Annoyed in the Sandbox: TV ADS.

Best Commercials of the Year
1. Geico Caveman against Talking Head ("Looks like someone got up on the wrong side of the rock")
2. Geico Cockney Gecko "Pie, and Chips... for Free!"
3. Maria Sharapova and Company, "I Feel Pretty"
4. Jon Tester haircut commercial
5. the California commercial with Clint Eastwood punchline
6. VW scary accident commercials
7. the Kermit commercial at the Super Bowl (yes, I know, heresy, blah blah)
8. Geico dramatic reenactment series (movie announcer dude, Little Richard, Charo)
9. cavemen beer commercial from the Super Bowl
Honorable Mention - "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" (yes, a little late with this, but it's hard to imagine a more perfect reinforcement of a brand)

Special Nascar Division
Best Gay Subtext - Kevin Harvick-Tony Kanan - "You got your caramel in my Reese's!"
Best Straight Man - Greg Biffle Subway ads
Most Personality - Tony Stewart Home Depot ads
Tiredest Series - Kasey Kahne causes starstruck girls to have car accidents
Worst Single Moment - old contest-winner dude gets all excited about Kasey's win
Funniest Ad - Sony HDTV "What are you watching?"
Best-Humored Ad - Mark Martin/Carl Edwards "Fernando, you're on"
Best overall - 'Some people say Nascar's not a sport' Bud commercial

Also, fearmongering life insurance ads featuring earnest seniors, usually on TV stations from Atlanta.

Some people have no sense of humour

Funny, when in Budapest back in 1990, my dad pointed out the Sec of State for Finance and some other Hungarian cabinet minister (or equivalent) dining at the newly opened McDonalds...

How did he know who they were?

He was working there, semi-permanently.

... and then Marc Bolan walked in with the England cricket team

Something that occurred to me the other day -- what other cases are there of one advertiser running two completely separate allegedly-humorous ad campaigns? I'm thinking of Geico, with the cavemen and the gecko. I could see them having one serious campaign and one funny one, but having two parallel funny campaigns is kind of weird.

Insurance companies sure put a lot into elaborate ad campaigns. Progressive/Flo, Farmers/JKSimmons, etc. The best one is definitely Allstate and the guy playing Mayhem.

... and then Marc Bolan walked in with the England cricket team

― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:20 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

You are a regular reader of mine, I see!

no idea as to the general consensus, but now that the festive season is in full swing, can i just say that the glut of high budget, slo-mo adverts for stuff that makes folk smell bearable make my blood boil.

clearly the ad people believe such things work, so i guess its just me, but i cant stand the constant moody looking gloss enhanced shyte.

(xpost : haha ! of course, didn't spot that nudge re bolan ... )

Completely separate?

There was the Pot Noodle one, one a semi-serious Steve Cram fronted one at a racetrack, and one with a comedybloke and a "they are too gorgeous to be healthy" strapline. They eventually 'came together' in the end.

Oh, and the "still tango" one.

First up, an ad, very amateurly made, for the drink, basically a bloke shouting over a rave scene.

Next ad, the Managing Director for Tango telling the viewer that they do not make a still version, and if they see it on sale, phone a telephone number.

The third ad had the MD being spanked for being a naughty boy, or something. Except that ad was never shown, I don't think. The only reason I know this was that I saw a copy of a marketing VHS with all the ads compiled together (I didn't see the vids playing, only the contents page on the VHS box).

those were great pre facebook games to get buying public connected to the product

worst ad "Mom was right. I should have married John Clarke"

right now I really like the one with the caveman and Brian Orapko playing Scrabble, it's not very funny but it's so left-field bizarre that I can't help but chuckle

has nothing on the GOAT ad with Patrick Ewing randomly dunking on some guy b/c he ate a Snickers

xpost best ad "Mom was right. I should have married John Cooper Clarke"

there are like 2 animated w/ hi-pitched v.o. adopt a cat ads that i have to like mute or change off immediately for threat of impulse-adopting 80 cats

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oh yeah, I'll have what she's having

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right now I really like the one with the caveman and Brian Orapko playing Scrabble, it's not very funny but it's so left-field bizarre that I can't help but chuckle

ok, I didn't realize the guy's last name was Orapko -- that makes the "it's another word for sack" line a lot funnier. I thought he was just making up some bullshit with his letters that he knew he'd get away with because Cavemen R Dumm.

Gah! I have expressed my perhaps unwarranted hatred for M Bamford on reg ILX but I just can't get into her and those commercials are not helping.

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Tums where rubber rib or corndog hits guy in face with bbq sauce or mustard

YouTube tells me that this is a national spot. God help us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9gIuCpL6zU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-PNwNJ2VSc

That talking investment baby can fuck the fuck the fuck right off

As the proud father of a two-year-old boy, I get a little tired of everyone comparing him to that guy.

(Especially since he's on the iPad more than he is on the Toy Story train set.)

okay, this is getting weird.

T-Mobile ads (all).

Walkin' in an orgy wonderland.

Also the T-Mobile girl's arms are 8 feet long but attached to her body up to the elbow.

FUCKING DIAMOND COMMERCIALS

When they first came out, I thought T-Mobile girl was Liv Tyler for some reason.

That talking investment baby can fuck the fuck the fuck right off

how long have they been doing these commercials and how does this baby not get any older?

So, did Morrissey get the Gordon Ramsay "John Lewis" take-off commercial, um, taken off?

The UPS commercial that rhymes 'Olympians' with 'Thames'.

The Pet Food one that finally uses "Om nom nom nom nom nom"

No. You are not saying it right. Slowly. More Considered.

ach, forgt it.

The one for the artificial dog bone? Just saw that as an ad before a video on a website.

all the ones where some young upper-class family buys a damn Lexus as a Christmas gift for the wife, as though she's not going to notice $50000 missing from the joint bank account