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post #91 of 362
9/12/06 at 7:52am

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Has anyone linked to this Geico ad? Funny stuff, especially for us movie fans.
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post #92 of 362
10/9/06 at 12:53pm

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I usually don't watch much football, or much TV in real time, so I don't usually see many commercials. However, I was visiting family over the weekend, and was watching NFL football, and I happened to see a commercial that cracked me up. It was . . .

"Rubber floor!"

Bud Light
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post #93 of 362
10/9/06 at 7:10pm

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The new Sony HD TV commercial featuring Shatner, Nimoy (non-speaking) and Koenig on the bridge of the Enterprise made me smile.
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post #94 of 362
10/9/06 at 7:36pm

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The VW commercial with the catapult had me laughing at loud. I had to rewind the tivo and watch it 3 times in a row. It's available on the vw site.
Peter Stomare kills when he says....well, go view it and you'll see.
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post #95 of 362
10/9/06 at 10:38pm

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The new Sony HD TV commercial featuring Shatner, Nimoy (non-speaking) and Koenig on the bridge of the Enterprise made me smile.

I'm pretty sure that was an ad for DirecTV...

Whoever came up with the idea for this line of ads is a genius. Most of them have been comic gold. Ben Stein, Mini Me, Star Trek VI, etc.
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post #96 of 362
10/10/06 at 5:54am

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Originally Posted by David Williams
I'm pretty sure that was an ad for DirecTV...

I saw it again last night, immediately recognized my error and was coming here this morning to fix it. Too late!

Thanks!
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post #97 of 362
10/11/06 at 10:49pm

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I loved the commercial that spoofed the famous jogging on the beach scene from 10 with Bo Derek. I think it was for Dr Pepper, not sure. Also another cool one I liked was one of the Mountain Dew commercials where the guy does a flip in an old Trans Am and grabs the can out of a guys hand, way cool.
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post #98 of 362
10/12/06 at 7:45pm

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There's a new Mercury ad with Jill Wagner wearing this little vest thing over her blouse. Lookin' good!
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post #99 of 362
10/12/06 at 10:03pm

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I thought I hated all Burger King ads, but I kind of like the office workers ones. Mainly because the "want a bite of my sandwich?" girl is extremely cute.
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post #100 of 362
10/12/06 at 11:32pm

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Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
There's a new Mercury ad with Jill Wagner wearing this little vest thing over her blouse. Lookin' good!
Is that the one for the Mercury Milan? Hot damn, she's hot!

Yes, I've actually seen the ad while on vacation in the USA...

And the one for Ford Fusion (where the woman pulls up to a drive-through dry-cleaner and pays for the next guy and asks the lady to hand him her card) also has a very attractive female lead.

Agree, the Star Trek spoof for DirectTV is pretty good, I'm assuming they were able to get Shatner to do the new dialog, and they appear to have CG'ed his lips/face to match the new dialog -- his face looks rather plasticky, but then again some would say that's exactly how he looks on Boston Legal nowadays...

Love the Geico ads with Verne Troyer and Don LaFontaine too. The one with Peter whatsisname (original MI?) is rather blah, though.
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post #101 of 362
10/13/06 at 12:50am

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Is that the one for the Mercury Milan? Hot damn, she's hot!

Yes, I've actually seen the ad while on vacation in the USA...

Yes. They played them heavily tonight. There are two different Milan ads with two different outfits, one being the aforementioned vest-over-blouse, and the other one being . . . something else, that was less form-fitting.

BTW, if you didn't know, she was the co-star of the recently cancelled Blade: The Series.

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And the one for Ford Fusion (where the woman pulls up to a drive-through dry-cleaner and pays for the next guy and asks the lady to hand him her card) also has a very attractive female lead.

Yes, she's very cute. I couldn't have even told you what that ad was for, though. . . .
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post #102 of 362
10/13/06 at 2:02am

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There are some commercials that only come out during the holidays that I want to see back, the main of these being the M&Ms encountering Santa, when Santa and the Red faint. The Yellow saying, "Uh, Santa?" is just so cute!

