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Rhettzky · 12-10-2008, 01:23 PM

I'm tired of the Sport Select "play with your brain" commercial. I swear they play it so much during flames games that I can remember the order in which the stupid equipment pieces together. BARF!

It seems like sports channels and commercials are bad news. You end up seeing the same commercial upwards of twenty times a game. Just brutal. I'd rather have them paste the sponsors logo on the screen for an ad spot then over-play that crap.

FlamesKickAss · 12-10-2008, 01:44 PM

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Is there any disdain for the hard helmet chubby dude from Panago ads? At first I hated them but lately I just have to laugh - the concept is so ludicrous! What's this new one - dude whistling totally out of tune with a holiday jingle while he's actually making the pizza... totally unappetizing! I don't want his grubby, pizza-holic fingers near my food thank you.

They got rid of his hat too!! I stay away from panago in fear this guy is making my pizza

GoinAllTheWay · 12-10-2008, 02:10 PM

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They got rid of his hat too!! I stay away from panago in fear this guy is making my pizza

See, I think what is going on with that commercial is Panago is giving us an early present by making a commercial with him where he doesn't say anything.

bradster57 · 12-10-2008, 03:33 PM

Ever notice when you're talking about commercials with your friends or at work that some d-bag comes along and says "You guys watch way too much TV!"

ricosuave · 12-10-2008, 05:00 PM

I could handle some of these annoyances that pass as commercials as long as they didnt run them ALL THE TIME!

seriously, the wife and I boycott each and every one we cant stand for that reason - the message aint workin' because you've pi$$ed off your target audience.

Eastern Girl · 12-10-2008, 08:46 PM

The holiday HMV commercial is driving me nuts. It's playing ad nauseum tonight on TSN. I can't stand the music now. Nails on a chalkboard.

Finny61 · 12-10-2008, 08:58 PM

The Christmas Koodo commercials...they must die and rot in hell.

boobaloo · 12-10-2008, 09:34 PM

" I'm looking for a second opinion".....can't they think of anything new? At least they don't say "you're richer than you think" anymore after what's going on in the world

pope04 · 12-10-2008, 11:59 PM

Has anyone mentioned that one they play on 960 for the Bahamas? Sounds like a man and a male transvestite conversing.........not that there's anything wrong with that.

darockwilder · 12-11-2008, 11:02 AM

Yeah, that "woman's" voice sounds like a cross between Marge Simpson and Fran Drescher from "The Nanny". I don't understand it, it sounds like they are from the Bahamas but that's where they go for their vacation too?

dissentowner · 12-11-2008, 11:06 AM

THe worst right now is the Rogers commercial with the blonde ugly chick that opens her present early and it is some cheap cellphone and they ask her where the suprise will be and then she acts like she is surprised but looks more like she suddenly went super ######ed, totally annoying! Most Rogers commercials are though

Hack&Lube · 12-11-2008, 11:24 AM

I hate the Scotiabank commercial with the stupid lady. That is everything that people don't like about banking. Sitting in a dumb office handing your personal portfolio to a dumb looking and annoying lady with an irritating voice telling you in a condescending voice that she knows better than you about your own money.

I don't know what's worse. Her or the Panago guy. Practically every commercial on sportsnet games are the worst commercials I've seen.

MrMastodonFarm · 12-11-2008, 11:26 AM

The cheap ass Pizza 73 guy. Finds out all these extras are 5 bucks and says they are on him. Ya cheap .

DuffMan · 12-11-2008, 11:26 AM

the BB ones where people say...we're looking for... and then, well you know.

There's also another one I find really creepy.
2 young girls say to their Dad.."Dad, it's time" so he goes puts on some hair color and then goes on a date, and then has a picture of him and some woman he shows his kids. Just bugs me for some reason.

Eastern Girl · 12-11-2008, 11:43 AM

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the FS shop ones where people say...we're looking for... and then, well you know.

There's also another one I find really creepy.
2 young girls say to their Dad.."Dad, it's time" so he goes puts on some hair color and then goes on a date, and then has a picture of him and some woman he shows his kids. Just bugs me for some reason.

Yeah, that last one bugs me as well. His kids telling him he needs to get out there, but not before dying his hair cause otherwise women won't be all over him.... irritates me too.

There's another one for mens hair dye that is two sports announcers giving a play by play of the guy with grey hair getting shot down, then dying his hair, then going home with some woman. Ridiculous.

sec304 · 12-11-2008, 12:37 PM

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The cheap ass Pizza 73 guy. Finds out all these extras are 5 bucks and says they are on him. Ya cheap .

Finally this one is mentioned! This has gotta be the cheapest made commercial I've ever seen... the guy cannot act at all... it looks like the first time he's been in front of a camera and it looks like it was taken with someone's camcorder... brutal

Superflyer · 12-11-2008, 01:10 PM

I hate the one where the mom comes home,then her husband\daughter says call me dinner is ready. The mom then appears behind them and says dinners ready and they proceed to have a nervous breakdown.
The one with the husband gets me the most, not sure if it because of his girly scream or the fact that he is working on his car and pretty much says, listen lady get in the house and make me my dinner.

ken0042 · 12-11-2008, 01:20 PM

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I hate the one where the mom comes home,then her husband\daughter says call me dinner is ready. The mom then appears behind them and says dinners ready and they proceed to have a nervous breakdown.

Actually I saw those the other night- I'm not sure if it was because it was on late but the reactions were toned down; the person just kinda went "huh?"

Much better in my mind- because that's something I would do to my g/f.

Locke · 12-13-2008, 04:35 PM

The Arby's commercial where they guy's favor from his wife on his birthday is to serve him Arby's in bed dressed as an Arby's employee.

Does anyone else think that this commercial really indicates that there is no hope left for society? I think this really sums up our downfall.

I mean, heres this fat slob who somehow, inexplicably, has a reasonably attractive wife, but his only form of arousal is for third rate fast food swill?

Or is this something about being married and middle aged that I just dont get.

I think if its come to this all procreation will eventually just grind to a halt.

annasuave · 12-13-2008, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Superflyer

I hate the one where the mom comes home,then her husband\daughter says call me dinner is ready. The mom then appears behind them and says dinners ready and they proceed to have a nervous breakdown.
The one with the husband gets me the most, not sure if it because of his girly scream or the fact that he is working on his car and pretty much says, listen lady get in the house and make me my dinner.

Me and my mom talked that one over. What we've come up with is that the wife cheated on the husband - and he caught her in flagante delicto. Rather than getting a divorce, they have worked out a deal between them that he will stay in the marriage with her - but only if he gets to quit his job and tinker with cars while she goes out to work and cooks him dinner every single night for the rest of her life.

Yes. It IS lame. About as lame as the commercial.

On another note, am I only person who feels an obsessive need to make up backstories to explain the dumbassed behaviour of characters in commercials?