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#214316 - 07/22/04 08:38 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I loved that kitty-herder commercial, too. The cowboys sitting around the campfire, discussing the rough day the have had - one is using a lint roller, one is winding a ball of yarn...

Tee he he!

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#214317 - 07/22/04 08:44 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I also like the Chevy commercial where all of the 20-something guys are riding in the car. There's three in the back and the one in the middle is singing Shania Twain's "Man, I Feel Like A Woman". The other two in the backseat keep scooting further and further away and the singer is totally oblivious and keeps singing his heart out. That one cracks me up!!
".......Man I feel like a woman, WOO!!"

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#214318 - 07/22/04 08:53 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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Another one I don't care for is the Pepto-Bismol with the little dance they are doing- rubbing their stomachs, etc.




Geez, that thing is obnoxious! I tend to watch the same few shows, so I get the same commercials all the time and the ones that are irritating make me nuts.
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#214319 - 07/22/04 09:11 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I love the Bold laundry detergent commercial where the manager sees his employee moving price tags from the top of the bottles to the bottom. The manager asks what he's doing and he says (in his surfer voice) "you told me to lower the price of new Bold."

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#214320 - 07/22/04 09:11 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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Just reading about the Budweiser Clydesdale "Respect" commercial which aired during the Super Bowl after 9/11 gave me goose bumps. That gets my vote!

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#214321 - 07/22/04 09:34 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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Who watches commercials...that why we have a remote control! The 2 guys from Sonic drive me crazy!

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#214322 - 07/22/04 09:56 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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The Quiznos commercials with the singing rats. I don't think I'll ever eat at Quiznos again!


Oh man I hate that commercial. It absolutely freaks me out. What in the sam hell are they singing?

American Airlines (or maybe it was Delta) had a commercial where there was a staff meeting but no one knew what the meeting was for. The facilitator was late. As time passed you could see the staff getting more and more irritated and agitated because they were kept waiting and no one was communicating the reason for the delay. Finally the facilitator shows up and with every glaring at him he asked if they were upset by the situation. Of cousre everyone said yes and he said good now you know how our passengers feel when we have delays and they aren't given information.

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#214323 - 07/22/04 11:56 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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Another one I don't care for is the Pepto-Bismol with the little dance they are doing- rubbing their stomachs, etc.




I actually laughed at that one...but it took me several viewings to realize what the 5th person was demonstrating. And even then I had to see it again because I said "no way" they are showing that on TV!

HATE, HATE, HATE the Dr. Scholls (sp?) "are you gellin?" commercials. Imagine someone actually got paid for thinking that one up. And if it wasn't bad enough, now they have "are you massagin?"
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#214324 - 07/23/04 12:12 AM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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Gee, several you've described I haven't ever seen.

But the ones I dislike the most and must change the channel on are the identity theft commercials. Several of you like them - I can't stand them.

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#214325 - 07/23/04 05:23 AM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I love the ID Theft commercials. Another great banking related commercial is the one from Fannie Mae with the guy who is smiling and saying, "I have a beautiful house, a great car, etc. When people ask me how I do it, I say that I'm in debt up to my eyeballs." I think I know that guy.

BTW the sponge monkeys (Quizno's Rats) are singing, "Eat Quizno's Subs. They are so toasty." Don't know about you, but I aint eating at no place that has singing rats!

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#214326 - 07/23/04 09:53 AM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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Also dislike the Wilfred Brimley commercials for a prescription card service or whatever that is he's pitchin' now. I think he still has 30 year old oatmeal remnants encrusted in his mustache.





That man has got to be at least 800 years old now. He hasn't changed at all since 1982!
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#214327 - 07/23/04 11:11 AM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I love the FNMA commercial - especially the end when he pleads for help 'Somebody help me'.
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#214328 - 07/23/04 01:27 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I love the "It's almost time for football" commercials. A grocery clerk turns on the checkout light and says "I'm open over here." and a guy hurls a cantalope at him. Another is set in a bank lobby, where someone drops something and there are people diving to get it. Very funny stuff, and it makes me happy when football season is close!
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#214329 - 07/23/04 01:57 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I am sick of the Verizon "can you hear me now" commercials. They are stretching it too far. Think they need a new campaign slogan.

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#214330 - 07/23/04 02:13 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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They seem to have given their "can you year me now" guy a diminished role for the time being, but he's still popping up from time to time.

You have to admit, though, that the chimpanzee takeoff on the "hear me now" theme was inspired!
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#214331 - 07/23/04 02:46 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I hate the Viagra commercials where the guys are jumping for joy to "We Are The Champions". I mean, the commerical is literally saying "Oh boy! We're gonna get laid!" I think some things should be between you,your spouse and your doctor.

I love any commercial that has cats talking. But, after all, I AM a cat person!
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#214332 - 07/23/04 03:24 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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C'mon Nanwa, tell us how you really feel!
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#214333 - 07/23/04 05:50 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I'm not going to get the vendor right, but this commercial is so realistic it's hilarious.

A group in suits is sitting around a table, looks like they are having a management meeting. Boss says, "How are we going to cut expenses?" Young guy says, "We could save $XXX if we switched to FedEx." No one says anything.

After a pause, the boss says, "Hey I have a great idea, let's switch to Fed Ex!" Everyone applauds and acts like it's most brilliant idea ever.

How many times has that happened to you?!?

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#214334 - 07/23/04 06:08 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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Or how many people have you known like the other Fedex commercial (I think it's Fedex). The one where the guy blurts out "If you ask me, I'd ship it Fedex", the boss says "Brilliant!", then it shows him all thru the rest of his life repeating the story, up to his funeral, when a speaker says, "And we all remember the day when Frank said..." He had one good idea and rode it the rest of his life!
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#214335 - 07/23/04 06:32 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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In our market area, there is a commercial for a local bank highlighting customer service: A customer's card is stuck in the ATM and she is late. So, the super friendly banker goes into the back of the machine to retrieve her card, while speaking to her from behind the machine. The banker retrieves the card for her via the machine & she is off. The next customer in line, an elderly gentleman, has heard the voice of the man coming from the machine. So, he steps up and instead of inserting his card, he verbally asks the machine if he can make a withdrawal. Funny? yes. Offensive to the elder population? I think so!

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#214336 - 07/23/04 06:37 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I've seen that commercial a hundred times. I find it to be very annoying!

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#214337 - 07/23/04 07:21 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I don't remember the product, maybe IBM. The boss is on the way to a meeting with 2 underlings who are filling him in, they round a corner and BAM, one of the guys is knocked cold by a filing cabinet. The boss and the underling that is left arrive at the meeting and the boss is giving the somber nods around the room and the underling says don't worry, he told me everything, then his hand slips and he knocks himself cold on the table. The look on the boss's face is priceless!

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#214338 - 07/23/04 08:21 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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That one is funny!

Nanwa likes talking cats. Being more of a dog person, I like the one from Advantix (sp?) with the puppy at camp singing "Hello mudda, Hello fadda."
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#214339 - 07/23/04 09:05 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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I like the Orbitz one where the guy is playing hide-and-go-seek with the seal.

Hate the Herbal Essences ads. ("Yes!Yes!Yes!")

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#214340 - 07/23/04 09:17 PM Re: Best/Worst Commercials
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This one shows my age but..... best I can remember it was a McDonald's commercial with the little ones who were at camp and it rained and rained......the camp leaders loaded them up and took them to McDonald's all dressed in their little yellow rain slickers and they looked like little yellow ducks! Some little tune went along with it. I call it the "quack-quack-waddle-waddle" commercial.

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