TV ads that annoy...

[Needs2know]

This is so I wouldn't get off topic on the "Do the new anti-smoking ads piss you off" thread. Naw! I haven't seen any of the "blow up" ads, just the PC police roaming an affluent neighborhood with the bull horn....

My favorite "get right on your last nerve ad" The new and loudly annoying West Side Story-esque Gap ad. This ad is at least two notches louder than the regular scheduled program. Not to mention the fact that it is just jarring, period. But then I also have to laugh at the Gap-rip-off Target ads. I saw the oriental girl, the one from the little motor scooter ads. She's on that boring women's show, can't think of the name, is it "The Edge" or something stupid like that? Anyway, she interviewed as to why she did the Target ads. Said she wanted American to see an oriental woman not walking 3 feet behind some white guy, or something to that effect. I almost laughed out loud. Why didn't she just fess up and say...They paid me! Jeez! It's a frigging ad for pedal pushers, not a social commentary! (Oh yeah, that's right, they're called capri pants now aren't they?) Damn me!

Needs2know

[ultress]

My all time hated commercial was the one for Shake 'n Bake. Geesh I wanted to ring that little girl's neck every time I heard her say, "and I helped". Yea, right. Let me help you. I know it's an old commercial, but I've seen it on Nick at Night and some of the TV stations that show the old sitcoms. It still sends a chill through me.

[Eve]

The current series that has me lunging for the MUTE button is for Sherwin Williams paint, with the tone-deaf Bob Dylan-type lady wailing, "Hey, can ya tell me where I can paint the world . ." or something like that. She's got a voice that could STRIP paint, not sell it.

[sulla]

This didn't just annoy me, it really pissed me off.

During the news this morning I saw an ad that I absolutely could not believe ... for the new gold dollar. I was rushing around and didn't catch the whole thing, but it had some guy with George Washington's face sitting in the back of a cab or something, talking. What the hell??

WHY are they advertising this? Hasn't it gotten enough press already? TV ads cost money, and aren't they supposed to generate revenue? Is there something going on with this new coin that I'm missing? Are these ads paid for by WalMart, or what?

Come to think of it, the same thing goes for ads for stamps, and for the post office. Our tax dollars pay for this. I don't know about you, but I want my money back, goddamnit!

-Sulla

[Milossarian]

I'll sign a contract with the devil, committing to drinking Pepsi products for all eternity, if they'll make that horrible little brunette girl and her horrible little acting and those horribly made commercials with their horrible "bah-bah bah-bah-bah song" go away.

[Greyson3]

Three words: Welches Grape Juice.

And I think I speak for everybody in the Western World when I say that if I ever found out where that goddamned Pepsi Girl lived, I would choke her so hard her head caves in. I got your fuckin' Pepsi right here, bitch.

Now I feel better.

[jab1]

I don't much like the 1-800-COLLECT ads with David Arquette acting like a moron. And I use their service!

[MysterEcks]

Budweiser has had a series of commercials with people going "AHHHHHHHHH!" at each other. Then at the end it says "Budweiser. True." I have no idea what it means, other than MysterEcks protests by drinking Coors.

[vandal]

I agree with jab1. The 1-800-COLLECT ads with David Arquette are fuckin' annoying.

And now, Adam Corolla from Loveline is doing them too. I don't remember if it's for 1-800-COLLECT or 1-800-CALLATT, but the fact that he has stooped to that level is pathetic.

[Kricket]

Two words

Dae Woo

I don't know if you guys get the same commercials as we do for our local car dealers, but this one takes the cake!

[Biggirl]

The ads for a mini-van, I don't remember which one, with the curly-haired smiley lady. She takes her daughter to soccor practice in the mini-van in one ad. In another I believes she goes shopping. I hate that fake smiley, laughey lady.

There is dot.com commercial that shows a lady standing on a NY street corner asking for the time and everyone ignores her. This just would not happen. She would get 20 responses, all different and all wrong.

[Spoke]

I hate all of these ads featuring cute animals with computer animated mouths. Seems like every damn pet food/kitty litter commercial these days features one of these post-Babe-the-Talking-Pig anthropomorphic nightmares. Nauseatingly "cute".

[SINsApple]

If you hate commercials, and don't we all, check out this site. Some of these people damn near make we wet my pants with laughter.

