Hear Hear! I too am boycotting Dell until they get ride of that loser.
And I’m damn tired of the Sprint commercials. They were clever for a little while, now they are just annoying.
There are a couple of ads that I wish would get out of my brain. They are hard to watch, hard to listen to, and are insulting.
First, Joan Rivers washing dishes. Every time I see that I can’t help but wonder why they chose that woman. She is in serious need of refurbishment. She sounds as old as she looks, she’s petulant, whiny, and brittle, and I can’t stand her. As if she would wash her own dishes, even.
Second, a radio ad for Mountain Dew. A young punk announcer begins speaking in an erudite fashion (but saying nothing), then quickly degenerates in an impenetrable wall of obtuse slang (and says nothing), and wraps up with a cute and semi-scholarly sentence such as “so to speak.” It says nothing whatever about the product or why I should buy it, and it’s so overproduced with hyperactive music I can barely understand a word he’s saying.
Third, I would like to nominate car commercials as the Ultimate Source of bad commercials. There is a radio ad here in the Seattle area that gets played constantly. It says nothing about its product, and has, in fact, no complete sentences that actually express a coherent thought. I will summarize below:
“Doxson Toyota in Auburn. Doxson. Toyota cars. Toyota trucks. Service. Selection. Value. Doxson is value. The right car. The right price. Doxson Toyota. In Auburn.”
Of course, it’s accompanied by a techno soundtrack and voiced by an impressive deep-voiced announcer. However, they evidently don’t have anything good to say about their company.
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They guy licking the door handle on the car he is afraid someone else will buy. Ugh!
Well actually, in this scenario it would be helpful to have that answering service. Then the people waiting at the airport could have left a message saying that they had arrived and when the parents got the kid offline they would get the message.
Without the answering service, you’d have to either
- call the airport/airline to see if the flight had arrived - wasting time that could be spent driving to the airport;
- not call but drive to the airport anyway and hope that they had already arrived (if not you’d have to either wait there or drive back home and wait for the call - both options wasting time and effort);
- wait at home for a call
So yeah, the people at the airport would still have to wait until the message was received, but at least then there wouldn’t be any confusion about whether they had arrived or not.
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Why didn’t they make sure the phoneline was free knowing that they were waiting for an important call?
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This one only half bugs me, and half makes me laugh. It’s for a pharmacy, and is supposed to help make you trust your pharmacist, or something.
It starts off with a woman bathing her infant in the kitchen sink, she goes to get something out of the cupboard, and when she turns around there’s a man in a white coat standing there smiling at her. He identifies himself as a pharmacist, and says “Bath time with baby, is there any other time where mother and child connect more?” The stunned looking mother says “Was my door open?” The pharmacist, who is now doing the dishes says, non-chalantly “Not really”, then goes into the company line. Once he’s done the mother asks “Really, was my door open?” the pharmacist just shrugs and smiles, wiping off a plate.
Ok, now maybe it’s just me, but if a person broke into my house, he’d be unconscious and bloody on the floor before he could say he was a god damn pharmacist. Is the company trying to tell me that my pharmacist is going to illegally enter my house, sneak up on my and my children, and expect a trusting relationship to be built? Yeah, that’s it…
The Truth ads. They make me want to smoke. I’ve never smoked before in my life but these just might drive me to it. Then I’m going to sue the company that came up with them and every station that ever aired them.
That damn McDonalds commercial with the kid singing that “good morning” shit.
OK, it would in fact have done this. But that’s not much of an improvement. In fact, it might be more irritating to leave a message then still wait around for someone to get you (and not know whether or not they’d gotten the message yet). And would it have been that hard to come up with a commercial that showed the service really solving a problem, rather than one that says (in it’s kindest interpretation) “hey folks, your parents may still be really pissed at you but our service saved you a 2 minute phone call!”
OK, so this one really bugged me. But I’m better now. 
And the one that monster mentioned with the guy licking the door handle made me laugh the first time I saw it.
The one for the “Nautilis Sleep System” (AKA a mattress) where this half-naked guy and his half-naked woman are lying on a bare mattress. She just rolls over and places her hand directly on his man nipple. GEEZ! Something about that is just not right to me…
The one they’ve been showing a lot for Hydroxycut (some drastic weight loss pill) is really awful, IMHO. First they show a large woman–from behind–in a bikini, flesh jiggling, running in slo-mo along the beach and her voiceover says: “Have you ever looked at your body and wanted to cry?”
It continues with the usual extolling of the merits of the pill,how she lost 12 dress sizes and 63 pounds, and her large husband had similar success.
