Archive through December 16, 2001

The ClubHouse: Archive: Stupid Commercials: Archive through December 16, 2001

Whoami

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 10:06 pm Click here to edit this post
What are these guys thinking? Don't they realise I'm more prone to NOT buy their products when they do a stupid commercial. Two at the top of my list at the moment are:

Victoria's Secret using "Carol of the Bells" and showing women clad in sexy underwear. Take one of the most beautiful and classic Christmas songs and interlace it with sex to sell a product. Tasteless!

JC Penney showing out of control kids, then a clueless dad saying "where's your mother?" Mom's at some "one-day" sale. OK, now isn't the day and age of dads being useless in child rearing and moms being the only ones who can care for the kids a bit outdated? That's being offensive to both sexes.

Just venting. I had a bad day and I have no patience tonight for these trivial annoyances!

Max

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 10:38 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay, how about the Gap commercials with singers you can't identify and no mention of any product at all? The only thing I like about them is that it makes a nice background instead of the normal sales pitch. As an incentive to purchase something, they do nothing for me.

More will come to me. :)

Kayewer

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 09:24 am Click here to edit this post
I found out in either EW or TV Guide that one of the Gap singers is a guy from the Goo Goo Dolls, but even though I like the band, neither that fact nor the singers themselves impress me.

Know who I can't stand? That Dell computer geek!

Crazydog

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 10:40 am Click here to edit this post
Great thread! I can't stand the JCPenney commercials either. I have seen at least three different versions I can recall, in each the mother is a sensationally gorgeous woman and the father is a chump-looking tool. But then again, this is the same store that put out that "women can have chocolate and shopping" commercial which was idiotic. Do they really think a free candy bar is going to bring women in in droves? Their ad agency should be fired.

Re the Gap commercials, I thought the same thing... who are these people. The only ones I could identify were Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morrissette, Macy Gray and Seal. Had to go to their website to figure out the other ones. Kind of a stupid commercial.

The commercials I think are absolutely the pits are Cingulars, especially the overweight guy dancing to "Peter and the Wolf" and the opera singing cowboy. At least now, they put words on the bottom to explain the service, before they were just plain stupid. Now they're just annoying.

Another commercial I find irritating is both versions of the "anything to get to McDonald's" spots. One has guys disappearing at the drop of a hat so they can go get a hamburger, and the other has women trading sweaters so they don't have to shop so they have time to go to McDonald's. Sorry, but how McDonald's can think that they are THAT important in people's (especially adults with no apparent kids) lives is beyond me.

And there are my rants!

Fruitbat

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 11:29 am Click here to edit this post
I love the Gap ads.

The sweater swap for MacDonalds is just plain stupid.

I agree about Sears. Bad.

I will think of many more......

Car54

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 11:34 am Click here to edit this post
I love the Gap too.
I love Target ads
and I love the post office add with the Carly Simon song.

Moondance

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 11:37 am Click here to edit this post
>The sweater swap for MacDonalds is just plain stupid. <

you said it and that woman looks right into the camera instead of her friend towards the end... a big NoNo

I like the Gap ads... I think some of the Sears commercials are funny... the one about the levis is good.

Wink

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 11:40 am Click here to edit this post
I love the music on the Gap ads.

Grooch

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 11:49 am Click here to edit this post
I miss the Old Navy ads. They were so campy and stupid.

Moondance

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 11:57 am Click here to edit this post
I agree G, I am sorry she (the woman with gig glasses) died:(

Grooch

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 12:11 pm Click here to edit this post
Max, the gap commercials may not be so stupid afterall. There's another thread about it and it is getting people going to their web page to look up the singers.

Pretty sneaky!

Pcakes2

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 12:26 pm Click here to edit this post
I love the Pepsi twist commercial...especially the "who's Barry Bostwick?" line.

Pcakes2

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 12:38 pm Click here to edit this post
from Hoovers Online:

Top 10 Jingles of the Century:
1.You deserve a break today (McDonalds)
2.Be all that you can be (U.S. Army).
3.Pepsi Cola Hits the Spot (Pepsi Cola).
4.M'm, M'm good (Campbell's).
5.See the USA in your Chevrolet (GM).
6.I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener (Oscar Meyer).
7.Double your pleasure, double your fun (Wrigley's Doublemint gum).
8.Winston tastes good like a cigarette should (Winston).
9.It's the Real Thing (Coca Cola).
10.Brylcreem-- A little dab'll do ya

Top 10 Slogans of the Century:
1.Diamonds are forever (DeBeers)
2.Just do it (Nike)
3.The pause that refreshes (Coca-Cola)
4.Tastes great, less filling (Miller Lite)
5.We try harder (Avis)
6.Good to the last drop (Maxwell House)
7.Breakfast of champions (Wheaties)
8.Does she ... or doesn't she? (Clairol)
9.When it rains it pours (Morton Salt)
10.Where's the beef? (Wendy's)