Way back when in the early 1970s, Coke had one of a large group of people singing, "I'd like to teach the world to sing", that I really and truly miss. I thought it was so pretty as a kid, and since the awareness of product placement saturation was still years in the future, ("I'd like to buy the world a coke") it just worked for me. Mostly what I remembered was the singing, which at that time, sounded like the voices of angels to me.

Another commercial series I remember well from the 1970s was the original Dentyne (sp?) "Brush your breath" commercials, my favorite verse being:

"Your hair's a dream, your dress divine,
But your breath could frighten Frankenstein.
Brush your breath, brush your breath, brush your breath with Dentyne!"

I think the reason I remember that one so well was because when visiting family down South, my grandmother's sister, a Sunday school teacher, mentioned how much her students liked commercial jingles, and I spent an hour transcribing as many verses of that song as I could remember at that moment in time.

Seeing the Dentyne commercials now is just depressing with the pseudo-sexy types prowling around.
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post #103 of 362
10/13/06 at 7:47am

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Originally Posted by Yee-Ming
Agree, the Star Trek spoof for DirectTV is pretty good, I'm assuming they were able to get Shatner to do the new dialog, and they appear to have CG'ed his lips/face to match the new dialog -- his face looks rather plasticky, but then again some would say that's exactly how he looks on Boston Legal nowadays...

OMG! That's a scene from a movie? They dubbed the dialogue? I suddenly feel like a senior citizen who has been duped and doesn't know the reality of what's going on around him. I thought they assembled the actors on a set and shot it new. I HAD NO IDEA the visuals were edited from a film. The only "dialogue" which didn't seem natural to me (of all things) was the Spock throat-clearing when Shatner uses the work "illogical".

Damn, I feel stupid.
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post #104 of 362
10/13/06 at 12:45pm

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I suddenly feel like a senior citizen who has been duped and doesn't know the reality of what's going on around him.

I've been saying that about you for years. . . .
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post #105 of 362
10/13/06 at 1:00pm

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Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
I've been saying that about you for years. . . .

Ouch!

The weird thing for me...as I've been thinking about this....is that I never even wondered if the video had been lifted from one of the movies. AND, I even questioned why Shatner would have donned that poofy toupee again since I didn't think he was wearing it anymore.

Anybody got a bridge they want to sell me? Or, speakers from the back of a white van?
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post #106 of 362
10/13/06 at 1:55pm

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I'm just kidding. You don't post a day over 38.
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post #107 of 362
10/14/06 at 10:29pm

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Is anyone a fan of Sabine Ehrenfeld, the overstock.com spokeswoman? This link might help you decide:

http://sabineehrenfeld.tripod.com/gallery.html

(if she isn't right up Mike Frezon's alley, I'll eat a gummi worm)
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post #108 of 362
10/14/06 at 11:49pm

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
Anybody got a bridge they want to sell me? Or, speakers from the back of a white van?
I think Dennis is selling DVD Rewinders in another thread....
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post #109 of 362
10/15/06 at 4:06pm

Re: For something different: Commercials you actually like!

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Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
Is anyone a fan of Sabine Ehrenfeld, the overstock.com spokeswoman? This link might help you decide:

http://sabineehrenfeld.tripod.com/gallery.html

(if she isn't right up Mike Frezon's alley, I'll eat a gummi worm)

Thank you, Greg. Thank you.

[soup nazi]No gummi worms for you![/soup nazi]
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post #110 of 362
10/15/06 at 9:56pm

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I'm also liking the new Mercury girl commercial. She looks better than ever.

~T
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post #111 of 362
10/15/06 at 9:59pm

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The only Geico ads I like are the ones with Little Richard and Don LaFontaine. The other ones annoy me.
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post #112 of 362
11/4/06 at 9:17pm

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Originally Posted by Yee-Ming
Agree, the Star Trek spoof for DirectTV is pretty good, I'm assuming they were able to get Shatner to do the new dialog, and they appear to have CG'ed his lips/face to match the new dialog -- his face looks rather plasticky, but then again some would say that's exactly how he looks on Boston Legal nowadays...

