I keep watching these TV commercials and thinking how I either like them or don't and why, so I'm going to keep this thread as a log of which commercials stand out in my head and for what reasons.

I'll start off by saying that whoever comes up with those ads for Clorox needs to be fired like yesterday. "Mama keeps her house white with the magic" my ass, I do my own laundry, dammit! And most modern-day "mamas" don't take too much sh*t from their kids, either. They make 'em do chores, and work their buts off around the house, too. So let's see some family laundry time, for Christ's sake!

I like the commercial where the little girl is screaming, "You're free cheesy bread! you're free! GO! GO!"

While I'm thinking about it, Dominoes needs to die. Free pizza commercials with kids screaming "FREE PIZZA," and then "FREE DOMINOES!" Ugh. Gag me with a branding iron.

Not only does it aurally offend many viewers (translation: sounds like crap), but it's just bad pizza IMO. The ad just sounds stupid, looks stupid, and doesn't appeal to me at all.

"Then again, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong."

But it's just SO CUTE when the little girl tries to set the cheesy bread free!!!!!!!!!!!

This commercial I like. Here's why:

First and foremost, the fine print at the bottom of the screen says "When compared to previous versions of MSN" when the announcer is talking about all this "better" stuff. Too often have I looked at a screen and said "BETTER THAN WHAT?!" I like that about the ad.

The gimmick with the new butterfly is also well done. Not an overbearing image, but one that sticks in the mind well enough to be called up at will. It's a guy in a big MSN Butterfly suit, how easy to remember is that?

Easy to remember gimmick that doesn't annoy people (too much, at least), well presented information in a short amount of time, and it's memorable. All in all, good ad. Me likey.

Originally posted by ActingBugsAttack
But it's just SO CUTE when the little girl tries to set the cheesy bread free!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE that... You're FREE CHEESY BREAD, YOU"RE FREE!!!

Gag me with a used enima from a herpes patient, remove my skin with a dull spoon, soak me in lemon juice, alchohol, viniger and salt, make me listen to 'my heart will go on' over and over again, force me to give head to the corpse of hitler, but NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER speak highly of MSN.

Perhaps I am a bit biased...I did, after all once work for MSN's partner in crime: the horrible fiend Best Buy. At Bestbuy I would wander aimlessly among angry pigeons with wallets asking, "Excuse me good sir, did you know that if you signed your soul away to Bill Gates by binding yourself in a 2 year entrapment with a vile internet provider that will make you hate life and perhaps become suicidal, bestbuy will give you 200 measily dollars to spend at our store, but you'll end up spending twice that much to pay for your new found internet cancer growth?"

I know I am not the only person who hates MSN. Customers immediately become enraged at the mention of MSN. One benevolent gentlemen reported to me that MSN gave him erectile disfunction.

As for the butterfly, I am not the only person who is tired loathsome thing. I hope that butterfly gets trapped in a spider's web in the sewer and the blood is sucked from it slowely. But then the poor innocent spider would probably die from blood poisoning, but it would be a sacrifice for the greater good.
MSN overuses the butterfly. THey even go as far as decorating Best Buy with butterflys. They make bestbuy employees scream out, "BUTTERFLY!" on the intercom whenever they get a customer to sign their soul over to satan (aka Bill Gates)
As for the man who modeled in the butterfly costume: I bet he hasn't been laid in a LONG time.

Look, these posts are solely regarding the advertisements I see on TV, not the products they sell.

If I was going to rail on the products themselves, the posts would be waaaay too long. So I stick to just the ads.

I agree, MSN, AO-Hell, Kazaa, Morpheus, all that stuff sucks royal ass. But MSN has a good ad, which is more than I can say for AO-Hell.

but you said that dominos doesn't have good pizza. Stick to your own rules :P

So I'm watchin' this commercial for the Kia SUV, and the guy is talking about creating the "perfect mid-sized SUV." And I start thinking about how suddenly "mid-sized" is an acceptible term. How exactly is it possible to have a "mid" sized SUV without having a "small" SUV?

