In my mind I've been compiling a list of the best and worst commercials on TV. Compiling in my mind is always a dangerous expedition because I know half of it will be lost and I'll spend at least a few minutes with my elbows on my desk, head in hands trying to regain the full use of my brain. Why am I so confident of this? Because I just did it. So, here's a list of the good, the bad and the ugly.
BEST
Any Sonic commercial that features the two guys or the married couple. I will actually rewind a dvr'd program to watch them.
The new Geico commercials that feature Jed Clampett, the Flintstones and a Cabbage Patch kid. These ad guys are very, very clever. I think my favorite of these is the Flintstones, where there's wild speculation as to how Fred can afford - on his meager salary as a quarry worker - to buy Wilma that necklace with the huge rocks.
UGLY
Any Mucinex commercial that features that obnoxious wad of phlegm.
The herpes commercials. I guess I should be grateful that they're all about being safe so as not to infect their partner. Seems to me they should have been all about not being so dang promiscuous in the first place. Then they wouldn't have to embarrass themselves and their families by admitting on national tv that they've got a highly transmittable std.
WORST
The Stanley Steamer commercial that features a little boy imploring his mom to "Come see the new trick Toby knows." Turns out Toby is scooting his hiney across the living room carpet, obviously in an effort to diminish the discomfort caused by impacted anal sacs. I think that's like a human version of hemorrhoids. Those ad people should be FIRED.
NUMBER ONE WORST COMMERCIAL
The commercial for Viagra that bastardizes Elvis' "Viva Las Vegas" into "Viva Viagra." That alone will make Elvis come back from the dead to smack his reps for letting them use that song.
So there you have it. Got any to add?
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