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Kimmo

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 04:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mygetaway, I saw the tail end of the ad with the puppy putting the toilet paper under the toddler-- Too cute! Kleenex Cottonelle (or their ad folk) redeemed themselves.

This is a good thread, I just wish I'd seen more ads that annoy me lately! I agree about the Yoplait girls-- Totally nauseating. Isn't there something like "Bare feet on the dashboard good"? Ugh!

Heyltslori

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 07:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok...so that chick had better be leaving about 10 bucks in the bathroom to replace all those tampons she wasted retrieving her precious pearl applicator one. That commercial gets on my nerves.

I had a good laugh today at this macaroni and cheese commercial where this teenaged boy runs into the room and smacks his head on a hanging light. That's good tv.

Cathie

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That actually happened to my son, HeyItsLori! He is 6'8" and walked through the den to the kitchen in the middle of the night without turning the light on. He misjudged his path and ran right into the light fixture hanging from the ceiling fan--broke the fixture and the bulb and even though it was dark he saw stars, lol. He went back to bed without cleaning it up and the next morning we tried to figure out what happened until he came to breakfast with a big knot on his head. Luckily he's hard headed just like his dad :)

Bookworm

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Lori and Cathie that is funny!!

I saw one today (that's been around awhile) that made me want to post here. It's a commercial for an herbal variety of toothpaste (Colgate I think). And the lady asks this cartoon beaver how he keeps so clean. I just think it is dumb and does not make me want to go out and buy the toothpaste.

Cathie

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 08:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I haven't seen that one but your description reminds me of one from years and years ago for Ipana toothpaste--I think the cartoon character they used was called Bucky Beaver with buck teeth. Some catchy little jingle like "Bucky, Bucky Beaver, brush with new Ipana.."

Bookworm

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 09:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember that commercial, but only cuz it was on Grease. This one is much lamer than that cute and catchy Beaver toothpaste commercial.

Monkeyboy

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 05:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This thread is so "I'd like to thank the Academy" good. :)

Abby7

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The commercial with Yao Ming (basketball player) and MiniMe (Troyer).

The are seated next to each other on a plane. Each pull out their laptop. Same make (Apple?) but MiniMe has the bigger screen. The give each other these side glances then each chuckle about it with the sweetest smiles. Really cute I think.

OOPS, is this for commercials we hate? Most all of them then. That's why I tape and FF through them usually. Especially hate overly cute kid commercials (the ones where you know the kid got the job because her/his Dad/Mom knows "someone").

Melfie1222

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I feel sorry for the little boy who has to act in that commercial for Goodnites underpants... this is the only way they can sell these? He has this sad face while he talks about he would feel bad if he wet the bed while a friend spent the night... the poor kid is probably never going to hear the end of it from his friends in real life, they'll be bringing it up when he's 35 or something.

Abby7, I was posting the same time you added to yours... the kid in this commercial must have the parents who don't know anyone, lol...

Not1worry

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 07:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The contact lens commercials!! Life is terrible because you wear glasses. And apparently you only can wear horrid dark frames, not decent wireless or thin frames. Then your cute friend comes over and convinces you to take your mom and all run off to the optometrist. Then you look just as cute as your friend and your life is changed!

Whoami

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 08:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby, this thread is for good and bad commercials! That's why the generic title of "Critiquing Commercials."

I kind of like the Propel commercials, where the water drops become various athletes. Kinda creative.

Not1Worry. I've been wearing glasses since I was 10. You mean, if I'd gotten contacts back then, I could have been cute all during school? Now they tell me!

Sia

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 10:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate the Verizon commercial in which we're shown several short clips of James Earl Jones barely shuffling his feet interspersed with footage of a much younger, slimmer man dancing like no 70-year-old can dance! The end of the commercial where the stunt-dancer spins on his back in a break-dance move just makes me want to puke in the bushes!!!

Monkeyboy

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 10:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You have bushes inside of your house, Sia? :)

I hate those Ebay commercials with that guy singing.

I hate that Bud Light or whatever beer commercial about the wingman. That song is annoying.

I hate those stupid Geico commercials where someone says "I have some good news" and he tells the other person, "Geico just saved me 15% on my car insurance" when they are in serious situations such as standing on a volcano! Those commercials suck and Geico is the sh!ttiest car insurance company EVER!, IMO.

I hate the Herbal Essence commercial where the lady is having her "organtic experience" in the jungle and a monkey says "I want that shampoo" or something like that. Its stupid and its an insult to monkeys everywhere! :)

Thank god they have stopped playing those lame Old Navy Love Boat commericals. I couldnt stomach them anymore and that d*mn song always got stuck in my head.

Melfie1222

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 11:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Monkeyboy... just wait until the next Old Navy ad campaign... it can only get worse.

Readonly

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 08:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The commercials I hate the most are those advertising products for curing cold sores. The people in these commercials are having horrible lives because of a tiny little blemish on their faces (which is barely visible) and talk about how they can't be seen in public. I think this is a slap in the face to all of those people who suffer from physical deformities of any kind and whose blemish (whatever it might be) can't be cured by dabbing on a little cream.

OK. Rant over. Thanks for listening.

Sia

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 07:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree, Readonly!

MB, I have shrubs right outside my back porch door; they're quite convenient for puking!

And I have to agree that the Herbal Essence orgasmic shampoo commercials are horribly tasteless. I hate them!!