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
OMG! That's a scene from a movie? They dubbed the dialogue? I suddenly feel like a senior citizen who has been duped and doesn't know the reality of what's going on around him. I thought they assembled the actors on a set and shot it new. I HAD NO IDEA the visuals were edited from a film. The only "dialogue" which didn't seem natural to me (of all things) was the Spock throat-clearing when Shatner uses the work "illogical".

Damn, I feel stupid.

Alright. I've been meaning to resurrect this thread for awhile, but I've forgotten (another sign of getting old!).

I've had the chance to see that DirectTV commercial a LOT lately and I'm now going to say it looks like a clever, well-done blend of movie scenes with new material involving Shatner (all the more funny that they had to put him back in the poofy toupee!).

If you watch the opening scene near the beginning where Shatner is on the bridge looking straight into the camera saying his lines, the people in the background are not moving but the "computer lights" are blinking. The big panel of lights shows an obvious edit where the static background is obviously looped and edited to maintain the background for a little longer than originally held to fit the scene of the commerical. As I've studied it it is quite clever because much of it has Shatner walking away from the camera (the movie scenes, I'm guessing)...so as not to require a complex re-shoot. And it is easier to see now how they wove the Walter Koenig and Leonard Nimoy parts into the commercial.

Now I don't feel nearly as dumb as I did earlier! Mike steps back to allow the onslaught of wise comments to come his way after that set-up!
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post #113 of 362
11/10/06 at 5:15pm

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I LIKE THE ONE WITH KID GETTING AWAY WITH ALL SORTS OF CRAZY STUFF CAUSE HIS MOM SAID HE COULD.(DRIVING,AIR DIVING AMONG SOME)THEY LATER SHOW HIM WALKING TO HER ROOM ASKING IF HE DO SOMETHING CRAZY TO THEIR PET AND SHE SAYS......YES.....YES.YEEEES.
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post #114 of 362
11/10/06 at 9:48pm

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The Honda Civic ad that involves the Tron lightcycle grid.
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post #115 of 362
11/30/06 at 10:58am

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There's a new Blistex commercial that's worth a rewind just for the gorgeous actress. She's looking down, putting on Blistex, and she says, "Wow!" and looks up with these exotic green eyes.

The caveman interview commercial is good. The one actor doesn't look terribly much like O'Reilly, but he's got the mannerisms down cold.
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post #116 of 362
12/2/06 at 8:20pm

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Beer Ad
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post #117 of 362
12/2/06 at 8:50pm

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Captain Morgan ad
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post #118 of 362
12/13/06 at 11:16pm

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It's from at least last year, but I love the Fruit of the Loom Christmas ad. That version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman is peaceful and lovely. Fruit of the Loom always has great music in their ads. I also like the old-timey song in the other ad.

I had a dream that you were mine, dear
A song of heaven was in your voice, dear
Making my heart rejoice, dear

Great stuff. I don't understand why one company can use such a great ad agency, and then another company like Burger King has an ad agency that consistently comes up with crap.
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post #119 of 362
12/14/06 at 5:48am

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Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
Great stuff. I don't understand why one company can use such a great ad agency, and then another company like Burger King has an ad agency that consistently comes up with crap.

You don't find this music and sentiment peaceful and lovely?!?

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqyWS7W-K68[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_5qoy4oaQ[/MEDIA]
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post #120 of 362
12/14/06 at 11:56am

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In December of 2000 a Church in the Daytona Beach, Florida area had one of the FUNNIEST Christmas Commercials I have ever seen. It had a a "Misadventures of Santa" theme and started off with Santa getting chased out of one house by a Vicious Dog. At another house he narrowly escapes a Shotgun Blast. The third house he visits was the funniest, he gets to the Christmas Tree only to discover the Kids have "Camped" there awaiting his arrival! At the next house he looks pretty ragged, but he sees a Nativity Scene on Display and kneels to pray. They only ran the commercial for that year, I haven't seen it since!
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