I just hate the way Judy Garland's voice sounds. How old!

Personally, I thought Digger was rather cute!

Anyway, seems the FDA had a problem with those Lamisil commercials and that's why we don't see them any more.

Wowee! Thanks for the scientific info, thebigchill! There's no distinction made about buffered or non-buffered in the ad. The deal with the commercial is that the chemist is all - I would never sniff acetone without this giant gas mask on - and the questioner is all - did you know acetone is in cigarette smoke? Supposed to scare people. You know.

But I just checked the label of my nail polish remover and... you guessed it, acetone is ingredient numero uno. So this commercial is supposed to scare me how, again?

Also: "don't pour directly into the eyeballs"... hee! Science people are funny!

By the way, roosterboy, thanks so much for the warning. I clicked on the link you provided to the Lamisil article, and lo and behold, after I scrolled down a bit... reading... reading... EEEEEEK! The horror! That damn image of the toenail cranked up like a steamer trunk lid AGAIN! I should really post my utter terror at this atrocious image in the scarred for life thread. Gad!

My two favourite commercials of all time and the one's I despretly want to see again and would even pay for are

The Toilet Duck Commerials - These ruled, I love them. Quack! Quack!

The Hack Attack Commercials (I think it was Halls)

Anyone remember these?

I think I see an new entry in NBC's replacement for Friends in the works here... kinda like Bosom Buddies... but with a TWIST!

The Balltrimmer, eh? Looks exactly like that eyebrow trimmer that gets advertised so much, except they stamped another name on it.


I always say going to Red Lobster for seafood is like going to McDonald's for steak.

McDonald's? Hatin' it!

For more information than you ever wanted to know, archbrow, here's a site with acetone info. It looks like in large quantities it can be bad, but I think the commercial is using good ole fashioned scare tactics. I mean, yeah, huffing acetone isn't good for you, but requiring a gas mask for one sniff? Seems a bit much.

[/QUOTE]The counting sheep are still going strong.[QUOTE]

I'd almost buy the mattress to get my own plush counting sheep :)

The new Monk ads on USA are hysterical. Isaac Hayes telling us all about the obsessive compulsive dick who's...damn, I forgot the rest, except for "Wipe your mouth!" "I'm just talking about Monk."



Heh. Thanks for the cunning plan, ubi! I wonder where Vicki Lawrence got her wig for Mama's Family...

I love that promo ad!

And I love Chevrolet's recent commercial with the intro to the 2004 cars; with each car going onto the moving car carrier and for the finale: the SSR spinning around and going onto the rig backwards!

Help! Has anyone seen the ads on A&E for their new show Airline? The guy at the counter saying how he's from the street--who is that?! He looks SO familiar!

Just saw the new Citi Identity Theft commercial. So funny! The teenager's voice and laugh just crack me up - as does the look on the woman's face just before she says, "...a GIRL robot." Major hee hee to all these commercials! I caught "Mamacita" lady again last night and still chuckled.

Thanks for reminding me about this travesty. A whole room of my friends had the exact same reaction while we watched this on New Year's Eve. Damn you, M&M Mars! That is the wrongest wrong that ever wronged. It's morbid and exploits a person's image in a way they have no control over. I don't think even a person's heirs should be allowed to sell relative's image to be used in such a way. It bugged me when Diet Coke was doing this with Cary Grant, I believe, among others. Not that I have anything to worry about, being spectaculary unfamous, but I would haunt and harry any of my descendents if they did that to me post-mortem!

Oh my goodness. Saw this ad last night and HATED it, particularly the SSR, which looks like something straight out of a ZZ Top video from the 80s. And the ad? Not even that well shot. When the second vehicle goes onto the truck, the 'Vette isn't on the top, which could've been terribly easy to edit. But Chevy? Didn't appear to care. Sigh. I have a feeling we're going to be watching that one for months....

Bigwheels, I work at a furniture store and we just received a life-size Serta sheep for promo purposes. It's adorable. I also got a smaller one for winning some contest.

Dude, lol, sounds you like the Corvette. I didn't even pay attention to that. Looks i will be watching and looking at this commercial again and carefully.

teehee, I cannot stand Chevies. Particularly the 'Vette, because if you wanted a sweet sports car, you'd never ever buy American. ::crouches in corner waiting for the onslaught of 'Stang and 'Vette owners looking to kill me....::

It's just that the shot was SO obvious it killed me. And I usually don't notice stuff like that, i.e. people drinking in sitcoms the half full/full glass changes , etc...

Take it from your friendly local Rite Aid employee: The funniest and least well-thought-out product name ever? Anusol. Just...unnecessary.

I love the Target Dog to the rescue ads. The one where he brings the climber soup is just so adorable.

Bigwheels1971, I got my sister a counting sheep from the serta website last year for Christmas. I didn't have to buy the mattress. I have no idea if they're still selling them.

Looky here....

I'm always surprised when commercials have continuity gaffes. I mean, it's only 30 seconds, and they know people will be seeing it over and over and over. Yet you still get weird stuff like the car commercial with the Big Right Foot Guy, whose eyes go from brown as a kid to blue as a teen to brown as an adult. Or that older ad for Universal amusement park with Frankenstein giving a pedicure to a woman who goes from a foot with a short second toe to a mutantly long second toe in a single cut. Maybe you don't notice the first 50,000 times, but eventually, it drives you mad.

On a different peeve, my (doomed) wish for 2004 is that advertisers will stop trying to sell me stuff by grossing me out. It's not just the nose hair and grody feet. It's the smeared KFC wings, the baby covered in Prego... make it stop. Thinking of your product shouldn't make me queasy.

Another continuity gap in commercials is the Stuck on You movie trailer where Matt Damon is driving, but it's clear from all the other bits in the ad that if they truly were attached, Greg Kinnear would be the one driving, because they're joined at Damon's left hip/Kinnear's right hip. Or maybe they're attached with Silly Putty. What-ev. Maybe I just revealed the crazy plot twist....

Alright maybe I just watch too bleebleeblahblahboo....

Has anyone seen the ad for the disposable toilet brush? It has a long skinny handle and this tiny round brush which has soap already in the bristles. The brush breaks down over time and when you are done with it you can pop the bristles off into the toilet and flush it. If anyone has it, does it work? I HATE cleaning the toilet!

OT: I hate the counting sheep, but would love to have a Zoloft ball!

I watched an incredibly large amount of TV on New Year's Day, and I saw - over and over - that ad for Smoke Away, the herbal Quit Smoking in 7 Days Guaranteed product. I had seen it before, but hadn't really noticed the obligatory doctor spokesperson before. I mean, when I saw it before, I was all, yeah yeah, a doctor, of course they have a doctor talking about this product. But Thursday I happened to notice the initials at the end of the doctor's name: DC. And then I noticed the big fake spine that every chiropractor has in his or her office. Yup, they got a chiropractor to talk about how well her patients had done using Smoke Away.

Because aren't all chiropractors concerned with the pulmonary health of their patients? Is that why chiropractors always have those big fake lungs in their offices, right beside the big fake spine model?

Also finally saw (and started blocking from memory) the ads for "My Baby's Daddy." Michael Imperioli, why? Why?

And the DiTech guy - I know I recently commented on him, but I've seen the ad where he goes, "Let me just open these blinds to let in a little more light" - GRRR - about a trillion times in the last three or four days. I hate that guy. I hate those commercials. It's almost enough to make me want to turn off my TV entirely until that particular spot has completed its run.

We have it! I'm the only one in the house who could figure out how to use it, though. I'd say it works fairly well, but I like the typical gel better. I didn't know about the flush-able brush, though. That's sorta neat.

Topic, topic... who's got the topic? I've seen that hair trimming thing commercial too many times over the past few days. It seems like it disappeared for a while and came back and bombarded me with fits of channel-changing. Some of the examples squick me out. Eck.