This thought led me to another thought train. I have seen numerous restaraunts show "Medium" "Large" and some version of extra-large drinks or fries or something. HOW CAN YOU HAVE A MEDIUM WITHOUT A SMALL?!?!?!

I'm really having trouble with this. Everybody in my family of my parents' generation--save my parents--is either a teacher or a lawyer (or was at one point). We can't have a conversation about these ads without it becoming an argument where we're all yelling about the same side of the argument.

I miss having HBO and Cinemax and all the non-commercial channels. At least with them the only commercials were for other programs on the channel. Too many ads suck major balls nowadays.

Okay, what's with the British butler trying to sell me laundry sheets? "I, however, am not a $20,000 man..." blah blah blah. Do these guys realize that by saying such a statement people can imply that the only reason to buy these ALL sheets instead of Bounce sheets is that you can be poor and still afford them?

Language has subconscious effects on people, and if advertizing folks don't know that, then maybe psych majors should be hired into the industry.

Okay, I can't put my finger on exctly why this ad pisses me off, but it does. I think that it comes down to me just being pissed off at random things sometimes, but I don't like the ad.

Originally posted by Stage Monster
Okay, what's with the British butler trying to sell me laundry sheets? "I, however, am not a $20,000 man..." blah blah blah. Do these guys realize that by saying such a statement people can imply that the only reason to buy these ALL sheets instead of Bounce sheets is that you can be poor and still afford them?

Language has subconscious effects on people, and if advertizing folks don't know that, then maybe psych majors should be hired into the industry.

Okay, I can't put my finger on exctly why this ad pisses me off, but it does. I think that it comes down to me just being pissed off at random things sometimes, but I don't like the ad.

Zach did you take your meds?

yes, but at 1:00 in the morning they've worn off.


...and yuck foo.

Originally posted by Stage Monster
Language has subconscious effects on people, and if advertizing folks don't know that, then maybe psych majors should be hired into the industry.
Are you kidding me? The whole industry is comprised of people that know how to manipulate emotions, feelings, etc, probably much better than you.

I find this thread to be rather pompous. You're insinuating that you are better, more intelligent, and a more qualified judge of what's good than the advertising industry and the viewing public. Granted, many commercials do suck ass, but relax dude, you're not the model by which everything should be compared. Some ads work on some people, some work on others, and no one could ever make an ad that would have the desired effect on everyone that ever sees it.

No, just saying what pisses me off.

It's like my own personal whine cellar. And if you don't agree with it, you have the right to look elsewhere. Deal?

I like the new Harley Earl ads.

The whole "ghost story" gimmick is really cool, and the camera work is great.

Originally posted by Stage Monster
I like the new Harley Earl ads.

The whole "ghost story" gimmick is really cool, and the camera work is great. I think they're moronic. Harley Earl never built a decent car. Why should today's puick be any different?

NOTE: I never said anything about the product, just the ad.

Originally posted by Stage Monster
NOTE: I never said anything about the product, just the ad. Ok... well how dumb is unveiling an SUV to a fifties crowd?

Originally posted by igofast

...You're insinuating that you are better, more intelligent, and a more qualified judge of what's good than the advertising industry and the viewing public...

Uhhh..... isn't he part of the viewing public? And where did he ever make a statement even implying the above quote? Just wanted to make sure we're reading the same thread here...

Okay, I just saw an ad for "Enzyte" on FX the other night while watching "The Shield."


WTF?!?!?!

It's like one of those ads most companies use to make fun of ads, but it's for real. The fact that it's an ad for penis enlargement doesn't help, it's gotta be one of the funniest ads I've ever seen--but for all the wrong reasons.

Anyone else seen it?

Earlier today, I was talking with riz, and he said "spam spam spam" (we were talking about those porno e-mails we all get and hate).

Does anybody else think that would make a really good ad for Earthlink? Use that Monty Python song in the background, and...just, well, what they're already doing, basically, just with that in the background.


...yeah...






BOOBIES!

I just remember Luies doing that in Flashback...that was a funny bit, and it always got a laugh out of the audiance, which was the probubly the only time people other then us thought he was funny.