Showing posts with label I Spot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I Spot. Show all posts

Sunday, May 2

Willy Wonka movie infulences commercials and promos


An AT&T commercial used a song Gene Wilder sung in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" about imagination, while a recent Lost promo had a quote from the movie. So far, that's 2 points for the original movie and a big fat ZERO for Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Thursday, April 29

Community couldn't get 'Animal House' theme cleared


On Tonight's "Community," did they college movie parodies. Abed wanted to check off a list, at the end there was a food fight with a cool song but according to the closed caption it said 'Animal House.' Apparently, they planned to use the Animal House song and couldn't get the copyright rights. Aaron Hill (Beaver from "Greek") guest stars in the credits as a Pizza Delivery guy in a porn cliche.

Thursday, April 22

Conan-Leno joke too late in 30 Rock 'Khonani'

Jack has to choose between two women and decides to concentrate on a Janitor situation instead, procrastinating but it is much like he's first situation. Anyhoo, one janitor wanted the night shift because he has a contract with Jack since 2005--clearly like Conan. And the other guy, got his shift moved at 10, like Leno. And in the end, the Conan janitor had to be fired, he said he was okay he had to go to Fox Casino. Um... they should have said TBS. I guess they filmed this before the decision was made.


Saturday, February 27

Is Fanboy Sheen?

Fanboy from "Fanboy and Chum Chum" looks a lot like Jimmy Neutron's friend Sheen, who will have a spin-off in a year or so. I was surprised to find out, they are not from the same production company or same people.

Wednesday, February 17

Twilight Parody Commercials

Tobacco Free Florida has a PSA with actors doing a Twilight rip-off and they are stopped by a director because they are covering a billboard for tobacco.



A vampire is about to turn his 'Bella' but he notices she has low AT&T coverage, so he goes for three chicks with Verizon. A wolf then winks his eye to her. This is a Verizon commercial.



In the Spanish version, the wolf winks at her and the girl scoffs in disgust. I couldn't find it.

Wednesday, February 10

Mass Effect Commander John Shepard


I wanted to answer this question myself, other people might be wondering. Mass Effect 2 commercial came out and I wondered who was the model for the main character Commander Shepard (the default male version of course, as the real Commander is female). It is Mark Vanderloo (above). His voice is provided by Mark Meer in both games (first and second).

Tuesday, January 26

Is Varlie Bertinelli old enough to be Sara Rue's mother?

In a Jenny Craig commercial, actress Varlie Bertinelli ("One Day at a time") is forced to say she is old enough to be actress Sara Rue's ("Less than Perfect") mother. Varlie was born in 1960 and Sara was born in 1979, they are 18 years and 8 months apart. So yeah, I guess Varlie could have given birth to Sara at age 18. Her son Wolfgang is 19 years old.

Wednesday, April 15

We Love Flo!

For those wondering, Stephanie Courtney (a Groundling!) plays the woman or girl in those Progressive commercials, she has for like more than a year, well since 2008. She has had multiple commercials. The character's name is Flo and I love this character! She has grown on me. She has also appeared in television commercials, such as Skittles (2008), Wienerschnitzel (2005), SC Johnson Glade products. Wikipedia even has a page on her and on the character!

Friday, April 10

That's Right: We don't care


I have heard this new slogan used more than once now: "Thats right, Lifetime." Now "That's Right, TV Land." Lifetime network uses "Thats right, Lifetime." when advertising "How I Met Your Mother" and maybe other shows, not sure. And now I recently heard "Thats right, TV Land." for their new reality contest show "The Cougar," about a hot older woman and 20-something men at her beck and call. This is a sad attempt to attracting viewers and 'smashing' their image. When A&E and TCM have reality shows, all cable channels will look alike... or already do. By the Way (BTW), the Golden Girls have been dumped by Lifetime and are now in Hallmark Channel.


Wednesday, April 1

Reno 911 Season Six Cast Change

Everyone loves Reno 911!, it is a funny show but the plot has always played around and hasn't ever been linear. Season Six has two new cast members, who are part of The State and are no strangers to the show, they have made cameos before. The new cast members are Detective Sergeant Jack Declan (Ian Roberts of the Upright Citizens Brigade, who has gotten fatter) and Deputy Frank Rizzo (Joe Lo Truglio). For some reason, Clementine Johnson (Wendi McLendon-Covey), James Garcia (Carlos Alazraqui) and Deputy Kimball (Mary Birdsong) have not returned. On the premiere episode, Dangle claims 'some officers' died in a blaze or something, and that's it, no names mentioned or anything. There was one scene with Wiegel and Dangle are trying to figure out who they were--something about an Asian guy. No reason has been given to why the cast members have left the show, they are still on the website.

Wendi's myspace blog:
Monday, March 30, 2009

Since you asked....
Hi everyone!
Recently I've been asked the same questions over and over, so I thought I'd better just address the subject here so I don't have to keep writing individual messages about it. No, I'm not on Reno 911 anymore. No, I didn't leave on my own. No, I didn't see it coming. No, I wasn't the only one who was dismissed. No, it wasn't because we weren't doing a good job - in this business you don't necessarily get hired because you're good, and you don't necessarily get let go because you're bad.
Yes, I was on the set of THE OFFICE when I found out. Yes, I was disappointed at first, but as Sophia Loren used to say, "Don't cry over anything that won't cry over you." Five seasons and a movie was a good run, and I'm surprised that it lasted that long. I'm grateful to have been a part of the show but believe me, it was really time to move on and play other types of weird women - maybe someone who wears a turtleneck! We wrapped season 5 in April of 2007, so I've been away from the show for 2 years. It's a distant, bittersweet memory now.
So thanks to all of you for liking my character! Thanks for being so sweet to me.
xoxoxoxox, Wendi

Did I just see Porn on Adult Swim?

