You've got your bad ones: Verizon's "Urgent! Emergency!"

And you've got your good ones: T-Mobile's Chatty cheerleader.

I must say that as much as I HATE Black Eyed Peas, I really like the Verizon commercial featuring their song.

Not me; that's a muter. Can't stand the song.

I love Rachael Harris in the Verizon commercial where she's trying to use up her minutes. But just because she's adorable.

Verizon should own this thread based particularly on that horribly annoying "Can you hear me now?...Good." guy. What made that so grating was in that, I think, first commercial the guy keeps repeating and repeating it ad nauseum. If they hadn't done that, I probably wouldn't mind so much. But now, just the sight of that twit in his uniform annoys me.

Bitter irony in this: I'm putting money in their pockets. They're already our area's regular phone service, but I got on their long distance because it'd all come from one place. Little taste of vindication: I don't bother with cell phones, so I'm not directly "awarding" the annoying character/catchphrase. HA, Verizon!

I'm pretty sure I can safely say I hate them all.

If I were going to choose which cellphone service to use based solely on its commercials, I'd pick T-Mobile. They're sometimes mildly amusing (unlike the others who try to be), and they always have Catherine Zeta Jones. I'd be able to imagine her saying "Get More" every time I picked up the phone. And that's enough for me.

Other considerations led me to go with Verizon, however.

I didn't like it at first but by the end of the commercial, I laughed out loud at the obnoxious co-worker with the cell-phone puppet.

"Because it's LAME!"

The little "Thank you" he gives earlier was hilarious too.

I just saw a really good little Cinderella parody. I think it was Verizon? Prince comes to the door with a cellphone left at his party. He keeps going through features while two odd-looking, fancy, and pushy sisters try to claim it's theirs. Finally, it reveals a shabby but cute sister moping in the background. Very nice, very subtle.

I'm with you on that. Has anyone noticed that there are just so damn many of these ads? Just 10 years ago, there were only a handful of them, and now these, along with car commercials, are everywhere. I realize we're a cell-phone-obsessed society and the average college student has 1.5 of these things, but seriously? Make. It. Stop.

I know a few of these ads have actually been funny, but if you have that many of them, that's bound to happen. And the rest? To me, they just blur together into one big pile of corporate desperation. I'd be hard-pressed to remember any of them, even after being blasted with them endlessly during the NCAA tourney coverage.

Which is the one where there's a digital clock counting the gajillions of minutes that the user is using? There's at least a realtor version, a teen girl version, and perhaps more.

I just love the realtor version, because those things she says, I've actually heard the realtor I used say. I think it's a not-so-subtle jab at the annoyingness of realtors. My favorite part is when she says "It's a seller's market" immediately followed by another clip of her saying "it's a buyer's market". Captures the sleaziness perfectly.

I'm not sure which brand it is, but I love those commercials. The cheerleader teen is my favorite. I just love when she starts crying because she wanted to be the only wearing white sneakers but now some other girl is also wearing them. It could come off as cheesy crap playing on sexist and ageist ideals about teenager girls being superficial and stupid, but the girl in the ad is so sincere that it works.

My favorite line has to be "Any closet is a walk-in if you try hard enough."

I love the cheerleader one with "I love chewing gum." Her tone of voice when she says that line just makes me giggle.

I beg to differ....if that were my child, I would change the locks.

I HATE the "Can-you-hear-me-now-good" guy because now every single damn time everyone has to say that because their VERIZON phone loses service, the person on the other line will always point it out to you: HAHA YOU SOUND LIKE THE COMMERCIAL!
...maybe it's just me....

There have been a few cellphone commercials that I've enjoyed.

The first one that comes to mind is one featuring an agent tied to a chair. He's been tortured, but he still won't talk, Finally, much to the agent's horror, the man torturing him steals his cellphone and starts using up his minutes. I liked that one because it's EXACTLY the way my mom acts about using up her minutes. She will start freaking out if she talks on her cellphone for over three minutes.

Another one I like is one for those music phones. It shows a guy walking down the street at night while his shadow dances to "Bom Bom Bom" by Living Things. I actually like all those dancing shadow commercials, but I especially liked that one because of the song.

