never really pay attention to them.. usually just look at the middle of the screen, in some sort of a trance .. heh heh

Commercials are a waste of time.  Some are humourous, most are stupid and insulting.  I've never had the urge to buy a Lexus, change my brand of toilet paper or save the starving children based on watching a TV ad.     

I hate 'em.

They 're all so stupid you learn to ignore them.

The lowest kind of commercials are the ones aimed at  children.

In the same category: infomercials. Directed towards people who watch tv at hours no one else would: the unemployed and the elderly. Pure brainwashing, they don't shut up for a minute and keep repeating themselves.
Person 1:Isn't that incredible?
Person 2:Yes it is incredible!
P1: I can't believe it!
P2:I've never seen anything like it.
(Taken from an oven cleaner infomercial.)

If their products are really that good, why  not sell them in shops?

Of course I hate them.
Have they started broadcasting adds using gamma radiation yet? cos lately my wet dreams are getting interuppted with stupid adds just when their getting interesting

Some ads are great and make good TV, for example, that BBC1 ad with the guy jumping over all the rooftops with the music in the background and there's a naked chick playing a piano in it!!
That few seconds was better than some complete shows on telly IMO.
I also hate some ads, recently, the Wotsit crisps ad, bloody hell it's annoying!
However I do believe some ads are necessary, otherwise I won't know about new foods or flavours or other important stuff!

Now why didn't it let me vote the 1st time, said I already did! Is there flood control on voting too?
Edit: Nope, won't let me vote at all! No. 2 by the way.

Some adverts are funny, but mostly they're just annoying.

Some are quite cool. Although the musical ones get stuck in your head.

I have a mild dislike for them... 

 

Originally posted by Speli:
I hate most of them, but once in a while they come out with a good one...Like the Reebok Defy Convention or the nike naked guy running across the soccer field...

That was the first ad I've seen in a while that I really like.

Also, those horrendous "marijuana slows down your reaction time and makes you kill little girls with your car" ads are just too funny. Everytime I see one of these propagandist pieces of crap, I just can't help but guffaw...which was really wierd, once, when they showed it in a public movie theather.   

There's this ad that's been on for a while in the US for a "sugar alternative" that's "made from sugar, so you know it tastes like sugar, but it's not sugar!"...I just snicker at it's completely oxymoronic irony every time it comes on...

Television advertising is a waste of time now. We have got so used to them the general population has learned to blank out most adverts. I like the funny ones (which are once in a blue moon). Some are just pointless. What's the point in McDonalds advertising (other than a new promotion). Who doesn't know what McDonalds is?

As sheep555 said, the compensation claim adverts and ones about changing insurance or mortgage are just plain annoying. Just the get-rich-quick scheme that grabs people's attention. I laugh out loud at them.

CD adverts can make me laugh though. There's one for "Bass, Breaks and Beats 2003" or some crap like that, where some MC bloke shouts through the TV in an irritating rapper voice, while we get lots of shots of townies being, well, townies. It's an ad that makes me crack up everytime.

You get the occaisional one that is an absolute ripper, very funny, not repeated till naseua is induced, the shows that are solely funny ads, despite their annoyingly upbeat washed-up celebrity hosts are actually pretty good (and often of the genre 'Worlds blankeist blanks'.)

Normal ads though are just something to take a piss and grab a drink (not related by the way) during.

 

Originally posted by FishyJoe:
I hate ads. Especially crappy Superbowl ads...they are never funny, but everyone laughs and talks about them all the time. "I only watch the Superbowl for the commercials!" Grrr...

http://www.i-mockery.com/visionary/superbowl.asp

Protoclown agree's.

Have you seen that Pepsi commercial with the Osbournes? It's supposed to funny, but it's just sad. Ozzy's brain is tapioca, and they're exploiting him to sell soda. It's sick.

No, it's more like "yrbnchbldymgshns!"

I have noticed that in ads, it's always the overweight guy that's the "stupid" guy. If someone does something stupid in a commercial, he's probably fat.

There is this TV advert that I like at the moment. Its new Levi's jeans advert. a group  of people were hanging around in the streets and some of their heads were replaced by rat heads.They held a kitten hostage and they were taking it back to their owner of theat a parking lot.the owner and gave them money.

of the advert is pretty funny.

They're mice, and it's supposed to be about turning the tables on the mouse cat story... of course I'd never get that if it hadn't been explained. The mice hold a cat for ransom, whereas cats normally hunt mice.

Plus I think the jeans are hideous aswell.