ChinkyGirl & archbrow -


Vaughn Lowery (the Joe Boxer dancer) has a website - AboutVaughn.com. If you click the picture of him in the black hat, you will see a video of his ABC Primetime interview.

Oh my gosh, ajra! Thank you so much for that link! I'm kinda freaking out right now because Vaughn and I have the same birthday. Meaningless but weird and fascinating nonetheless. (Scorpios--yay!) And... he is drop-down-on-the-ground-and-lick-his-shadow guh-orgeous. Holy moly. No lie, people.

Bring back Joe Boxer and his "Boxer Boogie!" I think those commercials made me more spontaneously happy than any other ones I've ever seen. Just because the dude was so bravely dorky and adorable at the same time.

Sigh... I'm in lurrrrve.

FfrauleinN, you can't go around typing shouty Britney Spears Pepsi commercial lyrics. When I read that I inadvertedly shouted out 'Hey!'. I'm still getting weird looks 20 minutes afterward.

I am rather torn by that new Mitsubishi advert. On one hand I LOVE "Do You Realise" by the Flaming Lips, but that biker stopping to look makes me wish he would hit a hydrant and go ass over teakettle in the street. Yes, that would have made a far better ad. And just when I got the peppy version of the Final Fantasy X-2 commercials out of my head, I am now assaulted by the new slower Tidus/Yuna one. And I am right back where I was when I first saw the upbeat one (that is, praying that during every commercial break that it is shown. Again. And again.

I saw the creepy Snuggle Swimsuit Stalker at last night...oh, I don't know....maybe 88234 times during Angel last night. I know you guys warned me it was going to be creepy, but I didn't realize it was going to be Cree. Pee. (tm someone else)

Still not as Cree. Pee. as the guys playing poker with french fries. That's just messed up.

This was from a few days ago, but I'm just catching up after having been out of town on business. Since no one said anything, I could be wrong but isn't Dale Earnhardt dead? If so, and that was an ad for a cellphone, I might have to buy me that there brand...

It was Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Oops! I actually found out about this site yesterday and kept meaning to post it for you guys, but the server has been going nuts here so I forgot. Thanks anyways ajra!

Still hate the Emeril/Colgate one. However, watching it the other day, I have to wonder: why was Emeril sneaking into the house late, anyway? If I'm at work past bedtime, I always wake up and kiss my wife, so she knows I'm home. Was he, perhaps, up to no good?

I generally don't care for Hallmark commercials, but a new one caught my eye. It was for their kissing bears. Woman drops one, and a gent goes door to door to find its match, until he finds the other bear. What I like (and I'm a sucker for small furry creatures) was that one of the things the bear kisses is a cat--real cat--who appears to reach out to it. It was cute.

The M, the U, the C, the H, the V, the I, the B, the E its much vibe, hold up! Its much vibe, say what?

'Sitting on the crapper waiting for something to happen, nothing gonna happen at all. Doo doo doo. Sitting...'

MuchMusic is a Canadian equivilant of MTV. Commercials scare the hell outta me.

And differant commercial, 'plug it in, plug it in.' Am I the only one who is seriously freaked out by the flowers and stuff climbing up the wall? I have had nightmares about being closed in by the flowers and smells.

I used to work in an adult book/toy store, and we used "plug it in, plug it in" as an inside joke while merchandising.

Totally different nightmares for me, but I empathize.

I agree, it's creepy. Its somehow reminescent of being lost in a jungle or something, where you get your foot caught in the vines and they close in on you and eat you alive....
Plus, a friend of mine has one of those damn plugins in almost every single outlet(overkill, much??) in his apartment and everytime i come home from his house my clothes reek for days of killer tangerine.

Hand up. Especially since we all know McDonald's fries well enough to know that there's no way they're still warm after sitting on a plate through a round of poker. Yay, cold, touched-by-other-folks fries. Mmmm. What's especially disturbing is that the guy who wins looks all super-greasy. I bet his friends let him win because they didn't want to eat anything he'd touched.


Yes. First, I don't get it. First person: "Laaaa!" Judges: "Very good". Second person: "Identical Laaaa!" Judges: "You suck." Buh-wuh?

Also, Fox, redoing those ads to be weird football parodies and airing them during football? Not going to increase the football/AI crossover audience. Sorry.

