Well, I imagine he has a nice long ladder on the other side of the cliff

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I guess as long as they don't use baby seals to advertise club soda, then it's OK.

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All the DSL commercials, especially the ones with "The Hardways", and with the 3 friends and one of them is trying to get online to win a contest and she's saying how "fast access is expensive and complicated",and her other friend picks up the phone cutting her connection. Grrrr...they annoy me.

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Can you ever reach your future if your past is your present?

My guess has always been elevator. Either way, it's a pretty dumb commercial.

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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!"

Used to have Future Shop around here, say 10 years or so ago. They suddenly closed all their stores leaving thousands of people who had paid for merchanidise but not yet received it holding the bag.

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Eh, I disagree. I thought it had style myself.

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Check out my writing, maybe.

lessee...

Virtually any car commercial
Lawyer commercials (have YOU been in an accident? )
Axe body spray (trying so hard to be as funny as Tag)
Beer Commercials (I miss Bob Eucker and The Taste Buds, and to an extent, the lizards)
those inane Khole faucet commercials.
Cruise ship commercials
the latest spate of Capital One (I miss the barbarians)

Actually, the shorter list would be commercials I like, but that's been addresed on a different thread

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"oh great, a talking gekko!"

I used to hate the Jack in the Box guy (his voice was soooo annoying...) But then thay made the one with the seattle guys hacky sacky-ing in the rain and I loved it! Then my daughter pointed out the UFO in it and I loved it even more, then I saw the bigfoot quietly walking through the trees, man was that funny...guess I don't really hate any of 'em anymore....I just turn off the sound.

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Width, silver, bells, cockle, shells, and prithe made all in aureole

Dunno if it's been posted...

The older Quiznos ads with the screaming rats...*shudders*

Also, the XMOD Evolution ad with that idiotic sounding teenager.

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"Gun control is hitting your target; Recycling is reloading your brass." ~ Lex of Dirty Work.

But it does answer the age old question about what a bear does, or does not do in the woods.

David.

Someone else mentioned it already but most Canadian Tire ads are very lame. The current Christmas dog ones are dumb and the previous thousand with the annoying couple are long past expired. Tim Horton's also can't seem to do a good commercial.

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oi! I forgot about these...

Any commercial that uses incredibly bad grammar (Everyone should have one of these in their home)

There's a class of commercial that sports a woman who talks through her nose. Many and varied are the products, but that voice (worse, even, than Lois Griffin) from so many different women just gives me a headache

Commercials that try to be funny, but fail utterly (carrot top, recent Dominos, recent Pizza Hut)

Commercials for products with which I have some experience, and that experience was awful, so I know the commercial lies (UPS - screwed up more shipments for me than I can count)

but probably the single worst genre is political commercials

Agreed!

I wonder if there is a small bump in the sales of televisions and picture tubes in the weeks leading up to an election?

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The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

I hate every Linx advert ever devised...

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Well, it turns out that product wasn't Viagra or Cialis. The commercial was for something called Enzyte. I turned on the sound for the first time and found the narration to be, well, unusual. As in an unusual case of bad taste.

Here it is, with illustrations:

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Yeah...those Bob commercials are very bad...that smile is really scary...

one thing I don't understand...

This is from (I believe) the "swim party" ad...
How in the world does he lose his swimsuit in the pool?..."seems" like it would have stayed on if we are to believe that the "stuff" they're selling actually works.

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Good point. That's definitely one of the main "hang-ups" of the commercial.

Take a look at those pictures. Would you buy a used pill from this guy?

One wonders what the producers of the ad were thinking...or doing...

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My first thought when I saw this commercial was, "If he has a super-capable SUV, why didn't he simply drive up the cliff the night before?"

That said, I hate any SUV commercial showing the vehicles driving in the snow. I live on a curve and wish I had a dollar for every SUV that ended-up on my lawn during a snowstorm.

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'Cause he'd have to climb the mountain afterwards to retrieve the SUV. May as well leave it at the bottom, in case you feel like base-jumping from half-way up.

