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.

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.

Oh, we have that. Bleerrrgghh.

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

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!"

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.

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!

<3! Somehow forgot about that one...

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!

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.

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..

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...--;

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...

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

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

I know!!!

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

ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

It's painfully obvious Excedrin can't come up with an ad campaign...anyone seen their ads lately?

But I must say, I am taken with anything that uses something adorable like a cute puppy to sell a product. I am such a sucker for those.

Oooh, that reminded me. Those ads for Charmin (luxury toilet paper), with fuzzy bears going to the toilet, then reaching for the Charmin, then they relax with this look of utter bliss on their faces...it's really quite disturbing. Though it does answer the eternal if rhetorical question about the defecatory habits of the sylvan ursines.

What gets me is all the mothers in nappy advertisments continually slapping their baby's behinds or rubbing their faces against them over and over and over.

..... and those bloody insurance ads on UK tv ... Oh boy ... About a million years back I had access to satellite TV, and would have to watch this 'no-nonsense' type 'man-on-the-street' git ranting in short sentences about how Bob, Sheila and some other cretin saved POUNDS on car insurance, with these idiots in the studio standing at the front of their cars, quoting how much they had 'saved'

This flaming ad, along with about 6 very-close-copies were rammed down the viewers throat at about 45ads/hour ... It actually put me off Sky TV, especially seeing as the only really worthwile programs were Star Trek and The Simpsons ...

So I stopped watching satellite, and when it went digital and becoming more difficult to pirate, I gave up completely and would dilude myself into smugness by thinking I'd never have to watch those shite adverts again ...

AND THEN ... about 2 months back, the SAME sodding AD appeared on Spanish TV (sort of where I live) ... with the added insult of being dubbed into Spanish ... So now its Juan, Carmen and flaming Carlos who get to save EUROS on their car insurance, whilst still looking as British as Paul Weller sat on a Union Jack vespa ...

I CANT STAND IT ANYMORE ..... *takes pin out of grenade* ... GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

I love this commercial...really hits close to home having been required to take a Leadership Development class where we had to read the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Ugh...paradigm breaking...outside the box thinking. Watch and enjoy....

Terry Tate

Oh yes....and my least favorites are among the horrid ads for law firms that deal with personal injury.

Lackey: Looks like they want to settle this one.
Lawyer: Meh...*waves hand to the side to say "I don't give a damn"*
Lackey: They got a LAWYER.
Lawyer: Oh yeah? *pompous windbag* Who.
Lackey: The law offices of GARY BECKER.
***INSERT DRAMATIC LAW AND ORDER BOOM HERE***
Lawyer: *spits out his coffee and looks horrifically surprised*
Lackey: Maybe we oughta...settle this one???
Lawyer: *wipes off coffee and looks really pissed off*

Cheap. Cheesy. A waste of 30 seconds I could have spent doing more important things, like peeling back my sunburn or waving my hand in front of my eyes really fast.

I don't like those either. I especially don't like the commercials where they lawyers are calling theirselves the "Tigers" or the "Iron Hammer, " its dumb.

Hehe. Felcher.

Not a bad advert.

As the new election comes, my least fav. ads come out.
Those bloody stupid political ad's where by one person simply accuses the other person of doing things.
ie: This comercial paid for by bush and chaney for 2004
John Kerry will raise taxes, destroy economy, ship old people off on ice bergs to die, run over small children with his terrorist paid for suv.

Okay that was fake I'll admit. But there pretty much along the same lines.

I've never really seen a political advert as such on British TV. Instead we get fifteen minute slots for election manifestos once a night on the big terrestrial channels. Strange really, because they're always dull as hell and avoided like the plague by TV viewers.

Yeah, my dad saw the scented ones and was like "People want to wipe their ass with scented toilet paper?" "Haha, no, Dad, it's on the cardboard."

I heard about G. W. Bush ads that had something to do with 9/11, but haven't seen any. That seems stupid to me.

Living in Canada we get alot of the American Comercials.

Although I cant really remember the last time I saw a Canadian political commericial or show. I think they come around with leaflets or something. Or Maybe thats the Jahova(sp?) witnesses people. I did get a reminder to vote with my tax package. Yup they still try really hard to get the word out.

As cheesy as that is, I'd rather have that than "Hi, my name is peter geraci. *talks about all the great things he can do to bring you out of debt if you call the number*" I mean, the ones that are painfully straightforward, where they don't even try. They just smack it on you. Sort of like the excedrin one I mentioned earlier.

Ok Oobunnie made me think of a Bush add that drives me nuts, and once I type that I'll go to the three I have in my head for good commercials (they're not political.)

Bush has this commercial that looks like an old time movie with cars going around and accuses John Kerry of doing what he can to raise gas prices. Under Bush our prices on gas are higher than they have ever been and will more than likely go higher. Was it me or wasn't the war on Iraq supposed to bring down gas prices?

Now for the good ones.

