In Denver, too. I had no idea that this was a national problem! :eek:
There’s a Skittles commercial here that makes me want to vomit every time I see it, and I have sworn never to eat Skittles again!!! It’s a job-interview type situation, and the interviewer is a woman. She makes a little small take with the guy being interviewed. He has a huge long grey beard that looks like mouse fur, and he’s feeding himself Skittles from an open bag on her desk WITH THE BEARD! She then says that they’re really looking for someone with more experience, and he says, “Experience” in a weird tone of voice as his beard puts a Skittle in her mouth.
Barf! Barf! Barf! :<<<<<<<<<
These are all FOX Sports commercials. The same themes are used here in Detroit for the Pistons, Tigers, and Wings. The difference is, of course, that two of those three teams are definately worth watching, and the Tigers are climbing toward respectability, too. 
Back on the tampon tangent:
That commerical where “Its an Ordinary Day”. It shows women doing regular activities, reading, jogging, working on easel, jackhammering… WTF? How many women operate jackhammers that this qualifies for a target audience?
Which makes me wonder:
If I used that tampon, could I operate a jackhammer? On a regular basis, or just when on my period? What would I do the rest of the time? Would I just be oily and sweaty like that woman?
That is bizarre. I can’t imagine who thought that would sell more skittles. Makes me wonder if it is the same ad agency who thought up the Quiznos raise-by-wolves commercial.
Mentos commercials: WTF?
As with previous poster, I hate, hate, hate (with the intensity of a hundred thousand million suns) the $150 weight loss pills. Especially when that snotty woman says “these are so powerful, they are not for the casual dieter!” Now they have a generic knock-off of the original (Leptopril?) and play the original ad within the new ad. I change the channel every time.
Gah! Makes me angry and tense just to think about these ads :mad:
That one’s actually sheer genius. You have to admire their balls for that one. Obviously, the company selling the “generic” is exactly the same company that’s selling the “original.” I’m sure they’re exactly the same product, too. But damn me if they didn’t come up with a fairly clever way to drum up interest and then cash in on it.
They’re reprehensible slimeballs, of course, but crafty reprehensible slimeballs.
It sure is the same company . . . which brings up the whole question of how they can sell a “generic” of a drug that isn’t FDA-approved and therefore isn’t really a name-brand drug anyway. Balls, indeed!
The toilet paper commmercial where there’s a bear family, all shaking their asses in our face and having orgasms about the softness of the damned stuff.
There used to be another toilet paper commercial, featuring real people who also shook their booties and the over voice was about how clean their cracks were.
vomit city.
The laundry detergent ads that talk about protein stains–we make a point of yelling at the TV–yo! you’re talking about blood --say it!
Charmin (can you tell I dislike the way tp is marketed?)
Orange juice–if I had to reach thru the display case that far and then someone’s hand gave me a container, I’d freak out–or at least tell the manager.
Magazine ads–every last nail polish and make up ad. Yes, I’m on to you make up peole–you change the names of the blush/eyeshadow/polish/lipstick–it’s the same damned colors, year after year–there is NOTHING new about them… :rolleyes:
Car ads–the one where the woman drives and lightpoles fall down, guard rails smash and yet, oddly enough, her car is unscathed. What is that? Driving in the Twilight Zone?
And (dregging back into memory banks)–the TV ad about TVs with the spokeswoman who said, “I’m Rula Lenska” and who the f*ck are you at home?
Oh-and the other one who said, “don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”–ok, I’ll hate you because you’re a conceited ass?
You know why the Air New Zealand campaigns don’t have a song called “I Still Call New Zealand Home”? Because they couldn’t find anyone to sing it with a straight face… 
I’ll get my coat…
Actually, I don’t- but I don’t watch much telly to begin with, since it’s largely crap here anyway…
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QANTAS: I don’t care how extravagant and expensive the TV ads were to make, the syrupy patriotism gets a bit much. Makes me want to fly Emirates or something. Or gasp Air New Zealand.
Everytime I see that creture lift that big toenail, I hear Loudon Wainwright singing “Chop off a toe, a foot, or take a whole leg.” While I would do before using that product to treat any toe fungus.
2 local anti-smoking commercials …one featuring an 9 year old girl and her dying mother that starts " I can’t say that I want to be like my Mom because then everyone would think I want to start smoking when I’m 10"…just rubs me the wrong way, like there is nothing more to Mom’s indentity than “smoker” and that negates all her other qualities…the other is scare commercial with some guy “that is dying from cigarettes” going about how horrible and scary and painful chemo and radiation treatments are. This one really pisses me off because these treatments can be difficult and lots of people have to take them and for the most part it’s not their fault and the last thing they and theiramilies need is some commercial deliberately making this stuff seem really horrific. I’m tempted to buy a pack and light up in front of Bloomberg’shouse even though I don’t smoke.
The other is a local commercial for some upscale titty bar, it starts with pictires of the Venus De Milo and other artworks while the narrator natters on about how much canvas and stone has been dedicated to the age old pursuit of glorifying the female form and how the tradition comtinues on the West Side of Manhattan…cut from art works to hard looking siliconed striippers with more blather about fine dining, fine women, find art and,in case anyone is really tricked into thinking this is some classy place, they close with the tag line " in the LAP of luxury".
Yep, those smack of tacky. I don’t like scare tactics in commercials. I feel the same way about the Allstate commercials that show actual accidents happening (I have a post about it somewhere on here).
Oh, and welcome to the SDMB.
Canadian Tire got rid of the world’s most clueless neighbor? I loved that guy.
My vote for most annoying commercial is for a regional mattress chain called Shit and Sleep, no wait that’s Sit and Sleep. Anyway all of these commercials on radio go the same way, they have Larry the CEO and Irwin the CFO or CPA. Larry talks about how they are cutting prices and Irwin whines that they are going broke, and how he is going crazy from Larry’s price-cutting. The spot always ends with Irwin screaming,
"Cause your killing me LAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYY!!!"
I am guessing that these are the actual CEO and CFO, as nobody would hire two actors that have voices that are that horrible and annoying.
I probably won’t be the first to comment, but…
The coke song actually came first, but because it was so popular they re-released as a pop song.
This is the link here!
I really have the Musinex commercials with the mucous creature living in your lungs. Bleh.
Glad to be here, I was a regular years ago on the AOL board.
And I just wanted to add that my spelling is usually not that horrendous, when I was typing that last post I did something that put me into that annoying “overwrite” mode whcih made it impossible to correct errors without retyping everything and I couldn’t get out of it.
Barbara
There were two car commercials that got to me. One was the guy who froze to death in his convertable, and the other was the one where the mother implied that the younger sister was conceived in the car.
Both left me with the thought, I don’t want to sit on those seats!
Try hitting your insert button on your keyboard (should be next to the backspace key) and that should clear it up.
sorry for the hijack.