maybe I'm not warped enough (though I think, upon reflection, that this is for Axe, not Tag)
True, but if you look at some of the other ... similar products, the people were at least photogenic.

on the other hand, maybe I *am* warped... if it's the commercial I'm thinking of... the healthy one has an ipod and is intent on going deaf by the time she's 30? Cuz I find HER to be annoying to the point of insanity (as does the ill roommate), and once she's asleep, the ill one is VERY pretty. hmm.. I'd not analyzed that before. Good thing I've been using that product for years. Imagine how good I must look!

ALL beer commercials are like that, aren't they? I tune them out so fast these days it takes an exceptional one to catch my attention.
Reminds me of that ... uhh.. Desorono? some stronger drink, anyway.. NOBODY is all that good looking.. the women are too emaciated and the guys all need shaves...

Is it outracing? or is it simply in companion with? I think you could do that shot without even compositing it.. There's no VERBAL indication that the car is faster than the jets - it comes across to me as 'this car evolved from jets' not 'this car is faster than..'

Am I breathing too much methane?

Which one? I know so few

Just a comment about "Bob", the Enzyte guy. Now, this guy is just completely *creepy*. And I mean creepy in the weird/psycho "gonna slash ya in the shower" kind of creepy. Good Grief! Seriously, I don't care what size his...umm..."manhood" (that seems like a safe choice) is. Pla-leeze! No woman in her right mind would want anything to do with a guy grinning like that...*shudder*.

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Shows you how much of an impact the ad had, re product identity.

That's probably because they've been using the product for a while.

Not only looking good, but perhaps eventually your left eye will regenerate!

All the models out of Central Casting look like that these days. The women follow a classical Roman diet, while the men have shavers that are adjusted for crew cuts.

A number of shots seemed to indicate the jets were falling behind the car. Re verbal indications, next time I'll turn the sound on. Any commercials I accidentally watch are, by choice, silent.

Light a match and check the meter.

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Hey, that's great! A "G-rated" "Bob" smilie!

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Not in all countries.
Denmark tends to sell beer with humor instead, as in "Swede enters shop to buy beer, has to go through long list of things drunk people do and promise not to do them. Now he can buy our beer".

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Homer Simpson:
"Quiet, the commercial is on ... we don't watch these, it's like we're stealing TV."

Back to the topic at hand . . .
I spotted this commercial once. I think the point was that Saab makes jet fighters, therefore they must make a kick-butt car.

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The problem is, the car-manufacturing branch of SAAB is a fully owned
subsidiary of GM these days. It hasn't anything to do anymore with
the aircraft manufacturer.

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As the SAAB Aerospace folks at a business meeting I attended last week were VERY quick to point out.

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ah - but the commercial says SAAB was FOUNDED by 16 jet engineers (or is it aviation/airplane???) Nothing about the lame company that owns them now. Kinda like Mercedes, only not as good

Those "Bob" ads for Quizno's are a vast improvement over what they had been running before. Remember the Sponge Monkeys? (Someone else alluded to that here.) And then there was the commercial where a man and a woman are walking down the street, the woman's nose wrinkles as she catches the scent of an unfinished Quizno's sandwich, and then she reaches into a trash bin and proceeds to wolf down the remains of said sandwich. That's one of the worst.

I've eaten at Quizno's, the sandwiches are OK, but I don't like their piped-in music. The music is OK, but it has commercials for Quizno's. They're not much better than the TV commercials, but frankly I don't really want to hear that in a restaurant. Nowadays I go to Potbelly's for that sort of toasted sandwich. Better music, no commercials, occasionally the music is live.

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When I watch those TAG commericals I can't help but think "Don't most pipes run through walls, not the middle of an apartment?"

The political ads for both parties drive me crazy. "Jim Smith hates families." Really? Do people actually belive these attacks?

I'll add one more commercial to the list. "Can you hear me now? Good. Can you hear me now? Good."

Good ones, Bob! That last one causes homicidal fantasies, even with the sound off.

Welcome to the BAUT! Great to have someone here who you don't have to tell, "Smile when you say that, pardner!"

So, what's up?

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I just saw a viral add, that I'm not sure was actually for Verizon or not, making fun of these adds. I had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard by the time it was over.

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A common, if not explicitly stated, theme in commercials the last few years seems to be "Our customers are morons." This is especially common in radio but is also seen in TV. The guy with the "Dukes of Hazard" ringtone is a great example. I have a feeling that's what the folks in the advertising industry really think of us, and they think we're too dumb to figure it out.

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Yeah, that was wicked awesome. I've described it in the "favorite commercials" thread somewhere. I can't see it having actually been by Verizon, though, because of the language. It had to have been a parody.

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How 'bout the creepy Buurgher King ads? If he isn't jestfully pushing the steelworker way atop the girders (a playful murder attempt) he's an obvious voyuer oogling the helpless woman, then 'handing' her a tasty treat...brrr...creeepy. Alas, he's becoming one of my favs...

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Uuugh...there used to be a horrifying ad that played in Alaska (during SNL, for heavens sake!) it would show how baby seal fur is harvested. Sickening. That's what I visualize from clubs and cute baby seals...

I shamelessly referred to it for years whenever I was mad at my children:

"...[stop that behaviour]...or I'll club you over the head like a baby seal!"

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Don't you find the Earthlink commercials that use the fairies, leprecon and giant kind of creepy?

I find them hilarious, the unicorn is a mystical representation of the Christ and it is rather refreshing to see a unicorn.

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What just floors me is the guy with the Dukes of Hazzard ringtone is that he's got a better singing voice than that tedious musician who's on a different commercial for the same product. (Don't remember which company; don't care.)

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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!"

Any ad featuring David Spade.

any commercial for male beauty aides

I think this one is funny. It's so silly, it's funny.

McDonald's commercials. All of them

I love the cheesy Mr Sun, getting his Jimmy Dean snausages before going out to start the day,
"Be careful, honey, those are hot." "Hello...I'm the Sun..."

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We have these coke adds. I don't like 'em.

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Sorry for the bump, but I just remembered one commercial I really hate. It's a commercial for some Pepsi product or other and it uses the scene from Spartacus where the survivors of Spartacus's army have surrendered to the Romans. In the bits that are spliced in a Roman centurion finds someone's brown bag lunch which has a can of Pepsi in it, and the name Spartacus on it. He asks, "Anyone here named Spartacus?" and one by one the prisoners yell out, "I'm Spartacus". Then they show the close-up of Kirk Douglas as Spartacus with tears in his eyes. This commercial really left a bad taste in my mouth.

Come to think of it, Pepsi leaves a bad taste in my mouth, which is why I drink Coke!

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My least favourite commercial on TV at the moment is an advert for tampons in which a girl is looking all over the house for one but can't find one. Finally she comes across her boyfirend who is playing with her cat and "stupidly" using the tampons as mice.

This ad irks me for two reasons:

1) the whole "mousie mousie" thing was done on the Young Ones about 25 years ago, so it's not even original.

2) I'm sick to death of adverts that portray men as clueless idiots.

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John Basow (sp?) better body basics commercial's....I turn the channel when they come on...That guy freaks me out.

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There's this one add in particular- This girl is washing her hair in the shower, and looks like shes having the best time of her life...

Anyway after she gets out her bf ask where is socks are and she goes "in your draw" and then goes to the sceene with the bottles lined up"Product blah blah blah"

That add's so stupid- the only reason for that bit was to somehow say that men are stupid, then the women supposidly go "yeah yeah so true" and buy the stupid shampoo....

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