http://www.awfulcommercials.com Complaints about awful aspects of commercials Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:34:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Video link to the 2:00 video, which will pop in a new window. Every click is a double click I live in a test market for the switch to digital television, so our elderly are hip-deep in the transition process depicted in this video. I don't consider this making fun of the elderly ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/10/19/grandma-versus-technological-progress/ Video link to the :30 video, which will pop in a new window. I don't know about this, I'm not ready If only trans fats and carbs had gotten on the ball and hired an advertising agency maybe we'd all be eating Oreos with 40 grams of delicious Freedom Fats®, with extra ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/09/15/delicious-freedom-syrup/ Video link to the 1:30 video, which will pop in a new window. I told you Jerry and Bill love each other It's hard not to call this a 'commercial about nothing," but that's what it is if you miss the one-second tag for Microsoft at the end. True, Bill Gates is ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/09/05/jerry-loves-bill/ Video link to the :30 video, which will pop in a new window. Welcome to flavor country If you watch this ad for Estonian meat without sound, it's a lot like the scenes in the movie Event Horizon where everyone has space madness. Watching it with the sound on, it's more like ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/09/04/estonian-meat-sell-by-1983/ Visit our cross-postings, now on open.salon.com. Share This http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/08/20/visit-us-on-open-salon/ Awful Commercials has an official YouTube channel, which you can visit here www.youtube.com/user/awfulcommercials.Share This http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/07/24/awful-commercials-youtube-channel/ Video link to the :30 video, which will pop in a new window. Oh crap run it's Gary Busey Gary Busey appears in a series of nonsensical ads for GotVMail. In this ad, Gary has a great idea about bears. There are quite a few of these, so look at ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/07/18/gary-busey-is-the-new-christopher-walken/ Video link to the :30 video, which will pop in a new window. I think I would get my car washed here This ad for the Subaru Forester features the fabled 'Sumo Car Wash' of ancient Japanese lore. According to Japanese Shinto faith, when the 8 million spirits that inhabit the ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/07/05/subaru-and-the-sumo-car-wash/ Video link to the :60 video, which will pop in a new window. Your partner is a wise-cracking Sunni I certainly don't want to make fun of people who sign up for what has to be one of the most dangerous jobs on earth, but this commercial seems to want to. ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/05/30/iraqi-police-squad/ Video link to the 3:00 video, which will pop in a new window. This will change your life Funnyordie.com has uncovered a commercial for a video seminar on mastering the interneticals from the thick of 1994. Man I sure did look stupid back then. Nothing like how awesome I look ... http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2008/05/29/master-the-internet/