The Lipfinity(lipstick) ads with the model sensuously shoving the phallic-sushi into her mouth. Who eats sushi that way? I hate that ad!

Have there been any NFL Playoff commercials so far this year besides "Seven" and "Diamond Ring"? I know these ads are irritating to some, but if there was a network that only showed Don Cheadle programs, interspersed with Don Cheadle ads, I would seriously never change the station.

I just saw the FUNNIEST commercial for Dunkin' Donuts. A woman is sitting on a park bench and she takes a sip of DD coffee. Then, we hear the obligatory narrator talking about the wonders of the coffee - only it's not a narrator. It's Ricardo Montalban and he's sitting right next to her! Priceless.

I like any commercial that has a good tune to back it up. I loved the Dentyne Ice one with the girl and guy at the subway station with "Way You Walk" by Papas Fritas palying. The one where she writes her number on the train window as it rides off. And the Honda Civic commercial with the guy checking out the girls on the beach until he sees the Civic and then he starts checking the car out instead. He bumps into th car first then bumps into a girl while checking out the car, and the cool tune "Ocean Man" plays in the background.

A cool song can make a commercial memorable!



Oh my gosh, does he ever annoy me too. That voice drives me up a wall!

On the other hand, I do love the Afflack duck. Go figure

Word, puckish. Word, word, word. I feel like this ad has been stalking me. I've seen it about twenty times this past week. All I can say every time is, "Disappointed. So disappointed."

I don't love Microsoft, but I LOVE the Microsoft Office Great Moments ads. These are the ones that show office workers celebrating like sports figures when they, e.g., build a great spreadsheet. In one, a guy spins his laptop on the floor and does an end-zone celebration--the chicken dance, the six-shooters, etc. In another, a couple of workers dump the water-cooler on a co-worker. In a third, a bunch of people pile up in the atrium as if they just won the World Series.

These are silly, silly, ads that I just can't take my eyes off of. Granted, I work in a fairly traditional office environment, so maybe they just resonate with me.

They do make one feel a little better about the monopolist of the Northwest, though I don't know if they sell any more copies of Office. What's Microsoft's market share of spreadsheet/word processing, anyway--like 95%?

I just saw an ad for Aquafresh toothpaste where, layered over a picture of the toothpaste box, a woman is brushing her teeth with a huge smile. The weird thing is that she is washing her hair. Yep, washing and brushing. So pointlessly stupid.

Will someone please rescue me from the hell that is the commercial for that Slow Jams cd....you know the one that starts with the Mary J Blige song? It is killing me. Not only is it like 3 hours long, but it is on every five minutes. And my husband keeps singing one of those Shai songs in his office and he doesn't even sing the words right. So that commerical is ruining my life.

And the other one with all the club songs? Aghhh!

Works great. The disposable brush part is one-use, so you don't have a dirty brush to deal with. It's the second best cleaning invention of the year. Best is the bleach pen - I have the misfortune of having tile counters in my kitchen and it's the onlything that has ever got my grout clean.

I just can't take that compilation seriously. Why? Because it's called "Tha Down Low." And any gay guy in the know will tell you that a black guy who keeps up all the trappings of straightness while going out and screwing guys is said to be "on the down low."

So, basically, the first time I saw that ad, for a soulful R&B compilation called "Tha Down Low," I fell off the couch laughing.

Sketchy name aside, why the hell is "See You At The Crossroads" on it? How is that a makeout song?

And how many of us saw this during EACH 10 minute commercial break while watching the Real World marathon at 2 am?

I'm sick of "Tha Down Low" compilation too! I didn't know that the "down low" referred to a closeted black man who maintained the facade of being straight. I thought it referred to the old R. Kelly song about secret affairs and relationships. I'm also tired of that "Fired Up" compilation commercial, with all the club songs. Arrgh!

The other commericial really getting on my nerves is for the Lifealert system. It's basically a slightly less entertaining version of the famous "I've fallen and I can't get up" commericial from the 80s. The most hilarious thing about the commercial is the Lifealert medical expert, Dr. Schnitman - Is this really his name? He looks like he's reading directly from the telepromter. The woman giving a testimonial is also hilarious - she's sounds (and looks) like a robot!

