Favorite/least Favorite Commercials, Or adverts...whatever you call them. Options

[Phyllis]

Okay, so my list of least favorite commercials is probably going to be longer...cause they're mostly crap, but there are a few that I love.

My favorite commercial ever: Six Flags!

You can't see how fast he's really dancing in that....but I posted it for the Canadians and Brits as they probably don't have the actual commercial on TV there. I giggle every time I see it on TV, cause he really dances a lot! And even though he's a young guy in an old man mask, it's still adorable.

I can't think of any more that I like right now, but I HATE all feminine hygeine commercials. They're all the same. And there is a tire commercial here where this old woman..about 60-ish, says "It's all about the bling bling, baby!" That isn't cute. It's just annoying. And those "Tobacco is whacko if you're a teen" ads. They're just...so incredibly stupid. Plus, it makes it sound like it's okay to smoke if you're an 8 year old...lol.

Oh, and I HATE HATE HATE those stupid Old Navy ads. Urrrgghh.

That's all I can think of for now. Mostly, I just wanted to share the Six Flags guy. He's so great.

[Tigersong]

I mostly hate the jingles that accompany some ads... luckily, you don't have them in the States, but GOD I hate the United Furniture Warehouse song...

I love Ikea ads, though. Especially the one with the family feuding in the kitchen... oh, it brings tears to my eyes to think of it. Also, the sex on the kitchen table one... *dies*

Do others outside of Canada get the Ikea ads? Because, if you don't, then you're missing out.

[Phyllis]

I mostly hate the jingles that accompany some ads... luckily, you don't have them in the States, but GOD I hate the United Furniture Warehouse song...

Oh, we have that. Bleerrrgghh.

But I don't remember ever seeing those Ikea ones....hrm...

[MoonlightSavings...]

I'm going to generalize a bit, because usually I hate commercials so much that I avoid them by taping my favorite shows specifically so I can fastforward through the commercials. So I might not be good at remembering any specific commercials.

Anyway, the commercials I hate usually fall into the following categories:

1) a housecleaning product - I hate them because they're still so traditional that "mom" is always the one cleaning and/or making the cleaning decisions or ordering the rugrats and negligent father around to do the chores at the very least.

2) car commercials - how many times can a person stand to sit through boring stats on a brand-new car ("APR, some percentage, safety standard yadda yadda, something about the new-technology brakes and something about the powerful engine") *and* watch this supposedly spectacular car zip through out-of-the-way curvy roads that few people in the real world actually ever drive on or the classic "professional driver on a closed course - do not attempt at home."

3) beer commercials - As if it wasn't bad enough to watch the same ol' plot of some guy or group of guys tipping back a few beers with the result of dancing bikinis doing it doggy-style for these average, dopey guys -- now we have to put up with beer commercials that pretend to be "healthy." Several of them boast of being "low-carb" with this stupid Atkins fad now, and there's one commercial in particular that features a womyn going on her daily jog, and when she's finished exercising, she completes her "healthy lifestyle" by chugging a "low-carb" beer or something like that. As if a six-pack is now "part of a daily balanced diet."

4) Basically anything that begs for social commentary/criticism (some people would be surprised at how much racism and sexism commercials/ads can still get away with), which I love to do. So that pretty much means all commercials, since advertisements are notoriously traditionalist and are often the last pieces of society to "change with the times."

Commercials that I like are few and far between. Usually I like the ones that make me laugh. On that note, Comedy Central's commercials are usually pretty tolerable. Most of what they advertise are their own shows anyway. Maybe I'll come up with some specific "good" commercials later. Right now I can't think of any.

Special Ed "Yayyy!"

[Alanity]

Honda's "Cog" ad was omfgubercool.
I like the old Budweiser frogs, and "How refreshing, how, Heineken.", as well as the beer ads with Peter Kay, the pub sex ed is hilarious.

Waaaaaay too many bad ads to even try thinking of a few that stick in my mind. I guess the BBC tv license fear tactics really pissed me off.

[CommieBastard]

My all-time British advert is the Pot Noodle advert.

For Americans and their natural enemies to the north, Pot Noodle is a meal that comes in a big plastic cup. You add boiling water, leave it for a while, and it becomes what seems on the surface to be simply a tasty noodle meal, but in actual fact is the very ambrosia of some unhealthy God.

