Favorite AFN commercial

[KarmaPolice]

I'd have to go with the two guys dressed up as Romans, eating and drinking and talking about how great life is. Then getting led off to slavery because they were engaged in "Fraude Waste and Abuse". Who the F*** makes this stuff?

 

[MarineGrunt]

Haven't seen that one.

My vote is for the AFN Sports commercials with the NFL Cheerleaders... Look for the close-up of the brunette about 2/3 of the way through.... shes my fav...

 

[L'il J.Seinfeld]

Anyone remember the okinawa archers commericial?

 

[MGlobemaster]

My personal favorite to laugh at is the one where the Mom is so proud of her son when he brings home a 2.0 GPA.

 

[Deuce130]

I saw one deployed where there showed some woman staring at a guy's butt - something to do with working out at the fitness center or something. The very next commercial was from the Social actions folks talking about the horrors of sexual harrasment. Had to laugh.

 

[AlbieF15]

I'm not kidding when I say AFN and the Stars and Stripes are two of the reasons I couldn't wait to bail out of the active duty...

 

[dtfl]

Worst

When flying gunships out of San Vito Airstation, Italy - they had local AFN commercials:
1) "DON'T SLAM YOUR PSC MAILBOX DOOR!!!"
2) "DON'T GO INTO TENT CITY!!"
3) "ROCKERS AGAINST ROLLING STOPS" (with fake drugged out rockers)

Im not making this crap up.......

 

[AdlerDriver]

Hey,
I'm just glad I had someone to tell me not to go to the commissary when I'm hungry, balance my checkbook and to try to learn some of the local customs and language.
And........ there's really nothing like getting some first hand knowledge about a power of attorney from a guy dress up like Thomas Jefferson.

:bawling: 'Sniff... Those were the days.

P.S. How can I be out of money again!!!!???? Look at all these checks in my checkbook!!!!!!!!!

 

[AlbieF15]

Sitting around in the Desert...Gulf War I...living in an M113. After a month of this, whenever the AFN radio would blare one of its inane ads, I trained my team to vent their frustrations by yelling "F- YOu! We DO what we WANT!"

It was small solice, but there were days it was good for a laugh, and those were in short supply at the time.

 

[Fins Up]

The one I hated the most was about not leaving your laundry unattended in the machines. There was some horrible hummed music to go along with it that made the whole thing worse.

I considered recording an entire tape of them to bring home to the wife but decided that would be cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[Laughing_Jakal]

I always liked the one that said, "Don't sit in your dorm room, get depressed, give away your belongings and kill yourself...go out and enjoy the local culture"

How does that play in the AOR these days?

 

[Laughing_Jakal]

The one about not beating your wife cause she'll be happier and look better too was good. Usually followed by the one that encouraged the dependents to go out and lose some weight.

 

[Oh-ryan]

I really don't have a specific commerical I like, but rather a favorite genre of commercials. The "Shaping of America" stuff was priceless (I can still hear James Earl Jones' voice as that guy's hand chiseled away at Maine at the end) - also "State Quiz"... great for drinking games...if you didn't know the answer by the time they announced what the state capital was you had to do a funnel.

And everone's favorite... the Status of Forces Agreement infomercials... ahh sweet, sweet SOFA... where would we be without ya? How's the SOFA in Iraq coming along... oh nevermind, I'll just assume if you do something wrong you are handed over to the insurgents and have your noggin lopped off.

 

[Tanker Clown]

The Silent Killer

How can we forget the "Silent Killer?" It's the one where they show the soda machine. If you shake the sh!t out of it trying to get your coke it will fall on you and kill you. I'm not sure how any of us survived to adulthood without that one.

 

[scoreboard]

The Girls gone wild commercials, yeah baby!!!!!! Oh, that wasn't on AFN.

 

[KarmaPolice]

thank goodness for late night German T.V. to take away the pain though!!

 

[Fins Up]

thank goodness for late night German T.V. to take away the pain though!!

Free late night porn???

 

[scoreboard]

Pretty much...moe like soap opera without the sheets.

 

[SMOOTHRIDE]

Wasn't there one that had some lady saying: "That's sexual harrasment, and I don't have to take it" --- I quoted that alot... especially to that one crew who had the rainbow deployment patch.

 

[Fins Up]

Not an AFN commercial but I am reminded of the old Navy sexual harassment video with the famous line, "Are those ribbons mounted?"

 

[stupidpilot]

I'd have to go with the two guys dressed up as Romans, eating and drinking and talking about how great life is. Then getting led off to slavery because they were engaged in "Fraude Waste and Abuse". Who the F*** makes this stuff?

Funny, That's how I view the whole AFN concept. How about the money going to equipment, training, and the troops instead of wasting it on an unecessary tv network.

 

[ExAF]

Posture Police

Don't forget the "Posture Police" from the 80's. That was a real winner.

 

[Huggyu2]

Do y'all think that the Flag Officers watch TV and think "Wow, these commercials are really good. I'm going to let them keep doing them, because they are very effective." I would think some big-wig would use their authority to make some changes to AFN.

 

[Benhuntn]

I always liked the commercial for football games that were played a week ago.

 

[dtfl]

I guess we need a video on why and how we should wear our gay reflective belts...reasons?
"1. The PT gear isn't reflective enough"
"2. So the snipers can see us..."
"3. So the dumb*ss Msgts who deploy once in the war to get their bronze star for running the Services Tent can see us to scream at us for wearing out-of-reg black fleece jackets"
"4. So we won't get run over by the vehicles doing 15mph around camp (Why 15 mph? Because the cops are ticketing our own people - even on base in Iraq<-honest truth)"

Warrior Monks......

It was LIT that sang the song "It's no surprise to me...I am my own worst enemy...."

 

[MarineGrunt]

"2. So the snipers can see us..."

They don't have you guys wearing reflective belts in country, do they?

 

[rod farva]

What about Squeakers getting hacked by Cat Hacker Central. A real gem.

 

[Deuce130]

They don't have you guys wearing reflective belts in country, do they?

At Balad AB, yes. All times during darkness or bad weather. Every once in awhile they'll have dudes checking for them at the entrance to the chow halls. No belt = no meal. Rules are more relaxed in the SOF compound.

 

[dtfl]

At Balad AB, yes. All times during darkness or bad weather. Every once in awhile they'll have dudes checking for them at the entrance to the chow halls. No belt = no meal. Rules are more relaxed in the SOF compound.

Th WOC NCOIC told me he went to the BX in his new AF RELECTIVE PT gear to buy a reflective belt and the uniform nazi at the door woldnt let him in to buy a reflective belt because he didnt have one on...(although he was in the full PT gear - the suit and all which is reflective)

Some folks just don't see the forest for the trees.

 

[Fins Up]

Wearing reflective belts around the base in a war zone is the most ridiculous thing I ever saw. I think the Air Force started that. You guys have some great facilities but also some queer rules. No offense.