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Old 06-19-07 | 08:16 PM
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All those verizon commercials with the people dancing while talking on the phone, like people do that in real life. In fact all the verizon commericials where at the end they go "phone, broadband, tv, mobile, spy satellites, chemical weapons." I might have made the last two up.

My wife and I said the same thing. Oh like people dance around in the kitchen like that. 20 minutes later we were acting like morons and making fart noises and other strange things while in the kitchen. So really, it's not that far off
Old 06-19-07 | 09:40 PM
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That's some funny shit.
Old 06-20-07 | 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Ayre
Probably not as peeved as the people behind you.


I can't speak for my fellow check writers, but everything's already written up (except the price, obviously) by the time I reach the cashier. Just a few seconds. It's just as long a wait waiting for that credit card holder to sign that slip for that one pop and small bag of chips he purchased at the Kwikee Mart...
Old 06-21-07 | 02:58 PM
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All the Geico commercials
the ones with the geiko/the ones with the celebrities talking for regular people-Little Richard/Peter Graves, etc./the caveman ones

The Comcast commercials-the girl selling lemonade but no one buys any because she can't spell lemonade/the boy that cuts peoples hedges & people get mad because he does a bad job, etc.
Old 06-21-07 | 04:36 PM
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ALL commercials are annoying.
And once a guy gets a TiVo, he REALLY can't stand them. I pretty much can't even sit through a show with commercials anymore. I just don't have the patience for it. Soooo irritating.
Old 06-21-07 | 05:30 PM
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MUWAHAHHAHA!! Brilliant!!
Old 06-21-07 | 05:47 PM
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You know what kills me? That fucking Kaiser Permanente commercial with the Mexican woman saying "Come on class! Up, up, down. Arribo, abaja. Stretch those musculos. Eja. Muy bien!" Uh, HELLO... last I checked this wasn't Guadalajara. I like to be able to understand my commercials, annoying as they may be. Dios mio.
Old 06-21-07 | 10:01 PM
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My most annoying is that racist Home Depot spot where the black guy in the kitchen and his daughter says they should get new appliances then, after a quick shot of the mom paying off the daughter, the rest of the commercial is of a white couple being shown new appliances at the Home Depot. The obvious implication is that the black guy stole the white couples appliances and now they have to buy new ones. Shame on you racist Home Depot.
Old 06-22-07 | 02:01 AM
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Those Swinky.com commercials are annoying as hell. Ugly ass animation with that stupid "Get Swinky" song on top of it.
Old 06-22-07 | 11:03 AM
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I really hate the V-Cast phone commercial with the sweaty frat boy in the gym, who says, "Hey bud, I just got the new Fallout Boy single on my V-Cast phehwn! IT. GETS. ME. PUMPED!" He then proceeds to pretend he's conducting an orchestra, or perhaps he's having a seizure, before he receives a call and says, "It's my lady" and mercifully exits the screen.

I would seriously like to drag that guy behind my car for several hundred miles.
Old 06-22-07 | 11:22 AM
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I really hate the V-Cast phone commercial with the sweaty frat boy in the gym, who says, "Hey bud, I just got the new Fallout Boy single on my V-Cast phehwn! IT. GETS. ME. PUMPED!" He then proceeds to pretend he's conducting an orchestra, or perhaps he's having a seizure, before he receives a call and says, "It's my lady" and mercifully exits the screen.

I would seriously like to drag that guy behind my car for several hundred miles.

... this is sooooo true
Old 06-22-07 | 01:18 PM
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My most annoying is that racist Home Depot spot where the black guy in the kitchen and his daughter says they should get new appliances then, after a quick shot of the mom paying off the daughter, the rest of the commercial is of a white couple being shown new appliances at the Home Depot. The obvious implication is that the black guy stole the white couples appliances and now they have to buy new ones. Shame on you racist Home Depot.
Wait a sec...

I've seen that commercial, but the couple is asian. And then the ones looking at the furniture in the store are still white. They actually have the same commercial with differing minorities?
Old 06-22-07 | 02:13 PM
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Those Swinky.com commercials are annoying as hell. Ugly ass animation with that stupid "Get Swinky" song on top of it.
Amen.

