Commericals that bother you for silly reasons.

[Jophiel]

I guess "bother" isn't the right word but Lincoln has car commercials with John Slattery, obviously playing off his panache as Roger Sterling from Mad Men.

Each time I see one, I mentally append "...And with a free copy of Sterling's Gold in each glove box" which means I don't take the commercial seriously at all. Not that I'm in the market for a Lincoln anyway.

*Sterling's Gold being the title of Sterling's self-published and unsold memoirs.

[freckafree]

Ooh! Ooh! I just heard the other one that drives me nuts: The Kay Jeweler ads for the Leo Diamond: "The first diamond ever certified to be visibly brighter." Visibly brighter than what?!?? A dark closet? A lump of coal? A cloudy day?

[theotherwatcher]

I was intrigued as well and did some research. Her name is Lisa Keys. It turns out she works for Spec's. There is a YouTube where she is talking about their products. She's really smart. She's also Spec Jackson's granddaughter Once you know who she is, it makes more sense that she's the central character.

[tullsterx]

Originally Posted by Biggirl

Yeup, right in the middle of the big red blotch.

P.S. People in Nevada don't have lines or don't talk?

Yeah, and what do the "other" people do? . . . I guess they go to Stamps.com!

[TBG]

Recently a couple of car commercials have really bugged me, both for the typical "do not attempt" warnings.

Now, that's in plenty of car commercials, sure, but in the first, this was incredibly dumb because the car in question wasn't doing anything. No jumps, no acting like a skateboard, no crashing through walls. It was just driving down a city street. Oooh, it made a right turn, put up the disclaimer again! Don't want people attempting right turns! Damn thing wasn't even speeding...

The second, has some ludicrous plot about a planet of babies (human and animal) parachuting to earth or something (yeah, makes me want to buy a car!). Who the fuck has the means and desire to attempt to duplicate such a commercial? And if someone did, do you really think your disclaimer will stop such an insane criminal mastermind?

[terentii]

Anything having to do with constipation, feminine hygiene products, painful rectal itch, the heartbreak of psoriasis, or beautiful feet. Can't imagine why....

[terentii]

Oh, yeah: anything connected with "the pain ... the ITCH ... of hemmorhoids."

[janis_and_c0]

The lady in the Kashi commercial has the wirerdest teeth. It looks like she has fangs. For some reason, I find this really disturbing.

[Jackmannii]

Originally Posted by Biggirl

Then there's Ageless Male. This commercial runs a lot on all the science channels late at night, which leads me to believe I have the viewing habits of a 60 year old guy

Tune in to the Military Channel. You'll love the catheter ads.

[Irishman]

Originally Posted by theotherwatcher

I was intrigued as well and did some research. Her name is Lisa Keys. It turns out she works for Spec's. There is a YouTube where she is talking about their products. She's really smart. She's also Spec Jackson's granddaughter Once you know who she is, it makes more sense that she's the central character.

"What chu talkin' about, Willis?"

[cher3]

There's one on locally where this guy is getting a lesson from his sentient iPad on how Cox Communications can help him watch TV from anywhere in his house.

At the end he asks his iPad how it knows so much about Cox.

[janis_and_c0]

I used to do tech support for them. Cox jokes allllllll the time!

[Biggirl]

Originally Posted by Jackmannii

Tune in to the Military Channel. You'll love the catheter ads.

The ones with the smooth holes so they don't hurt going in-- and less infections too!

[ioioio]

Heidi Klum is currently featured in a commercial for some hair product. She has over an inch of dark roots in her blonde hair. The roots are so big and dark that they're all I can look at. How much did they pay this woman to hawk their hair care product,and she couldn't be bothered to get a roots touch up?

This is the commercial that claims they were "working at the wrong end of hair" for decades. So this company sold us faulty products for a long time and now we're supposed to believe they've got it right?

Hmmmm . . . if the product is working at the scalp end, maybe it's causing Heidi's dark roots.

[Butcher Cook]

I'm not sure if this one has been mentioned, but there is a commercial for some sort of small hand-held vacuum device which sucks out your troublesome ear wax. In the commercial they show some dork going about his business of cleaning his ears with q-tips and the voiceover guy says something like, "Q-tips not only push the wax deeper into the ear, but they can be painful as well.

Right on cue, the idiot drives the q-tip into his ear with the force of Thor and he screams in agony, reeling backwards as if a red-hot poker had been driven straight into his brain.

I have to turn the channel as the guy is screaming.

[Chanteuse]

Originally Posted by Butcher Cook

Right on cue, the idiot drives the q-tip into his ear with the force of Thor and he screams in agony, reeling backwards as if a red-hot poker had been driven straight into his brain.

