No, I still think the lamest rhyme is a Ford ad rhyming “Texas” with “message”. This may be regional, however.
“Just look around and you’ll get the message,
Ford is the best in Texas!”
NOO, it has to be “Tessage”, dammit! I don’t know where Tessage is, but that’s the place that rhymes with message.
Okay, there are definitely some bad commercials here.
That’s actually an old joke. So not only are they saying their product helps you score, they’re not even original.
Actually, they’re assuming people are going to have to deal with wetness in their bottom area - whether from poop, or from pee (guys have it easier in that respect). I used to think “Absorbtion, who wants that? That means it will soak through.” But what I realized is that it means the first layer soaks it up and the second layer stays dry to keep your hands clean.
Holy crapasaurus.
That’s not rape. Tacky, sure, but they didn’t jump on her, just persuaded her to take an action they desired. Yeah, she’ll probably feel duped later, but it was her choice.
If that’s rape, then any person who ever lied on a first date is guilty of rape.
“It will blow your hair back”? That’s their tagline? How exactly does a vibrator blow your hair back? Does it come with an optional grooming kit and hair styling attachment? And nobody noticed those ladies’ hair before the present was opened? WTF?
Hi, I’m an ambulance chaser. Pick me for all your ambulance chasing needs.
That one is very WTF. Is that popular in Japan?
Thanks for that. So apparently “Groupon” is some sort of collective deal arrangement that lets you buy into a group rate, thus a group coupon. Interesting. And the way to draw attention to their product is to start off like some sort of publicity for a serious cause, then awkwardly shift the focus to how their company helps you save money on some vaguely related topic. Hmmm.
The Timothy Hutton one is particularly bad, because it sounds like he’s saying, “The Tibetans have a hard time, but because of Groupon, I get to rip them off myself, and you can, too.” I mean, I can’t see how getting discounts on Tibetan food at a restaurant in New York (was it New York?) somehow helps Tibetans in Tibet. But I sort of feel like the Tibetan restaurant in Tibet is selling food in part to send it back to Tibet, but Tim has found a way to cheap them out of that money. Um, that’s a good thing? Hey Timothy, just pay for the dinner and let the poor Tibetans earn a living.
Slight hijack – wasn’t there an SDMB thread on this a little while back? Something about paying a prostitute with what later turns out to be counterfeit money?
Certain American jurisdictions recognize rape by fraud.
Guess it depends on exactly where you live. The wiki above references a case where a man pretended to be his twin brother and had sex with the brother’s girlfriend.
Can’t find anything on the original article at the moment, just reaction to it.
Not as extreme as some listed but the light beer commercials where the bartender insults the guy. Does she ever get a tip?
This commercial for Fage yogurt. Yes, the photography is gorgeous…but by the halfway point of the commercial I’m sitting there going “the fuck is this a commercial for? GET ON WITH IT.”
I love this ad for Athenos Hummus. Fricking hilarious, but it did make me do a triple-take the first time I saw it.
Joe
Definitely a WTF commercial, but wow, the girl who plays Michelle is freaking adorable.
Yeah, she’s a cutie…
Joe
The recent run of commercials for the Golden Corral chain seriously bugs me. I think it’s the guy who plays the GC employee. Here’s one of the more recent ones. I don’t know what it is that I don’t like about the guy…he just comes across as “car salesman-y” to me.
There’s another commercial (Insight Cable, I believe) that has the slogan, “the future is coming…the future is now.” While I get what they’re trying to say, it just seems too contradictory for me. The future is coming? The future is now? Which is it??
I can’t tell if she’s 12 or 21. 
Anyone remember that brief, confusing period in the early eighties when Atari employed Hunter S. Thompson as their marketing director?
Is it me or does the kid in that commercial look an awful lot like Arye Gross?
I just heard that damn Barilla commercial again with the woman with the phony Italian accent telling me that the word for “together” in Italian is “insieme” and every time we eat spaghetti we grow closer as a family. More tooogeeeether. She needs a smack.
Can’t she just shut up and let me listen to Andrea Bocelli sing?
The original table-thumping routine is here; maybe McDonald’s’ ad agency thought the original was more popular/well-known than it really was…
Yes! I saw that one for the first time last night and had no idea what it was supposed to be selling. I figured it was probably some sort of yogurt, but…yeah.
Reminds me of the old Infiniti commercials where they never showed the car.
One of the new Dairy Queen commercials REALLY makes me say WTF.
“I’m not playing a guitar…I’m playing a guitar that sounds like dolphins.”
Seriously, that’s amazing. The McDonald’s commercial is a pale imitation of that (even though I see that it’s the same people). It makes a lot more sense after seeing that though.
The commercial for the HTC Thunderbolt. A phone. “Immense power. Scorching speed.”
My reaction? “Yeah, but look what you gotta do to charge the damned thing!”
I don’t know what the product is, but there are two guys standing next to each other talking, and one guy grabs the other guys hand and licks/sucks his fingers. I think I’ve blocked the product out of my head, but I’m guessing it’s for a food that leaves stuff on your fingers, like cheetos, doritos, or KFC. Anyone know which one I’m talking about?
The trojan vibrator commercials are pretty bad too. First the shower, where three women with blown back hair gave the same gift. To me, it implies that they used the vibrator before giving it as a gift (ew), and the fiancee being so excited that his wife got some toys to get her off. I guess so he doesn’t have to? I can’t imagine a male equivalent product being advertised at all, yet alone well received by the significant other.
Male - "Hi honey, back from the bachelor party. I got three subscriptions to Hustler, Club, and Penthouse, a Jenna Jamison vibrating pussy and 5 porno movies! Female - “SWEET!”
The Golden Corral Commercials, where that weird looking guy is the last man standing after all the parameters of the hungry family are met. All you can eat shrimp for $10! Outstanding quality at the Corral!