Okay, I’ve got two that are killing me lately. They’ve always sucked, but they’re also being shown over and over and over and over and over.
This one may be local. It’s for the Ask Gary lawyer referral service. Ask Gary - YouTube
I hope that’s the right link, I fortunately can’t hear it at work. It stars Roz, who talks about herself in the third person like Elmo, and has a super annoying fake laugh.
The other is the Subway commercial with the baby-voiced adults in the office setting. “Hi, Todd. Do you want to be my boyfriend?” shudder So much to hate here… the creepiness of baby voices, the gold-digging (technically sandwich-digging) bitch, and the foolish, spineless male. Somehow the absolute nadir is when Todd says, “Muh melt?” Ugh, my skin is crawling just to think of it.
There is also a sequel to this one, where gold digging bitch comes to get her sandwich and finds that spineless idiot has given it to some other ho. Doesn’t help.
Oh, god, I hate those Subway commercials. They’ve been on heavy rotation recently. There’s also a radio version of the first one: same dialogue but with normal adult voices, which somehow makes it even worse.
It’s actually worse: my father hadn’t seen the original, but saw the sequel – and had no idea why they were talking in little-kid voices, since that’s no longer the real gag.
One more is a radio ad for a jewelry store to the tune of “Deck the Halls,” only it’s “Tis the season to buy jewelry.” On top of the isn’t-Christmas-commercial-enough-already?? factor, the singers don’t quite harmonize, which is like nails on the blackboard to me.
Also, I hatehatehate those Burlington commercials where Person A shows Burlington Bitch their purchase and she starts bragging about how she got that same item plus 43 others for the same exact price Person A paid for theirs. Bargain hunting is a good thing, but do you need to be such a smug bitch about it?
Oh, dear god, they still have her on? She was on their pre-Thanksgiving commercials for layaway and I wanted to nuke my own TV from orbit every time that maniac was on.
One of those “Respect the roll” commercials, Jay Leno dissected on the Tonight Show.
Lady looking out her front window with binoculars to spy on neighbor across the street. Talking to her husband about it. They can see in the bathroom window. The bathroom is at the front of the house, window without any kind of shade or curtain, toilet across from the window so everyone can see you do your business. Bwa ha ha.
God, I hate Roz. She’s been with them from the beginning and I don’t understand why. But at least she is pronouncing it more like “Ask Gary” instead of “Axe Gary” now.
The Ebay commercial at the company meeting where everyone is making fun of the one guy who uses a pen and paper instead of tablet. The one women does a terrible neanderthal impression. Another guy makes a smug your mama joke. The guy finally breaks down to peer pressure and buys an expensive tablet with absolutely zero research, and then his per starts leaking in his pocket.
This commercial is actually from last year and there was a long thread about the creepy “I totally want to jump my brother” subtext then too. If I recall right, a few people thought we were pervs for sullying a sweet brother/sister moment.
I hate those commercials as well. Even worse, after hearing them so many times, the voices don’t sound like little kids, which is their goal I presume. They just sound like adults who had their voices altered to sound like kids.
It’s December 2 and I’m sick of the December to Remember commercials already. Does anyone buy a loved one a car for Christmas? Maybe. Do you have to be a smug a-hole when giving it to that loved one? Apparently. The fake gift music boxes and the Guitar Hero and all the other fake outs with the commercial jingle has become an unwanted earworm. On top of that, one of the commercials features a hip looking urban type womain giving a car to her hip looking urban type man and they just don’t look like people who would be in a Lexus commercial or driving a Lexus car.
This may be part of the problem…in my family, brother/sister moments usually involve yelling, swearing, slamming doors, and Grandma turning off her hearing aids so she can watch TV in peace.
Is the Folgers ad the same one where the dude is all “COFFEEEEEEE,” like he hasn’t had it in ages and may or may not achieve orgasm just by drinking it?
Every time I saw that I thought “DUDE. You were in AFRICA. That’s where it’s GROWN. If you were in Africa that long and didn’t find any coffee, YOU DID IT WRONG.”
Not to mention the coffee they have over there is probably a million times better than Folgers.
What’s really weird about that commercial is the way the girl throws the door open and says “sister!”. I know it’s supposed to be a response to his ‘hilarious’ ruse of having the wrong house, but it’s still a strange thing to say. I’m quite sure I’ve never done that to my brother.
There’s another car-for-Christmas commercial - not sure which car - but the guy shows his wife a new car with a bow in the driveway and she’s all happy and huggy till a bigger, more expensive car drives by, and she just stands there looking sad while her perplexed spouse tried to get her smiling again. Like that bitch deserves to get *any *keys after that…
It stars Roz, who talks about herself in the third person like Elmo, and has a super annoying fake laugh.