samhexum Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 (edited) The guy in this ad is hot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0euMC0_BA I stopped watching SHAMELESS, but I guess he was involved with Ian: Jeff Pierre: http://braindamaged.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/beyond-jeff-pierre-de-shameless-au-casting-une.jpg http://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/11702082/845full-jeff-pierre.jpg http://78.media.tumblr.com/31568cf2550f922c7a175135724425d4/tumblr_oejccxoo2H1v7lo42o3_400.gif http://68.media.tumblr.com/17704e7e041fbbc38d9202e32ae4e195/tumblr_o4dg2s1Kwu1s4ozyjo1_250.gifhttp://gifs.51gif.com/20170421/ace253ab23b34f57b9856f1d9c812f3a.gif Edited November 1, 2017 by samhexum OCClient and TruthBTold 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthBTold Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 The one commercial I found tremendously entertaining was the one where a guy is seated in economy and begins to be harassed by a young girl seated directed behind him. He gets up and proceeds towards the first class area. As he makes his way he envisioned a beautiful female first class attendant coming toward him. She and he reach the curtain that separates the two class areas and she abruptly pulls the curtain together so that he is on the economy side. You see her turn around and the look she has on her face is priceless (sort of a "I'm in the first class area and you're not." You then see him, dejected of course. Believe it or not I can't recall which airlines it is for or even if it was for an airlines and not for something else. So much for branding. At any rate, I tried to get a link on Youtube so you would know which commercial I was talking about but could not find it. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Believe it or not I can't recall which airlines it is for or even if it was for an airlines and not for something else. So much for branding. At any rate, I tried to get a link on Youtube so you would know which commercial I was talking about but could not find it. Sorry. I know the ad, but can't remember the brand/client, either. I think it's for a financial company of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 (edited) I laugh every time I see one of Jennifer Aniston's ads for Aveeno. The tag line is always something like "Naturally beautiful results," spoken by a woman with bleached blond hair, who had a nose job before her acting career took off. http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2014-05-01-at-12.15.10-AM-490x323.png Edited August 31, 2018 by samhexum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 (edited) a guy is seated in economy and begins to be harassed by a young girl seated directed behind him. You really should get your memory checked. I think it's for a financial company of some sort. Told ya! [the ad no longer shows up] Edited August 31, 2018 by samhexum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonman Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 I love the goofiness of this one as well. It's also just a little trump-ian in its own way, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ2Fa0zVglU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthBTold Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Thank you and perhaps I have had to get my memory checked for medical reasons for the past 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonman Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Today is Jan 1 - which means that within the next 24 hours, all the kitchy "holiday" commercials will be gone, for another 11 months or so. But - I have to give Subaru a little bit of credit. Their constant odd reliance on "love" to sell their products notwithstanding (I find their ad campaigns confusing and needlessly maudlin with all their various girly "love" songs, etc), their worst offense is how they promote their "Share The Love" concept, which I do understand is a charity cause - but it's the stupid plunk-a-plunk of a ukelele in the background (why??) while people tell their touching stories (that never have anything to do with cars, mind you) followed by these always non-singing participants forced to sing, off-key, "put a little love in your heart." (With all the great pro renditions/covers of this classic song, why the fuck have non-singers do it??) But of late I've noticed that they've cut all the bad singing. The idiotic uke is still there, but no more "we can't sing, but we'll make you listen to us sing anyway" anymore. Perhaps Subaru actually got too many complaints, lol? "Love - It's what makes a Subaru a Subaru." Fuck WHAT??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 "Love - It's what makes a Subaru a Subaru." Fuck WHAT??? Sex - It's what makes a VW a VW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVIWcDIuxZ0 Yes, I know I already posted this ad... I just really liked it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) The moment you realize your wife is too dumb to live... Lowe's has had an ad campaign for awhile now-- "The moment you realize..." Well, this ad shows a couple buying a new oven because the wife is too stupid to realize that if she turns the casserole dish on the right of top rack, she'd be able to fit in the dish she's trying to fit, and they wouldn't have to spend the money on a new oven. Leslie Mann's Jergens commercials are always obnoxious and creepy... she's always popping up unannounced in people's bathrooms, talking to them about their dry skin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzkVTmQeWGE Edited August 31, 2018 by samhexum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actor61 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I find the Leslie Mann ads kind of funny because they're a little offbeat but I can see why you find them obnoxious. I have posted about this before but the ad I find heinously obnoxious is the one for a medicine for some kind of intestinal disorder where an actress in a tan leotard and a red wig portrays the disorder as vaguely mentally disabled and physically klutzy. In previous discussions, people said that I shouldn't deride the actress who took the role as she's probably making lots of money and boosting her career and I don't blame her. I blame the ad people who put this moronic commercial together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonman Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I have posted about this before but the ad I find heinously obnoxious is the one for a medicine for some kind of intestinal disorder where an actress in a tan leotard and a red wig portrays the disorder as vaguely mentally disabled and physically klutzy. In previous discussions, people said that I shouldn't deride the actress who took the role as she's probably making lots of money and boosting her career and I don't blame her. I blame the ad people who put this moronic commercial together. Agreed on that particular ad. And on most of the pharmaceutical ads. Here's one that I thought was inventive but also unduly weird - I still can't decide if the sleep/wake "pets" are more cute or creepy, lol. And of course the oddest thing about all such ads is the amount of time spent telling us about all the side effects, etc - when NOT to use the drug in question. I know they have to do that by law, but it does also seem to work against the point of having the ads at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kippy Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 The Pabst Blue Ribbon beer commercial from the '80's always caught my eye: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonman Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 They sure came a long way from their ads in the 1950's lol... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvhVz5hPfAA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgoo Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I despise the commercials for this product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L37-3v7DyYs samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actor61 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Agreed on that particular ad. And on most of the pharmaceutical ads. Here's one that I thought was inventive but also unduly weird - I still can't decide if the sleep/wake "pets" are more cute or creepy, lol. And of course the oddest thing about all such ads is the amount of time spent telling us about all the side effects, etc - when NOT to use the drug in question. I know they have to do that by law, but it does also seem to work against the point of having the ads at all... You're absolutely right about the ad with the sleep/wake pets. That was just plain creepy. I tended to hit the remote whenever it came on. It reminded me of my childhood dreams of monsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 (edited) I’ve always disliked KFC’s revolving celebrity Colonels ad campaign, but Reba McEntire with her sibilant twang drives me up the @&*#ing wall! The maker of the Veg-O-Matic, the Showtime Rotisserie oven and the 5 Minute Pasta Wizard has been cooked again. Ronco — whose TV spots hawked gadgets like Mr. Microphone and the Beef Jerky Machine, a dehydrator it called “a one-way ticket to meat-lover’s heaven” — filed for Chapter 11 this week, its third trip to bankruptcy court since its founding 49 years ago. The filing comes a year after Ronco’s failed attempt to raise $30 million in an IPO that sounded like one of its late-night pitches: Buy $1,000 in shares, and get a 20 percent discount on its website. Spend more than $5,000 and get a Ronco Rotisserie, too. That was despite a warning in the IPO filing from auditors at the time, who raised “substantial doubt” about whether the company was viable. Ronco’s founder and TV pitchman Ron Popeil, who sold the company in 2005 for nearly $60 million, said Friday he has an inkling about what led to the most recent demise of the brand he launched in 1969. “The Showtime Rotisserie did over $1 billion in sales over its lifetime, and the current owner changed it,” Popeil, 82, told The Post. “They retooled and started over in China. They had a winner. Why would you take your best product and change it?” The prolific inventor, who now lives in Beverly Hills, Calif., said that Ronco — which was sold at least three times after he left it — added other products to its line “to make it look like they were a bigger company than they were,” but that the products were “really worthless.” The Chapter 11 filing lists the company’s assets and liabilities between $1 million and $10 million. The $30 million in cash that Ronco tried and failed to raise in its IPO last year “was key to keeping the lights on in a business that was losing $4.5 million per year,” Adam Stein-Sapir, a bankruptcy expert at Pioneer Funding Group, told The Post. “Without it, they were forced to file for bankruptcy.” Ronco owns the rights to Popeil’s former products and the rights to use his name and likeness, but not for any new Ronco products. Popeil’s name and image are so important to Ronco that at one point the company took out a $15 million life insurance policy on him. “I remember that someone asked me permission for the policy many years ago,” Popeil said, adding that he agreed. The policy “still exists, but I don’t know who owns it,” he added. The Austin, Texas-based company’s lawyer did not return a call for comment, and its president, William Moore, could not immediately be reached on Friday. “I know the current owner and I’m a good friend of his,” Popeil said. “But running a business is not his talent.” But wait — there’s more: Popeil is still plying his trade as an inventor, and recently produced a turkey fryer that can be used on a kitchen counter. He is close to inking a deal with an investor who wants sell Popeil’s new inventions on TV, like in the old days. “I might do walk-ons to talk about my new products,” he said, adding, “I look a little older now.” Edited August 31, 2018 by samhexum Boink 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 "Hey good lookin', we'll be back to pick you up later!" Nvr2Thick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonman Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 This ultra-annoying Comcast ad needs to go away - NOW. It has WAY overstayed its welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZrWjSBJflc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted May 27, 2018 Author Share Posted May 27, 2018 (edited) I don't know if this is a national commercial or local, but I always laugh at it. The man begins by mentioning his 11 grandkids. At the end, he's dressed in rain gear, to protect himself against the water gun assault by all of those rugrats. However, his claim of "I know a few things about protection" kinda rings hollow when you consider the litter he begat. I saw an ad the other night for a drug called Repatha. I couldn't help but wonder if Lieutenant Van Buren from Law & Order were the spokesperson, would they call it R. Epatha? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUUFUoR3iXk Edited August 31, 2018 by samhexum Nvr2Thick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nvr2Thick Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 In its time this commercial was one of the most annoying ever, and it seemed to really strike a nerve with my friends and family. When my family is together it isn't unusual for me or one of my brothers to walk into a room, spontaneously shriek, and exclaim, "Honest, Sheriff! I didn't know the gum was loaded!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonman Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I remember that...the nickname for that gum was "cum gum" - because it would squirt in your mouth. samhexum and Nvr2Thick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonman Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 The man begins by mentioning his 11 grandkids. Flaunting his heterosexuality. samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nvr2Thick Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Sex - It's what makes a VW a VW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVIWcDIuxZ0 Yes, I know I already posted this ad... I just really liked it! The punchline to this commercial should be kids that all appear to be mixed-race. The salesman is so handsome. samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 I occasionally recognize 'celebrity' voice-overs in commercials. For some reason, Frank Whalley's voice drives me up the wall in his Honda ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHNfONwuxg The Spectrum TV Ads are the most obnoxious ones. How do feel about Ellen Degenerate's voice-overs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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