The Hyundai commercial and Sweet Caroline. I don’t want to hate Neil Diamond but I’m starting to.
I imagine they pulled that number from the same place as their “have a happy period” slogan.
McDonald’s “David is going to college” tuition assistance program advert begins with, “fries for three sixteen, please,” which I always assume is a Christian dogwhistle. This annoys me.
You’re right. Leviticus 3:16
The one that’s been grating on my nerves lately is for some SUV.
“How do you want to live? As a decent person? A good husband? Good? Is that it??”
Yeah, better to be “King of the hill” and “Like a boss” with your gas-guzzling road-hogging monster truck, even if people think you’re an asshole. Fuck you.
Oh come on, the commercial isn’t THAT stupid. It’s an exaggeration of the product’s benefits…do you want to answer why airline food is so bad too?
In other contrarian news…I absolutely apply shaving cream with both hands, it’s much more efficient. Put the cream in one hand, move to the other, apply both sides at once, rinse off afterwards. I have two hands, why WOULDN’T I use them?
Why? Why do you want a spokesman that’s has the visual impact of a box with a personality of a blowhard poseur when what you are selling doesn’t even come IN a box. Is that supposed to be the joke? Because it ain’t funny.
Sling TV needs to teach Danny Trejo to enunciate. Took me a long time to figure out he’s saying “picky” rather than “piggy”.
I use one hand; I figure any shaving cream left on my hands that I have to rinse off is going to waste, so I want to keep that to a minimum.
It is slapdash and dumb. But they were reaching for something, ANYTHING, that would let them tell Stephanie Courtney “you can’t ask for a raise because we have an alternative ad campaign all set up, nyah nyahh!”
That is one in a series of commercials, from a wide variety of advertisers, in which people sing or dance while signaling ‘ain’t I just the silliest evah! I’m doing this ironically!!!1!!!’
I hate that trope.
The Publix commercial which shows clips of a married couple growing old together, paired with some crap dirge and the lyrics of The Safety Dance. It SUH-HUUUUCKS. Whose idea was this? You’re fired.
Ever notice how commercials are slightly (and pointlessly) edited mid-run? A current example is one of those horrible candy commercials (just had to google for the name: Haribo) where adults are talking like children. This is the one with the hockey players–in the original version, the punchline is “this is ice hockey, not dance hockey.” But recently they’ve started airing a (somewhat crudely) dubbed version where that has been changed to “this is ice hockey, not dance party.” (For the first time in days, I just saw the original version of the commercial, which is what pushed me to make this post.)
As for Flo, “I don’t see a possum!” has to be one of the greatest commercial punchlines ever.
(singing) “Gonna build a moun-taing…”
It, the new Steven King film.
I have a big issue with ads and trailers for this film. Being a Big Budget film, they are advertising the hell out of it. And in venues where they would never advertise a horror film. I was sitting waiting for The HitMans Bodyguard and was subjected to a very long trailer for this film, even tho they usually run trailers for horror films with horror films only.
I hate and despise this type of horror film. So to be subjected to very scary trailers and ads is simply wrong.
This may not even qualify as “annoying,” but for some reason it bugs the crap out of me.
Foster Farms is running a commercial touting how healthy their chicken is (at least when it isn’t taited with salmonella) by showing us a recipe for grilled chicken breast in a lettuce wrap with quinoa. OK, fine, but it’s the tagline that gets me: “This is the new comfort food.”
No! In absolutely no universe could this dish ever be considered “comfort food,” which is generally hearty, filling – and not necessarily healthy – fare. Yes, I get that they’re trying to turn the concept on its head, but this is such a blatant misuse of an established term that it rubs me the wrong way every time I see it.
This one wasn’t on TV. It was an ad that played before IT in the theater. I honestly thought that it was a trailer for some dystopian scifi movie, or maybe a new season of Black Mirror.
It’s an ad for ice cream, which apparently is supposed to be funny. I don’t want to sound like some killjoy with no sense of humor, because that is definitely NOT me, but rather than funny, it’s disturbing and offensive.
I’ll link to it rather than describe it.
There’s a weird one running right now that features a little boy in a bed being repeatedly tucked in by twin older women who are cackling in unison. Then they both lean over to tell the kid they love him. The kid proclaims that this is his second favorite sandwich. I think it’s an ad for a fast food place. WTF?
Radio ads currently in heavy rotation on my favorite radio stations for Progressive featuring “Floetry”, in other words, Flo reciting a sales pitch in the style of a poetry jam/slam. Gah.
Wow! I didn’t even know this site existed. Looks like it shows pretty much every commercial currently running.
I’ve heard those. Still better than the jackhole box.