For those commercials they broadcast while
you are eating, that you can'twatch while
eating


One of the Got Milk commercials as a dog
that makes very loud eating/slurping noises
as he eyes the kid for a glass of milk. I
just can't stand it.

The dog's making that sound cuz the kid gave him some peanut butter and the dog's trying to eat it. BTW, that's what the makers of "Mr. Ed" used to do to make the horse "talk". Needless to say (but I'm gonna say it anyway) his voice was dubbed in.

I heard a more sinister version of how they
made MR Ed "talk" that involved using
fishing line that was _sewn into_ his mouth. =|

Of course, this is probaly just a rumor.

According to this site, Mark's right.

"Wilbur!"

Any commercial involving any diet product that shows really fat people in swimsuits.

this was me 118 pounds ago. This was me 478 pounds ago. Its probably 2 people who look alike,

Yeah right.

Um Joel my wife is a big gal and looks just fine in a swimsuit. Like the CSi episode showed not everybody likes the toothpicks.

Ok, maybe your wife does look good in a swimsuit. But the people in the commercials, do not. The people in the commercials are textbook examples of why certain clothing should require a license for someone to wear it.

I cannot stand to look at the Lamisil ad where a walking, talking fungus flips open someone's toenail like a door. Yech.

LOL. I'd hate to see the commercial for their yeast infection cream.

In most, if not all now, of those weight loss commercials the people in them have always had nice bodies, maybe were even buff before, but then were basically paid to gain tons of weight and then use the advertised product (and no doubt did some exercising, which those ads never endorse or even mention) so that they could "honestly" say that the product worked for them to give the false impression of how amazingly it "actually" works. When watching any commercials (or listening to radio ones) it's best to just not believe in whatever they say at all cuz they're all jsut false advertising.

Actually, speaking from experience, the Weight Watchers ones are most likely real.

Disclaimer: I am a WW member.

LOL Luigi.

Most of the commercials I find either silly or gross are the ones for prescription medication.

MarkN: In most, if not all now, of those weight loss commercials the people in them have always had nice bodies, maybe were even buff before, but then were basically paid to gain tons of weight and then use the advertised product..
Luigi Novi: They don't pay them to gain weight; what happens is, they find athletic types who have been injured, say in a skiing accident, or female athletic types that have just given birth, and hire them then, taking pictures of them during their convalescence for the "before" shot, and then have them use their product, confident that they'll get back into shape regardless, since they're athletes.

Scott, I dunno about WW but I once called the local Jenny Craig to ask them about their program and they wouldn't tell me anything over the phone, instead insisting that I come over there. I found out why when I arrived. A woman took me on a brief tour of the facility and then at the end was gonna sign me up right then and there without even asking me first if I wanted to! Like I was a pushover or had already intended to use their program as "proven" by my showing up. I also noticed that all the women I saw there were skinny @ss chicks who not only looked like they'd never had any weight loss problems before but also that they actually could've stood to gain at least 20lbs or so! I notice a lot of the women in ads who condescend towards other women also never look like they've ever had any trouble losing weight, which leads me to ask why they're so condescending towards others of their own gender and trying to guilttrip them into using the particular product or program. If I was an obese woman I sure as hell wouldn't want some skinny @ss chick trying that kinda BS on me.

Luigi, those people are paid to lose weight because it's part of making the ad which they're also paid for, of course. It's all included in the contract they sign. I've seen programs talking about how some people (who've also admitted to it) had nice enough bodies before, agreed to gain an extra 20, 30 or whatever lbs and then use the product to lose the weight again so that they could honestly claim that it worked for them and it could work for you, too!

I also hate those BowFlex ads and others like them that show you buff guys and rather toned cute young ladies (who are always just buff enough, which I find highly attractive and sex-ay!) who give the impression that they got their bodies by using that particular product, nevermind that it's a brand spanking new home gym design and that it actually takes years to get as toned as the models shown are. That's something that they don't want you to think about and indeed most people don't. They just tend to take what they see and hear as the truth without even wondering if someone's trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Me, I hate commercials and can recognize all the BS that they present. Radio ads aren't any better, either.

