The best/worst television commercials

[The Black Guardian]

Woohoo!! He's back! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
That adorable little piglet that cried weeeeeee all the way wherever. "Pure adrenaline."

Really tired of the T-Mobile commercials with the girl in the pink dress. The Christmas one was the final straw. They made "4G Wonderland" sound like "orgy wonderland." But really... her just standing around, talking is boring. No wonder T-Mobile is going under.

And I don't like the Progressive commercials with that redneck guy that travels around. Thank Flo for Flo!

And yeah, Transient Guest, I get that. But I tend not to buy from companies whose commercials I find annoying. I will purposely avoid their products. Might be a reason why I don't own an Apple anything. Speaking of which, those T-Mobile commercials remind me of the old, extremely annoying Mac/PC commercials.

[Conn Seanery]

Is there a person alive who hasn't heard or been aware of that "psychology lesson"? It's practically a staple of every negative commercial/ad discussion, somebody has to be the "Yeah, but you remember it, right? They win" guy.

[Monty_Cristo]

Woohoo!! He's back! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
That adorable little piglet that cried weeeeeee all the way wherever. "Pure adrenaline."

i'm pretty sure his name is Maxwell. i was quite excited to see him return.

[The Transient Guest]

Is there a person alive who hasn't heard or been aware of that "psychology lesson"? It's practically a staple of every negative commercial/ad discussion, somebody has to be the "Yeah, but you remember it, right? They win" guy.

Um.....nope. Not everyone has.

Hell in the class where it mentioned to me you'd think it was the missing ingredient in that immortality elixir.

My bad for sharing a little something that a few people knew.

FFS we've all already seen these commercials so why are we mentioning things that others already know?

OH. Wait.

Discussion board.

Grats on knowing stuff I know though, makes you smart.

[Conn Seanery]

Um.....nope. Not everyone has.

Hell in the class where it mentioned to me you'd think it was the missing ingredient in that immortality elixir.

My bad for sharing a little something that a few people knew.

FFS we've all already seen these commercials so why are we mentioning things that others already know?

OH. Wait.

Discussion board.

Grats on knowing stuff I know though, makes you smart.

Oh good, that was the last item on my bucket list. Looking forward to your "DARTH VADER IS LUKE'S FATHER, BITCHES" post in the next Star Wars thread to pop up.

It's a thread where people are mentioning what they think are some of the best and worst commercials, there was no request to go any deeper than that nor did anyone ask or seem flabbergasted as to the nature of bad commercials. I find it hard to believe that your "lesson" is as scarcely known as you're saying it is, I've heard it so many times that it's practically a cliché.

[Jared]

How many freakin' mascots does Geico need? The lizard, the cavemen, the money with eyes, the pig, guy in a suit. Either it should all lead up to a mega crossover superbowl commercial, of they should drop a couple.

[Monty_Cristo]

How many freakin' mascots does Geico need? The lizard, the cavemen, the money with eyes, the pig, guy in a suit. Either it should all lead up to a mega crossover superbowl commercial, of they should drop a couple.

i'm for crossover. and i would like them to include the guy with the prehensile beard from the skittles commercials.

[Alex]

Oh good, that was the last item on my bucket list. Looking forward to your "DARTH VADER IS LUKE'S FATHER, BITCHES" post in the next Star Wars thread to pop up.

It's a thread where people are mentioning what they think are some of the best and worst commercials, there was no request to go any deeper than that nor did anyone ask or seem flabbergasted as to the nature of bad commercials. I find it hard to believe that your "lesson" is as scarcely known as you're saying it is, I've heard it so many times that it's practically a cliché.

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How the hell did this end up happening?

[Conn Seanery]

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How the hell did this end up happening?

Well y'see, Luke was in lightsaber duel with Darth Vader, had his hand chopped off, and was hanging off of a piece of cloud city machinery on Bespin...

[Jared]

A good one is for a new cell phone that plays songs on it. It has 2 cool hip dudes jamming The Clash: Rock The Cashbah but singing Rock the Catwalk.

Kinda similar, I loved this ad using Rocketman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWy-LCGDsd8
Although until just now I thought it was an ad for Sirius radio, not a car.

And, for the record, I thought it was "Burning out his room up here alone."

[The Dog]

I hate hate hate HATE those maudlin SPCA, WSPCA, WWF, etc. commercials with the shots of sad animals backed by depressing songs.

They don't make me want to give money, they make me want to club a baby seal with a sack of kittens just to SPITE those organizations.

[kmeyers]

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How the hell did this end up happening?

Well, one guy recently took a psychology 101 class, and then learned something very basic and obvious that he didn't realize most people already know...then he got mad when someone pointed out that he was late joining the party.

[Thundermonkey]

I hate hate hate HATE those maudlin SPCA, WSPCA, WWF, etc. commercials with the shots of sad animals backed by depressing songs.

They don't make me want to give money, they make me want to club a baby seal with a sack of kittens just to SPITE those organizations.

I hate them too.

[The Black Guardian]

How many freakin' mascots does Geico need? The lizard, the cavemen, the money with eyes, the pig, guy in a suit. Either it should all lead up to a mega crossover superbowl commercial, of they should drop a couple.

Diversity. Not to mention all of the one-shot failures:
- "Smaller bill" duck
- That DAMN SQUIRREL that causes an accident! F'IN SQUIRRELS! KILL EM!
- The dog that laughs when his owner paid too much for car insurance.
and many others...

And for a while they were using celebs, like Charo, Little Richard, Peter Graves, etc.

I hate those dog/cat commercials too, but only because they make me want to adopt all those pets and love them to pieces... then I realize that I can't. Bastards. Makes me want to club the people responsible for their mistreatment.

[Legato]

I hate hate hate HATE those maudlin SPCA, WSPCA, WWF, etc. commercials with the shots of sad animals backed by depressing songs.

They don't make me want to give money, they make me want to club a baby seal with a sack of kittens just to SPITE those organizations.

As someone thats not a fan of animal cruelty I respect those commercials for not acting so smug like the Anti-Smoking commercials but I hate the fact that those ASPCA commercials had to drag on and on. It is almost like a analogy of someone talking slowly to a simple minded person just so he could finally understand what the person is saying. Those commercials last ten times longer than your standard commercials. Now I do despise the WWF for what they did with the Coke cans