Also, hate to Subway's commercials where people are "being bad" on their diets and use Subway as an excuse, so their significant others do something actually bad, like tackling old people, and then use Subway as an excuse. It took me weeks to understand the relationship between cheating on your diet and doing something horrible (i.e. both are "being bad"). Tortured comparison, Subway. Bring back "What would Jared Do?" (Jared: "Aaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeee!!!!" Hee.)

She does, but I also feel weird seeing that ad. I mean that was a popular show, and thus she was fairly famous. Is it sad to be doing commercials now, or just part of the business you have to accept?

Now, I realize not all actors-in-commercials are sad, it depends. And if the same ad featured only Khrystyne, it would seem more normal, like she was their spokesperson. But it's the fact that she's blended in with 5-6 other people talking about their colds...it just seems weird. Like, are they semi-famous people too? Or are they all randoms who auditioned, and she had to audition too?

Comcast Advertising has an ad which is both inexplicable and annoying: person sitting in a car, breathing very heavily, followed by a card that says "Reason #27 to get a new car: new car smell".

WTF does buying a new car have to do with advertising on Comcast? Why are there several identical versions, only with different people?

Although it's got to be tough to come up with a quality pitch for Dulcolax Stool Softener, the current ad that somehow equates the product's success with sitting in a big, comfy chair doesn't make the grade. IMHO. And Ad Folks, please quit showing these things during dinner time. In fact, just don't show them at all. People who are experiencing GI problems know to look for the products in the store when they need to buy them.

I think once your product has the word "stool" in its name, it becomes self-explanatory.

The ad for the on-line DIY tax return? The wife says "Well, I just finished doing our taxes!". Then through the rest of the ad, the lame-o husband says things like "What if we did it wrong?" "Did we get all our deductions?".

What's with the "we" buddy? If you're so unconfident and unappreciative of your wife's abilities, then get off your ass and do the taxes yourself!

My only hope is the end where the wife says "We already got our refund check". I pray that the next line, which was cut, was "...and I'm off to Acapulco..see ya, sucker!"

One of my favorite recent ads is for Canon cameras. They start out with black and white footage (not sure if it is actual footage from the 1920s or not) of the Acme Packers football team playing against the Chicago Staleys. Then it morphs to color scenes of the present day Green Bay Packers (formerly the Acme Packers) versus the Chicago Bears (formerly the Staleys). The bit at the end where the woman erases the picture that her male companion took of the Packer cheerleaders is funny, and as a Packer fan I just like the ad in general.

I am a big fan of women's sports, so I also love the Kodak ad with the little boy whose grandma played in the old All American Girls Baseball League. He enlarges a picture of grandma in her baseball uniform and asks her "can you still do this?" She grabs her glove and they go out to the backyard to play catch.

I thought the exact same thing! And then at the end, when he says, "I always liked that TurboTax" or whatever the thing was, and the wife smirks at him. It was obviously supposed to be cute, but no, it wasn't. He's even gone to "I" at this point, as though he did all the work! What a horrible, horrible person and ad.

Gah! Who would have thought a pronoun could annoy so much?

I have a nit to pick with that one, though. Is this kid going to the store to enlarge the picture by himself? And do they even let little kids use those things without supervision?

Nope. It's reminiscent of Jumanji. And the song is stupid: "Freshens day and night, freshens with a light, plug it in, plug it in." I don't know why, but that just seems so lazy. Not simple, just lazy. People were paid money to come up with this?

Hee! And also, eww. Has anyone figured out why they bothered to put the fries on a plate? Like yeah, now they're not gross anymore.

Jerrybear, the unfortunate thing about this ad is...the Packers don't actually have any cheerleaders. Yes, I know we use UWGB cheerleaders occasionally, but they don't count. It's a topic for which I suffer much derision as a Packer fan. :-( Get some hotties, Packers!


I always wondered about him going to the store himself, FfrauleinN, but I figured he lived nearby or in a small town. I live in a town of 5000 and you often see 7, 8, 9 year olds on their bikes. It's still a time warp often times. Anyway, as far as doing the picture by himself, there is a store employee there and he tells her "I want to make this bigger." She makes it a 5x7 or 8x10 and she says "That should be big enough." The kid? "Bigger". Hee.

I think that as long as they can pry some hard cash from the cold, stiff fingers, most stores would let a dead person use their services......

