Archive through December 08, 2003
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Archive through December 08, 2003
Monkeyboy | Monday, November 17, 2003 - 04:04 pm     They've already started showing those ungrateful/bratty children holiday commercials. ugh. Those are the worst. |
Cancunkid | Monday, November 17, 2003 - 06:01 pm     Okay I just saw a new Subway commercial that I liked. It was a military guy talking about a night jump he pulled his rip cord nothing happened he pulled the emergency cord nothing then the thought what would Jared do? Jump to Jared sitting behind an info desk screaming like a girl! LOL I hope this new ad is on again because it made me laugh. Does make you think Subway is getting a very warpped sense of humor. Tackle grandpa, guy in cheerleader clothes now a bad ripcord but at least it was different |
Wilsonatmd | Monday, November 17, 2003 - 06:25 pm     some people may not like this one.... It's for ESPN's weekly hockey coverage. It's set in a assembly line factory-like setting, where a "plant manager" talks about how hockey is "Made in America".....then he makes a remark: "Some people think hockey is Made in Canada"..... |
Lycanthrope | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 05:58 am     The commercial I'll immediately punch out on is the phone ad where the guy is in some sorority house and mentions something about "seven", I don't really know what it's for but the girls have the same reaction to this number that girls in the '60's had to the Beatles...gets on my last nerve... |
Wilsonatmd | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 05:21 pm     Lycan, that's the Sprint PCS commmercial I mentioned a bit ago...The "seven" is for seven o'clock, when "nightttime" minutes begin on their plans, instead of the nine o'clock they had before. |
Not1worry | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 07:56 pm     I pretty much hate all cell phone commercials with a universal loathing. Every now and then they get a good one, like when the daschunds stampede. Mostly the cell phone companies have reached new heights in irritating advertising. |
Avrey258 | Friday, November 21, 2003 - 09:19 am     I haven't read through the whole thread so I hope this isn't a repeat. I hate the SunnyD commercial. It ran for a couple of years. The mother is sooo annoying. I especially hated when she said, "nut-job mom". Trying to be cool or something. I have a pet peeve when a commercial insinuates that the "mom" is the only one who can do anything domestic. The clorox one, "Mamas got the magic of clorox". Also, "choosy moms choose Jif" and those Stouffers commercials where the mom, dad and kid are outside the house at the end and the woman puts her head on her "mans" shoulder. Gag me now. Any commercial where the woman is dancing around the house with a mop or broom makes me sick also. |
Ladytex | Friday, November 21, 2003 - 09:52 am     The absolute worst commercial that I ever saw was a local commercial in Chicago. It was for Eagle Insurance. They had a man dressed up in a supposed eagle suit (looked like a chicken suit) and another guy sitting behind a desk. A woman said something and the eagle/chicken bent forward and launched two eggs out of his butt. The two eggs landed on the chest of the other man where a woman's boobs would be. Then the female says, oh eagle man or something equally ridiculous. That is the worst commercial, but I guess it did it's job ... I still remember Eagle Insurance this many years later ... |
Mamie316 | Friday, November 21, 2003 - 09:58 am     I've always hated the Kraft macaroni and cheese commercial where the little girl sings "If Daddy wants to please me, he's only got to cheese me." Something just sounds so wrong there. |
Ketchuplover | Friday, November 21, 2003 - 10:04 pm     I love that commercialn where the people fall like dominoes. |
Marysafan | Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 06:40 am     Me too, Ketchuplover! Isn't that a hoot! |
Amchess | Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 11:45 am     There is a hilarious Australian commercial that someone sent me. It is a .wav so I can sent it to anyone that wants it, but I cannot link it. Anyway, a bunch of guys are in a bar - two teams plus a gal. A big burly guy from one team opens the beer bottle in the crook of his arm. The other team on his forehead. Another on the first team on his chest. etc. Then the girl gets a bottle, stares the other team's leader in the eye and slides the bottle off the bar down out of sight...get it????? With a little smile she slides the bottle back on the bar - without the cap. All of the guys are astounded. Slowly she raises her shirt - the bottle cap is in her belly button (yeah, I was wrong too!) and she uses ab muscles to flip the cap at them. It is really funny. Will fwd it to anyone that wants it. Email me at amchess@narimasu.net. Put TVCH in the subject line or I will think it is spam.... It is really hilarious. Brand is Tooheys New and the ad is titled What Mates Do. |