Last night, I was about to turn off the television when I stumbled upon... porn on Adult Swim? I kept waiting for the punch line but there was no punch line, which happens sometimes on live-action Adult Swim programming. I only stayed up for a half an hour after Midnight, then a Tim and Eric Segment started, I am not a Tim and Eric fan, so I turned off the TV because I was sleepy. Today I find out this was brought on by Tim and Eric. It was actually a movie that aired on and on until 5:30am called "The Room" directed and starring Tommy Wiseau. It was a pretty soft-core porn, about Lisa (Juliette Danielle) who is to marry Tommy's character Johnny but has jitters and has sexual encounters with other men. Basically her bare breasts are covered with a big black box and sometimes the boxes got bigger and moved around for comedic effect. Even Tommy's ass was covered! There was a real hot guy there... Greg Sestero.

Two clips on Adult Swim

Someone on Wikipedia says:
After a brief run in Los Angeles, the film went on to develop a cult following in the city, because of its perceived unintentional humor. It continues to have monthly midnight screenings. Wiseau promotes the film as a black comedy and insists that the “unintentional” humor is intentional, although audience members generally doubt this. On April 1, 2009, the movie aired on Adult Swim at midnight and 2:30am EDT as the programming service's annual April Fool's joke.


Sunday, March 22

The friend with Lisa Kudrow in Nintendo DS Commercial



Lisa Kudrow is in the Nintendo DS commercial for Professor Layton and the Curious Village with Lynn Brown Kogen, wife of Jay Kogen, producer of "The Simpsons" and "Malcolm in the Middle." They are friends.

Monday, March 2

Medium's re-creation of Juno

Miguel Sandoval and Tina DiJoseph deliciously re-create the Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page scene in Juno, in which Ellen comes in asking for a third pregnancy test. I knew it was it when men in scarlet jackets and yellow tiny short shorts ran by a woman in a red jacket with a sunny D bottle. Miguel doesn't say "Home Skilet" but does say "Your eggo is preggo." Tina doesn't say 'siliencio' right, in fact, she says the lines very flatly. Anyway, it is hiliarious to hear Miguel Sandoval say 'just because you pee on it, it doesn't mean it's yours.'


Saturday, January 10

Dike joke in SNL

The opening sketch featured Jason Sudeikis as Rod Blagojevich being interview by Abbie Elliott (Daughter of Chris Elliott!) as Rachel Maddow and now that Jason is playing more jackasses, he says, "I feel like a dutch boy with his finger in a dike." And he made two nods towards Rachel and saying that she would know he was talking about. Crude but funny.

Thursday, November 20

Product Placement in Telenovela

I saw the funniest thing the other day. I was at the gym and they had a telenovela (soap opera) on and there were two girls together and all of the sudden it became one of those old product placement segments. One girl was timid about talking about her period and the other busted out with maxi pads. It was hilarious, this actress was doing the whole nine yards of spokesman-ship.

Thursday, September 11

Raising the Bar Hair Raising

As I made my comment about Mark-Paul Gosselaar's hair and I was informed by a cool game on TNT.com to vote for a cool hairdo for him. It is a fun and funy game.

Sunday, September 7

Bad Bad Seinfeld/Gates commercial



Jerry Seinfeld has lost his charm and Bill Gates has never have it. I don't even know what the heck they are advertising but this commercial royally sucks and you can see through their lame charade.


Friday, September 5

The color of this new Volcano Taco

Taco Bell has revealed their new Volcano Taco, supposedly hot and the color looks very suspicious. It looks a bit like the Pink Tacos from Pink Taco, which is also, if you didn't already know, a slang term for vaginas. Also check out their website. As for more on the Taco Bell taco, check their website. The American commercial is fine, but the Spanish version is suspicious with sexual innuendo. Unfortunately I don't have video since it is relatively new but it has people finding women (a young lady and a grandmother) in a car with steamy windows and making a post-orgasm face about the new taco. Hmm.. very subtle.

Sunday, June 22

Taco Bell's stupid "Queso Dip"

Taco Bell has this new "Queso Dip" and the commercial makes it sound like it is 'crazy and spicy' dip. But it is CHEESE! Queso or Cay-so means cheese. If the Taco Bell dip is spicy, then that is theres but don't call it 'queso' if it is just CHEESE.

I looked it up and it is an actual spicy salsa called 'salsa con queso' and that is salsa with cheese. Salsa typically is spicy.


Sunday, December 23

I Spot: That Big Blue Eye Commercial Actor

I see this comedian so much over and over again in commercials and finally found his name. His name is Andrew Donnelly and he is part of the group Effinfunny. He has done commercials for Heineken, Mindspring, Staples, Wahoos, Sprint, Saab, and 1-800-Collect. One of his recent commercials is the Visa Check Card with a leprechaun.



Check out his videos here.

Here is his MySpace page.

More pictures here at my other blog.