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Did someone have a date ruined by the commercial? 
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Reminds me of a spoof ad which ran: 6-7 years ago? It rapidly listed a bunch of weird side effects, like getting the head of a Golden Retriever.
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I think I remember that one. A more recent parody of drug commercials was done on SNL (there’s a video on this page).
[sub]"Do not take Annuale if you plan to ever become pregnant, as it may turn your baby into a firemonster… [/sub]
I hate all commercials that use iconic, classic rock songs from the '60s and '70s as their background music. Sacrilege!!! “All You Need is Love” to sell Target??? GAAAHHHH!!!
Bibby
[QUOTE=Shamozzle]
Gotcha.
But why is it legal to advertise like that? Shouldn’t a doctor be deciding which drugs a person should take and not the patient who is being driven through advertising by a pharmaceutical company?
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Reagan-era deregulation. Used to be that there was no consumer prescription-drug advertising and what drugs were given was driven by the [del] hard sell and many free goodies and junkets[/del] helpful information presented at continuing-education meetings organized by the drug cos. for the doctors 
BTW, OTC products are not required to do the big list of side-effects even if they tell you what it’s for.
Bibby, if they can use The Clash to sell &^%$# Jaguars, thay can do anything to anyone.
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Reagan-era deregulation. Used to be that there was no consumer prescription-drug advertising and what drugs were given was driven by the [del] hard sell and many free goodies and junkets[/del] helpful information presented at continuing-education meetings organized by the drug cos. for the doctors
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Ah, I see.
“Side effects may include a sense of anger and frustration when facing a heavy-handed capitalist regime supplanting what should be classified as an essential service.”
[QUOTE=Otto]
Your work computer is wise.
While Fudgems is still at the top of my all-time repulsotisement, everything that Burger King has done with its advertising in the last year or two has just pissed me off. The whole “Get Me a Whopper!” campaign caused me to form the impression that Burger King customers are obnoxious losers around whom I would never want to voluntarily spend time. The “future King” commercial where Robo-King pisses coffee out of his finger while the woman in the background fondly recalls her last robo-fingerblast is just disgusting. Now they’ve returned to their “our customers are all douchebags” with their Angus beef commercials in which a man throws his passenger from a speeding car and the other where the car repeatedly rear-ends the car in front of it.
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The recent batch of PC vs Mac ads are really starting to piss me off.
The first batch was funny. Poking fun at all of Windows foibles and saying how Apple does these little things better. They were nice little commercials, I like Justin Long as an actor and they were funny jabs at real Windows problems.
But the latest batch (which have really become Vista vs Mac) are so fucking stupid. Mostly because they bend the truth or flat out lie to make Vista look absolutely broken. It’s especially irritating because the list of problems they make up for Vista (like the yoga instructor who is mad that "Vista erased my financial records) don’t even make any sense.
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So true, in fact I find the Mac dude really irritating and have nothing but sympathy for the PC guy.
As to Geico, my rule of thumb “the cuter the ad, the worse the product” holds true. :mad:
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Pedisure. Mom is grocery shopping while lil’ brat keeps saying “I don’t like…” I never hit my kid, but I want to slap that one! Or maybe the mom for allowing the behavior.
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I roll my eyes when the kid says she doesn’t like waffles. That’s just ridiculous. I think that mom is enabling an eating disorder.
There is one that makes my blood pressure rise that is for some financial outfit that offers to buy you out of your “structured settlement” and pay you one big honkin’ lump sum right now.
The ad features outraged people leaming out their windows, a la “Network”, and screaming, “It’s my money, and I want it now!” I can smell my own insulation starting to burn as I wonder how many pennies on the dollar these slimecakes will actually pay you and how long it will take the cash to reach you.
And isn’t it a bit late to realize that settlement was going to be spread over a specific time period, and that you were going to get more that way than as a lump sum?
No, pinhead; it is NOT your money until the monthly check arrives in the mail; you know, like the settlement said when you agreed to it. Scream out your window all you like, simpleton.
Ah yes, the J. G. Wentworth ads. That faux-grandfatherly spokesman gets me, with his fake sincerity oozing through every pore and orifice.
Awk! I just saw another. Some car company is giving gas credits at $2.99/gal yes, ok, gas is pushing $4.00, but $2.99 is still no bargain. How many months ago were we moaning about $3.00 gas?
