Watch as many television commercials as we have, and you begin to notice certain themes, people, and images cropping up again and again and again. As far as we're concerned, only the Energizer Bunny can get away with this sort of repetitive behavior. Consider this list of the worst offenders.

1 Basketball stars

2 Cindy Crawford

3 Linda Hunt voice-overs

4 Rodney Dangerfield

5 Cars being assembled by automotive automatons

6 Large mammals running in slow motion

7 Any kind of blue liquid poured onto a diaper or sanitary pad

8 Simulations/drawings of digestive tracts, nasal passages, or hair follicles

9 Fish-eye lenses pushed up against faces to make them look nerdy

10 People talking earnestly, to no one in particular, about banks or phone companies


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