TV Anonymous. Anyone?

I've definitely been watching too much TV. I know this is true because I get disgusted when certain commercials come on. I know, I know, this is how networks make their money, but commercials are so irritating. Especially after the thousandth viewing. They make me want to ban the products! No kidding!

I find myself putting commcercials into different categories: Clever, Too Clever,
Way Too Clever, I Totally Don't Understand, So What Is That Product For Anyway,
Sort of Cute, and AAAAGH, Where's the Remote?

In the Clever category are ones like the two guys on the ski lift, and one asks the other for permission to ask his old girl friend for a date. I laughed when the askee threw the cell phone off the ski lift. That is I laughed the first few times that I saw the commercial. Now, after the hundreds of times I have seen the commercial, I would like to throw both of them off the ski lift. And, I couldn't begin to tell you what that commercial is advertising. Probably, cell phones. But does that really make you want to buy a phone?

Which brings me to the Too Clever category. Those are the commercials where you really can't identify the product being advertised. These commercials are usually those highly touted ones that are saved for the Super Bowl, and maybe some other sporting events. I think most of them advertise beer. The only ones I've ever liked had either Betty White or the Anheiser Busch horses in them.

The Way Too Clever category includes commercials where all they bring to mind is the vision of over-caffeined advertising "geniuses" sitting around a table and brain-storming far out ideas way into the night! I think they are products of desperation
or hallucination.

I can't think of an example of "I Totally Don't Understand" because I totally hit the remote. But I am sure that you have seen them, and you don't understand them,
either.

In the category of What is that product for Anyway are commercials that should be accompanied by the warning "Do Not Try This At Home." They usually involve breakage,spillage,police,often alien monsters, cars going off cliffs, dads with
strange hair cuts, etc. So, can you tell me which toilet paper shaves off hair?
(From dad's head, that is). No, you can't, can you.

Now, to the relatively few commercials that I have seen hundreds and hundreds of times, and I can still watch them, and sometimes I still smile when I see them.
Ones that come to mind at this moment: the little girl who tastes the Meijers spinach and the other brand (I still love her reaction.) The cute little white dog who worries about where to bury his bone accompanied by the song "Trouble, trouble." I don't know if it's the dog or the song that I still like.

And, finally, in the Where's the Remote category: that insipid family of four eating dinner, reading the teenagers diary, etc. Like I said before, "AAAAGH!"
Or even worse, that dweeby guy who is late getting up and drinks the wake up stuff.
Then he runs down the stairs and says "Let's get this done." I wish he'd just go
back to bed, nobody out in this world wants to run into him. So hit the remote.

But, explain to me, how every network knows how to run commercials at exactly the same time. That's when I give up and go this computer. God bless Netflix. I can
get a commercial free movie at any time.

Oh, one more thing. I feel really sorry for those poor souls who must act in commercials. I know they love getting those nice little checks every time a commercial runs, but just think about their resumes. Who wants to put on their resume that they have performed as a dust ball, a dirt clod,or worst of all,
mucus?