i don't like them.. but i love the fact my 3 year old son sings the jingle everytime he sees the golden arches...quite humorous
i totally remember that ad...and the little kids walk like ducks in ponchos in a line at the very end
Right on. Most of the general public has become trained by ads. Because if you dont have the latest this or the newest that then you are considered not normal. Its pretty sick how most Americans will buy into this mentality. I agree with GreenVegan ads are insulting. I find most ads annoying and mute them whenever I can.
Well its not a commercial, but the intro music and cutaway music for CBS's coverage of the NFL is just plain annoying. It sounds all dramatic, and their just going to or coming back from a commercial. On the flipside I always did enjoy NBC's intro music for the NBA.
I agree, the new CBS intro really annoys me. Or maybe just because whenever i hear it I get ready to see the Raiders get ass-pounded.
a. GV and allan, exactly how should the public be made aware of new products if not through ads? and how else could ads be made except to overly hype whatever product is being advertised (come get our new model car, i guess it's ok and stuff). are we supposed to just go through life and hope that we happen upon the new double bacon cheeseburger or new deals on cars or a george foreman grill? b. and the public is trained? i would guess most people are like me and either flip to another channel when commercials come on or tune them out, but once in a while some commercial comes along that makes you realize you need that product or would like to have it and then you go buy it, though those would mostly be food commercials (i.e. the mcrib is back) for me. should no one buy anything that is actually advertised to show their non-conformity coolness? back to the topic: mcd's commercials = annoying. the "don't smoke pot" or whatever it's called line of ads are extremely annoying and pathetic (oops i ordered some fast food then ran over a girl on a bike). though i barely drink, almost all beer commercials are hilarious and make any super bowl worthwhile.
The worst is the one with the guys playing Rollerblade Basketball. Now, I know I'm not the most up-to-date on all those X-treme Combo sports, but I'm pretty sure they made that one up just for the commercial.
A friend of mine is in one of those Mc'er commercials. She had a producer give her a card while she waited on him at this club I used to work at, tell her to 'drop by the shoot' the next day. While everyone was predicting seedy outcomes of 'the shoot,' I told her what she'd find: she'd play the role of the All-American/blonde girl in the ad, among a group of McDonald-lovin' kids, including 1. Asian boy/girl 2. Afro-American boy/girl, with non-threatening semi-dreads (think Lauryn Hill, or that dick who was a sideline reporter for the NBA on ESPN) 3. Smartass Adam Goldberg-lookalike. Sho'nuff, I picked 'em all, to a T. Bill Hicks' plea to all ad execs still stands.
Those spots are completely terrible, but I don't think Cheadle pulls of the tough-guy act convincingly enough. I think Samuel L. Jackson would have been a better choice.
McDonalds has had some pretty good commercials IMO. The little girl playing the piano at the recital while singing about McDonald's in her head was pretty funny. Anyone remember that one?
Not many people know this, but one semester in college I was a school bus driver. Since I didn't have a commercial driver's license at the time (and also because I was the rookie) they assigned me to the short bus detail. If you think school kids are merciless about riding the short bus, you should be in the bus barn one morning and see how the "real" bus drivers treat it. What didn't help was that my particular short bus had been painted with a Sesame Street theme... complete with Oscar and Snuphalupugus. Anyway, I puttered out on my first morning, looking down my list of stops. First up were a set of twins. When I pulled up, I wasn't really sure if they were going to fit through the door... they were so grossly obese that I first thought they were quadruplets. As the first got on the bus, he said, "Hi, my name's Paddy!" I returned thegreeting as I pulled myself back to the uphill side of the bus. When his brother got on and said, "Hi, my name's Paddy!", I shrugged it off as deja vu or some sort of rift in the fabric of space caused by the first Paddy's gravitational force. On, then, to the second stop. The yard was littered with toy debris - broken stick horses, plastic guns and rubber tires. And the kid. Ross was dressed the way you would expect John Wayne to be dressed if he smoked crack in the Toy Story dressing room. Bright red jeans, a wide blue belt with aluminum buckle that was juuuust tall enough to touch the matching bolo he was wearing. Add in the black nogahyde vest, cowboy hat and pearl-handled six-shooters and this kid was a real dude. But then he spoke, "Allright you lilly-livered so-and-so, I'm Special Ross and I need to get to tha skewl!" Ooookay. I'm getting a little gunshy now. But there's still one more house left to go. I was busy arguing with my internal dialog that this kid, Lester G, couldn't be any worse when I saw him. I was shocked. He was totally normal. Normal height, normal weight, normal clothes. Normal. I exhaled and let him on the bus. He took a seat right behind me as we headed for the school. I'm not kidding, it wasn't two minutes before this Lester G kid had taken his shoes off and started picking at the bunions on his feet. I was even more disgusted than when Paddy 2 slurped his way through a half a Snickers and then offered me the other half. It was all I could do to keep from vomitting as we drove, in silence, the rest of the way to school. When I got back to the bus barn, My boss asked me how it went. I said, "Well how the hell would you like it if you had Two obese Paddys, Special Ross, Lester G picking bunions on a Sesame Street Bus!"
