Has anyone seen the ad for Great America amusement park, with people acting like they are eating breakfast, but screaming in terror like they are on a roller coaster? It may be the most offensive ad I’ve ever seen (heard).
Joe
Yeah, that one’s pretty horrible. I’ve seen worse (like the Prius ad of with the guy made up of a whole clump of people clinging to each other) but yeah, ick.
I came in to post essentially this. WTF, Geico? You feed people colored water and that somehow has something to do with the quality of your car insurance? These have to be the most content-free commercials evar.
I suspect the only thing that Geico has in common with Pepsi is that their products are insanely overpriced and not particularly good for you.
The Vegas hotel commercial with the guys speaking the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody at one another. At least their old “elevator” commercial gave some feeling of fetishist decadence. This one is just stupid, obnoxious and I’m pretty sure it’s about 155 minutes long judging from my own perception. I’m not even sure what I’m supposed to be taking from it.
The AT&T 4G commercials (“That’s so 4 seconds ago”). Why would anyone want to be like the smug, self-righteous pricks that use the AT&T phones? Not to mention that the underlying message of the ads seems to be “Real life is so boring. I think I’ll just sit and stare at my phone all day.”
(Sadly enough, I’ve noticed with many of my younger friends, this seems to be true.)
My big problem with these is that I can’t help but take them literally. So I’m all :dubious: because they’re all so impossible. Nobody gets baby gifts and birthday cakes delivered in X seconds.
But I do laugh at the neighbor in the new baby one, when she yells “You’re welcome” for a gift she didn’t contribute to. She’s funny.
There’s much hate in our house for the Montel Williams ads for fast money. Actually, all the ads for fast money make me sick, especially the one that says “Sure, it’s expensive, but not as expensive as a payday loan.” Reaming is reaming.
The McDonald’s commercials where someone gets put on the spot while eating with their friends at McDonald’s, and their interior monologue goes, “Hey, don’t sweat this! You’re smart enough to get this great sandwich for only a buck”, or whatever, so the person gets a grip on themselves and tells a big whopping lie.
At least they’re honest in that last one.
I don’t know if this is the same commercial, but the smugness is annoying. I think the worst part (football commercial if there are multiple) is where the guy says “Do you guys know how to post videos to Facebook?” and then they repeat his annoying voice again. I tried to use the sound byte as a ringtone in an aborted April Fools’ attempt.
The thing shrug about Montel Williams’ shrug ad is that he punctuates every statement shrug he makes by shrugging his shoulders, and it makes me shrug want to shrug punch shrug him shrug !
The hopper.
The hopper!
The HOPPAH!
Shut up!!!
Yeah. Shut up.
I promise I will NEVER buy a hopper. I don’t care it will cure cancer and add 20 years to my life.
But the Hopper is FREE! With your subscription to DISH! 
Yes, it’s part of the same series of commercials. There must be half a dozen of them.
And what’s worse is, they only help remind me that “4G” is actually a much-watered-down version of what was originally proposed as the 4G standard, for no other reason that the phone companies started using “4G” to refer to their slightly-faster-than-3G network and whoever developed the real 4G standard decided that the term was so widespread that they changed the definition.
Just found this thread…
My #1 commercial that I can’t stand is for McDonald’s. It’s called Rhythm, and features some scruffy limp-wristed hipster dude walking from the counter out of McDonald’s to the street and appears in a different place with every cut. The whole time he’s kind moving to some beat. This is the most mind-numbingly stupid spot I may have ever seen. And yes, that is saying a lot.
Runners up are the spots for PCmatic. The one running down is just simply insulting. The previous one, where the stupid-as-lint husband wife winks at the camera to punctuate the “.com” in “PCmatic.com” and there’s a little star glint thrown in.
When I heard this one last night, the voices were toned down a bit. I think the company got enough negative comment to order changes.
Oh goody, I get to be the one to mention the new cars.com commercial where the woman has a second head in her hair. The premise being that she’s so confident that she’s … grown a second head? Which sings about knowing which car she wants? I cannot for the life of me fathom why this would make me want to use their service. (the worst part is that I can’t fully make out the words to the song, yet it somehow still manages to lodge itself in my brain in the form of a sort of rhythmic mumbling).
A couple of my least-favorite ads have newer versions out:
The Prius C campaign still has the “Game of Life” theme, but without the Old Navy-like approach and no morbidly obese flamboyantly gay guy…but I don’t know much about the rest of the commercial, since I immediately FF as soon as I see the colorful “Life” logo. That’s how much I hate that campaign.
The antidepressant commercial with the cartoon approach apparently hired a new artist/animator, as the style is markedly different than the previous ads…however the script is the same, right down to the doctor making the patient sit down and watch a video of that selfsame doctor talking about the medication while he/she stands nearby. That will NEVER make sense to me.
The one where the wife’s leaving the guy, marrying the neighbor, who’s son is sidling up to the guys daughter, and he doesn’t care “Cuz his mortgage is SO WORRY FREE!”
The new ‘drop cable and don’t be a homeless cat person’ commercails -
Cute, clever in some ways - except the one that is about ‘not being able to find anything on to watch’ since you have cable.
It’s the same fracking channels - with little exception - if you can’t find something to watch, having satellite won’t help - read a book or go outside already!