hey i saw your website

hey wuts up... i went to ur website commercials i hate .com and thought it was really funnie, im suprised u dont have any newer ones like the quiznos sponge monkey thinggys or the muppets pizza hut 4 for all. but the real reason im writing you is because i saw your pcture on the about me section and i think your really sexy. well just thought id tell ya

 Y hailey

Gay Marriage Rant

Nathan,

First of all I would like to say THANK YOU for what you said!  You put it very clear in your rant about Bush and gay marriage.  He said, and this is a direct quote, that gay marriage would "compromise his beliefs".  Is it not a compromise of a gay person's beliefs to NOT wed their true love?  It's absolutely absurd; why should HIS beliefs govern a total stranger's life?

And I thought that you might enjoy that the fact that the term you used in your analogy, a blue person, is the same term in Russian as a homosexual.  If you think a guy is gay in Russia, you think he's blue!  I found that to be very interesting.

Now I must confess that I am a first time visitor, and even now I have yet to view your site, but I throughly enjoyed that rant so much that I just had to write you.  Would you mind at all if I used your statements (like in my near daily debates with my father on voting or not voting for Bush)?  They are very convincing, and throw a very interesting and thought provoking spin on this whole issue.  Thanks again!

Shannon

A commercial I hate

One serious commercial I really hate. The McDonald Commercial where a young lady is sitting on a couch. She is saying stuff like are "you lookin at my chicken." Then some other gay quotes like: "Whose big dippers are they!?! They're mine."  After that I wanted to come over and throw the nuggets at her. Then shoot myself.

Ryan

exucse me

Name: aubrie
Date: Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:40:20 PM US/Pacific
Subject: exucse me

uhh.. can you send me pictures of alex and brit? so i have my hair cut like them thankyou.

thanks

Thanks for your web-site. 

Thanks for taking the time to show the world the insulting assault of these lame, useless and over paid advertising twits out there in TV land.  I think that if they pulled a bum off the street and gave him a hamburger he could write better commercial, then maybe pass the savings onto the consumer.

I’m not an American, well I am a member of North America, Canada to be precise, but, long live America anyways.  The use of which in commercials pisses me off.  I mean, if you live in Brazil, you are also an American, well South American.  Not to mention, Panama, Mexico, etc.

Keep forging forward.

BTW, we get all your commercials up here since Canadians can only write good comedy shows and not drama, we scab your shows.  One that I hate is the F**kin Soyata ones from Rochester New York shown on Fox.  It’s that one that shows the computer box, which looks like a cow, being shipped all over the world.  Isn’t Gateway in the US?  Do they think we are all stupid?

John Mack

your site

Just wanted to say that you are a riot. I loved your site and I love your humor. Thanks for the laughs, I needed them!

- Mrs. Kim Sondy

hey Nathan,

First off, this isn't a "what the *censored* is wrong with you?"
email. That's the good news. This also isn't a scathing rant on a
new commercial I think you should hate too. Nor is my name Melissa.

I am sincerely thinking about going into advertising as a career
choice and--I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here
but what the heck--what would you suggest should be done about
commercials? What would make them better? Now's your chance to
talk to the future of the industry and I'm listening.

Lastly, I loved your site. Very humorous, very insightful. And
I've wasted enough of your time now. And I'm curious as to how
you're going to rip me apart.

Can't think of a good way to sign off on this,
Ashley

I LOVE IT

Dear Nathan,
Regardless of what that Dream Catcher guy says, I love your site and I would have to agree with you. Commercialism is getting dumber and uglier by the minute. I am glad someone has dedicated a site about it.
Keep it up!
Susan

where do babies come from-safe auto commercial

hi nathan.. i jus wanna say your "ihatecommericial" articles are HILARIOUS and SOO TRUE.. that evil fungus creature ripping off that dudes toe nail freaked the shit outta me. i was forced to change the channel or look away or close my ears and yell (LALALALA) whenever it came on, ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M EATING... you should write an article on those damn safe auto commercials. they are so DUMB and POINTLESS i don't know how they're thinking of attracting people to their insurance company. and you're a total hottie i can't believe you're still single.. ttyl

- Shira M

Bwaaaaaaaaaaahaha!

Please excuse the outburst in the subject, but I just stumbled upon your site during a search for that accursed Quizno's commercial done by the... wierdo at rathergood.com. I must say it's rather nice to see someone else taking offense to the patronizing ads around today. I just tend to bitch about and make fun of the commercials with my circle of friends (or the occasional stranger). Should you have time to answer, I have but one question for you: What's your opinion of the Dell 'bootcamp' commercial? If it is on your site, don't bother answering as I'm still working my way through. I work in a local computer repair shop and I found it amusing, to say the least. Dell's support is God-aweful (should you even be able to understand what they're saying whilst reading the 'support script'). 'Are you ready to quit yet?!' "I still don't know how to format a hard drive!" And you won't unless you take an A+ class. Um, yea. I do have one positive thing to say about the 'big-name OEM's... without them turning out crap, I would be unemployed.

