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Hippyt

Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twinks,I was sooo excited to see the Joe Boxer guy back on!!!!! Yay,happy dance!!!!!

Hippyt

Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 02:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
joe

Twiggyish

Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 02:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I LOVE that Joe Boxer commercial!

Kimmo

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 01:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Are Albertson's grocery stores just the West Coast? Just wanted to say those Patricia "Debra Barone" Heaton ads for Albertson's give me an empty, bleak feeling inside.

She is all alone, in her limo, apparently en route to nowhere, then suddenly decides to stop at Albertson's?

She is so desperate for attention, despite being an honored TV actress, that she has to give an acceptance speech at the checkout counter?

When she goes to Albertson's, it always looks like it's in the middle of the night. All alone, with only her cell phone and limo driver for company.

I find these ads depressing. Maybe there's one set in the daytime and I missed it! Or, if there was, she is still wearing evening award show attire and the vision of seeing her pushing her cart alone in broad daylight in her evening wear is too strange, lonely and semi-deranged for me to acknowledge. :)

Sure, the premise is that she is on her way to an awards ceremony and then gets this maternal urge to shop at Albertson's ("Oh my gosh, there's an Albertson's!")-- For all I know, she is just pretending to go to an awards show! It all feels so fake. But if she were *at* an awards show and suddenly saw a blue bow tie and felt an Albertson's urge....That would make more sense!

Oh, heck, I can't fully explain why these ads make me feel so gnawingly empty inside. They're just bad!

Melfie1222

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kimmo, yeah, Albertson's is just west coast I believe... but I think they have bought or are buying some chains in other parts of the country so they might be branching out.

I've seen several different Patricia Heaton Albertson's commercials.. one where she is driving her SUV, talking on her cell phone with the headphone thingy and she says "what? I need to pick up your prescription, AND I'm snack mom too?" (but she says it pleasantly... I think they reworked this particular one, cause when I first saw it she was very Deborah Barone-ish sarcastic, now in the newer version she's like the happy little homemaker)... then she's in the store asking the Albertson's person where to find the granola bars, and later gushing to the pharmacist "I can't believe there's a pharmacy in my grocery store!" The pharmacist gushes back "Actually, there's a grocery store in my pharmacy!"

OK. Either I watch way too much tv or they are playing these commercials way too much, or probably both. My mom works for Albertson's but I don't shop there very often. When all the stores here came out with their club cards, Albertson's was one of the few that didn't... and they were all "look at us! no club cards!"... now they have a club card too. Grrr.

Kimmo

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 12:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Melfie, I haven't seen these other Albertson's ads, what a relief they are a departure from the ones I described!

I like Albertson's, they have the biggest selection of swiss-style yogurt. Their store-brand packing is very attractive! It feels more like a traditional grocery store, but has everything! They still give you the discount even if you don't have a card! Or, at least I remember doing that once and I still haven't gotten a card.

Okay, with all that said, we still only go for the yogurt! Winco is where we normally go.

Kimmo

Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Another commercial to hate, though maybe this goes without saing:

The Coors commercials where they show all the things guys like-- "Coors, and this, and that, AND...TWINS!", and they show those Coors twins. I want to puke every time I see the ad, dreading the "AND..TWINS!" part, said with that awful nasal/whining tone.

It's partly because I am a twin, but then I think, "They are just talking about the Coors twins, they aren't saying that all twins are seens as sexual objects...There are lots of unattractive twins, but does this ad assume that?"

Then I feel disgusted with myself for thinking so much about the stupid ad, thus multiplying the negative effect! Ugh.

Twinkie

Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 07:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Albertson's is also in the south. It was my second choice for grocery stores after Publix.

Costacat

Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 11:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG, I HATE THOSE TWINS!!!! Such a sexist ad, and so typical of a brewing company.

My personal pet peeve is the constant barrage from car manufacturers. Apparently, they think everyone here in So Cal is a wannabe offroader, and 90% of the car ads are for monster SUVs or trucks. Hello? SOME of us like sporty little cars. You know, the ones that are a lot kinder on our environment? (No gas guzzling, flora stomping car for this gal!)

I love the Joe Boxer commercials. I hate the Herbal Essence ones where the girls are acting all orgasmic (uh hon? I can do SO much better than that!). And I still miss the Bud-why-zer frogs!!!

Whoami

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 11:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No particular commercial. Just infomercials in general.

Why do the women on those things all have to act like wanna be cheerleaders? GAG!

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 03:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK,everytime I see this I think it belongs here,and kept forgetting. It's for Bounty papertowels. A family in the kitchen and the Mom is wiping up some grape juice with a NON-Bounty towel. As she is going to put the dirty towel in the trash,we see a single drop of grape juice about to fall on her pristine,white tile floor. The family stand with their mouths open,and their eye bugging out like a freakin nuclear bomb is about to go off in the kitchen. If you DON'T want this to happen to you,buy Bounty.
If they worst thing in my day is a drop of grape juice on my kitchen floor,somebody wake me up,cause I'm dreaming.
HATE this commercial.

Whoami

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 03:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good one Hippy!

Or how about the Gerber one, where they are introducing the new, more convenient to carry, plastic containers. Have you noticed how they "feed" that poor baby? The spoon approaches the baby, the baby opens it's mouth, the spoon barely touches the baby's mouth and then is quickly wisked away. I don't think anything gets in the poor baby's mouth!

