It's really, really terrible, but I can't help but laugh at the commercial where the woman is talking about having to reuse catheters. It's something about the way the voice over guy repeats exactly what the woman just said, plus the fact that she says "luberater medical."

Definitely the RePHresh commercial. It's my 12 year-old mentality, but the soft feminine voice going "after douching...." cracks me up every time.

I also get a chuckle out of "after intimacy....." Come on, just say "after sexual contact" or even "after intercourse". You can say that on TV. Intimacy just sounds so silly.

The reason this thread exists: LifeAlert with the "I've fallen and I can't get up!" lady.

How about Danica Patrick onthe Go Daddy commercial where she gets pulled over by the hot police chick? It's a good thing she can use her hands to drive a race car, because she sucks at talking with them.



Reminds me of the old commercial with the woman declaring, "No more vinegar and water douches for me!"

I remember a tampon commercial from when I was a teenager (early 90s) where a girl inquires of tampons, "but will I still be a virgin?"

Didn't the original commercial say "intercourse"? And they changed to "intimacy"...which sounds totally stupid.

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ThatPoshGirl - that is really funny. Then you realize how many teenagers out there really have no clue about sex education.

This one does.

ETA: This is probably a British ad; not sure about the American one.

The only version I've ever seen says "intimacy", but it's very possible it could have been changed. I don't doubt for a second someone thought "intercourse" was just too scandalous.

The thing is, intimacy can be ANYTHING. Someone can be having an intimate conversation or an intimate dinner. I doubt they'd need to RePHresh after that.

My twelve year old stepdaughter said "If that lady can walk around to make that commercial, I think she could walk to the bathroom".

It's been a long while since I've actually picked up a teen magazine...but to the best of my recollection that question featured pretty prominently in, uh, just about every other issue, and probably still does. So I guess they figured it was worth throwing in there, LOL

BWAH!

My current favorite is a commercial for a drug called Acofex, or something like that. It sounds like "ass-effects." Yeah, I know, I'm nine.

That reminds me of my mom looking at me with utter bewilderment one day and saying, "What does it mean for good health take a leak every day?" (It was "take Garlique")

88keys, you're talking about aciphex the only reason I know this is because I used to take it and would always snicker over the name as well.

From the ad for "Hoveround", a motorized wheelchair. "Try Hoveround now and we'll send you a free collapsible grabber! It's collapsible! It grabs! And it's FREE!"

That's why it's called a free collapsible grabber, I guess...

I just started giggling helplessly just thinking about that ad. God, it's hilarious. (Also, that shit don't work. Though to be fair, I never used it after douching.)

There is a commercial for "In Charge debt solutions" where this lovely African-American gentleman with preternaturally white teeth says, "I never once thought I'd get laid off." The unintentionally funny bit is that he pauses just slightly between "laid" and "off" and every time I see it for a split second I think he is saying, "I never once thought I'd get laid." And I think, well that's odd, he's really handsome.

I know it's mean, but I snicker everytime they show the guy on the Statue of Liberty, on his Hoveround, he looks like he's stuck there going around in circles. Also, the old women that are precariously close to the Grand Canyon ledge if they were to accidentally go forward instead of reverse...well thoughts of Wile E. Coyote come to mind.

Excuse me my handbasket is waiting...

Sorry, it's already taken. By me. For laughing so hard at the mental images your post conjured up that wine shot out my nose.

ETA: Still laughing! I can't help it. I just keep picturing that poor old man on his Hoveround, trapped on top of the Statue of Liberty, looking desperately for a way down, just going around....and around....and around....

Maybe he can use his Jitterbug phone to call for help.

The Scooter Store doesn't exactly park people on national monuments in their commercials, but they manage to get the occasional senior citizen to look like a complete laughingstock. The painfully neat Scooterminion brings the power-chair to the home of an elderly black lady in a wheelchair. This poor lady is asked to begin grinning like a mad thing and clapping her hands childishly at sight of the damn chair, then when she's been set up in it she starts spinning around in a circle and waving like the Strawberry Queen. I'd laugh, but it would feel like I was laughing at a kid falling off the short bus.

That's what makes the Hoveround commercial unintentionally funny! Also, the founders name is Tom Kruse! (That's how he spells it). Everytime I hear "Hi, I'm Tom Kruse" I have to look up to make sure the Hoveround is not some sort of high-tech Scientology contraption. It's the commercial that keeps on giving!

Eliot, my apologies for the wine!

I know, Melos, I laugh everytime he says his name is Tom Kruse. I mean, seriously? Did he just sit around since birth thinking up inventions that would allow him to fulfill the promise of his name? And his only hope was the untapped market of hot-rodding senior citizens? Awesome!

I'm watching TLC and they just ran an ad for a Jon & Kate Plus 8 retrospective called "The First 10 years." And I immediately said..."And the LAST 10 years!"

I thought "Yeah...the ONLY ten years when I saw it!

I just coffee come out my nose.

There is this commercial for a show on TLC called "Police Women of Broward County." In the ad they show the women in their regular life and then show them all sleeked up in their police women spiffs, then they get to this woman with a horrible unruly 80s mullet who really, REALLY needs to get sleeked up but when they show her as a police woman she looks exactly the same. I LOL'd when I saw it. It reminded me of a joke Brett Butler used to make about Tanya Harding, "You can take the girl out of the trailer park..."

LOL, ThatPoshGirl... I saw the same ad and had a similar reaction. I'm hoping for a Police Women of Broward County-meets-What Not To Wear crossover. They're on the same network, so it could happen!

The poor dubbing on one of the more recent Febreze commercials (the one where the mom decides to "wash" her son's room with Febreze) is so ridiculously out-of-sync that it veers into unintentionally funny territory for me.

Anyone remember an old (maybe 15 years or so) tampon commercial with a woman who announces, "I'll wear my mother's hat. Or maybe her scarf. But never her tampons!"

Apparently the purpose of the ad was to convince you that regular tampons are "your mother's tampons," ie, old fashioned, and you should try their new brand, which was specially designed for young, sophisticated women like you. But, of course, it sounded like she was declaring that she wouldn't remove her mother's used tampons and insert them inside herself, as if this was something that anyone would expect her to do.

Those commercials weren't around long - I think I can guess why.

Ok. Now I need my own handbasket. I love you people.

Time Warner Rochester has been showing an ad for 2 Touch POS, an automation system for small retail businesses like restaurants, in which I assume "POS" stands for "Point Of Sale." But, since I'm twelve, the first time I saw it, I immediately thought "Piece Of Shit."

Lame, I know. :)

Maybe it's because of all the conversations we've had about it here, but that commercial for Alzheimer's meds with the woman going to her mother's house for Sunday dinner, only to discover that Mom has forgotten their weekly get together, now makes me laugh.

Daughter says, "That was when I knew....I couldn't wait any longer."

But what I'm hearing in my mind is:

"That was when I knew...there would be no lasagna today."

Jay Leno did a hilarious spoof on this commercial last night where the older woman "forgot" on purpose because she was sick of making lasagna every week and as soon as they were gone she kicked back and had a beefy hunk coming out of the kitchen to serve her. Hubby and I cracked up!

I always felt sorry for the poor old lady..after all lasagne is not the easiest thing to make..and every week? You'd think the freeloaders would have taken her out for dinner once in awhile..no wonder alzheimers set in.

You guys made me spit soda on my keyboard..lol