Ryan Reynolds being a moron addicted to your mobile game was really the best idea y’all could come up with?
Some contracts are hard to break. 
One that bugs me is the one for Volkswagen electric cars with the Flintstones/Jetsons angle. The dogs name is Astro, not Elroy!!
I am enraged by the reappearance of those Microsoft Surface Pro commercials with skateboarding Adam the Entrepreneur and his robots. I thought we were done with him a year ago. He’s almost as insufferable as the “What’s a computer?” girl.
Justin Guarini as “Li’l Sweet” in the Diet Dr Pepper commercial really annoys me with his falsetto.
I’m sure Guarini is a very talented singer who can carry a commercial as himself without playing an annoying gimmicky character.
He asked to be given a small part. Sometimes, it’s a good idea to be specific.
Or, it could be his personal style choice. I’ve spotted Al Roker on the Today Show sporting a pair of periwinkle blue glasses.
There’s a new commercial where some guy with a gravely voice borrowed from a Viagra commercial intones “Being an SUV used to mean something. It used to be the car that could go offroad. The car for real men with oily crud under their fingernails.” And so on…
Let’s get this straight. SUV’s never have meant “capable off-road vehicle”. They started out as, and have always been, grossly oversized vehicles on light truck bodies for the sole purpose of avoiding fleet mileage regulations. And they were designed expressly for soccer moms and dads that didn’t want to drive a mini-van and who wanted to fantasize about living adventurous lives while staying largely on paved roads close to home. And anyone who relies on their vehicle to prove that they’re an all-American manly man has serious image problems.
And, in an unrelated note, I’m with a hair’s breadth of ditching my Liberty Mutual home insurance based on not just one commercial but their entire body of creative work. Apparently that additional 100 bucks they tack on to my bill every year is going straight towards annoying advertisements.
I kinda like Limu the Emu. But their stupid jingle (“Liberty Liberty Liberty…Liberty!”) makes me want to strangle puppies.
(Not really. The puppies didn’t do anything to deserve that. But maybe strangle CGI emus.)
I don’t know what it is with completely inane jingles these days (another example: “Safelite Repair, Safelite Replace!” sung by a herd of tuneless children).
I guess maybe they’re memorable, but not in a good way.
Yeah, Sabra hummous has a jingle that rates pretty high on the list of crimes against humanity.
Who is their target audience? Because the whole campaign is a spot-on parody (homage?) to 70s cop shows. Which most people under 40 have never seen, let alone might be nostalgic about. And being reminded of Starsky and Hutch doesn’t make me want to switch insurance companies.
The new Facebook Portal commercial is awful and perplexing. That human embodiment of smug talking to his mom and other “famous moms” is just confusing. The kid isn’t cute, Doogie isn’t funny or charming, and the moms are… moms. Dumb
But … Portal! It follows you around! It lets you see everybody all the time! It solves ALL the problems you didn’t even know you had!
Why, when I was NPH’s age, and called my mom, I just had to use an old phone. I never got to see her. She never got to pass judgement on my weight. And my life was so empty because of it!
Or, like you said, dumb.
Limu reminds me of this much funnier emu.
I’m not really annoyed by the Liberty Mutual jingle. It’s not bagpipes or chalkboard scratches.
So the hotel is having it’s ad campaign. “Here we see an ordinary couple, and they are surrounded by a glow, and that will make the viewers think maybe I’ll glow.” “Who glows? Just say ‘Ba da book, ba da boom.’”
Wait, is that our only two options?
Maybe I’m the only one but I’m getting overly annoyed by the voice of H. Jon Benjamin in those Arby’s commercials. That overly deep nasal sound like somebody with a head cold.
My latest annoying commercial was one that started with
“Let’s talk about gas…
said no one ever”
First of all, this was written by marketdroids, and yes, you did sit around and say “Let’s talk about gas”
And secondly, that phrase usually implies that someone would really, really not want to say that. Like “Let’s talk about throwing a party for celebrating that you have cancer”. Not “Let’s talk about something that people really do talk about all the time”
The latest Comcast commercial features a treacly, acoustic coffeehouse cover of “I Got You Babe” that makes me want to slit my wrists.
Oh, but it gets worse. A few seconds in, there’s a crying baby sound effect that causes my entire body to clench. Fortunately, I’ve gotten quite good at finding the mute button right around “They say we’re young and we don’t -”
Two are bugging me now.
I think it’s Acura with an old sounding guy singing “sympathy for the Devil” yelling"what’s my name". Sounds like Abe Simpson not knowing who he is.
And some annoying dude who makes robots shilling for Microsoft. He just comes across as a smug dick.
While I don’t disagree with your assessment of the average SUV buyer, I would disagree about the origins of the SUV. The early SUVs, like Cherokees and Range Rovers, were built as off-road capable vehicles.