I’m not so bothered by the running scene as I am by the idea that despair and shame must be the natural responses to one’s body if it happens to be big. Not to mention the very likely hazards associated with taking such pills, even if you are on a dieting and exercise plan at the same time.
I’m with Vivalostwages on that woman dancing in the car.
A Burger King comercial featuring the spice Girl’s “What I relly relly want”…I want my mute button! Same for the Bally’s commercial featuring Pink’s “Get this Party started”
But right now, it’s the Mott’s Fruitsations featuring a ragged haired little girl saying “I just love them, the way they taste” this girls voice is as annoying as Fran Dresher’s.
I know there are MORE annoying commercails than amusing ones out there. Hence, Why I love PBS! But they have thier share of silly sponcer shots too! Peticularly the Saturn shots. One shows a Fellow replacing his back door knob with the shift knob of his car, another a car towing a trailer which has a chai placed next to a hearth afire. the line says. “Part of This Old House brought to you by Saturn”
Lord Help us all!
I’ll vote for the Jeep Liberty commercial that showed the Liberty “driving” up & around the Statue of Liberty. I saw it just a little bit after 9-11, and it pissed me off to no end watching that damned SUV crawling around like a roach on an American symbol of freedom. I think Jeep pulled the ad, but I’ll never buy one because of it.
Oh, and any Pepsi commercial with that evil curly haired girl with the black dolls eyes!
Channel 4 in New York City has a little song, and every once in a while they update the TV commercial thta goes with it, changing the lyrics and images. The new one shows a couple walking with Playbilles while the lyric is “…a concert crowd.” Playbills are given at the theatre. Could’t they have sung “a theatre crowd.” Or even “a Broadway crowd?”
It also bugs me that when they sing “for the thrill of being number !” they don’t show the Urinetown marque.
I second the evil demon Pepsi child. Apparently they got rid of her.
I also hate the commercial on Comedy Central that shows some fat old black guy walking out of a grocery and then these idiot kids honk the horn and make him drop his groceries. Then this annoying little midget pops out of the newspaper stand and tells the kids to do it again. WAY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE OBNOXIOUS ASSHOLES! Panasonic, that commercial just made me want to hire a Hamas suicide bomber to blow up your studio. I hope the NAACP comes down upon you like two tons of bricks for having a black guy be the prank victim.
This commerical is probably exclusive to Seattle but GOD i HATE IT!
Its a commerical for the SONICS (basketball team)
They starts off with the camera innocently filming mundate every-day experiences. Kinda like a home movie. A backyard BBQ with the kids, a kindergarden glass fingerpainting…etc.
All of a sudden the woman (always the woman) turns into a ZOMBIE and becomes fasinated with the colors green & yellow (sonic team colors) and basiclly freaks out the kids and everyone around her. The commercial with the kindergarden teacher is the worse! She slams her head into the finger paint and it makes a awful squish noise! Ugh – whoever’s bright idea it was to make those stupid commercials should be FIRED! BOO
There is an ad that left my jaw in my lap the other day. (I don’t watch a lot of TV, so I’m not desensitized yet…)
Sucky footage of a bunch of kids playing with fingerpaints.
V.O. :“From time-to-time, being messy can be fun. But let’s face it, most of the time, we want to be clean.”
Product? Monostat, or Vagisil, or some other yeast-infection remedy. :eek:
This commercial bothers me too, both for the reason you mentioned and because it is so obviously false. How could that be the same woman (before and after)? How could they have filmed that woman before and after the diet pills (in the same type of bikini and on the same beach)? Did they know that this particular woman was going to have such amazing success using their product (even though the ad carries the standard “results not typical” disclaimer) or did they happen to film a pool of large woman for before shots and then wait for the one that had the best results so they could film her for the after shots?
I don’t think so. I think that it has to be 2 different women.
Oh yeah. I also immediately thought of that Orkin commercial when I saw this thread title.
I like the car commercial where the girl is poppin’ and lockin’ in the front seat. The song is catchy and I think that style of dancing looks cool. I am, however, a big dork.
A while ago there was a commercial where some mother in a business suit was running around because she was about to go on a business trip or something. Her husband (wearing flannel and looking as if he just rolled out of bed), and child were looking in the freezer as she instructs them what to do for dinner the next few nights.
“The beef is in the container with a BLUE top, ‘blue for beef,’ and the carrots are in the container with ORANGE… ‘orange for carrots’…”
After she runs out the door, the father… too confused to even figure out where the microwave is, says to his kid: “how about McDonalds?”
I’ve never been so insulted as a man.
I just can’t understand how such a commercial could exist in the day and age.
That, and what “hellokitty” said. You would NEVER catch a man doing house work in a commercial. I would think that would please buyers.