I know it's been mentioned, but I am really hating the Goodbye Girl ad with Patricia Heaton looking tragic (I suppose the emotion she's going for is tragic, though seasick could be it too.)

And the song that gets stuck in my head and won't go away.

Word on all the compilation commercials (it seems to be the theme commercial for the RW marathon). I hate seeing the Ugly Spice video. Yuck.

Hee. My favorite part is in the extended "video" version of the ad, when she's got her eyes closed. It's fun to see how the facelift and botox interact with the aged crepiness and crow's feet around her eyes, so that the wrinkles skew upward at this bizarre angle.

I don't want to watch the movie, but I think I have to, to see Jeff Daniels doing the "panties" bit in the bathroom. Plus, if I turn it off before he "comes back", it's really just Patricia Heaton getting dumped.

Glad I'm not the only one watching The Real World marathon and hating the fact that "Unbreak My Heart" and "Giving Him Something He Can Fe-Yeel" are on constant rotation in my mind (With a little bit of "Crossroads" thrown in for good measure).

What annoys me possibly more than all of those R&B/Soul compilation commercials are all those commercials for Greatest Hits CDs from people like Cher, The Eagles, etc. Do they honestly think that anyone will pay MORE than the suggested store retail price (they're usually $18.99 + $5 shipping) just to get some cheap extra like a poster?

Has anyone seen the commercial for ElixSure? It's some kind of extra-thick kids' medicine, so it won't spill. If you catch this commercial, take a moment to look at the girl who takes a spoonful of ElixSure, then does an overexaggerated "Mmmmm!" while running her tongue over her lip.

I'm pretty sure that girl is a demon. That's all I'm sayin'.

I just want to give you all a quick thank you. I haven't been able to watch any tv for the past three days because I'm biting the bullet and writing my thesis. Periodically, though, as I type away into the lonely wee hours, I sneak a peek up in here for some much needed Hee! And y'all are on the money today. Thanks, Twopers!

I can't wait to see the toilet brush!!!

... I can't believe I just wrote that.

Oh, I just hate those ads.

And the rain mixes with her nasty wrinkled hag face and she's got her eyes half closed and I think she's going for sexy but she comes across like a confused homeless woman trapped in the rain.

I only took a basic film class but I'm assuming that in a more advanced class you learned that Patricia Heaton + Hootie = bad commercial for your movie.

I love these ads too! I saw the end of one today that was called "The Catch" about what if Clark hadn't caught the ball but my favorite one (being a Pats fan) shows Adam Vinatieri's snow bowl winning kick and all you hear is Cheadle saying, " And this isn't even real snow." hee!

You know that commercial where the two guys are talking about different activities (bungee jumping, hand gliding) and one of them is too scared to try any of them? Then the camera pans out and you see they are lying suspended off a cliff. Well, they look like they are lying kind of close, so are we supposed to assume they are boyfriend-boyfriend? Cause if so, that's very cool of the ad agency.

Levitra ads with Mike Ditka. I saw a interview with him and he said they wouldn't be doing ads during football and yet, during the Packers/Seahawks game, I saw 3. Da Bears should be ashamed. Seriously.

KatrinaJ, no, that's not HoYay...sorry.

When you only have a platform about yea big, and you're suspended on the side of a mountain...you're gonna want to be as close to the center as possible. Plus, body heat for warmth.

I saw a hilarious commercial on ESPN last night. It starts with a girl and guy making out on a couch. One is wearing a red Ohio State t-shirt, and the other a blue U. of Michigan shirt. They're babbling all sorts of cheesy romantic nonsense, and being generally sickening. And then the caption comes across the screen that says, "If it wasn't for sports...this would just be disgusting."* I thought it was great, but that may only be because I went to U of M (Go Blue!).

*apologies if I got the exact wording wrong, only saw it once.