OK, let's talk about WEIRDLY EFFECTIVE T.V. commercials!

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There is a commercial here in the U.S. that just shows a static shot of a dopey looking dog sitting on his lawn and the high-pitched jingle goes:

"Your big dog doesn't wanna chew this SMALL BONE
Any more than he wants to play the TROM-BONE
In fact if he could use the TELE-PHONE
He'd call up and order this JUM-BONE!"

Chorus:

"It's a really really big, really big big bone
And that's why we call it Jum- BO-O-O-ONE!"

This commercial makes me want to buy Jumbone every time I see it, and I don't own a dog. When I'm in the grocery store sometimes I actually go down the pet aisle just to see if they have Jumbones. I don't think I've been this hooked by a commercial since I was a kid and thought every breakfast cereal I saw advertised looked like a passport to Eternal Happiness.

What commercials "get" you?

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha i want a jumbone just from reading the description of the ad

my favourite ad = victoria bitter
it has a series of people doing different activities at varying stress levels
'you can get it shearin'
'you can get it knittin'
'you can get it sittin'
'as a matter of fact i've got it now'
this is all done with the theme from the magnificent 7 playing in the background
(and then they all drink up)

― minna (minna), Sunday, 11 May 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Those new Five Alive spots... wow. Can't tear myself away whenever they come on.

― gazuga (gazuga), Sunday, 11 May 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Good ads don't work on me...I haven't drunk a Guiness, John Smiths or Tango in years

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 May 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Where can I buy this Jum-bone?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pedigree.it/manager/Prods/Prods_Images/Jumbone.gif

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just here ..snatching at the screen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

use your TELE-PHONE.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 May 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean GIVE THE DOG A BONE?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i love Churchill

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 May 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pedigree.it/manager/Prods/Prods_Images/Jumbone.gif

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Man Guinness have me locked down. I explained before I don't like Guinness, I know this, and yet I periodically try it in the hope that this will change. I actually want to like it that badly that I waste money on it. And I'm fairly sure eventually I'll like it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

In fact the more I think about it, saying "I'm fairly sure I'll like it" shows it up even more, my line of thinking is that my father drinks it, his friends do, at social gatherings in Ireland almost everyone drinks it, and not only this but it feels like an essential part of growing up and becoming an adult will be dropping lager for Guinness.

Damn you arthur.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i do feel like i SHOULD drink Guiness as well, partly because those who drink it are always banging on about how its 'liquid food' and really good for you. i might have one this Friday actually, what with it being a spesh occasion type thing...

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

1-800-call-att...

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i really want to kill that bloke in the video phone who's going out with his friend's sister

also, what is the big deal about Ecuadorian cocoa beans?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 May 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

People that drink Guinness regularly over here are trying too hard, I think. Actual real cool people who give a shit about beer drink Newcastle and Dead Guy and weird Belgian stuff and things that come in packs of 4 instead of 6. I think Mackeson's is the better stout if you ask me, but then I don't like coffee much either.

All the ads lately that have worked on me have been ones for food. Lately it seems I am helpless to resist any new food item which is marketed as having more cheese than it used to. Ridiculous.

Quizno's is a sandwich/deli type chain that has some of the best looking sandwiches that I think have ever graced the screen. Once in a while I go there and get one and then realize I have just spent an inordinate amount of money for what is basically a cheesesteak and feel dumb.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 11 May 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Lately it seems I am helpless to resist any new food item which is marketed as having more cheese than it used to

the title of the next Liars album

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 11 May 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

also, what is the big deal about Ecuadorian cocoa beans?

I think its a folorn attempt to capitalise on drugs chic.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 12 May 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a fantastic ad on Sky which looks like something you'd see on Flash sites, with badly animated photos of dogs singing along to Suspect Device. The tagline is "it's funny what entertains us", which is bang on. I've rewound tapes to watch it three of four times in a row. Trouble is, I can't remember what it's for.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 May 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never owned a car, and I never will own a car.

BUT!!! Every time they show that advert with the ENDLESS UNDULATING ASSES I am overcome with the urge to purchase whatever it is they are selling. I can't help myself. It's mesmerising. I don't have the faintest clue what the ad is for, but I want it.

(And my reaction is not nearly as extreme as HSA's. The first time he saw it, his eyes nearly popped out of his head and he attempted to club me over the head and drag me into the bedroom. When we went to see X-Men, they showed it in the theatre and I watched TWENTY FOOT HIGH ASSES OSCILLATING ACROSS THE SCREEN. Almost unbearable. It was a good thing that HSA was off buying popcorn because if he had had to sit through TWENTY FOOT HIGH UNDULATING ASSES he would surely have simply exploded.)

― kate, Monday, 12 May 2003 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that little doggie who appears in the Jumbone commercial! Every time I see the commercial I feel this need to go to the humane society and see if they've got a dog who looks like the Jumbone one and adopt it. It is such a cute little doggie and I wuv it.

Anyone get the "try Chilean fruit" commercials? I see that and think, "Hmmm. I would really, really like to have some fruit at this moment. Fruit would be nice." I'm really jonesing for a fruit cup at this point. Cantaloupe + watermelon + grapes + strawberries = mmmmm.

I love those Petsmart commercials and the Lowe's commercials that talk about their gardening selection, but mainly because I love going into Petsmart and I love gardening (and Lowe's).

― Dee the Semi-Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, if it's Chilean cantaloupe, do you get to say "Canta-loopay"?
cuz if you do, I'm so there.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

kate are you talkin about that advert with Groove Armada's 'I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim mix)' playing over it? i hope so, verily am i ready for that jelly. i think its a car advert but can't be sure...

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

*snort*

That's all I have to say about your post at this time, Horace.

You is too craaaazy, boy!

― Dee the Semi-Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Toothpaste ads that are really convincing about the fact they make yr breath REALLY FRESH always get me, cause I must be paranoid about that or something. Not the Macleans ad though, its patronising "no-one we know uses toothpaste anymore" is irritating.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevem - Yes.

I don't know why I love it. It is sexist and objectifying and horrible and awful, but it is JUST SO DAMNED FUNNY that it gets me every time. It's almost like it's taking the piss out of ass-worship, but it can't be because there are so many amazing ass-scenes in it.

And the peaches. The peaches totally make it.

― kate, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the car arses ad is for the renault megane

I am the ads king. As part of our Christmas quiz at work we had to identify 20 ads and I got them all right. I'm ashamed rather than proud

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

What a stupid name for a car. They should call it the Renault ASS. Then I'd buy it.

No, wait, I wouldn't, I hate cars.

― kate, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

but Kate, the car HAS AN ASS. It's the J-Lo of upper-mid-range family hatchbacks

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

They call THAT an ass? They need to be shown some photos of Julian Casablanacs post-haste!

― kate, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

those Clarks catwalk ads make me want to buy some. then I remember that I am Croydon's answer to Imelda Marcos and wouldn't be seen dead in them

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

sixteen years pass...

this is my favorite one from the 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evX8jm0y7MQ

― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 19:32 (six years ago)

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