Commercials

ArwenEvenstar · 04-25-2003, 08:57 PM

What are your favourites or least favourites?

Hasty Ent · 04-25-2003, 09:01 PM

Hate them all -- their purpose is to convince people to buy things they don't need with money they don't have.

***IronParrot*** · 04-25-2003, 11:50 PM

Most commercials really are trash.

A lot of the best ones used to be on AdCritic.com - but that's no longer a free site.

A while ago I saw the reel of the Cannes Film Festival selections for the World's Best Commercials. A lot of them were very effective... some hilarious, some powerful, some better than most TV shows out there (though admittedly, television is virtually devoid of watchable content nowadays).

Ragnarok · 04-26-2003, 07:16 PM

Alot of commercials and ads have subliminal messages in them

Shadowfax · 04-28-2003, 06:56 PM

In general, I do't really like commercials becauseof the previously-mentioned reasons, but every now and then there's one that just makes me totally crack up!

Dreran the Green · 04-29-2003, 10:02 PM

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NO MORE ADVERTISEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ArwenEvenstar · 04-30-2003, 08:39 AM

some of them are horrible (ie Herbal Essences,

) that one in the hospital is just wrong!

johnnyrod · 05-02-2003, 06:34 PM

There's one in Oz where a guy surfs down the street on a wheelie bin to retrieve his cold stubby from an opportunistic garbo. And one radio one where it's a mock competition where you can win a barium meal for two. Other than that, utter crap, but what is worse is the level of invasiveness, which for me is most annoying either in radio adverts (which I can't seem to ignore, so they grate) and internet advertising, which is the equivalent of making pate de fois gras. Are we thought to be that ignorant? Grr.....

Shadowfax · 05-02-2003, 09:08 PM

One of those commercials that totally makes me crack up is that one for Dairy Queen where the two guys are holding the blizzards upside down and going, "Whoop, whoop, doo-a-doo..." Yeah. Stupid, I know, but so funny and I don't know why.

Someone mentioned Herbal Essences--->ick they're disturbing!

Belle · 05-03-2003, 05:22 PM

I don't see what's so bad about Herbal Essence adverts. The shampoos, right? I love the Coca Cola adverts - it's not Xmas until I see the Winter ones! The Gap Xmas adverts are funky too. But has anyone seen the Carphone Warehouse (i think) where there's a little mobil phone that gets lost and abandoned. it's so sad!!

Dreran the Green · 05-03-2003, 07:53 PM

Sorry, haven't seen it.
Actually, I've sort of given up TV and taken up posting on entmoot instead, so I haven't seen any of the newer commercials

ArwenEvenstar · 05-04-2003, 03:50 PM

theres this really funny one on the radio station i listen to its for a truck and it has this going reving a truck and saying

Quote:

So long stink town

and it gets quieter cus he's driving away.

Bombadillo · 07-29-2004, 03:49 AM

I had to dig this up to ask if anyone else has seen the commercials for Red Stripe beer. ?

They're mostly on late at night, and there are many long variations of two Jamacian guys trying to sneak a sip of beer while on the air, by cutting to a picture of a Red Stripe souveneir and a too-fast talking announcer. The camera pans back to them with the bottle to their lips and they get aggrivated at each other and the announcer. In some of the variations, they start getting desperate and try to advertise one guy's mustache for sale. They're hilarious. Plus the slogan is simply "hooray beer!" in a Jamacian accent. Definately worth staying up late to catch.

BeardofPants · 07-29-2004, 04:06 AM

My latest favourite is the fresh 'n fruity ones, with the fresh 'n fruity loves yoooouuuu!!! pottle with legs. hehe.

Can't find a pix to post though.

sun-star · 07-29-2004, 12:59 PM

I like the one the BBC has at the moment for the Olympics with the athelete taking on the gods (though I don't suppose they put more than two seconds thought into it - "hmm, Greece - must have gods")

Starr Polish · 07-29-2004, 03:10 PM

My favorite commercial, currently, is an ad for some type of laptop computer and it's pitching it as a "back to school/college" deal.

A very bubbly, blonde, pink-clad girl is taking a box up to her dorm room, opens it up and sees her extremely gothic roommate. Comments like 'let's get some sunlight in here" and "I bet you're favorite color is black" just crack me up. My friends and I joke that it looks like a souped up version of my dorm room (I'm not gothic, but into darker colors, and my roommate is huge on pink).

04-25-2003, 08:57 PM	#1
ArwenEvenstar Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: and why do YOU want to know? Posts: 685	Commercials What are your favourites or least favourites? __________________ The only thing active about me is my imagination!

