2003-01-30 | REMEMBER WHEN "CHEEDLE" WAS RICH HALL'S DEFINITION FOR THE ORANGE RESIDUE YOU GET ON YOUR HANDS AFTER EATING A BAG OF CHEETO'S?

"I don't wanna go off on a rant here, but..."

Do commercials just leave you dumbfounded nowadays?

You can't even tell what some of them are for.

Thank god the football season is over, because I was starting to lose all the respect I had for one Don Cheadle.

Did you see his pointless and senseless, and confusing, and dumb ads?

They seriously made no sense.

I was glad to see the folks over at SNL poke fun at it during their Super Bowl Halftime extravaganza. I thought I was the only one who noticed how bad they were.

In one, he talks about how somebody made 5 seconds out of something, and not once does he make sense.

Then he finishes it with "they helped turn 5 seconds into......5 seconds."

What the fuck is this, Def Poetry? Some more nonsense that's supposed to be profound, but sounds like doo-hickey?

I never thought I'd use that word, ever, but it just seems to fit here.

Then he had another one where he just said the same word about one hundred times again.

And ended it the same way. "They took Assclown and turned it into....Ass Clown".

I thought the Osbournes/Osmonds commercial was passable, but I just don't get why Ozzy would do a Pepsi commercial. They must've got lots of money, and a year supply of Pepsi, because to get those cool emo-metal kids Jack and Kelly to do it was a feat in itself.

I didn't think that "Terry Tate" commercial where that guy runs around the office tackling people was very good, but that's all I hear people talking about on ESPN, as if it is one of the classic Super Bowl commercials of all time.

Another thing that bothers me is when they have commercials for shows that have no laugh track regularly, but then they add fake ones during the trailer.

They do this for Scrubs, and if you didn't already watch the show, the fake laugh track would make you least likely to watch it, because it ruins the integrity of the show. People who have never seen it don't know it's just for the commercial. They just think it's a stupid laugh track.

So if you've seen the ads and have heard the disgusting reactions that they've thrown in there, just ignore it, and give the show a chance. I'm not even a sitcom guy, but I think Scrubs is just great. I only watch 3 sitcoms regularly, and one of them is in reruns. (Seinfeld)

Does anybody here watch Charlie Rose? I love that guy.

I think he asks great questions, and gets people to open up, but another great thing about that show is the momentum is never ruined, because they don't have commercial breaks.

A few weeks ago he had another architect on there who is trying to make a bid for the next World Trade Center design. (he's had many other competitors on the show previously)

I was thinking that they should do a spoof of this on SNL where Charlie Rose acts all interested while the guy shows his design, and they both act seriously, but the joke of it would be that the sketch of the design would be a large hand with fingers folded as the base of the building, and then the only part that they construct to the previous height of the WTC would be an extended middle finger pointing towards the sky. Oh, how beautiful that would be.

Oh, I remember what Don Cheadle said in the other ad.....

"They took Roman Numerals and turned them into Roman Numerals."

Hmmmmm.....that's deep.

I'm sure it's just me that doesn't get it. It's over my head like ceiling fans.

Peace.

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