Shut up, McDonald's.

Your Honor? You rule. This -- "A Dutch court has found Wilkinson and Gillette can both say their razors are the best, as members of the public will not believe them anyway." -- is my favorite part. Hee, "members of the public will not believe them anyway."

Then there's that commercial for the soy milk 'Silk', where this rather precocious tweenager is up at just after the crack of dawn, approaching a skiing location with her snowboard. The voiceover says [she] 'will create a trick today that will always have my name on it' or some such nonsense.

As the skilift operator approaches, she tells him 'you're late'.

Ok, how does this convince me or anyone else that this product is good for me? Sounds like it even give tweenagers a mild case of PMS or some other rationale for being b**chy.

Sheesh!

I think that song is by Mojave 3, called Bluebird of Happiness. I think. I heard it on The O.C., and I remember hearing it again in a commercial, so I'm pretty sure it's that one. It is really pretty, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

On an unrelated note, I was at the March for Women's Lives in DC yesterday, and I saw someone wearing a sticker that read "Get your laws off my choo-choo." I wanted to say: "No, no, it's hoo-hoo, dear." Heh.

Bwah! That's awesome! "We have the right to make our Hoo-Hoos glittery!"

Why on earth is Pizza Hut using both moronic Simpson sisters in their new commercial? Gah! It used to be my favorite Pizza chain restaurant, but now I feel like I must boycott it eternally! Unclean!

Ha, add_duck, I thought you meant Lisa and Maggie. Or Patty and Selma, for just a sec. But it's Jessica and Ashlee, is it? Haven't seen the commercial.

Me too!

Hey, all! A new Quiznos opened near my home and I decided to go since I was starving. I didn't know what to order since I was a Quiznos virgin and didn't want to look inexperienced (and was the only customer), so I got a philly cheesestake in which the steak was cut a little too thick for my taste, and they only put cheese sauce and not real cheese, but it was ok. I will definitely go back. No sign of the spongmonkeys though.

Re the peppah baaaaaaaaaaar: The so-called pepper bar contained (in this order) something called pepperoncini, jalepeno peppers, banana peppers, and pickles. Not a pepper fan, myself, so no big deal. Also, I am quite ashamed to admit this, but when you all were talking about the pepper bar, I kept picturing different kinds of pepper ground from peppercorns. Oh the humiliation!

We don't use little images in messages around here, thanks.

The Hummer website has the info which you seek: go to "Hummer World" and click on "TV Commercials," which is the last item on the drop-down menu. The commercial you're speaking of is called "Illumination Night." They give the name of the song ("Bluebird of Happiness"), the group (Mojave 3), the album (Spoon and Rafter), and even a link to the Mojave 3 website. Nifty, eh?

ETA that when I checked for the other car ad song, I saw that etain had posted about finding the Mojave 3 info and saying to never mind. D'oh! Sorry for the redundancy, etain!


According the folks at the forums of Adtunes.com, the car is the Nissan Quest and the song is "Gravity Rides Everything" by Modest Mouse, from their album The Moon and Antarctica. You can go to the album page at Amazon.com and listen to a sample from the song, to see if it's the one you're thinking of.

Vacationland, Thanks for giving him a name!

I was just remarking to the Mister last night, that I would really enjoy passing those snappy fingers through an old fashioned laundry press.
Just to watch him writhe in agony and wipe that smile off his stache-ey face.

Reminds me of a prank I saw once on some really lame (I had nothing better to do) show about picking on kids. They had a kid who thought he was auditioning for a commercial for a product called Salmonade. Pureed salmon. Funniest clip ever, but really, thinking of pureed fish, in a commercial or in a Survivor challenge or in a prank just makes my gorge rise uncontrollably.



Hee! Not just you. Me too. !!!1!!!!



Be prepared for the feeling again. I've seen all of these spots in the past week alone.

Here's a question: there's a commercial for Weber grills with a little animated guy talking about how much better his Weber gas grill is than charcoal. It seems awfully oddtoddish. I went to oddtodd.com to see if he'd mentioned doing it, but he didn't. Anybody know if it's oddtodd or a knockoff?

