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Started by Tranzit, Aug 04 2007 09:22 AM

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#1 Tranzit

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Posted 04 August 2007 - 09:22 AM

Don't you just want to kick that befuddled-looking dufus right in the a~~: you know, the guy in the white shirt standing on the escalator moving in the wrong direction in that Roger's cellphone commercial. Better yet, will somebody please kick him down the &%$#@ steps! :o

And how about the Glad Bags ad with those lamest of lame "bank robbers" who stand there like absolute morons while some stupid female bank clerk stuffs everything except the kitchen sink into their sacks? How dumb is that? Is it supposed to amuse us somehow? I doubt if even a child could laugh at that one! :(

I'd like to know what in the world goes on in the minds of the advertising copywriters who get assigned to accounts like that. Are they on angel dust, quaaludes, or what? It's almost as if they deliberately concoct the most ridiculous scenarios just to annoy us. And the "actors" and "actresses" they use! C'mon, can't they find anyone better than that? Hmmm...maybe they can't! :P

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Posted 04 August 2007 - 09:59 AM

I hate the Boston Pizza ones. Howie Mandel and that stupid sasquatch. Ditto for the Kokanee commercials. Maybe I just don't like sasquatches. (Or whaterver they are called).
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 01:52 PM

I hated the old Alexander Keith's commercials where that scottish guy got indignant when someone did something with Alexander Keith's beer he didn't like. Come on, it's just beer! Thank god the actor who played that guy was arrested for child porn charges (I think), but I know he was arrested. :(

Another interesting commercial is the Alzimers commercial where the old guy buys a carton of milk. His wife takes it and puts it in the fridge which is full of milk cartons and a message says if you catch him forgetting, it's an early sign. I don't mind the ad, but it's just begging to be parodied (by the Royal Canadian Air Farce perhaps).
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 02:08 PM

the mentos commercials used to drive me nuts.

person. problem. mentos. problem solved.

its like, we get it.

I once made my own "variant" of that commercial with our home video camrea.

started out with me walking into my house, and seeing robbers. then I popped a mentos. then I shot them. used a bottle of ketchup for the blood.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 02:18 PM

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nn12RQrFnMg Wait until the end.

Sex sells for Ice Cream :(.

If you notice in the new versions, they changed it. Probably because people complained.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 02:38 PM

The Mini Wheats commercial, that song is so annoying.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 02:41 PM

i actually hate the newer Alexander keiths ads, c'mon, you have to go into a closet and talk to a bust of Alexander keith to plead your case for you to be worthy to get the dang beer!, in my opion thats worst than the Scottish guy and wish they would bring the character back with a new actor
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 02:51 PM

View PostDRT, on Aug 4 2007, 12:38 PM, said:

The Mini Wheats commercial, that song is so annoying.
My son's dad hates that commercial too. I have never heard it. I haven't watched T.V. at home for a few years, but I do get exposed to television whilst enjoying my favorite beverage in some of my favorite haunts. Most sports bars have sports channels on their t.V.s, and Kokanee and B.P. are very common (and annoying) commercials on these particular channels.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 03:00 PM

View PostYork Transit, on Aug 4 2007, 02:18 PM, said:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nn12RQrFnMg Wait until the end.
Sex sells for Ice Cream :P.
That looks like the same campaign as on transit ads that reads "It's like finding out all the hottest girls at school live in the same house!"