Commercial Haters (http://www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/2527/geobook.html)

[Rosethorn]

Along with that damn pepsi girl (my friends neice looks JUST like her...I always turn down babysitting for her because I am afraid I will let my inner urges out and I will kill her) I HATE those commercials with that Bob's furniture guy...I think that they are only shown locally, but they are THE WORST! I cannot stand that fucking moron.

[Merbie]

I hate all of these ads featuring cute animals with computer animated mouths. Seems like every damn pet food/kitty litter commercial these days features one of these post-Babe-the-Talking-Pig anthropomorphic nightmares. Nauseatingly "cute".



Aaaargh! Now I have that Advantage jingle in my head!
("Fleas, fleas, Advantage kills the fleas")
:mad:

[Initial Entry]

The commercial the really disturbs me is the one for that juice pack. (Sunkist maybe?) It's basically one long series of disturbing sexual innuendo- targetted at children. I shudder every time I hear "Punch the pack," or "I've got a big mouth, which makes me easier to get into."

[Grendel69]

I love sushi. I am addicted. SO when Terry Bradshaw does a 1-800-COLLECT or 1-800-CALLATT ( I can never tell the difference. I alternate in using them so as to confuse 'em) and claims "You forgot to cook this!", I feel the need to explain to him via a shovel upside the head that he is a HICK!!!!!!!!!!

[ponch]

What's so eff-ing extreme about goddamn soda. I much prefer the way old ad campaign with the ...give me a mountain with nothing to dojingle...that made me want to drink the slop.....

[Geet]

Greyson3, you're right about the Welch's ads. Ick.

What about the "Pepsi One" ad where the people are sitting at a table on a ferry, and as it rocks back & forth, they drink out of each other's cans of Coke or Pepsi One as they slide back & forth on the table? Not only is that a stupid commercial, but the idea of sucking on someone else's backwash is totally disgusting. Gag.

[Marlitharn]

Three words: William Shatner singing.

And I saw a new Pepsi ad tonight that unearthed latent homicidal tendencies in my psyche. Follow the bounching Pepsi ball and sing along with...a Polka! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

[Danielinthewolvesden]

I actually kinda like the singing pet commercials.
But some other bad ones : that german car co, that always shows its cars spraying gutter water on the poor serfs, while they look on inappreciation. If some asshole with a nazimobile sprayed gutter water on me, I WOULD look on in appreciation--I'd appreciate how my brick just smashed his windshield.

Another series is my local NBC affiliate: whenever they have aspecial or miniseries coming up, they run SO many ads for it, that by the time for it rolls aroud, we loathe the damn thing, no matter what it was.

Or how about the Japanese car co that shows it's SUV playing polo: by tearing the hell out of some nice scenery. Shows that too many SUV owners are assholes.

[NothingMan]

We all have to see them - the local, low budget, idiotic comeercials.

They will be on "the list".

[Mister Armageddon]

There's a particularly annoying commercial that I've seen a lot of lately, although I'm not sure if it's just a local ad or not. Basically, this blonde with really bad looking short hair starts talking to this other woman, and brags about how she's been to Mexico on vacation, and how she tries to go there once or twice a year. She then goes on to say it's because her job gives her a lot of freedom, and finally the other woman asks her what she does for a living. Her response?

"Oh, I'm a hairstylist!"

Yeah, RIGHT. We're supposed to believe that not only does this bitch get enough time off to take two vacations a year, but has enough money to stay in freaking Acapulco? In the meantime, if she's so great at her job, then why is her hair so damn lousy looking?

This is, of course, an ad for a hairstyling (oh excuse me, cosmetology) school, and I really hope the people attending it don't believe a word of what this commercial is trying to tell them.

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

This is not a TV ad that I remember. I've only heard about it.

Back in the early 60s (or even earlier) there was a Clark Bar commercial with a talking camel!

Never understood what the connection was between camels and Clark Bars. (Are Clark Bars even around anymore?)

[vandal]

Oh yeah, the priceline.com commercials with William Shatner... how could I forget...

There is a lot of positive feedback for this commercial, but I don't see how that could be. Why does everyone like this commercial? I mean, am I the only one who didn't watch T.J. Hooker and Star Trek? Does Shatner have that strong a following? What the FUCK is going on?