My biggest commercial hate of late, and it's a local, for those of us in the NOVA/DC Metro area: a takeoff on Sex and the City for MVC, which is a naughty movie and sex toy chain around here. There are four butt-ugly women sitting around a table talking in these hideous southern accents that are only, uh, accentuated, by the low-budget quality of the commercial. One's talking about how her boyfriend broke up with her and she doesn't know what to do, and the others are all, "Girl, git yoreself down to MVC for a guud time!" They all have these kind of RW Frankie smiles on their faces, like they know they're not supposed to be smiling because They're Doing a Serious Commercial and They're Actresses Now, but they can't help it because they're such heinous actresses.

Ugh. I mean, not like any MVC commercial is really gonna win a Cleo or anything, but this one just grates so much more than the other low-budget trash they usually wind up putting on the air. I think part of it is the horsey ugliness of the Carrie Bradshaw wannabe. Ugh. Just ugh.

How did they find a lookalike!?



I frelling wish. The best part. We live in MISSOURI and the boat is docked in the Lake of the Ozarks. Le sigh.

As for topic: I cannot STAND those Crest Whitening Strip ads anymore. Period. Take them off the air, they're not something that's endearing the public to your product. And I finally saw the Snappy McPornstache ad and begrudgingly have to say that I love it. Anyone who can make money with a book on snapping your frelling fingers is a god in my book.

Well, at least they got something right.

Hey look, it's our favorite commercial family!
Customers Like Me: Verizon uses race to make you look

ETA: Good line from the article about the use of race, "Nor is it a grudging corporate concession. (Look, we put a black guy in our ad! Way back in the corner! Not speaking!)"

I just thought it was funny he used Yahoo! to search for it. It's even funnier that it's parked in the Lake of the Ozarks.

Why does McDonalds insist upon using grown-ups in their ads? Nobody over the age of 16 is ever eager to go to McDonalds. If you're an actual adult you go there because your kids want to, or because you're too busy or lazy to go someplace with real food. And if you're drunk, the only reason to go to McDs is if there's no White Castle in your town.

Also, does anybody else think the Labatts bear is starting to look really mangy? You're an international conglomerate for christ sake, spring for a new costume.

Cass4, the LaBatt Bear is starting to look a little haggard. Maybe he got into a bar brawl with the hershey's smore candy bar bear.

I just saw a commercial for new Golden Oreos. What?! Jesus, can we just leave one good thing alone in this country? Hey Nabisco, i'll keep my chocolate oreos even though they make my teeth black, thank you very much!!!!!!

Have you guys seen the new Citicards commericals? Someone mentioned one some time back about the lady that goes on the shopping channel and buys the press on nails with the diamonds in them. But the newest one is so "freaky deeky". Female Asian dental hygentist has the voice of a man coming out of her.. talking about how he was getting ready for his single's weekend by getting a "wax for his chassis." The image of that totally freaks me out anyway, but the end, where she throws her head back and laughs really creeps me out for some reason. Totally evil.

See, to me, I never got this. Place to go when drunk for me was always IHOP. Greasy food is best for the hangover.


Costume? What do you mean? I just thought he had some mange the vets couldn't get rid of. Do bears get mange?

I mentioned this several pages back. I would tell you what page, except this thread grows like nobody's business.

I have liked all the others. This one, however, freaked me the fuck out.

Anyone remember commercials for Muzzy, this video program that's like the Hooked on Phonics set, but to teach kids different languages? For some reason, I was just thinking about that, lol. Whatever happened to Muzzy?

We watched it last year in Spanish class. All I know about the commercial is that the little girl says something in French that everyone in my grade copied and pretended they could speak French. It means, "I am a little girl." Hee!

I just found this on Salon in an article about tooth whitening. There's a whole bit about how the companies figured out how to sell their products - sex them up. Part of it reads as if it came from this very thread.


Heh.

My problem with the Asian dental hygienist is that the words don't quite match up with her mouth moving. It freaks me out, which the other identity theft commercials do not.

I just saw a commerical for a Boost Mobile cell phone, featuring a elderly women talking in street slang. Behind her there was a major block party goin' down, with hip hop music, except the party goers were all in their 60's and 70's. A old guy rides by on his bike, checking things out, yo'. Then these three old people were doing this dance - have no idea what it's called - but it's where the woman's in the middle, and one grampa is shaking his booty behind her, and the other grampa, wearing a wifebeater, is shaking his booty in front of her.

The things you see at 12:30 am.

Which annoys me to no end, because I can understand maybe half of what the damn cartoon was saying (yeah, there's a great teaching tool. *eyeroll*) but I can't imagine what he might have said to spur that response.

