There should be some kind of category for “commercials I hate for products I like and use”. Because those are stupid.
Yes, but do you announce and remind the whole theater they should, too?
That’s the first one that really irked me. There’s nothing wrong with reading books about submarines unless your problem is books. Going around and lecturing people about submarines for no reason? Sure, but the bad part isn’t the submarines, it’s the lecturing part.
I’m annoyed by the Take5 oil change commercials where the car owners act as if getting an oil change is the only break they get. Hey Doofus, Take 5 not give you enough time during the oil change trying to fix your door remote doesn’t mean you can’t sit in your car in your driveway instead of the shop.
Another Take5, lady doesn’t have time to finish knitting sweaters for the family, so everyone has a cropped sweater showing midriff.
First off, how fast a knitter is she of she plans to finish 5 or 6 sweaters during her oil change? Second, if she had time to sit and finish the sweaters, why does it have to be at the oil change place?
Surrealist: Because the drought.
They did do a good job with the actors in that one though…the young girl looks thrilled at being allowed to wear a midriff-bearing top in a family photo, the little boy is grumpily tugging his sweater down, the dad is wearing a “this is fine” grin, and the mom looks vaguely pleased that she finally managed to get the family into matching outfits.
And I think those ads are hilarious! Each to his own, I guess.
Weight Watcher’s Resolution Return Ads. Again, fine concept, can’t complain … except when that one doughy guy steps up and asks if it’s too late to return his resolutions.
“Are they unrealistic or soul crushingly awful?”
“Does it make a difference?”
“No it does not.”
Then what the hell did you ask for?
Also (though I’m not a knitter so correct me if I’m wrong), why would all the sweaters be unfinished? Wouldn’t one knit an entire sweater and then move on to the next one?
Chap stick. A 10 year old girl smears chapstick all over the inside of the car window looking like a sucker fish under a glass bottom boat. All the people along the way act like that is the brightest kid they have ever seen. Even the voice over seems to say Live Shmear Love,
I say creepy
I saw two commercials back to back: the first was that Wendy’s commercial where, “everyday is ‘Fryday’” because the fries are so good; the next was a Spam commercial featuring the product being fried in a pan while a little song runs listing the days of the week: Fryday, Fryday, Fryday, Fryday, Fryday.
I smell skullduggery.
the latest "forever natural diamonds"thats got some British model/actress shilling for the DeBeers diamond mafia/cartel(which they don’t name directly)
I wonder if she realizes that the us government considers them to be about the same as a Colombian drug cartel to the point that they cant legally do direct business in the us since the 60s or so
Every commercial with Gronk advertising his SB Kick of Destiny! (or whatever, I try to ignore them)… Not only is it all manufactured hype, and annoying as fuck, but it’s for FanDuel! Lame assed sports betting!
Gronk’s “lovable doofus” persona works OK shilling insurance he can never buy, these are just annoying.
My wife doesn’t like the Heinz commercial where the woman remembers being a little girl and eating Heinz on spaghetti. My wife had never heard of anyone doing that. I’d never heard of it either, but I guess that’s what you do when you don’t have the resources.
I always wonder, if she is in a moving vehicle, what would happen if the parents of this child get in a minor fender bender (or God Forbid a major smash-up), would the impact cause the 10 year old girl’s teeth and mouth to smash hard enough into the window to cut her lip, knock a tooth out, or cause other damage to her face? And is the inside of that car window so clean that mom & dad don’t mind the girl’s lips making contact? And who is gonna clean that waxy chapstick off the window?
I say creepy, disgusting, germy, and possible injurious!
When I was younger I knew a woman who would boil pasta, dice an onion, mix it with ketchup, exclaim, “It’s a meal!” and feed it to her children. She exclaimed “It’s a meal!” about a lot of nasty garbage but this one stuck with me.
To be fair she was extremely poor and stupid, so there was that.
I’ve heard of that and similar substitutions in the pretty distant past, when you might not have been able to get tomato sauce or canned tomatoes if you didn’t live in the right area - but I’d never seen that commercial before today, and the time period I’m talking about would be way before the childhood of anyone singing about how “adulting sucks”
“Army noodles with ketchup”:
My dad cooked the Navy version for some 30 years, until (thank Og!) he discovered Prego.
What are they singing?
Oh come on!
I hate kids who do that. Always have.