Lame ads

[darkvare]

when i see an ad on tv i change channels but online they make you watch them to keep it free the ones i hate now are
"verizon wireless can you hear me now guy" ads
"honda element and friends"
i understand the need for ads but i hate that most ads are really lame why not put up some, like the coke gta spoof ad.

[Tadao]

I'd rather share good ads instead of reliving ones I hate :(

[Asila]

I can understand Tadao's point but there is one ad I hate so much that I want to share the pain with others... and it's some car company commercial that starts out by saying "Did we wait to storm the beaches of Normandy?"
NO BUT WE SURE WAITED TO GET IN THAT WAR DIDN'T WE FUCKERS?

[Esuohlim]

Bad commercials exponentially outweigh the good ones. :(

The best commercial I've seen in recent memory was one I've seen only on Youtube :rolleyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlczxXqez-Y

[Pub Lover]

Haha, that is a great ad. :D

I was expecting it to be one of those don't play on the tracks PSAs where the kids get splattered. :(

[Fathom Zero]

I love this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5YMVO7-8ns

[Dr. Octogonopus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJUBFkVrk9s
Because those seat belts are killer these days.

[Dommin]

Needs More Holiday Hawk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0rQnVIOvA

[WhiteRat]

I can't stand Whataburger commercials. The "grizzled old timer" doing the narration is in every commercial and is annoying as fuck, especially when he says words like "jalepenYUZZ". Fuck you Whataburger guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiSqEadjYhk&feature=related

[Zomboid]

What's even worse than those are the Hardee's commercials. They act like gluttony is WHAT BEING A GUY IS ALL ABOUT.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

I think it's funny how no one in the part of Texas I live or ever have lived in talks like him, but they still have those lame ads.
Seriously, I hear more people trying to talk jive than country, hick drawl. Kinda sad.

[BurntToShreds]

I think it's funny how no one in the part of Texas I live or ever have lived in talks like him, but they still have those lame ads.
Seriously, I hear more people trying to talk jive than country, hick drawl. Kinda sad.

I concur.

Also, the Snickers FEAST commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9xrsRyvOk

[Asila]

I actually kind of like the one where they sing "Greensleeves"

[Esuohlim]

I can't stand Whataburger commercials. The "grizzled old timer" doing the narration is in every commercial and is annoying as fuck, especially when he says words like "jalepenYUZZ". Fuck you Whataburger guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiSqEadjYhk&feature=related

I've never heard of Whataburger let alone have ever seen those commercials but I'll be damned if that burger doesn't look delicious :o

[Sethomas]

I actually kind of like the one where they sing "Greensleeves"

Man, nothing breaks the ice in a Yuletide academic discussion about the historical origins of that melody concluded with an off-handed remark about making an elegy to the Christ child out of a song that got its title from "a fair lady who kept staining her sleeves from fucking in the grass".

It's fun, you see, because you can take two scholarly examinations of the primeval British associations with the color green, one in reference to Gawain and the Green Knight and the other to "Greensleaves", and find no two sentences that agree with each other.

[Asila]

I'm only confused because I had always connected Greensleeves with "Gawain and the Green Knight." I realized that it was a 'christmas' song after I started looking it up, and I was oddly irritated by the distance between the two meanings.
I JUST WANT A SONG ABOUT FUCKING IN THE GRASS PEOPLE

[executioneer]

i think van morrison has a song about that

[Asila]

About fucking in the grass?

[executioneer]

yeah it is called brown-eyed girl

[Asila]

Oh yeah! The one song when I was growing up that I thought applied to me, until I figured out what it meant

[Fat_Hippo]

I think there's a song by The Doors which mentions a couple making children out in the meadow called "Queen of the Highway". It's only one line though, so it's not exactly about it.

Back on topic: Every cosmetics comercial ever. They're boring as hell, there are too many of them, and now they've even started making all kinds of shit up that doesn't even exist. It's really getting annoying.

