mauimoods
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posted on September 14, 2000 05:59:00 PM new
Commercial: Two cops SKID and SWIRL around, sliding across the street and braking in front of a home. They bust in to the womans kitchen and say shes using the wrong counter/household cleaner.
Ol Eric Estrada and his pal threaten to "book 'em" to a guy who is eating the wrong turkey at a restaurant.
Women gather 'round a toilet, talking about how wonderful it looks.
Toilet sings and has facial expressions.
People in showers, SMILING as they lather with such-and-such soap/shampoo/gel.
Singing commercials about butter, margarine, household cleaners, toilet paper, etc.
Insurance ads that scream at you that they are the BEST.
**********Got any to add?**********(pardon the pun)
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doxdogy
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posted on September 14, 2000 06:04:51 PM new
The other insurance commercial where a team of scientists think there is an earthquake in a neighborhood and it is some guy jumping for joy over his insurance rates.
Theresa
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barrybarris
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posted on September 14, 2000 06:09:35 PM new
Hi Maui,
The ads for all those personal injury lawyers.
Barry (1-800-wesueanyone4aprice) Barris
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mauimoods
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posted on September 14, 2000 06:45:42 PM new
Yes! That insurance company drives me bugshit! And the other one, with young people jumping up and down and doing hoola hoops and flapping their hair this way and that.
Barry...that one too.
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Shadowcat
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posted on September 14, 2000 06:58:08 PM new
All the phone sex ads. You'd have to see them to believe them. 'Nuff said.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 14, 2000 07:22:15 PM new
I've seen them. You believe 'em? 
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Shadowcat
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posted on September 14, 2000 07:32:32 PM new
Jamesoblivion: Not in the least. And after 10-20 of those ads, I'm not inclined to think kind thoughts about whoever dreamed up those things.
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hopefulli
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posted on September 14, 2000 08:48:15 PM new
This may be a local commercial...
Man in a storefront office with no work to do. Watching the clock, tapping his fingers on the desk. Very slow day apparently. Sound of crash outside his door, looks out and sees a bus accident right in front of his office. Big wide smile crosses his face. Camera pans out to the front of his office-Personal Injury Attorney.
Stupid and tasteless!
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mauimoods
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posted on September 14, 2000 09:09:36 PM new
Beer commercials, with young COLLEGE age men chasing young stunning COLLEGE age women all over icy and snowy hills, laughing, drinking..."have a brewsky or three or four, and you TOO, can have a babe like this; be popular like this; be someone like this". Yeah. Right.
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yellowstone
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posted on September 14, 2000 09:35:48 PM new
How about all of the new drug commercials touting how much their product will make your life better and then at the end they tell about the bad side effects like may cause headaches, may give you stomach cramps, constipation or diarhea.
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barrybarris
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posted on September 14, 2000 10:06:59 PM new
yellowstone,
You are right about the drug commercials. What gets me is they claim the side effects may cause headaches, may give you stomach cramps, constipation or diarrhea are minor. Another minor side effect, bloody nose and can be used by children as young as 8.
I guess if you had a major side effect from one of the drugs you would need to call a funeral home.
Barry (Hey, then you could call a personal injury lawyer 1-800-gotdeadrelativecallme) Barris
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tegan
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posted on September 14, 2000 10:07:53 PM new
Drug comercials? How about the "Olean" or whatever it's called in potato chips.
Have you read the back of the bag?
May cause gas, bloating, diarhea, cramps or discomfort.
It caused me discomfort just reading the bag.
Whats thier motto "Less Fat More Pain" ?
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BlondeSense
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posted on September 15, 2000 12:51:15 AM new
What gets me are the drug commercials that say "Ask your doctor about XXXXX", but don't give you a clue about what its supposed to fix!!! Impotence?, incontinence?, ignorance? It sorta makes a difference. LOL
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thedewey
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posted on September 15, 2000 01:31:42 AM new
It's an older commercial, but ....
The acne commercial ... the one where you have an extremely zit-faced teenager, whose mom is a "hot shot" photographer and he's always trying to dodge his picture being taken. Then he "spoke to his mom" and they called a doctor who prescribed a new medicine .... (cut to next scene) .... zits all cleared up, hugging a teenage girl on a beach, etc .... Of course, the girl wouldn't have given him a second glance if he'd had all those zits!
