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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on August 22, 2003, 12:12:25 AM
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I'm not sure if it's the theme from The Waltons, or the ludicrous concept of boxes of cereal growing on trees, but the Kelloggs Fruit Harvest commercials are the most annoying spots on TV.
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I beg to differ. Old Navy has the worst advertising campaign ever.
MiniD
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I love anything that mentions "Easy Glide, Gentle Glide, Wings, Blood"......
Okay prevs I know what yer thinking... NOT THAT!!! I was talking about the History Channel commercials about Normandy Invasion, St. Mere, and all... Gheesh...
Did I mention the "Battle of the BULDGE?".
:D
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You guys are lucky. We have parliament elections this autumn, so all the channels are filled with stupid political advertisement with all kinds of imbeciles hallucinating about "united Russia - strong Russia", "this is life", "vote for us because we will help idiots who can't get a job", "we are burocrats against burocracy", "we need free market because there are still some things not stolen yet", "we need planned economics because we need to steel from those who already robbed the nation", "we need to go back to Soviet times and have sausage for 2.20 rubles", "we are strong enough to survive any cataclism that our party will organize", etc ad nauseum...
Not speaking about the fact that all this advertisement costs so much that it can feed several Academic institutes for years. :mad:
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Kellogs boring but it doesn't bug me, yet.
Old Navy is consistantly irritating.
Dodges "does that thing have a Hemi?"
are starting to get pretty old.
The Aces High commercial is about ready for a facelife also. Instead of mixing in game & gun cam footage, try a series of snapshots at first.
"Free download" (showing the web address)
"2 week free trial"
"Easy ingame settup of controllers"
Then cut to ahfilm of takeoff, (with a few clouds, dawn is good) Climbout, then 10 seconds of action.
Finish with a smoking plane landing back at base.
"Do you have what it takes?"
"Be a WWII Fighter pilot anytime you want. "
http://www.flyaceshigh.com
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FORD AUTHORIZED CLEARANCE or HYUNDAI or ANY FRICKIN LOCAL CAR COMMERCIAL. Holy crap I will throw my television out the window if I hear "Anyway you want it" by Journey one more time. Anyone from the SE Wisconsin area can attest to this, not sure if it's national.
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Originally posted by Boroda
"we are burocrats against burocracy", :
I love this one.
Burocrats around the world are exactly the same LOL.
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The commercial that really gets under my skin is the Cheap Tickets one.
That cornery bellybutton music daa, daa, da da whaa whaaaaa... makes me want to puke.
And the monk laughing on the phone cause he got cheap tickets. WTF? Monks dont laugh.
**** you Cheap Tickets.
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TIVO
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Mentos commercials!
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Good one reddog... er... bad one.
MiniD
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What about the toothpaste commercial where this couple is at a lake and they see a beaver with really shiny teeth. They ask him how he keeps his teeth so white and it procedes to tell them Crest (or whatever) with natural (something). The first time I saw it I thought, "Isn't it a little early for a Saturday Night Live spoof?" That commercial is so lame. And to think someone had to think it up, produce it, and get the ok form marketing to air it.
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every 1 800 collect commercial ever made
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Originally posted by Preon1
every 1 800 collect commercial ever made
Dial down the middle!! C-A-L-L-A-T-T
NOT!!!!!!!!!
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Ebay.
Cant stand that one.
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Let's see...
Vagisil
Monostat-7
Nexium
Viagara
Any commercial with Carrot Top.
Orbitz
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The only good thing about Dutch TV: The adverts have boobies in.
(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
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Get a Tivo. I haven't sat through more then 10 seconds of commercials at a time for the last few years. I use a ReplayTV which lets me totally skip the commercials 30 seconds at a time, but if you can't get that (or want something from a more stable company), the Tivo is still a lot better then nothing at all (it fast forwards).
Get one of these PVRs, it will change how you watch TV.
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every single one:D
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The Dell interns bug the crap out of me.. but there were a few commercials, not long ago, that I hated so much I would turn the channel when they came on (and I'm not a channel surfer... I pick and stick).