Yeah, I can't stand that one either. I told my husband that a person that stupid and clumsy shouldn't be in control of his own breathing.

[ioioio]

I'm sure one is far less likely to injure one's self with an ear vacuum device bought from a TV commercial .

[Infovore]

I don't like the current one for Fish McBites from McDonald's where the guy has this trophy on his wall with a whole bunch of little talking fish (picture a wooden plaque with a bunch of tiny Big Mouth Billy Bass models on it). Silly reason I don't like it: because the guy has another trophy down below that with the head of something that looks like a lynx or a bobcat.

Not crazy about the implication that the guy killed a cat and mounted its head on his wall.

Plus, I think "Fish McBites" is a stupid name for a product. :P

[Mrs_Ducky]

The Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials where the cereal squares are licking and eating each other in a bowl of milk, I just find really creepy. My husband laughs at me everytime that commerical runs.

[MsWhatsit]

Originally Posted by ioioio

Heidi Klum is currently featured in a commercial for some hair product. She has over an inch of dark roots in her blonde hair. The roots are so big and dark that they're all I can look at. How much did they pay this woman to hawk their hair care product,and she couldn't be bothered to get a roots touch up?

This is a thing.

[Fluffy PickleSniffer]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Ducky

The Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials where the cereal squares are licking and eating each other in a bowl of milk, I just find really creepy. My husband laughs at me everytime that commerical runs.

Okay I just spent an enjoyable 10 minutes watching all the different ads for those - and I'm still laughing. They're great, even if they are little cannibals.

[Max the Immortal]

That Cascade "kitchen counselor" commercial were two (adult) sisters are for some reason unloading the dishwasher. One remarks on the cloudy glasses, the other responds, "You didn't have to come over."; enter the kitchen counselor. They just give off such a powerful bitch vibe; there's no way even a flawless dish detergent is going to forestall a fight between those two for more than a minute or two.

[Irishman]

Originally Posted by MsWhatsit

This is a thing.

For some inexplicable reason that page will not scroll for me. I managed to read it by decreasing page size, then increasing page size. Adjusting location of cursor made the zoom out/zoom in relocate the page.

But scrolling ain't workin'.

[terentii]

Originally Posted by Max the Immortal

That Cascade "kitchen counselor" commercial were two (adult) sisters are for some reason unloading the dishwasher. One remarks on the cloudy glasses, the other responds, "You didn't have to come over." Enter the kitchen counselor.

What I find amazing is that none of these women ever say "Who the hell are you, and what the fuck are you doing in my kitchen?!?"

[Enright3]

There was a commercial about a service that costs money aimed towards the small business person. It was probably some type of banking service. Regardless; one of the persons in the add was a woman who had a mannequin business; and she says something like, "...it it won't cost you... " then she holds up a mannequin arm and a mannequin leg. It would have been awesome if she stopped there; but NOOOO they had to dumb it down and after a pause she says "... and arm and a leg."

[Enright3]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Ducky

The Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials where the cereal squares are licking and eating each other in a bowl of milk, I just find really creepy. My husband laughs at me everytime that commerical runs.

Weird how people have different takes on things. The cannibal cereal cracks me up!

[KneadToKnow]

Originally Posted by Enright3

The cannibal cereal cracks me up!

It truly is what it eats.

[Cuckoorex]

The Geico pig commercials usually don't bother me, except the one where the pig and a girl are parked and it becomes obvious that she's wanting some, ah, white meat, so to speak. The pig of course is innocent and oblivious, and the girl is left wanting. Excuse me, YOU WERE WANTING TO GET PORKED BY PORK! Geico, bestiality isn't a good look for you.

[chizzuk]

I just saw a GE commercial where they were demonstrating some fancy ultrasound machine with a fake surgeon in a fake operating room with a fake nurse and patient. The doctor was trying to place a central line. The patient who was being operated on confused me because his face was covered in Saran wrap. Assuming this follows the same principle as "Don't stick your head in a plastic bag" I'm struggling to determine how this surgery will end well.

"Doctor, his pulse ox is 0 and this little wiggling line has gone flat, is that supposed to happen?"

[A Dodgy Dude]

I hate the pig in the GEICO commercials.

Seriously, what the hell in the connection between pigs and insurance?

[Infovore]

Originally Posted by A Dodgy Dude

I hate the pig in the GEICO commercials.

Seriously, what the hell in the connection between pigs and insurance?

I didn't used to hate him--I thought the original commercial with him riding in the SUV going "Wheeeeeee!" was kind of cute. But with each successive commercial I've disliked him more. The two current ones, where the girl in the car tries to make out with him and where he's on the airplane, do nothing for me at all.

I still kinda like the gecko, though. Go figure.