I want that tool to come to my house, where I have one to zero bars of signal with my Verizon cell phone.
“Can you here me n–Oh, darn it, dropped the call. Can you hear m-- Gee willickers, dropped the call again! Maybe I’ll try from outside. Can you h-- Can someone please explain to me why I’ve been wandering around in swamps and stuff when people can’t get service five miles outside city limits?”
FWIW, Sprint is even worse in my area, but it still pisses me off
Mazda. Their ‘Zoom Zoom Zoom’ irritates the hell outta me. That irritating song, and the idea that I would buy a car based on the fact that the advertisers asked a five year old to comment on it.
Also, and I am sure it has been mentioned before, nearly every shaving product on the earth. How many times are we going to be told that the new Gillette/Wilkinson Sword/Spongmonkeys Inc. razor will make us irresistable to women/brilliant at sport because of it’s new lubricating strip/vibrating blades/6 blades.
Oh, and the Herbal Essences adverts. Adverts should not make it sound like you are watching porn when your mother walks into the room with a pile of washing.
For some reason those ads reminded me of how much I hate the Orbit gum commercials. They are somehow cheezily similar to the Mentos ad.
Orbit cleans another dirty mouth. No matter what!
:mad:
BINGO! It’s the infernal, repetitious whistling that drives me bonkers. Especially since they always seem to show two “This is Bob” commercials in a row.
I really hate the Cialis one with the couple sitting in bathtubs overlooking the ocean. WTF? Why do they have bathtubs outside? Who bathes outside like that? Where are their clothes, or even bathrobes, for that matter? It’s just so stupid.
I don’t think I’ve seen the Enzyte Bob one. What is it for?
Except that these things don’t work. The whole “electrostatic” air cleaning industry is a big scam.
Here’s the Consumer Reoprts srticle (PDF)
The only reason these things sell is the relentless marketing campaign…
Natural male enhancement ;j
Well let’s see…
That darn ‘can-you-hear-me-now’ guy
The lame commercial for Chaser…“I took Chaser, remember?” God I wish he would smack that bitch hard
That phone company commercial with their “I-call-it-my-something-something-plan”…except for the triplets, they’re hot
DiTech
1-800 petmeds
Empire Today
There’s a crappy camcorder made carinsurance company commercial in the DC area…man their commercials plain suck
Bob
Six Flags…just because I can’t get tune out of my head for hours
Sticks 'n stuff with Tina Gordon
First, some dittos: Herbal Essence Orgasm-inducing shampoo. The Aflac duck (except for the synchronized swimming one). Old Navy.
My additions: Carl’s Jr. They have mercifully stopped the series showing people slobbering, smacking, drooling and dripping condiments on themselves, only to replace them equally annoying ones that extol the virtues of fast food over real dining experience.
Chevron, with the claymation cars. Not so much the animation (although the cars all look sad…); the voice-overs bug me, for reasons I can’t put my finger on. They don’t sound right–they’re too natural, or something.
My favorite (just to lighten the mood): the Tom Beaudet Motel 6 commercial that says “placing the furniture so you don’t trip over it is now called feng shui”. Cracked me up.
Moving this from IMHO to The BBQ Pit.
ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH I so agree. I hate, HATE 'cutesy" little kids with their fakey little accents with effected mispronounced r’s and l’s.
Oh, makes me want to slap them to sleep. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I still say the ignorant woman on the Durango commercial needs to have a DVD impaled into her forhead so she can figure out the difference between a DVD and a DVD player. (“It’s got a DVD”)
All feminine hygiene products. All of them.
Herpes medication. Why does everyone with herpes have some insane outdoorsy type life, and an incredible body. “Sometimes in interferes”, maybe if something else had interfered with your sex, you wouldn’t have fucking herpes now would ya.
All chaser type products. Really now. what makes you think they work.
The list could go on.
Yes, UUUUGGGH, her especially. Talk about an effected phony little thing. Grrrrrrrrrrr
My mom does, it’s a pretty miserable condition.
But she won’t take the meds, have you listened to the side effects???
