Because if we called them “Crapple Jacks”, no one would buy them.
Khadaji, my dad stopped buying Bounty paper towels because of the aforementioned commercial with the fat kid eating the BBQ chicken.
“Problems are easier when you talk about them…
even if it’s painful feminine itch.”
Wha?
“Gee Dad - Did all the weed you smoked when you were in High School make you forget what this crap tastes like? We eat it because YOU BUY IT FOR US, you dumb prick!”
Lauren Hutton talking about menopause and vaginal dryness. That’s horrible.
A few years ago on Thanksgiving, my family and I were sitting around watching “The Glenn Miller Story”, and when June Allyson came onscreen, my grandfather said
“I don’t like that June Allyson. She wets her pants and tells the world about it.”
I laughed my ass off.
Subway must have some real issues: when they give Jared a break, they show these really nasty jerks hassling the kid at the drive thru by ordering something they know perfectly well isn’t on the menu. Or the kid in the produce section of the market - like he claimed to have grown the stuff out back in his garden. What’s their point?
I’d actually like to eat one of their sandwiches occasionally, but there’s no way I will as long as that crap continues.
Oh, and Arby’s “give in to your grown-up taste” campaign drives me up the wall also - seems every day I have fewer options for drive thru fodder.
Subway must have some real issues: when they give Jared a break, they show these really nasty jerks hassling the kid at the drive thru by ordering something they know perfectly well isn’t on the menu. Or the kid in the produce section of the market - like he claimed to have grown the stuff out back in his garden. What’s their point?
I’d actually like to eat one of their sandwiches occasionally, but there’s no way I will as long as that crap continues.
Oh, and Arby’s “give in to your grown-up taste” campaign drives me up the wall also - seems every day I have fewer options for drive thru fodder.
Subway must have some real issues: when they give Jared a break, they show these really nasty jerks hassling the kid at the drive thru by ordering something they know perfectly well isn’t on the menu. Or the kid in the produce section of the market - like he claimed to have grown the stuff out back in his garden. What’s their point?
I’d actually like to eat one of their sandwiches occasionally, but there’s no way I will as long as that crap continues.
Oh, and Arby’s “give in to your grown-up taste” campaign drives me up the wall also - seems every day I have fewer options for drive thru fodder.
Y’all have hit most of my pet hates in advertising, but there is one glaring omission: the Benihana radio series with the various horny women trying to pick up the chef. One has a supposed British reporterette that says ‘sexy’ every third word, and another one has a teenager lamenting how it’s embarassing to go to Benihana with Mom.
And I used to like Japanese steakhouses, too…
Commercials that I hate? One word:
“Truth”
Everytime I see one of those ads, I want to take up smoking…
Kirk
/me lunges through his monitor, travels through the phone lines, leaps out of interface’s computer, throttles him, and hurls his corpse out the window.
I kind of dislike that ad, see.
Ditto with the McDonald’s salad one that was already mentioned. At least it’s not that one they had going for, oh, about 17 billion years about their desserts. “I got me a sundae, McDonald’s on a Monday, CRASH!” At least I assume that’s how it went. The crash was me hurling my shoe through my TV.
And the one about painful feminine itching that was already mentioned as well. I did a quick poll in chat one night, and all the ladies there said that they NEVER discuss their painful feminine itching with their close friends. Lying bastards.
Actually, I like the Ford Truck Man ads. But that’s only because Toby Keith is rough-trade eye candy sent straight from gay Heaven. 
Eye candy doesn’t count. I like the Dell Computers guy, but I HATE HATE HATE the commercials and the character. Steve is oh so cute though. . .