Which one? There are so many of them, and so many people who haven't seen them all, that this really says nothing without some more description.

To me, the only good to come of that series of commercials is this parody (and a couple of its sequels).

I had expected that commercial series to be cancelled when there were reports that the commercials were backfiring.

I often get a laugh out of how they try to work that stuff into casual-sounding conversations, whether between co-workers at an office or sisters at a beach or whatever. But the unseen narrators (professional voice people) who go through the list while still keeping up their professionally cheerful, optimistic sound are the most hilarious; they continue to sound as if they were talking about its good points!

Good point on the Apple/PC. It's the one with AppleGuy and cheerleaders. AG says Mac is the #1 computer on campuses and the Cheerleaders yell "Mac is Number One!" MrPC asks how about him and the cheers yell "PC is Number Two!"

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There's one going now that features a bunch of women wrapped in sheets while they peddle a drug that's supposed to reduce the possibility of breast cancer in post-menopausal women. And something else, I forget what. Anyhow, they emphasize the post-menopausal part then say not to take it if pregnant or susceptible of getting pregnant. Hmmm.

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Any of the ones that say that something at their website is "a click away" or use "click" as if it meant "look at the website"

Any ad for perfume or cologne

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Those darn Netflix ads with the silly game show questions. Come on, at least show SOME creativity in advertising and make, say, truly-funny questions!

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That reminds me of those annoying commercials for Obsession featuring various poor, wretched souls always filmed in black and white. (Because black and white is so "artsy", almost all of Madonna's videos are in black and white, and, and, ...)

I always wanted to say to someone if ever accosted in a department store by someone wishing to spray a sample of this foul scent my way, "The people in your commercials act as if they're suffering the torments of the damned. Why would I want to use your product?"

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I especially enjoy it when there's a a really long list of side-effects ...
Sure makes me want to ask my doctor for this one!

Edited to add: I forgot that Zyxxycil^TM may cause Terminal Flatulence. (Which, as we all know, is nothing to sniff at!)

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Or like the Diesel Stuff Commercials "Are you alive?" makes me want to answer "according to my last medical.... NO I am not "

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How is Big Don a medical side effect?

I saw a TV commercial this evening for an asthma medicine that actually increased the incidence of asthma-related deaths!

A quick google search seems to indicate it was Advair

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Free credit report.

*sigh*

[insert aneurysm here]

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That reminds me of one of my favorite commercials ever. It was for some stock-trading service. A customer who owns stock in some drug company sees his company's commercial for its latest drug come on, and at first he's watching it with a smile thinking about the money they and he will make with their latest new wonderful invention. When it gets to the part about side effects, they start with the ones that are somehow always in the list, like dry mouth (why does every drug out there apparently cause that one?), he shrugs it off with a nonchalant little wave of a hand. But then the list keeps going... and going... and getting into more serious problems... and his smile fades, then gradually a look of fear come onto his face, and he dives for his phone to sell the stock quickly. The narrator then comes on to talk about the company's financial services for a bit, while the TV in this guy's living room continues with more and more gross and scary side-effects in the background. By the time the narrator's done talking and the TV in the guy's living room is in the foreground again, the side-effect list is still going, and has now reached deeply messed-up symptoms like "seeing the dead".

There's a vonage commercial which is pretty much of a rip-off of the PC/Mac commercials. Guy in white shirt and tie from the phone company blah blah blah. And then perky chick, wearing orange naturally, 'I'm vonage yadayadayada something', how dumb it is to be with the phone company yackyackyack...here's some real customers. 'Vonage is great...vonage can have my baby...it's the only way to talk to somebody...blahblahblah'. Phone company guy sputtering looking befuddled. Smart aleck comment from perky vonage girl. THE END

It's not all that annoying but it's on every commercial break on the military channel, over and over and over. And the short version is a minute long. The longer version is either 1.5 or 2 minutes. That woman makes my ears bleed.

I'm glad I remembered this thread. I feel much better now.

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That one has a thick orange border between them instead of empty space, just so that, toward the end of the commercial, the phone-company guy can get squeezed as she pushes and shoves it farther over on his side. So it combines two lovable TV commercial tropes: being like the Mac/PC ones, and showing women being hostile and even violent to men!

Just thought of one that any ESPN junkies will probably recognize. It's the Red Stripe (Jamaican) beer ad that shows the Red Stripe spokesman teaching a white guy how to dance to reggae.

Several annoying things: it's suffering from the over and over and over and overandoverandover syndrome. It uses the "white guys can't dance" caricature. The reggae music is really pathetic (they used something innocuous and inoffensive, rather than anything like the real, often angry, music of Jamaica). And last but not least -- the spokesman doesn't seem to be able to dance either.

"Hooray, beer" -- yeah, sure.

>> (On the positive side, at least Red Stripe actually is Jamaican. Some things that purport to be foreign in origin are really just American corporations in ethnic costumes. Outback Steak House, I'm talking to you. Also Haagen Dazs.)

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"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

"Scientific studies prove NOTHING works better than our product."

Well, DUH-UH.

If that's true, then why should I give you my money, when I'll be better off without whatever it is you are selling, as well as richer?

Yeah, and "nothing" is typically a lot cheaper.

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Tylenol actually used that as a slogn for a while.

"Nothing works better than Tylenol."

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I've got a smile on my face now like Bob, the Enzyte guy, for the joy of seeing justice delivered:

Ohio company owner gets 25 years in fraud case

I feel for the victims. Sadly, there may be more in the future:

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Whether his product really works or doesn't won't matter where he's going. Either way he's, uhh, in a really bad situation.

This particular commercial may have been around for awhile, I just saw it last week. In this commercial, Bob the Enzyte Guy has a new gig -- as a department store Santa Claus. All the people standing in line are women, waiting to (wait for it!) sit on his lap. You just can't make this stuff up!

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It's an old one. Oddly, they started playing it around Christmas. Even more oddly, they never stopped.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Oddest of all, it doesn't surprise me one bit. I don't usually watch the cable/satellite channels that accept advertising money from those sleazeballs, so when I do tune in (by accident) it's usually new to me.

Maybe with the Big Cheese on his way to the Big House and court orders to forfeit $500 million those commercials will become only a memory. (And a bad one at that.)

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The American Express commercial that has the guy try to pay for the business meal with a credit card with a superhero on it, and a trio of German jerks leave the table. Said in German amongst themselves: "What is that?" - "It's a kindergarten card."

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That's SOP for all dietary supplements:

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Not a particularly disliked commercial, but one that includes a very odd metaphor. In an ad for an Oreck vacuum cleaner, we have this line:

"[This model] has the cleaning power of a Category 2 hurricane."

Right, because hurricanes are known for the way they leave perfect cleanliness in their wake.

(Even stranger to see this as Gustav bears down on the Gulf Coast.)

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"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

I hate those V8 commercials where the guy gets slapped and then the narrator cuts in with "Could have had a V8"

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i don't believe it!

some people / organisations, have no shame or sense of decorum.

considering how many people are involved in the processes of airing an ad

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