Fave ads?
As well as compiling my favorite Pat and Ron moments from this year, synched up to video, I'm also gonna add in a few of my favorite TV ads that I will always remember this season by. I think my two faves are the Bud Light axe/chainsaw ad, and the Mountain Dew Chuck Norris 'Chuckstrich' ad. Any other suggestions?
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Actober
by nji232 on Sep 25, 2007 10:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Any ad get tiring
The Aquos baseball-themed TV ad was a cool one, the first several times, but now I cringe when that music starts.
And I still don't miss Murph and the Union 76 ads.
by ChipSet on Sep 25, 2007 10:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
very tiring
Does anyone remember the Andre Dawson chain-link fence ad from the 80s? The Hawk said something like, "When I hit a ball onto Waveland, I hit it over a True-test chain link fence" or something like that, I don't remember the company name. Regardless, they should resurect it. As he was talking, it showed some of his moon shots onto the street.
by montanacubby on Sep 26, 2007 11:13 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tru-Link
The Hawk played a heck of a right field, but if that commercial was any indication, he wasn't much of a reader. You could tell he was reading it off of a cue card, but reading it terribly. Every time a ball goes out onto the street, though, my wife and I repeat the Hawk's tru-link lines.
by HectorVillanueva on Sep 26, 2007 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's what it was
by montanacubby on Sep 26, 2007 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You don't miss murph???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYKkHAkib8U
Kasey
by kaseyi on Sep 27, 2007 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
re: You don't miss murph???
"Tanks, Nicholas, tanks!"
"You're welcome!"
by dat cubfan daver on Sep 27, 2007 1:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Give me the Murph and Richard Petty spot...
by bison on Sep 27, 2007 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I do not tire
by slide on Sep 25, 2007 11:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Ads
by Madison Cub Fan on Sep 26, 2007 12:21 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Jake doesn't live in MY neighborhood...
Kasey
by kaseyi on Sep 26, 2007 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jake, Neighborhood Guy
I think out of all of them... the Sauk Prairie Cow Chip Throwing one is my least favorite.
by Madison Cub Fan on Sep 26, 2007 10:19 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm okay with Jake.
That said, those ads are so much better than the "Now that's Old Style" ones they ran for a couple of years. Man, I was tired of those.
by Cool Hand on Sep 27, 2007 5:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Bud Light Chainsaw/Ax ad is great
by rlpete on Sep 26, 2007 8:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Radio
I can't stand the Tecate ads, where they can't call the Tecate beer because simply calling it beer is insulting. That one and Jake the Neighborhood guy drive me nuts.
I can't remember exactly how it goes, but there was another one for Arlington Park, I think, that was some how a slam on Cub fans. I wish I could remember it, but that drove me nuts.
by HectorVillanueva on Sep 26, 2007 9:33 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Sick to death of...
If the remote's too far away, my fiancee gets to put up with me plugging my ears and humming real loud.
by mrsmiff on Sep 26, 2007 9:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
My four-year-old daughter's favorite ad...
And I'm pretty sure these run during Cubs games but maybe not...but I love the Dos Equis ads featuring "The World's Most Interesting Man." Frickin' hilarious. An obvious Hemingway homage, which is cool with me.
As far as radio ads go, I gotta give it up for Ron Santo's Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating spots. I crack up every time he says "Acapulco Taco Pie."
by dat cubfan daver on Sep 26, 2007 12:33 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Dos Equis
"He once punched a magician".
by Matt Allison on Sep 26, 2007 1:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
re: Dos Equis
by dat cubfan daver on Sep 26, 2007 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Those Pepsi ads
by jjmarie30 on Sep 27, 2007 4:57 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's my favorite
I love the ones where calls are dropped in the middle of conversations so the one person thinks the other is shocked into silence.
by cubstoseriesby100 on Sep 27, 2007 6:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's not my favorite
The dropped call ones are annoying, IMO.
by jjmarie30 on Sep 27, 2007 8:05 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
re: It's not my favorite
by dat cubfan daver on Sep 27, 2007 8:36 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
As much as I hate Clemens
by jjmarie30 on Sep 27, 2007 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bud Light at the Opera
Keep the faith boys, and GO CUBS!
Terry in Iowa
by NWIowaCubFan on Sep 27, 2007 11:32 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
re: Bud Light at the Opera
Speaking of Bud Light commercials, I also enjoy that short one that plays before the game highlights on Cubs.com. "It happens to be the manner with which I kiss!"
by dat cubfan daver on Sep 27, 2007 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Super Bowl quality
by nji232 on Sep 27, 2007 2:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Okay ...
I really like the Bud Light commercial that takes place in the ESL class, as stereotypical and obnoxious as it is. That last line, "Don't speaka English," just cracks me up. Very clever.
The ax addy is also pretty funny.
by Littlerock Rynofan on Sep 27, 2007 12:10 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Damn it!
by Littlerock Rynofan on Sep 27, 2007 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
what about radio?
I like the dropped call ad where the butcher asks the meat supply guy if he's out of roast beef because his wife "wolfed it all down for breakfast" I laugh every time!
by TimeForChili on Sep 27, 2007 12:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
The radio ads with Lou Piniella are excruciating
by SuperContext on Sep 27, 2007 12:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
re: The radio ads with Lou Piniella are excruciati
The Chevy ad is definitely excruciating. I actually kinda like the Dean's ads, especially the line that goes something like, "Dean's milk is great with cookies after the game!"
by dat cubfan daver on Sep 27, 2007 1:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
deans goes somthing like this
what? nice random transition.
by the way on a personal note sometimes when i'm tired, i sleep...my favorite unwanted hair remover? nair hair remover of course!
by TimeForChili on Sep 27, 2007 1:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
What I want to know
by Josh77 on Sep 27, 2007 3:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Best and Worst Ads
Although I get tired of most of the dropped call ads, the Roger Clemens one is great. My wife is deaf and can read lips (she was great when we'd watch the Bears when Ditka coached, as long as you didn't mind a lot of "expletive deleteds") and has taught me that anyone can catch some stuff if you watch carefully. Watch his wife's lips when the call drops. She's clearly saying "no", "no" more emphatically each time. Then she knocks the flowerpot off the table in frustration.
The Chuck Norris commercial is old and tired (a little like Steve Tracshel) and I hate the music to it now. The little twerps in it deserve to get their butts womped. And the Heineken green girl commercial is dreamed up by someone who never gets west of the Hudson River, or east of Lake Tahoe, and thinks that is cool.
Of course, even with the hated commercials, you do know that the mere fact that we can remember them is what the ad people want to happen.
by Cubfansince1957 on Sep 27, 2007 11:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
actober
by hiphopgamer26 on Sep 27, 2007 11:26 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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