I doubt very much that the Live Links customers look anything like the people in the commercial.

This seals it. We're moving to Utah so that I can marry you all.

I think that's for a male seeking male line.

The best is this big bodybuilder guy in his bathroom. He has a huge zit between his shoulder blades, but he can't reach his hands back there to pop it or scratch it or anything. Then, the voiceover says something about the advantages of a partner and the phone number comes up on the screen.

Is that the only thing a partner is good for? Popping back zits?!? Presumably, with the muscles on this guy, he can open his own pickle jars.

That always reminds me of the bit on the Simpsons where Homer saw an ad for one of those phone services describing it as where all the "cool people" call but when he does, the only people on it are Apu, Barney, and Wiggim's kid! Ha HA (a la Nelson).

I know people in Sheboygan with that accent. It's really fun to visit them, except not. I wouldn't say there's any one Midwestern accent. I'm from Chicago and sound only slightly like a Superfan, while Mr. jennifuh is from an Illinois farm and has a modified Superfan/hick accent.

I would buy Batman Beyond pons. Do you get a Bat signal right before your period starts? That would rule.

Not to nitpick, but Lincoln makes the Navigator (and I know, Lincoln is a division of Ford). Ford's similarly sized SUV is the Expedition (I would say the Excursion is bigger than the 'lade and the 'gator).

More fun with gnomes. Saw an ad with a gnome riding in a convertible with "Slow Ride" playing. Cut to yard with guy reading note "Couldn't stand looking at the lawn anymore. Sorry". It's for Ace Hardware and getting help with your lawn projects. Hee hee hee, I love gnomes.

Sideshow Al, marry me. At least they didn't use "Ramble On" to promote the Lord of the Rings movies.

Re: accents, in my Kansan opinion, everybody has an accent in relation to somebody from another country/region. The typical Midwest accent is merely the same as the "neutral" American accent that news anchors and slumming British thespians aspire to. I think the Kansas accent is pretty close to that, but merely go one state south, to Oklahoma, and the accents start to veer into Hee-Haw territory.

Mangetical Angi, if I don't get to marry Sideshow Al as well, could I at least be the ring-bearer at your nuptuals? Thanks to those damn Cadillac ads, I actually hate that tune now. And it's a great song! Similarly, the "Truth" ads have given me an unnatural loathing of street noise. (Seriously, if I have the TV on and I'm in another room, and I hear street noise and no dialog, my first thought is "Oh great, another f*ing Truth ad.")

jolly_roger, of course! I hate "Rock and Roll" now with a fiery burning passion (whether it's the passion of a thousand nuns, it's debatable) thanks to stupid Cadillac. I mean, it's an awesome, awesome song...but what the hell does it have to do with a luxury car? I mean, god, if you want a more nonsensical song for a car ad, use "MacArthur Park". At least that would be funny.

I read somewhere that about 80% of Americans have that "neutral" American accent, and that sounds about right. I was born and raised in NC, but when we visited my mom's folks up in Minnesota, there wasn't much difference between their accent and ours. I doubt anyone who wasn't from the U.S. would be able to tell the difference, even though they do say their "o"'s funny. ;)

Yikes! There's been a lot of marriage talk popping up in this thread. However, if I want intimacy, I can always dial my beloved 1-900 numbers (Big girls...yeah! Blonde girls...ooh! And so forth).


Eww. I wonder what he'd be carrying in his utility belt. Or not.

The idea does have some story potential, though:
"Great Gotham, Robin! It's none other than our archenemy, the dreaded Aunt Flo! She's virtually unstoppable while she's on her estrogen-powered Menstrualcycle!"

Ooh, and you can throw in some comic book-style sound effects: POW! SPLAT! DOUCHE!

Topic? Er . . . [/runs away quickly]

How come I can't picture Batman but the Ambiguously Gay Duo? Eh, tomato, tomahto.

Hey, it should be the sanitary belt. Really, there should be a new comix character developed specifically for this advert - Cycle Girl. With her Glittery Hoo Hoo, pons and pads, she'd be a Force to Be Reckoned With. Hey, if she can deal with PMS and the dreaded Aunt Flo, she'd be truly powerful. Of course, she would be dressed in All White! Hee!

That was my favorite of all time! I still have it on tape from when I set my VCR timer to tape Big Brother at 1 AM when it was pre-empted by baseball. "Pick up the phooone! G-I-R-L, now. Pick up the phone!"

let's not forget that her superpower would be lighting fast mood swings. And she'd ride a red Hoo Hoo Honda Valkyrie Rune

I hate asking this because it proves how ignorant and uncultured I am, but...what's the name of the song used in the Pringles commercial? The one where everyone's sweating because of the hot chips?