-Sik
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Originally posted by Preon1
every 1 800 collect commercial ever made
exactly ...not even the hot chick could redeem it .
and those with carrot-head are even worse.
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That darned Go-Phone commercial. It ran a lot on the History Channel recently.
EH-OH, LET'S GO! (times 50)
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Originally posted by udet
exactly ...not even the hot chick could redeem it .
and those with carrot-head are even worse.
I dont know when Alyssa Milano was doing the commercial
i did not mind it al all
:D
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Anyone with DirectTV:
The most annoying commercial ever is the chick talking about the "High speed internet available right now"
THat chick needs to be shot.
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that car commerncial where the kid was saying zoom zoom really irrated me. god that annoying.
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Dish also has its own PVR. Going through this thread, I have never heard of any of these. PVR is the only way to watch television. Watch a one hour show in 45 minutes.
PVR's give you more free time than you can shake a stick at, and you never miss another sports play as long as you have it.
Why be aggravated by commercials? Better yet, why let some idiot marketing fool steal time away from your life?
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IMO almost all commercials on TV are a pain in the arse. Only a very few that are funny (especially without sound since the mute button is my favorite on the remote) are not a pain.:mad:
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Old Navy wins hands down.
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Anyone from Las vegas I think would agree that the "chopper" is the worst commercial ever. It's a not-quite black guy in Gazelles who drizzops gangsta lingo as he sells cars. It's absurd, it lasts forever.
"How much would you pizzo for this Isuzu?"
"15,5?"
*crowd* "lower, chop it chopper!"
"13?"
*crowd* "NO Chopper, chop it!"
"Okay, 10599, now get out of here" and proceeds to kick the car out of the way as the "lucky" new owner smiles and speeds off...
jeez...
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The fact that you remember them makes them good commercials. In fact any Ad exec reading this would probably jump at the chance to duplicate the "winners".
Mr. Whipple was the most obnoxious commercial ever! "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!" and one of the most successful!
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My only gripe about TIVO and DishPVR is they are sticking it to you so sneakily you don't realise it. Yes, you can edit commercials. Some VCR's now have that. But you can't remove and keep the media as you would with a VCR, it's stored on the Harddrive. When the HD is full ya gotta erase something or dub to VCR. That's OK..I'm sure later models will have some sort of removable drives. And they only work with Digital Signals. Unless you have Digital Cable or Sattelite they won't work. Here's the sneaky part, you have to pay a monthly subscription. You pay them not to watch the commercials. How great is the mind that came up with that? I need to figure out how to get people to pay me to ignore me. I'd make a small fortune of the BBS alone. :D
Oh, don't get me started on Local commercials. If you have ever lived in a Small market area, you KNOW what I'm talking about. Just because you own a business, does not make you photogenic, interesting, or let me be especially clear on this point...FUNNY!
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I can honestly say that now commercial has ever made me go buy the product it advertises. I pick and choose my brands based on experience and or pricing. Now that Honda commercial this past summer was frikkin AMAZING. The one with all the parts in a domino like run? That was very cool.
Oh yeah, remember one thing, when you see a commercial, the SAME commercial, about 10 - 15 times a day you can't help but remember it.
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Incorrect about a couple things about PVRs, rpm. The only Tivos that only work on digital signals are the ones built into DirectTV.
Most Tivos and ReplayTVs have video encoders. I have analog cable, and my replaytv cheerfully encodes my video as MPEG2 and stores it ont he hard drive.
Removable drives are a gripe? C'mon, get real. That's what the automated offload-to-VHS functions are for. You pop in a cassette and tell it to save to VHS and walk off. It controls your VCR and automatically hits record and play, then stop and stop at the end.
