TV ads

[novelist_wannabe]

OK, this has been festering for weeks and I need to get it off my chest, vis-a-vis television ads.

1.) John Lovitz must die. Those Subway commercials are severely annoying.

2.) Geico is ripping off the Bud Light/Charlton Heston/oral interpretation ads. The lizard was more original.

3.) I miss the Budweiser frogs.

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

The infamous "McGriddles girl" was on last week's episode of "Heroes" as a rental car agent.

 

[alleyallen]

Sorry Novelist, but all the Bud Light and the frog commercials were old and ignorant the moment they first were shown. Sorry, but frogs don't make me want to drink a beer. Quite the contrary. And anything involving Charlton Heston is going to have me rolling my eyes so much, I'll actually be unable to see the product being advertised.

The Geico commercials, lizard or not, are just plain lame.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I guess I just have a soft spot in my heart for talking animals. The frogs didn't make me want to drink beer, either, but I thought they were entertaining. Lovitz, not so much.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

This last Geico ad confuses me, the one where the caveman passes the Geico ad of another caveman. While I like Royksopp just fine, why is the first caveman melancholy all of a sudden? Did he miss Geico? Was he worried about going back to his own time? Hot gay butt sex with the other caveman? What?

 

[Football_Bat]

And anything involving Charlton Heston is going to have me rolling my eyes so much, I'll actually be unable to see the product being advertised.

If Chuck is pointing a Remington .30-06 right at you with his cold dead hands, the last thing your eyes would be doing is rolling.

 

[doubledown68]

Lovitz is a genius, and the Subway commercials are great. The Subway campaign that needs to end is the "fat wallet" one. Stuuuuuuuupiiiiiiiiiiiiiid.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

This last Geico ad confuses me, the one where the caveman passes the Geico ad of another caveman. While I like Royksopp just fine, why is the first caveman melancholy all of a sudden? Did he miss Geico? Was he worried about going back to his own time? Hot gay butt sex with the other caveman? What?

I think he was perplexed that caveman intelligence was getting dissed in another medium (print ad) after having his set-to with the TV production manager. No roast duck with mango sauce for him ...

 

[slappy4428]

Lovitz is a genius, and the Subway commercials are great. The Subway campaign that needs to end is the "fat wallet" one. Stuuuuuuuupiiiiiiiiiiiiiid.

Agreed. Lovitz, dead pan is funny as hell, tho Ms. Slappy hates em.

 

[Cosmo]

This last Geico ad confuses me, the one where the caveman passes the Geico ad of another caveman. While I like Royksopp just fine, why is the first caveman melancholy all of a sudden? Did he miss Geico? Was he worried about going back to his own time? Hot gay butt sex with the other caveman? What?

I think he was perplexed that caveman intelligence was getting dissed in another medium (print ad) after having his set-to with the TV production manager. No roast duck with mango sauce for him ...

Yes. The small touches in that ad are perfect. The calypso music in the background, the wooden tennis racket. Just fantastic.

 

[poindexter]

Jared from Subway isn't all that skinny anymore. He seems to be packing a little heft on to his midsection, like an NFL quarterback's flak jacket. He's way too humorless in those Subway commercials as well. Seems pissed off.

 

[Smokey33]

I hate Jared. When are his 15 minutes up? I hate the way he pronounces grams (gray-mmms). Someone needs to off him.

 

[Perry White]

Jon Lovitz Says Income From Subway Commercials Allows Him A Certain Creative Freedom
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49386

 

[JR]

Consistently the best beer ads up here are for Molson Canadian.

This one makes me smile every time even though I've seen it a couple of hundred times. (It's the original ad they ran after hockey came back and they're running it again).

http://www.canada4life.ca/videos.php?video=13

And this is great--just for the look on the guy's face after he leaves

http://www.canada4life.ca/videos.php?video=7

And the famous, "I am Joe" rant.

http://www.canada4life.ca/videos.php?video=1

 

[rgd]

I once saw Jared seated at a table signing autographs. And there was an actual line. Not a long line, maybe eight people.

 

[Buck]

Jared and Willie Mays both made appearances at a promotional event and stayed at the same hotel.
They happened to be in the lobby at the same time.
Kids were crowding around Jared for autographs and pictures. They ignored Mays, probably didn't know who he was.
I didn't witness this. I just read about it.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Well who the hell is Willie MayEs? Now, Willie Mays on the other hand.....

 

[Buck]

Sorry about that.
Fixed.

 

[alleyallen]

Well who the hell is Willie MayEs? Now, Willie Mays on the other hand.....

When I was in the early days of military journalism school, I wrote a column for a graded assignment. Would have had a perfect score had I not misspelled Willie's last name. Glad to know I'm not the only one who's done that.

 

[ARD]

Does anyone else find the Yahoo ad with the dog digging itself out of its grave creepy in a "Pet Sematary" kinda way?