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It's always been kind amusing to me that sports programs always have advertisements that I'm not interested in. I'm too old for their target audience, but still, am I going to buy beer, razors or cars based on a commercial? Don't think so. Or cell phones. Or financial services.

So this year so far, a few things have stood out. First is the endless repetition of the Fergie and Will I Am Direct TV commercials. We're not even halfway through the baseball playoffs yet and I must have seen that spot 50 times already. Stop it! Next, I want to know what the woman in the Symbacort commercial actually looks like. I know she exists only in silhouette and that she has glowing lungs and that medicine makes them change color, but I want to know if she has a face. And finally, I have grown to despise any commercial that has things talking that don't actually talk- animals, babies and the like, but I do love the Geico commercial with the talking pothole. I think it's the voice.

I've also decided I'm going to pretend that the commercials are the first few scenes of a movie and figure out what the rest of the movie will be like. So far I like the one where the harried housewife gets a putting green to walk on from Fidelity, and we then cut to a man, (her boyfriend or husband?), talking to his reflection about whether to take drugs for his ED, as they call it these days. Then a woman joins him. Is it the same woman? Hmmm. Hope they don't hit a pothole on their way home.