<p>My all time favorite commercial is absurd, but in a great way:</p>
<p>[Cingular</a> - Mother Love - YouTube](<a href=“Cingular - Mother Love - YouTube”>Cingular - Mother Love - YouTube)</p>
<p>^^There was a youtube a few years ago about a spoiled teen having a fit over the color of her birthday car. I would taken the car back and there would have been no car. Not that we give cars as birthday presents here.</p>
<p>The Cingular ad is a great ad.</p>
<p>[Dolce</a> & Gabbana Light Blue - Advertising in Italy - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>Dolce and Gabbani - two white bikini’d bodies frolicking at Faraglioni of Capri</p>
<p>How about the Cingular ad to Take a Load Off Annie by The Band</p>
<p>Parent1986… That is a better ad than Xiggi’s.</p>
<p>parent1986, LOL. Ahem. It popped on TV when we were watching something during the Thanksgiving break. DD’s reaction after seeing it was, “Can’t believe my eyes! Did that guy go swimming in his tighty whities?” "Nope, that is an actual Dolce and Gabbana “swim suit” (can be ordered online). “Ewwww, mom, that is disgusting!” And that’s coming form a former swimmer who is used to seeing guys in all sorts of skimpy speedos. :eek: :D</p>
<p>This is a much better ad than the Lexus ad…</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Broadcast Yourself.](<a href=“YouTube”>YouTube)</p>
<p>There are several annoying ads out there these days, besides all the ads for prescription medicines with all the lovely listing of side effects, I think the most annoying one for me is the recent Heineken commercials, with the 1960’s movie kind of vibe, with the scruffy young guy “hero” who has all these admirers and so forth, it is very 1960’s euro trash special <em>ick</em>. On the other hand, I kind of like the tongue in cheek dos equis commercials with the 'most interesting man in the world", they are pretty funny. </p>
<p>What really annoys me is the smart phone ads for ATT and Verizon that promote how you can stream movies, listen to music, etc over their fast 4g network…what they don’t tell you is that with their data plan, if you do that you are going to pay through the nose, because a high def video for an hour blows your 2gig limit…</p>
<p>^preach. that’s why when I start paying my own phone bill, I’m switching to sprint.</p>
<p>That one about the woman bersating her husband and saying she should have married someone else. I think it was for a cell phone. I believe it was yanked it was so mean!</p>
<p>^^^^That commercial made you feel so bad for the husband. Awkward at best…</p>
<p>I hate the one where the guy is eating a hot dog and it starts moving back and forth and whacking him across the mouth. It is so disgusting. I’m also not fond of the urinary product one where the actors are stick “people” made from pipes, nor of the financial one where people are following a long carpet of green. </p>
<p>In my younger days there were good commercials, like from Coke and Heinz and the razor snowman gliding down the hill. Or funny ones. What happened? I hardly ever watch tv, and most of them are annoying.</p>
<p>Can’t stand the commercial where the husband sends an RC helicopter spilling tomato sauce all over the dining table and then crashes it into the china hutch. Why are men portrayed so badly in so many TV ads? And what exactly were they advertising in that toy chopper commecial?</p>
<p>Speaking of Jared…S2 sent me a pic today of Gollum holding the Ring, and the caption is – “He went to Jared!” </p>
<p>Re: ED commercials — “if you have an … lasting more than four hours…” the collective response at our house, shouted at the TV, is “you’d darn well better enjoy the first three hours and fifty nine minutes!”</p>
<p>The Lexus commercials also get hoots here, but we promised S2 any car he wanted for his 16th birthday. He named it, I went out and got it. He went to school, announced his parents had bought him a Corvette, and someone said, “Oh, can you show us?” He pulled out the matchbox car from his pocket. The friends were disappointed.</p>
<p>DH says if I ever bought him a car he’d divorce me. I told him I’d do the same if he did. Heck, we don’t spend $100 without telling the other.</p>
<p>Ah, we had lots of comments on the tighty whitey commercial here, too.</p>
<p>One of the biggest things I’ll miss about Bruce Boudreau being fired as the coach of the Washington Capitals is that he made a ton of hokey hockey-themed commercials for a local carpet cleaner, Mercedes dealers, etc. They were so bad they were funny.</p>
<p>That one about the woman bersating her husband and saying she should have married someone else. I think it was for a cell phone. I believe it was yanked it was so mean! </p>
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<p>I detest that commercial. I can’t stand commercials where men are treated like idiots by the women in their lives. There is a commercial where a guy checks his phone on the sly for game scores & the woman with him gets upset. Why???</p>
<p>^^^ totally agree this husband bashing commercial is awful, too truly nasty and does little to help you remember the product when your left hating this *itch of a wife</p>
<p>Most of the Nationwide commercials with the “spokesperson” I can tolerate, but the one where he shows “carl” the vanishing deductible demonstration just seems like some racist stereotype thing. </p>
<p>Always wonder how you get away with having old bathtubs hanging around in your yard…</p>
<p>^^ I always wonder how the people in the ED commercials ever get any HOUSEWORK done, since it always seems to end up being…“the right time”…</p>
<p>My H loathes all the ED commercials, since the affected men are all rugged handsome types, married to ex-model wives. He has a hard time deciding if he’d trade the awesome sports cars they all seem to have for the affliction.</p>
<p>I like the William Shatner commercials for Expedia – It is Expedia, right?</p>