I kind of like hollering at the old bitch.
Jared’s commercial, in which some guy writes a letter to his girlfriend’s dad asking for her hand in marriage 
, and the dad died when she was two years old. 
The letter reminds her how the fiance incorporated her dad. I don’t think that word means what she thinks it does. Blecccccch.
Only slightly better than the one where the dude asks the woman’s young son for his mother’s hand.
That WellCare commercial with Joe Montana (sorry, I can’t find a working link to it), not just because it’s another ex-QB hawking Medicare Advantage plans, but just because I don’t want to think of Joe Montana as just another old man, damn it!
I think I saw him hawking Guinness the other day. I hope that’s not an old-man drink.
Rakuten “Twelve Days of Cha-Ching” is my nominee for the worst commercial of 2021. I hate most ads that use Christmas songs with different lyrics, and I’m not ready for anything Christmas until after Thanksgiving. This one is the worst of the bunch.
I used to think Yabba Dabba Fruity Pebbles Doo was the worst, most annoying Christmas commercial (just edging out Special K, mainly because they just don’t stop when Christmas is long gone), but this one has shot up to the top of the list in less than a month! It’s impressive, in a way, but I hate it, and yes, I need a DVR so I don’t have to watch commercials, but I’m trying to be frugal, so I’ll just have to keep racing for the mute button every time it comes on.
Speaking of annoying holiday-themed commercials, there’s one for Xiidra, prescription eye drops for dry eyes, complete with Christmas carol soundtrack and a cartoon bad guy representing ‘eye inflammation’ that is clearly a ripoff of the Heat Miser.
Why a holiday theme for a prescription drug? The ending tag line is even ‘this holiday, ask your doctor about Xiidra’. As if going to the doctor is a holiday tradition.
Try a web search for “1955 Dodge LaFemme”. And for “Lionel Girls Set”.
Designers do seem to HATE engines. There are so many “beauty covers” on engines nowadays that they may as well have but a second hood under the first one. Oh wait:
I had never seen that. Am I reading correctly that they thought it would be a good idea to reissue the set in 1991?
I’m increasingly annoyed with the frequency of State Farm/Jake commercials, but they’ve decided to attach themselves to Patrick Mahomes (who has an amazing agent, he’s in one million commercials) and Aaron Rodgers (who certainly has an image issue after lying about his vaccination status). But I am not sure that they realize that these commercials make them look like assholes.
The premise is that Jake has fashioned a special deal for them because he likes them so much. Then Jake reminds them no, actually, these are the rates that State Farm offers everybody. At first they clearly weren’t listening to Jake as they would regale their good fortune to anyone who’d listen about their excellent rate. But now, they’ve taken to dressing up as other people to test Jake to see if they too can get the special rate - and of course they can. Commercial ends with them being pissed off or rude.
First, why would you care that your insurance agent is giving someone else a good deal?
Second, what kind of prick are you to want other people, who are most likely not wealthy athletes, to pay full price for insurance and not get your “Rodgers rate?” Given ol’ Aaron’s latest situation, where he behaved selfishly by lying about his vaccination status, maybe this isn’t the look you want to put out there in the world?
Yes. For those how came in late, in the 1950’s Lionel created a special train set just for girls. The cars and locomotive were pastel colored. Pink steam locomotive. White transformer with a gold-colored handle. Only a few were sold. Now fast forward. Being so rare and such an interesting part of Lionel history, collectors bid up the price. So the set was reissued in the 1990’s.
Back to your regular commercial programming.
I’ve posted this in the November mini-rants, but it’s worth repeating here. I can hardly wait for December 8 and the Medicare enrollment period to be over. The TV is flooded with ads for enrollment.
One “medicare assistance” company has a commercial and they always repeat it immediately - the same commercial back-to-back.
Another company created an annoying caricature of an old lady set in her ways who will NOT call the assistance company. (You might have seen it - the lady wears eyeglasses the size of windowpanes.) The announcer for the company talks back to her in the MOST patronizing way. Makes me wish the grey panthers could be sicc’ed on them.
Lincoln is back with new silliness. Gone is last year’s selfish mom who turns around and rests in the car when she sees her kids having fun in the living room. They show a Lincoln with mom and the kids pulling up in delight to their house. It is in the desert with palm trees and, “Yeah!” the lot is covered in snow. Cut to dad on the roof with a homemade “snow machine” that looks like a box fan with a spray bar. Yep, that should do it.
'Tis the season for heartwarming little vignettes. The young Black guy and the old lady. She’s initially skeptical of him, but in the end she gives him a nice pair of gloves. There are more of these stories. I feel like a monster for hating this kind of glurge.
Because there is a certain segment of America that thinks “good deal” is a zero-sum thing. If one person (Rodgers, Mahomey) get a good deal, someone else must not be. And that someone is them.
There was one wherein one customer was butting in on another customer’s negotiations with the salesperson at the cell phone store.
I saw a commercial for Scheels sporting goods last night where they talk about giving their employees the Thanksgiving holiday off, which is a nice idea, I wish more retailers would do it. But it was wrapped in so much pro-Christian glurge that my eyes just about rolled out of their sockets.
(Actually, I muttered to myself “what about other religions?” then shouted “Allahu Akbar!” at the TV - which made my wife look up from what she was doing and ask “What was that all about?”)
QAT&T store, no less.
It seems like the “Jake from State Farm” ads have always featured people who thought that the rates they got were a special deal just for them, and wanted to give Jake something in return–remember the pizza delivery girl who gave him a giant tub of ranch dressing, or the butcher who gave him a great big pile of steaks? But the notion of the customers being resentful of other people getting the same deal is a new and annoying twist.
All mascots are annoying, but Jake especially so because he’s such a nonentity, even more than the others, imho. Jan comes close, as do the blondes from the mattress commercials*
*I don’t know how ubiquitous the mattress commercials are.