Tv Commercial Critique Gifts

Pharmacist with sign reading 'Featuring all the drugs as advertised on TV'.

'Side effects may include....'

Roads with a view.

Actually, Mama was her third word. Buy Now were her first two.

Overdose of election campaign ads on TV.

'My husband likes to have everything handy during TV commercials.'

'It's sadly ironic in a way - He can't hear the hearing aid commercials.'

'We've got to stop him watching Robert Peston.'

'The following program was made possible by a totally unscrupulous sponsor....'

"But your room does have a sea view, it's 43 miles over there behind the power station."

Stephen Harper on the attack ads.

"This is like the time you had me sell water as a 'diet drink'."

"Fake brews."

"Has this ever happened to you? Well, with our Medical Emergency Distress System..."

'... And now, the sports gossip.'

Down with canned laughter.

"They do say results will vary."

'Will this make me feel as happy as the people in the commercial?'

If they didn't show commercials, people would not know what to buy.

"The only side effect from this new drug will be a mind-numbing barrage of commercials on daytime TV."

'We'll be right back after these important messages.'

"This may sound stupid, but why can't they make a prescription drug with good side effects?"

McTV, 'It's all singing commercials.'

"Pudits tell me what to think. TV tells me what to watch. Ads tell me what to buy. You really care about my opinion?"

"It's always easy to tell when then TV commercials for Christmas toys have started."

"And if you sign up for our Gold Star membership level we stop pestering you to sign up."

'We've been picking up your television broadcasts, and we're here to buy some of those neat steak knives!'

'Your arteries are 90% clogged with all the junk food advertised on T.V.'

"Next up...is Christmas too commercialized? But first a word from 'Big AL's Xmas Emporium! 5 Santas, No Waiting!'"

'I'm using my eyes, how are you looking at it?'

A contentious new report suggests that news programmes are being overrun by unnecessary visual gimmicks.

'For those of you who sneaked into the kitchen during the commercial - the least you could've done was bring me a sandwich.'

'Bartering for pre-screening ads isn't a bad idea, but what are we going to do with all these pigs?'

'Are your game broadcasts interrupted by screaming TV pitch men...'

'This is great! -- it's a SURreality show!'