The Commercial Thread

[bonfiregal]

I hate the local car salesman commercials where they're practically yelling at you from their car lot. That's not gonna get me to come and see you, buddy!
And I think there's just too many car ads anyway...in all of them the drivers are driving at illegal speeds....not a good message to send out.

[Emperor Cupcake]

I don't hardly ever watch TV, so I don't see many commercials. I do remember a couple recently that made me laugh (I do like the Geico one with the little gecko talking about "free pie and chips," because, well, yummy - the pie and chips, not the gecko), but I can't remember what they were for now and I don't really care anyway. Most just kind of go in one brain hemisphere and out the other.

That said though, speaking of local commercials: We have one here in Florida for a discount appliance place (I know the name, but I'm not going to give them any free advertising). It features one (1) squat, vaguely Asian guy throwing his arms outward and yelling about who knows what, and one (1) kinda gawky, long-haired white woman with a knee brace, who is also yelling about who knows what. The weirdest thing about the commercial (besides the knee brace; it's just like one of those Ace bandage type things and I mean, she couldn't take off the knee brace for the five minutes it took to shoot the commercial?) is that the gawky woman is always wearing a variation of the same outfit in every commercial. She has a one-piece jumper-type dress, a top and skirt (separates) and a top and shorts (separates), all made of THE EXACT SAME MATERIAL. And it's very weird, green and brown quasi-plaid material that recalls 1970's upholstery fabric. I'm guessing she sews, and she got a monster deal on like five hundred yards of the stuff at Sam's Club or something.

[bonfiregal]

emperorcupcake said:

the gawky woman is always wearing a variation of the same outfit in every commercial. She has a one-piece jumper-type dress, a top and skirt (separates) and a top and shorts (separates), all made of THE EXACT SAME MATERIAL. And it's very weird, green and brown quasi-plaid material that recalls 1970's upholstery fabric. I'm guessing she sews, and she got a monster deal on like five hundred yards of the stuff at Sam's Club or something.

That's rich, Cuppy! Very observant! Female-eye observant! I can relate!

[Crowfan]

Those Hummer commercials that imply you would be a better person if you bought a Hummer.
The ED commercials and the feminine products too.
I remember those old Coke commercials with the song, "I'd Like To Buy The World a Coke" Hated that after awhile.

[In_Stereo]

An ad for some prostate health product graphically warns that a side effect is "decrease in semen."

"Mommy, what's semen?" (Oh, who am I kidding, he probably went to a public school and learned all about that stuff in third grade.)

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[yousonuva]

Where's it applied to again?


Any and all commercials I don't like. Even if they're clever, they're still some mind ****ing ploy. It's only there to get something out of you and interupt movies. I just hope TCM holds out for as long as it can without the crummy things....wait I do like TCM commercials come to think of it. They're usually pretty impressive and hype up good movies pretty well, without giving anything away. But that's it. F*** the Energizer bunny.