And I agree that it does make it appear like a small town (all that open space and all). Or, maybe Mom's at the JC Penney sale and Dad has a cold and can't get off the couch to supervise the kid.....

Much worse than an actress from a mediocre '80s sitcom doing commercials, is a film actress from the classic, golden age of movies doing commercials! Yes, I'm talking about Lauren Bacall extolling the virtues of Tuesday Morning. To me, this commercial is the saddest thing on TV. I can't stand to see Lauren Bacall (Lauren Bacall! I mean, she did movies with Bogey! Married him, even!) going on and on about how she loves the great bargains at Tuesday Morning. And hugging that doll (teddy bear or rabbit or something?) while calling it a treasure. Noooooo! Somebody give this woman a real acting job, please! It's just. So. Wrong.

It's all good though because at the end of the commercial gramps drills the guy in the nuts with the football. On the other hand, the psychotic wife trashing hubby's office...what's up with that?

I think her shilling cat food was probably worse, but at least she only did the voice-over for that.

"Good taste is easy to recognize!"

When I was his age, I would have liked to do something like that by myself. If I set a present up without the aid of one of my parents or my older brother, I was really proud.

Anyway, I really like the sound effect it makes when the binary code coats the walls in the ADT commercials. Uh, yeah.

So is the ad. I've only seen the ad for Tuesday Morning once, but Fancy Feast lives on forever. But is it better to at least be the spokesperson, and not lumped in with other people like Ms. Simone? And the Tuesday Morning ad does play on her image and assumes you know who she is.

I haven't seen that ad, but in the ending of the Bigfoot one, he (Bigfoot) tells the man who just took his photo they're about to play a "friendly game of long distance chase". The way he says it makes me think of "hunting down and killing you so there's no witnesses" instead.

Oh! I saw this hysterical new ad for a German beer of some sort. This man walks into a bar for a drink and keeps getting interupted by people ordering "Give me a beer, bitch!". After this happens several times, he tells the lady "I want a martini, bitch!" and gets slapped silly by her. It turns out the beer's name is Beerbitzch, well, something that sounds like "beer bitch".

This is on TV, in the US? I have no problem with profanity on TV, but I am kind of surprised this would it's way into an ad here. I can't wait to see it!

Hee. Well there is that, but I was thinking they might be worried about getting sued by overzealous absentee parents. Thanks for explaining the Kodak kid, Tornado25. I forgot there was a woman helping him and I tend to overthink these things sometimes.

You mean that blee-da-leep bleep bleep? Ooh, you know what I haven't seen in a while? Those singing Slomin Shield bastards! Dammit, FfrauleinN; now you've gone and jinxed yourself.

There are a couple of things that bother me about this commercial. When the guy tells the monster that he's been in the closet since he was six, the monster says, "Prove it." The first time I saw it I wondered how taking his picture was going to prove the monster had been in the closet all those years since this is the first time the monster was seen.

The other thing that bothers me is we are supposed to believe that either a) this guy has lived in the same house since he was six or b) the monster packed up and moved around with the guy without getting caught.

Or that his six-year-old self couldn't sneak a camera into his bedroom and take a picture of the monster but instead had to wait for the invention of camera-phones.

Can we declare moritorium on commercials that feature a man driving his in-labor wife, presumably to the hospital, but he decides to stop somewhere first because they do whatever it is they do really fast? I just saw one for one of the tax companies where the guy stops on the way to get their taxes done.

I'm really just disappointed. I had hoped the gag would be that the woman wasn't actually in labor, but was just hyperventallating worrying about the taxes, and once they were done, she'd calm down. That would have been worth a chuckle. But no, they just re-did a gag we've seen billions of times before.

Word. I thought she might have been hyperventilating over the refund, too. Empire Carpets runs a similar ad that's not quite so stupid: the woman says "Honey, it's time," and her husband predictably flips out before realizing that she meant it was time to get new carpeting. "Now that's what I call an easy delivery!"

Ann Miller died today. Let us all pause and remember (those of us old enough, or with TVLand) the classic ad where she danced on the top of a giant can of Campbell's tomato soup.

And pray for Clairol and other hair dye manufacturers who are sure to see their stock plummet.

Thanks for clearing that up! I was getting concerned that I might actually know something about NASCAR, which scared the shit out of me.

