Deconstructing the Common Commercial

[Jennpurr]

Hee... those hampsters are too funny!!!



Ooooh... Has anyone seen the new Toys R Us commercial with the singing bunnies?? So cute!!!







Jen

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[Gatito Grande]

[slightly OT, cuz this isn't a commercial]



Jen, I think you, in particular, may enjoy the following:



media.euniverse.com/funpa...vival1.swf



GG Hallelujah! Out

[Jennpurr]

Thank you, GG. That's the cutest thing ever!



Jen

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"You make me beautiful, You make me stand in awe; You stepped inside my heart, And I am amazed; I love to hear you say, Who I am is quite enough; You make me worthy of love and beautiful." ~ Bethany Dillon, "Beautiful."

[Big Dummy]

So, in this commercial, some guy has videotaped himself in his truck, having a good time off-roading it. Static, and then a woman appears on a beach. It's his girlfriend and she's taped over the rest of his tape. She spouts about how much she hates it that "Mike" I think spends all his time hanging with his friends and his truck, and she calls out to an unseen friend of hers standing atop a cliff. Her friend(s?) proceed to push the truck over the cliff, and we cut the girlfriend jumping up and down and whooping with joy. The truck lands at the bottom of the cliff...without a scratch. And you hear the girl cursing in anger.



I admit, it made me laugh, but I think that was mostly out of shock. Why are women always shown as these irrational beings who do crappy overblown stuff like that? I don't know a single woman who's ever keyed someone's car or burned someone's clothes. Where did this woman scorned thing come from? It's so goofy.



Besides, I appreciate the value of a dollar far too much to wreck someone's things in retribution.

[Gatito Grande]

Oooh, that's really awful, BD. It reminds me a little of that Michelin tire ad, where the director is upset that he can't get his stunt driver to hydroplane the car he's filming (because the tires grip too well, get it?), but much worse because of the sexism.



Actually, I just wanted to post here to note that that's k.d. lang, singing w/ Tony Bennett, on MCI's new "What a Wonderful World" commercials.



GG I have enough LGBT pride to love seeing "one of the family" getting mainstream work! Out



ETA: Jen, don't feel bad; I didn't notice her at first either. What I did notice was the inimitable Tony, and then immediately recalled that he and kd did an album together recently. That made me focus on the ad the next time I heard it, and then I had my "Aha!" moment.

Edited by: Gatito Grande at: 5/1/04 8:44 am

[Jennpurr]

Oooh, that's KD Lang?? I can't believe I didn't notice that until now.



Jen



ETA: GG,



Hee... I had to go and look at the Squirrels again!



Thanks for sharing that with me.

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Phoebe: I hate cemetery's at day. (They hear a noise.) What was that?
Prue: Ah, probably a zombie or vampire.
Phoebe: Great, where's Buffy when you need her?

Edited by: Jennpurr at: 4/30/04 6:53 pm

[Cicca]

Oh yes, that k.d. lang stuff is delicious! I'd listen to her sing all day. Yum.





Best funny ad I've seen recently is for some drug that says it's "a daily pill for natural male enhancement". Uhhhhh, whatever could that be? The actor they hired has the funniest fake smile I've seen. Then the commercial is immediately followed by another one where they're talking about all sorts of wood. Lumber-yard wood. Golf club wood. Um, and how when you want to know about wood, you go to the experts. WOOD!!! I couldn't believe they were using that euphemism in an ad!

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

[Jennpurr]

Jen

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Phoebe: I hate cemetery's at day. (They hear a noise.) What was that?
Prue: Ah, probably a zombie or vampire.
Phoebe: Great, where's Buffy when you need her?

[Jennpurr]

Has anyone seen the Six Flags commercial? The one where the little old man gets off the bus and then starts dancing??



That's the funniest thing ever. My dad loves it and everytime it comes on, he dances with him! *snort*



Anyone know where I might be able to DL a clip of him dancing? I would greatly appreciate the help.



Jen



ETA: Hee... Found it!!!!! Dude... that's the best thing ever!



*Runs off to go watch it again*

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"

Edited by: Jennpurr at: 5/19/04 9:14 pm

[MaClayMagic]

Thank you for sharing these hysterical commercials. My partner, American born and bred, misses seeing USA adverts (seeing as she now watches a steady diet of UK ones instead) My favourite USA commerical (from 8 years ago when we lived there) was two raccoons breaking and entering into a home to sit in the lazy boy chairs....although their little legs never quite reached the foot rests! If anyone has that...please display it! I loved it so much! We think it was a Columbia MO advert, but it creased the heck out of me! Gotta love animals in commericals!