Mark: Luigi, those people are paid to lose weight because it's part of making the ad which they're also paid for, of course.
Luigi Novi: Read what I wrote, Mark. I already said that. What I stated was that do not pay people to gain the weight first, as you asserted in your previous post. Rather, they find people who are occupationally fit, but in a temporary less-fit state, and then hire them to promote their product.

Mark: I've seen programs talking about how some people (who've also admitted to it) had nice enough bodies before, agreed to gain an extra 20, 30 or whatever lbs and then use the product to lose the weight again so that they could honestly claim that it worked for them and it could work for you, too!
Luigi Novi: Well, I had never heard of that, but can you tell me which programs these were? (Just curious.)

Recently, on 20/20 or PrimeTime or one of those. Since I already knew of the trick they were gonna talk about I could see it coming a mile away before they finally did talk about it. I've never heard of anyone who was injured being asked to do those commercials, though. Just people who were already in good health and reasonably fit. I don't doubt some were like you described. I've just never heard of them is all. In any case those ads are still false.

Viva paper towels has a commercial that seems to be shown on every TV Land run of Star Trek. A boy douses his mother with a spray of soda from a two liter bottle. The mother promptly says "What are you doing!" Then, she takes a sink sprayer, says "This works much better" and promptly soaks the boy. They both go at it, getting the kitchen and each other soaken wet (and no doubt sticky as well.) Two nitpicks here - First, I think you's need a helluva lot more than paper towels to clean up the mess those two made. Maybe you'd even need a professional cleaning service. Second, I sure wouldn't want to cook or eat in a kitchen that's been doused with soda, until it's been cleaned ceiling to floor. Dried, sweet soda will attract roaches. Yecch!

I've seen that commercial.

Truth be told, a REAL MOM would send the kid to his/her room without dessert (or at least with a good spanking)

A REAL MOM would send the kid to his/her room without dessert (or at least with a good spanking)

When I was 10, my parents bought their house, which they still live in, almost 43 years later. I was fascinated by the kitchen sink sprayer, and wet and dirtied the kitchen floor with it. My dad gave me a tongue lashing I'll never forget. I thought the kitchen floor was ruined. Which it wasn't; a quick mopping cleaned the mess up.

The mother promptly says "What are you doing!"

No - she says "What's wrong with you?!" which in my opinion is much more severe.

It is an odd commercial. The kid looks to be just shaking up the bottle but not intending to spray his mom, it just happens. And yes, the first thing to grab would be a big cloth towel or a bunch of rags, not a roll of paper towels.

It also bothers me a bit to think that some kid is going to try to see if his mom is "cool" and try the same thing.

Too true, Influx.

I can see it happening....

Kid: (After squirting mom with orange pop) "Well...they did it on TV!" or "You thought it was funny in the commercial!"

Then there go the TV priveledges.

I did that once. my mom got so mad...(yes I did it on purpose and she grounded me for 6 months. I had no din din that night.Still remember it like it was yesterday).

Axe has a new one where some lady comments that he boyfriend sweats too much and they proceed to show him raise his arms and sweat pours out of his armpits like a broken hose. They show it soaking people and food they're eating etc.

It's revolting as it sounds.

"Um, waiter? There's someone else's bodily fluids in my soup."

"Check, please."

BETTER YET:

Customer: Waiter? What's are these bodily fluids doing in my soup?

Waiter: Making the carrots float,Sir.

Saw a commercial recently for workplace safety that showed a guy using a table saw and his arm got stuck or something and the saw was about to mutilate his hand. At the last second the emergency stop button shuts it down.

A co-worker I discussed the commercial with said the movie reminded me of the movie Saw. I know that workplace safety is critical and all but do they have to be so graphic?

Maybe the commercial isn't so nasty, but the subject matter could be. A woman is dancing around, claiming that her taking Metamucil eliminated her digestive waste, and therefore "lightening her load" (my words). Well, prune juice and high fiber cereal, like shredded wheat, will do the job as well, and cheaper than Metamucil (a container of which is about $20-$22 at Walgreens and CVS.)

I find that plain oatmeal cookies work wonders in that department.

One commercial that grosses me out is a really lame one from (who else?) GEICO. Sportscaster Dick Vitale is going through some kind of "audition" (does a long established broadcaster like Vitale really need to audition for anything?) when he pointlessly pours a large container of (my guess) Gatorade on himself. Yecch again.