Oregonfire

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 02:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay, feminist ad analysis coming up: I like the Gap guys commercial. It seems to me that the singers are Dwight Yoakim, Leonard Cohen, the Goo Goo Dolls guy, and Shaggy. The guys totally rock and move me, and are very focused on their music. However, the women's version really sucks. I wish my sistas would focus more on their music and less on being cutesy for the camera. Whether it was their own idea to "make love to the camera" with come hither smiles while singing, or the cameraman's, or direct orders from Gap HQ, I found their need to be seductive annoying and distracting from the music. Around here, the Gap guys ad runs much more frequently, and I'm glad.

Crazydog

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 01:05 pm Click here to edit this post
"Mom, how did I get my name?" "We named you after the place in which you were conceived." "So that's why I'm named Savannah." "But how did she get the name Concorde?"

I really cannot stand this Chrysler Concorde commercial. The first time, it was a little cute, but it seems like they got a lot of complaints. Originally, the shot of the little girl figuring it out was followed by a "oh yuck" from her. Now it has been replaced with the mom saying "Concorde Massachusetts silly."

Did they really think we would buy the premise that a middle aged couple still has sex in a car?

Littlebreeze

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 01:49 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm a channel flipper when it comes to commercials so I haven't seen any of those mentioned above. I do love to watch skating competitions though, so recently this commercial caught my eye as I was flipping around. For a moment, when it first came on the screen, I thought I'd come upon a real skating competition. There were two figure skaters on the ice, in full costume. They were poised together in a beautifully graceful position, waiting for their music to begin. The music began and they started their routine. That's when I knew this was not the Worlds or the Olympics. I'm laughing just thinking about it. They can't stand up, they can't go more than a foot in one movement, they're unbelievably clumsy and awkward, yet their faces remain as serious as any Olympic figure skating pair. In the climax, the guy sails through the legs of the woman, flat on his belly, and he dramatically flourishes his outstretched arms as if he's just completed the greatest feat in skating history. Then you hear the company slogan, that you should not attempt a thing until it's perfected. I don't remember what the company is, but I score their ad agency a perfect 10.

Moondance

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 01:53 pm Click here to edit this post
It's a bank commercial... Bank of America I think... very funny commercial... they did the same for Hockey LOL

Spygirl

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 02:58 pm Click here to edit this post
Yeah -- it is Bank of America. They say that they wanted to be a part of the Olympics in some way....but decided to just sponsor it instead since they stink at the sports!

It is great!

Highlander

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 03:15 pm Click here to edit this post
My favorite commercial is the Staples commercial which runs right before September. They sing the christmas carol "Its the most beautiful time of the year" with a father going down the aisles kicking his heels up and singing in song. The children follow close behind faces downcast, as the father tosses school supplies into his cart. That wins my award as best commercial.

Spygirl

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 03:37 pm Click here to edit this post
ROTFLMBO!!! I've NEVER seen that one! Whooohooo!

Angelnikki

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 06:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Well my favorite one, which isnt stupid at all its just down right funny as he**. Its the Dominios commercial and a guy is walking up the driveway with the pizza and the "cheesy bread" and the kids are all yelling "cheesy bread, cheesy bread, cheesy bread" so he hands it to them and walks up the the door and tells the man, "sir, heres your pizza and i gave the cheesy bread to your kids" and the man looks at him with a shocked expression and says "i dont have any kids". :):):):):) that wins my fav commerical award i cracked up sooooo hard when i saw that.

Urgrace

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 07:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Hey, that ad agency is not a very good one if you've watched the bank commercial and don't have a clue what the commercial is advertising! Dumb! I always shake my head at those commercials and wonder why someone would pay for them. Often the commercial has nothing to do with the product!

Whoami

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 08:15 pm Click here to edit this post
Another one I hate is that Hall's commercial, where the Dad is really sick and not up to skiing. So his kids are jumping around and beating him up with pillows cause he's sick and not doing what they think he should do.

Sure, teach kids it's okay to have no compassion, and beating up Dad and acting like little sh*ts will get you what you want. Grrr...

Zed

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 08:25 pm Click here to edit this post
I love the B of A Olympic commercials...they did 5 of them & have released 3 so far(the others will air closer to the Olympics)..look out for the bob sledding one-its very funny. Ridley Scott,Jr.(hes a movie director) was the director...he did a terrific job making something as droll as banking humorous!

Weinermr

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 08:32 pm Click here to edit this post
Droll????????? Did you say droll?????????????