That Mcdonalds comercial that you got when you took on Ubisoft's offer to download Far Cry for free. Anybody else do that? It was just so annoying everytime you had to load, because it didn't even load while the commercial was running, so you had to endure first the commercial, then the loading. And it wasn't any good in the first place either. Luckily it went away after a while.

[Sethomas]

I remember I watched just enough of the Super Bowl to catch a really long, drawn-out commercial for flavored water that had a lizard of some sort dancing with a girl in a sequin dress or something. It honestly made me nauseous, and I can point to a dozen reasons why it should but really I'm not sure which one affected my stomach the most.

[Asila]

I remember I watched just enough of the Super Bowl to catch a really long, drawn-out commercial for flavored water that had a lizard of some sort dancing with a girl in a sequin dress or something. It honestly made me nauseous, and I can point to a dozen reasons why it should but really I'm not sure which one affected my stomach the most.


The one where they're raping Michael Jackson's "Thriller" for reasons that are still unknown to me? Because holy crap, they play that here constantly

[Fathom Zero]

I love Whataburger, they have the hugest shakes.

[WhiteRat]

I did happen to enjoy this off-beat Whataburger commercial, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17IXzEdFzaI&feature=related

I know this isn't a commercial but since we are on the topic of resteraunts I figured i'll toss this bad boy out there:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=su0U37w2tws

[StalfrosGR]

While that was trippy, Wataburger commercials are some of my favorites. The Whataburger Guy did a PR Promo about the history of the hospital where I work. He was actually a pretty great guy.

[Esuohlim]

I can't get the sound of that guy saying "grilled hollapainyuzz" out of my head >:

[Sethomas]

Pssh, Don LaFontaine narrated a trailer for my Scav Hunt team made for a movie that never existed.

I would link to the sound file, but I fear that the internet isn't ready.

[StalfrosGR]

Very nice. Don is a God among men who might be Gods.

[Sethomas]

"In a world, run by beauracracy, where page captains run rampant and malevolent orcs dare to cut off one's freely-flowing libations... Only Lush Puppies Mark VII, F-I-S-T point VI Deleuzean Potato Homefries, Billmire's Scrod double-teams Stoney, No blank all Umlaut, Rosebud- Still the Fucking Sled, Vagrant Sun Gods... will succeed in proving that true freedom can only be achieved through utter chaos. Sir, your shit's on fire. Coming soon to a theater near you."

[StalfrosGR]

Ok, I need to hear that.

[Sethomas]

Why, so you can make a YTMND out of it before I do? HUH?

Internet, I won't let you hurt me yet again.

[Fathom Zero]

Give it to me and I won't share it with anybody.

[f-four]

I concur.

Also, the Snickers FEAST commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9xrsRyvOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78U7CEB1FPE

[Fathom Zero]

oh my god oh my god oh my god, seth. Thumbs up.

[Sethomas]

In a world, run by beauracracy,
This is a standard cliché that LaFontaine uses, taken to heart because of drinking issues.

where page captains run rampant
Well, they do.

and malevolent orcs dare to cut off one's freely-flowing libations
Chicago has a very lax drinking policy, and I remind people whom I see in Bloomington wearing shirts that say "DRY CAMPUS" in intended irony that a very high-tenured professor who lived in my building would throw parties and give me beer when I was 18. Last year, however, they began to CRACK DOWN on underage drinking at the large events that come with scav hunt because Newsweek had sucked the University's cock rather well in then-recent months, causing all kinds of issues of people bitching about why it should matter.

Only Lush Puppies Mark VII, F-I-S-T point VI Deleuzean Potato Homefries, Billmire's Scrod double-teams Stoney, No blank all Umlaut, Rosebud- Still the Fucking Sled, Vagrant Sun Gods
Every year the team comes up with a new name, and in the most formal of purposes they include all previous names in a form edited to cohere better. I don't know ALL the backstories, but I could talk a long time about what little I do know. Also, "Billmire" was one of my better friends in Chicago so hearing Don mention him is AWESOME.

will succeed in proving that true freedom can only be achieved through utter chaos.
We all need goals.

