Commercials we love, commercials we hate

Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:41 am

Awesome:
- the old Old Navy commercials (the one where someone spazzes out over something stupid like history or air)
- the old Starbucks commercials
- Pepto-Bismal! (nausea heartburn upset stomach indigestion, diarrhea YAY PEPTO-BISMAL i know the whole dance xD)
- those brush up things (rip - slip - brush - AHHHH)

Horrible
- Trimspa x32 with the fake Anna Nicole Smith (I don't want a viper I don't want some money and I don't want your freakin' body)
- Jamster (the sir-mix-a-lot one is starting to get on my nerves the most)
- Enzyte (the backround music is horrrrrible)

Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:54 am

You disappear, right out of sight
When I say, have you got a light?
Why do you keep on running boy?
You run so fast, god that pain in my chest, oh
Why do you keep on running boy?
I have to stop, 'cause I'm so out of breath!

(something like that

)

Oh good times.

The NHS Scotland drinking advert with the 'should have seen the state of her last night' is less good, although still quoteable.

3 adverts are cute, but it's a shame the network and company are such a pile of poo.

Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:27 am

Igg wrote:
Twinkle wrote:
Igg wrote:I LOATHE THAT CRAZY DAMN FROG

Me too! I swear I starting twitching when I discovered I knew someone who'd bought it...

Apparently I have no sense of humour because I hate it.

I LOVE HEBS adverts.
For anyone not getting Border/Scottish telly, HEBS were Health Education Board Scotland (now NHS Scotland) who did informative adverts about sex, drugs, alcohol, smoking etc. The NHS Scotland Adverts are crap. The HEBS adverts are masterpieces.
And it's sad, because I rarely meet anyone out of my area (apart from in Scotland) who knows the true glory of these things.

From the non-smoking advert with fictional girl band 'Stinx' ("hey boy, fancy getting jiggy? What's the problem, the smell of my...ciggy? etc.) to the absolutely amazing and KING OF ALL ADVERTS drugs awareness advert featuring the people tasting blue sticks, and that fabulous "This tastes BOGGIN" line, I will never see health promotive adverts in the same way again.

How could I forget the HEBS adverts, they are genius! I loved that blue sticks one, made me laugh out loud every time I saw it. I was in primary school when it first came out (I think) and everyone went around saying it.

Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:08 pm

I hate that one...I don't even know what it's for, but it's that stupid song,
"Can hate be good? Can hate be great? Can hate be good, can hate be great, can hate be something we don't hate?" Some kid was singing it at the bus stop yesterday morning, and I wanted to hit her. (By the way...what IS it for? =P)

Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:31 pm

Cassi wrote:I hate that one...I don't even know what it's for, but it's that stupid song,
"Can hate be good? Can hate be great? Can hate be good, can hate be great, can hate be something we don't hate?" Some kid was singing it at the bus stop yesterday morning, and I wanted to hit her. (By the way...what IS it for? =P)

I LOVE that advert! It's so weird teehee! Erm... I haven't seen it for a while but I think it's against petrol pollution so they're trying to convinve people to have a diesel engine instead.

Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:17 pm

fzun wrote: Trimspa x32 with the fake Anna Nicole Smith (I don't want a viper I don't want some money and I don't want your freakin' body)

Heh, my friend and I hate that commercial too. She wasn't even fat before, it's silly. I'm sure that commercial makes a lot of people feel they have to be tiny or else they're a horse.

Yeah, I hate pretty much any diet commercial. But it's funny to try and figure out if the "before" picture matches the "after" picture. Most of the time it doesn't...at all. ^_^

Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:10 pm

Twinkle wrote:
Cassi wrote:I hate that one...I don't even know what it's for, but it's that stupid song,
"Can hate be good? Can hate be great? Can hate be good, can hate be great, can hate be something we don't hate?" Some kid was singing it at the bus stop yesterday morning, and I wanted to hit her. (By the way...what IS it for? =P)

I LOVE that advert! It's so weird teehee! Erm... I haven't seen it for a while but I think it's against petrol pollution so they're trying to convinve people to have a diesel engine instead.

Oh that advert's lovely for singing...everywhere! La la la! la la la la la la la la laaaaaaa!
When a diesel engine goes like thiiiiis!

And so forth.

Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:54 pm

I hate the Trimpsa one with Anna Nicole she's looks and sounds so freakin stupid and drunk

Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:00 am

I like the one where it's advertising a car with 3 seats in the front and 3 seats in the back. It's just so strange because the main characters of it are 3 dots of colour and a rectangle of brown. And I like the muller advert. That one's just great.

Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:36 am

I'm sorry, I still love the AOL commercial where the guy makes a sound like a Yeti. It makes me laugh every time.

Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:06 am

I like the one where the guy kicks the bear in the Unmentionables. That's all I remember about that Advert...

JimEdit : less of that please, young man.

Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:07 am

Ixistant wrote:I like the one where it's advertising a car with 3 seats in the front and 3 seats in the back. It's just so strange because the main characters of it are 3 dots of colour and a rectangle of brown. And I like the muller advert. That one's just great.

It's a Honda advert, Honda seem to be impressing people with their adverts of late.
I was just going to mention this one- with the dog etc.

Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:14 am

Remember that Snickers commercial? A guy was holding up a picture of a panda and was going like 'pretty pretty dancing.' I liked that for whatever reason.

I also like this one they only have in Califonia..."be Californian...buy California grown" because it's hilarious to hear Arnold say it. "Be Kelly Four Knee Yen. Buy Kelly Four Knee Yuh grown."

Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:18 am

Mermaid Hil wrote:Remember that Snickers commercial? A guy was holding up a picture of a panda and was going like 'pretty pretty dancing.' I liked that for whatever reason.

Oooh! I remember liking that commercial a lot but never seing it very often. You know what I miss? The old Reeses (that took me forever to spell) commercials. It would be about how many different ways there would be to eat a Reeses. Like Dracula would bits in with his two front teeth, one kid made them all into a domino-like chain and stuff like that. There's no wrong way to eat a Reeses.

Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:57 am

I hate:

-those stupid Jamster commercials that are on every channel I watch
-Trimspa commercials. Actually, they make me laugh, so they might be a good thing.
-that Dr. Pepper commercial where he does so many embarrassing things for his girlfriend, and then when she reaches for his Dr. Pepper to take a sip, he leaves her
-Big Lots commercials - "Everyone has a happy place - and Big Lots is mine."