Sometimes you love them, sometimes you hate them, and sometimes you love to hate them!
Talk about advertisements on tv including what annoys you about certain ones, what makes certain ones funny or memorable, and even how products live up to their portrayal on tv. Let's talk about ads from all over the world.
Links:
Critique (tv & print)
http://www.adcritic.com/
Clip downloads
http://www.clipland.com/tvcommercial.html
More clip downloads (usa)
http://www.usatvads.com/
Retro downloads (usa)
http://www.retrojunk.com/list_commercials.php
Japanese commercials with forgein celebrities
http://www.japander.com
I generally wasn't one to be tricked by commercials when I was little, but I remember the one which got me bad was Spirograph. I saw the commercial and I just NEEDED this thing. For those who don't know, it was this stencil thing where you put your pen in this contraption, and it made these designs. I begged my mom to get one, used it once, and was totally bored of it.
Actually another one was the "yoyo ball". I can pretty much still recite the song ("It's so much fun, and easy to do, cause wherever it goes, it comes back to you!") but I remember the string got worn out pretty quickly and then snapped off and smacked my hand pretty badly.
Another good site about commercials is http://www.commercialsihate.com.
There's some funny stuff on there.
From that new mr. big spot, for chew or chunk or something.
"Mr Big is tha bomb"
"The rice crisps are awesome"
All set to a surfer/wakeboard xtreem sports environment, with "testimonials" from the crowd.
The whole stupid thing makes me wince when I see it. Since when does anyone care that much about rice crisps!?
Here in UK, we have ads for Levi's... its just this guy with electric guitar in an ice-cream van playing something in between "Yankee Doodle" and "Bingo was his name-o". And there were female humans eating ice cream also. Worst non-McDonalds ad I've ever seen.
You like ice cream. You like ice cream. You love it. You cannot resist ice cream. To resist is hopeless. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream.