Mais oui! I didn’t even know that we had French counterparts.
Although I certainly have seen my share of beavers on St. Catherine Street.
What does our investment company have in common with whales…
Not a damn thing thats what.
Ditto for Billy Mays. I watch TV with my finger on the Mute button, just in case.
Smiling Bob was funny the first 4956 times. Now it is a real pain. And for some reason the volume is always double the normal levels for that channel.
Oooh, I was hoping someone would start this thread!
Fucking Jared Jewelers!! They’re not everywhere in the US but we have several in the area and I hate hate hate their ads.
Always there’s a poor schlub who’s bought a diamond for his lady friend/wife to be/etc., and the woman’s family always sit around whispering to each other, “He went to Jared!” Old men slap the schlub on the back and say, “You went to Jared!” Other men fume with jealousy.
Never a “Congratulations!” or “Isn’t that sweet?” I mean, I know it’s a commercial, but GAAAAAAH!
I would have serious reservations about marrying a man who wanted to get rings at Jared.
Orbit gum. Those ads are horrendous.
Mac.
- I don’t want to be associated with that pompous tool.
- I don’t trust any product that out and out lies about the competition’s weaknesses the way these ads do.
Tag body spray. Axe is already using that marketing angle and doing it better.
I’ll ditto the HeadOn ads. You ever notice how it never says what it’s for? That’s because it doesn’t do a damn thing, and the government won’t allow them to claim anything. I think it’s like 95% beeswax, with a bit of that stuff in icy hot that makes the tingle.
Also, I hate hate hate the new Taco Bell commercials only because now they have a hispanic spokesperson. OOOH! AUTHENTIC!
Oh, and lol by the way, on the enzyte commercials, I love when the image of the three pieces of wood with the fingers pointing at it comes up. :rolleyes: We’ve kind of made it a game here to find as many dick symbols as possible in those ads.
Head On, Apply directly to the forehead!
I once saw this commercial 4 times in a row! Absolutely the most annoying thing I’ve ever seen on tv.
The Burger King is a little frightening to me.
Then there was that series of icky things singing off key about something for a sandwich shop. I hated it so bad I wouldn’t watch it and refuse to remember who it was for. How’s that for the imapct of negative advertising?
Cool! Did he really play the cowbell?
Well I have a certain grudging respect for the fact that they are now admiting how annoying their ads are. Thought the greater issue is they’re selling something that doesn’t do crap.
I always fantasize that the crowd all stare at the guy and then shout, “He went to Jared!? KILL HIM!” The rest of the (extended) commercial is the guy getting a family-sized beat down while his now ex-girlfriend cries tears of rage and spits on him.
I always imagined a MadTV skit-type parody of the advert where the ingrate-of-an-excuse-for-a-wife tosses an hors d’euvre into her husbands drink and stomps off without so much as even a reason as to why she’s irate for no real reason, all while his friends and colleagues look on. All because “he didn’t go to Jared”.
In the skit, she’d instead come up to him while he’s smiling and saying “Hey honey, did you try the cha-” and she’d kick him square in the balls while he doubles over clutching his groin. She’d continue kicking him on the ground as all his friends and colleagues look on, some in surprise, some in shock, some smiling with bemusement. You’d only see their expressions instead of the beating the husband is receiving for not getting an overpriced trinket from Jared. The wife then stomps off after her tirade, leaving her husband bloodied and sterile, and one of his friends would crouch down next to him and knowingly whisper “You should’ve gone to Jared.” The husband would nod, wince, and smile in pain (missing several teeth) and say “I thould’f gawn ta Jarud.” Then all the Stepford wives would blithely smirk, nod their heads in unison, and turn back to their champagne.
There’s a car commercial where the woman carries her two sleeping kids upstairs and then she carries her husband upstairs. It looks really really creepy.
I don’t drive but if I did I would never buy a vehicle from whatever company it is.
Heh heh, those little bastards from Quizno’s.
People need to stop making me laugh at school, I look so stupid and the babes look at me weird.
I’m going to go with eInsurance. Those obnoxious pseudo-anime style ads that try so hard to obfuscate the information really irritate me. I think it’s the only time I’ve made a conscious and stern vow never to patronize a company based solely on their commercials.
Did you apply directly to the forehead?
Did you apply directly to the forehead?
Did you apply directly to the forehead?
What’s the name of that late-night diet pill that costs a bazillion dollars? The message is something like: “Do these pills really work? The proof is that we charge a bazillion dollars for them! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”