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I've just realized that there are a lot of commercials that I "most" dislike...

Here's a new one...I think it's for insurance...an old clip from the I Love Lucy show featuring Fred and Ethel Murtz...

The sound track has been replaced with Fred and Ethel "sound alikes" discussing aforentioned insurance.

I really hate commercials that use deceased actors to sell products.

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One bad thing about commericals is that what might be a cute concept once is often then done to death--for example, the Miller Beer "Beer Referees" was a nice idea the first couple of times, but now it's a franchise and utterly time-wasting.

The worst current commerical is the Budweiser one where someone has told the young Busch heir that he's perfect for commercials. What he is, is boring. Not one of the greater ad ideas of the century.

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Which reminds me of another bad commercial I saw for the first time yesterday...

Gene Simmons (yes, from KISS) is on the witness stand, about to be asked about the great taste of Miller beer...there's an objection, questioning "if" he is an "expert witness". The answer, of course he is because of his tongue...

Totally disgusting...

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Gross.

Almost as gross as the "tag" commercials that show various over-sexed early 20s females getting off on a waste-water pipe. A slow upwards pan reveals the source, which appears to be a person, shot-from-the-back, urinating in a shower.

Yeccch.

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ok, THAT one is a bad image... I never thought of the guy as urinating - simply taking a shower, yadda yadda.

I have to admit, though - on those miller lite commercials, I DO like the Gene Simmons one. The rest all stink, but that's nicely warped.

As for Bob and the pool... the drug is for physical enhancement, not necessarily.. um...a change in state. Having been the victim of a loose suit (didn't lose it, but did have to grab it or I would have), it seems plausible to me. Not that I particularly like the commercials.. One thing I *do* like about them is that they're not full of 'beautiful people'

Good choice. All the products of Berkeley Nutraceuticals leave me queasy. Do they sell an herb tablet for that? It's all supplement compounds dressed to look like actual medicine. It's big marketing run amok. No mention of one of their brands should leave out guilt-by-association mention of the others, currently: Altovis, Avlimil, Biovaye, Dromias, Enzyte, Numovil, Nuproxi, Pavaxin, Pinadol, Prulato, Rogise, Rovicid, Rudofil, and Suvaril.

Usual disclaimer from their web pages: "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease."

Slick-sick. My suggested cure? A healthy dose of skepticism.

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I really dislike the one where the bobbing head "JimBob" is singing along with his Dukes of Hazzard ringtone phone.

Department store ads have recently hit a new low. Right down there with kidney stones.

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Ugh, how could I have forgotten? The sandwich shop ads (I won't reward them by giving the name) with the talking infant "Bob".

Those are downright unsettling.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

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

Well, when the upwards pan begins, you see a pair of feet and hairy calves, in front of which a stream of somewhat discolored water is hitting the shower floor and going down the drain. Only after the pan cuts and continues up does it become clear the water is from the shower.

I haven't seen that one. Will keep a tongue...er, eye out for it.

Of course they're not "beautiful people"! The beautiful people never need such products. It's the plain folk who are almost alway in need. I'm immediately reminded of two commercials.

One is for a cold remedy, where the gal with the cold is a "plain Jane" whereas the healthy one who recommends the product to "Jane" is quite attractive. Coincidence?

The other is a beer commercial where the product is shown being consumed by groups of beautiful yuppies, the obvious implication being that if you buy and consume our beer, you will be one of these beautiful people too. Coincidence?

The latest bad commercial to catch my eye is the one for the Swedish car that is shown outracing jet fighters. Right.

An H. L. Mencken quote comes to mind once again.

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A while back one of those shops opened here. They had a special promotion where everything was half-price. A while later I saw one of the commercials you referred to, which featured the "exact" same sub/size that I had ordered and wondered, "How come the sub in the TV ad seems to be about twice as big (especially the fillings) as what I received for my order?"

Then I realized how they managed to sell them for 1/2 price that week...

I agree, that "kid" is unsettling. Seems to be the sort of thing one would run into in a circus sideshow.

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