ANY commercial (most common on radio, but you see them on TV as well) that features a jingle that’s just new words slapped onto a popular or classic song.
“I’d like to buy the world a Coke…” :mad:
I’m glad I’m not the only one who hated those commericals.
I’ve got Tivo so most ads bother me at this point.
-The creepy Burger King guy. That soulless grin definitely wouldn’t make me want to eat at Burger King.
-The Gatorade commercials with the green/orange/whatever sweat. What’s wrong with those people?
-McDonalds commercials. All of them. So cute, so ethnically diverse, so politically correct about crappy fried food.
-Local car commercials. In Charlottesville VA they have a dealership called Jim Price Chevrolet that runs annoying commercials throughout the day on just about every radio station, and some on TV too. I turn the station every time they come on. I drove down to NC a couple years ago and that SAME GUY was doing commercials for dealerships down there. How far has this spread???!?
-Feminine hygeine commercials. We don’t need to hear about this stuff.
-Any online ad that pops up, makes noise, or otherwise grabs attention.
I could go on.
That creepy plastic Burger King King.
I’ve sworn that I won’t eat there until they take those commericals off the air. Luckily, a Carls Jr. is closer anyway, and tastes better as well.
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Nope, there’s an NBA commercial on here (Houston) with the exact same tag line and activities, only it’s urging us all to get on “Rockets time.” I smell a conspiracy.
Who decided it was a good idea to demonstrate the absorbency of their tampon or maxi by pouring that obligatory blue liquid into it? I’d love to see an ad where they poured a cup of gazpacho into the Always with Wings, then wrung it out to show how it doesn’t leak even on heavy days.
…or covers half the fucking screen, and you have to hunt to find the tiny because if you click anywhere else, it redirects you to Fox or Singles.com or Miller Lite.
Except, HPL, you’ve just reminded me of the one thing that is worse in all ways than the Burger King, it is the Carl’s Jr. fetus!
There’s a commercial for an SUV. The dad has spent 4 weekends building a treehouse and the bratty child asks, “does it have leather seats? does it have a DVD player?”
I want to say, “get the *#^% out of my car kid”, but the dad walks away -defeated by a 6 year old.
In this advert, the Snuggle bear gets his come-uppance…
this ad was actually banned in the US shortly after being aired, apparently the makers of the fabric softener didn’t take kindy to it…
You ought to take a look at the Gatorade Conspiracy. You’ll never look at those ads the same way again. :lol:
How the heck do you ban an ad? I could argue some sort of copyright/trademark infringement (that bear dropping into the basket of towels is too reminiscent of another company) but not an outright ban.
My daughter, who turns one this weekend, has decided she hates ads of all kinds. She’s taken to going through magazines, ripping out the ads, crumpling up the pages and throwing them away. She leaves the articles though.
I’m so proud 
Smart little girl you have there, Barbarian
as far as the Battletanx ad goes, somehow the Snuggle company was able to get it pulled, not sure how, but it lasted a couple weeks at best…
I absolutely loathe this a local car commercial for Carolina Ford with the goofy trying-to-hard-to-look-hip band featuring an annoying blonde female singer belting out an even more annoying jingle with the obnoxious line, “BEEP! BEEP!”
Sadly, I actually goggled it. Even sadder than that was finding out it is a real band with an actual singing career. Wow. Here, share my pain.
I. HATE. That. Commercial. Makes the Zoom Zoom kid look positively angelic in comparision.
And I’ve always wondered if Digger the Dermataphyte actually managed to decrease sales of Lamisil or not. I’m guessing not since they’ve apparently relaunched that same ad campaign lately. :dubious:
I must admit, I don’t even know what product is being advertised by my current least favorite commercial. However, as soon as I notice what it is, I will make haste not to buy it. There are actually a couple of different versions, but basically it’s a girl in a room full of people, who suddenly turns to one of the others and says, “You. Stick that ham down your pants.” The guy does so, and the girl turns to someone else and says, “You. Go flush your head in the toilet” or something of the sort. She just commands everyone to do these humiliating things and they do. The punchline to the commercial is something about what it would be like if the whole world was just dedicated to your entertainment. I find it very mean-spirited and depressing.
Any food commercial where the food gets all over someone’s face or hands just really turns my stomach.
Also, any commercial with a lot of flashing lights or rapid cuts. I’m thinking specifically here of the Checkers commercials, which feature some moron chanting, “you gotta eat!” while they fire approximately 600 unrelated images at you plus a couple of pictures of burgers. I don’t fucking “gotta” eat Checkers, I know that much.
The Pillbury Doughboy (“Poppin’ Fresh”) is first, isn’t he? My father has a phobia about him.
The one with the guy sucking on the wolf’s teat didn’t do them any favors either.
The Hardee’s commercials take the cake. The girl truck driver one is supposed to be sexy, but it’s just disgusting.
I hate those ads. Actually, I hate any ad that presents its product as a fail-proof way of attracting mindless, shallow women. Every time an ad for razors or after-shave or body spray for men comes on, I tell my son, “It doesn’t matter what you shave with or what after-shave you use, a woman with quality is looking for a good personality and how well you treat her.”
He’s nine. He rolls his eyes at me and says, “I know, Mom. ::sigh:: You tell me that every time!”
One of my favorites
2 words I have come to hate…
ZANTREX THREE!!!
Q: When are diet pills worth $150 a bottle?
A: When they really work.
BZZZZZZZ!! Wrong answer.
A: When there are suckers out there that will spend $150 a bottle and when there is someone with balls big enough to charge $150 a bottle.
DING! DING! DING!
It sounds like a another very similar commercial with a guy doing the same thing. It has this one funny part when the guy says, ‘You. Shake your junk.’ This lady–who, trust me, you do NOT want shaking her junk–gets up and starts, well, shaking her junk. I believe the commercial’s for a video game or maybe just a console. . .Nintendo, maybe?