Archive through October 14, 2002
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Archive through October 14, 2002
Abbynormal | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 02:30 pm     I liked the Dell dude for a minute, but he's way too much now. He's gonna be the next Mr. Whipple if he doesn't stop. Anyway saw a new Gateway commercial the other day I really enjoyed. Have only seen it once. It was the top 100 list for PC World mag. It showed Dell way down on the list, then scrolled up to number 1 and it was Gateway. Then it goes to black with white letters- "Dude, still getting a Dell?" I thought that was clever. |
Sia | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 09:49 pm     Twiggyish, I have one for the hate-list: speaking of personal hygiene products, I just hate the Diflucan (for yeast infection!!!!) commercials and print-ads telling women to "kiss those messy creams good-bye." The mental image that conjures up just makes me sick. Silksmoke, the Polaroid commercial with the cat caught in the trashcan is one of my faves, too. Abby, I refused to buy a Dell p.c. this year because I HATE their ads. I objected to "easy as Dell," because it seemed to imply that buying one was "easy as h@ll." No sale. |
Hillbilly | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:28 am     Sia...down here when someone says 'would you like fries to go with that shake?' they're usually referring to a gal 'prissing' or really working that hip swing...not necessarily butt size. I've seen thin gal's who really swing their hips when they walk by the fellers at work....especially the new, young college gals with those short, mini things that just barely cover up. It's quite attention grabbing and very hard not to watch! |
Rissa | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:41 am     Two guys in a park, lazily tossing small rocks up into a tree. They aren't talking, just nature sounds as background. Then on one of the rock tosses, a red sports car falls out of the tree and as the two guys get into it, the one says to the other "Next time don't pop the clutch" {G} Can't even remember which car company the ad was for but it's a recent top ten for me. LOL My all time favorite!!!! were the Polaroid ads with James Garner and Mariette Hartley. |
Whit4you | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 09:23 am     Ok I abosuletly hate that friggen commerical where the guy is screaming "call 1-800-collect" "Dial down the middle" and so on. I swear those commericals make me want to mutilate those who produce them. And these new Blockbuster ads???? "5 days" those are beyond pathetic .... I will send them my card cut in half and tell them it's cause of those ads. I absolutely love the yogurt commericals with the "shoe shopping good' - that one girl has sooooo much carisma... reminds me of Meg Ryan. I love the dell guy... the way he moves... and his grin and expressions and stuff... I can undertstand why some would dislike him after a while though, he reminds me of Jim Carey who I couldn't stand for years (I love Jim Carey now though) One thing that totally drives me crazy are those nascar ads 'how bad do you got it' - I mean come on we ware friggen watching Nascar on a sunday afternoon when there are 5,000 other things we COULD be doing - so why in the world do we need to see 20 of the same ads every week trying to get us to watch Nascar?????? Totally sttttttttuuuuuuupid. Well I basically hate commercials and I'm an idiot - why I don't tape everything I want to watch and watch it with fast forward I will never know. I gotta watch survivor at 8? Why can't I tape it and watch it at 9?? I always think that eerytime I'm sitting through one of those pathetic commericals. I really like that Michael Jordon commerical thoughwhere he comes in the locker room and they are all wearing white fruit of the looms and then they see him with red ones and... anyhow it's a funny commerical. Most of his commercials have been fun (like the gals watching him walk by) |
Whoami | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 11:14 am     Whit, I like that Michael Jordan FOL commercial too. I like how he's never modeled the stuff himself. And, I love that impish grin he gets on his face when he comes in the next day with polka dotted ones. |
Katlady53 | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 12:05 pm     I, too, like the Michael Jordan, Joe Boxer commercials! Also love the Mitsubishi commercials. The one that makes me laugh the hardest, though, is the Viagra commercial where the guy walks into his office looking real confident, and all of his co-workers notice there's something "different" about him. LOL! |
