If the T.V is on in our house, 90% of the time we are tuned into either tsn, or tsn2. Julia and I both love watching sports. The problem with only really watching 2 stations is that we have to see a lot of the same commercials over and over again. Especially because both the stations we watch air the same commercials. Normally it's not a big issue, but lately there are 2 commercials that have really gotten under my skin.
1. The Vancouver 2010 commercials:
Most of the time commercials become annoying only after watching them like 10 times, and you become sick of them. This one was an exception to that rule. The first time i saw it, I was immediately angry with it. Part of the reason for this was because when i saw it the first time it was 14 months until the start of the Olympics. 14 Months!. I knew i would have to endure over a year of re-runs of this crappy spot. Let me explain the commercial for those of you living in a hole...
There are actually several versions of the same commercial, but it's basically the same thing with different kids. The premise of the commercial is a bunch of different kids talking (in high pitched annoying voices) about the upcoming Olympics. They are all in difference scenes doing things like playing hockey, standing on a ski hill, in front of the Ottawa Parliament ect. They each say things like "Canadian athletes are winning big time on the world stage" "Canada wins the games", "do you believe" ect. The stupidest comment out of them all is "there's an Olympian in all of us". What does that even mean? The 40 year old fat guy sitting on his couch is some sort of Olympian? no...he's not. It's useless, mindless jargin...just like the rest of the commercial.
What would make this commercial awesome is if while saying "there's an Olympian is all of us" they had a shot of angry beavers chasing said fat guy while he's trying desperately to learn how to work cross country ski's. Now THAT is Canadian!
#2 Tim Horton's "wrap man" commercial:
This commercial makes me more and more upset every time i see it. It doesn't help that it's on EVERY SINGLE time my hockey game goes to a commercial break.
This commercial features 2 men in an office setting discussing which one of them is "wrap man". One has a nameplate for his desk, and the other an office key card...both with the name "wrap man". At the climax of the commercial..."wrapgirl" walks by. I know, i can hardly contain my excitment!
Let's get something straight. Wraps are not manly. They are in fact the opposite of manly. So don't try to pass off "wrap man" as some sought after superhero title. Wrapman is not tough. He's a wuss that needs a kick in the junk (if there's anything even there). If you actually ordered a wrap for lunch, you should be eating it in the bathroom stall out of sheer embarrassment.
The only thing that would save this horrible commercial would be if right near the end, the office linebacker showed up and hammered everyone.
*note - the office linebacker does not eat wraps. And if he did, I would say nothing...
-chuck out
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