Adverts you hate so much you'd never use the products,

[JSexton]

@brewha

Oooh That pisses me off to no end. I got that stupid jingle in my head right now and that pisses me off. It’s like they’re too stupid to come up with a jingle and words so they just woo-woo their way through it. Fuck off Vonage!

That’s not a jingle; that’s an actual song. Originally from 1959, even, and covered more recently.

[Aioua]

@JSexton

That’s not a jingle; that’s an actual song. Originally from 1959, even, and covered more recently.

It’s in Kill Bill. It was pretty bad…

[Yllaria]

I don’t eat a lot of fast food, but I’ve maintained my vow never to eat at Carl’s Junior, based on my hatred of several disgusting commercials they made featuring young guys smacking their chops and dripping their food all over.

Another vote for them. The one with the woman student eating a dripping burger in the library made me want to chuck things at the TV.

[alice_in_wonderland]

@Leaffan

I want to drown the Bell Canada beavers: Frank and Gordon.

Awww - I love Frank and Gordon. They’re so cute I just want to rub their little beaver bellies.

:No beep! NO BEEP!::

Gah! I love that shit.

Interestingly, however, I currently have no Bell products, nor any particular desire to aquire some Bell products, so I’m not sure the adds are working.

[as_u_wish]

Gulp! I’m going to ruin my credibility here: I like the Geico ads, both the cavemen and the gecko. I’m not silly enough to buy the product, of course, but I think the ads are lots of fun.

One I dislike–the California cheese “happy cow” ads. I suspect the ads are quite clever, but as a Wisconsin resident, I find them offensive. However, I wasn’t looking to buy California cheese anyway.

[Jackmannii]

@OpalCat

You mean you’ve escaped the highly offensive TV (Jared Jewelers) ads??

Apparently so. On the other hand I haven’t been able to avoid ads for Kay Jewelers (“Wanna get some tonight? Better buy her this cheesy ring”).

@as_you_wish

One I dislike–the California cheese “happy cow” ads. I suspect the ads are quite clever, but as a Wisconsin resident, I find them offensive.

Well, they’re unsually dumb cows, even for bovines. The stupidest ad was the one talking about how happy the cows were because it supposedly never rained in California. No rain - no grass - nothing to eat - no cud to chew - dead (but happy) cows.

[OpalCat]

Well let me summarize them for you:

Various men who love their girlfriends/wives buy them jewelry for whatever holiday the ad is aimed at. Women open presents. One or more of the men have gotten the jewelry at Jared. The woman or women who were given gifts lovingly chosen by their men from some other store throw little tantrums, sometimes even returning the gift in disgust. The man/men are told they “should have gone to Jared”.

[Beltane]

@Jackmannii

Apparently so. On the other hand I haven’t been able to avoid ads for Kay Jewelers (“Wanna get some tonight? Better buy her this cheesy ring”)…

I’d come in her specifically to mention Kay. I won’t buy Diamonds anyway, but the slogan “Every Kiss begins with Kay” makes me want to hurl… most slogans I tune out after a while so I don’t really listen to what they are saying, but “Every kiss…” just pisses me off every single time.

Sherwin Williams is also offensive. The slogan “Cover the earth” coupled with a picture of a planetary Deluge (of blood-red paint)from a moon sized paint can just is somehow wrong.
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[FatBaldGuy]

@OneCentStamp

GEICO car insurance. Not if they were half the price of my current insurance would I go with them.

What other company simultaneously runs TWO of the ten most annoying ad campaigns in America? Even the beer, soda and cell phone companies can’t claim that dubious prize. I’m speaking, of course, of the stupid, forced “gecko” ads (NOBODY in the history of the PLANET has ever mispronounced your company name as “gecko”) and the gouge-my-ears-out-with-an-ice-pick caveman ads.

How could you forget the celebrity spokesperson ads? They actually have THREE of the most annoying campaigns running.

[Fear_Itself]

@FatBaldGuy

How could you forget the celebrity spokesperson ads? They actually have THREE of the most annoying campaigns running.

