Archive through January 03, 2003
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Archive through January 03, 2003
Yuhuru | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 07:18 pm     I too like the sales monkey for Kia. I saw a KY Jelly commercial the other day (in the middle of the day) that I thought was a little too much info. Maybe I'm just turning into a prude, but I was a little uncomfortable with it. |
Seamonkey | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 08:38 pm     Kaili.. agree about hating "can you hear me now" shudder. Zachsmom.. too funny, the graphic is perfect. Pamy.. I love that commercial with the dad and the son making the sappy sentimental dvd too.. too funny.. Fruitbat.. I also hate all of the Kirstie Alley ads.. the minute I hear her voice, she is MUTEd. jkm.. I'm also hating those commercials with Geoffrey from toysrus.. and the one where he's reading the kids a bedtime story from the toysrus catalog.. gross and greedy. ME: and I agree with those who love that cute "Joe Boxer" dancing guy.. he's adorable!! I HATE the Dell interns.. bring back Stephen.. i actually have a Dell but if they'd had these intern commercials at that time, I wouldn't have been able to stomach the idea of such obnoxious people working for Dell.. OMG.. right now one of my non favorites.. the Ace Hardware one where the man is fixing the disposal and has his HAND in it and the wife comes home and smarmily comments about some wiring job he had just completed in the kitchen and then challenges his electrical skil says she has to see this and flips the light switch.. while his hand is in the disposal.. hostile.. lucky for him he didn't screw up, and she didn't flip the wrong switch but it really sets my teeth on edge that she would flip the switch and that he wouldn't pull his hand out quickly.. I also like the Geico Gecko.. and his little car.. My most passionate hate is for almost all cell phone commercials but especially the Catherine Zeta-Jones ones where she crashes into various scenes and commands the world to stop and then makes her pitch.. not only is it obscene that she feels the need to make yet more money, but the commercials are obnoxious and I know I'm an old poop, but can't someone stand in a bank line have a conversation make a decision without HAVING to make a phone call? I've read that in our area they are having a heck of a time coming up with enough phone numbers and it just seems horrible to me that the phone companies are pushing these devices as just for amusement.. arrgh.. I need a dose of the Joe Boxer guy.. NOW. ====== |
Twinkie | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 11:57 pm     I adore the joe boxer guy and have his commercials downloaded to my desktop so i can watch him whenever i want. I downloaded them from this site: http://www.aboutvaughn.com/pages/506195/index.htm |
Northstar | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 12:23 am     Cathrine Zeta-Jones, blaheck. Love the name, don't like the lady, dumb commercials. Except of course, "come over here and sit on mama's lap...". That was a cute line. |
Seamonkey | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 08:30 am     That obnoxious guy on the Ditech commercials... |
Monkeyboy | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 11:14 am     Northstar, i love that commercial!!!! it makes me LOL everytime i see it...but the rest of her commercials are pure crap. |
Ginger1218 | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 12:16 pm     Ok, my favorite commercial is for the Yellow Pages. It shows Lassie being pulled in all different directions - (like on the old TV show) (running to help Timmy, saving somebody's life, etc.) and he gets disgusted and goes to the Yellow Pages and looks up Pet Adoption and then you see Lassie laid out on a chaise lounge being fed by this rich woman. LOL, I love it, I think it so cleverly done. Also, I love the Geico Gecko Commercials and hate the Cell phone Catherine Zeta Jones commercials too. |
Wiseolowl | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 12:26 pm     I don't what it is about me , but when a commercial comes on - I just blank out - am sure I've sat through dozens if not hundreds over the last year but I just don't remember them - My favorite commercial of all time - was the one back in the late eighties when Whitney Houston sang the Coke commercial - I know , I'm being sexist - but she had to be the sexiest, most beautiful woman I've ever seen in a commercial or just about anything - it is so tragic that her life has changed so much since then. |
Moondance | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 01:43 pm     UhOh Heyltslori, I just saw your commercial! |
Heyltslori | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 01:46 pm     Nooooooooooooooooo!!!! |
Calamity | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 02:19 pm     There's a cat food ad which shows a kitty sitting in a window singing the Meow Mix jingle (you know it, "meow, meow, meow, meow, etc"!). A lady walking by overhears the cat and she starts singing the tune, then a guy driving past the women picks it up...etc. It ends with a couple of dogs overhearing someone else singing it and the one dog says to the other, "Great, now I'll have that song in my head the rest of the day" (paraphrasing). It's so cute. |
Seamonkey | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 02:23 pm     I like that one too, Calamity.. would rather hear that one over and over instead of "BILLY MAYES for OXYCLEAN" blaring at me.. And I have to admit to loving it when that woman attacks the big cigarette (ad for one of the nicotine patches or gum, I think) |
Whoami | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 04:06 pm     Saran Cutting Sheets.... They show a woman chef (I think) cutting off slices of salmon (or some big fish, it looks like). Then they show her sharpening her knife directly over the meat. Now, isn't that going to result in metal shavings in the meat? Sounds rather dangerous if you ask me! |
Seamonkey | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 05:26 pm     Oh yummy.. metal shavings in meat.. not! I hate commercials that are an accident waiting to happen.. like the ones where Linda Evans was doing yoga with a tic-tac in her mouth and telling people to breathe in thru the mouth.. yikes.. I could see someone sucking a tic tac into their windpipe and croaking.. can we say lawsuit?? |
