Those soda ads start out funny, the Obey Your Thirst ones, because they make traditional commerical icons look goofy (basketball players bumping their heads into doorways). Then they spoil it with the attitude, Obey your Thirst! Ignore commercials! (well, except this one…).
Any Old Navy commercial. As a wise person once said, making an Old Navy commercial doesn’t mean your career has hit bottom. It means your career has hit bottom, face down and skidding…
I’m truly sorry to hear that. For I am a Mountain Dew addict. I love the stuff, and have been drinking it since well before this current commerical trend started. Which commercial do I hate? Just about all of them.
Are you ready for a cold one?
All of it’s stupid permutations as well.
I don’t know if this counts as a commercial, but I absolutely cannot stand the screaming, mullet-headed guy who sells baseball cards on the “Shop at Home” broadcast that dominates late night programming on low-budget UHF independent stations.
What does that guy have against the Buffalo Bills, anyhow?
Any pharmaceutical commercial. Peppy music, smiling faces, and sentimental moments describing the new wonders of drug “whatever.” The most annoying part is when the monotone voice quickly describes the side effects (paraphrasing) as “some users may encounter side effects fatigue, nausea, achiness, soft stools, incontinence, headaches, liver disease, and rarely death.”
I abhor the Herbal Essence “Urge” commercials. All of them. I will never buy anything by Clairol ever again because I hate those commercials so much.
There is another commercial that runs on local tv, usually during Mariner games, for Honda lawn equipment featuring a Great Dane named “Bluebell”. All I have to say is Bluebell must die!!!
This is an interesting question. Ironically, the reasoning behind these “quirky” or “joke” ads is the very reaction shown in this thread. People are so attuned to marketing BS that they look for it in everything. The strategy behind these ads is to get the brand out there in the context of entertainment rather than selling. Is that still BS? Sure. Does it work better or worse than obvious marketing? Who knows. Because the wonderful secret of advertising is that everyone knows they need to do it, and nobody knows how to tell if it’s working. Ah, capitalism.
Another annoying commercial is the Friendly’s one with the grandfather talking to the baby. No grandfather, ever, would go on and on about a restaurant to a baby. Also, all the other Friendly’s commercials are pretty annoying. They all end with that girl with a lisp saying “you and me at fwiendly’s.” I’m never eating there again.
I also second all nominations for the GEICO gecko and pharmaceutical commercials. For those of you who hate AFLAC, you should know that you can buy a duck that says “aflac, aflac…aflaaaaaaaaaaaac” from them. I got one for free at a fundraiser with them this year.
Where I live, ads for the Shang Company appear on the raido WAY TOO FREAKING much. If I wanted to listen to a guy talking in a slow, emotionless, monotone, I could at least get my computer to do it and hear something interesting.
The problem with the title of this thread is that it assumes that there are some commercials I don’t absolutely hate.
There is a commercial in pretty heavy rotation here that may be playing nationally. It is one of those “Not seen in stores” CD deals that are usually not horrible to see. Most of the time I just sing along with them (although the abrupt song switched can be painful).
Anyway, there is one for this singing cowboy guy that also was in the movie “The Horse Whiperer”. It is sooooooo hideous, and goes on forever!
At one point he is going: “Yipi-yi-ti-yippy-yippi” or something and I want to commit a capital offense.
Aaaaargh!
How 'bout that DiGiornio Pizza commercial with the gameshow host (Wink Martindale, perhaps?) setting the loser guy up for 12 hours in the stereotypical babe-filled hot tub if he can answer the question - who delivered the pizza. “It’s not delivery, it’s DiGiornio”. Sexist pigs.
Number two for sexist crap is the ESPN (I think that’s right)commercial with a guy bringing his girlfriend home to meet the folks. As Dad and Mom answer the door, Dad says some tripe like “From what you told us, we expected her to be cute”. NEVER will I utilize either product.
Do you have a problem with feminine itching…?
Need I say more?
The anti-smoking commercial with the lady talking out of the hole in her throat. The part that really gets me is when she says, “The tobacco companies did everything they could to keep me from quitting.” Uhhh, yeah, and I bet the FBI is watching you right now and the CIA has your phones tapped. Sheesh. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
Yippi-ti-yi-yay move along little doggie. It’s your misfortune and none of my own.
Marc
That’s actually for that Rome guy’s show on Fox Sports. I think his commercials are pretty funny, especially the one with the expectant couple in the doctor’s office, and the woman is getting an ultrasound. The couple is pretty ugly, by the way. They ask, “So what is it going to be?” The doctor replies, “Ugly.” That’s gold, baby.
There is a cable movie channel called Flix (which I have because I’m too lame to deserve any decent premium channels). Their tagline is, “Flix. Cool classics for the movie generation.” It’s delivered in a super-smug way just to let you know how profound a statement it is. God! It fills me with teeth-knashing rage whenever I hear it. So your movies are for all people of roughly 110 years or younger? Stupidity.
Then there was the commercial for Beggin’ Strips where the dog runs through the house screaming and moaning about his lust for bacon, “PLEEEEAAAAAAAASEEEEEE PLEEEEAAAAAAASEEEE give me what’s in the bag!” and then dissolves into orgasmic glee, “Ohboyohboyohboyohnumnumnumnumnum BACON!! It’s BACON!!”
I would just like to say, nice work, man. 
The current commercial for Dell with Steve the Dork, where he’s in the superstore and ‘runs into’ a friend and his mother shopping for a computer. What I HATE is the ‘friend’. Does this guy have any facial expressions besides ‘mouth-gaped stupidity’?
That was a great commercial, they should bring it back.
There’s only one thing that smells like bacon, and that’s…BACON!!!
I guess I’m the only one that likes the singing belly buttons. And the Britney Spears/Bob Dole one. Getting the pitchman for Viagra? Hilarious. He looks stressed, too.
Ones I hate: car commercials. All of ‘em. Every freakin’ commercial break, all damned day and night. Is there anything so mercilessly crammed down consumers’ throats the way cars are? Houses? Nope. Central air units? Nope. Refrigerators? VCRs? Soda pop? Anything?
Nope. Buy a car! Buy another car! Buy a truck! Get laid more! Buy a couple! Get a different color! Build another garage and buy more cars!!! One for every day of the week!!! Did we mention: BUY A CAR??? Bad credit? No credit? No job? No food? No medicine for your kids? Then BUY A CAR!!! You need a car to do your best and get the most out of life! Let some guy named Fran :rolleyes: help you get the car you deserve!!! How about two??? Your neighbor’s got a red one! Sure, it’s 3am right now, but pretty soon you’ll be able to BUY A CAR!!!
I walk. Less pollution for your children to breathe.