I love the Geico gecko, even tho he is selling insurance. I love his accent and his moves.

I hate most local commercials that sell cars. Most local commercials are bad because they're done on a shoestring budget. But one today was so bad it was funny. Owner of a discount liquor store singing an entire rendition of "We need a little discount" to "We need a little Christmas" and even doing a soft shoe routine with it.

http://www.oldnavy.com/customerService/info.do?cid=3152&mlink=5151,392898&clink=392898#click&mlink=3152,394745,B&clink=394745


Last Christmas I really liked the HP "Picture Book" digital camera and printer commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbcbZ15IRQ0&search=picture%20book

She will stop what she is doing and dance. Pretty cute! :hi:

Only saw the IBM ad a couple times so maybe it got yanked. It used the Kinks song "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", cause everybody knows that IBM is a bastion of rebellion and non-conformity :sarcasm:

Was staying at a Hilton and everytime you turned the TV on it started some animation with a lovely Ben Folds song. It didn't bother me because the song wasn't directly opposed to the product (see above). My wife got to the hotel a couple days before I did and loved the song but didn't recognize the performer. Now she's become a fan of Ben Folds which is something I dig.

Honestly, I go out of my way to not watch them (although that doesnt always work). The most current abominations (and reasons why I think the marketing / advertising industry is the devil) can be seen on late night Comedy Central:

1. Text messaging "attractive girls" on cell phones. The first service was called "Cellflirt" and now it's called something like "Text Toy".

2. "Guys Gone Wild". I hate to sound sexist, but, it doesnt quite work the other way around.

3. Getting annoying ring tones / wallpapers for your cell phone for $5.99. WHY?????????

where the two guys are one-upping each other about the gizmos on their phone and one of them says he has theft deterrent.

I can see one of my old friends from high school doing something like that.

"I'm filing a grievance.......*thwack*


The KFC "potato bowl" makes me want to :puke:

Dumbass was stupid enough to fall for a prank that any drunk high school boy would have tried to pull off. Then he says "Ben, I'm filing a grievance."

Pretty obvious that he deserved a second whack. That's why I laugh every time.

And most fast food commercials make me want to vomit. The Burger King jumbo disgusting burger makes me want to spew every single time.

auto manufacturers to show a driver making multiple trips to the store to pick up one item at a time or
driving cross country to deliver one letter at a time.

Mostly, TV SUCKS!!!!!




Tikki

CAN'T STAND the Geico gecko. I always change the channel.

As for commercials I like, I like the credit card ad that shows a victim of identity theft, in this case a large black man whose card was used by a ditzy chick who wants to be on American Idol.

The "PC" guy is the perfect nebbish.

was on ED.

John Hodgman is his name and his book "The Areas of My Expertise" is hilarious.

I'm even more impressed. :bounce:

popped my stitches.

Possibly the funniest book I've ever read.

Dave Barry for really, really smart people!

those fucking creepy Burger King ads.

Redstone

...I hate that Verizon - "My hips" commerical.

That's a funny one with their neanderthal metro-sexual selves.

It's ridiculous and satirical at the same time, maybe? :shrug:

that one with the lady and the kids, all in different acitvities and when the jingle gets to the last kid, it goes "Karateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!" in this incredibly shrill, annoying voice. Everytime that commercial comes on, I'm desperately lunging for the remote, so I can hit "mute" before the song gets to that part.

those stupid "I am man" ads for Burger King's disgusting new burger.

misogynistic "humor" lately.

Those ads are the worst of it, IMHO.

I love the ikea commercial with the lamp outside in the rain. Only commercial I have ever seen that I actually laughed out loud.

I mute every Ditech, Geico, EHarmony (volume goes WAYYY up), travel, attorney, pharmaceutical, carpet, cellphone, jockitch, feminine itching, etc commercial that comes on.

I love remotes....

although the one for the car with the "sissy fairy" is sorta cute.

The beer advert "men of the squared table" is irritating me to no end!

And if anyone needs an indication of how debased, crass, commercialised and generally fucked-up American culture has become, I think the fact that people actually HAVE favourite TV advertisements is a damned good one. They're evil and insidious. Thirty to sixty seconds of cute, amusing, titllating or otherwise emotionally visceral imagery with, usually, a snippet of upbeat music that says 'Hey! Buy this useless shite! Throw away your money! Please!'

Just another form of mass psychology and propaganda, wrapped up in a commercialised package. (Yes, I am a cynic.)

there is Cannes ad festival in France (right after the film festival). The largest ad agency in the world is in Tokyo.

I realize that won't make it any better for you, but it isn't an American thing.

but in other countries there's also decent commercial-free broadcasting (BBC, for instance, or any of the other national networks in Europe, Japan, etc., that all make American public television look like a lame joke).

in a long time. I was watching it to help my Italian along. It helped that it was so dumbass simple, the words were easier to understand and the not very complex sentences could be translated quicker. I still laugh when I think about that show, which I watched as often as I could every evening (something to do while we Americans waited for restaurants to open for dinner at 8 pm).

creative and it's fun to deconstruct them.

I especially appreciate ads that bring a new point of view or look to the screen.

Most of them I ignore.

Haven't you ever watched Mystery Science Theater?

Where some putz shakes a cows belly to that obnoxious song in regard to Carl's Jr. milk shakes.
OMFG! Its been on the air for over a year now and it irritates me worse every time I see it.

they always have cute animals doing tricks. Penguins, lovebirds, geckos, etc.

