Commercials...

Okay...I'm going to complain about some of the commercials on TV. Actually, there are a few I like, most of them I don't care either way, and there are a few I completely loathe. One of my favorites is the car insurance commercial (I think it's Progressive) with the cavemen. It's just freakin' hilarious. And I absolutely love the Bud Light Daredevil commercials--my favorite is the one where he's attemping to stay in his cubicle for two minutes after five o'clock on a Friday. One of my all-time favorite commercials, though, is an Aiwa stereo commercial that I haven't seen now for about six or seven years. Has anyone else seen this commercial? Everyone I've ever mentioned this commercial to has never even heard of it. Here's how it goes: The ad starts out showing (up close) this twentysomething guy driving a car and loudly jamming to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" and he's totally getting into it--smiling and banging his head. People in other cars passing him on the freeway are giving him odd looks. The camera pans away a bit and shows an old guy in the front seat with him, also giving him an odd look. Then the camera pans away completely and shows that he's driving the hearse in a funeral procession. Genius!!

All right--commercials I hate. Some I hate for their content, others I hate because they're shown 50,000 times a day, and the rest I hate for both. Dairy Queen had a super-annoying commercial that they replayed ad nauseum and I really hope they're done showing it now--it's the one where the girl's cat died and her boyfriend is trying to comfort her and drink her mocha drink at the same time. They played this annoying bastard of an ad so many times that I almost boycotted Dairy Queen--but, come on, it's Dairy Queen. Oh, my Queen, I could never stay mad at you...

The commercials I hate the most as a whole are the Hardee's commercials. These ads are geared towards men, so they offend everyone else, yet at the same time they make men look like the most helpless, retarded creatures ever to walk the planet. "Without us, some guys would starve." Puh-leeze. Even the stupidest guy I know (and believe me, I know some stupid ones) can make a piece of toast and crack an egg. A coffee maker is not exactly a new invention, yet Hardee's shows a guy messing it up like he's from another planet trying to figure out our alien ways. Actually, the two Hardee's commercials that offend me the least are the cow-shaking one and the Paris Hilton one. The cow's really cute, and Paris eating a cheeseburger and washing a car at the same time shows that she does have some talent. The commercial that made me boycott Hardee's, though, is the one where they show a chicken and the announcer's saying, "Chicken, fetch. Chicken, roll over. Chicken's only good for eating." As a vegetarian, this ad offends me very deeply. For Hardee's information, chickens are intelligent, good-natured creatures who can be taught to fetch.

Oh, well, that's enough for now. I'd better calm down and smoke a bowl before I get myself too pissed off.