The Duplex by Glenn McCoy for November 09, 2023

DO NOT GIVE HOLLYWIERD ANY DANG IDEAS

Some ads are more entertaining than the show, at least the first time you see them.

Ernest P. Worrell was in TV commercials before he was in movies.

Over the past 10 years or so, Dean Winters has starred in so many really funny, clever Allstate commercials as “Mayhem,” and I never get tired of watching them.

Just get rid of all talk shows…..now thats funny!!!

I like the “we got aunts” from Geico

Be careful what you wish for. Remember the “Geico Cavemen” show.

The Geico ad with the farmer in the spelling bee was funny. And the one with the woodchucks.

Commercials have become like mini shows for me. I often remember the funny ones, but not what they were selling.

Eno couldn’t grow enough hair to join the GEICO cavemen.

It kind of happened. The short-lived ABC comedy series, Cavemen, came from the caveman GEICO commercials. 2007 one-season wonder.

Geico makes some good ones to.

They must be drinking lite beer in the first panel. burp. :)

i thought they already did

Bad dog! Just when commercials are getting entertaining, you want the throw in talk shows?!

Ads about enough!!

I’m in my 70s, and I had problems watching long commercial breaks when I was young because of my short attention span. I can’t imagine how today’s youth with their super short attention spans can watch TV. Thank goodness for DVRs.

Talk shows are indeed more boring than commercials.

Every so often, there’s a good ad on TV. But the bulk of them are so bad I’d have to imagine any random stranger off the street is more qualified than your average, overpaid ad exec. Anyone remember the “real people” Chevy ads where they basically lied directly to the audience and told them it was true? They were paid actors pretending to be in a consumer clinic. Or the “what if” Toyota ads, where…they basically lied directly to the audience, but found a loophole by adding “what if” before it? “What if a truck got 50 MPG?* (*Note: No trucks sold by Toyota get anywhere near 50 MPG—but WHAT IF! AmIright?! C’mon!)”

My favorite insurance commercial was shot in Australia I think.

It showed a couple of sailplanes, and a guy walked up to one and started looking the cockpit over.

Another guy walked up, they shook hands, got in, and the tow line pulled them off the ground. Then, 2 more guys, wearing jackets, came up and started looking around. They heard the line release, turned, and the back of their jackets read ‘Instructor’.

I’ve never understood why anyone would buy something as serious as insurance because the company’s commercial made them laugh. But apparently it works. Nutso.