But now that his father is dead, it's proper to drop the Jr. because you're only a junior if there's a senior, and you're only a III if Junior and Senior are both alive. Unless you're Uncle Junior.

According to Miss Manners, She Who Must Be Obeyed.

O.K., the non-glare lens commercial with the guy in the bathroom whose eyeballs start talking to him - WTF??? Those eye movements squick. me. out.
So squicked that I can't remember the name of the lenses, but I'm sure I'll {shudder} see the commercial again soon.

BengalsGirl, those are Crizal lenses, specially treated to reduce glare. (See, I could do written V/O!). Been thinking about going to glasses from contacts for that reason. I think the ad is really cool, however. The end "don't touch me" is the best part.

Heh. Why does "Crizal" sound like contact lenses for rappers?

Wow. Inexplicable double post. TGIF.

Here's a Superbowl™ ad tidbit about The ubiquitous Pepsi ad.
Sounds pretty cool. They never let me down. Oh Pepsi, faithful friend. [/crazy]

Thanks Tornado25 ; Agreed that it's a brilliant idea - had I not gone under the laser, I'd be down with the Crizal too, fo'shizzle (which I can't think of without Fran Drescher popping into my head. Damn you, Old navy ads!).

ETA: Not that I am in the habit of saying things like fo'shizzle. Just sayin'.

This? For some reason, is totally hilarious, FfrauleinN.

Except in NASCAR country, where that kinda talk might get Miss Manners a butt kicking by Earnhardt fans (fans of both Senior and Junior). The women, not the men, the men would just stand by and cheer the women beating up Miss Manners, or just plain racing fans in general. And then Miss Manners would be tarred, feathered, and run out of town
Trust me the Junior and the Senior, maybe it is a southern thing. My father still has his Junior with his name and his father has been dead for 40 years. And considering Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is actually called Dale Junior or just Junior by family, friends, fans, and racing folks, the Junior stays.
Seriously, around these parts -- there is one Dale Earnhardt and one Dale Earnhardt, Jr. You simply do not confuse the two.
I am sure you will probably see Dale, Jr. in a Bud commercial during the Super Bowl.
The best one ever was when he was driving the guy home from the bar in the race car.

Anyone else see the new Priceline TV commercial with Bill Shatner, where he finds out he's getting replaced ... ?

ETA: Thanks, looking upthread.

Chiming in late here because I didn't go to work today, hence, I didn't have the free time at work to check TWoP, hehe..


Heh. This reminds me of the most hilarious comedian, Jim Gaffigan. He does this whole bit where he makes fun of the Hot Pockets people and he's like, "WTF? Someone got paid for that jingle?! 'Hot Pockets!' Ok, that was great...let's call it a day!" LOL!


It's crazy, but one time, either me or my bf mixed up the Slomin's Shield jingle with the Poland Spring jingle, so it came up as, "Slomin's Shield, what it means to be from Maine!" Ongoing joke abounds. Pathetic, I know, but oh so funny, lol.

Well, I'm sure the monster was a lot more limber twenty years ago. He could probably have avoided the camera with ease back then (meanwhile, the kid was probably to busy trying not to wet the bed in fear without trying to gather evidence). Now, the monster's old and pudgy and doesn't even bother getting dressed before heading to work. Dude's totally phoning it in.

I love the adwanking we do in this thread, I surely do.

cutecouple, the Shatner commercial was discussed upthread.

Saw a great political cartoon today- a Salvation Army bell ringer is standing next to a kettle, singing "I'm Lovin' It."
It of course refers to the huge donation that Ray Kroc's widow recently gave the organization- somehow, knowing that the McDonald's people give their money away to some good causes makes me hate their company slightly less.

I will say this for "I'm Lovin' It": It's better than their previous ad campaign, "We Love To See You Smile. Not Because We Care, But Just Because We Have A Bad Reputation For Customer Service And We Know We Have To Work On That. Or At Least Just Make You Feel Better About It."

I'm really just bitter because the one before that, "Did Somebody Say McDonald's?" was an ad campaign I actually liked, because I could relate to it.

From pages and pages back, because I've neglected the boards for a couple of days.

Really, though, I don't understand why people get them mixed up. They don't look a thing alike! And if it's just a matter of "black guys who are big names in acting," then why don't Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington get lumped in there?