I can't find it on the net, so I'll write a transcript.

(Man and woman sitting across from each other at a table, eating sandwiches)

Woman: Nice sandwich, dear?

Man: Yes, yes, it's lovely.

Man outside of room, on phone

Man: I do love Kate, it's just those sandwiches...I need something filthy, you know, like a kebab, all hard and...

Friend (interrupting): Gav, ever heard of...Pot Noodle?

Red Light District

Gav surreptitiously enters shop

Gav to woman behind desk: Excuse me...do you do Pot Noodle?

The woman slaps Gav

Subsequent scenes show Gav asking various women of questionable virtue for Pot Noodles and getting slapped

Gav goes up to one last prostitute

Gav: Do you do Pot Noodle?

Prostitute (leans forward, whispers): Round the back in two minutes.

Gav and the prostitute are sitting on a bed eating Pot Noodles, bouncing up and down. They are sweating and groaning with pleasure. Gav tips the carton back and swallows the last of the sauce

Gav: That felt so wrong - and yet it felt so right!

[Alanity]

<3! Somehow forgot about that one...

[Snugglebum the D...]

I really like the 'Cradle to Grave' one, for the XBox. I believe that it was banned from being shown in this country because 100 people complained about it. (no really, a whole 100)

It's where the women is giving birth - the baby comes shooting out like a bloody great cork and goes flying through the window. The baby continues to soar and as he is doing so starts to age, going from baby to toddler to child to adolescent to adult to an old man. Then he comes crashing down into his own grave.

The slogan was 'Life's too short. Play more.'

Classic!

[oobunnie]

The Telus comercials, with the cute little animals. I really love the one with the pigs. I dunno if they only play in Canada.. or maybe just Alberta for that fact.

The Molson ones are usually good for a laugh. *snicker* I remember that one where they guy asked the Canadian fellow in the bar where his pet beaver was, and he was like "right here" and the beaver attacks him.

Oh and that Visa one with the suitcase that travels, I think its super cute aswell.

hmm ones I hate...
United Furniture which was already mentioned.

Oh and that frisk comercial were the guy is making out with the dog, just makes me shudder.

[Alanity]

I really like the 'Cradle to Grave' one, for the XBox.

Ooo! That was groovilicious.
One that will always stay close to my heart is *Diiiiamond windows, let the sun shine in!*.....
Such an annoyingly catchy jingle..

[Sir Maxerpopple]

Possibly the most successful commericals are the insanely horrible ones. Like one I saw for peptobismol.

Five people in a conga line...
Heartburn, nauseau, indigestion, upset stomach, diahrhea..YAY PEPTOBISMOL!

They use hand motions to describe the reactions to their symptoms. It is so horrible and beyond ridiculous, well now you all know about it, along with everyone else I told because of its amazing stupidity. It's got to be sucessful.

The Geico commericals "But I've got good news, I just saved a ton of money on my car insurance while switching to Geico" are quite good.

[Elmdor]

Least favorite: That F***ing quiznos ad with the irradiated hampsters or whatever they are with the mouths edited onto them singing "WE LOVE THE SUBS!!!! CUZ DEY ARE GOOOOOD TOO US! EAT QUIZNOS SUBS!!!" blah blah blah "THEY GOT A PEPPER BAR"

or however it goes... god it makes me feel good about how much i abused my hampster in it's shortened life.

I forget now which one is my favorite.. i guess i'll come back to it later

[acid_rain_child]

I hate the commercials for pills... but they don't tell you what the pill is for. Like, you just see some old man golfing or playing pool, he smiles into the camera, "BlahBlah-oft helped me get the swing back in my game. *Wink*" Like it's some little secret! I realize most of them are "male enhancement" drugs, but man, just come out and tell me.

[Mutilation]

There was a Coca-Cola advert I saw but it was banned. It went like:

*Spanish (he just is) boy walks up to a drinks vending machine*

He puts some money in and buys a Pepsi, then puts it on the floor.

He then buys another Pepsi and again puts it on the floor.

He then stands on the two Pepsi cans and presses the Coca-Cola button and walks off, leaving the Pepsi's.

