Sounds similar to the one I’m seeing lately for Cici’s Pizza, with the cheap buffet. “Everyone wants something different but I’m not a short order cook so I take them to Cici’s!!”.
Urgh. My kids may not be perfect, but they know that sometimes dinner at home isn’t exactly what they want to eat. We take them out to eat when we don’t feel like cooking, not because they don’t like what we’re planning to serve.
Oh, god, that “pudding face” commercial! Grade A nightmare fuel.
And I can’t stand that Arby’s “good mood food” guy. Whoever greenlighted that campaign should be sacked with extreme prejudice.
Sometimes when you’re looking for superlatives, cold is all you’ve got.
I’m guessing because it’s OTC stuff and people have to request it that may lessen any liability. What bugs me most is she hands him a giant sized bottle. If they do hand out meds I’m pretty sure they would give you a small trial-sized package not a years supply.
Pudding face is way deep down in the uncanny valley. They need pack mules to get down that far.
The other creepy ones that are getting me lately are the Ortega Taco ads with the masochistic talking piñata that drops in from the sky and encourages women to beat it until the tacos come out. Who thought that this was a good idea?
There’s a whole series, it’s not techie vs. techie, it’s website customer support vs. telephone customer support. They’ve got a kind of cute little interoffice rivalry going on. This one is my favorite, I’m not sure if “nts nts nts” is funnier, or the face of the techie at the very end.
But at least she’s hot, and not nearly as annoying as the Mac guy. The Mac/PC commercials had the downside that the PC guy seemed more sympathetic than the Mac hipster.
She does resemble Anne a bit. In a good way.
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He should say “Dr Pepper has a unique taste that does not have a good description. It’s sweet, similar to cola but with an edge, and I really can’t describe it better. You’ll just have to try it.”
But who really believes that old biker guy is 80 or whatever and has never tried a Dr Pepper?
To me, he sounds like Hector Elizondo with a bad case of congestion.
Yeah, who drinks beer to stay thirsty?
I’m sure if you look there’s outright porn with her in it.
Yeah, Tylenol, ibuprofen, and Aleve have taken over the market in OTC painkillers. For a long time Bayer has been emphasizing the heart benefits, so now they want to shift focus and try to recapture some of the pain killer market - because it’s much bigger. So they want to remind viewers that their primary function is pain relief.
My recommendation: Axe hair styling products. Specifically, the one with the guy walking by on the beach, and the chick visibly recoils from his hairdo because he uses gel and it’s all spiky. Then he jumps in the water, and comes up with fish stuck on the spikes. So he tries the Axe, and it gives him the style without the stiffness or whatever. Except, it doesn’t give him spiky points. But maybe he wanted spiky points. Why else would he have them with the gel? Oh, and gel doesn’t hold up well to water. Immerse his head, he’s not spear-fishing with his hair.
I think it might just mean that you should stay thirsty for life and adventures and all that. Another possibility that occurred to me is that it means you should go out and do lots of exciting, manly things that will make you thirsty, so you can then quench it with this particular brand of beer.
I hate those stupid Niaspan “intervention” commercials where people’s siblings/children talk down to their relatives about their heart disease and taking their prescription. (“What did your doctor call it - duh - coronary artery disease?”) They make want to slap the TV.
I don’t want annoying kids telling about what cars they think are cool. Don’t make me stop this car…
Pudding face shudder Just horrible.
I hate the antismoking commercial on Hulu that is about showing what smoking does to your lungs by showing it on the outside. It make my nauseous and I don’t smoke, never smoke and don’t intend to smoke, so they are wasting their time.
Comcast Xfinity comercials. RIght how, the ones with Neil Patrick Harris. If you watch any cable news, they come on about every 5 minutes. They were really, really stupid the first time I saw them. They don’t get any better the 1,000th time.
Truvia (I think that’s the name) with it’s off-key, off-rhythm singer. When I finally listened to the whole jingle it just made it more irritating. The woman’s decided that “Sweetness” is no good for her so she’s found something new.
They’re bragging that their sweetener isn’t sweet?
The Gerber commercials for their toddler line creep me out. The kids heads are out of proportion to the adult bodies they’ve been superimposed on. The shadowing and color don’t match. It’s like there’s a child’s head floating in front of a dancing adult.
The General. Auto insurance commercial flogged on daytime TV. Computer animated Patton-ish “General” barking about the product. It’s short and stupid, just like The General, but I feel an inordinate amount of hatred.
The new Best Buy commercial for their buy back program, where everyone is griping about how they no longer have the newest coolest toys. The worst is the scene with the guy who buys the the 3-D TV only to see his neighbor getting a 4-D TV. He slaps himself, calls himself stupid and his daughter runs around in circles screaming, “You got the wrong TV sillyhead.”
Annoys the fuck out of me.
I hate that just for the crappy 3D animation they use. There seems to be a lot of that lately, including the horrid Blue Tax commercials. Toy Story they are not.
Do you remember the ones with the bimbo running through the office muttering “Just point and click, point and click, point and click” because she was having so much trouble using the website?
Several local channels seem to be fixated on the Walmart “match it! match it! match it!” commercial…it’s incredibly annoying when aired several times per hour.
This is what I came in here to say. I just want to smack those patronizing jerks with their patronizing messages delivered in their patronizing voices!
I find myself completely powerless against turning to the spouse at some point during that commercial and yelling, “Cat shit!”
He’s used to it, just like I’m used to him saying “15% or moron car insurance” every time the Geico commercial comes on.
These people never heard of Rule 34?
Anyhoo, my current pet peeves are:
A commercial for some coterie of ambulance-chasers (I forget the name of the firm – so great job there, ad-writer dude) beginning with a teary “My husband worked at a power plant where the asbestos fell like snow…” In a gesture of absurdist self-defense, my brain then inserts the line “…until the owner torched the place for the insurance money”.
The commercials for BeenParanoid – er, BeenVerified – that warn you that anybody you don’t know personally is probably a neo-Nazi al-Qaeda rapist axe murderer.
I wonder about this one. It sounds like they are trying to come across as a very worried, concerned relative who wants you to start taking your health concerns seriously, like a loving big brother or big sister might, sitting down at your kitchen table for a heart to heart. Having no concerned big brothers or sisters who want me to get serious about my health 
(or anyone else for that matter :() - I’m still wondering why they think an imaginary relative that I don’t have is going to make me look into getting their magic potion. It just makes me…sad.