Archive through October 12, 2002
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Whoami | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 08:04 pm     Well, we've had threads in the past that were either about commercials we hate, or ones we love. Each one always "degenerated" into a mixture of hate/love. So, why not a common thread for any commercial that gets a reaction out of us? Lately, the one I just can't stand is the stupid Clorox commercial, where "Momma gets our clothes all nice and clean..." etc. They use this same jingle with various scenes of children all dancing around happy cause their Mama keeps thier clothes clean. My beef is, WHERE THE *!@ is the DAD! Doesn't he do laundry! ERRRGGGG! Another one that has bugged me is the Snuggle commercials. I think that poor little porcupine is Soooo cute! And I feel sorry for him when that housewife tells him to "please leave." Hey porcupine, you're welcome at my house any day! What's disturbing about it is the smug little attiude of Snuggle Bear. I thought he was supposed to be this cute sweet little thing. That superioristic smug little attitude when he tells the porcupine "bye bye," isn't befitting of a spokesperson that's supposed to be cute! |
Spygirl | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 08:30 pm     Okay...along the same lines are your laundry commercial, Whoami, I cannot STAND the JCPenny commercials where the kids are doing something wrong and the dad walks in and asks, "Where is your mother?" like he can't watch the kids for one day????? ARGHHHHH! Men are NOT stupid and incapable of parenting, so anything that perpetuates that idea makes me sick! I did notice, however, the last time they did the "one day sale" that the commercial was slightly different and didn't ask that question anymore. Maybe they were bombarded with hate mail? |
Whit4you | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 08:48 pm     Best commercial ever.... Superbowl...1998? 97? Black screen.... busy signal busy signal busy signal buys signal... white letters... still black screen... "CALL 1-800-NOT-BUSY" Best slam against AOL eva... AOL had went from 1.95 an hour (300...600 bucks a month for most users.. to 19.95...) and it was next to impossible for most people to get through. That was the best marketing ever lol. Wasn't a single AOL user on the planet that didn't know exactly what that commercial meant |
Sia | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 09:55 pm     I like the thread idea, Who. I LOVE the JoeBoxer commercial with the HAPPY dancing guy, but don't like it when anyone else is doing the dancing. The original guy is the best, and he's so cute and sweet and enthusiastic. I wish he were mine!!!! I DESPISE the commercial for the car (I think) in which a twenty-something brunette female is jumping, jerking and juking around in the front passenger seat of the car. Is she trying to break-dance? Quit it already; I just hate it. She has a smug smile, too! It's pointless and I hate most of the newer commercials; I can never figure out what product is being promoted. I think this is an indication that I'm getting really old and the advertising firms are employing a bunch of kids with completely different values than mine. Yikes, we're all in trouble! |
Whoami | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 09:58 pm     Those JCP commercials are right up there for me too SpyGirl. The only reason I didn't include it this time around (every time there's a "commercials I hate" category, I nominate JCP) was cause I hadn't seen one in a while, and was hoping they'd FINALLY ditched them! Unbelievably, I just saw the Clorox one yesterday! That AOL commercial must have gone right over my head when it was aired, cause I don't remember it one bit. But then, I've never used AOL, so I guess that's why!  |
Whoami | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 10:05 pm     OK, just so I can interject a somewhat positive one.... I do like the peanut butter commercial, where the little boy makes a PBJ for Mom, who is studying, "just in case you needed a break or something." That's Sooo cute! However, I've seen it so many times now, I've started to pick it apart. Like, when he licks his finger, he doesn't get all the peanut butter. And, what does he do, put his spit covered finger all over the sandwhich he's preparing? I also started speculating about whether they had to take several shots of her feeding him a bite. Cause, he chomps it, and doesn't chew. In fact, he holds it in his mouth like he really wants to spit it out. Then he buries his head in her shoulder. I have the tendency to fantasise "behind the scenes" scenarios. Like, he's taken so many bites of this sandwhich, he's going to hurl. He buries his head in the "mom's" shoulder to hide the sour face he's making cause he can't stand the taste of PBJ any more. I have a very creative imagination. |
Myjohnhenry | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 10:26 pm     I love anything Hallmark...they leave me with such a warm fuzzy feeling...but then again I like that kind of thing I am waiting for Mervyn's to move on from the "open, open, open" genre of commercials. Favorite Local commercial...Tom Peterson's "WAKE UP" commercials on late night television. (He knocked on the screen and really did yell it out...woke up any soul who dared to drowse with the tv still on) Least Favorite Local commercial...a local car dealer. We suffered through months of stupid, bad commercials about the making of the "best commercial ever" complete with countdown to its debut (which just happened to be during the premeire of Friends). Blech! |
Whit4you | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 10:33 pm     Whaomi - it was brilliant advertising - 1 million dollars for a blank screen in the middle of the superbowl... blank screen - few busy signal sounds... and then "Dial 1-800-NOT-BUSY" I remember calling it - to see if it was busy... LOL... was thinking it'd go down as the all time blunder if they didn't prepare for the max # of calls possible... imagine had people gotten busy signal calling that <grin> (it wasn't busy when I called) |
Theowl | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 10:42 pm     I hate this time of year when the political commercials come out, and everyone is trying to out-criticize their opponent. It makes me so angry when they go back and forth and never say anything about the issues, but everything they can make up about the other guy to make him look horrible. I can't wait until election day when it's over!!  |
Willsfan | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 11:07 pm     A mother chases her son around the house, then stops to fill a glass of water (pops a headache remedy into her mouth) reaches out and grabs her young son who spits the goldfish into the glass. And she says, "You have just got to quit doing this". LOL Another one has me stumped. A young lady is walking along and suddenly exclaims. "I can't concentrate, I must be pregnant." !?? |
Reiki | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 11:08 pm     I totally cannot stand the Shell Oil commericial with the birds landing on the little island that is shaped like the company logo. Like Shell Oil has done so much to improve the life of birds! They should show a great big oil slick washing up on the island! |
Curiouscat | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 03:13 am     I think the line of commercials (and billboards) are for Telus cell phones, but I just love those two cute little monkeys. A favourite of mine has them sitting side by side and one reaches over and "monkey picks" the other's back ... then you read, "Hungry?" Another has them be-bopping to music. |
Silksmoke | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 06:52 am     I absolutely seethe over the commercial that has a kid jumping up and down on a squeeze bottle of chocolate syrup that squirts all over a white rug, walls and furniture. It makes me so angry I can't even remember what product the commercial is for. |
Itsallgood | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 07:11 am     I love all the Sears commercials. Also the diaper commercials where the kids take off their diapers to stop leaks then run off naked laughing! 2 Funny |
Ketchuplover | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 07:21 am     I believe its for scotch-gard or some similar product. My favorite local commercial is for shorewest realtors. A guy gets a yodelling album in the mail,puts it on his turntable,and cranks his speakers up full volume. Then they show him shaking his fists like "ROCK ON" (I hope u understand) Then they show images of his neighbors homes shaking from the sound. At the end the yodeller/yodeler goes out in the morning to retrieve the newspaper(whilst humming the song) looks up as he picks up the paper & sees SOLD signs as far as the eye can see.
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Babyruth | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 07:40 am     LOL, KL! |
Sia | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 08:15 am     The part-commercial/part-PSA (public service announcement) that has me BONKERS right now is the one for yogurt (Dannon or Yoplait?) encouraging women to save the seals and mail them in to help fund breast cancer research. The saving the seals and funding research is fine, but the commercial shows women LICKING the yogurt-container seals and then mailing them off without ever showing them getting RINSED!! Either someone is collecting DNA samples (complete with return addresses, thank you!) without warning the public, or is asking for samples of germs to be mailed via U.S. mail. Either way, double-YUK!! Oh, and the tag-line: "Together we can LICK cancer." ........Blecccchhhh! Again, the concept is great; it's the execution I can't stand. |
Sia | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 08:35 am     Silksmoke, I'm with you on that one! I think it might be a commercial for Stanley Steemer that you described. Even my kids always say, "Man, is THAT kid in trouble!" when they see the boy squirting chocolate syrup all over the living room in the ad. My husband always says, "I never knew there was that much syrup IN one of those bottles," LOL! Reiki, great point re. the oil-slick. Let's see some truth in advertising, eh? Willsfan, I was thinking the commercial you describe is for an herbal memory-enhancer like gingko biloba or something--BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER! Isn't that hysterical?  |
Hillbilly | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 08:59 am     My all time favorite commercial is the Blockbuster commercial with the little gerbil (or whatever it is) shaking his thang. |
Heyltslori | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 09:27 am     Sia... omg..that chick sortadancingbutmorelikehavingaseizure commercial makes me crazy too...I have to change the channel whenever it comes on. I do like most of the commercials for Volkswagon Paasat ...like where the neighbor is washing the other guys car... "get your own paasat" Another one that gets on my nerves are the Old Navy commercials with Morgan Fairchild... argh! |
Sia | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 09:38 am     Isn't it funny, Hillbilly, how different things appeal to different people? I just HATE the Blockbuster commercial with the guinea pig shaking his thang. I guess I'm sensitive because of the size of MY behind, LOL! I first learned that my @$$ was huge way back in high school after I'd accepted an award for straight As at the French Club banquet. My aunt and uncle had taken my cousin and me to the banquet, and on the way home my uncle said, "Hey, (Sia), how 'bout a hamburger?" As we were passing a restaurant at the time, I said, "We just ate." He asked again, and I responded the same. He finally said, "How about a hamburger for that SHAKE?" and my aunt chimed in with, "How about a PORCH for that SWING?" I was simply crushed. I'm still extremely sensitive to any hint that my booty is more generous than necessary. (Wish I were built like Calista Flockhart!) |
Marysafan | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 11:41 am     I hate those Old Navy commercials! I will change the channels at immediately! They are pure torture! Also, for NASCAR fans, the commercial with AJ Foyt talking about his grandfather's garage "bidness" is like fingernails on a chalk board! The ones I like...defintiely the Joe Boxer guy...he just makes me giggle. And the car commercial with the Bare Naked Ladies song "One Week" playing. |
Twiggyish | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 12:04 pm     I hate personal hygiene commercials which show the absorbtion of the product. Also, car dealership commercials where they YELL about sales. How about ambulance chasing lawyer commercials, which encourage you to sue everyone? My like list: Joe Boxer, Hallmark, Dell and probably a few others. |
Silksmoke | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 12:11 pm     I just remembered one I liked. It was the polaroid commercial where the dog was scolded for getting into the trash. The owner leaves and when the cat gets into the trash again, the dog looks at many objects in the kitchen (including the meat cleaver) then the camera. When the owner comes home the dog is sitting there with a picture in his mouth of the cat in the trash can. |
Pamy | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 12:52 pm     Mary..Me too!!! I wont shop at Old Navy because of them!! My fav is the happy dancing joe boxer guy and the Gap commercial with the sexiest man I have seen on tv in a long time! I will stop whatever I am doing to watch him shake his thang!!! |
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