Yup, I came in here for this one too. I
just want to go into a Toyota dealership and tell them that I just won the lottery and want to buy a new Toyota for each member of my family. Then I’ll see something about the zero percent financing thing and say…“Waaaaait a second, that’s YOU guys? You are Saaaved by Zeeero? Oh fuck that, I’m out of here.”
There’s a new commercial that I can’t watch. It shows people texting with their thumbs but their thumbs are little talking heads! Augghh! It’s freaky and disgusting.
Yep, see my earlier post (#30)
There’s an ad for Planter’s mixed nuts that has the most repulsive looking woman I’ve ever seen, who apparently attracts men by rubbing nuts under her…okay, maybe I’d better stop there. Anyway, not a favorite of mine.
I missed that. I was speed reading through the other posts and only read the first line in your post. But I still find them creepy.
You should check out the “Which celebrity crush makes people say WTF?” thread. Flo has a lot of fans (myself included!).
The commercials that make me change the channel are the new M&M commercials where the M&Ms are lusting after the green lady M&M. Creepy and wrong on so many levels.
Also, I just saw a new Circuit City ad today where a guy is talking to a sexy flat screen tv (who keeps crossing her legs) on the phone and finally decides to purchase her. Is it too much to ask to live in a world where candy has no genitals and people don’t fantasize about fucking their TV?
Those ads where they offer you a loan based on settlement payments. The first ones were amusing kooky, but got progressively more and more annoying. The final ones involved random people shouting “I want my money, and I want it NOW!” at the top of their lungs. Normally I’ll let the commercials play out because that’s how free tv is paid for, but whenever one of those comes on, I fast forward through the rest of the commercials guilt free.
Sometimes I’ll FF through a commercial if it’s not annoying on it’s own merits but it’s just aired way too many times.
Yes. Next?
That’s the one I came here to mention, too. I saw it twice yesterday, and I truly hope I never see it again.
Another vote for the thumbs with faces . . . I saw it for the first (and I hope the last) time last night and called my husband’s attention to the horror of it. We both stared in open-mouthed amazement at the grossness. Away with it, please!
“It’s my money, and I want it NOW.” You know, those “structured settlement” people. GOD, that’s an annoying commercial.
Lubricity… Even as a heterosexual male, this makes my eyes and ears bleed.
Yeah, I hate the “cool” smug guy with the weird hair. Haven’t the geeks figured out yet that there’s four of them and only one of him? They could totally beat the shit out of him.
The toilet paper commercial with the animated bears that addresses the “anti-klingon” properties of their TP.
Shown last night during dinner.
erp.
Have you seen the one for the migraine medication where the migraine-sufferers are standing around with their heads in their hands? (Really – the heads are detached from the necks.) I thought it was a Halloween ad the first time I saw it, but it’s still running.
Wal-Mart has gotten nasty with gender stereotyping lately. They were running one ad a few months ago that showed all these vacantly grinning housewives standing proudly next to uncalled-for amounts of food; the narrator said something to the effect of how Wal-Mart is helping women succeed. :rolleyes:
The new Geico caveman commercial which I saw for the first time last night. Usually, I get a bang out of the caveman and his attitude, but somehow, this one just pissed me off: The caveman and his girlfriend are walking down the beach with a metal detector (he must have gotten over his snit from last time). They find something and dig it up…a set of keys on a Geico keychain! The caveman just drops his stuff and starts to walk away, leaving his girlfriend to pick it all up and rush after him.
If I’d been her, I’d have bounced the damn keys off the back of his head.
There is one guy who reads about 80% of the commercials on Sirius Satellite Radio. All I can think of when I hear him talking is (this is gross so I’m going to put it in a spoiler box): it sounds like someone shot a wad of cum up his nose and it’s dripping down the back of his throat.
You know how you always hear that people on the radio aren’t supposed to “pop” their Ps? I have no idea how he manages it, but this guy someone pops EVERY LETTER. He has bar none the most annoying voice I’ve ever heard in my life. They must love him, too, because he keeps getting work, and they even found a girl who sounds just like him to read commercials aimed at females. I’ll never buy a single product either one of them reads a commercial for because as soon as I hear their voice I change the channel.
the one that starts with the words “male enhancement” (smiling bob I can take, it’s the other one) and any/all of the freecreditreport.com (curly haired singing guy)
There’s a weird new one that features half computer-generated and half real kids doing acrobatics. It scares me. They look like Teletubbies or something equally frightening.
Also, the zoom-zoom commercials can blow me.
I always think two things when that commercial comes on:
There are really enough structured settlements out there that not only is there money in negotiating structured settlements, there’s enough money for multiple companies in the business to advertise nationally (yep, there’s more than one company with ads). I had no idea.
Apparently, the target audience for these ads are people who watch crime shows. Every other commercial during The Bill Kurtis Hour was for one of those damn “structured settlement” companies. “I’m Bill Kurtis, and I’ve just discovered…scam artists.”