My favorite bit is always, "And then he was like, 'whatever!' and I was like, 'whatever!' and he was like, 'whatever'! and I was like..."

Because I've heard that conversation.

How about the one in which the father's been discovered rendered comatose by
The Cell Bill?
Chalk lines are drawn around him while detectives ask the mother if there's been excess usage and she replies (in perfect broad deadpan) that there hadn't been- but then the detectives finger the teen daughter as she's texting and ask if the preteen son's doing the same. It's one of the funniest ads I've seen in a long time!

That one is hilarious. "Your daughter is TEXTING. And I wouldn't be surprised if that little boy isn't doing the SAME THING."

The "hand caught in the cookie jar" sideways glance look that the son gives the mom is very funny.

2 cell ads that've been done really well:

The first displays a series of couples looking at their very high monthly bills. The one of the first pairs asks his/her partner: "Who have you been talking to?" and after looking at the bill, the other replies: "You!" What follows is a montage at a quickening pace of different couples yelling "YOU!" at each other in varying levels of exasperation (an Asian woman screaming "Youyouyouyouyouyou!" is my favorite).

What's great about the ad is the diversity of the couples/pairs (I think they snuck a gay one in there).

The second, which has been mentioned in another thread, is the Cingular ad featuring a remake of Blondie's "Hanging on the Telephone". A guy ends a first date with an attractive girl, and he is waiting impatiently for her to call him. In the background of the various scenes in the Cingular "increasing signal bar" appropriation found objects (lights on a suspension bridge, etc.).

I'm a fan of the text message ads too. My fav is the one where the teen girl and guy are sitting in the car and the windows are all foggy, so the dad runs out and throws open the door. The kids are just sitting there texting and the dad freaks out and yells to the mom "they're TEXTING!" and the mom screams this horrible scream. Good times :-)

Embarassingly, I've had that conversation.

Not to pick nits, but it is a swimsuit, not sneakers. That commercial makes me laugh. What is funny is that my daughter's cheerleading uniform looked just like that, and I, too, have heard that conversation.

I can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet. Two words: theft deterrent!

omg...I laughed out loud for about 10 min after that one. I really want to try that on someone who irks me...

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PanamaG8or
This commercial confuses me. So the phone can be used as a theft deterrent. Good -- it didn't get stolen.

But now its broken!

I love the "Laaaame!" one- I don't have to be in the room and I'll laugh when I hear it.

I mentioned this in the old thread and have to mention it again- the cell phone ad that was on last winter (2004)- maybe Verizon?- where the parents stay inside watching the kids shoveling snow. The kids think they have to shovel snow to get in good with the parents to get a phone but the parents know they can get another phone on the family plan for $9.99. The parents say things like "Looks cold out there" and "I wouldn't go out there." And then at the very end, the Dad takes a sip of his coffee/cocoa and quietly says, "Ow. Burned my lip."

I laughed every single time I saw that commercial just because of the last second of it. And whenever we see someone suckered into doing something we wouldn't want to do, Mrs. Bb and I say "Ow. Burned my lip."

I miss the two Sprint ads from the Super Bowl: the "crime deterrent" one where the guy throws the phone at the other person trying to steal his wallet, and the "I have a song for every occasion" guy whose couch catches on fire. Cue "Yakety Sax" and a busty cop whacking a little bald guy on the head.

The obnoxious co-worker with the razor phone ad is so awful and is played so often that I can safely say that should "Jim" ever show up at my office and shove his fucking cell phone in my face whilst screaming about its features and demanding that I praise his coolness, he would draw back a bloody stump. Yes he would. And I would sleep well that night, my friends.

I like the one for Cingular with the guy who's waiting for the girl to call. Not realistic, but I like seeing the tables turned for once, and the guy is cute, and I like the use of Blondie's "hangin on the telephone." And then she calls, and he is so happy! Aw.

What I love about that commercial is how very casual he sounds when she finally calls..."Oh, hey, Lauren" (or whatever her name is)...like he hasn't been obsessively checking his phone every 2 minutes.

Totally. And he is all bummed when the phone rings and the caller ID shows that it's his guy friend or mom or something. been there.

I've had that conversation! lol

I'm not a fan of the new Sprint commercials, telling me how free calling now starts at 7 p.m. I've seen one with an opera singer and one with the "wheel of adjectives"... I feel like I've lost brain calls watching these.

