The worst thing about them is that they’re teeth-grindingly rage-inducing from the very first nanosecond, so no matter how quick you are with the remote, you still hear it. You also really need to change channel rather than just mute it, because the people in the ads are - for no particular reason - the most annoying people in the entire world ever.
This opinion is apparently shared by most of the UK populace. There’s been a follow-up ad which is just as bad.
I’ve now got to the point where I don’t actually want to kill everyone around me when that ad comes on, but I really hope I never meet anyone from those ads.
A while back, there were some obnoxious ads for the Viva TV channel, and I loathed them almost as much. A couple of weeks ago I happened to walk past the bloke who was in them and I actually lost control - in the sense that my body stopped me walking and my fists curled in automatic rage. I didn’t do anything, of course, but my body actually reacted without me thinking ‘oh, that’s the annoying ‘up your Viva!’ bloke, isn’t it?’
FWIW, he was also jumping around, laughing like someone on a TV show who’s been hired purely for their annoying laugh, and grinning while throwing rubbish over his friend (no cameras around; this was just him) and I highly doubt he was going to hang around to pick the rubbish up - so the rage wasn’t purely due to the ads. But it started that way.
Any AT&T commerical is horrible. Right after Mr Obama was elected suddenly their commercials were all about black yuppies.
Now they got one with a pathetic kid, who clearly is looking at computer porn and his mom says “I know what he’s up to.” Mum says “How’s your homework” and the kid stares into the camera with a stupid look replying “It’s coming along.” and you just know from the shrill in his voice as he answers he was orgasming as he said it.
Then his mother is like “I know what he’s up to.” And you just know she’s thinking, “I didn’t think that nerd would even be able to make friends on a computer, that’s why I’m grateful.” Then she actually says something along the lines like “That leave ME more time.” Yeah heavenforbid you should spend any time with your teen aged kid. Everyone knows teens never get into trouble when left alone
Then there are those STUPID yogurt commericals where the lady always says “Mmm raspberry cheesecake” and goes PAST the raspberry cheesecake to get the yogurt that has rasberry cheescake FLAVOUR. First of all NO ONE EVER SAYS “raspberry cheesecake” to refer to yogurt. NO ONE EVER refers to yogurt by it’s flavour name.
What are we supposed to believe if instead of raspberry cheesecake FLAVOURED yogurt there was only plain or vanilla yogurt she’d say “Mmm Plain.” or “mmm vanilla”?
Let’s not forget the CLEAR commercial for Internet with the fat guy Jeff. OK I understand you’re chubby because you ride around in a cab all day 'cause you work constantly. Fine but you HAVE NO TEETH. Where’s this guy’s teeth? What’s the point of this commercial. If I have clear Internet I can substitute time with my kid for saying hi on the computer.
The Target “Free to Be You and Me” ad.
I had that album when I was growing up, everyone my age had that album. It was supposed to be about how when we grew up, we could do whatever we wanted to - free from the constraints of predefined gender roles. The world was going to be a beautiful place, full of liberty and friendship and equality and all of the rest of that mid-70s stuff.
And Target is using it to hawk conspicuous consumerism. I hate that commercial.
What’s worse is the imbecile man-child who is bragging on the phone to his friend about all the desserts he’s been eating and still managing to lose weight. Then wifey shows him the yogurt container. The doofus apparently didn’t notice all those desserts he’s been eating have the consistency of yogurt and are served in a yogurt container.
I actually like the Cowboys/Redskins Direct TV ad, but only because the dog’s name is “Troy Barkman.” Tee hee
I thought the Green Bay ad was funny as well, but I too was a little confused about this made-up rivalry between the Packers and 49ers. I haven’t had the chance to see any of the other ads, but I would like to see one featuring Steelers/Browns.
And I agree that the iPhone commercials are nauseating. I change the channel whenever one comes on.
I hate the one where the children are “playing doctor” with the (obviously) little brother and he is given a prescription for more fiber in his cereal. The little guy looks so sweet and innocent–he trustingly accepts the cereal, with no way of knowing he’s gonna be doubled up shitting his little brains out soon. Agh!
I have a burning hatred for Cialis ads. A couple is busy painting or doing dishes and then suddenly they are outside and ready to have sex because apparently when you become middle-aged you can no longer have sex inside. My favorite is the one in the kitchen where it looks like the pipes are broken. Their kitchen is flooding, they’re up to their ankles in water and they decide that this is the ideal time for sex. Then, to make things worse, they end up taking baths in separate bathtubs outside because apparently they can’t even stand to be in physical contact with each other except for the sex.
Mostly the older ones bugged me, THIS one in particular.
They don’t show it very well in the youtube, but all that falls out of her grocery sack is a frozen dinner and an orange or something. So it’s not as if the guy actually destroyed her dinner or something…
Then there were the Charlie and Enjoli commercials. Grrrrrrrrr,:mad: talk about condescending.
Annoying. You kids don’t know what’s a bad commercial!
The stuff works for me, and it’s not because it has a coffee cup’s worth of caffeine. I’ve driven 16 hours stopping only three times for gas and restroom breaks using 5 hour Energy. The first six hours were just me and two of those little shots, taken at five hour intervals, got me ten more hours down the road. Two cups of coffee can’t do that.
Want to feel old? That commercial started airing when I was in high school (my mom loved it because it made my sister and I so despresed). I graduated 11 years ago.
So the kids in the commercial are probably entering their senior year of college in a few days.
And put me down for hating “Do you have that 2:30 feeling?” No! No I don’t! If you’re getting exhausted at 2:30, especially after taking a lunch around 12 or 1, you should go see a doctor because you’re probably dying! Gah!
I hate those Keith Stone commercials too. Putting aside how completely unimpressive to women walking around with a case of Keystone Light cans is, he comes across to me as the low-budget, filthy hesher version of the Old Spice guy. He certainly doesn’t make me think “smooth with the ladies.” More like “a rusty Camaro with crumpled empties littering the floor.”
I like that song, but I like a lot of Drake’s stuff. I can’t believe he died in 1974…some of his stuff sounds like it could have come out last year.
My big WTF when I saw the ad was: Christo is doing commercials? I don’t think they added the disclaimer until later on, and if so, how could they not have realized what it looked like.
