has anyone seen the ridiculous postmates commercials with Martha Stewart of which only one is remotely funny …?
I’m fairly annoyed by the Dominos commercials where they offer you free pizza if they screw up your order.
First of all, it’s a $10.00 pizza. So having a manager yell “OK, people, we’re expediting this order!” is just going to elicit eyerolls from their minimum wage staff. And I might be mildly pleased if they offered me a free pizza, but I wouldn’t go into transports of delight like the women in the commercial.
I LMAO. How dramatic! These pizza slaves carry on as if they’re a crack team of surgeons, organ harvesters extracting a heart from a dead donor and flying it out to a desperately ill child across the country!
And it doesn’t seem as if they try to fix what was wrong with your order. They just give you a free pizza.
Customer: I ordered three Sprites and stuffed cheesy bread and you sent me a pizza!"
Domino’s: Here’s a pizza to make up for it.
I feel sorry for the Domino’s workers. How much do you think that offer gets abused?
I hate the Emu and the dork he shadows.
That falls in line with one of the most common tropes in commercials: the completely-false implication that if you patronize This Company, you will be dealing with Highly-Trained Professionals who Take Great Pride in Their Work.
Think of the commercials showing the “operators” who are “standing by” for your call: are they ever less than good-looking, young, intelligent, eager, and cheerful?*
This is the principle behind the Farmers Insurance commercials starring J.K. Simmons, who walks a single student around an “Ivy-League University”-looking foyer. Old money has clearly at work here for decades or centuries, as this handful of dedicated insurance professionals receive their one-on-one training. Clearly the nation’s hereditary elite are the backbone of the corps of Farmers Insurance agents!
Yeah, it ain’t like that. But viewers are supposed to feel at least an unconscious reaction of trust in this ‘venerable establishment.’
*(And are they ever something other than white (or majority-white if several are shown)?)
I never thought I would tire of hearing Steppenwolf’s Born To Be Wild, you know, now and then, occasionally, here and there on the radio or someone’s ‘Favorites’ mix collection. But Applebee’s twenty-five cent wings ad has ruined this song for me for all time.
Milana Vayntrub. She’s my one-and-only celebrity crush.
Agreed. A lame attempt to jump on the Geico/Progressive advertising bandwagon. Its an exercise in banality.
Speaking of lame attempts to jump on another company’s successful advertising bandwagon, the Hyundai commercials using a bunch of different dogs are such an obvious attempt to ride the coattails of Subaru’s dog-centric commercials that they’re becoming really annoying. And yes, I’m a Subaru owner, why do you ask?
Memo to Hyundai’s ad agency - it takes more than a few dogs to create clever, memorable ads, especially when the dogs have no valid reason to be in the commercials besides trying to appeal to dog owners. My dog Barney says those poor pooches are being shamelessly exploited and reinforce the unfortunate stereotype that the only thing a dog is capable doing in a car is sticking its head out of the window. He does, however, enjoy the new Allstate commercial with Mayhem playing Tina Fey’s 70-pound St Bernard pup. 
This is, by a wide margin, the worst commercial ever in the history of anything. Matthew McConaughey CLEARLY ad-libbing a song he’s very unconfidently singing…about a cheeseburger.
Matthew McConaughey: “Hey man listen, I’m gonna sing this one.”
Producer: “Oh, ok. Really? Can you sing well?”
MM: “Not even almost.”
P: “Oh. Hmm. Well…what’s the song? Did you write some lyrics?”
MM: “I’m going to make them up when I sing it.”
P: “…when you sing it…?”
MM: “yeah I’ll just make them up when I sing it, the one and only time, when we record it. I’m a one-take kinda guy!”
P: “…ok, but…”
MM: “If I go blank I’ll just say the words ‘western’ or ‘bacon.’ It’s important they know it’s ‘western’ and ‘bacon’ anyway.”
Angel Soft CRAP PAPER. A tear-jerker about a kid in the bathroom and a weepy single dad writing ‘I’m sorry I’m sorry . I’m Sorry’ . a billion times on the roll and sliding it under the door, and omg, hugs and tears all around! OMG. Who the fuck cares?
The FUCK? ( No one ever apologized to ME when I was a kid, much less wrote it out on toilet paper and slid it under the door. But I digress.) . If I’m paying $8 fucking dollars for a 6-pack of toilet paper, why does part of that go toward some lame idiot commercial? All I want to do is wipe my ass.
I buy the cheapest 2-ply store brand I can find, Angel Soft. I will avoid YOU from now on.
That’s wrestler Bill Goldberg.
Oh, I know who the actor is but, outside of Leroy the Redneck Reindeer, Santa should not behave like that.
There was an ad running last May that annoyed me so much, I wrote to the Kellogg’s Company to complain.
They are advertising a new Cheez-It product called Snap’d. They blatantly ripped off and spoofed Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, complete with hydraulic lift to point to a graph to show how their product is sooooo cheesy, we are going to run out of cheese within a few years.
I don’t view climate change as a joke, and I didn’t appreciate their tone-deaf ad implying we can all just laugh it off. Perhaps if we’d taken our former Vice President seriously at the time he first raised the issue, we wouldn’t be in the jam we’re in now.
To Kellogg’s’ credit, they did respond and said they would pass my comments on to the group responsible for the ad. I noticed the ad stopped running in my venue.
I’m sure I’m not the only person who noticed and complained. Today I saw a revised version of the ad. They have ditched the hydraulic lift and other obvious spoofery of An Inconvenient Truth. I hope I had some small part in bringing about the change. It raised my blood pressure every time I saw the original version.
State Farm has upped its lame game and drug Pam Oliver into the shame that is their Aaron Rodgers campaign. She gets interrupted in her sideline reporting by Aaron’s football agent.
Give it a rest!
If they must, bring back Clay Matthews and B. J. Raji, even if they are no longer on the team. At least they were funny.
I haven’t seen An Inconvenient Truth, so I didn’t make the connection until I read your post. It is a terrible commercial, and I agree it’s important to be concerned about climate change. In fact, as you say, it may be too late. But I can’t work up that level of outrage over what is basically a cheesy (:D) over-the-top bad commercial.
I didn’t make the connection at all - but I did buy some Snap’d Cheez-its. They’re pretty good! But too expensive.