There is on where else to put this, so i will make a new topic.

I was watching a commercial today while i am waiting for the Suns game to start, and a commercial came up. It was for an insurance company called SafeAuto.
It is a manager of an insurance company talking. I looked at his desk and started laughing. My mom asked me why so i explained. The nameplate on his desk read "Bill Lumbergh". If you dont recognize the name, i pity you.

Then some other guy kicked him out of his desk and sat down and threw the guy's name plate off the desk and put his own. Guess what it read.

Thats right, it read "Michael Scott"

Nice to know that an insurance company is paying attention. Maybe they were trying to cater to Office Fans. Who knows.

Someone was commenting on the same commercial in Off-topic or some thread like that.

Oh, and my husband wore his Inatech t-shirt to work today. Think anyone will recognize it?

So, when are we going to get those TPS reports?

We could turn this into talk about you favorite or most hateful tv commercial


Favorite: I love Target commercials. Geniuses

Hate: Hated those oven mit commercials from Arby's

Love Target's commercials

But those Mac commercials kill me every time!!

I love those Six Flags commercials with the old man dancing. The ones that Pam hates. They're so cute.

I hate creepy movie commercials. I can't even watch the commercials without getting freaked out.

Edit* I forgot I really hate those "natural male enhancement" commercials. Especially the one with Bob.

Apple/Mac commercials, you know the ones. . . with Mac and PC? Brilliant.

I love, love, love those! I've actually considered buying a Mac because of them. Their commercials are working aren't they

i hate those cell phone commercials that ask you to text to a number to get horoscopes, or jokes, or celeb gossip. They have the little cartoon charachters?

HATE IT!

Favorite timing of a commercial:

We were watching Fargo on tv several months ago, and there was a commercial for a woodchipper. No lie! It was either poor timing on the part of the station to put the commercial in there, or some woodchipper company actually paid to advertise during Fargo.

I love this commercial

http://www.guzer.com/videos/man_bear_fight.php

LMAO!

What are some of your guys' favorite commercials? Post them here, and discuss.

I still love the commercial, I think its Verizon Wireless (whoever has the whole "pick your five" thing) where the family is sitting at the dinner table and the dad asks the daughter whose in her five. She gives a list of five of her girl friends names. Then the dad asks the son the same question, and he lists the same 5 girls. She gives her brother an evil look

"What? Your friends are hot!"
"Are you going to do anything about this?"
"Maybe you should get uglier friends."

Oooh it kills me everytime! I just think its so funny!

I love Gatorade's latest commercial starring Kevin Garnett as a milkman in a neighborhood full of pro athletes. I don't know why. It just gets me excited.

For years now, I've loved just about every Gap commercial there was. And the new Claire Danes/Patrick Wilson one is so fun. Who knew she was such a good dancer? And it totally works, too, because she DOES look better in the pants. I actually found myself rewinding the DVR because I wanted to watch it.

Since they show during late night I've seen it quite a bit. They must appeal strictly to the men. If I had to look at that grin the whole time I don't think I'd be interested no matter how "enhanced" he was.

I used to love the Office Max ones with Eddie Steeples (from "My Name is Earl").

My favorite commercial is the "Eagle Man" commercial...it's so bad but hilarious!

For those of you not in the Chicago area/have no idea what I'm talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_y1xfzV8dM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Insurance

Alice Coopers Residence Inn hotel commercial
Alice Cooper, Staples commercial....Schools out for summer

My absolute favorite is The Perfect Toy by Petsmart. It just makes me wanna sing, and I feel all warm and fuzzy.

You without me
Me without you
Without you I'd be feelin' blue...

"Hey Buddy. Where's BooBoo?"


We need music note emoticons.


Any kind of male enhancement or feminine hygiene product should be banned from the airwaves. Those commercials make me feel un-fresh.

Love the Chicago accent on those girls, too!

I'll have to find some Pittsburgh ones - I cringe at the accent on most local commercials.

Wait, isn't this my thread? Or was this already started a long time ago?

It was started by Roy not so long ago.

The Philadelphia area has some "stellar" local commercials - past and present.

The Krass Brothers ones are probably the most remembered. They used to air at the cheapest times on the cheap-o UHF stations and were normally only 7 seconds long. The neat part is that they'll make as much sense to you non-Philly people as they do to us...which is about ZERO.

Commercial 1 (YouTube)
Commercial 2
Commercial 3
Commercial 4
Commercial 5

Interesting little bio-page (link) on the dude in the commercials. Funny line, "His last wish was to have a plaque inscribed, 'He went in a Krass Brothers suit.' He did."

This one here, though, is a genuine classic. I won't say what it is, but this commercial ran unchanged (!) for 15-20 years. Unfortunately, I cannot find video of the commercial, but in this case, the song will do just fine. This is a link to an MP3 of the song (right-click/save-as).