I've only seen one Pringles commercial for the spicy chips, and the track playing in it is "O Fortuna" from the opera Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

Hey, iron chef, the tune is "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (check out this Adtunes page). For you trivia fans, that piece of music is always the answer whenever an ad exec is dissatisfied with the preliminary music for a commercial and asks, "I dunno . . . do you have anything more . . . oh, how shall I put this . . . bombastic?"



And don't forget that she wields her magic tampon lasso and brandishes a Tampax pearl-shooting gun. Yep, I can just picture her now . . . Holy freakin' crap, I actually can. Eek!

Edited to note that screamapiller beat me to the "O Fortuna" response. Curse my sluggishness! Bah!

Argh! Tornado25 is all kinds of right, and me getting that wrong is doubly sad when you realize I used to actually work at a place where I needed to know who made what unnecessarily large SUV.

:::must resist temptation to go back and fix original post:::

On Topic: Am I the only one creeped out by the split-screen Target ads with weird human/kitchen appliance mutants? Just me? Ok?

And Kentucky Fried Chicken is fooling no one with that "Kitchen Fresh" crap.

NO, you're NOT! I just saw one where a guy was supposed to jump or dive or something and he jumped from one side (as a guy) and then landed on a spatula as a hamburger. G.r.o.s.s.

Why don't they just put a "To Serve Man" sign on an aisle full of Soylent Green?
Ew.

Re: the Escalade song. I was wrong. It was the Ford Escape (I knew it started with an E). I just found out the song was written for the commercial and won't be released to the public. I hope they change their minds. It's a great song.

By the way, many thanks to the person who posted the adtunes link.

My computer's been in the shop for the past week, so I've been going through TWoP withdrawl.

There's been a plethora of fun commercials lately. (I'm using my Word of the Day calendar.)

I'm a softie for animals in commercials, so the Lab puppy singing to the "Camp Granada" themesong makes me smile.

And as for the roaming gnome? Love the accent!

But my latest favorites are for United Healthcare Insurance. One shows a bride with her bridesmaids, getting pictures taken outside. The photographer is looking through the viewfinder telling them "take a step back........one more.........Ok, one more step back........etc." They all take a last step back, and you guessed it. They all roll backwards down the hill behind them.

The other shows two men preparing to get rid of a hornets nest. One is on the ground holding the lid of a bid garbage pail positioned right below the dangling hornets nest. The other guy is up the ladder with a saw in hand, ready to cut the branch. He tells the man on the ground that as soon as he cuts the branch, and the nest falls in the can, to put the lid on.

Meanwhile he slips on the ladder, grabbing the hornets nest with both arms as he hits the ground. The commercial ends with the two guys in the background, running and screaming from the angry hornets. The announcer voice-overs "Sometimes in life you make the wrong choice. Don't do it with your insurance". Makes me laugh every time.

Yeah, I'm easily amused.

Sideshow Al, a friend of mine and I have actually been toying with the concept of a comic called "The Amazing Adventures of Surly Girl", after a another friend who works for a pharmaceutical company was telling us they were trying to come up with a new ad campaign for their PMS drugs...

Decormaven, I think Cycle Girl could rival her!

. . . And she would wear a cape! A red, flowing cape!

. . . [thinks]

. . . [thinks]

. . . Okay, I'm done now.

Okay, when I get a new job and on the last day of my two weeks' notice, I'm going to dress up as Cycle Girl and run through the halls of the school where I work(ed). Just imagine the looks on kindergarteners' faces.

I will blame y'all for any legal misfortune that befalls me after this incident. Hopefully it will make more than just my local news.

We can only hope so.

Awww. I love those ads.

Those ads with a series of long vertical things just to the left of a round thing? (God, that sounds so dirty! Or is that just me?). All to symbolize "10"? I'm blanking on the product or store or whatever.

I think that's for the 10% back that you get for the Discover card. All I know is it's one of those commercials that every time I see it, I can't remember what it's for until the very end when they tell me. I guess I've finally remembered it though, so it might be doing its job.

Another one that kills me (or rather, annoys me) is that one for Verizon where they're talking about who's "in" (in the network plan I assume) and then that guy comes into the room and says "You're in" to the younger guy (his son I guess) and then says "You're in" to the girl (daughter) and the son's like "She's in?" Like how dare she be "in" too--she's a girl!!! I don't know if that's what he means, but it comes across that way to me...just stupid.

The new ads for 'International Delight' coffee creamer?
Where the eclair sneaks out of the box and tries to tempt the woman?

