Are you gellin? I need some intersoles, but if they make ya that stupid, no thanks.

I really dislike Arby's commercials. My favority celebrity death match would be between the "Hamburger Helper" mitt and the Arby's potholder mascot.

Must be suppertime: now I want an Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich, cheese, and Horsey Sauce.

I have major issues with the "who are those guys?" "they're your network." I mean, I could barely tolerate that guy when he was wandering all the fuck over the place saying "Can you hear me now?" but the new campaign is just totally wack.

I know wack.

I am also horrified by the inane gellin' insole radio spots.

Luckily I don't get exposed to most commercials. I typically watch 2 hours of on-air TV daily, to get my Judging Amy fix over breakfast. Everything else is taped and I fast forward through the commercials.

The absolutely stupidest TV commercial in Spanish:

Right now on Hispanic television stations' morning programs, they have saturation marketing for "Golden Memorial Plan". At least twice every program segment. It's a grainy bilious blue background with an actor looking like Abe Vigoda on a bad day telling all those loving hispanic families how they owe it to themselves to purchase this pre-paid funeral plan so that they won't have all the hassles when somebody kicks the bucket. You know how smarmy and "concerned" funeral directors are portrayed as? This ad definitely makes you want to go out and kill one of them after hearing about "Golden Memorial Plan" in that tone of voice about 200 times in a week. :rar:

Not that I would ever buy burial insurance from these guys anyway, but what REALLY ticks me off about this marketing is I know the reason that a majority of (recent) hispanic immigrants don't have the money to bury their loved ones is their insistence on sending the body back to Mexico or wherever for interment there. The poorer they are, the more bodies they seem to have to deal with, due to farm accidents or car crashes mostly. This also complicates getting the dearly departed back home before sanitation conditions become critical. THAT is the kind of insurance premium that employers in California need to deduct from these people.

Farm accidents, car crashes, and drive bys ... which may be why the Hispanic Community is targeted with those pre-planning ads.

I haven't seen those on regular channels.

True, Wolf, but since the "insurance" will only cover burying you in the US, where this enterprise is licensed, this becomes moot. If you are illegal or recently arrived and don't even speak English, this won't get your relatives back to Mexico where the family wants them. It's a morbid thought, but this is why there are so many car washes available on every streetcorner throughout the Central Valley of California; it's the only way they know to raise the money. The more spectacular deaths, the ones which make the papers, at least allow the family to solicit donations from the public. I find it horribly sad that a family which can't even feed itself adequately insists on using up their every resource for such a practice as sending a corpse back to the home grounds when eventually every person who ever knew the dead will leave for El Norte anyway.

This ad isn't stupid, so much as gross.

Have you seen the relatively new ad where shit is simulated with some green paste. Probably toothpaste? They show someone with a big smear of green toothpaste on the back of their hand trying to wipe it off with toilet paper. A single wipe doesn't get it. So they switch to Charmin (I think?) wet wipes, and are able to get the simul-shit of their hand in one wipe. It's really disturbing to me. Simulates shit smear on hand too well. Far too vivid. It's far more disturbing than tampon and maxi-pad ads that use blue water instead of blood.

The wipes really do work that well, though. I thought it was a fairly effective ad.

one of the 3 major networks, can't remember off the bat, but they have a radio spot where it seems these people are standing around a water cooler at the office and they're talking about the shows that are going to be on that night. trying to emulate that EVERYONE will be talking about these shows the next day. sheesh. click. goodbye.

Last night I was watching Lou Dobbs on cnn. I clicked on mute to answer the phone. Looked back at the closed captions there's an add for prostate meds. They either out sourced it or someone hacked it. I have no idea what it said. Tonight was C. Swab, the one where they use cartoons instead of paying actors.

I hate those commercials. The cartoonified folks are not cartoony enough to justify the effect. They just look awful. I try never to use products whose ads are annoying, it only encourages them to find new annoying ways of getting your attention.

Is that like that E- surance thingy?

I just googled your e*thingy. Chuck's ad doesn't look like the kinda traditional toon they have on their site. I think chucks is a digital effect applied to a filmed image.

But cartoon characters haven't done a porn film or an ad for a competitor somewhere in the hazy past. :)