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Kimmo

Friday, October 31, 2003 - 04:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think maybe the Quizno's ad is without suckling during primetime/day, and with suckling after 11 p.m.. I had only seen the one without suckling until I stayed up to watch some late-night TV.

Weinermr

Friday, October 31, 2003 - 04:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Welcome to "Sex in the Car Day" at TVCH.

Sasman

Monday, November 03, 2003 - 12:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Anyone catch the UPS add where the spokeswoman says 'Brown Nose'?

Angelsluv

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 06:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite commercial has still got to be the Quaker Oats Granola Bar one when the kid says "My sister dresses like a floozy"

It still slays me *LMAO*

Meridian

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 09:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The commercial I don't understand is the one advertising a Mercury Mountaineer. There is a male voice over that says something to the effect that "You just have to take them out behind the woodshed". Next, pictures of the SUV are flashed across the screen. No other references to this statement are given during the entire ad. Somehow, the advertisers must have established a significant connection between the two, but frankly, I don't see it.

Not1worry

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 05:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hating the commercial for the Phillips camera you hang around your neck or wherever. The guys are at the beach and one of them gets a Slurpee dumped on his head. So his buddy quick snaps a shot of him and downloads it and it ends up on the jumbo megascreen for everyone to see. Gee thanks, what a pal. I'd have strangled him with the camera strap.

Then the theme song plays "You've got to admit it's getting better, getting better all the time." No, I do NOT have to admit that.

Twiggyish

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 05:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Meridian I HATE that Mercury commercial. I don't see the connection, either

Meridian

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 05:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Twiggy.... Does anyone?

Marysafan

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw a really cute Molson Beer commercial last night during the hockey game.

An astronaut is on the moon in his space suit playing around with a golf club and a ball. When suddenly something hits his face shield and it begins to crack. He looks down at his feet and what should he see sitting there? A hockey puck!

The camera then moves across the moonscape to a second astronaut with the Canadian flag flying in the background...saying, "Ottawa, ...we have a problem."

It just cracked me up! Way to go you crazy Canucks! A big thumbs up for that one!

Sia

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 03:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw the SUV commercial in which the woman complains about her husband who was raised by wolves. OMG, I hate that commercial. What a horrible ad campaign!

Babyruth

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 04:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The commercial for Levitra, where the man repeatedly spirals the football through tire swing in the backyard while his wife smiles approvingly, is so STUPID!!! I'm sick of it!
Why don't they just show a train going through a tunnel, or a couple of dogs humping??

Tabbyking

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my husband saw an ad in a magazine about ups getting more into mail delivery like the US post office and the motto was something along the lines of: 'we're going postal!' he said, "don't they know the term 'going postal' is negative!?"


a commercial i loved and have only gotten to see once is the one about squirrel taggers. it's for jimmy dean sausage sandwiches or something. and the guys all eat breakfast and then run around a huge park chasing squirrels and playing tag. one guy puffs his hair up and puts on a headband to look more 'squirrel-like', some of them crawl-run on all fours, and eventually one guy does actually tag a squirrel and then they turn and run the and the squirrel chases them. has anyone else seen this? it was probably in september that i saw it.

Hippyt

Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 12:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love the Florida orange juice commercial where the Mom can't get the kid out of bed. So,she brings in a heavy metal band,up in his face "Get outta bed,get outta bed!" He grabs his clothes and flees the room.

I also like the new Citibank identity theft commercials. My fav is the girl getting a pedicure with the nerdy teenage boy voice. "A girl robot,heehee,this is gonna be the best prom ever."

Hippyt

Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 01:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG,Have you guys seen the 'Washlet" commercial?

Twinkie

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 07:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I LOVE the commercial that shows the scruffy looking guy drinking a beer in his big ugly chair and in his robe with the "valley girl" voice-over him talking about the leather bustier for $1500! Cracks me up everytime!

Mak1

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just saw that Twinkie, and it always cracks me up too!

Wilsonatmd

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 08:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I like the Citibank ones too....

....have you seen the new Sprint PCS commercial about the sorority house going crazy like they were at a concert (breaking the windows with their screams) when they hear nighttime hours start at 7 instead of 9 on their plans now?

Spygirl

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 10:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"It lifts and separates"

I laugh every time until I almost cry! Citibank has a winner in this line of commercials. Best I've seen in ages.

Not1worry

Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 05:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
What is with the commercial that have humans and animals in intimate conditions??

The Mentos commercial shows a guy waiting on the sofa for his date to get ready, her big dog is placidly watching him pop a Mentos breath mint. He does a little breath check and the dog leaps up and doesn't just lick him, but puts a whole doggy liplock on him. It's so gross, not a friendly-cute-doggy thing.

Kimmo

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Someone has probably already mentioned this one...But I don't see ads very often anymore! :)

The Whiskas cat food commercial that shows a domestic cat and a zebra staring each other down on the savanna....Then the zebra breaks the stare and starts running away (cat giving chase)!

The commercial ends with the cat lurking behind the cat food in a predatory manner. So funny.

Whoami

Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 10:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That Saturn Ion commercial, with the clowns running away, and then getting "captured" to put the "fun back in driving." Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Those diamond commercials, where the husband is supposed to prove his love by buying the wife a diamond! Blech. One of them has them looking at old pics, and how their first Christmas he got her a stuffed reindeer, and how he did "much better" this year with diamonds....I'd rather have the stuffed reindeer!

Lkunkel

Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 11:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love the Citibank ads, and stop everything when they come on.

I agree with the reindeer and diamond commercial.

I dislike the greed-infested Christmas commercial that have already started. I mean, some were running before Halloween. What happened to waiting until Thanksgiving?

Hummingbird

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 12:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Can't stand the one where they are playing basketball with a dead chicken. It may be KFC. I've already voiced my dislike of the Citibank Identity theft spots -- just can't stand them! Funny how different people see the same thing in different ways.

Hippyt

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kimmo,I love those too! Playing basketball with a dead chicken? Yuck is that supposed to be funny?

Hummingbird

Monday, November 17, 2003 - 03:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, the chicken is plucked and cleaned up like they are when you get ready to bake them. Still, it is a ridiculous ad. Seems like the spot is advertizing KFC "Chicken baskets." Yuck, yuck, yuck -- I'm laughing my a** off. What Madison Ave genius thought that one up?