Amchess | Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 09:02 am     Re Tooheys New,What Mates Do. It is not wav, it is .wmv and plays on Windows Media Player. |
Merrysea | Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 05:22 pm     I can't stand the Drano commercial where the guy is pouring a liquid drain opener and says this looks like water, and water just runs through pipes. I want to scream at him, if your water is running through the pipes, why are you using a drain opener in the first place?! |
Ketchuplover | Monday, November 24, 2003 - 07:37 pm     I think he's saying the drain opener is watery. |
Ketchuplover | Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 01:04 pm     Does anyone like the Brett Favre commercial? |
Weinermr | Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 01:33 pm     I haven't seen the Brett Favre commercial yet KL. My brother-in-law described it to me, and it sounds hilarious. |
Hummingbird | Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 01:38 pm     I can't stand the Clorox commercial where a guy takes a flying leap into his bed and is suspended in air while we are told and shown what a steaming cesspool of germs are in his sheets because he didn't wash them in Clorox. Eeeeewww! |
Tagurit | Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 04:26 pm     I am really sick of the new McDonalds slogan. I can't say "I'm lovin' it". I am finding it VERY annoying. Probably due to the fact that every commercial break during the local news contains one from McDonalds. The other one - "Every kiss begins with Kay." Blech. Had enough of that one too. They are all so corny anyway. |
Not1worry | Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 02:18 pm     Hummingbird, ITA. That is the most disgusting commercial. I have to change the channel the minute I see it. Tag, hate those too. The music and rap more than the theme itself. |
Mak1 | Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 03:27 pm     I'm really sick of those too, Tag, as well as JCPenney's "Joy to the World". Three Dog Night sang it so much better . |
Amchess | Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 04:00 pm     Here is a hilarious Australian beer commercial: http://members.cox.net/redrum666/beer.wmv It opens up directly in Windows Media Player so turn on your sound. I had placed this in Jokes first, but it probably belongs here. |
Wilsonatmd | Monday, December 08, 2003 - 12:52 am     Sprint does it again...this time it's for their picturephones...A guy picks up his uncle who was supposed to be "short wearing a white hat".....but since the wife couldn't use their old picturephone to send a picture of the guy, he picks up the wrong person....The Pillsbury doughboy! At the end, the Sprint guy says to the doughboy says "May I?" (tickle his tummy) and the doughboy says with a sigh, "Everyone else does..." and also, you remember that commercial for Sprint where the sorority house went crazy over the improved night hours...well they did one where a fraternity does the same thing.... |
Kimmo | Monday, December 08, 2003 - 11:53 am     I don't think this was already mentioned, but I really don't like the Compaq ad where the black-clad "Mission: Impossible" spy girl drops into a shiny corridor with her laptop, says, "I'm in," and starts tapping away on her laptop. Then a laidback college-looking guy ambles in, sets off the alarms, sees the woman's laptop, goes, "Oh. Cool!", then takes it and walks immediately into his living room to dink around on the laptop. While the woman is just left hanging, possibly in mortal danger and a victim of theft! Even if she was a bad spy, which we really don't know, does that make stealing her laptop any better? Doesn't Compaq want people to *buy* their computers? Ugh. Or maybe she isn't real and this is just the laidback guy's fantasy of getting a laptop while watching a movie. |
Melfie1222 | Monday, December 08, 2003 - 06:20 pm     speaking of computer commercials... I saw one today that was sort of funny. Dell I think? A bunch of people in a boot camp who are supposed to learn all about buying computers and are obviously terrified... in the end the drill sergeant is standing over one guy doing pushups, the drill sergeant shouts something like "I want you to give up!!" and the guy sort of whimpers "But I haven't learned how to format a hard drive yet!" Maybe I only thought it was funny because I watched GI Jane last night.  |
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