"five, five dollar, five dollar foooot loooongs!’
Oddly, I never found this one the least bit objectionable.
That ad is for Doubletree Hotels and I do agree that MSNBC and CNN seem to play it at every commercial break. It’s a perfect example of an otherwise innocuous commercial made annoying from being overplayed. I think they’ve been running that ad for about two years. Doesn’t Doubletree have any others?
Any boner med ads. Matching bathtubs out in the yard, squeezing into the 1970 prom tux, or being ferried to The F**k Hut on Pleasure Island. Smiling Bob is OK, though!
Random people blatting out “five dollar footlong” like they’re trying out for American Idol. Like, we’re supposed to KNOW this song somehow, and get a warm, happy, giddy feeling? Why?
The SPCA commercial? I only saw it once, and I would rather go deaf and blind than ever see such a sad, cruel thing ever again.
The carpet cleaner commercial where the dog is dragging his ass across the carpet. The mother’s shrill scream makes me cringe.
Currently playing, seemingly at every single commercial break: AT&T ads.
The air, it is saturated with AT&T ads.
Some are for their yellow pages, some for their internet service, some for phones. Such overkill makes me question why my AT&T bill is so high and why I ever signed up for U-Verse.
There must be some huge battlle waging between AT&T and some other carrier that I don’t know about, to warrant what has to be a multi-million dollar ad campaign, with old people running down pharmacists in their jeep, pizza delivery people sliding down mountains on their pizza delivery cases, moms glaring at their kids for not using their rollover minutes, etc. Repeatedly. On all channels, at all times of the day and night.
Another vote for any male enhancement product. Do you know how cringe-inducing that is to be sitting in a living room with young teens and that comes on? How do you explain what that commercial is trying to sell??
And “Do I want chips and a drink? Of COURSE I want chips and a drink (you stupid bitch!)”
I don’t know if anyone else gets the Monster “On Comcast spotlight” commercials, but dear god I hate them.
The commercials (and it’s always two of em back to back) have this annoying pipe music thing they play, and it just grates on my ears. Not to mention that they play them all of the time…I hate them and literally change the channel when I see them.
The ad for the online dating service (e-Harmony?) featuring the chunky guy rolling along on his bicycle talking about he’s going to take his daughter to a Broadway show (“She gets to pick, Daddy gets to pay”).
Ladies, is this really your dream man? Could anybody be that desperate?*
*besides, he reminds me a little of my brother-in-law.
The retarded State Farm commercials where the hot dog guy sells JUST the hot dog, or the ice cream guy doesn’t have a stick in the popsicle…
Cook? Cook? That is an insult to cooks everywhere. Sandra Lee the stepford wife of the food network isn’t a chef, she isn’t a cook, she is someone who opens cans.
AFAICT her only ability is that she does not hurt herself with the can opener.
Did Head On go out of business?
WTF is up with these commercials for “Cricket?” It’s a cell phone company that seems to be aiming at the same market as Boost Mobile. They’ve decided that there’s some link between Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” and their product… there’s one with a nervous-looking woman humming along which makes no sense. The one I hate the most, though, is the one where this teenager gets a text at the table. Inexplicably, she climbs on the table and starts singing “Respect.” Which raises two questions: how does one demand respect when standing on a dining room table, and why don’t her parents tackle her ass and throw her in the basement until she turns 18?
Well, it was just too long to say “attention whore that only opens packets and cans and dumps the contents in pots and heats them up.”
I saw another annoying commercial with Lee, it seems that just telling you to use all this short cut stuff is not enough, now she is getting a show to show people how to shop for all this crap. It might be mildly interesting to see how she justifies buying pre-chopped veggies even though they cost much more than buying the vegetable and cutting it up yourself, but not interesting enough to watch it.
PS - make sure your sound is turned down or you’ll freak everyone around you out.
If Homeland Security picks me up on suspicion of sabotaging railroad tracks, at least it means I never have to hear those Freight Rail Works commercials again, right…?
Might be worth it.
Any commercial for Quizno’s. But especially the new ones with the guy and his highly disturbing sexual relationship with the oven.
control-z said:
To be fair, I often don’t want chips and a drink.