Auf Wiederlesen!

- endy

P.S. - For a laugh, check out Gateway's rating at www.resellerratings.com I've never seen it higher than 1.0 (that was for 3 hours).

Douche yourself

Nathan,

we share a similar disgust for bad marketing. Commercials become more lame and aimless day by day. I was curious if youve seen the one for Nourishe. Its a yogurt drink. Not a femanine product. Nourishe...Douche. It is directed toward middle age women. The final phraze "Nourishe yourself" is released by a middle aged woman while the bottle plunges (tip first) into a creamy liquid. So simular to every chocolate bar commercial I was wondering if the same bastards were behind it. Anyway keep it up.

Zane

Wayne Brady coffee creamer ad

Hey, Nathan -

I am looking forward to reading your take on the coffee creamer commercial in which Wayne Brady sings a love song to the coffee creamer to the tune of "I Say a Little Prayer For You".  Usually after hearing this commercial (or the few inescapable seconds of it before I find the remote), this irritating song runs through my mind for 3-4 hours.  I am happy to report, though, that unlike most ads using catchy, annoying songs, I cannot even remember the name of the product, so the commercial technically doesn't even do its job!

Thanks for a very entertaining and enlightening website.

Maria

New KFC Commercial

Hi Nathan,

I just came across your website and really enjoy it.  I thought I would vent my frustration on the new KFC commercial.  Perhaps you have seen it:  all these people are excited about some "Kitchen Fresh Chicken".  What the hell is that?  Being fom the south I have had my share of fried chicken but have never really thought of it as "kitchen fresh".  Was the bird fresh killed in the kitchen and then cooked?  I don't think the health department would like that.

Obviously Yum!Brands is doing everything possible to erase any images of their food being FRIED.  It started with referring to the chain as KFC rather than Kentucky FRIED Chicken.  Now they are removing all of what they are about and where they are from.  Why don't they make it easier and just call themselves "Foods"? 

I'm sure Col. Sanders is rolling over in his grave.

Keep up the good work,

Dan...

pepsi superbowl commercial

hey

first off i love the site. i just found it and its pretty dam good. but in regards to the pepsi/ itunes commercial the humor just keeps coming since the girl at the pc is one of the girls who got sued by the recording companies for doing the file sharing. 

also i'm writting you from canada...although i watch the american brodcast of the superbowl during the canadian broadcast there was a labatt blue commercial that 2 women have a long kiss. to me that is sweet and really not a big deal but it has got complaints just as bad as the janet jackson thing.  the canadian censoring version is looking in to it..

any great site

keep up the good work

About the Super bowl Pepsi ad

Nathan,

I just wanted to share my thoughts of the Pepsi commercial with Jimi
Hendrix. It disturbed my, greatly. My first thoughts were, "So they are
saying that if Jimi drank Coke, he would have been an unsuccessful accordion
playing geek, who never would have become famous, and asphyxiated on his own
vomit?"

First they almost kill Michael Jackson, then they finally admit their
involvement in Jimi's death. What next? Was the CEO of Pepsi the one who
really shot Kennedy?

Thanks for an entertaining site. Kudos.

Shawn

A possible addition to your list

Nathan,

I was sent a link to your website the morning after (yeah, yeah) I went into a furious diatribe over an AXE commercial I had just seen. Geeky guy in tighty-whiteys (not the gross part) sprays AXE on, goes to a club and gets bitten by a mosquito. (Where is this club? The bayou?) The mosquito then GETS EATEN by a frog, which then GETS COOKED at a upscale restaurant and served to a 900 year old man. The geezer looks up from his dish that contains the REMAINS OF THE FROG to see a stunning supermodel bending down over him with her hand outstretched to his groin, which leads to a shot of said geezer lying on a bed with his collar undone and a blissful smile on his face. Close up of said smile and face, pan out to see that very picture ON HIS TOMBSTONE.

But wait, we're not done! The very end of the commercial consists of two worms coming out of the earth to form a heart!!!!! Is this supposed to be cute?  Or a subtle message that using AXE WILL KILL YOU!! Are we equating this spray-on deodorant with death? What the hell is this?! AAAAAARGGGHH!!!!

Maybe this would distract the FCC from Janet's stupid boob trick - which was just a half-step up from what the cheerleaders were jiggling the entire effin' game.