04-25-2003, 09:01 PM	#2
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	Hate them all -- their purpose is to convince people to buy things they don't need with money they don't have. __________________ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

04-25-2003, 11:50 PM	#3
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Most commercials really are trash. A lot of the best ones used to be on AdCritic.com - but that's no longer a free site. A while ago I saw the reel of the Cannes Film Festival selections for the World's Best Commercials. A lot of them were very effective... some hilarious, some powerful, some better than most TV shows out there (though admittedly, television is virtually devoid of watchable content nowadays). __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

04-28-2003, 06:56 PM	#5
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	In general, I do't really like commercials becauseof the previously-mentioned reasons, but every now and then there's one that just makes me totally crack up! __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

04-29-2003, 10:02 PM	#6
Dreran the Green Lady of Legends Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missing. Reward if found. Posts: 1,083	NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NO MORE ADVERTISEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ The end justifies the means, thought Aziraphale. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.* *This is not actually true. The road to Hell is paved with frozen door to door salesmen. On weekends many of the younger demons go ice-skating down it. ~Good Omens

04-26-2003, 07:16 PM	#4
Ragnarok Rohirrim Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: PA Posts: 590	Alot of commercials and ads have subliminal messages in them

04-30-2003, 08:39 AM	#7
ArwenEvenstar Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: and why do YOU want to know? Posts: 685	some of them are horrible (ie Herbal Essences, ) that one in the hospital is just wrong! __________________ The only thing active about me is my imagination!

05-02-2003, 06:34 PM	#8
johnnyrod Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Scunthorpe, UK Posts: 166	There's one in Oz where a guy surfs down the street on a wheelie bin to retrieve his cold stubby from an opportunistic garbo. And one radio one where it's a mock competition where you can win a barium meal for two. Other than that, utter crap, but what is worse is the level of invasiveness, which for me is most annoying either in radio adverts (which I can't seem to ignore, so they grate) and internet advertising, which is the equivalent of making pate de fois gras. Are we thought to be that ignorant? Grr..... __________________ Frodo Lives!

05-02-2003, 09:08 PM	#9
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	One of those commercials that totally makes me crack up is that one for Dairy Queen where the two guys are holding the blizzards upside down and going, "Whoop, whoop, doo-a-doo..." Yeah. Stupid, I know, but so funny and I don't know why. Someone mentioned Herbal Essences--->ick they're disturbing! __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

05-03-2003, 05:22 PM	#10
Belle Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Essex! Posts: 72	I don't see what's so bad about Herbal Essence adverts. The shampoos, right? I love the Coca Cola adverts - it's not Xmas until I see the Winter ones! The Gap Xmas adverts are funky too. But has anyone seen the Carphone Warehouse (i think) where there's a little mobil phone that gets lost and abandoned. it's so sad!! __________________ You made me that much stronger Made me work a little bit harder Made me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Made me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter

05-03-2003, 07:53 PM	#11
Dreran the Green Lady of Legends Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missing. Reward if found. Posts: 1,083	Sorry, haven't seen it. Actually, I've sort of given up TV and taken up posting on entmoot instead, so I haven't seen any of the newer commercials __________________ The end justifies the means, thought Aziraphale. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.* *This is not actually true. The road to Hell is paved with frozen door to door salesmen. On weekends many of the younger demons go ice-skating down it. ~Good Omens

07-29-2004, 03:49 AM	#13
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	I had to dig this up to ask if anyone else has seen the commercials for Red Stripe beer. ? They're mostly on late at night, and there are many long variations of two Jamacian guys trying to sneak a sip of beer while on the air, by cutting to a picture of a Red Stripe souveneir and a too-fast talking announcer. The camera pans back to them with the bottle to their lips and they get aggrivated at each other and the announcer. In some of the variations, they start getting desperate and try to advertise one guy's mustache for sale. They're hilarious. Plus the slogan is simply "hooray beer!" in a Jamacian accent. Definately worth staying up late to catch. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

07-29-2004, 04:06 AM	#14
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	My latest favourite is the fresh 'n fruity ones, with the fresh 'n fruity loves yoooouuuu!!! pottle with legs. hehe. Can't find a pix to post though. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

07-29-2004, 12:59 PM	#15
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I like the one the BBC has at the moment for the Olympics with the athelete taking on the gods (though I don't suppose they put more than two seconds thought into it - "hmm, Greece - must have gods") __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

07-29-2004, 03:10 PM	#16
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	My favorite commercial, currently, is an ad for some type of laptop computer and it's pitching it as a "back to school/college" deal. A very bubbly, blonde, pink-clad girl is taking a box up to her dorm room, opens it up and sees her extremely gothic roommate. Comments like 'let's get some sunlight in here" and "I bet you're favorite color is black" just crack me up. My friends and I joke that it looks like a souped up version of my dorm room (I'm not gothic, but into darker colors, and my roommate is huge on pink). __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

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