Wake up, Neo...

[Cicca]

Let's hear it for them!

I've been catching the funniest homoerotic hot dog ad a few times lately. I still don't know what brand it is, so I guess they should work on that a little. It's a regular Joe Schmo guy at his barbeque talking about this brand of hot dogs and how much he loves them. And his favourite part about these ones is that they're "girthy". "Say it with me: Giiiiiiirthy!" He says it with an almost sexual zeal it just kills me!

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

[Jennpurr]

Cicca,



Hee... I know the one you are talking about. I think there are two different versions of that.





I keep seeing the Six Flags guy. He's so funny!!



Jen

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"
Quia ego cognosco cogitationes meas, quas ego cogito super vos, dicit Jehova, cogitationes pacis, et non in malum; ut dem vobis finem et expectationem. ~ Jeremiah 29:11

Edited by: Jennpurr at: 5/28/04 9:43 pm

[Cicca]

Ooh there's more than one?! HoYay!

I can't see the dancing guy because the computer asks me to download stuff or something. Which always makes me nervous!

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

[Jennpurr]

Yep. I've seen two so far.





OH... if you go to www.sixflags.com/ and click on the, "It's Playtime!" you can see the commercial.



The new version isn't as funny as the old one, but it's still got the little old man!



Jen



P.S. If you have yahoo messenger, I can send the other commercial to you if you want to see it?

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"
Quia ego cognosco cogitationes meas, quas ego cogito super vos, dicit Jehova, cogitationes pacis, et non in malum; ut dem vobis finem et expectationem. ~ Jeremiah 29:11

Edited by: Jennpurr at: 5/29/04 9:50 am

[Cicca]

heehee!

I love the little old man!!



I'll try to get to yahoo sometime so I can see the other.

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

[Jennpurr]

Hee... he's quite the sight, huh? What's even funnier to me, is that when the commercial comes on my dad has to dance with him. Now, that's a sight.



Let me know if you ever do get on yahoo. My SN is jennpurr.



Jen

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"
Quia ego cognosco cogitationes meas, quas ego cogito super vos, dicit Jehova, cogitationes pacis, et non in malum; ut dem vobis finem et expectationem. ~ Jeremiah 29:11

[Gatito Grande]

I have to say, those Rasta Elephants are awfully cute!



GG Once you see it, you think: "Peanuts -> elephants -> Africa-via-Jamaica -> Rasta. Why didn't anybody come up w/ this one sooner?" Out

[Jennpurr]

I just saw a new Honda commercial that has the woman who played Kathy in Season 4, "The Freshman," and, "Living Conditions."



She's so funny!



Jen

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"
Quia ego cognosco cogitationes meas, quas ego cogito super vos, dicit Jehova, cogitationes pacis, et non in malum; ut dem vobis finem et expectationem. ~ Jeremiah 29:11

Edited by: Jennpurr at: 6/24/04 8:29 pm

[Cicca]

I finally caught those 6 Flags ads on tv. heheheheheh

The little old man is CRAZY!

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

[Jennpurr]

Hee... he has a new one out. I just caught it the other day. He doesn't dance enough in that one though.



*starts dancing*







Jen

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"
Quia ego cognosco cogitationes meas, quas ego cogito super vos, dicit Jehova, cogitationes pacis, et non in malum; ut dem vobis finem et expectationem. ~ Jeremiah 29:11

[Cicca]

That little old guy is just hilarious!

Now I wanna go to Six Flags. grrr!

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

[Gatito Grande]

(And no, it's not because of C Z-J )



[I debated putting this on the "It's just subtext" thread, but came across this one first . . . ]



Has anyone seen the T-Mobile ad w/ the gay subtext?



Couples (and they're portrayed as couples) are shouting at each other ("You!" "You!") about calls to their partner running up their cell phone bill . . . and the commercial sneaks a male/male couple into the mix!



GG I don't own a cell phone---really wouldn't want to, except maybe for the glove compartment (emergencies on the road)---but if I did, I'd want to support T-Mobile, just for this commercial. Out