[grrrlyouwant]

i love my pc, but maybe that's because i've never been able to afford a mac. i think the ads are trying to come off as snarky, but really they're like those stuck up bitches in gym class who always checked out your underwear looking for yet another ingenious way to dis you, just cause they could. it's just plain old mean. which is why i laughed my ass off when my friend posted this ctrl+alt+del cartoon on his livejournal. :D http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513

[xexyz]

>>What does everyone think about the Apple v. PC campaign? I don't know if I like them or if they irritate me...one the one hand, they have a creative simplicity that I like. On the other, there's a mean-spiritedness about them. (I know it's a tough ol' world out there, and it's not like I'm protective of my PC, but I don't know how else to say it.)<<

They're annoying. Ah, I get it, by having the older guy in the suit represent the PC, and the young casually dress guy as the Mac, I'm supposed to believe that PCs are old and corporate, while Macs are for the young & hip "with it" people? *roll eyes*

Spare me.

[lot49]

I heart the DQ monster commercial. I heart it so much I must link to it. (someone did mention it in here a few weeks ago before I had seen it.)

What does everyone think about the Apple v. PC campaign? I don't know if I like them or if they irritate me...one the one hand, they have a creative simplicity that I like. On the other, there's a mean-spiritedness about them. (I know it's a tough ol' world out there, and it's not like I'm protective of my PC, but I don't know how else to say it.)

[nimue]

I love the new DQ commercial with the monsters... I also loved the one with the pregnant woman sharing the ice cream with he partner and then picturing him in labour... LMAO

Also like the one where the woman walks in and there is this little bald man who is running around her house acting like a cat... I don't know why it didn't tick men off, but I loved it. And the one where the man was a kitten and he was jumping around and jumped on the curten and it fell down and he started playing with it. HA It Was Great!

[tyger]

...i googled headon! it's headache relief that you 'apply directly to the forehead!'. gawd, i'm so glad i barely watch tv and therefore manage to avoid such horrid commercials

[crazyoldcatlady]

YES! YES! WHAT THE HELL IS HEADON? And not knowing is NOT going to make me want to buy it!

[kittenbonanza]

This one commercial that's been airing during "The Glen Beck Show" has really been bothering me. It's for a product called Head On and it shows this woman against a green background rubbing something on her forehead while someone yells, "HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!" and then they show the box and it doesn't tell you anything about what it does at all! I even looked at the box and it doesn't say anything like, "Headache treatment" or "Moisturizer" or anything, and it's so obnoxious!

[zora]

I LOVE Brawny ads. so much, that those are the only paper towels I will buy. I think they are hilarious.

[pollystyrene]

Yeah, I think that commercial is kinda funny- the guy feeding the alligator cracks me up.

[catsoup]

the Brawny website has lots of funny stuff - funny videos with the Brawny man. Very cheesy.

[maddy29]

aural- yes!!! ralph maccio? i mean come on, one of my friends in 7th grade had an obsessive crush on him (and i mean obsessive-she made up stories about how he and she were dating, etc). But she was the only one! HE was hot for a bout 5 m inutes. I hate those ads!!! White teeth don't take 20 years off your age anyways.

What about that Brawny ad? I weirdly like it, because it's mocking the "ideal man" idea-men must be ultimately manly and at the same time insanely sensitive....whatcha think?

[kittenb]

Oh for goodness sakes! Can Father's Day please come so that Sears will STOP IT with the Christmas carol ads! I just hate the!

And the Sprite (?) ad where the guy is being strapped to a chair and forced to drink Sprite and then he removes the bandage from his eye and it's another mouth. Oh ick!

[whammy_bar]

Me, I hate the one with the cheesy suburban mom in her suburban assault vehicle in her horrible cheesy suburban mom clothing and her pampered, bored over-fussed-over offspring saying KARATAYYYAAA!!!

I grab the remote and change the channel or put on mute.

Die!

[rizzo]

I finally saw the "you poke it, you own it" ad for beer--I was pretty astonished at that.

And, as for the BK one, it's promoting sexist stereotypes, using a song that was a rallying anthem in trying to dismantle them.

[crazyoldcatlady]

anything for vonage and that godforsaken theme song.

this may be more local, but that F*CKING beepbeep.com commercial where i *think* Smashmouth is performing the song

AND, (more of a feminist outrage thing) i can't remember what they were shilling, but the commercial where the guy is getting his dog to bow in front of him, and then he gets his wife to, only to see that she was picking up an earring. anyone know that one? i'm in a letterwriting mood... fuckers.

[zora]

How about when you go the movies and they have the skittles ad with two sheep that have human faces. And they are eating skittles off a stump and talking about how good they are. That add weirds me out, but for some reason, I kind of like it. I've only seen it in theaters.

[auralpoison]

Oh, Kittenbonanza, I posted about that beard one a while back. It creeps me out when it starts petting her face! *shudders*

[kittenbonanza]

Ha, I'm the same way, auralpoison. There's a commerical for some apple crisp scented air freshener where a man walks into his house, smells the air, and it shows him remembering the apple crisp mom used to make... Except the woman is taking a freaking pie out of the oven! There is a distinct difference between apple pie and apple crisp. Argh!
Oh, and what's up with that Skittles commercial where the guy is at a job interview, eating Skittles with his beard? That one really weirds me out.

[auralpoison]

I am so OCD. There's some commercial about not showing your age where women rattle off various fads that could date them. One woman says she had a huge crush on a tv heartthrob, was it David Cassidy or Ralph Macchio? As far as I know, Ralph wasn't ever a big tv star. I do not know why this bugs me except for the fact that I'm OCD.

[snafooey]

Sorry for the double post - I didn't finish that sentence: What they should do is have a commercial explaining how eating too much of that crap (in conjunction. . .) has the potential to lead to decreased sexual performance - how's that for manliness?

ETA: I should note that I finally saw the ad (online - not sure if it's playing here or not) - I hadn't when I originally posted on this topic (I mentioned it then too, but I just wanted to clarify).