So there are plenty of commercials I hate, but I’m going to break the rules right off the bat and say one that I LOVE.
I cannot get enough of the Hoppah! commercials. They make me laugh every single time.
I’ve just seen one I hate:
Those damn Subway commercials with the adults talking like kids thing. The first ones were kinda ok cuz they at least ACTED like children, but this newest one ist just stupid for stupid’s sake
Any vehicle claiming to be “the most awarded on the planet.”
I’d like to shoot each and every advertising writer who had anything to do with this abomination.
This one for Kayak.com. Personally, I like it but based on the comments, lots of people are seriously creeped out.
“And the line.”
Is it Huggies that features cartoon babies competing in a diaper blowout contest? I can’t believe anyone thought that was a good idea.
I’ve just this weekend seen the Proctor and Gamble “Proud sponsors of mom” ad, which chaps my ass on two levels. Not all athletes have moms to begin with, and dads are perfectly capable of buying toothpaste and dropping kids off at practice.
Ditto on the Subway ads with the characters using kid voices. Our sandwiches are so delicious you’ll turn into an ass over them!
I’ve had enough of that security system commercial where the bad guy breaks in and as the babysitter and the little monsters cower, the cute but stern company employee says, “LEAVE THE PREMISES NOW!” It’s on all the fucking time. I have gotten to the point where I am rooting for the bad guy to stick around and just tear the place apart.
Light beer commercials. Since light beer is so manly you ll get all the tail and then some.
The men’s hair color commercial (Just For Men? I can’t remember) where the baby has the hot babe in the sports car and she’s making sexy eyes at him. I guess if you use this product, you look like a toddler and that will make women want to sleep with you?
It’s really creepy.
I pretty much hate every commercial involving that annoying Flo the insurance lady. And there have been plenty.
Hunh, I was thinking about starting one of these threads tonight just so I could bitch about the Hoppah spots. Gah, they drive me insane, and I’ve only seen the three or four spots in the series a couple times apiece.
As long as we’re about it, though, I’m a bit confused about who this family is supposed to be. The older guy with the mustache, telling everyone to shut up, is that Mike Ditka?
Meanwhile I also hate the Kentucky Fried Chicken advert with the Grandad and grandson wrestling over what side dishes they’re going to get. The spot make no freakin’ sense whatever. As they’re arguing, the parents come in the door with their meal of Kentucky Fried Sadness, meaning maybe they should have started arguing their choices before Mom and Dad left to get the food, eh?
Oh yeah, and the one for Sprint with a bunch of pseudo-hipsters, more or less in unison, making horrible music and even worse art with their smartphones. Yes, you can display your ugly mouth by holding the phone in front of it, how very original.
The one with the sad guy who moved back in with his cool hipster parents, and thinks poor Mom went to bed without making his dinner, when in fact she and Dad are out living their lives.
I want to shoot that poor bastard. From kindness, yeah that’s it, I’m softhearted. . .
I think it’s Just for Men where every guy on the planet stops what he’s doing because gray hair has been completely eradicated. Every guy has the “hell yeah!” expression on his face as if all men have now bonded over this.
The only redeeming thing about this commercial is the stupid way the guy on the island yells “yeah!” at the end.
I don’t know about “hate” but I’m put off by the Car Fax commercials. Back when they started, the salesman tried to avoid giving the customer a Car Fax report by saying “Sure, we have a Car Fox!” and waving a stuffed toy. Now the Fox is wandering around telling customers to demand a Car Fax report. It’s like the Geico commercials where the Gecko used to bitch that people confused him with Geico and hassle him for rates, except now he’s on the Geico payroll.
Commercial cartoon animals have no sense of loyalty.
“Hoveround takes me where I wanna go. Where will it send me?” I don’t care if that guy is disabled, I want to take him to the Grand Canyon and push him over the edge.
Also the reverse mortgage commercials with Henry Winkler. Who wants to take financial advice from Schlub Fonzie?
Whatever car commercial it is where the two salesmen are correcting each others pronunciations and the the buyer says “actually it’s tomato tomahto” and the one salesman give the other a thumbs up.
A) it is annoying.
B) I don’t get it. My wife doesn’t get it. Presumably the salesmen are engaging in some ploy but we don’t see what it is.
The one for the cereal or granola bar with the twangy guy singing "Skippin’ stones and lettin’ go . . . " and that’s the entire song. That’s all he sings. And that’s supposedly an enticement to buy granola or whatever.
I have, however, successfully transposed it in my brain to “Kickin’ ass and takin’ names,” so there is that.
I can’t stand her either-the affected perkiness and such, not to mention the <shudder> heavy makeup. Without it tho the actress in question is pretty attractive.
I mentioned the bizarre two-headed mutants in the cars.com commercials in another thread, but they deserve a further mention here. I also love how, whenever an ad uses this kind of thing, that the other people in the ad simply take it in stride, as if seeing an extra head pop out of someone’ back is a perfectly mundane occurence.
Must be that all insurance companies are required to have horrible commercials. I have an intense hatred for pretty much every State Farm commercial.
The one where they go back and forth quoting Journey lyrics? Awful.
The one where random people make wishes come true by singing State Farm tagline? Awful and absurd.
The one where the wife thinks her husband’s having an affair because he’s on the phone with a State Farm agent? What the…?!
I hate ads that use trends in advertising. For example, the “different kinds of people all appearing for a split second to say the same thing” ad.
There’s a local ad for Carolina Pottery that features what appears to be the entire staff of the store saying “wicker”, one right after the other. It’s aggravating as hell, especially first thing in the morning.
There’s some ham commercial running right now that features a Beach Boys song (I think) that I’m pretty sure is played in its entirety as we’re shown a series of clips from some outdoor gathering. For some odd reason, most of the clips focus on the feet of the kids; the actual ham isn’t shown until the end of the excessively long commercial.