That new "Wendy's" commercial with the people in the woods kicking trees, and then some crunchsock in a red wig starts screaming for a bigger, juicier burger...or something to that effect. Am I missing something in that commercial? I don't get why the people are kicking the trees.
Old 06-22-07 | 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by wmansir
My most annoying is that racist Home Depot spot where the black guy in the kitchen and his daughter says they should get new appliances then, after a quick shot of the mom paying off the daughter, the rest of the commercial is of a white couple being shown new appliances at the Home Depot. The obvious implication is that the black guy stole the white couples appliances and now they have to buy new ones. Shame on you racist Home Depot.
We must get diffrent ones, in the ones that I see the family is Asian.
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Originally Posted by movie diva
We must get diffrent ones, in the ones that I see the family is Asian.
Same here. Definitely asian. There must be 2 versions.

Another commercial that's more inexplicable to me than annoying (although believe me, it's still plenty annoying) is the Rozerem series. You know, the ones where the guy can't sleep and is visited by Lincoln, a beaver and a mute deep sea diver. WTF??? I get that he can't sleep, and that he's not dreaming and these characters are upset that he's not visiting them in "dreamland" or whatever, but... if they're from his dreams, them why are they appearing to him during the day in the real world? If they can manifest themselves to him when he's awake, then why are they pissed that he's not dreaming? Or is he supposed to be dropping off to sleep during the day? I don't get it. Nothing about them makes any sense. And they just keep making more of them. There must be at least 8 in the series by now.

God help us all if they get their own show, ala the Geico Cavemen.

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Old 06-22-07 | 09:28 PM
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It's Asian here too, and not just "Asian", but the ubiquitous Tim Kang, also seen in those Cingular commercials with the retarded Sprint guy.

My current most-hated commercial is the douchebag from Dodge issuing "An Apology" to the Ford F-150 that goes something like, "We're sorrrry that you suck. And we're sorrrry that we're so awesome." WTF? "Hey, buy our product, because we're assholes!"

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Old 06-22-07 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by clckworang
I can't believe that no one mentioned the old "whassup" commericals for whichever brand of beer. Those drove me fuckin' mad! Even worse was the trend that started where people thought they were clever by imitating it.

I don't think I've ever found a commercial more annoying than that series of ads.
You are wrong. The TRUE campaign was great.

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GiqGCghbczk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GiqGCghbczk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Q.E.D.

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Old 06-22-07 | 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by movie diva
We must get diffrent ones, in the ones that I see the family is Asian.
I could be mistaken, but I recall them being black. I'll have to pay attention if I see it again. Having multiple versions would explain why they switched couples mid-commercial.
Old 06-24-07 | 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by caligulathegod
You'd think that the fact the product itself is pure quackery would be enough. But then again, "Smiling Bob" is still shilling Enzyte after being exposed as yet more quackery years ago. Televangelist Peter Popoff is still on TV selling "miracle spring water" after being exposed as a fraud 20 years ago by James Randi on the Tonight Show. It wasn't that long ago we were putting green magic marker around the edge of CDs "to make them sound better" (at least that was free). Never underestimate the public's desire to be fooled.
I do NOT do it, but magic marker on CDs will make a very small, very small, but real difference in sound on some players.
Old 06-24-07 | 03:39 PM
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WHO COULD YOU BE TEXTING 50 TIMES A DAY???

idk...my bff, Jill?
I actually LIKE that one. It is really flawlessly done and really captures the youth of today.
Old 06-24-07 | 04:33 PM
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I do NOT do it, but magic marker on CDs will make a very small, very small, but real difference in sound on some players.

No. It doesn't. Complete quackery. Chalk it up to the powers of persuasion.
Old 06-24-07 | 05:28 PM
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Right now it has to be the Saving Grace commercial on TNT. It's long and the music just kills me.
Old 06-24-07 | 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by wmansir
I could be mistaken, but I recall them being black. I'll have to pay attention if I see it again. Having multiple versions would explain why they switched couples mid-commercial.
They were black on the one I saw too. Haven't seen the Asian one.
Old 06-25-07 | 10:12 AM
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no asian commercial when I saw it (here in TN). Black family.
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Originally Posted by das Monkey
You are wrong. The TRUE campaign was great.

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GiqGCghbczk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GiqGCghbczk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Q.E.D.

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This commercial has been my all-time favorite for years. "What are you doing?" has been at the top with several other "Whassup" in the top 10 as well.


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