The first time I saw this Verizon ad, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why the nerdy kid looked so familiar. But as a big fan of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, it wasn’t long before I remembered him as Zack’s socially-challenged classmate from the summer school episode (“Summer of Our Discontent”). A quick internet search confirmed that he is one and the same (at least according to Wikipedia and Yahoo! Answers). Great to see that he’s getting work, since he was so memorable on Zack & Cody.

The final entry in our list of the worst ads of the year is the series of Windows 7 “Launch Party” infomercials. Just. Awful.

I don’t know if Windows is trying to be tongue in cheek or what, but their recent ads have been pretty lame. There’s more humor in a Magic Bullet ad, and even if the ad were funny, computer shit is boring. Nobody is going to throw a launch party for Windows 7, so basically, they’re just sitting there wasting our time, for no reason other than to be creepy.

I kind of like this fake action movie trailer from Microsoft, entitled “Office 2010: The Movie.” It’s way too long and there aren’t very many good jokes in it, but at least it’s well made.

Via AdFreak