Yes, the BWW commercials are beyond stupid. First off, unless you’re a degenerate sports fan, most of us want our team to win. Not in OT, you stupid farks, but in regulation. Why don’t the BWW dolts ask them to have their team win? Then they can rake in the dough Sopranos style. Plus, I don’t like the idea of some soda jockey calling shots to temporarily blind players, or incapacitate refs. Advertising your bar as the kind of place where games are manipulated is not really a good message, I would think.
Some other farktard contenders:
The godforsaken Old Navy mannequins. After years of annoying us with the crazy old lady with the big glasses, they have brought these tools on the scene. The new riff is that they are holding a talent show and idiots are in it pretending to be mannequins. The contestants are annoying, the mannequin voices are annoying, and I just want to kick the shit out of the next dummy I see in a store.
Jeep’s “ILIVEIDRIVEIAMILIVEIDRIVEIAM…” I never want to hear that song again.
On the same note regarding annoying music, please add the Chase “YOU’RE EVERYWHERE TO MEEEE” one as well. I don’t know what teenbot is responsible for that pile of cack, but STFU, please. Plus it seems to be about 20 decibels louder than any other commercial. If you want to impress me with your trustworthiness as a bank, don’t pick a flavor of the month teen poplet’s song to do so.
What’s worse, in my opinion, is the idea that everyone is having so much fun at BWW that they don’t want to leave, which they would somehow be obligated to do if the game ended. It’s as if the final whistle weren’t just a signal to the players to stop playing, but also for everyone else to stop enjoying themselves. BWW is the Winchester Mystery Restaurant - no one will ever be unhappy as long as they keep adding overtime periods.
I have a theory that the people who write ads know that their real audience is not consumers, but the executives of the companies the ads are for. Ad writers create ads with wish-fulfillment scenarios for execs. In the case of BWW, they made an ad showing a restaurant where the customers want never to leave - they want to stay there and keep ordering food (and spending money). BWW execs’ pleasure centers must have lit up like Las Vegas when they first saw this commercial.
I actually think the idea that BWW is a place that customers don’t want to leave is a good one. They could make it about the ambience or the billions of sports games they have on their screens, but they went for this hack job. But we definitely agree that the commercial is pants.
There used to at least be a pretension that advertising, marketing, and sales were about Giving The Public What It Wants. Even that is old hat these days.
Couldn’t agree more this is my number one hated commercial. I mute the sound or even turn the channel
I also hate those Cancer Center of America commercials. OK at first I thought, fine it’s OK but now I’m like “I’m sorry you got well.” Or “You probably deserved it,” or “So what if the doctor wasn’t nice to you, he’s busy helping people that still have a hope in hell.” Those commericals have turned me pro-cancer
They keep showing a VW commercial during the “Life” series on Discover Channel which is a montage of people punching other people when they see a VW (the commercial that is, not “Life”). First off, as others noted, the ‘game’ around these parts is “Slug Bug”, as in you punch someone when you see a VW Bug, not any random Volkswagen.
More so than that, half the people being punched turn and look at their assailant with an expression that says “What in the fuck is wrong with you? Are you retarded?” Hell, one guy getting punched (the wetsuit guy) looks ready to stumble into the path of an oncoming VW. Now there’s a commercial. Just to be clear: I agree completely with the people who regard the punchers as idiots. I’m just not sure why you’d want that to feature so prominently in your commercial.
As a small victory, I always used to note in these threads that the Swiffer commercials featuring heartbroken mops and brooms who are continually rejected by the housewives who once showed them love seemed like a really stupid way to sell cleaning supplies. Who wants to feel guilty about retiring their lovelorn mop? And the housewife always came across as a complete bitch. Anyway, I notice these days that we’re assured that the retired mop/broom will find new love with a bowling ball or rake or whatever. Point being, I was right and the people making ads for Swiffer know I’m right. Suck it, Swiffer ad people.
Chrysler is apparently sending bumper stickers with this slogan to Jeep owners. I got a single sticker…but I own two Chrysler-era Jeeps.
I despise the commercial for those frozen fish strips (can’t remember the brand) where the whiny little brat runs up to her mother yelling, “YOU SERVED ME MINCED FISH I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU SERVED ME MINCED FISH HOW COULD YOU SERVE ME MINCED FISH IT’S MINCED”. Grr.
Oh, and the sexist pigs at Broadview Security have been showing one where a guy breaks in the helpless little woman’s house, and is scared off by the noisy alarm.
Huh. Reading this thread has made me realize how very few TV ads I see these days. The vast majority of what I watch now is on my computer. Go me.
However, I have a moral obligation to chime in on my distaste for Olive Garden ads. They make me wish that I were Italian so that I could legitimately be offended at their depiction of my ethnicity.
After Antiques Roadhouse there is a car commercial* and some woman sings, I guess I am supposed to know who she is but I don’t, “It’s a beautiful dyaeeeeayeayeayaeayeyyeeeeeeeaaaaaya.”
I despise this woman and want her to pick a vowel and commit to it.
*I know it’s on PBS and therefore not a “commercial.” OK, it’s a “sponsor message.”
Another vote of hatred for the Five Dollar Footlong commercials…for some reason I hate the latest batch of them more than the ones where people on the street were singing off-key.
I actually kind of like some of the Burger King ads, but the latest ones have me scratching my head, especially the one I just saw where the King breaks into McDonald’s headquarters to steal the formula for a sausage biscuit with egg, and the voice-over says something like, “OK, it’s not original but we add blah blah blah,” or whatever. I think they’re inspired by the Domino’s Pizza ads which admit that their pizza has sucked for years so now they’re finally doing something about it. Really? It’s considered a good strategy to admit you can’t come up with something good yourself now?
Oh god, I can’t believe I forgot about this one. And there’s that one Verizon something ad (which I haven’t seen for awhile, thankfully) where the kid’s like “EW PIE-ELLA WHAT IS THAT I WON’T EAT IT” when his mother sends him a message about having paella for dinner. (Naturally, she does the “right” thing and orders pizza.) Seriously, what is with these “it’s okay for kids to act like brats to get what they want” commercials?
Miracle Whip is not edgy. It is not hip. It is not cool. It is not counterculture or iconoclastic. It is mayonnaise with sugar. And while I have no problem with people enjoying the “tangy zip” on their sandwiches and salads, I’m nonplussed by the idea that using a product made by Kraft Foods is a statement of individuality or a way of “sticking it to the man.”
Whoa. How many people would get a Winchester Mystery House reference? And WHY do I get it? I couldn’t have come up with the name on my own, I have no idea where it is, or many details, but I must have read an article years ago that drilled its way into my longest-term memory.
I hateHATEHATE the triplet Slomins Shields commercials. Something terrible happens because they don’t have the Slomin’s Shield, rewind, everything’s hunky-dory because they have Slomin’s Shield. The women are idiots or assholes, the men are smug, and the rewind just drives me UP THE WALL. Plus the dialogue is delivered so woodenly you think it’s Pinocchio and his wife up there.
