I don't know about you, but I get really tired of the same commercials being cracked over my head again and again and again. And this is never worse than during times like NFL football Sundays or the MLB playoffs. Like Frank Caliendo and those endless FrankTV commercials in the MLB playoffs two years ago.
The MLB Network launched just this year and I think because they're new and not on in all markets, they probably have trouble selling all their ad space. So I think what they did was struck a deal with Chevy that whenever they have an open slot, they'll run that idiotic Howie Long commercial where he tells us how three models of Chevrolet get like 1 MPG better mileage than their Honda counterpart (like that's going to make people buy a Chevy over a Honda) and then wraps it up with the hillllarrrrious joke about how Honda makes something "we just can't compete with," and it's....are you ready because this is a gas?? A LAWN MOWER! I know! Get it? Because Honda makes lawn mowers, too? Geddit?? Awesome work.
Seriously, that commercial has been run so much this year that I truly want to kick in my television set every time I see it. And those followed last year's, where Howie mocked guys for buying other trucks from Ford and Dodge because they offered features Chevy didn't. So the solution is to make fun of them for offering... more?
But then there's one that's actually worse and it's right here, hackey writing and demonic child and all:
The whole "I'm a big girl" routine is just.... painful. And her psychotic, supposed-to-be-cute nodding at the end is just frightening. I keep waiting for her head to begin spinning around.
Also, just for fun, run the tape again and click pause at the 16 second mark.
Yes, she's pointing to Howie's junk and saying, "That's a big-girl seat." I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
So which commercials do you want to launch into outer space?
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remember the first time I saw that commercial with my friends and my gf. We rewinded (rewound?) the commercial just to make sure we weren't hallucinating anything. The pointing of the "big girl seat" got us rolling for 10 minutes. Plus the smiling and the nodding of Maggie at the end, was just priceless. LOL
GM was bailed out, Honda was not. GM is owned by the government, Honda is not. That makes it a very easy choice.
Thank you for mentioning the creepy chick and the "big girl seat" bit - I was afraid I was the only one noticing how "wrong" that was.
I HATE the Howie Long commercials - the smugness factor would make Fat Charlie blush
Anything that has Jon Bon Jovi singing about baseball.
It makes me want to pull out my own eyeballs and have somebody with AIDS pee into the sockets.
How about Fox running commercials about Wanda Sykes getting a talk show and TBS running commercials about George Lopez getting a talk show?
Wanda Sykes and George Lopez? Seriously? When did being painfully unfunny mean you're a good comedian?
OK - i don't know if this is regional or not, but the American Beverage association has a freaking ANNOYING commercial on now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIwwrO2JYg
Biggest complaints are as follows - 1) This Lady is waaaaay tooo pissed about her generic Sprite costing an extra 2 cents
2) If she doesn't like the f-ing tax, drink some water
3) She might save some money if she closed her f-ing trunk! Check the :23 mark and on. Idiot never closes the hatch on her car when she goes inside and closes the door. Having to jump start the car every morning is probably a real bitch
ha ha, yah, GM, never really did care for any of their cars, only thing i'd even consider buying is the new camaro
While I agree completely with this post (and do also wish to stab Howie with a soldering iron), there was one thing you were wrong about.
While it is a unnatural for the Mini-Carrie girl to excitedly point to Howie's man-bits, she actually says "that's a big girl car", not "that's a big girl seat".
If only we could change the channel during commericals......
i'd like to launch the tax lawyer commercial they have on foxnews into space. I think the tax master commercials and definitely the stupid soda tax commercial.
If only we could change the channel on douchey comments.
Tivo, anyone? Who watches commercials anymore anyway?
Pretty funny shit about the crotch point, statement, and nodding head. Sometimes commercials have unintended redeeming value.
Commercials might be on when I'm watching TV, but they're almost always muted. (There are some exceptions: for example, the Messing with Sasquatch commercials always strike me as funny. I think it's because of the cartoonish revenge at the end.) And the Double Play feature that DirecTV has makes it less likely I'll watch commercials ...
But for the ones I recall, I'd like the Howie Long commercials removed. They're all painful. The Coors Light fake press conference ones can go, too. If MillerCoors has so little money they can't even afford to make an actual commercial any more, can't they just show 15 or 30 seconds of an attractive woman holding a can of Coors Light?
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