OH GOD!! MY EYES!!

Sorry, I just saw this hopefully local advert for the Bob and Tom show which airs on one of our many classic rock channels. It features a cute little old lady sitting on a park bench with huge headphones on. Then she grimaces and says something along the lines of "I can't believe that they said that!" Then, an equally elderly man, wearing A LEOPARD PRINT G-STRING comes and does a strip-tease in front of her. We get shots of his wrinkly ass jiggling and a close-up on his junk. Then the closing shot is of the g-string hitting the woman in the head. WHY GOD WHY!? And who are these elderly actors who have such low self worth that they're even in this damn commercial?!

Actually, I believe IHOP food has special, hangover preventing qualities. Same goes, to a degree, for Denny's and Village Inn.

Saw an ad tonight, new to me - late teens/early twenties girl is doing a video, presumably addressing her boyfriend, in which she lambasts his affection for his truck over her. We then see the truck in question being launched over the edge of a cliff. It tumbles down and lands nicely on all fours. Off camera, girl screams "Nooooo!"

Frickin' hilarious. And now that I've described it, I have a chilling feeling I've seen it mentioned here before. Well, if so, it's been a while, and if not - keep your eyes peeled, folks!

I've seen that one as well. It always makes me think of Dan Fielding from Night Court.

Bwah! They used to show these all. damn. day. long. on Nick, Jr. "Je suis la jeune fille!" is what the little girl says, as she damn near pokes the shit out of herself. Too damn funny. And talk about a mangy bear...

That's for a Toyota. They are so boring, the ads are forgettable. It's probably a Tundra, since that's what they are so heavily promoting now. Anyway, since it's a Toyota, I imagine what they are getting at is crash worthiness, etc. 'Cause there's definitely no connection in my mind between Toyota and "tough".

Regarding the toilet brush debate... I found this:



I hate my toilet brush but figured none of these would work very well (Er, I tend to leave it a little too long...) so I was hoping one of the disposables would work. In the article he really didn't reccomend any of them too much just said that Scotch Brite was the only halfway decent one.

I will try posting the link if anyone wants to read the whole thing.
toilet brush comparisons

Combine that with the Boost Mobile Elderly Boogie ad and soon we'll have the Elderly People with Low Self-Esteem Video Collection. [Arrested Development]

Speaking of loathing Toyota ads, there's a new one out where kids are sitting playing with frogs and stuff and saying "Soon I'll be graduating from high school." "Soon I'll be taking my kids to the same places you took me." And at the end of the commercial announcer guy is like "It's not too late!!"

So if I don't buy your car I'll miss out on my kids lives? What are you trying to say? Other cars will kill me earlier? Other cars will kill my kids? Your car makes time pass by faster? Is it some sort of time machine? What on earth? I don't quite feel hate for that commercial, but it is annoying. And I'm not exactly sure why.

I don't know why, but every time I see that old woman saying something about a "bangin' party, yo", I think "That's Alyson Hannigan in 50 years." Maybe it's her air of hip dorkiness? I just don't know...

Ah! I just remembered that, now that you brought it up! The only part of it I remember was when the little boy said, "un, deux, trois!"

And I'm sure everyone remembers the "Hooked on Phonics, worked for MEEEE!" ads. Oh, I'm sorry...it's just HOP now, to be all damn trendy, and whatnot ;)

Hey, they have to get the money for their blood pressure medication somehow. (No nude old people on TV: an unexpected perk of Socialized medicine.)

And it's a "Bob & Tom" ad, huh? Jeez-oh-pete, those jackasses aren't funny in any medium, are they?

'Cause ain't nothin' cooler than remedial reading.

The host of our local Tampa radio morning show was talking about the Dairy Queen crotch-kicking baby commercial today and said that his cousin was the one that wrote it. He (MJ) called the cousin on the phone and the cousin talked about how he came up with the concept. While on vacation he noticed a couple with a baby in a carrier that kept ripping off the dad's glasses and head-butting the dad, and the cousin said he knew there was an ad in there somewhere. The only CGI in the ad is when the baby head-butts the dad, and the way they filmed the crotch kick was by using filiment line on the baby's foot and pulling the line between the "dad's" legs. Both (actual) parents were there during the whole thing he said, so they were ok with it. It's amazing how much they will get paid from the residuals, that baby will have college paid for with that one spot. I guess the cousin is now working on burger ad idea's for DQ. Kind of interesting to hear about how the concept is worked out, the same guy was the one that wrote the claymation Lipton Ice tea ads a few years ago.

