Commercials

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Yes, It's Official: That Stupid "Saved By Zero" Commercial Isn't Working
You, dear consumer, have abruptly stopped purchasing automobiles. GM's sales are down 45%. Ford has sunk by 30% and Toyota, yes, that Toyota is down 23%. More »

11:19 AM on Tue Nov 4 2008
By Meg Marco
20,431 views, 122 comments
weirdvertising
Extended Stay Hotels Must Smell Really Bad
Okay, we got the bathroom humor of Kellog's All-Bran commercial last year. We're not sure if this commercial for Extended Stay Hotels, which shows guests so relaxed that they pass gas—or what the French call un petit éclatement—is quite as effective. Maybe they should change the tagline at the end to, "Our windows can be opened." More »

8:45 AM on Wed Oct 1 2008
By Chris Walters
5,519 views, 22 comments

Most discussed velvetjones: Actually they do. A friend of mine was asked by a hotel chain to work on this. Its more »
Tonight's premiere of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" is about cannibalism and hunting men for sport. The unfortunately-placed McDonald's commercial halfway through the show featured a guy swinging a bat at his friend because he smells food, and then everyone else at the party swarming over the fallen friend to feast. Awkward!

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It Looks Like High Fructose Corn Syrup Manufacturers Are Getting A Little Nervous
The Corn Refiners Association is sick and tired of people expressing uncertainty about the dubious heath benefits of high fructose corn syrup, so they're running some commercials featuring aggressively annoying people getting schooled on the "facts" about our most omnipresent sweetener. All we managed to glean from the commercials is that not consuming high fructose corn syrup makes you rude. In the first one, one mom walks up to another (who is pouring some sort of pink liquid from a jug) and says, "Wow, you don't care what the kids eat, huh?" What a jerk. More »

11:25 AM on Mon Sep 8 2008
By Meg Marco
30,814 views, 172 comments

Most discussed savvy999: I just avoid any food additive that is best expressed as an acronym, or that one cannot buy off the more »
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Duracell's New Ad: 'Oh No Your Kid Just Got Stolen!'
MSNBC's Ads of the Weird blog is a little creeped out by Duracell's new kidnapping commercial, and so are we. Making people feel bad about something is advertising's job, we get that, but trying to scare parents into thinking their kid will be stolen from the playground by the classic man-in-a-van is going a little overboard. (Watch the commercial below.) More »

4:56 PM on Thu Aug 21 2008
By Chris Walters
13,880 views, 91 comments

Most discussed SkyeBlue: If you watch the news even occasionally or catch "Nancy Grace" more than once a week then you know it's more »
great moments in commercial history
PedEgg Ads Scam, Suit Alleges
Who would have ever thought that a low-budget infomercial touting an egg-shaped device home pedicure device with "100 precision microfiles" might be deceptive in some way? Not, apparently, its actors, two of whom are suing the makers of "PedEgg." The thespians say they PedEgg told them the commercial would be internets-only. Instead, it's on the national airways. We don't care about that part. Rather, we chuckle over the suit's revelation that PedEgg hired a horror-makeup guy to apply "artificial bumps and discoloration" to their feet to increase the contrast between the "before" and "after" shots. Quelle horreru! Besides their dishonest advertising tactics, someone should also sue PedEgg for the gross-out shot when they dump all the foot shavings in the trash. See the full commercial inside. More »

1:14 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Ben Popken
15,931 views, 80 comments

Most discussed Chris Walters: I love that you can hear someone make a "gaaahhh" gross-out noise when the foot shavings are emptied. Also: parmesan cheese!!! more »

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Waste Your Saturday With 50 Funny Commercial Parodies
Nerve.com has assembled a list of 50 fake commercials for everything from Tylenol BM (you'll sleep right through your bodily functions!) to the Woomba (it cleans your noony!). There's even some that don't involve body parts, like Lily Tomlin's increasingly agitated housewife hawking "G-r-r-r Detergent" in 1975. Our favorite recent commercial parody that didn't make the list is probably the Jamie Lee Curtis commercial for Activia, because you can never get enough of women eating yogurt. More »

2:34 PM on Sat May 10 2008
By Chris Walters
8,929 views, 32 comments

Latest by theblackdog: Blocked at work under the "Sex" category, but there was no Japanese Police Officer picture :-( more »
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Domino's Pizza: Sacrificing Our Delivery Drivers So We Can Use Our New Slogan
Domino's has a mildly amusing television campaign right now to promote their new slogan "You Got 30 Minutes," but the fine print on Domino's site points out that this should be taken only as a suggestion, not a service guarantee: "Because safety is a priority "You Got 30 Minutes™" is not a guarantee but an estimate. You may get more." A former Domino's delivery guy is not impressed: "Some douchebag ad exec wants to trick customers into believing that the '30 minutes or it's free' guarantee is back, then leave it to the delivery drivers to explain to inevitably angry customers why their pizza isn't free when it gets there in 31 minutes." More »

9:53 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Chris Walters
11,161 views, 112 comments

Latest by JaneNareen: whoa whoa whoa wait a min..im hearing alot of complaints about how $1.50 included into the total is a problem..::cough::cough::: more »
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Discover The Fairsley Difference!
This fake ad-battle from "Mr. Show"—a big city supermarket chain squares off against a naïve local grocer—perfectly captures a certain type of aggressive, scorched-earth advertising style usually reserved for political campaigns.

3:27 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Chris Walters
2,273 views, 23 comments
alzeimer's
Great Moments In Commercial History: "Al'z Place"
The Stay Free! daily blog was watching the telly and nearly spit out its wheatgrass juice when it noticed an ad for a senior care facility in Brooklyn that has blessed its Alzeimer's ward with a delightful moniker. They call it, "Al'z place." That marketing decisions strikes us as, shall we say, unfortunate. What's the message here? "He forgot his name and so did we so we just call him Al."

11:49 AM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Ben Popken
3,007 views, 29 comments

Latest by captainleah: @Cerb: i'm gonna go call my grandma :( more »

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