There's this pepsi commercial where you see this little boy that looks like he could be Jimi Hendrix standing in front of a guitar shop buying a pepsi out of a vending machine. You hear Jimi Hendrix music playing in the background and then you see him look across the street and see a coke machine by an accordian shop and hear Jimi Hendrix music being played on an accordian. Just think of what would have happened if he had had that coke. lol.

I've noticed that radio adds are getting way cool and there are two that I really like that are out right now.

The first one is a spin off on the six flags commercial Candice posted about to begin this thread. You hear this teenage boy talking about how he saw this old man at a bus stop near a convience store and just thought that he was so old, then this six flags bus pulls up and the old guy just starts dancing around so he couldn't be that old. They go to six flags and ride the rollercoasters that turn this way and that way and flip and go really fast. They turn to the old man to ask him how he liked the ride and he just sat there not responding with a really big grin on his face. Then the kid says, "Now that I think of it, I've never seen that old man at the bus stop again."

Sick but great if you ask me. lol

Now this one hits close to home and I absolutely love it. It's for an ATT calling plan and goes something like this: Bill woke up one morning and decided that he was going to move to the beach, so he called up his friend in Fresno and his friend in LA to tell them the good news. Bill continues to call all of his friends in California throughout the day to tell them of his great plan. The next day bright and early Bills friends are gathered along the Eastern border of California and they all begin to push. With a crack California floats away and becomes an island. Then they talk about free long distance to anyone in California and how it will only cost 5 cents a minute to talk to anyone on the main land. It was hard becoming an island but at least we have these great phone rates.

That one makes me laugh so hard. I've had so many people tell me the states going to fall off into the ocean.

Oh god, I've seen those! It usually ends in me running screaming from the room.

What was worse though was when I was innocently (mostly) sitting my art class and all of a sudden some guy started singing the jingle.

AGH It was horrible!

But I really like the one Geico commercial where theres the family riding in the car and the kids are asleep in the backseat and the gecko is there, all strapped in and twitching like a cat dreaming of a ball of string. It's cute.

One of my least favourite UK commercials:

The "Personal Injury Helpline" advert. Which features one of the most unattractive people ever, which somehow makes you want to go out and cause injury. How he promotes the company, I do not know.

*bump*

I have just seen the coolest advert for a Citreon C4.

The car transforms into a robot (Transformers style, funny that) and is dancing around to this sort of techno type music. Truly the coolest advert I've seen in a long while.

If you're in the UK keep an eye out for it.

I still believe the Bud adverts with the Chameleons were fantastic.

I saw a Millers ad I think during this years superbowl with the mut dog trained to get the beer while I was in the States- THAT was funny

I cant stand any of those personal injury or insurance ads although my old teacher Mr Cleg aparently saved a load of dosh with some car insurance bods..??

oo oo oo and "'Ave it!" -> PETER KAY in the John Smiths Bitter ads are brilliant- straight to the point- NO NONSENSE
"Its not the bed monsters you have to worry about sweetheart, its the burglars coming throught the window"..."off to the old folks home for you Mum...I want a pool table and the kids are scared of your moustache" Bloody wonderful

My favourite that hasn't yet been mentioned is still the tango man slapping the tango drinker in the mouth.

And my least favourites are the ones that repeat at least twice in the same set such as those ring tone ads and the insurance ones

You've been Tangoed!!!!!!!!! Even after they tempered it down it was grand!

I've just remembered one that I like, the dog breath one

Was that Joel Vietche or am I thinkinbg of someone else? I haven't seen it but it sounds like the sort of thing he does, he also did the brilliant 'Crusha' advert.



That really annoys me when watching the music channels, "Tune up your mobile now!", yes you cretin you have told me that 5 times in the last 30 seconds and I still haven't moved.


But, as many people have said, the Budwieser lizards were the greatest ever, even if Bud does taste of cat piss

Worst advert: Bl%%dy mobile phone ads for music for your phone. OMG they are absolutely awful. Like I want to hear that tinny awful sound coming out of my mobile let alone stero from my TV!!!


Best advert: I saw this advert once before it was banned. About Eight years ago Tango released a still variety called (surprisingly enough) Tango still. At around eight o clock in the evening one night I saw an advert telling people that this drink was not proper merchandise and if you had seen any on sale to phone this number. You phoned it and heard "You've been Tangoed!" Lasted one week before being taken off the air but was absolutely brilliant!

theres this really annoying life insurance one that starts off by saying stuff like you have had a fun and care free life ..... and than basically says but you may want to think about dieing soon - if I was old I'd really start to feel worried!

CILLET BANG!

(google for it)

Only seen it once and was in shock for several minutes - apparently it is a real product!

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Was that Joel Vietche or am I thinkinbg of someone else? I haven't seen it but it sounds like the sort of thing he does, he also did the brilliant 'Crusha' advert.
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Yep Joel Vietche on Rathergood.com The original on his site is better 'cos we dont get Quiznos, but I remember the ad from when I dashed throught the States -->"We love you Moooooooooon..." hilarious AND disturbing, great mix.

I've just seen the Citreon ad too where the car goes all Transformers and boogies away (I think Snugglebum mentioned it before)

And oo oo oo! Eddie Izzard's recycling ad is soooooooooo cool