Years ago, there was this commercial broadcast in Philadelphia for a eating-disorder hotline. The commercial showed a woman going to her fridge in a darkened kitchen and opening it. This sounds mundane,but the film was very grainy and scratched up, and the narrators voice was *creepy*. The audio quality was also very poor, like you would typicaly find on a 16mm school film that has been played dosens and dosens of times. Even the way the woman walked to her fridge and opened it up was kind of errie. I think this commercial was made sometime in the 70's, but in later years, they added a computer generated screen that showed the phone number of the hotline they were advertising.

Another "scary" commerical is the overweight Sally Struthers asking food for starving kids in Africa.

It had me thinking..."Gee Sally, Why don't YOU donate some of that food that you eat to starving kids...that way you won't be so overweight!"

The old Hanna Berberra logo that showed HBB in
ultra-bold letters, with luiyttle "hanna barberas" scrolling inside it disturbed me a little.

SuperBowl ads:

I liked the Ameriquest cat/sauce commercial.
The Marvel MasterCard was also good.

And I was very moved by the Busch (or was it Bud?) Soldiers in the Airport spot.

The Visa Marvel Superheroes one was great. I especially liked Underdog's appearance at the end. But then, I've always been a fan of Shoeshine Boy's alter ego.

The Master Card ad with all of the ad icons - Charlie Tuna, The Morton Salt Girl, Vlassic Pickles Stork, etc. was good.

The Bud Light with the skydivers was also superb. Oh, and the animals trying out to be a Budweiser Clydesdale was cute, too.

Then there's the Mustang convertible ad featuring the car stopped at a greenlight. It was hilarious. But you can expect to see that one several times a day like the Ozzy Osmond Pepsi ad of a year or two ago. The Mustang ad also had what I thought was a nit: What's a traffic light doing in the middle of nowhere with virtually no traffic?

My new softball team is called "The Underdogs".

I liked the Bud Light skydives as well.

I liked the FedEx "steps to a winning Super Bowl commercial" spot, even though it was trying a bit too hard to be funny and big.

Overall, I thought it was a mediocre crop. Some funny spots (the Diet Pepsi truck one scored for me), but nothing iconic, as it has been for the past several years.

True. Another good one was Frito-Lay's "MC Hammer Makes a Comeback".

What about the GoDaddy.com one? I thought it was kinda funny and not a bad looking lady on it. But also poking fun at the uptight prudes a bit.

That wasn't bad. The problem is that most people don't know what GoDaddy.com is. I had to explain it to the people I was watching with.

I also liked the CareerBuilder.com "Monkey" ads.

I don't know what it is either (nor am i really concerned) but I just had my eye caught by her when I was flipping channels (I don't watch sports and was actually just killing time rewinding a video is why I was even watchign tv)

GoDaddy.com is a domain name registrar.

Ahhh. Ok. I see.

The new one with the young vapid gal singing "Time is on My Side". Just say no.

The GoDaddy.com ad was supposed to have run a second time during the game, but Fox pulled the ad saying it was in bad taste. Apparently, they didn't like the fact that it was a take-off on the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction of last year.

I find it difficult to believe that Fox pulled anything because it was in bad taste...

I thought the GoDaddy commercial was in very bad taste. The human imagination is limitless and this is the garbage they come up with?

Everyone's entitled to an opinion. I thought it was very funny, poking fun at the whole hoo-haw about JJ's "Wardrobe Malfunction".

Somehow I am not surprised you would find that in bad taste. But oh well I thought it was funny and poking fun of uptight prudes. And yeah Fox network sometimes needs to give a mouthwash chaser after several of their shows.

PS Rona that was not intended to be insulting or as anythign other than a slightly good natured jab.

I liked it too, since it was both making fun of uptight conservatives and trash TV at the same time.

Intriguingly, GoDaddy.com saw a boost in interest in its website because of the controversy resulting from FOX's refusal to rerun the ad.