HATE the company, and would not use their cell phone or internet services.

Dogs don't lie.

Then that dog does the belly flop into the pool.

Love that commercial.

I mean, what were the ad execs thinking?

"Oh, I got it! Let's get this unattractive Australian guy, give hime some really inane things to say....oh, and let's put a pair of three-pound black specs on him, to finish the effect...."

he doesn't have an Australian look about him at all. His accent sounds just as fake as the servers at my local Outback Steakhouse. Usually Australian men are my faves but this guy is annoying.

:D

I'm not even sure what it's for (some breakfast type foodstuffs) but the Sun and his kid are just awesome. :thumbsup:

HATE whatever commercial uses Sheryl Crows' "Every Day Is a Goddamn Earworming Road" in it. :grr:

the ones about identiy theft. The two old ladies and the motor cycles. And the big bench pressing guy singing "Unchain My Heart" in a screechy feminine voice. :rofl:

I also like the fact Outback got rid of that annoying guy and is back to General Hospital Star- Tristian Rogers narrating. Just heard it so I am at least hoping it means they are back to him. By the way I had take out from Outback last night. Excellent as usual. LOL.

Also I love the commercial for flooring. Where the little kid is riding his Big Wheel and then tips over and giggles. I love his laugh.

I still cannot stand the Ditech commercials and most car commercials. Also hate the cell phone one where the guy is hugged by a "hired practice" family. :shrug:

but I hate the new moblie ESPN ones with that guy whose outside of ESPN. Oh and that Heinakan one which signs "Don't you wish your g/f was hot like me..." Oh and the one for Dial Shampoo with the Manly man stuff and the tuba player.

Special mention must be made of the obnoxious Vonage "Woo-Hoo" commercial and the disgusting walkie-talkie phones from Nextel. Cell phones were annoying enough, but now we have to listen to both sides of the conversation and hear that infernal beep after each sentence.

That one and the Slowkis and the Sprint Wheel of Adjectives and the World Cup commercial about how the war in Ivory Coast stopped because the national team made it to Germany. Those I love.

I hate the GotoMeeting and the GoToMyPC commercials on the radio. They are just rubbish.

but does anyone else find the term: "you poke it, you own it" to sound slighly misogynstic...?

and "you poke it, you own it", while never verbalized, is iron-clad law where I drink.

I see a lot of creeping misogyny lately. Maybe it's me.

Part of the problem, I suppose, is that I love basketball so I'm watching lots of sports lately.

Let's just say I'm NOT the target audience of NBA basketball, regardless of how much I love it.

where the guy makes his scarecrow into a killing machine and where another guy trashes his neighbors' yards to give his kid space to throw a football. Their slogan may as well be, "Surge. Makes you an asshole."

My neighbor two doors down owns a local place - Chrysler Dodge or something. He's a handsome man but surly as hell in life. On t.v. though he grins from ear - it's a horrible grimace - as he reads woodenly from the cue cards. I think he's a grouch because he's aware he appears to be an ass, and he's overcompensating.

Are the ones for some sort of cell phone that plays music and videos and the people order other people to fight and to dance. There is just something so wrong about them telling the old man to fight the big guy and the look on the woman's face as she is forced to dance. I will change the channel every time. They don't just creep me out they repulse me.

I've always thought they were a little strange.

I think it's for A1 at least - I've not seen it in a few weeks, but it is for a steak sauce.

It's the one which opens with this woman at a table in a fancy restaurant angrily imploring the man opposite her (presumably her husband or boyfriend) to "stop" doing something. "Stop it! Stop it!" She looks incredibly embarassed while she's doing this. The man just ignores her. Finally she says "I don't even know you." The man gets up and walks away and a second later another guy sits down at the table. "Hi honey," he says. "I just spoke with the kids... did somebody eat my steak?"

Grrr--just thinking about it...

DUCK!

Different strokes for different folks, I guess :)

on the beach is really cute..."I peench!"

http://automobiles.honda.com/element/index.aspx

sitting round the table making up "guy rules." It's got fucking Burt Reynolds!

"I told you to shut up."

dead, saying they want cell phones.

Hate hate hate the Burger King guy. Fugger creeps me out!

Makes me smile every time, since Coleman has a favorite toy we have not found a replacement.

edit...spelling,grammer...I've only had one cup of coffee so far.
http://marilynsid.blogspot.com/2006/04/petsmart-commercial-called-perfect-toy.html

I'm glad to be seeing fewer pharmaceutical ads; for example, 60 Minutes was, for a while, wall to wall BigPharm spots (the most odious ones are those that don't tell you a damned thing about the drug or what it's supposed to cure but implores you to interrupt your doctor's golf game to see if you should go for it).

But the one that's THE grossest has to be the Lamisil ad.

Yes, the one with that Spongebobesque character roaming around that bright yellow cheese-like field; when you realize that that bright yellow cheese-like field represents the smelly gunky toe jam under your nails, it's a little bit much for your digestive system.

tank on boat and lobsters grab him and attach to shirt on his arms and chest and one has a grasp on his eyebrow...Ouch!...but he is not phased as he discusses FedEx with his boat mate. :rofl:

I can't stand her fake British accent...it drives me batty! And I usually love British accents. It's almost irrational, how much I hate those Gold commercials.

where all these people are dancing around "celebrating" getting their crappy minimum-wage jobs. There is no dancing where I work.

:)

With the annoying, crooning 50's-style quartet of smarmy guys singing the praises of the drug Elidel. Ugh.