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Kimmo
Member

05-02-2003

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just saw the Ace Hardware ad with the montage of various inept homeowners with a voiceover saying "I cannot [do this home improvement activity]...."

One moment shows a guy lying on the ground while paint spills around him, then pulls back to show that he fell off the ladder while trying to paint his house, while the voiceover goes, "I cannot paint."

I like it! :-)

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think that commercial is hilarious!

Penpoint
Member

03-27-2001

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 10:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've never been much of a Patricia Heaton fan--or a fan of Everybody Loves Raymond--but after seeing her irritating commercials for Jewel supermarkets, I never want to see her again. Doris Roberts from that show makes my skin crawl, and now Patricia Heaton turns out to be just as bad.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That commercial for the Chevy Colorado truck had me rofl! I'm talking about the one with the five guys in the truck and the one singing (with feeling) Shania's "I feel like a woman". The looks on the other guys' faces are priceless!!

Sillycalimomma
Member

11-13-2003

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Penpoint- i hear ya there! She actually does the Albertsons comercials where I live and they are soooo annoying "Jimmy, I got you some cookies!" I am sick of her pretending to be a "typical" mother! Ha! Give me a million bucks, a stylists, make up artist etc....and let ME pretend to be "typical". Sheesh.


Not1worry
Member

07-30-2002

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 5:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hate to admit this, but I really like the truck commericial (I think it's Chevy). The guys are all piled into the front and back seats and the guy in the middle back is singing along to Shania Twain's "I Feel Like a Woman" song. He's really into it and the other guys are kind of scooching toward the doors and giving each other looks. I don't want to think it is funny, but I laugh every time.

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 7:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok,I just saw a new Hallmark commercial. The same woman who buys all the cards and keeps them in a file box.
This time she hears someone mention they just bought a new car. And Voila,she pulls out a card that says something like congratulations on your new car!
What the HELL is that????? I have never even thought about buying a greeting card for someone who just purchased a vehicle!
dumb,dumb,dumb

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 10:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
never mind



Jhezzie
Member

07-05-2001

Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love the subs. They have a pepper bar.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm hating the newest apparent push by KFC to change that the initials stand for "kitchen fresh chicken." Its almost sacrilegious to change the name of such a well known institution.

Not only that, but the one commercial where the African American couple go back and forth with each other, the man saying "chicken strips" and the woman insisting "kitchen strips." Then the announcer goes on about "prepared in the kitchen." Ummm....maybe I'm just ignorant, but isn't that where it's always been prepared? Or are they trying to tell me that up until now it was prepared in the bathroom? dunno

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 6:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not and LadyT, that's a guilty pleasure for me, too. I laugh every time!

Apriljo
Member

10-15-2003

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
okay i know this has been talked about before..but i just saw the quizno's comercial with the singing umm..well i dont know what you would call it..but i love it! its kinda catchy..ive been singing it all day since i saw it..lol

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Argh!! This song is making me crazy ... it's from the Pepto Bismol commercial, "Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion, Upset Stomach, Diarrea" ... and they do a dance like the macarena while they sing this!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 2:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Apriljo..my dh says it's a potato. My kids say a hamster.

Jhezzie
Member

07-05-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 4:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love Viva paper towels, but this deal with the kid, shaking up the bottle of orange soda has to go. I know my mom would have laughed it off, turned the veggie hose on me and then cleaned up the mess herself with one paper towel. Not.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
texannie... they are called "spongemonkeys" whatever! they look like rodents to me! and i ain't eatin at no sandwich places with no rodents!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 5:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
spongemonkeys? LOL i love Quizno's and was in PR and as far as I am concerned their ad agency should be fired!

Ketchuplover
Member

08-30-2000

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 9:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anybody else see the one where a woman is putting a piece of paper on a telephone pole & some doofus starts reaching through her shirt? She turns around and maces him,which btw he deserves. I have some questions. What was on the sheet of paper? How could that guy stand up WITHOUT A FRICKIN BRAIN?

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kl, I've seen that one... she is posting a sign for a missing gerbil or hamster, one of those, it says "Reward!". The guy behind her sees the gerbil/hamster/spongemonkey/whatever, crawling around in her shirt and tries to grab it without her noticing. The commercial says something like "some people will do anything for a reward", I don't know what it's for though.

Ketchuplover
Member

08-30-2000

Monday, March 15, 2004 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i just saw it. thanks melfie :-)

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is probably a regional commercial, New England area. It has Curt Schilling in a Red Sox locker room, wearing headphones, learning to speak like a New Englander..."drive the cah to tha pahhhk" while he eats food from Dunkin' Donuts. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Has anyone seen the animated cartoon for United that is done like a silent movie? I think there are a couple of them, but the most memoralbe has a guy who is goint to a job interview wearing one brown and one black shoe. He has this suprpized look on his face and he goes to the interview, where he untimately gets the job, I guess, and gets to fly United, which makes him very happy. I haven't described it well, but I like that it is animated in a different way and that it conveys its message so well without words.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You mean this one Tish?

United Airlines Commercial

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah Who! I love that ad. Thanks for finding it and posting it.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, March 22, 2004 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The commercial with the maids and butlers from TV shows. Alice, from the Brady Bunch, then Benson, then Rosario, then Florence from the Jeffersons. But for the life of me I can't remember who the guy is next to her or what show he is from. Anyone know? Its driving me crazy and that's a very short trip!