Make your voice heard: Vote for most annoying product spokesman

The Arrakis Street Journal | August 13, 2002 | Paul Atreides

[Paul Atreides]

A. The Verizon "Can you hear me now?" guy...

B. Pier One's Kirstie Alley...

C. Dell's Steve...

[RJS1950]

Worst: 1. Verizon Guy closely followed by 2. The Sprint guy in the black trenchcoat talking about cellular static 3. Carrottop/ATT 4. Ditech twit 5. the switch to Macincrap gang. All commercials for dummies in the lowest form.

Best (right now) or at least funniest: the Geico gecko and the Taco Bell chihuahua, "Oh great! A talking gecko."

[pa_dweller]

I keep hoping that idiot is going to walk off the edge of the Grand Canyon or something!

Actually, it wouldn't be hard to do at all, those lookout points look just like that. Stand up on the rail, take a swan dive and bye bye! There's one small detail though, you're not gonna legally get your car that close! In fact, I think that now you can't even take your POV in the South Rim section of the park.

[KeyBored]

"The jerk who sells the book telling you how to get "free" money from the taxpayers."

Must be a democrat.

[Pablo64]

I'm with you on the Staples commercial! My wife and I just start singing the song they play (It's the most...wonderful time...of the year!") and our kids get that exact same mad/pouty look! It's hysterical, LOL!! The really funny part is....we homeschool!

[Paul Atreides]

I hate those drug PSAs with the snot-nosed kids telling their parents that they are going to have to be the adults and that they are kicking them out of their lives. They are a bunch of 13 year olds telling their parents how things are going to be! If I had a kid and he told me that, I would laugh in his face.

[Paul Atreides]

I forgot about the Sprint guy. The only phone service person who was any good was Sela Ward.

[Jorge]

How about the guy that does the Oxy Clean, and the dent remover commercials? I can't remember his name.

You beat me to it. His voice just grates on me. I hit the mute everytime I see his face.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I enjoy that Dell kid's commercials. There is one so obnoxious though that I can't remember his name or the product he sells-maybe I'll see it among the other comments.

[Genesis defender]

The only underwear worth dancing about are the underwear with Victoria's Secret models in them.

For some reason, my wife isn't as enthusiastic about Victoria's Secret ads.

BTW, is Tyra Banks married? She is one beautiful woman.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Oxyclean and the dent remover commercial-that's the guy-his voice is like fingernails on a blackboard. I have to move to another channel when he comes on.

[Paul Atreides]

I don't know, but I haven't seen a bad VS commercial, yet.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The only phone service person who was any good was Sela Ward.

She was gorgeous, was great as the murdered wife in 'The Fugitive' movie too! But Patrick Stewart on the old GTE(?) commercials was good too!

[Old Professer]

Old Ralph Williams, they interrupted his commercial 47 years ago this week to bring you the Watts riots; I was there.

[JonH]

The fact everyone remembers these ads and spokes person is proof of the fact they are working!

[Samwise]

but it did NOT get out the poster paint that xspup sprinkled into the light colored berber carpet in the family room....

Oh, I feel for you. Samwise Junior left her red pen out where her puppy could get it. He chewed it up and had red ink all over the berber carpet and the wallpaper. I was livid. Don't give up. We finally got all the ink out. We sprayed the carpet with Woolite pet stain remover, and then just blotted and blotted until we couldn't blot anymore. Everytime we did it, the ink faded. We just kept at it. When it was pale pink, it squirted the Oxyclean on it and let it set for a while. Then we blotted again. We finally got it all out. It was a lot of work, but we really didn't want to buy a new carpet.

[HairOfTheDog]

I hate to admit that I kinda liked the funky stream of consciousness William Shatner Priceline commercials... how 'bout you?

[elcaudillo]

Here's two:

Boob Dole selling Viagra.

Elizabeth Dole selling herself to North Carolinians.

[Paul Atreides]

Whatever gets him off of Star Trek works for me.

[DonQ]

I get the distinct impression that Kirstie Alley was drunk or drugged when she made those commercials; there's something about her eyes and the tone of her voice that makes me think she somewhat impaired.