Looks like a big turd.

Actually, this one made me laugh. It was classic sibling behavior. The older brother wants 'in' because he think's its the coolest thing ever, and when his little sis is also 'in', suddenly he has to share and it's not so cool anymore. Hee.

I kinda like those Target silhouette ads where these kids are running through a yard or something, they run up to a tree house, and pop in a DVD. It's kinda cool, up until they show the latest DVD they're trying ti sell, which is usually a lame movie (Cheaper by the Dozen? Brother Bear?).

But I have to wonder - how/why would anyone put a DVD player in their kids' tree house? lol...

Fast forward to Oct. 2004 - dozens of elementary school aged girls begging for this to be their costume.

Saw the Survivor tampon commercial this morning with my daughter. She wondered if their message didn't work, would they have to use the now sandy tampons anyway? And with that thought I was sent off to work.

Just wanted to say that the commercial i'm digging right now is for Kill Bill Vol. 2. usually when I see a movie ad for the 100th time, I want to put my foot through the TV, but I could watch this preview for days!

I also love the advantix dog that's writing home. I think it's so cute when the dog almost crashes on the bridge.

I do want to know what is wrong with those two girls who are washing their faces! I know "Clean and Clear stuff cleans your face good, but damn, they were two moans away from turning the commercial into "College Chicks Get Dirty: The Clean and Clear Edition".

I didn't see this Verizon one but I've seen the ones with the black older guy who is dancing around (he even does some break dancing at the end) and I absolutely hate it! I cannot stand this guy. I hate this commercial with passion.

I took it as 'brother/sister rivalry' more than 'misogyny'.

I love that Geico ad with the whistling. Its on all the time and I love it every time. Has anyone seen it or like it?

I finally saw that Hayley Westenra commercial that somebody upthread had mentioned. Her voice may be technically lovely, but the way she's being marketed as "pure" GRATES. As though she's some holy angel sent down on earth to give us Sarah Brightman music, 2.0. The only thing I think I hate more than this commercial is the commercials with the stupid Dairy Queen baby.

Yep, me too. I find myself giving the brother a big "shut the fuck up, you big crybaby", everytime it's on. Verizon, I prefer the Trump ads, please.

That sort of reminds me, what happened to Verizon's push-to-talk ads? I mean, they were on for a while and I haven't seen any. Does that mean they assume everyone now knows Verizon has PTT? Or did they give a try and concede to Nextel?

I do too, and it still annoys the piss out of me. What is he, five?

There is another brother/sister commerical out right now that is so classic. It's for a car?gas?automotive something and the brother and sister and in the backseat of the car and he keeps inching his hand close to her. He doesn't touch her, but comes close. She says "stop it" and he says "I'm not doing anything." And it happens over and over and over. My brother used to do this to me all the time! Drove me nuts too. Why do boys have that "I'm not touching you" urge?

I also saw the new Saturn stork commerical. I thought the stork carrying the baby was so cute. It's not something you see in commericals very often anymore.

I feel like I'm visiting with my nieces & nephew when I see that commercial!

First off, now that I've put that sentence into quote format I realized it looks really dirty. Out-of-context remarks are nobody's friend.
Secondly, speaking as the oldest of four children, the "I'm not touching you" thing transcends gender. I used to drive my brothers to the point of hysterical babbling. "Maaaaaaaaam make her stop not touching me with her evil witch fingers!"
I've finally done what I always said I'd do- boycott any beer featured in a stupid commercial. So far Coors, Miller Lite, and Samuel Adams have been axed. I'm pretty sure in the end I'm going to end up with Killian's- which is just fine by me.

Hee. I still do this to my 17 year old brother. And I'm 25. Yeah, I'm very mature.

I read at adage.com that a new ad firm got the Old Navy account. I can't wait to see what they come up with. Cause it has to be better than "my shizzle's gone fashizzle." Or whatever the hell Fran Drescher tries to say.

That was me, mangetical, and thank you, I feel validated in my irritation with that commercial. And I think you were able to articulate why it bothers me too.

Finally saw the K9 Advantix commercial with the lab puppy. Awwww...

I do the "not touching" thing as well, all the time, to friends and random strangers. OK, not random strangers usually. But yeah.

They're practicing.

I read elsewhere online about an ad for Ball Park Franks in which this schlub barbequeing hot dogs rants about how vegetarians are "anti-American."

WTF? And I eat meat!


So... what do we all think about Ms. Levitra?

just saw the new Saturn commercial featuring the dent-resistant panels. for some reason the bus backing into the car frelling funny!