Again with the annoying commercials!

Well, there you go: I find the commercial so annoying that I haven’t paid enough attention to realize that what I’m annoyed about didn’t actually happen.

(Still not going to buy Ensure!)

Because a baby’s first word shouldn’t be “Liberty”, and they try to get her to say “Auntie”. Frankly, that is an honest reaction. “Wait, how the fuck is this her first word?” That’s not the part that makes the commercial bad, that’s the sane part.

Granted, that part makes a certain amount of sense. I just don’t see how the ‘Auntie’s’ reaction of hostility/suspicion against the mother makes sense. ‘Puzzlement’ might work, or even a sort of ‘you’re doing this wrong’ critical tone–but that’s not what the actress is conveying, to my ears.

Your mileage may vary.

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I saw a cartoon where a wife is greeting her husband at the door, while pointing at the baby in front of the TVs.

“She said her first word today. It was ‘irregularity.’”

I tried to find a clip, because nothing is less interesting than talking about a commercial that no one else has seen. It’s for California Lottery scratch offs, so maybe you can find it. Basically the ad campaign is “fun ways to scratch your lottery card”.

The one I loathe features a young woman and a guy sitting on their couch. She gets up and tapes a scratch off card to the wall, then uses a laser pointer to get their cat to jump up and scratch the card.

The idea is kind of clever but the woman irritates me on so many levels that I finally had to come here and vent about it in an effort to scrub her from my mind.

We’re all familiar with “resting grouch face” (formerly misogynist RBF). This young lady has " resting dumbass face". Her wide eyed, slack jaw expression while she watches her cat go crazy pisses me off each and every time, and that’s saying a lot since it’s played at every commercial break. I hate the way they’ve styled her, from her unflattering pleated pants, stubby lavender nails and dopey topknot. The (former) homeowner in me is nauseated at the sight of encouraging repeated claw attacks to the wall.

It’s just a clump of unpleasantness, comprised of some of the things I dislike most.

This one?

Egad, yes.

My first thoughts was that if this cat is like any other cat I’ve ever known, the scratches will destroy the icons rather than revealing them.

No hate for Manscaped yet?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccjzbuP34oI

Manscaped is in the Pit.

Never saw that before. I thought it was pretty funny!

As @Just_Asking_Questions said:

Nothing about diaper commercials? Great big huge toddlers with diapers? Bouncing on their dad’s head? I can’t begin to say how much I loathe diaper commercials.

My younger cousin’s first word, uttered at a Thanksgiving dinner was, “Whiskey”. Don’t ask me how I know.

Are you sure that’s not some annoying person the parents are trying to get rid of? :smiley:

Not my first words, but one of the first complete sentences I saw fit to bellow in the middle of a grocery store was “My Nan drinks beer!!”

I just saw a commercial for Visiting Angels. ‘The challenge of aging doesn’t go away.’

Um… I’m pretty sure it does. Eventually.

Some dumb YT commercial starts with a pitch about how the pioneers used silver coins to purify their water.

All I can think of before I click “skip” is: You have died of dysentery.

The slacker brother living there ‘till he gets on his feet’ :grin:

‘I was drownding in debt!’

At least, that’s what it always sounds like to me. As the pirate with the steering wheel in his pants said, ‘It drives me nuts.’ Of course I could be mishearing; in which case I’ll retard the annoyance.