Lobster | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 05:44 pm     Whoami, I haven't seen that commercial, but I think I can answer your question. If she is using a steel, which is the steel rod with a handle attached, then she isn't actually sharpening the blade, she's just re-aligning it so to speak, and therefore, shavings wouldn't get in the meat. And I think those Saran Cutting Sheets are great! |
Wargod | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 04:07 pm     I just saw half of the grossest commercial I've ever seen. It's a gatorade commercial, and during a basketball game one of the players takes off his shorts, wrings the sweat out into a glass and then picks the glass up...to drink, I think. I had to look away at that point. The voice over said something like, "theres a better way to replace fluids, sodium than this." Not sure thats exactly what was said because I was trying not to pay attention to it. |
Not1worry | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 05:42 pm     Wargod....EWWWWWW! Thanks for warning me so I can look away if I see that one. |
Cyn | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 10:19 pm     chevy truck commercial / two guys driving to a date / one says something about changing before they get into town (?) / they pull over / driver adds the top and backseat / view through side window from driver's side is other guy in his undies changing clothes on the side of the road. i like this commercial. |
Fruitbat | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 11:05 pm     My current favorite (I have not read this thread so this may have been said)............. Chevy............."The long road to maturity".........the guy breaking the car at each moment his friend is about to take a sip of coffee. LOVE it. I have two sons and can relate. |
Hummingbird | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 12:08 am     Has anyone mentioned the one for a men's cologne (seems like it is called AXE) where a girl who looks like Cameron Diaz says to another girl, "Don't you EVEN touch my maniken!!" I have only seen it once and may not have it exactly right but that is the gist of it and it is funny. And ditto to the Zeta-Jones phone commercials. Can't stand 'em! |
Jo_5329 | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 08:20 am     I HATE any commerical with a baby in it --- and they ruined the KitKat commerical making into a rap song .... and I keep the mute button handy for most commericals that are run over and over and over and over and over .... please .. give us a break --- I wouldn't buy the stuff now after having it shoved down my throat every 5 minutes. The funniest one DH and I like now is the one about Carleeeeeeeena ..... just cracks me up. Jo |
Calamity | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 11:30 am     While at the movies recently I've seen a commercial that intrigues me but since it's for an SUV, I can't bring myself to say I like it . A little boy is riding with his family and he is reading a book about myths & legends. As they pass over a bridge, you catch a glimpse of a sea serpent in the stormy water. Next scene shows a bored girl staring out her backseat window. A herd of white horses is running through the woods and in between trees one horse flickeringly appears to be a unicorn. Then we see a couple driving through the desert. They pass a 1950's convertible and the driver bears an uncanny resemblence to a young Elvis. The tagline is something about "all the things you've ever wished you could see" and then introduces a new SUV from a certain car company. Clever, gorgeous ad, too bad it's for such a product. |
Marysafan | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 11:46 am     We watch a lot of hockey games at our house on the Direct TV satilitte system...so we get to see some of the Canadian commercials. There is one beer commercial (Molson beer I think)that always makes me chuckle with these two fellas singing something like..."I go from misery... to happiness...to beer." Well, we were babysitting the grandchildren for New Year's and they brought along the movie Shrek which we hadn't seen. I looked at hubby and he looked at me...and we had all we could do to keep from bursting out laughing when we heard..."I go from misery...to happiness ....to beer." |
Whoami | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 01:52 pm     My mom watched the Disney Channel all the time. They have a series of commercials along the line of "living your dream," or something like that, and feature kids learning luge, speedskating, etc. The inspiration part of the message is great. But, EVERY ONE of these kids they feature speak with EVERY sentence ending in a "question mark." For instance, the one about the luge centers on two sisters, and what training together and all is like. One of them says, "it doesn't matter if she beats me??? It just means I have to work harder???" That kind of thing, where the sentence is spoken like a question, but it's not a "question" type of sentence. Not only does listening to every kid on these Disney commercials speak in question-tones (they also have a series of kids who talk about thier pets) drive me nuts, they play each commercial OVER and OVER and OVER! And OVER again! AAARRRRGHH! ......deep breath now.....venting rant over.... |
Hippyt | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 07:06 pm     The New most annoying and stupid commercial of my week! I don't know if this is played anywhere other than Nickelodeon or the Disney channel.(sorry Whoami)It's for a hair gadget that supposedly wraps ribbons in you hair,so you can add beads and such. I think it's call the quick wrap.The music is so ,so,so annoying! The worst thing is the actual product looks like a hair nightmare waiting to happen. This thing twirls your hair around at about 25 miles an hour! I see masses of teenagers in tears getting their hair cut out of the quick wrap! I would never hand one of these things to a kid! Ok! I feel better! |
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