Remember when Sprint had the commercials where people would mishear things on the other end and, like, relationships would crash and burn and people would get fired from their jobs and stuff?

Well, my sister and I have Sprint and this weekend she called me to tell me to bring Sweet Potatoes and bowls to Easter dinner.

Except she said, "Rolls."

I brought 5 extra BOWLS to Easter Dinner.

Isn't that, I don't know, false advertising or something?

I'm mostly not too impressed with the Verizon "network" commercials, but the "I thought I told you to come alone" one cracks me up every time. Just the way the heavy completely switches gears when he finds out the little guy gets cellphone service "out there." "I do a lot of business out here, and I gotta tell you, it's a crapshoot..."

This may be a little OT, but it is in a cellphone commercial: in that new Verizon mother's day commercial with the two clueless guys wondering what to get one of their mothers, I swear Rubberband Man makes a cameo. At the very end, when the camera pans out to show that they're standing in front of a Verizon store, there's a guy walking towards the front doors who has RB Man's hair and build. But the doors block his face. Am I going through Rubberband Man withdrawal and seeing him everywhere, or has anyone else noticed?

ETA: Nevermind, it's not him. *Pouts* I can't wait til August, when the back-to-school commercials start.

For a long time the Verizon commercials bored me, but the one with that guy who sings "Urgent" cracks me up.

Urgent! Make it fast now!
Urgent, urgent, Emergency!

Found it on youtube!!!

ETA:



She cracks me up, with that high pitched voice, and everything. Reminds me of my little sister when she was 13!

I have no idea which company this one is, but it's the ones where their conversation gets cut off.

The one with the girl gossiping. She annoys me from some reason. And this is really mean, but I can't stop myself from thinking: this girl is so ugly.

She sort of looks like she's being shot through a fish-eye lens, but it's her actual face. She has fish-eye face. Yeah, she bugs me, too.

It also makes me happy when I can't hear her talking. Same with the other commercials that have he same "plot." Wouldn't the commercials be more effective if you were wishing that you could hear what the people were saying during the simulated "call drop"?

Hee. The only reason I like this commercial is because she played one of the mean cheerleaders on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and anything that reminds me of BtVS is good in my eyes.

Anyone else seen the new 'We-want-a-cell-phone' horror movie spot? Cracks me up.

Creepy little twins freak me out so I was pretty much watching this from behind my fingers, lol.

It was kinda funny the things they said, plus Amanda from Buffy.

They remind me of the twins in The Shinning.

Can anyone place the kid in the Verizon commercial? It's the one showing a lot now. "You get service out here?" "Do you guys work down by the docks?" I swear I know the actor who comes with his network behind him. I think he was a guest actor on some tv show but I can't rember which one for the life of me. Thanks

I have been informed that the little guy who has Verizon already is Kevin Sussman. However, the identity of the hot mobster guy is still unknown, at least to me.

Has anyone seen the "Alltel" commercial that's preceded by a statement from the company's lawyers? It features look-alikes of all of the major cellphone companies' spokespeople and mascots. It's actually pretty clever and enjoyable, and there are different variations of it.

I just saw the Alltell lookalikes commercial and it is kind of spooky. The Catherine Zeta-Jones lookalike is so close, I am not completely convinced that it wasn't her.

The Catherine lookalike is really close. But here's the thing. It might be free for you (the alltell customer), but it won't be free for me (the competitor customer). But I did enjoy the commercial/gimmick.

For some reason, that commercial cracks me up, too. Every time it's on, I'll giggle a little. I think the casting of the heavy was great, because with the blond hair and blue eyes, he doesn't seem as threatening somehow.


I am the biggest wimp that ever wimped so that commercial gets turned off right quick.

is there a link to the latest cingular commercial with sarah hagan?

I love the Cingular "Chatty Cheerleader" commercial despite its annoyingness. (I like the Rachael Harris one, too). My favorite line is "You're not conceited, you're just HONest." Something about the way she says "honest" cracks me up every time. LaSalleUBoy and I have taken to randomly quoting that line to each other.

I also like the Verizon mob boss ad, and the older (Verizon?) ad with the goth kid ("...and wherever it is you go.")