Sherbabe | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 12:40 pm     Latest commercial that made me laugh is, I believe, for Chevrolet. 2 guys driving in a car. Passerger trying to drink coffee. Driver keeps pressing on brakes whenever guy tries to drink. (in background) Nelly song, OH, oh, What's happening now. Last line of commercial. On your long road to maturity, there'e Chervolet. You have to see it to appreciate it. |
Kaili | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 02:33 pm     Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?- The Verizon ones are kinda annoying after awhile. I won't even go there with the old mom and daughter "feeling not-so-fresh" commercials. Love the Passat ones- I liked the ones where they were driving and everything going on outside coincided with the music. 1-800-C-A-L-L-A-T-T makes me change the commercial, especially the Carrottop one. There was an Apple commercial that played during the Superbowl years ago (keep in mind Apple, not Mac). There's a story about it where there was this kid who was writing a suicide letter and he saw that commercial during the Superbowl, then went and showed his letter to his parents and talked to them and was okay after that. My cooperating teacher for student teaching shows this commercial to his classes on the first day of school. What happens is that the words are said while pictures of Ghandi, MLK Jr, John Lennon, Einstein, various artists/musicians/scientists, and all these other people are being shown. I love it. Here are the words that go with it... To the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble makers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, Quote them, disbelieve them, Glorify them or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a labratory on wheels? While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. And it's people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world who actually do. |
Mags | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 02:59 pm     I liked the commercial for Target (I think) advertising Joe Boxers...with that cute guy dancing in his underwear. For some reason, it just makes me happy. |
Twinkie | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 05:53 pm     Mags, I LOVE that commercial too! He's so happy dancing that it makes me happy! |
Not1worry | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 06:13 pm     Here in NC we've got Erskine Bowles vs. Elizabeth Dole in some race, Senate I think. Bowles radio ads make are so bad, I loathe them. Everyone sounds like a hick too dumb to understand big "govmint" issues. I think they are in a diner and you here the waitress offer the guy a piece of pie and ask him to explain Dole's position on something, calls him Mr. CPA. At least it's on the radio and not TV. I would vote against him on the basis of these ads alone. A TV commercial I hate is the Radio Shack ones with the football player and the Lois Lane chick. I pretty much hate all the Radio Shack commercials. Hate Old Navy, particulary this latest Green Acres one. Love the Circuit City commerical where the wife is trying to tell the husband that they are just going in for a few things. Get what they need, and then they are out of there. He gets in the door and takes off running like a 3 yr. old in the toy store and they leave later loaded with packages. I just love her long-suffering look when he says, that went pretty well. |
Hippyt | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 06:57 pm     I love that Joe Boxer commercial too! He's just so cute and bouncy,I smile whenever it comes on!(and sometimes I dance!) The commercial MOST driving me insane lately is for 'butter.' The one where the woman wants sweet,creamery,ya-ya something. Someone escorts her to some odd 17th century party where everyone is eating the 'butter.' If I ate some fake butter and ended up at some party that looks like Eyes Wide Shut,I'd sue the fake butter people.I have no clue what this commercial is even trying to say to me! |
Pamy | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:31 pm     I just saw a Sony commercial with an old Leo Sayer song, When I need Love, about a Dad and son making a dvd for the Mom, the end had me rolling |
Oregonfire | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:36 pm     Pamy, I was just going to say the same thing! The weepy dad goes in for the hug with his son at the end, and the kid's like "uh no Dad." Then the other guy (the dad's brother?) goes in for the hug, but the dad's like, "Uh no." A very funny commercial. |
Sia | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 10:28 pm     Hillbilly, the hip-swing is what my aunt and uncle were talking about--but the hips swing because baby's got so much back there to swing/shake! ROTFL! |