Sir, your shit's on fire. Coming soon to a theater near you.
I forget the shit on fire thing.

[Fathom Zero]

It's fantastic and would be fodder for some stupid internet piece for sure if made publik.

[Pub Lover]

Did you have the Mr T in a tank Snickers ad in the US?

[Tadao]

I haven't seen that one, but I have the guitar tab to that one from last year. I'm waiting to walk up to someone eating one when I have my guitar and tell them "Let me help you enjoy that."

[Pub Lover]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPXGuRIXsA

[f-four]

Did you have the Mr T in a tank Snickers ad in the US?
No, Mr T was too busy telling us about his Night Elf Mohawk.

[Colonel Flagg]

I think there's a song by The Doors which mentions a couple making children out in the meadow called "Queen of the Highway". It's only one line though, so it's not exactly about it.

"Velvet Green" - Jethro Tull

Edit: Sorry about the off topic posting. I'll shut up now. (Yeah, right.)

[Angryhydralisk]

Those truth commercials have gotten stupider and stupider. I don't know what's worse....the douchebag with gigantic coke-bottle glasses trying to make big statements about how bad smoking is...or the sunny side of truth commercials.

[Fat_Hippo]

Oh god, I just remembered a billboard I saw once, telling you not to eat meat. It was just a black and white picture of a cow with a wasteland in the background, and "Don't eat meat, it's bad for the enviroment!" written underneath. No evidence to prove this, of course. I hate it when people try to make me vegetarian, and even more when they try to bullshit me.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

We have this billboard a few blocks away from my house with two douchebag babies on it. It says 'Embryos are tiny babies!' and it just pisses me off. I would respect it more if it made a point other than embryos are babies.

[eliz.lanier]

I hate the commercial with Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson sitting on a couch talking about global warming- and then Al Gore walks up. So annoying and contrived.

[Colonel Flagg]

Ditto Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingerich.

[WhiteRat]

The shitty e-trade commercials. Yes, I know it's just an ad, but in the context of the commercial itself, who the fuck would film themselves buying stock and then presumably upload it to the internet?

Fuck this smug asshole:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qK4C9fr3BFo&feature=user

I don't understand what's going on in this one. It appears that his large family is there but who the fuck is the guy with the pedostach that tells "Mr. Chang" to "pull the trigger"?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L0uwwefRctQ&feature=user

[LordSappington]

Those damn GTA4 commercials on adult swim. I AHTE HIS VOICE! Also the ad doesn't advertise anything about the game.

[Kitsa]

I hate the commercials for Sonic. They think they're being all snarky and clever, but they just aren't. I hate the "husband and wife in the car" slightly more than the "two dumbass guys in the car". I like to imagine that the final "whack" sound they play is someone popping one of them in the face.

Also, Sonic's food sucks.

[WhiteRat]

The Sonic commercials are rare in that they actually get a chuckle or two out of me. I really don't mind them at all. Also, you are wrong, the food is delish.

[Kitsa]

Matter of taste, I guess. I tried them twice and the food was disgusting each time. Once it was a chicken sandwich, which was like a hard little puck in a bun that was soggy with mayo and past-due lettuce. The fries I tried were greasy and limp.

I'm not a big fan of sugar and the neon drinks give me the willies- it all looks like sugar water to me.

[WhiteRat]

I usally just stick to the Sonic Burger or whatever that thing is called. The chili dogs aren't bad either.

[BurntToShreds]

A coupla years ago, they were showing 7-11 ads here. In Houston. Where there are no 7-11's. Great idea, guys!!

[Esuohlim]

They show Sonic commercials here and I've never seen a Sonic restaurant in my life. Quit yer bitchin

[JediScum]

I'd like to change a billboard so it reads "I pay less for my cigarettes than you do for a gallon of gas!"