Jack in the Box “Marry Bacon” - “you may now EAT the bride”
Because then they’re legally obligated to openly state every side effect.
“I want my kids to eat a healthy breakfast, so I give them Nutella!”
The first ingredient is sugar and it’s calcium and protein levels are less than one percent.
“Nutella! It’s better than giving them frosting.”
I don’t know if this one’s been mentioned yet. I have gotten to the point where I try to quickly mute the TV if this comes on, but usually I panic and hit the wrong button and end up having to hear it anyway.
It’s the anti-smoking commercial where the girl in the biology class drinks the jar of formaldehyde containing a dead frog. But it’s not the idea of the dead frog or formaldehyde that makes me sick it’s the loud gulping/slurping noises she makes and then the “ahh” after finishing it off.
I want it to be real formaldehyde so that we never have to see/hear that commercial again.
My god, that’s awful. They’ve got some model playing at whispering indie songstress and mumbling insipid lyrics.
^I hate that one, too.
What is with the anti-smoking ads lately? There’s one that runs quite a bit on the Science Channel that features a bedridden woman droning on and on about her healthcare needs while a bored young man sponge-bathes her legs. It’s nasty, and it makes me want to stop watching live TV completely.
They’re from the CDC. And they’re supposed to be nasty enough to make you stop smoking (or not start in the first place).
They are pretty awful.
I have noticed that smokers tend to really hate anti-smoking ads.
Non-smoker, those old “Truth” ads made me want to take up smoking so I could blow it in their smug, arrogant faces.
Non-smoker…I thought the old " *truth " ads ranged from irritating to stupid.
The Ford truck commercials with Dennis Leary.
Really? Dennis Leary doing truck commercials?
Why is the testimony of an untalented metro-sexual considered the right thing for a truck commercial?
I just want to dope slap the SOB every time I hear his voice.
Metrosexual? The guy who is kinda blue collar and dresses so?
I don’t care who does the voiceover, but the technique those ads use of having every word spoken drop into the commercial as text … that’s really lame. Whichever ad agency came up with that should be drummed out of the Advertisers’ League forever!
DO
NOT
LIKE !!!
(Imagine me saying, “Do not like!!!” as the text appears.)
Another one that’s been around for awhile, but I saw it again today and fits this thread. The Aleve ad with the realtor (wait, I’m sorry -REALTOR ™) - the slurping and gulping noises she makes when she has to take all those doses of the “other” pain reliever are absolutely disgusting! For the love of Pete, ad agency! Don’t make us hate your commercial! How does that make us buy the freaking product? Oh, wait, I get it. We have to take Aleve for the headache that we get EVERY TIME THAT SLURPING LADY IS ON THE TEEVEE!
Brilliant.
Agreed. It was mildly amusing as part of the “Can Geico REALLY save you money on car insurance?” commercial, but got annoying REAL quick when they decided to make commercials featuring that piglet.
I admit to liking the Maxwell the pig. The next time I go to see my parents, I have every intention of getting a pinwheel so I can stick it out the window as we drive to their house. At varying intervals, I intend to squeal “WHEEEEEEEE! WHEEWHEEWHEE WHEEEEEEEEE!”
<coughs>Ahem< / cough>
Meantime, I would dearly love to shoot the grammar-less copywriter who came up with the line “Jeep is the most awarded SUV of all time.” You do realize, you idiot, that what you’ve just said is that Jeeps are given away as prizes more often than any other SUV? What? That’s not what you meant?
Too bad. That’s what you’ve said. Now gimme ma Jeep, I want to offroad right over your head, and the head of the people at your ad company who approved pitching this ad, *and *the people at Chrysler who thought it was just spiffy and bought it. Let’s see if we can get those skulls to go “pop”!
My current beef with Chrysler is their Jeep blog…I understand it’s just a form of advertising, but jeez, it’s impossible for them to simply say “Jeep”. It’s always “Jeep® brand vehicle,” and it makes for incredibly awkward reading.
I suspect that’s more a lawyer thing and the requirements of protecting their brand.
Geico? Pepsi, you ain’t.
How AMAZING. The latest Pizza Hut commercial tells me that the ten dollar dinner box is only ten bucks.
I’m so excited, I can hardly stand it.