Why is Jennifer Love Hewitt in you Top 5?

I have a certain fondness for cell phone commercials. The new T Mobile commercial is brilliant.

Two friends in a restaurant, one sees JLH in the other's Top 5. "Why is Jennifer Love Hewitt in you Top 5?" "We're kind of seeing each other" "Prove it. Call her."

So the guy proceeds to call the JLH number in his phoen and asks if he left some green socks in her tub, and if she can wash them. He carries this off with aplomb, his friend is stunned. However we see where the phone rings, and it looks like a pizzaria, where a pimply faced guy answers the phoen and listens for a moment before yelling "STOP CALLING HERE!"


Oh T Mobile, your and Verizon's commercials are pretty funny. My carrier CIngular.. not so much.

The funniest commercial I've seen all week.

It was for some local couch place, stating they were going out of business, so we should come in and take advantage of their deals because they were closing at 8pm.

The funny thing? It aired at 8:15pm.

You think the advertising guy at that place had something to do with their going out of business?

Well, Sony does ONE thing right.

And that is the ads for Ratchet and Klank. The commercials are all similar, just like the games. And also similar to the games, they're consistently good.


The current commercial is for the PSP version of the game. The kids are showing off the new shrink ray. It's a quasi-nightvision shot during a a camping trip. Four guys are gonna use the shrink ray so that the one guy can see the girls changing. They shrink him (a nice looking effect for a commercial) and as he makes a run for the girls' tent, an owl swoops down and steals him.


This is the clever advertising Sony needs. not the creepy anamatronic baby commercial from the PS3 launch.

Someone take an AXE to their marketing department!

I hate the current Axe commercial. Their commercials are pretty lowbrow, but this one is just... I'm suprised it's still on the air. I would have thought a feminist group would havescreamed to high heaven by now.

There are several versions of different length, but in general it's a mass of attractive women in bikini's swimming, running through a jungle, and hurdling over one another in an attempt to grap a man who is spraying two cans of Axe over himself. The camera zooms out to show the breathtaking scale of the stampeding women, and we're greeted with the new commercial's tag line "Spray more get more."

Spray more get more. Get more what? Women in general? Sex? I know it's purposely ambiguous, but come on, be a little more original in showing that this aerosol spray scent is going to get me more women.

LAME!
LAME!
LAME!

Did you think I wouldn't notice HP?!

I'm referring of course to HP's most recent "Making the Computer Personal Again" commercial. During Christmas they aired a commercial showing the torso of Santa Claus, and the voice discussing what he does with his laptop was supplied by Tim Allen. This was likely done as a little cross promotion for The Santa Clause 3.

But now the commercial has the same visuals and supplies another generic Santa voice. Why not keep Tim Allen? He's a good VA, better than generic dude that does it now.

The most confusing commercial on TV

is also one of my new favorites, simply because it features Bruce Campbell. It's a comercial for Old Spice.

The next time I see it on, I'll pause the old Tivo and proide a transcript so you can see how confusing it is. It literally makes little sense, but it's still great, just because Campbell is so awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af1OxkFOK18&eurl=

Forget a transcript, we have the every loveable YouTube to show us the wonderfully delightful comercial. Watch it, scratch head, buy Old Spice.

As a guy, I know pretty much all there is to know about bacon

This has been a great year so far for commercials that appeal to me. Next up is the current Sonic commercial, in which a man and a woman in the car discussing a new sandwhich of some sort with bacon. As a person who loves bacon, the guy insisting that pretty much everything there is to know is encoded on his DNA cracks me up.

So it works as entertainment, but as an ad it fails because I don't remember what it's suppossed to make me want.

Worst products of 2007 (so far)

I have seen 2 terrible commercials for 2 rotten products. I'm sure by now you've seen a commercial for the Kidz Bop CD's (now in their 11th iteration), which take popular music from the radio and make it "kid friendly" by having children sing them and changing some lyrics.

These discs usually sell pretty well, and it is only natural that there would be copy cats (such as last year's reggaeton disc for kids), but this year so far the franchise has spawned two evil offspring, which will likely replicate like a wet Mogwai.

First we have a country kids disc. I don't remember the exact title, as my brain mercifully blocked out parts of the commercial. but some things get burned into your memory. Like seeig a bunch of kids in bright colors line dancing to kids singing "Boot Scootin' Boogie." I'm no country fan, and seeing kids subjected to it is horrible. The birght point in the commercial is seeing this mass of little white kids, and one solitary asian boy. He sticks out like a sore thumb.

The next evil is Kidz (why the Z?!) Rap Radio. Now this one takes popular rap songs, and drastically changes the lyrics to songs and has ostensibly famous child rappers (I didn't know any existed, but they do, according to the commercial and a small article I saw in a music magazine) sing the songs. I'd like to hear this disc, just to hear the rewrites of the songs. In the commercial (which has a nicely multi-ethnic gang of kids doing retarded dances in the background) we hear smal snippets of rewritten songs, the most memorable (t0 me) being the rewrite of "Laffy Taffy." If you haveb't heard the song... I envy you actually, as it sucks. But the lyrics to the chorus go "shake that laffy taffy, that laffy taffy" (Deep and thought provoking, right?) and since we can't have kids singing about shaking bottoms, the lyrics get an obvious change "We like lafy taffy, that laffy taffy."

I looked for a torrent but didn't see one. If I can get my hands on this disc I'll give it a thorough review. I don't see it selling well. Most kids who seem to listen to rap have parents who don't care about that little PA sticker on their new E-40 cd.

Best commericals of 2007

I'm starting early with my list of my favorite commercials. I'm gonna update it as I see good commercials, and if I get sick of a commercial it will be stricken from the list. (or added to a spearate post of commercials I am sick of prehaps)

1) Verizon's Envy commercial.
It starts with an attractive blonde staring into a mirrored window, and the word "Vanity" appears ont he screen, in gothic lettering. Dramatic music begins, as the camera focuses on a guy in car, who is staring at the girl, and the word "Lust" appears. A slight pan across to another woman, apparently the guy's girlfriend who has a furious look upon her place, and the word "Wrath" appears next to her.

Then the revolving door on the building they are next to spins open and a woman walks out texting and as all three of the former indivuduals look at the the woman, we get a shot that focuses on the phone and the three people looking at it, and the word "Envy" appears on the screen.

I like this commercial because it's just so simple. The music catches your ear, and the set-up to the reveal of the phone is clever. The theme of the commercial actually fits the product. Kudos Verizon!