Commercials that give you the creeps- Page 2

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 8:14am

i hate all the ads for all these medications, where most of the ad lists all the side effects... the fact that a certain medication MAY cause loose stools... uh, YEAH! that's for me!!! If i have to, though, i guess i would...

and what's up with the logo for Levitra? is it a flame? or is it a va (redhot, you know what i mean)... and the television ads for it are funny, too... the man throwing the football, trying to get it through the tire and can't make it... and THEN, he takes the wonder drug and voila! he gets the ball through the hole, and his wife gets excited... Updated On: 3/2/04 at 08:14 AM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 9:05am

JoeyJoe - I LOVE That you just posted a message with VA in it...
and yes that commercial is creepy - but still - nothing could make me want to eat a quiznos sub...

[Craig]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 11:29am

Mentos commericals creep me out

but the latest one is the anti-drug one that has a girl standing on a dock watching her friend drown

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 11:31am

oh Oh OH!!! yes yes yes!!! creeps me out every time!!!

[orion59]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 11:31am

The one with the woman squirming in her seat at a wedding and thinking to herself, I should have used preparation H

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 2:38pm

I hate the "gotta-go" and the new adult diaper delivery service commercials. Like feminine itching, it's just something I don't want to know about. The Quizno things look like dead skin samples. They're really nasty.

I love the Travelocity gnome commercial! It always makes me laugh.

Suleen - I haven't seen that commercial with the child stars! What channel? I also like the commercial with the television maids. I saw Ann B. Davis in Crazy For You years ago.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 2:46pm

i totally agree, craig. mentos commercials have always creeped me out.

those anti-drug ads creep me out too. how about the one with the baby walking out towards the pool?

they have taken a page from an old episode of dragnet in which a set of young parents get "hopped up on pot" and forget that they put the baby in the bathtub and she drowns. oh it was hideous, they even showed them lifting the dead baby out of the tub. and that was on tv in the 60's.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 3:10pm

the TV ads for Republicans campaigning for senate/congress/office ALWAYS creep me out

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 3:12pm

gee, as i am creeped out by those coming from democrats. big ol' surprise there, huh?

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 5:18pm

I hate the one for Honda, I think, where the wife is describing how her husband was brought up by wolves, while the husband is acting like a wolf. Really bad.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 7:26pm

Craig, thanks for stating what we've all felt. That drowning nympho and the sullen, indifferent girl is the cheapest metaphor out there. I hate to dis a PSA, especially one designed to stop suicide, but I picture teens howling. Kinda makes you nostalgic for the old frying egg: "This is your brain on drugs..."

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/2/04 at 7:31pm

i love the raised by wolves ad! when the kid tosses the stick into the water and dad goes after it? sweet. the fact that the play the whole thing so straight is what got me. i love that.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/3/04 at 2:13pm

"The one with the woman squirming in her seat at a wedding and thinking to herself, I should have used preparation H "

lol, I auditioned for that one! Guess I wasn't a good squirmer.

[orion59]

Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:19pm

EEEWWW!! You would have been the preparation H woman? There are some ads I just couldn't do. There was one a few years ago in whcih a guy is in a doctors office...it had something to do with his underwear not being clean. We started referring to the actor, who later showed up on a lot of ads and tv shows, as the dirty underwear guy. So, be glad you weren't a good squirmer.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 3/3/04 at 5:43pm

I once met the Tidy Bowl man. At the time, he was the biggest celebrity I'd ever met.... Actually, still might be....

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/3/04 at 10:30pm

orion- here's a worse one-I came very close to being a Depends lady! A couple of callbacks. And I'm not old!!! Well, not old enough for Depends. I guess they were going for a younger market. Thank goodness I didn't get that one either! (I don't get too many, as you can tell, lol!).

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:01pm

I've always thought that talking bear from the "Snuggles" fabric softener commercial was just plain creepy!

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:06pm

yes - that bear looks like he could kill you in your sleep (while you are "snuggling" away...LOl)

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:11pm

i remember a skit one time on SNL or SCTV or one of those, where the snuggle bear shows up in the laundry basket, and the woman doing the landry takes a baseball bat to it...

[orion59]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:16pm

I loved that skit becasue I always wanted to beat the hell out of that bear. He is creepy.

The toilet paper commercial with the animated bears going behind the tree is a little creepy too. Especially the one one where one bear is leaving the tree and passes his newspaper to the one coming towrd the tree.

There was a commercial a few months ago that had a little girl going into the bathroom after her father came out and holding her nose while rushing out to get a new stick on air freshenr from mom. Do we really need commercials like this?

Of course there are also the ads for the shampoo that gives women orgasms in the shower.

[orion59]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:17pm

Jane2, don't they ever cast toothpaste or clothing ads where you are?

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:21pm

I must say that Joey and I love the Potty Dance that the bears do in those animated commercials - but it IS creepy when they do the newspaper hand-off...yuck - and that little girl holding her nose - I agree totally - do we really NEED to see this stuff?

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:26pm

uh, i've alwyas thought the potty dance was a bit too much... i mean, she's got her paws in her crotch, fer chrissakes...

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:27pm

oops - I thought you LOVED it - you talk about it often enough...LOL

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 3/4/04 at 4:31pm

just about how wrong it is...