Now there I have to disagree. The Little Richard ad still cracks me up every time I see it.
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[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@OneCentStamp

What other company simultaneously runs TWO of the ten most annoying ad campaigns in America? Even the beer, soda and cell phone companies can’t claim that dubious prize. I’m speaking, of course, of the stupid, forced “gecko” ads (NOBODY in the history of the PLANET has ever mispronounced your company name as “gecko”) and the gouge-my-ears-out-with-an-ice-pick caveman ads.

Huh?? The GEICO caveman ads are better than most of commercial TV.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@LonesomePolecat

Those “please don’t squeeze the Charmin” commercials, which have got to be the most offensively stupid commercials ever produced by so-called professionals. They started airing back when I was a kid, and they still made some as late as the late 90’s. To this day, I would quite literally use newspaper or corncobs than buy Charmin.

Doesn’t Charmin also do the current ones of cartoon bears, using the product right after, you know? I really don’t need the natural history lesson being implied there.

At least they didn’t use a cartoon Pope.

[Fear_Itself]

@Spectre of Pithecanthropus

The GEICO caveman ads are better than most of commercial TV.

That’s what ABC thinks, too:

Winner for most unusual piece of development this pilot season goes to ABC, which has turned a series of quirky Geico commercials into an actual half-hour comedy project.

“Cavemen” will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as they attempt to live as normal thirtysomethings in modern Atlanta.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@FatBaldGuy

(about the GEICO adds)
How could you forget the celebrity spokesperson ads? They actually have THREE of the most annoying campaigns running.

Well, I love the one with “that announcer guy from the movies”. My wife and I still preface many statements with the phrase, “In a world where…”. Guess we’re easily amused. The Little Richard one, not so much, only because, although I like his classic recordings, I’ve heard such unpleasant things about him regarding how he treats the people around him.

I can’t remember another company having three completely different ad campaigns going at the same time.

[MoodIndigo1]

I hate the Viagra ones. They smack of Victorian prudery with their pseudo-dialogue.

[PunditLisa]

I love that little Gecko, too. Although I would have given him a French accent.

[John_DiFool]

@JSexton

That’s not a jingle; that’s an actual song. Originally from 1959, even, and covered more recently.

Inspired thread here.

[wolf_meister]

brewha and Antigen
Oh that Vonage ad is annoying. I hope when the people who thought up that ad eventually “pass on”, they spend eternity in Hell in which that song is played 24 hours per day, 365 days per year (and yes 366 days per leap year - they don’t deserve a Feb 29th reprieve). And so what if it is an actual song? It is still annoying.

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And I’ve mentioned this in other threads but how about Cinemax advertising their show “The Tudors” at every possible chance? Gee, is there going to be a cable series based on the life of Henry VIII? How would I know since they only advertise the damned thing every possible moment. :mad:

Just thought I’d say, I have never nor will I ever buy anything from Vonage nor will I watch any part of “the Tudors”.
“I’m the King of England !!!” should be played continuously in another part of Hell when the advertising people for “the Tudors” shuffle off this mortal coil.

[cochrane]

@jkusters

In general, I eschew any product that is advertised using anthropomorphic food. But the worst ad campaign for me was Mentos. Hey, pop one of our mints into your mouth and you can be excused from being a self-centered unethical jerk!

JOhn.

I’m actually tempted to buy some Mentos and Diet Coke so I can replicate that experiment from the Mythbusters.

@toadspittle

The Spongmonkeys. Love those guys. I sing that song all the time.

Here ya go!

Where does the bus for Hell board?

[DrDeth]

@silenus

I will never subscribe to Netflix because of all of their popups on every freaking website in the world.

Preach it, Brother!

Note that Geico is a crappy insurance company which is why they buy all that commercial time. Same with Capital One.

There’s also that German car company that I will not name that ran all their ads showing their cars spraying mud and water on all the poor (peasant) pedestrians who can’t afford their overpriced hunk of nazi crap and thus can only goggle and thank gawd the car driver deigned to spray gutter water on them. :mad: