Commercials and ads - the good, the bad, and the patently offensive

~terry Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (12:58) seed

TV commercials and advertisements, you're bombarded with mega amounts of these every day. What is cool? What have you been bombarded with that is patently offensive or just plain stupid?

~terry Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (13:03) #1

On the coolest ad running on tv right now, that's easy. I love that IBM ad with the monks communicating telepathically while seated in meditation. The one telepaths "Why am I always the last one to know?" Best parody of the IBM "you make the call ad" is Max Miller's takeoff on KFON 1490 AM Austin. "IBM Financial Services, give us all your money and we'll get back to you." Any candidates for truly horrendous, awful ads?

~joshd Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (11:55) #2

I thought the best political ad of the season was Victor Morales' late one, which had a bunch of people standing around with little cut-outs of Phil Gramm held over their faces. It was kind of creepy and hilarious, all at the same time.

~terry Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (15:08) #3

I saw that. That was kind of funny. Scary thought, being confronted by an army of Phil Gramms.

~terry Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (08:41) #4

has anyone seen the great Nike ad where time freezes in several peoples lives while Michael Jordan does a spin move and then dunks, the guy stops shaving and his sink is spilling over. Space Jam has opened. There's some money out there that Michael Jordon doesn't have yet. Perhaps they could legislate a Michael Jordan tax that would just send a substantial portion of everyones income to him and save you the trouble of buying $150 shoes and cologne.

~joshd Mon, Nov 25, 1996 (23:00) #5

I dunno, I kind of like the idea of saving a little bit of face by NOT spending money on Jordan-related enterprises. Like not wearing Jordan's cologne, for starters!

~terry Mon, Nov 25, 1996 (23:33) #6

Yeah, I was just kidding. I'm not up to supporting the Gross Jordan Product. The other commercial series that's hot right now is the Lotus Notes/Domino commercials. Have you seen them? Where the guy slams the web surfers.

~joshd Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (22:29) #7

Yeah, Dennis Leary. He's funnier when he writes his own material and not reciting some copy writer's version of him.

~terry Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (23:13) #8

He's good. I'd like to see him with his own material if he's this good with someone else mediocre material.

~ozzie Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (08:03) #9

What is this - the Terry and Josh show??? Does anyone else out there readining this - or am I the only sucker interested???

~terry Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (11:36) #10

We're just getting this cranked up. Don't worry, I'm working on ways to get more guests to the party. Anyone see any incredibly cool or really bad commercials lately?

~sunspot Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (13:16) #11

How about Packard Bells new ads? Don't they remind you of the early apple commercials? They really do project a very sinister outlook on the world. It's almost as if they are encouraging people to stay home and communicate with everyone via modem. I personally have problems with people fostering that type of reclusive attitude. BW

~joshd Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (16:03) #12

Haven't seen the ads--what do they say?

~terry Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (23:11) #13

I've missed these so far.

~sunspot Fri, Dec 6, 1996 (11:43) #14

You people are spending too much time on the net. Packard Bell has spent about a Gazillion $ flooding the airwaves with these new ads. Bob

~terry Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (03:20) #15

I like the new Nike Mike ads. The one where Larry Bird doesn't sing. Nike knows about to do attention getting ads. Totally cool. No. But effective.

~terry Sat, Jul 27, 2002 (09:31) #16

Anyone catch the Mitsubishi Eclipse ad? It's teh one with the lady dancing with her arms.