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post #241 of 567
6/22/06 at 5:50am

Re: Commercials that just irritate you....

Will someone PLEASE stomp on that f**ing gecko from the GEICO ads!!!!

I have to mute the TV everytime that commercial airs because his voice seems to find the back of my neck and annoy the crap out of me.
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post #242 of 567
6/22/06 at 6:10am

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Originally Posted by Dave_Brown
I hate any commercial where the main character turns and gives a half glance and wink at the camera.

For some reason, the little "secret wink" sends me into a mini-rage and I wish death upon those that give it.

Okay...everybody back away quietly from Dave...



Uh oh...RUN!!!
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post #243 of 567
6/23/06 at 12:31pm

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Originally Posted by Malcolm R
Yet another TMI advert:

K*Y Lubricating Mist...

Ew! Lubricating "Mist"!?!?! WTF. how many types of that...do you need?? And for some reason the mist part just skeeves me out. Here honey, let's get the MIST out! ::eyeroll::
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post #244 of 567
6/23/06 at 1:05pm

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Another annoying one, the new Viagra one. A guy watching a baseball game on TV and his wife gives him a look. She walks off. He then gets up, puts a videotape in the VCR to record the game and follows her.

Annoying on many levels, especially for the fact that this is 2006, and the guy is still using a VCR to record. Shouldn't he have Tivo? He can afford Viagra but not a $10 a month DVR?

And recording a baseball game? If you miss something, you can watch it on the nightly news.

Not to mention, what will he do with the tape? Will he wait until the game is over to watch it? Then, isn't he risking finding out the score? And what if it goes into extra innings? If he walks into the room and sees the score, will that spoil it for him? What if he began taping in the first inning? Will he tape the entire 4 hour game? Will the Viagra last that long? And isn't one of the warning signs if it lasts for 4 hours, call a doctor?

I get a headache just thinking about it.
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post #245 of 567
6/23/06 at 1:30pm

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Originally Posted by Jon Martin
Another annoying one, the new Viagra one. A guy watching a baseball game on TV and his wife gives him a look. She walks off. He then gets up, puts a videotape in the VCR to record the game and follows her.

Annoying on many levels, especially for the fact that this is 2006, and the guy is still using a VCR to record. Shouldn't he have Tivo? He can afford Viagra but not a $10 a month DVR?

And recording a baseball game? If you miss something, you can watch it on the nightly news.

Not to mention, what will he do with the tape? Will he wait until the game is over to watch it? Then, isn't he risking finding out the score? And what if it goes into extra innings? If he walks into the room and sees the score, will that spoil it for him? What if he began taping in the first inning? Will he tape the entire 4 hour game? Will the Viagra last that long? And isn't one of the warning signs if it lasts for 4 hours, call a doctor?

I get a headache just thinking about it.



Not to mention the fact that his wife is hot, if she gave me that "come hither" look, the furthest thing on my mind would be a freakin' baseball game.
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post #246 of 567
6/23/06 at 1:48pm

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^^ LOL

SO true! If you need to tape record a baseball game because you don't want to miss the game (because your wife wants sex), then Viagra isn't going to solve the "problem" you have with your sex life.

Quit buying the Viagra and buy a clue!
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post #247 of 567
6/23/06 at 1:51pm

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I loathe beyond loathing every commercial using a Beatles song. I'm only "pleased" (relatively) that it's never the actual original recording but some lame cover.
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post #248 of 567
6/23/06 at 3:09pm

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@ Jon, John, and Mark.


John, I like the pic of Sledge and his "loudener".
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post #249 of 567
6/23/06 at 5:33pm

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Thanks, George, I figure that SOMEONE has to enforce the OAR law here, and it might as well be Inspector Sledge Hammer.
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post #250 of 567
6/24/06 at 9:05pm

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John: Your hammer...it has gotten so much...bigger!
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post #251 of 567
6/25/06 at 3:53am

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
John: Your hammer...it has gotten so much...bigger!

I don't know why, I didn't touch it. It was large when I first posted it but then I shrunk it, ever since it seems to randomly get bigger and smaller.
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post #252 of 567
6/25/06 at 9:46am

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Ok, OT again. I have to say I love the Nationwide Commercial where the guy is driving his luxury car around the big city listening to his GPS. I thought it was some kind of Lincoln commercial and then the GPS says, "Turn left" and he does, right into a storefront window. Then the GPS continues, "In 50 feet." I love that.
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post #253 of 567
6/25/06 at 10:10am

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^^ LMAO!

It's funny because in the late 90's I was on a business trip and my rental car had a GPS. This was the first I had ever seen these and I really got into it. But I did find that it took some getting used to because it would warn me of a right hand turn, so I'd immediately start slamming on the brakes and looking for a right hand turn, only to find out it was quite a distance ahead.