[CommieBastard]

I really want to see the Kool-Aid advert where the giant anthropomorphic jug of Kool-Aid bursts through the wall and shouts Oh yeah! Just so I know it's not a joke or something.

[gothictheysay]

Yeah, always been a fan of Geico. I am really sick of "I'm dying from baldness please save me" "I'm horribly impotent" (did anyone see the SNL spinoff of Viagra? Or, even better, the "Oops I crapped my pants!"? ) Girls Gone Wild commercials, and I second most of moonlightsavingstime's stuff. There was one I liked for some bank commercial or something, these two guys are talking about investment stuff and they go "I'd never do that, that's way too dangerous." Camera pans out and they're climbing up a mountain, or sleeping in sleeping bags at the edge of the mountain or something like that. I remember the days of the Budweiser frogs...I HATE MOST BEER COMMERCIALS. There's this one with Bailey's (they always say drink responsibly at the end) and it's the one with all the pauses and sense. Beer is spilled by girl - pause - sense of loss. Beer is wiped up by boy - pause - sense of duty. The worst one being where there's a shot at the girl's large amount of cleavage, and then it shoots to the guy looking at her cleavage, and then he laughs at something she said and then it's "sense of humor". I start screaming now when that one comes on...--;

[acid_rain_child]

It was a beer commercial or a coke commercial or something, but it featured these couple on a couch. The chick was sleeping on the guy's extended arm so he couldn't bend it, and in the hand of this arm was the beverage in question. Then a message pops up that says " For extreme cases only" or something along those lines, and he whipsers, "I love you", and she smiles and moves her head, letting him move his arm and sip his drink.
God, I almost threw the remote at the screen, I was really mad. I thought it was terrible advertising, and vowed never to buy the drink. Unfortunately I can't even remember what it was...

[Snugglebum the D...]

The YES Car Credit adverts. This is a UK thing, I believe. Drive. Me. Nuts.

[mooooooooooopo]

Gaaah! The annoyingly perky yellow and green wearing yes car credit person/people must be put down for the good of the universe

[Snugglebum the D...]

I know!!!

But, my son loves them - I think it's the bright colours...

ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!

[CommieBastard]

Any car advert which mostly consists of the car in question being driven at dangerous speeds around implausibly bendy mountain roads, as if the purchaser is going to use it for anything more glamorous than driving to the supermarket.

[Mata]

Least favorite: That F***ing quiznos ad with the irradiated hampsters or whatever they are with the mouths edited onto them singing "WE LOVE THE SUBS!!!! CUZ DEY ARE GOOOOOD TOO US! EAT QUIZNOS SUBS!!!" blah blah blah "THEY GOT A PEPPER BAR"

I know the bloke who made those! I think he got paid a ton of money, and now there's a debate in the US media about whether there really is such a thing as bad advertising... Not that I'm bitter or anything...

I generally hate any advert on daytime TV that starts with a line that sounds like it came from a Mr Snaffleburger advert... Do you have crippling debts? Can you not keep up with the repayments on your home? Ever feel like you just want to end it all?

[Kamaradi]

My favorite is the Phillip Morris commercial that tells people to go to the phillip morris website for information on how to quit smoking. Too ironic for me.

[Industrial Kybos...]

Dear Mr. Advertiser,

Please stop showing footage of children on the toilet (viz. Kandoo), as we do not need to see it. We were all children once, and we all defecate, so let us use our imaginations. Furthermore, if you use a crapping child to promote a not-toilet paper product, you are scum.

However, would you please show more of that charming Thierry Henri, whom my wife and I think is a delightful young chap. Just not on the toilet.

Sincerely,

Signed.

[gothictheysay]

I generally hate any advert on daytime TV that starts with a line that sounds like it came from a Mr Snaffleburger advert... Do you have crippling debts? Can you not keep up with the repayments on your home? Ever feel like you just want to end it all?

It's not only daytime TV. It comes on at night too. How could I forget? I abhor those, too. Watching that one Mr. SB film, when they said "Do you know how much that brain is worth?!" I began laughing so hard and had to watch the animation several times over to get all of it. Thanks again Mata. If that was, say, a Geico trick-ad, I would send Geico my allowance or something.