Five,Five Dollar,Footloooooongs, damn you , Subway, damn you!
Yeah, even if the bears don’t have paper bits clinging to their asses, these ads are disgusting.
Any ad which attempts to profit from using popular songs, particularly but not exclusively rock songs I liked, gets muted.
The VW commercials with Brooke Shields. You know, the ones where she starts talking about women who have babies simply to enjoy German engineering. Urgh. What numb-nut authorized financing those pieces o’ crap?
Oh, and those damn Granny 8 commercials by Homestead Financial. I want to sit on that granny and crush her.
A capsule that can make a man larger?
SMIRKS GROTESQUELY
Those fake “man on the street” interviews really piss me off as well.
I hate any Nextel ad that plays the chirping sound those damn phones make. Most of their ads (such as the “what if firefighters ruled the earth?” one) play it continuously. The electric chair is too good for the asshole who invented those things.
My general feeling is that when an ad campaign becomes more about the ad campaign than the product itself, I can no longer tolerate it. Examples:
Alltel
Capital One
GEICO
E-surance
I hate that fucking Billy Mays. His voice is a loud, grating chainsaw that’ll cut through anything. I’d gladly gouge out his eyes for all the times I’ve had to stop what I was doing and mute the TV because that damn voice was annoying the hell out of me again.
Heh, that is catchy. I do love however, for some reason, the one where they have the hula girls dancing to the song, with the hand motions indicating the key phrases.
I also am not fond of the pepto bismo commercials in general, but do love the one where giant monsters are acting out the song.
On the other hand, while I suspect 99% of humans are genetically created to loathe the old Quiznos sub commercials with mutant hamsters, I find them and their “I luv deez subs!” songs to be delightfully bizarre.
There’s not enough bizarre commercials these days. There was a string of them starting during the Superbowl the same year that the first season of Survivor came out, and me and my friends used to joke that the ad agencies had crack in their water supplies, but the weirdness levels have steadily declined since then.
It might be tolerable if the guys would spill out of the car and start duking it out or something. But there is one Sonic commercial I like: the one with the smokin’ hot young brunette sitting in the driver’s seat, making lame jokes with another girl. I have no idea what’s being said in the commercial, but even muted, I have to watch. Yummy. (The brunette, I mean. I haven’t been to Sonic for 30 years.)
“ARE YOU FOLLOWIN’ ME CAMERA GUY!?” He’s oddly compelling to watch. I have no idea why.
This commercial is currently driving me bonkers. Sinupret for kids. It’s both annoying AND creepy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHeIOVN-7zY
“I love you more.”
“NO. I love YOU more.”
And this. Oh, God this. It’s an abomination unto feet and Skittles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsEYqFQZoQA :eek::eek::eek::eek:
God, I hate that “if firefighters made laws” crap. Laws are detailed for a reason, people. Yeah, let’s pass a law that just “requires clean water.” Good plan. How clean? Who pays for it? Who provides it? What happens when it rains? What happens if you don’t get clean water?
Stop appealing to idiots who don’t understand why government is actually a good thing.
Do you think you can dig up a youtube link for that? I’ve never seen that one.
Here ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GLdgyHVBa0
The most disturbing ad I’ve seen in a while. The half man, half horse in the shower (i think it’s old spice), and who appears with a babe at the end, implying,
- he’s hung like a horse (d’uh)
- his wife/girlfriend is into beastiality (gross)
Freaks me out and is a channel changer.
I’ve only seen this one on ESPN and sporting events. I don’t get it,
I started a thread recently about gruesome road safety ads but no-one replied. 
Oxyclean Guy.
Why does he have to SHOUT EVERYTHING?
I especially hate that the firefighters are all men! Nary a lady in the room, AFAICT.
It seems to have run its course - hopefully - but I simply couldn’t stand the Honda (?) commercial that was running over the summer with a raccoon singing Donovan’s “First There is a Mountain.” Holy fleurking schnitt, that was annoying. Anytime I saw that thing, the song (one of the three or four worst songs ever recorded, methinks, beautifully skewered by Steven King in “On Writing”) would be running through my head for days. And as soon as I finally, finally purged it, I would, of course, see the damn commercial again.
I’m also really, really glad that the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates MicroSoft commercials died the quick death they deserved.
99-plus percent off all commercials make me want to change the channel. Usually I settle for muting them, for obvious reasons. But the ones that piss me off the most these days are the ones for the Radio City Christmas show, and the Budweiser ads about “drinkability.” I’ve been frothing about this term since they invented it a few years ago, and now it’s the focus of their ads. It’s one of the worst bullshit marketing terms I’ve ever heard. If you want to talk about the flavor or texture of your beer, go for it, but apparently all they want to tell you is that it’s a FUCKING LIQUID!