If you're not from the Philly area, just dig the catchy tune...but if you are, be prepared to be mind-warped back into the 1970's or 80's, depending on when you were watching WPHL-17. . There is a pretty cool site (link) dedicated to that business that you may find of interest.

As for a commercial I can remember absolutely hating? Nothing beats this one on the Annoy-o-meter™: Encyclopedia Britannica commercial (link). I used to swear that if I got a hold of that kid, the crime scene detectives would be "wondering where his mandibula is". . Yikes...it appears that kid actually had a semblance of a career...heh...IMDB (link). No wonder he was/is a mess..."He was known only as Baby Boy until he received his name on his fifth birthday". Geez.

Someone freaking jacked my thread. ****!

Yes my evil deed of the day was merging two threads on commercials. Blood was spilled, lives were changed and souls have been used in the merging of these threads.

You wish domina.

if i could have found a sacrificial virgin to toss in I would have

my dog has that toy.

Anyone know the shane company commercial on the radio??

My goodness. They are the definition of annoying!

I love how they scan the dog in the end! It makes me laugh everytime!

That commercial makes me unbelievably upset. I get really sad/angry that the owner threw out that one toy...it's like throwing out memories. I almost cry every time.

I second that, except for the commercials with Bob or whatever always make me giggle.

I love this commercial. The first time I saw I didn't recognize Claire Danes- only Patrick Wilson. Those pants are cute too

My least fav is the one for Hanes with Kevin Bacon and Michael Jordan.

Let me repeat:
Michael Jordan (six time NBA chammpion and arguably best baller ever)
and
Kevin Bacon (star of FOOTLOOSE!!!)

Seriously?

Michael Jordan could eat Kevin Bacon and no one would care.

1. The T-Mobile Top Five commercial...

"Dude, why is my girlfriend on your Top Five?"
["Secret Lovers" ringtones goes off]

2. The Home Depot commercial with the guy mowing his dead lawn. Rocks were being tossed everywhere because of the lawn mower, and one of the rocks were flung at pair of Jehovah's Whitnesses!

Ok... so I LOVE the PetSmart Perfect Toy commerical... I so love that you've already posted it here!


A few of my own favorites to add:

I really love the CareerBuilder campaign right now: "just don't survive the work week". This one is my favorite: The Promotion Pit

I love this Budweiser Clydesdale one... warms my heart!


A few Christmas Time ones:

The Holiday Hawk

I saw this one on Youtube the other day and was excited. Fruity Pebbles from the 80s!

Another 80s one: M&Ms. This makes me want to stick my head in a giant bowl of M&Ms. But seriously.. ths 80s had the best commercials.

I couldn't find it on Youtube.. but the Christmas Home for the Holidays Mastercard commerical.. it makes me feel warm and fuzzy. If somebody can find it; I'll love ya!

And my WORST of all time:

Any of the Empire Carpet Commericals....ugh. I couldn't find a clip of one... but I found this which is actually much funnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeucAM82UGA.

I actually saw this for the first time on the Ellen Degeneres show: this is for real: Montgommery Flea Market


I'll stop for now.

HAHA... oh jeez you guys. One more!

So I remember this being on in the 90s and the song would get stuck in my head... but I never listened to the words of the song TRULY until now.

Mr. Bucket

I'm glad I don't qualify . . .

She lost me at the "sacrificial" part.

And that's why you're smarter then me.

I saw this a few years back and had to find it. This should be shown 24 hours a day to teenagers...

condom commercial

I think I know what commercial your talking about. It's the one based on this book?



If so- that's one of my favorite commercials too. I loved that book when I was little and I actually own a pretty old copy of it.

First off I want to talk about my least favorite commerical, the Geico caveman commericals. I hate those commericals with a passion, does anyone else hate them?

The is one of my favorite recent commericals from this years superbowl, they show it all of the time during sports on the weekends now.

But he has bud light.

But I don't wanna watch that all dayyyyyy. I've seen it before though, lol.


Those kind of irk me, but I love the whole roast duck and mango salsa thing. I want the gecko back though. I have his bobblehead.

Lol. It's a bottle opener!

Thanks for this! OMG, I couldn't figure out who he was as I was watching to see if in fact it really was Claire Danes. It has been driving me crazy (a short trip, as they say)

I have a few:

May I help you enjoy that Snickers?

You don't give another guys girlfriend a foot massage, and you don't put her in your Five (just for the Pulp Fiction referance)

Foxwoods (that song will never stop playing in my head)

And my al time favortie commercial is Gatoraide's "Be Like Mike" song

I love that commercial! I have "Secret Lovers" as my ringtone because of it!

It is threads like this that make me regret making relevant replies. Wasted time, apparently.

After the BIG HAIR and Encyclopedia Blonde . . . . . I needed recovery time. Thanks for successfully reactivating those brain cells that had apparently stored memories of the EB commercials. I was hoping I could start using them to store something else.