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Best and worst commercials of the year
MSNBC ^ | Aug 22, 2006 | Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Posted on 08/22/2006 6:50:44 PM PDT by indcons

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To: indcons

"I used to enjoy watching Geico's commercials...however, they seem to be losing their creative touch."

What creative touch would that be? For creativity, I look to the Bud Light commercials, very little repetition, lots and lots of originality and just downright humor - excellent ads!! Sort of like the Miller Lite commercials from the '80's. Now Miller Lite sucks, but they did have good commercials.


261 posted on 08/22/2006 8:32:15 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: LexBaird

This is a great ad....long but fascinating.

Reminds of the elaborate mousetrap built by Tom in a very early Tom and Jerry toon. that mousetrap used car parts to start an elaborate series of mechanical events that were supposed to culminate in Jerry's destruction.


262 posted on 08/22/2006 8:33:09 PM PDT by indcons (Islam Delenda Est)
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To: RightOnline
Interesting........I HATE that commercial; I find it supremely sad. It's basic message is "I cannot stand having my own children around and can't WAIT to shuffle them off to the public school system to get them out of MY hair." Think about that for a minute, just exactly what that means......

not throwing stones or nuthin' but that's how it came across to me too.

263 posted on 08/22/2006 8:34:05 PM PDT by houeto (Isn't 1400 years of the same shi'ite enough?)
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To: LexBaird

Rube Goldberg wwould be proud. :)


264 posted on 08/22/2006 8:34:16 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: indcons

Bad really Bad! - Cialis ...any ED ad
Great - any Aflac goose commecial


265 posted on 08/22/2006 8:34:42 PM PDT by Doctor Don
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To: hotshu

No offense at all! I hadn't gotten that far yet. :)

I am informed by those in the know that the motion that accompanied the cuchi-cuchi is pretty fast. I tried it Saturday during a day of rehearsals. On Sunday, I felt like someone had sligged me in the back with a sack of bricks.


266 posted on 08/22/2006 8:35:06 PM PDT by Xenalyte (No movie shall triumph over "Snakes on a Plane.")
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To: indcons

My favorite DJ is a guy in Cincinnati (Gary Burbank, 700 WLW in the afternoons) who does great stuff every day. On the day following election day, he plays political ads, then "blows up" each ad - hilarious! He's about the only reason I'm sorry for leaving Cincinnati in favor of Florida.


267 posted on 08/22/2006 8:35:16 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Moonmad27

I do like the current Hummer ads...the guy buying the tofu and yogurt, and the man behind him in the check out line being a meat-eater; and the mom at the playground whose kid gets cut off by another little guy who has a mouthy mom...and then she goes and trades her wimpy mini-van for an H3. Now thats an ad...


268 posted on 08/22/2006 8:35:33 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Take the high road...the view is always better.)
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To: demkicker

The cadaverous Burt Bacharach one is the worst the three. I'm almost embarrassed for him, except he's a rabid lib and deserves to sink as low as he has.


269 posted on 08/22/2006 8:36:09 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
More Worst:

1. The Travelocity Roaming Gnome commercials. Hate them hate them hate them !

2. Those BP commericials. What a collections of morons! If these people were actually so concerned about "The Future of Energy", how about they do a reading and research?

3. The Human Element commercials. Grrrrrr.

4. The Vonage commercial with the lady talking about Vonage while her husband is similating a sex act in the background. So appropriate for daytime TV !

270 posted on 08/22/2006 8:36:37 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: indcons

But instead flattened Tom. :)


271 posted on 08/22/2006 8:36:59 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: cripplecreek

Thanks for the link. These have got to be the funniest yet

say what - What?


272 posted on 08/22/2006 8:37:22 PM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: martin_fierro

The head-on commercials point toward the future. Women will soon have rub-on sticks for their foreheads that bring on instant headaches. Then they can say to their "partner," (who has just taken Cialis, Viagra, InstaHard, whatever), "not tonight, honey, I have a headache."


273 posted on 08/22/2006 8:38:18 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
...any commercial where the white male (usually a dad) is portrayed as a dope ...

Describes pretty much all Home Depot commercials these days.

Dope, knave and/or scoundrel.

274 posted on 08/22/2006 8:39:14 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Quigley
Come on Quig, "Try my product."

I agree. I hate it too.

275 posted on 08/22/2006 8:39:43 PM PDT by houeto (Isn't 1400 years of the same shi'ite enough?)
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To: P8riot

LOL!!! I don't remember seeing that one before.


276 posted on 08/22/2006 8:40:10 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Rembrandt

HardOn - Apply Directly to the Ding Dong.
HardOn - Apply Directly...


277 posted on 08/22/2006 8:41:13 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: indcons

I don't, the first gecko had a nice posh Brit accent and they switched it to cockney.

I can only imagine the reasons why....


278 posted on 08/22/2006 8:42:40 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: TampaDude

"I only have one thing to say about that "Head On" commercial...

Most.
Annoying.
Commercial.
Ever."
~~~
Aflack


279 posted on 08/22/2006 8:42:54 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Killborn

Most certainly did..LOL.

If memory serves me right, Jerry changed the measurements on the drawing board the night before Tom was supposed to build the mousetrap. That episode and the 1946(?) Oscar-winning "Tom as a musical conductor" one remain my favorite toons to this day.


280 posted on 08/22/2006 8:43:52 PM PDT by indcons (Islam Delenda Est)
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