Tera

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 04:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ugh! commercials for baby products... I hate them! The one I really do not like is the little kid with the rabbit. Mom gives him some type of supplement drink because she is worried he is not getting the right nutrition. Are they implying that parents are just too lazy to feed the kids decent meals with the 4 basic food groups?

I do think the arthritis medicine commercial with Frankenstein as the spokesperson is very clever.

Sasman

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 04:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite commercial is for a cell phone company and takes place out west. Guy had ordered a herd of oxen but got mini dachshunds instead. They show the dogs yoked to a wagon and then one being lassoed by a cowboy.

Then a voice screams 'stampede' and all of these tiny dogs go running by.

Makes me pee my pants everytime.

Buttercup

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 04:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Sasman. I love that one too! Haven't seen it in a long time but your description of it just got a chuckle out of me

Buttercup

Kimmo

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 12:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hippy, you're right, how could that stupid Bounty ad have avoided this thread for so long? Every time I see it, I have to look away, muttering, "It's just one drop of juice! You could wipe it up with your finger!" Ugh.

For baby ads, for some reason the J&J Soothing Baby Bath with Lavender really bothers me, but I'm not sure why...Maybe the reference to the boy baby as "your little prince," because it is somewhat patriarchal even though it is the mom who should be the authority figure?

I like one of the new Safeway ads with the guys who seem to be cowboys but then turn out to be city slickers....Not the one with the guy talking about his boots, but one where the cowboy turns out to be a CPA or something? That one's pretty cute.

Mpls

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 05:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't think this one is still running, and to be honest, can't remember what company it was for, but it was about the refrigerator going out and getting a new one.

The wife is sitting in the kitchen reading the paper and in the background, her husband saunters in and opens the fridge door, looks in, grabs the milk carton he hoists it to his face, kind of glances over to his wife expecting her to say get a glass or something, she ignores him, he shrugs thinking hey, I can get away with chugging the milk right out of the carton, he takes a swig and spits it right out because it spoiled. All this time the wife is casually reading the paper and grinning then says, oh, by the way, the refrigerator is broken. He looks at her like you b$@#h!!

Just great reactions on both the actors in this commercial.

Sia

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 11:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree, Mpls, that's a classic! There's a refrigerator commercial, however, that annoys me. It's the one where the young woman is comparison-shopping for a new fridge so she brings home eight or ten new side-by-sides so she can think it over. Her neighbor stands in the doorway simply aghast at the overt consumerism. That was my reaction, anyway.

Mpls

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, I haven't seen that one. I agree it sounds a little silly/annoying.

Melfie1222

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 08:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw a really gross commercial today for Lamisil... the prescription that gets rid of toenail fungus. I know it must be hard to come up with non-gross advertising for this sort of thing, but they obviously haven't figured out how.

There's an animated fungus critter who jumps under this huge toenail and starts creating more fungus critters and turning all the healthy toe, colored pink, to this dry yellow desert-like area. Then this big lamisil pill rolls in and all the critters start to scatter and the yellow dead area starts to turn pink again. It was just gross.

And it reminds me of the one I used to see a lot a few years ago, I haven't seen in a while, for some heartburn prescription, and there was this animated stomach that danced around and had flames shooting out the top, and sang about how it couldn't sleep because it was in the Heartburn Hotel. Icky.

Kimmo

Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 12:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, that Lamisil ad is gross! That got a lot of votes at the inception of this thread.

I also dislike that heartburn relief ad....It reminds me how I hate the strange, drawn-out Tom Poston-esque look of that cartoonish guy in some other heartburn ad...He's looking at you all hangdog because he is so full of acid....Huge sad eyes and drawn, droopy face. It makes me queasy just to look at him! But I don't remember if that is just print ads or not.

Gemma120in2002

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 09:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
How about the commercial that starts "Hey Bob! Have you lost weight?" Bob: "No." (smiling a secret smile) "Hey Bob, did you get your hair cut?" Bob: "No, no I haven't." (still smiling a knowing smile) "Well, whatever you're doing, keep it up!" (Insert Bevis voice in Bob's head- "ha-ha-ha- he said 'up' ha-ha!"

Of course Bob hasn't lost weight or cut his hair, he finally has an erection! Viagra!

These Viagra commercials kill me! LOL! At least we don't have Bob Dole hawking Viagra anymore! Those really killed me because the last thing I wanted to do is picture him with an erection! My eyes! It burns! Aaaarrrggghhhh!

Mpls

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You know I highly admire these atheletes and celebrities with the "cojones" (no pun intended) to get up before the public and advertise for erectile dysfunction. I'm talking about Rapheal Palmiero, Mark Martin, Bob Dole.

ED is more rampant amongst men than is thought about, it is just that no man really wants to talk or think about it because of course we men feel that an erection has everything to do with our masculinity. I know its messed up, but it is similar to a woman and her breast and how important that is to her femininity.

Don't ask me where all this is coming from. Just reading the above post brought the thought out I guess.

Bonnyswan

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok how about the commercial with the kid shaking the Orange soda in the kitchen and it explodes!!! And instead of his mom freaking out she whips out the spray nozzle at the sink and douses her son....I think its a paper towel commercial....I have NEVER responded like that to my sons disasters...maybe Im crazy.

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well,I haven't seen that one,but it sure sounds DUMB!