Forgive me, but I have no idea what that is supposed to do with ice cream. :(

View PostDRT, on Aug 4 2007, 02:38 PM, said:

The Mini Wheats commercial, that song is so annoying.
It is based on this song. :o

View Postcaptaintrolley, on Aug 4 2007, 02:51 PM, said:

My son's dad hates that commercial too. I have never heard it. I haven't watched T.V. at home for a few years, but I do get exposed to television whilst enjoying my favorite beverage in some of my favorite haunts. Most sports bars have sports channels on their t.V.s, and Kokanee and B.P. are very common (and annoying) commercials on these particular channels.
Here is the commercial. :P
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 03:03 PM

Thanks, but the content is 'denied' at work, and I have no sound at home....but I can wait till I get home to watch it at least.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 05:38 PM

And then there are the one's for Rickard's Red beer, where some bozo in a bar is suddenly surrounding by a coven of red-robed, singing, chanting, Satanists (?), or pretty suggestive of them! :P

So, what are to make of this? That we ought to drink the stuff because it will somehow give us the 'power of evil", or that it represents "breaking the rules of society" in some way?

Hell, I'll bet Catholics just love that one!

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View PostYork Transit, on Aug 4 2007, 02:18 PM, said:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nn12RQrFnMg Wait until the end.Sex sells for Ice Cream :o.If you notice in the new versions, they changed it. Probably because people complained.

Pretty tacky.

But if you think this is bad, you ought to see the ice cream ads in Australia, where just about every transit shelter billboard shows some hot babe looking suggestively at you--even one lying in the bathtub with an ice cream bar in her mouth. Ummm...not a place where one nornally eats ice cream, ya think?

Having said that, though, ads like this usually don't bother me.

It's the one's which feature some dweeb, nerd, or other dipsh!t person who looks totally out of place or does something against the obvious: like the one a few years ago for some anti-diarrhea drug where there's an idiot sitting in the aisle seat of a plane being constantly bothered by his window-seat neighbour with the runs who keeps motioning him to get up so the neighbour can rush to the john.

"Hey, stupid!", I'd scream. "Why don't you just switch seats, fer crissakes!" Arrgh! :( :P

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Posted 04 August 2007 - 06:33 PM

Those of you in Ontario that get the Omni TV channels (Omni 1 & 2) might know these commercials. I hate the Family Guy Commercials they have, they made at least 23 different commercials. I hate this one the most.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 08:18 PM

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Posted 04 August 2007 - 08:20 PM

i have to agree about those family guy ads they make no sense!, that and the ontario produce ads, because the guy sings really bad, fresh produce may grow in ontario, but talent certainly doesn't, it could be worse like celine dion doing the ads
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 08:25 PM

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I HATE that commercial. :( Even worse is the new ones they made which have people complaining about how annoying it is.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 08:38 PM

View PostDRT, on Aug 4 2007, 02:38 PM, said:

The Mini Wheats commercial, that song is so annoying.
Are you kidding! I think that is one of the best commercials! My son dances to it. It is such a catchy song.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 09:43 PM

View PostKyle W, on Aug 4 2007, 08:25 PM, said:

I HATE that commercial. :( Even worse is the new ones they made which have people complaining about how annoying it is.
... Same with me. Good thing its a US thing... Or is it... O_O I mean you can say it once and people getting it. But saying it like 10-15 times???????? :P Damnit, when I was watching that commercial, was really damn close to saying, "SOME ONE SHUT THAT STUPID LADY UP!!!! WE GET THE GODDAMN POINT!!!!" The one which people conplaining is just the brink of the iceberg.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 10:34 PM

View Post2VivaBlue91, on Aug 4 2007, 08:18 PM, said:

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The same company has another one about a different product (the bottle thing is red). Thank god they don't have a repeating phrase in this one.

View Postwil9402, on Aug 4 2007, 06:33 PM, said:

Those of you in Ontario that get the Omni TV channels (Omni 1 & 2) might know these commercials. I hate the Family Guy Commercials they have, they made at least 23 different commercials. I hate this one the most.
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 11:12 PM

View PostDRT, on Aug 4 2007, 10:34 PM, said:

The same company has another one about a different product (the bottle thing is red). Thank god they don't have a repeating phrase in this one.
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Posted 05 August 2007 - 12:12 AM

Stupid commerical goes to Viagra! This is when someone sings after they felt a great pleasure!
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