OH!!!
And the Campbell's soup commercial where the two brothers are always looking forward to "Take Out Night" 'cuz they think their mom can't cook. Then she presents the most wonderous meal made with Campbell's soup, and the boys don't believe that she actually made it. (I'd be grounding somebody if it were me!) LOL!
AND!!!
Those "herbal" Viagara commercials that don't (can't?) actually say what the concoction does! Those totally crack me up! They "increase the blood flow to specific areas ....", "increase stamina", etc. etc. etc.  ROFL!
(not implying that the *problem* is funny, but the way the commercial is presented, is! )
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dmercer
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posted on September 15, 2000 03:25:27 AM new
Anything with Steve Irwin of Crocodile fame in it. Just noticed his latest one for FedEx.
He's gotten pretty popular in the US. I've been waiting for an Australian to let us all know that in Australia he's viewed like Mr. Rodgers is in the states...
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Be ALERT! (We need more 'lerts...)
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Elfgifu
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posted on September 15, 2000 05:42:35 AM new
How about virtually ANY of the commercials for "feminine" products??!! "Nuff said!!
Oooh, oooh, and then then are the psychic hotline commercials! Love the one where the "psychic" says to look in the nightstand , woman finds a match book, psychic says {i]open it[/i] (yeah, we'd all need a psychic to tell us THAT), woman finds another woman's name and phone #--STOOPID!!
No, I'm not new to AW -- just took all of your advice and changed from my eBay id!!
[ edited by Elfgifu on Sep 15, 2000 05:43 AM ]
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fancypantscass
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posted on September 17, 2000 10:29:40 PM new
I totally agree with the stoopid! ones, but I LOVE the new Volvo commerecial where the wife makes the husband put the turtle they almost ran over back into the ocean, where he swims away to happy Bahamas music...It just makes me smile! (Had to insert a non-stupid one!)
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texas1958
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:10:25 PM new
Second Elfgifu . . . Have to switch channels on the psychic ones specially the cheater ones. . pleeeease!
I also don't like the new Charmin one where the bear is behind the tree and needs to use the Charmin for that "Charmin Clean Feeling"
Make me want to run out and get a double 12 pack. NOT!
What happened to the good old "I Can't Believe I Ate The Whole Things Days"? Or the one that had the Band-aid Jingle.
Anybody think of more good ones?
Tex
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barrybarris
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:30:52 PM new
texas1958,
Anybody think of more good ones?
"Wheres the beef?" for Wendy's
The one where the kid offers Mean Joe Green (I think it was Joe) his Coke and Joe gives the kid his football jersey.
Please don't get me going on the Hamburgerler (spelling) from McDonalds...
Barry (the Got Milk? campaign) Barris
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jeanyu
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:43:56 PM new
Hey Mikey--he likes it! Hey Mikey!
adnauseum today as a few years back. Guess it worked? Hmmmm.
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texas1958
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posted on September 18, 2000 06:46:10 PM new
oooo. . Good Ones! What was that one where the football player (uh..can't remember his name had on the panty hose?
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jeanyu
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posted on September 18, 2000 06:54:17 PM new
joe namath---quarterback for the NY Jets--from PA originally.
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preacher4u
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posted on September 19, 2000 04:02:16 PM new
Anybody seen the kitty litter one with the dancing cat?
It's a riot!
What about the one of the cat food, where there are some "scientists" doing some research on top of a building, and the cats "keep ruining the experiment"?
ROTFL!
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preacher4u
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posted on September 19, 2000 04:12:32 PM new
what about the one with the old guys picking up a fight with the BIG boys?
Milk make up stronger bones.
I crack up every time I see it!
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thedewey
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posted on September 20, 2000 01:36:47 AM new
I've always wanted to call one of those psychic hotlines, and when they ask my birthday, I wanna say "You're the psychic -- you should KNOW that already!"
And to stay on topic, add to my list of stupid commercials the one advertising film (Kodak?) ... where the husband buys a lobster thinking he's bringing home dinner, and the little girl thinks he's bringing home a pet ... and the girl and her brother end up putting the lobster back into the ocean! It's kinda cute, but once you've seen it a thousand times, it gets kinda stoopid!
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