Well, I approve of any anti-smoking ads, so I don’t dislike those.
The ones that p*ss me off, is those for a perfectly ordinary looking silver car- usually some Toyato (yeah, I know, but no free name mentions for these crooks) or something (but Audi does one also). People are then staring at this everyday average car like they have never seen a horseless carriage before- and drooling like it is made of chocolate. No, sorry Toyato- that car is so ordinary that the only way dudes would stare at it that way is if you had the “swedish bikini team” there- naked.
OK, run the same ad for a Lamborgini, and I’ll believe it.
The song - “Give a little bit…” makes the ad seem like it’s going to be about giving to a 9/11 fund, then it turns out to be about giving f**king sweaters!
Deep disappointment with Liz Phair for her sellout cameo.
Further proof that Johnny from the Goo Goo Dolls is now a complete whore.
A new GEICO ad, patterned after that “Tiger/Dragon” movie, with GEICO folks flying around a huge atrium in their office building. Yeh. Right. Bring back the lizard.
Damn. Tony Hawk is a great skater and such, and his video games rule, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t he look like a forty-year old trying to regain his youth, in vain, in his commercials.
Kia ad where guy and girl are driving thru US Southwest. Beautiful scenery. Guy reading Owners Manual. Even when they stop at Grand Canyon. Evidence that Kia buyers - and their ad agency - are idiots (OK, she may own the Kia, since she’s driving, but, he’s even more an idiot if its not even his Kia).
Corollary - she drives off, leaving him reading his manual.
The Dell Dweeb has been mentioned before, but now somebody at the ad agency thinks this goober is so popular that they’ve spawned two NEW FREAKIN’ ADS about him.
Now, I work in a newsroom where we have the TV on (usually without the sound and tuned to CNN or MSNBC), so I have never heard this doughnut-brain speak, but I can tell by what he’s wearing that it must be incredibly goofy.
And yes, the poster who mentioned that mama wants to jump his bones is correct. The actress must have gotten hazard pay to smirk like that.
Any commercial that shows people with beads of perspiration on them. Gah!!! I swear I’m not exaggerating when I say that this actually makes my stomach heave. I have to actively control my gag reflex so as not to puke when I see shit like that.
I hate lots of commercials… but one that was particularly weird and irritating were those commercials for the Kelly family CD’s. Anyone remember them? They were from Finland or something but they had stupid songs like “Fell in Love with an Alien” I think it was about a couple of years ago.
It was so bizarre. They looked like Children of the Corn.
I’ve found a way to make those commercials not only tolerable, but funny:
Man: Ever wonder what lightning smells like?
Me: <Ralph Wiggum voice> It smells like burning!</RWv>
For “avalanche” substitute “freezing.”
The commercial du jour that makes me want to break things is the one for this over-muscled 40-year-old man advertising his weight-loss/get-buff videos. I hate those with a deep and abiding passion. Especially when they start out mentioning “Get in shape for the summer…” IT’S FRICKIN’ NOVEMBER! Gah!
I hate all commercials period.
Sloppy kids with stupid moronic parents who smile like they’ve just had a lobodomy.
Anti-smoking ad that features a big black woman driving a tin can with a white guy passenger who lites up a smoke. She suddenly turns off the road and careens thru the wood nearly hitting a tree. He’s shocked and looks at her. She sez: You’re endangering my life so i’ll endanger yours.
How freakin stupid can it get. She’s endangering both lives running off the road.
How about propaganda Anti-Drug ads that state if you do drugz, you support terrorism.
Seems like Madison Ave would be smarter than what they are.
They make a decent commercial (if there is such a thing) and they run it in the ground or some group gets a hair up the hoohoo and get it taken off because little Johnny may become influenced by it.
Maybe we need a “Commercials We’d like to See” postings.
I hate info-mercials too.
I know Mr. Bowflex needs a bow up his hoohoo.
Some of you have complained about the timing of ads that run during the dinner hour. TP/'roids/Herpes/Winged Pads. Maybe you should eat earlier or later. LOL
And to think - some of us sit and watch “The Worlds Funniest Commercials” or “Bleeped Commercials”.
Another irk of ours is: And coming up next blah blah blah.
But first blah blah blah and later we’ll see blah blah blah.
Ent. Tonite is esp bad about it and so is our local news.
Gimme the damn news now.
And Car ads are the pits - They all scream at us at 5:pm.
But I guess they’re desperate to sell us a car so they have to yell.
Or howbout tv shows where you have to pump up the volume, then suddenly A COMMERCIAL screams at you. Thank God for the mute button.
I hate info-mercials too.
I know Mr. Bowflex needs a bow up his hoohoo .
Some of you have complained about the timing of ads that run during the dinner hour. TP/'roids/Herpes/Winged Pads. Maybe you should eat earlier or later. LOL
And to think - some of us sit and watch “The Worlds Funniest Commercials” or “Bleeped Commercials”.
Another irk of ours is: And coming up next blah blah blah.
But first blah blah blah and later we’ll see blah blah blah.
Ent. Tonite is esp bad about it and so is our local news.
Gimme the damn news now.
And Car ads are the pits - They all scream at us at 5:pm.
But I guess they’re desperate to sell us a car so they have to yell.
Or howbout tv shows where you have to pump up the volume, then suddenly A COMMERCIAL screams at you. Thank God for the mute button.:eek: :eek:
Oh perfect! There’s some smarmy, local, radio spots that “they” run into the ground late at night around here. God, please make 'em stop! You may now return to your regular programming.and that British guy with the suspenders
I know this is a very old thread, but this mention, in particular, made me laugh so hard.
I used to work at Whataburger, when I was 16 or so, and unless they’ve fixed up their taquito recipe, we made the “eggs con papas” :rolleyes: taquitos from chopped up hash brown patties and eggs that came in a milk carton. Not quite like homemade, there. (They are really good though. I like my Whataburger taquitos with potato, egg, cheese and bacon. Plus one of the little salsa tubs to dip it in. Mmmm.)
