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Colordeagua

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'Bout my all-time favorite advertising slogan: "Cotton -- the fabric of your life" spoken by Debra Winger. The thought of it still gives me goose bumps.

Solifelike

Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think the funniest commercials are the Citibank Identiy Theft. (I love the one with the little old lady cleaning her pool the best.)

I grew up a military brat overseas, we had no product commercials over there, so they were always a big deal to us. For several years after i came back to teh US i found myself a procommercial watcher! LOL Superbowl Sunday is my fave time because of the commercials!

I think it was a British commercial several years back, it was one of an installer who just put in carpeting. He decided to go out for a smoke and realized he could not find his cigarettes. He looked all over, then notices a lump under the rug. About that time, he heard the home owners coming in to look at his work. So he runs over and jumps up and down on the lump under the rug, trying to hide it. Then the homenwners little boy runs in with a torn pack of cigarettes, screaming "Where's my hamster?"

I don't even know what the commercial was for, it just was always so funny to me. :)

Hippyt

Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ayeeeee Mamacita!!!!!

Wilsonatmd

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 1:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
you see the new ESPN commercial with a guy and a girl kissing and saying they love each other.....The tagline is "Without Sports, this wouldn't be disgusting" (the punchine was, one of them was wearing an Ohio State sweatshirt, and one was wearing a Michigan sweatshirt...for those who don't know, they are the rivals to end all rivals in college football...they hate each other, thus an Ohio State fan and a Michigan fan would be aghast that one of their fans would fall for a fan of their hated rival)

and the AFLAC commercial with the Looney Tunes was funny as well...

Hippyt

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well,I saw the new gross award winner this morning. Thanks to Clorox for turning a bed into a pool of filth. A guy goes to jump in his bed and it turns into a swamp of muck. Sheesh

Nathalia

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Have any of you seen the one for (don't laugh) Tampax Tampons? There is a couple in a boat and the boat has a hole in it right between the two where their feet are at the bottom of the boat and while the guy is trying to bail out water the girl reaches in a box of Tampox Tampons (because you know, when we go for a boat ride on a lake we always take the WHOLE box!) and she inserts the tampon in the hole and stops the leak. This commercial disturbs and offends me for some reason. We have now resorted to showing exactly how to insert tampons on tv? Yikes!

Lkunkel

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nathalia: Oh goody...it wasn't just me!

Hippyt

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Holy Cow! I am glad I haven't seen that one!

Rosie

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What are tampons?

Twiggyish

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw one on TLC. It's a hair remover tool. They show it trimming everything from nose hairs to bikini lines. Just what you want to see when watching your favorite decorating show.

Not1worry

Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, I've seen that one Twiggy! They actually have a before picture of the bikini line that's icky. Who modeled for that??

The tampon boat commercial is so stupid. After she stops up the boat, the guy looks at her with this idiot smile. What the heck is he thinking? He needs to start rowing, because even a super size one isn't going to keep the lake out.

Whoami

Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 11:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The newest Special K commercial.

They're throwing slabs of raw meat (presume its beef and pork) on a scale. Background "music" is someone singing "oink oink...moo moo." Then it shows something like "this is what six pounds looks like, what you can lose in X amount of days."

Yea, like its just a coincidence that you refer to cows and pigs when talking about needing to lose weight! Blah.

Melfie1222

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 12:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Who, I've seen those... I think Special K's latest commercials are probably a response to the low-carb high-protein diet that so many people are on... Kellogg's probably isn't selling anywhere near the amount of cereal as they are used to selling, and so many people are concentrating on eating things like beef and pork.... so they chose those images to put a twist on it... and try to remind people that cereal is still OK. Just my take anyway.

But Special K commercials have bugged me before too.. when they say you can lose six pounds or something in two weeks just by making Special K TWO of your meals for each day.... for two weeks! Ick.

Scorpiomoon

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 3:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, I've never visited this thread until tonight. I loved reading past posts. You guys are so cool.

My input:

I've seen pieces on shows like "Extra" showing how American celebrities go to Europe and Japan to do TV commercials, but they would never do them in North America. And I don't blame them. Celebrity commercials are so lame.

I cringe every single time I see a Fran Drescher/Old Navy commerical. In the recent one, when she says, ""My shizzle's gone fazizzle!" I just want to punch something.

Didn't the whole "-izzle" slang come from the rap music world (or originated from "the streets")? To see F.D using it is just so pathetic. And to a certain extent disrespectful toward black culture.

And don't even get me started about how much I can't stand the Kristie Alley/Pier One commercials. Nor the Michael Jordan ones. That guy has pitched so many things--from hot dogs to underwear to Radio Shack--it's hard to remember what the latest commercial is for. And the Pantene commercials. I could go on and on...

However...

I do love the voiceover Keiffer Sutherland does for Ford and MCI. I could listen to those commercials for hours. He has such a soothing voice.

Kimmo

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just saw a KFC ad where they show a bunch of guys on a couch eating chicken wings. One guy has the BBQ sauce all over his lips. Another guy tells him, "Sorry, but you're no longer the Wingmaster."

The former Wingmaster looks up and sees a guy who has even more BBQ sauce plastered all over his mouth. Ex-Wingmaster then drops his head in shame.

Ugh! Why would "Wingmastery" be predicated on how much sauce you have on your face? Wouldn't you be mastering the wings more if you managed to get more of it in your mouth, and not on your face? Yuck.

Kaili

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL- I liked the commercial the first time I saw it just because the guy looked so stupid- but now I don't like it at all. I think it would be called "Slobmastery".

Sillycalimomma

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know why, but those darn Goldfish commercials crack me up sometimes "they smile because they don't know they're about to be eaten" ha!

Not1worry

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gosh, I thought I was the only one who wanted to punch something when they hear an "izzle" word. One commercial has Snoop Dogg coming into a room and saying "Now, wait just one minizzle." PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH

Bandit

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't think this is a national commercial, but you fellow Texans oughta know which one I'm talking about:

It's for Mattress Giant, and there are a bunch Zs with little feet running around all over the place, and the guy can't catch them. Of course, saying, if you had a new bed, you could catch all the Zs you want. It's really a funny commercial. It's a riot watching all those Zs running around.

Dallasbbfan

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bandit, those are good. I especially like the ones with the Z's sneaking through the city at night.

Which brings to mind the one for another mattress firm (Seally?) with the numbered sheep. Those always make me laugh.

Wargod

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 4:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Silly, is that really the words to the goldfish jingle?? Hehe, that's really funny.

Sillycalimomma

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 4:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep Wargod.....it goes like this actually according to the net search I did...

here's our jingle for goldfish
smiley goldfish graham snacks

they smile because they haven't go a clue that they'll be eaten

makes me laugh......tee hee....poor goldfishes....

Wargod

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's great, LOL. I knew it was "they smile" but I could never make out the rest of it.

Kaili

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay- now I have the goldfish jingle stuck in my head. I like it though- it's a catchy little tune. I still can't bring myself to try the colored goldfish though. It's just not right. Like purple ketchup. Just. Not. Right.

Kaili

Friday, January 09, 2004 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Heres our jingle for goldfish
those baked and not fried goldfish
the yummy snack that smiles back
until you bite there heads off
do you no there made with real cheese
even though they look like fishes
the snack that smiles back
GOLDFISH