Julie

Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 04:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi everyone-

I hope you don't mind me bringing this thread back up, but I thought it was hilarious! I agree about the girls in the yogurt commercial....the first that aired was bad enough...."This is so good Im actually in pain!" UUGH!!!!

And that one for Colgate Natural toothpaste is beyond stupid...."Mr. Beaver....how DO you get your teeth so white?"

I always feel bad for that little boy in the Goodnites diapers as well.

There is another commercial that I can't stand, but am not sure if it's aired nationwide or not. It's for 1-800-safe-auto. Actually ALL of their commercials make me want to gag. But the one in particular I can't stand is where they have people in the shower singing their jingle. I cringe when it comes on and have to either mute it or change the channel.

The ones for Hallmark always get me...."I'm smiling now cause I remembered you"....makes me run for the kleenex. The first one I saw I think I cried for an hour straight!

There are many others I'm sure I'll think of later.

Julie

Kimmo

Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 12:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Julie, that reminds me of how I do *not* like the song in those Hallmark commercials! Yes, of course we remember each other....I don't know, they say "remember" too many times for me to appreciate it. I do like the acting/visual parts, just not the song.

I did pop in to mention a couple I like: The "My Car/Camry" commercial where the guy is frolicking in his Camry in a deserted city, and

The new Jack in the Box ad for the salads, which provide the man from A-OK Plastic Fork opportunity to hop around and say "Yay!"

Oh-- I really don't like the Luvs ads where the woman keeps passing her baby off to other people at a picnic. "I used to care about my baby... Live and learn, then get Luvs (and get rid of your baby as often as possible)!" Ugh. She does take her baby back at the end, but I think it's just to save face! :)

Fabnsab

Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 10:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am complaining about another car ad. It is for Jeep and they have three people(white man, black man, white woman) walking around a lot and talking about Jeeps. The white guy is wearing a tshirt under a flannel that looks wrinkled and his face is completely stubbly. Do they think we're so stupid that we're going to look at this guy and say "ooh, he looks comfortable and relaxed. Lets go buy a jeep so we can be too?"

Kimmo

Monday, July 14, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just remembered another ad I can't stand:

The Gain ad with the uptight/nerdy/socially inept Asian-American man, the black woman at the cash register....Then what I remember as the remaining white people in the commercial in a totally different checkout line.

I need to see it again to explain exactly why it irritates me, but here's a start: Haven't Asian people been stereotyped enough for not conforming enough to "normal" modes of communication, and being social outcasts?

Then if I remember right, the black woman gets a compliment "by mistake" from the Asian guy, and it's like, "Oh, the Asian guy is so stupid, how dare he give someone like this black checkout lady a compliment?!".

I think I am mostly offended that a clearly American man of Asian descent is portrayed as being so clueless about normal social interactions. Yes, if I were the checkout lady, I would blink sternly if someone told me, "You smell good too."

Or whatever he says! What an awful commercial.

Julie

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 01:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kimmo -- LOL! A good friend of mine hates the hallmark song too! She says the woman singing sounds like she's half asleep.

Yeah, I hate that Luv's commercial too. Especially when the mom says "they hold like the HOOVER DAM!" Like nails on a chalkboard, IMO!

Kimmo

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 12:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Julie, you're right-- Her voice is so nasal and grating when she says "Hoover Dam". And why would you want your baby in diapers comparable to the Hoover Dam?

They're not supposed to hold large quantities of liquid indefinitely, like a dam-- You still change them when they feel damp! Ugh. :)

Not1worry

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 06:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Why is it that the Walmarts in the commercials have only one person shopping in each aisle, there are never pallets of merchandise blocking your path, and the bananas are always perfectly ripe? I know in my Walmarts, the aisles barely have room for 2 carts to pass even without the boxes and pallets of stuff to be shelved.

And we have some of the most power-hungry, militant senior citizens manning the doors. I nearly got into a brawl with one sweet old lady who refused to take in a bag with a return in it. (It was a nice big plastic bag with handles, I wanted to keep it!) She was determined that I was taking that return to the service with NO bag.

I am quite ashamed to admit that I called her a Nazi.

Melfie1222

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not1worry, lol!! I have thought the same thing about Walmart commercials where they are shopping in the clothing departments... everything is organized and in its place, but in reality I have never seen a Walmart where the clothes department was like that... they are always a freaking mess with clothes put back where they don't belong and hanging racks everywhere with more stuff waiting to be put back where it doesn't belong.

Donut

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 11:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good critiques..esp the nail fungus..
and I hate the Geico with the lawyer and the convict

also i find the big red circle in the Kotex commercials really annoying..And now i noticed a big red circle showing up in the Bactine commercial too.i guess its the new commercial symbol for bleeding... I just hope some poor kid doesnt get his red circles confused and show up at school with a Kotex wrapped around the cut on his finger..

The commerical trend which most irks me, however is this big push to lie and decieve your loved ones in the name of hoarding all the good junk food for yourself.. Theres lots, like Milano cookies, Golden Grahms, etc and the newest worst one is Cheese-Its where the woman cries and pretends she is watching a tearjerker to get her husband to go watch the game in a separate room so she can hoard all the Cheese Its for herself..

and then theres the 'spoiled bratty kids who resent their parents for not giving them food that is fun enough' genre. Those poptart kids will probably end up sueing their parents for not giving them toaster strudel, and running away from home just to become another perve at the TVCH 'Poptart' thread.:)