I saw very little imagination on display in the GoDaddy ad. Another exploitive ad featuring a woman with breast implants exposing herself to men. That's in a million different movies already. The War of the Worlds ad looked like warmed over Independence Day. How about something new.

As I said, to each his/her own opinion, Rona.

I am sure the lady in the ad was well paid for her part in that ad and cried about her exploitation all the way to the bank.

Besides do you know how much those puppies probably cost her? I bet I coulda gotta big screen home entertainment center for what she paid for them.

No one saw that ad as implausible; a woman dressed like a stripper wouldn't be testifying before the Senate. The makers of the ad were appealing to the drunken men (with erections) who frequent strip bars. It was inappropriate for a family audience.

Personally, I don't see very many ads that are plausible. Dogs chasing after a miniature covered wagon? Talking tuna fish? Commercials are the height of surrealism.

Rona, why aren't you complaining about Gladys Knight playing rugby, then? Honestly.

If plausability was one of the requirements for an advertisement there would be NO advertising on tv at all. Also The implausability of her attire was part of the humor of the commercial.

And since when did the superbowl become family entertainment? And besides that ad had nothing that I would describe as hostile, unfriendly or otherwise innapropriate to a family audience. Of course I may be a bit more open minded on many things than some people.

Spekaing of which. Rona. And I am not intending to be hostile or attack you in asking this. But why did you specify men with erections, and then jump to the who frequent strip clubs. quote/red{"the drunken men (with erections) who frequent strip bars."}

No one saw that ad as implausible; a woman dressed like a stripper wouldn't be testifying before the Senate. The makers of the ad were appealing to the drunken men (with erections) who frequent strip bars. It was inappropriate for a family audience.

You mean the guys the beer commercials and erectile dysfuntion ads were aimed at? Wonder why they thought that audience would be available. Budweiser and Cialis could have told them otherwise.

You got something against erections?

Well, they can be a little hard on us all. <:-O

If an erection last more than 4 hours either see a doctor or censored the censoring censors.

U know what used to give me the creeps? That ugly little red guy from Dominoes Pizza. What was his name again?
I was just a little kid, and it SO freaked me out. What was worse, my mom thought I liked him and one day she brought me home two "dolls" of him to play with.
Traumatic experience. And he really was creepy looking...ugh!

Bad Andy.

Good Pizza.

And I believe you mean The Noid, mertz. :-)

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Bendys%20Page/bendy-noid.JPG

Aaahhh!! That's him!! The nightmares have returned!!! He looks like some sort of psycho rabbit!
Excuse me now, I must contact my therapist and tell him the haunting is back...

All those commercials with the yellow critters (for prescription fungus medicine)that live under toenails are eerie. It looks more like a colony of Gremlins living on people's feet!

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BUBBLEGUM!

The Viacom "V of doom" (Google it) is the winner hands down.

Maybe I'm nuts, but I am not crazy about the new "My Network TV" logo. That 4 tone checked screen in the background just looks so creepy to me.

The new Orville Redenbacker commercial looks creepy.

USA Network has been running ads for their (mini?) series The Starter Wife since (IIRC) January (it starts May 31). All that's done is to turn me off to watching it. Even if it does have Peter Jacobsen, who occasionally plays smart-aleck defense attorney Arnold Dworkin on Law & Order.

That's a series? Mini or otherwise, give me a break. I thought it was for a crappy made for cable movie.

It was a miniseries (seven episodes, IIRC.) I caved and watched a bit of the first hour. It was so awful I turned it off after 15 or so minutes and never went back. Why that drivel has seven Emmy nominations is beyond me.

Very creepy doll comercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44e-Y08_B-0

The guy in the Fiber One commercials creeps me out.

As for the dog chasing the chuck wagon, It kind of creeps me out when the wagon goes through the cabinet door. Kind of reminds me of 3d video game glitches when one object goes through another. Imagine this in real life? (have to blame TNG's "in theory" episode for this. After that woman got fused to the deck......)

Anything with "flo" in it. Actualy more irritating than frightning