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Finally, just because YOU pay a subscription to get PVR functionality does not mean that everyone does. I don't pay a subscription for my ReplayTV, and plenty of Tivo users don't either if they pay the $250 lifetime fee. Oh, and there are free PVR programs so you can convert your computer to a PVR that don't charge anything at all:
http://www.mythtv.org
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The WORST commercial is on the Fox News channel, Christy Lane's Christian album add, with her amazing hit "One Day At A Time" and "Footprints".
Not that Im against Christian music, but this stuff makes me wanna puke. The commercial is frequent and it burns into one's brain.
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I don't get the one with "an army of one".If every soldier is an army why don't they fight eachother?
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Apparently, they have made some improvements since I last looked at them. A "Zip" type drive or DVD burner will be the next thing needed.
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How bout the Computer Professor?
I smile every time he says-
"Please, try my product"
He's prolly making boat loads of cash, but gimme a break, he sounds like hes gonna cry everytime I hear it.
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In Chicago, the one I remember was the Empire carpets commercial, which ran for years and years and years... probably still running. The jingle was....
5-8-0, 2-3-hundred, Empire!
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Thankfully I'm seeing less and less of it, but the absolute most irritating trend in advertising imho was the relentless "It's about" type commercials.
SO many ads used the formula... Basically, you're looking at a montage of video, while the voice-over says:
"It's about... freedom.
It's about... the pride in a job well done.
"It's about... never having to sell yourself short."
......... and on and on........
"It's about... confidence.
It's about... going that extra mile."
.........then finally, the company name. Say....
"Prudential".
That's it.
"It's about... It's about... It's about... It's about... It's about... Johnson & Johnson."
"It's about... It's about... It's about... It's about... It's about... Ford."
Aargh it drives me freakin' nuts when these come on. Because... what the hell is that supposed to mean? It's about. It's about. Well... WHAT'S about?! Really! WHAT'S about? It makes literally no sense whatsoever. At all. Really. What's about? Ugh.
Know where these spawned from? Funilly enough, Bob Dole speeches during the '96 campain. He coined the whole thing. His speeches went on and on like this. "It's about integrity.".... or "It's about decency." One after another after another, only broken up by the odd "This president business... it's serious business". Didn't make any sense then, and it still didn't when the agencies co-opted this folksy nonsense and milked it for all it's worth. Which aint much.
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For me, it's the Mitsubishi commercial, where the girl looks like she's having a fit, while some weirdo music is playing in the background.:D
Les
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Originally posted by Nefarious
How bout the Computer Professor?
I smile every time he says-
"Please, try my product"
He's prolly making boat loads of cash, but gimme a break, he sounds like hes gonna cry everytime I hear it.
LOL, that's funny too me as well.
I also like it when he says he will teach you how to "run your computer"
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The computer professor is one of those 30 minute commercials. We're talking about the short, in between movie commercials.:D
Les
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Originally posted by Leslie
For me, it's the Mitsubishi commercial, where the girl looks like she's having a fit, while some weirdo music is playing in the background.:D
Les
The weirdo music is "Horndog" by Overseer. I'm not really into techno, but this one is kinda cool.
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6 years in Okinawa with only one english speaking tv channel and only military produced "commercials" made us happy to get a tape from the states with commercials on them.
The funnier military produced "commercials" were the ones made by the Jarhea... er, Marines, to teach their guys how to write a check or manage their money. Of course we occasionally watched the local Okinawan TV but never learned to speak Japanese well enough to enjoy more than the occasional slapstick comedy.
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Thanks Sandman. It still looks to me like a fit, but I don't know much. The music ain't bad, it's the strobofic effects that blow my mind. Guess I need to watch more TV.:)
Les
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Originally posted by Sikboy
but there were a few commercials, not long ago, that I hated so much I would turn the channel when they came on (and I'm not a channel surfer... I pick and stick).
Oh, digiorno pizza. I ****ing hate those commercials
-Sik
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Ugh, I hate the Microsoft G5 commercials. They play so often and it's so boring, a camera going through a house while things are falling down.
A great ad campaign would be to stick Will Farrell or that other guy that does the SNL commercials (the cockroach killer one). That would make me a buyer.