A few readers spoke, and millions more probably intended to but never got around to it, and finally the winners have become clear to me! The best and worst ads of 2009 are…

Best: The Shake Weight!

Worst: Windows 7 Launch Party!

I couldn’t have picked better winners myself! The Windows 7 Launch Party ads were truly horrendous, and the Shake Weight has provided us all with hours of unintentional entertainment. Worthy recipients, these.

Thanks for voting!!

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.