[pepperlandgirl]

I love the commercials with Shatner singing. They crack me up everytime.
Mister Armageddon. I'm glad I'm not the only one who loaths the stupid hairstylist commercial.
I really hated the SUV one with people playing polo the first time I saw it, because I thought "Who would EVER do that?" THen the last bit says "Not that you would, but you could." Which amused me a lil bit.
THe rest of the previous mentioned commericials, I AGREE completely.
THere is one I remember from a few years ago, when I lived in Utah. THe Beni Hana commercial with some cook saying "And this month is Managers Treat Month." (Whatever that is) That in itself was not annoying, but I swear to God, for five years every month was Managers Freaking Treat Month!

[Greyson3]

I, uh, didn't see the Herbal Essences commercials (you know, with the freaky lady who is, umm, a little toosatisfied with her shampoo, and in a public court or supermarket, no less) mentioned yet. Those are fucking vile.

Lately, the Pepsi commercials with the Einstein lookalike have pissed me off. The man was a goddamn brilliant pioneer in the field of physics, and what does he get after he dies? An ad that has him endorsing a bottle of fizzy sugar water. That is very tasteless indeed.

[taychris21]

The Dos Equis commercials or Old Spice seem very similar but Old Spice bothers me while I really enjoy the Dos Equis commercial. Still it feels like when Armageddon and Deep Impact came out at the same time.

[Smeghead]

I was feeling proud of myself for avoiding commercials so much that I didn't recognize any of them. Then I realized this thread is ten years old.

[SteveG1]

I actually kinda like the singing pet commercials.
But some other bad ones : that german car co, that always shows its cars spraying gutter water on the poor serfs, while they look on inappreciation. If some asshole with a nazimobile sprayed gutter water on me, I WOULD look on in appreciation--I'd appreciate how my brick just smashed his windshield.
That could be a commercial right there.

SPLASH!

SMASH!

Home Depot. We got your bricks, Right here. SMASH! :cool:

[SteveG1]

Oh yeah, the priceline.com commercials with William Shatner... how could I forget...

There is a lot of positive feedback for this commercial, but I don't see how that could be. Why does everyone like this commercial? I mean, am I the only one who didn't watch T.J. Hooker and Star Trek? Does Shatner have that strong a following? What the FUCK is going on?

Is that the Price Negotiator one, with some giant named Big Deal? :dubious:

[The Tao's Revenge]

I was feeling proud of myself for avoiding commercials so much that I didn't recognize any of them. Then I realized this thread is ten years old.

It was good for some nostalgia though. I completely forgot about those herbal essences commercials. Just where was she putting that shampoo?

[Canadjun]

I was feeling proud of myself for avoiding commercials so much that I didn't recognize any of them. Then I realized this thread is ten years old.

And I was about to complain that the link in #13 doesn't work. Gee! I wonder why?

[Captain_C]

Apply directly to the forehead!

[BrotherCadfael]

This has to be the oldest zombie I have ever seen. I was reading through, wondering if the 1-800-COLLECT ads were even still on, and then noticed the date.

[Mr. Miskatonic]

And yet Shatner is still shilling for priceline!

Countdown to zombie being shot in the head in 3..2..

[runner pat]

This has to be the oldest zombie I have ever seen. I was reading through, wondering if the 1-800-COLLECT ads were even still on, and then noticed the date.

There've been a couple of recent revivals going back to 1999.

[weaselwatcher]

Haven't seen this one in a bit, thank the baby J, but that ugly dude BOB with the happy-ass smile on his face because he had a boner and a girl.....

And yeah, this is my first post on this board, tho I've been lurking a while....

[kopek]

As a class, contingency fee lawyers. I don't like them very much as people but their ads I fucking hate. "Hurt? Think you were hurt? Don't know if you think you were hurt? We'll get money for you and its all free!"

Specific ad - I want to kill that one little Geico piggy all the way home. Even in his home. I just want him dead.

[BubbaDog]

Zombies take note - you live longer if you resurrect on a holiday weekend

[aruvqan]

Specific ad - I want to kill that one little Geico piggy all the way home. Even in his home. I just want him dead.

mmm bacon

bacon bacon bacon

[Acid Lamp]

I like to watch cartoons so I get some aimed at the kiddos. "Spaceman Stu" and his happy meal can fly themselves into the nearest singularity. I just want to fucking watch Spongebob. Also, all the "go to school!" and "hurt?, mesothelioma?, doctor killed your baby? " lawyer ads as well.

[Miller]

This thread should really be in Cafe Society, but since it's so old it actually predates CS, I'm going to close it instead of moving it.