Yeah but they forgot to show the 2nd half of the commercial where the parents say "Sorry kids, I just bought a new car so now we won't be able to take that vacation!"

Now see, THOSE kicked all kinds of ass. My favorite was the one with Frank Sinatra. I think Frank's family suggested Joe Piscopo to do the voice, if I recall correctly. I just thought those ads displayed a great sense of humor.

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Topic? Yeah. McDonald's commercials. I'm hating it!

Maybe Citibank was going for that "dubbed Hong Kong kung fu movie from the '60's" effect?

Personally? I heart this commercial, I love the facial expressions she's making to go along with the V/O, I think it's hilarious. YMMV.





The hell? When did Hooked on Phonics decide to become HOP?

BTW, ChinkyGirl, beware the 3's Co./Odd Couple hour on WB - there's a NEW Matthew Lesko commerical, so they're showing BOTH of them during that hour. *shudders*

formergr - thanks for the link to that Slate article on the Verizon ads. Specifically w/r/t the Elliotts ad (mixed-race family): considering my own life & my circle of friends, I've often wondered why ads always have such homogeneous families. I don't think I know too many of these

Tornado25 & MyKaleidoscope - since we weren't too close to an IHOP or a Denny's (I don't recall having heard of Village Inn), we always went to the 24 hour diner down the block from our local. I remember that for the two years I had a part-time bartending job we'd always end up having a "few" drinks at or around closing time (4.00am) and walking down the street for pancakes, or eggs & sausage, etc. Always breakfast, always. Prior to working there, I was a patron and things were the same then, too. I've spoken about it to a few people since those years and the following equation seems universal: non-sobriety + breakfast-type-meals = happiness.

Frelling tags!!!

The wedding reception commercial for Jack in the Box's Pannido continues to raise a question for me:

Exactly who is Jack related to? Both Kali(?) & her groom (whose name escapes me) say "Thanks for catering our reception Uncle Jack". Neither the bride nor groom have big, giant clown heads (like Jack's dad & son). And after seeing the commercial 80 million times I have yet to see any giant clown-headed people milling in the background.

So, is he a 'blood uncle' or just an old friend of the family?

I like the way Kali squishes the right side of her face into her groom's head when she says "Thanks..." It make her right eye look funny and that never fails to amuse me.

"May ya mah-rige last as lawng as this Pa-nee-do"...

My mom and I have been inundated with the new MCI commercial, the one with Tony Bennett singing "What A Wonderful World," but one question, who is the other singer?

I'm in love with the commercial that has the parents sitting their children down and explaining that they've just taken an aptitude test and learned they're supposed to be rock stars. The dad in the fishnet t-shirt looks hysterical. And the expression on the kids' faces is priceless.

I hate the new Citibank identity theft commercials even more than the old ones. It still frustrates me to no end that they are backwards. And creepy.

Looks like it's still around. Personally, I loved watching those tapes growing up, especially Albert and the phone, and the alphabet/vowel songs. Uh, topic? Nothin'.

That car ad? I think it's for Volkswagen, with a split screen with a car on the left and a person's face on the right? And gradually you get the idea that the people are supposed to look like the cars, the way that they say people start looking like their pets? And they're playing this cute twinkly music, and at the end the title card says, "It must be love"?

It's just so cute. Especially when they match a car with its doors open to a guy with big ol' ears.

Speaking of commercials: this weeks Pixel Challenge is: "Who Will Omarosa of The Apprentice Pimp For Now That Revlon's Fired Her" (or words to that effect).

I've never seen the show. Apparently, she's evil. Or something. I dunno. She's got nice legs, though. Anyhoo, I may not know who Omarosa is, but that won't stop me from mocking her...

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No clue, but they started showing a new logo in the commercials, along with "HOP" on the bottom! Even their official site is hop.com!

Did Lesko finally get rid of his laryngitis, or whatever the hell it was that made his voice even squeekier yet hoarse? Oh hell...I've decided to go to bed early now! Thanks for the warning!

Well, Jack's mom doesn't have the clown head, so it could be related to the Y chromosome, in which case the bride would be a logical choice for relative. Or either one could be the child of one of his wife's siblings.

I, personally, love the identity theft commercials. Espescially the "leather boustier" one. LOVE! Maybe it's just me, though...