May cause nausea, constipation, headaches, dry mouth, nosebleeds, coma and possibly death.
(okay, I made up the last two).
Probably won’t is right. After a while I decided to get a quote. It was DOUBLE what I’m paying right now for the same thing.
Oh and either no one mentioned it or it’s not a nation wide ad right now. But I’m sure if anyone from Milwaukee reads this they’ll know who the American Home Equity guy is. I’m not sure if that’s the name of the company or not, but the guy sounds like Ross Perot. In fact another lending company even had a short run radio spot that said something to the extent of “Why would you want to borrow money from someone with a funny accent…” Anyone know what I’m talking about? Not only is it annoying, but they company must have spend a TON on advertising. I probably listen to the radio about a total of one to two hours a day and probably hear the commercial at least 3 times a day. Not only that, but the commercial has been running for years. Ray Vincent, that’s his name. (Sorry just popped into my head). Anyways…The commercial is the only reason I wouldn’t even think about that company. The whole thing just smells like a big rip off. With all the money they must have spent on advertising, you’d think they’d get someone to read it for him. Also now that I think about it. It’s a local number given on the radio so it’s probably not a national ad.
The companydoesn’t exist anymore, but the damn commericals are permanently embedded into my brain. What is it? Here’s a hint:
“These prices are insaaaaaaannnnnneeee!!!”
Back in the day it was enough to make my head explode.
That reminds me of something I saw just a few days ago. It was an [mpg of an] old ad of Microsoft’s second in command selling Ms Windows 1.0. He was going insane.
I’m having trouble finding it again.
Well, this is almost too easy…
That damn Viagra ad with “We Are the Champions” playing, and overweight suburban guys jiggling in slow-motion. At first, I thought the Queen song was to celebrate their “success”, yet again framing sex in terms of a competition…but then, no, these men are just dancing in the street because they can save money on their Viagra. Uh huh.
Of course, I have no use for Viagra, but it’s like the Enzyte commercials…they piss me off.
As far as products I will not use…
Menard’s - you know they actually play that annoying jingle in the store?!
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese - for not only having crappy “blues” songs but for trying to pass of their product as “healthy” (oh, it has calcium! duh, you’re supposed to put milk and butter in the mix)
Tampax. <shudders> The boat commercial.
Oh I’m with you. HATE HATE HATE. I’d like to kick each of those men in their nards and they’d need more than Viagra to get the ol’ machine workin’ again.
Old Navy, enough said.
Any diamond commercial but ESPECIALLY the one with the money grubbin’ bitch who gets mad when her man yells “I LOVE THIS WOMAN!” and yet all is well in the world when he gives her a diamond. That display of affection is a-okay with her.
On the other side… there’s one for Toro where a dad is feeding his son baby food and he says “See, it’s good. It’s good. Daddy likes it, daddy likes it.” and he takes a bite and makes the most HORRIBLE face and grunts. No idea why, but that one cracks me up.
That stupid walkie-talkie phone, Nextel, I think: “Where you at?” I’m at the bookstore, buying a book on proper grammar. The old lady in the commercial has the biggest damned mouth I’ve ever seen on a human being. It’s grotesque, and I either have to flip the channel or spend the entire time staring at it.
Mr. “Your mattress is FREEEEEEEE!”
[Blue Lazor Commander] I just hate you so much!" [/BLC]
The only good thing to come out of this commercial campaign (and yes, there is one) is that the radio ads have the guy’s beleagured accountant, who is one giant ulcer with a mouth shrieking at the top of his lungs “You’re killing me Larry!” My brother’s name is Lawrence, and so for a few months every time we played Unreal Tournament I’d shout that when he got me. It is now old, so very old, and the commercials. Just. Keep. Coming.
Those stupid aftershave/body lotion ads which will make every woman rip her clothes off to get to you. Especially that one that has a mosquito bite the guy, and the frog eats the mosquito, and the frog’s humping another frog when it gets caught, and frog legs are served to this old guy, and immediately some woman grabs the old man, flash to the man’s picture on his gravestone, and then two maggots crawl out of the dirt and make a heart. Lovely.