Watching the NBA Playoffs, I think the one item I've most debated ham nothing to do with LeBron James, the Dallas Mavericks, or anything basketball related, really. The actual question is this: who do I hate more, the Arby's Good Mood Food guy, or the T-Mobile 4G girl?





Now, if you haven't seen any of these commercials, you're probably going to go with the Arby's guy, because he's the most immediately annoying. The reasons are this: 1) He comes off (don't know if it's just him or because it's what Arby's wanted) as an insufferable hipster douchebag. 2) He poorly leads a completely annoying singalong. 3) We have to see his face in more commercials. (Pretty sure that spokesmen were supposed to be likable or at least have some sort of charm...) So really, this should be a no-brainer.

But the T-Mobile girl really annoys me, although it's taken months of constant exposure to her commercials and I'm not even really sure it's her fault. The one I posted above isn't really a good example of it, but a lot of the commercials are pretty much lifted straight from the Mac vs. PC series that ran a while ago (you know, the Apple ads where you always liked the PC guy better...), which is sort of a bad start. Again, they didn't really register with me for a while, because they were really unworthy of any attention.

But... something happened. I started seeing the girl pretty much everywhere, and she became the face of the brand. And people actually reacted positively to the commercials. Not that they thought she was a good spokeswoman, but rather... you know, they were attracted to her. But that's her only quality: she's good looking. To me, she seems to have a vacuum of a personality, and it's befuddling to me why she would be deemed the face of the brand when there's thousands of other attractive people with more charisma willing to whore their careers for an ad.

Actually, it pisses me off now. Why is she everywhere? Why do people like her and not see that she's rather boring? Why are all her commercials just her standing there not doing anything interesting? Why does this enrage me so?

Another thing working against her: she has this guy as a friend.



Although if Arby's doesn't sack this indie guy soon, he might become just as hated for me. (They should, though... because I think everyone hates him.)

4th quarter starting now...