These piece of shit Axe ads where the loser sees all of the women in their underwear (I guess he’s undressing them with his eyes?). Loser squirts on the foul potion, and walks past a woman (in her underwear) - but now thanks to the Axe he’s in his skivvies. And he’s this bony anorexic looking fuck that nobody needs to see naked.
To top it off, there’s some 60s track playing in the background, with an out of tune piano, which also grates.
Any commercial in which the children or father make a mess and the mother cheerfully cleans it up, because it gives her a chance to use her wonderful new cleaning product.
I haven’t gone through the whole list to see if it’s been mentioned yet, but my totally worst one is the (I think) Planter’s commercial where an abnormally (think caveman) ugly girl is sauntering through the street turning the heads (and causing resulting accidents) of ever man she passes.
And as it turns out, it’s because she’s used Planter’s Peanuts as a perfume.
Um … gals … if I were on a date, I can’t think of anything that would turn me off worse than to find out my date smells like peanuts.
Okay, I can think of a few things worse, but you get the idea.
The ones that tick me off are the car commercials that show how happy your family can be if you just get them all in the vehicle to watch DVDs. Forget about actually talking to to your kids in the car, just smack a set of headphones on each little head so they’re off in their own little zombie world and not bothering Mommy.
The new Wal-Mart commercial where the wife comes home with steak, but won’t tell her husband that she bought it because it was super cheap (and no doubt has a quality to match). Nope, she’d rather let him wonder if he forget her birthday, or anniversary, or something else important. The soul devouring emasculating cunt can’t just tell him “Hey, these steaks were on sale, and I thought we’d enjoy them together,” - she’d rather ruin his enjoyment of the meal by making him wonder after each fucking bite when the other shoe is going to drop.
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I haven’t gone through the whole list to see if it’s been mentioned yet, but my totally worst one is the (I think) Planter’s commercial where an abnormally (think caveman) ugly girl is sauntering through the street turning the heads (and causing resulting accidents) of ever man she passes.
And as it turns out, it’s because she’s used Planter’s Peanuts as a perfume.
Um … gals … if I were on a date, I can’t think of anything that would turn me off worse than to find out my date smells like peanuts.
Okay, I can think of a few things worse, but you get the idea.
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But it’s cashews - does that change your mind? Mmm, cashews…
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit]
Speaking of gross–what about when Domino’s was selling those brownie things? And they had one in the ad, and it was basically a cube of…brownness, with arms and legs that got chocolate EVERYWEHRE? UGH!
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Yeah, you hope it was chocolate…
My infuriating commercial is actually a local one. It features Mike Easley, governor of North Carolina, and his “friends” (a bunch of smarmy kids) telling you how you can conserve water. The kids do various things like pop into the bathroom while Dad’s shaving and yelling “Dad! Don’t run the water while you’re shaving!” It ends with one of the kids petting a gorgeous golden retriever and yelling, “No bath for Bingo!” I want to smack that little brat and the governor…neglecting the proper grooming of a long-haired dog, especially in this climate, can lead to all sorts of nasty skin problems. (I was under the impression that Easley is an “animal person”, given his role in the recent firing of a state trooper on animal abuse charges.) Plus, all the kids are extra-irritating.
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But it’s cashews - does that change your mind? Mmm, cashews…
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There’s a Taco Bell commercial along the same line. Two pretty women go to a bar to pick up guys. One shows the other a bacon chalupa in her clutch purse. “Guys love bacon.” The other girl says, “You can’t be serious.” Suddenly, three hot guys appear, sniffing the air.
“What’s that you’re wearing? It’s…captivating.” 
That’s right. It portrays men as easily lead fools, driven by lust and bacon. I’m not offended. That’s what we are.
[QUOTE=Jeep’s Phoenix]
Yeah, you hope it was chocolate…
My infuriating commercial is actually a local one. It features Mike Easley, governor of North Carolina, and his “friends” (a bunch of smarmy kids) telling you how you can conserve water. The kids do various things like pop into the bathroom while Dad’s shaving and yelling “Dad! Don’t run the water while you’re shaving!” It ends with one of the kids petting a gorgeous golden retriever and yelling, “No bath for Bingo!” I want to smack that little brat and the governor…neglecting the proper grooming of a long-haired dog, especially in this climate, can lead to all sorts of nasty skin problems. (I was under the impression that Easley is an “animal person”, given his role in the recent firing of a state trooper on animal abuse charges.) Plus, all the kids are extra-irritating.
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Why didn’t the kid just skip the shower and take a bath with Bingo?