Whoami | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 12:34 am     Ummm, there's a new commercial out now, and I'm not sure if I should be disturbed or not. It's for Chevy (I think Cavalier). The car is parked at the beach. A young woman is sitting on a parking block in the parking lot a few feet away from the car. A young man is sitting in the driver's seat with the door open, playing "American Pie" on the car radio. The lyrics, "this will be the day that I die" finish on the radio. He turns off the radio, tells the girl, "okay, let's go." And they take each other's hands and walk towards the ocean. The voice over says, "until the very end, we're there." Or something like that (the "until the very end" thing is right though). Am I supposed to be led to believe that this couple is "ending it" by walking hand in hand into the ocean together? And even if not, what's to prevent disturbed young couples from interpreting it exactly like this, and finding it romantic? Please, someone tell me Chevrolet isn't this stupid, and tell me how I was really supposed to interpret this commercial? |
Hillbilly | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 05:06 am     Sia...maybe for you but these gals at work are thin...you would almost think that they would throw they're back out with the way they walk. |
Pcakes2 | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 06:24 am     Whoami, the Chevy commercial is making light of the length of the song American Pie. |
Hillbilly | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 11:35 am     Anyone seen the new Saturn Vue commercial where some fellers set up camp out in the woods ...then start hearing a banjo playing 'Dueling Banjos'....then you see them high tailin it into the Vue and out of the woods....its a hoot! |
Whoami | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 01:19 pm     Thanks Pcakes2. I guess I can accept that. But, if they wanted a lengthy song, they should have chosen something like Endless Love or Chariots of Fire! What bothers me is, I'm not even suicidal, and that's the first thing that popped into my head at the end of that commercial. I thought, "no way are they saying what I think they're saying. So, if I took it that way, what's to stop some impressionable young person (who thinks a lover's suicide pact is the most romantic way to go) from taking it like that too? Oh well, back to the FUN way of critiqing commercials. I haven't seen that Saturn Vue commercial yet Hillbilly. |
Vixeninvegas | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 01:40 pm     I saw that Saturn Vue commercial - Isn't Dueling Banjos from that movie Deliverance? They looked frightened when they split. Made me laugh too. One of my favorites are ANY of the old Hallmark Commercials - they always made me feel all warm & fuzzy. |
Zachsmom | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 01:52 pm     I cannot STAND the verizon commercials!! canyouhearmenow? canyouhearmenow? canyouhearmenow? canyouhearmenow? canyouhearmenow? canyouhearmenow? canyouhearmenow? canyouhearmenow?
can'thearyounownopecan'thearyounow! |
Heyltslori | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 01:56 pm     Zachsmom... you almost just made iced tea come outta my nose!! ROFLOL |
Vixeninvegas | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 01:57 pm     Comments to add to the above post: "Sia... omg..that chick sortadancingbutmorelikehavingaseizure commercial makes me crazy too...I have to change the channel whenever it comes on. " I agree with that statement I HAVE to change when that comes on. That woman in that car frightened me. Hehe But come on ya all - maybe I missed where someone has mentioned it in the past but WHAT ABOUT THE ROACH commercial???? I FREAKED the first time I saw it. Picture this. I think I'm a pretty good housekeeper & always keep stuff in my house clean & picked up. My TV sits on my dressers in my bedroom - on this specific evening one of my drawers was open a tad - maybe a inch or so... . anyways I was chatting on the phone to my fairly new boyfriend with the TV muted & I glance up @ the TV to see the biggest friggin bug in the world drop in my unies drawer. I cant even remember what I said to him but I hung up the phone really fast & dumped the drawer upside down. When I couldn't find the bug in that one I thought maybe somehow he had crawled into the drawer next to it & dumped that one too. Still not finding the bug I did what anyone would do - I called my mom in Kansas screaming about this HUGE BUG that fell into my dresser drawer that I now couldn't find. My mom starts cracking up so hard I thought she was crying & asks me haven't I heard about that commercial for the pest control place? LMAOROTF She proceeds to tell me they have pulled these commercials off TV there cuz some woman thru her shoe at the tv to kill the bug & broke her TV screen. I suppose I should be happy that I didn't have a pair of shoes laying around or I would have done the same thing. |
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