Stephanie

a letter... it is true

I don't know what to do. Your views on those commercials that assume that we, the audience are of low-born, Neandrethal (wrong spelling somewhere) stock, are strong, lauding my praise and admiration for your gifted writing style which are at the same time, both scathing yet funny. However, the way some features of your website are done, like reviewing movies you have not watched and giving them less than favourable opinions, are very poorly thought true. Perhaps not involving a single thought process whatsoever.
And though I appreciate and laugh at your examining and deconstruction of complaint letters, releasing them on the brilliant invention that is the internet, allowing the population of the world to do the same as me and ridicule the poor souls, *takes a breath*, too much may be a bad thing. As you said before, they are only opinions. Opinions are heard, then analysed, then thrown away cause they are usually made when after ingesting alcoholic beverages or other narcotic substances anyways.

In the end, it settles down on the opinions. Yes, keep voicing out your great, intriguing opinions on the scummy advertisements in the world but please keep an open mind about things too. Maybe cultivate a sense of humour not bordering on sarcasm.

I suppose this letter would be made fun of too and placed for the world to see. With my nuances and every sentence seen, ridiculed then rejected. Thank God for the internet and the wonders of anonymity.

So to end my dilemma, I shall congratulate you on a hilarious website, your superb writing style and then tell you to piss off!

- Pang Ee Pin

commercial i want your opinion

I have stumbled accross your site on www.blinkerfluid.com and it is very interesting. I was wondering what you thouhg of the truck commercial chevy i think, where the guys are in the truck and they are happy the back has bucket seats cause there buddy is gettin down to Shania Twain I feel like a woman. I personally cant get enough of this commercial, it doesnt make me want to buy the car or anything like it i just like the commericial.

Thanks

Katie and Brooke

chevy commercial

How in the WORLD could children gawking and saying "Holy Sh_ _" ever please ANYONE!!!  I am still OUTRAGED by the company's vulgarity.  In the first place--I dont appreciate the vulgarity.  In the second place--using children for the sake of vulgarity is too horrible for words!!  The only possible way to apologize for Chevrolet's totally disgusting advertisement is to yank it from the airwaves as soon as possible, make a public apology through national print and news media, fire everyone involved with the creation of such filth, and NEVER EVER do anything like that again.

BASEBALL, HOT DOGS, APPLE PIE, CHEVROLET, and HOLY SH_ _????

One of these does not belong. 

Shame shame shame on Chevy!!!!!

AND WHERE DOES THE FCC get off allowing this filth???????????

- Panda Hughes

Hilarious

I found your website to be extremely entertaining. I
think there is something about going to film school
that makes you look at the medium differently. I would
love to see what commercials you find worthy, maybe
have a separate category for them.
Sincerely,
Hannah

Commercials to hate

I know you had to limit your rage towards the commercial truly deserving of scorn, but I can't see why you didn't mention:

-- NyQuil: remember that awful lady who still awake with a cold but her husband took NyQuil so he's sleeping like a cadaver? And just to make your butt clench hard enough to crack walnuts, at the end of her whinefest she lets out an ear-piercing, glass shattering "SHRIEK! WHY???!" Hell, that NyQuil must be some pretty potent stuff if it not only makes the cold aches go away, but you're so zonked out that you can't even hear the screeching banshee laying next to him in bed.

-- Ditech.com: It looked lame when the commercials used to have a cheaply-CGI'ed computer monitor creep up and jump on you, but it raced downhill when they brought in the lardassed loan officer. What kind of redneck bonehead is gonna look at these things and say "Yuh know. Ize been wuntin' to get me one of them new cars and have it made up all purty like with the Dale Earnhart 43 on the side. Maybe Ize gunnuh call up this here die-tek and see how much my trailer's worth?".

-- Jewelry commercials on any holiday season: you know the ones, but the WORST one I ever witnessed was this outrageous scene with a lady and this little snotnose daughter of her's:

DAUGHTER: "Mommy, what's that?"

Mom: "Oh, that's a new diamond bracelet that Daddy gave me."

Daughter: "Wow! Daddy must love youUUUUU VERRRRRRY MMMMMMMuch."

Why not just come out and display gigantic red letters that scream "GET YOUR WIFE SOME EXPENSIVE SH*T FROM US OR SHE'S GONNA THINK YOU HATE HER AND SHE'LL DIVORCE YOU AND TAKE THE HOUSE AND YOU'LL ROT IN A ONE-ROOM EFFECIENCY APARTMENT BECAUSE THE ALIMONY IS SLOWING KILLING YOUR SOULLLLLL!!!!!!"? Never mind the fact that a lot of these diamonds just happen to come from third-world crapholes in Africa run by armed gangs, and in some cases the money gets funneled to terrorist groups like Al Queda. Daddy had better go out into the snowstorm and bring home to Mommy some overpriced bling-bling to prove he loves her, or he's gonna get served some papers and find his ass living put of the Motel 6.

-- Lexus commercials at Xmastime: How many people can actually afford a Lexus, let alone GIVE one away as a Christmas gift? For all that money, the dealership had BETTER toss in that big ridiculous bow on top for free or Missy's just gonna have to do with a Porsche this Christmas. I'll tell you that!

- Michael Hirtes