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Kady

Saturday, September 27, 2003 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was just coming here to say something about that Honda commercial. It is amazing how the cars look like their owners. :)

Meemo

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 12:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
the latest QUIZNO'S commercial was truly disgusting. it show two guys eating sandwiches. one eating a quizno's and the other a "cold" sandwich. and the guy eating the quiznos asks him "why are you eating that were you raised by wolves?" and the second guy has a flashback and it shows him sucking on a mama wolf along side a baby wolf. and then he says "why yes i was." it was soooo disgusting and then i was upset because my 6 yr old daughter was there and she looks at me and says "eeewwwww why was he doing that?" i was in such disbelief all i could say was i don't know?

Bomom

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 01:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought they had pulled this commercial but I saw it running again over the weekend...it's the car commercial with the horrible woman in the ugly hat riding in the passenger seat of the car doing the wierd "dance", waving her arms around. They did a great take off of this one on the Chappelle Show on Comedy Central.

Not1worry

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 02:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Meemo, yes, that is the worst one! It is so graphically gross. If I was ever considering eating at Quizno's, they've certainly done a good job of encouraging my boycott. They couldn't have just shown him, like sleeping in a cave with wolves?

Cangaroo

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The one that bothers me is the Mitsubishi car commercial with the super-thin girl "dancing" in her seat as they are motoring along...I don't know why, but it just seemed sort of spastic to me and I know it's not. Is it just me that thinks this? Probably so. Never mind.

Cangaroo

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oops! Bomom mentioned that just up there, LOL. So, it's not just me. Thank heavens.

Monkeyboy

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhh Cangaroo, The convulsions girl makes me wanna puke!

Hippyt

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh,MB you are in trouble.

Sia

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 11:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cangaroo, the commercial you mention is the one that tops my list of absolutely-most-disgusting commercials of all time. I hate the music, I hate the editing, and I especially hate the ridiculous way the girl is "dancing" (?--with apologies to any real dancers who may be offended by my use of the term) in the car!!

Miss_Wings

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 06:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cangaroo, I agree. The dancing girl creeps me out. I can't watch.

Arm22

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 08:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about the funny cellphone skits in the movies. Basically telling people to turn off their cellphones. There are a bunch of different variations and everyone makes me crack up.

Cancunkid

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 03:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay my favorite has been discussed but I am bumping this up.....can I get those GAP broken-in jeans with Raoul Bova still in them?? or better yet with him out of them?!! I am like a little kid and commercials DO NOT get between me and the TV when that one is on.

Ketchuplover

Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 04:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate that spastic chick too. Let's kill her :)
(just joking)

How about the commercial where a guy is dressed up in a cheerleader outfit dancing by a car while some old dude cams him and some chick(girlfriend?)looks on with disgust/shock?

I don't know which is creepier,the guy dancing or the guy camming.

Ketchuplover

Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 12:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just saw the most retarded commercial ever. LeBron James is on a basketball court in a "game". He has the ball and is standing near midcourt being "guarded" by Mike Bibby(Sacramento Kings) He just stands there(for what seems an eternity) while the voiceover asks can LeBron James take the pressure? Then at the end Mr.James just chuckles.

WITHOUT QUESTION THE MOST CRAPTACULAR COMMERCIAL INTHE HISTORY OF TELEVISION :)

Apriljo

Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 01:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The commercial i like the most is the nokia commercial where the guy is walking though the super market and he says "HEY!" and then walkes some more and goes "HEY!" and then he's phone rings and you see that he was singing that song..it makes me laugh every time i watch it..

Max

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 08:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't know if it's been mentioned or not (i haven't read the whole thread :)), but Verizon has a commercial for DSL that I HATE.

The picture shows a baby in a crib while the voiceover is a woman talking about how with DSL high-speed internet access and a camera, they can have a 24-hour baby monitor. Then you see dad watching the kid on the screen of his laptop computer. The kid starts to wake up and dad picks up the phone, calls mom and says, "Someone's waking up." She goes to get the baby and waves at the camera (while dad watches and smiles). The voiceover informs us that now, thanks to Verizon DSL, the family can truly stay connected.

UGH! Every time it comes on, I find myself yelling at the screen "THAT'S NOT FAMILY CONNECTION! GO HOME!" I hate the way it makes it seem like you can work 24/7 and still maintain a solid family life. (And, yes, I realize that business travel is necessary and that if you have to be on the road, it would be nice to at least see pictures of what's happening at home, blah blah blah.)

Mak1

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 12:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lol, I know what you mean, Max.

I like the commercial for Meow Mix Hairball formula. The cat is in a soundbooth trying to sing the Meow meow meow meow jingle, but has to keep stopping to cough. After going to eat his Hairball formula food, he comes back and successfully completes the jingle.

If they showed us the actual hairball, I wouldn't like the commercial at all.

Konamouse

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 02:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Worst commercial campaigns (IMHO)
1. Cellphone is used EVERYWHERE (i.e. wedding, shakespere play, business meeting, etc).
2. the latest McD's sound bite.
3. most car commercials (lots of wet asphalt and cars driving to nowhere).

'squeek'

Secretsmile

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 02:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I recently saw a commercial for a credit card id protection thing. It was a riot, I laughed so hard at this older man sitting in his living room, while the voice he spoke with was a young woman talking about cleaning out the checking account and buying a leather corset. There is a second commercial for the same thing, a woman in a beauty parlor talking with the voice of a teen age boy who stole her id by internet and used the money to build a female robot.

Not1worry

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 05:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Max, I've never seen that DSL commercial, but the very description irritates me. Like I need hubby calling me at home to tell the baby's waking up. If the phone hadn't rung, maybe the baby would go back to sleep and I could get another load of laundry folded! Don't you have actual work to do instead of staring at the baby??

Wargod

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 11:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Not!

I hate, hate, hate, the raised by wolves commercials. I've seen two, one for an SUV (wife needs the Honda SUV because husband was raised by wolves,) but the worst is the Quiznos? (some sandwich place anyways) and his sandwich is just fine cuz he was raised by wolves...then they do a flashback to him nursing (as a grown man!) off a mama wolf. Makes me ill everytime I see that one.

Sunrvrose

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 11:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had the same reaction, and my grandson had the same rection to the Quiznos' commercial. But I saw it again this past week and they changed it so the guy is not nursing. He is just huddled with the wolves. Who ever thought of the nursing thing should be fired. That was a VERY bad idea.

Not1worry

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 10:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
War, I saw that SUV commercial last night and thought "What is this raised-by-wolves advertising trend???" That one is stupid, but at least not as repulsive as the Quizno's ad.

Marysafan

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 10:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw a commercial last night that sure raised my eyebrows in utter disbelief! I think it might have been Canadian because we were watching the hockey game via satillite.

We are looking into a car via the windshield (I think it might have been a Volvo but am not sure as I was too shocked to notice). We don't see anyone, but hear sounds of passion. Then up pops a young man and a beautiful young woman. She starts buttoning up her top and he begins to adjust his clothing as well.

She says to him something like, "You were right, there sure is a lot of room in here."...and in this very pregnant pause...where you expect he will answer.....


Up pops another young good looking female between them and she says...."I'll say!!!"

I was flabbergasted!!

Ketchuplover

Friday, October 31, 2003 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was flabbered just reading your post!!