I guess that goes back to the days when my friends would be giving me directions and would always wait until I was practically PAST the turn before yelling "Oh! You need to take a right here!!!"
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post #254 of 567
6/25/06 at 12:56pm

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Originally Posted by MichaelBA
I loathe beyond loathing every commercial using a Beatles song. I'm only "pleased" (relatively) that it's never the actual original recording but some lame cover.

I agree....And the new car commercial which uses the Who's Magic Bus doesn't thrill me either.

Magic Bus being used to sell a Minivan....
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post #255 of 567
6/25/06 at 1:47pm

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I guess that goes back to the days when my friends would be giving me directions and would always wait until I was practically PAST the turn before yelling "Oh! You need to take a right here!!!"

I'm guilty of that. I'd pay more attention to the conversations, than me being the one knowing where we were going. Oops.
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post #256 of 567
6/26/06 at 9:30am

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Originally Posted by MarkHastings
^^ LOL

SO true! If you need to tape record a baseball game because you don't want to miss the game (because your wife wants sex), then Viagra isn't going to solve the "problem" you have with your sex life.

Quit buying the Viagra and buy a clue!
Do it on the couch so you can watch the game and "attend" to the wife's needs at the same time. Problem solved.
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post #257 of 567
6/26/06 at 3:36pm

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I found screen grabs of the Yellow Book girl:
BINGO!!!!
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post #258 of 567
6/26/06 at 5:42pm

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She's okay. I prefer the more 'plane Jane' quality of the cell phone girl, though, she's like someone you'd see just walking down the street, I like that.
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post #259 of 567
6/26/06 at 9:09pm

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I like the girl next door types myself, but damn. If I saw that girl walking towards me, I think my brain would shut down. "Put your eyes back in your head."
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post #260 of 567
6/27/06 at 5:53am

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Mark:

THANK YOU for posting that link!

D'ya suppose they were going for an intentional parody of the Cindy Crawford/Diet Pepsi commercial of several years ago?


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post #261 of 567
6/27/06 at 7:48am

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Mike, yes, that was the spoof.

As far as the girl, of course when I say "Wow!" I'm just talking eye candy here. I definitely would much rather the girl next door type, but again, as far as eye popping
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post #262 of 567
6/27/06 at 8:09am

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Any Mitsubishi commercial. Especially that chick doing the robot and the cross-eyed dude singing the Bare Naked Ladie's song.

More importantly, since I don't feel right hitting the "robot girl;" I dream of the day I get to fight that stoner dude who narrates the Carl's Jr. commercial. "Burger.........fries...........and ........a ..Coke....don't bother me.........."
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post #263 of 567
6/27/06 at 10:09am

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Another annoying one, the Catherine Zeta Jones cellphone ads.

Which do you think killed her career more, the marriage to Michael Douglas or these ads?

And it finally hit me WHY they are so annoying. In the ad, she spends the whole thing staring at the camera. Even when she has people talking to her, she rarely acknowledges the fact they are there. She must think she is better than these commercial actors ("Sorry folks, I was in ENTRAPMENT so am therefore better than all of you. Please, look away").
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post #264 of 567
6/27/06 at 2:41pm

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I completely agree about the Cat Zeta Jones ads, mainly because I lost all respect for her when I saw pics of her smoking while she was pregnant.

How the fuck can someone be so stupid as to do that in this day and age!?
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post #265 of 567
6/28/06 at 1:15pm

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I just saw another one, but it's more the slogan than the actual commercial that gets me. It's the commercials for The Olive Garden restaraunt, their slogan is "When your here, your family"

Really? Well what kind of family are you!? Your still going to charge me to eat, aren't you?
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post #266 of 567
6/28/06 at 1:23pm

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Actually, now that you mention it, I hate all Olive Garden commercials. I can't recall ever having as much fun in that place as portrayed in their commercials.
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post #267 of 567
6/28/06 at 1:37pm

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I love the comedian who busts on the Olive Garden commercials. He busts on the fact that they make it seem so "Authentic" and how real Italians love it there

The best part was when he says something like "Uncle Vinnie comes all the way over from Italy and the family takes him OLIVE GARDEN???? What? Was the A&P out of Spaghettios?"
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post #268 of 567
7/28/06 at 7:54pm

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It's been awhile since i've been aggravated by a commercial, that streak is now over.

My latest target are those two creepy-ass commercials for Terminix pest control with those freaky 'faces in the wall' that talk. They look like demons who are trying to enter our world and got stuck.

Do these people really think that i'm going to call them if their commercial gives me nightmares about talking walls?
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post #269 of 567
8/6/06 at 2:36am

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HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.

What the f*******ck?!?!?!
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post #270 of 567
8/8/06 at 1:03pm

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Not so much irritating, but those new Volkswagon commercials in which the actors are involved in violent car crashes to demonstrate how "safe" their cars are are defintely unnerving and disturbing.
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