Well I’m thankful that I’m not the only one who is creeped out by this ad. First time I saw it, I turned to my wife and said, “How. . .vivid.”
This isn’t exactly a company, but Shrek. I didn’t mind the first movie, but is there some rule where Mike Myers’s movies must be advertised to death? Even more so than other blockbusters? I refuse to see the second movie simply because of their advertising. He was everywhere! On TV, on Internet banners, in the grocery store, big Shrek balloons over Burger King, on merchandise. Go away!
I know some people who think I’m crazy to not see a good movie because of this, but I hold by my principles, no matter how insane they might sound.
You beat me to it. Billy is all over Syracuse (buses, billboards, etc.) and you can’t go thirty minutes without seeing one of his commericals. They were annoying before but now I think he has lost his mind. Have you seen the one were he’s driving a bus? And what’s with the timid looking woman that has joined him and the lap dog? Is Billy holding her family hostage?
To be fair there is one Fucillo commerical that is good, that is, it doesn’t make me want to shoot something. It features a large chested Latin American woman in a low cut shirt speaking in Spanish. Billy is only in it for about five seconds at the end and he says the word “huge” like a normal person.
Other ones that annoy me:
-The Viagra “We are the Champions” one. When I heard that song before I associated it with the night Syracuse basketball team won the national championship and it was pumped though the Carrier Dome’s loudspeakers. Now I have an image of a chubby man was a boner. Thanks.
-William Hung’s “We are the Champions.” Same as above. Aren’t his fifteen minutes up yet. Are they making a “Surreal Life 3?”
-The Got Milk? commerical where a little kid makes a mess trying to carry two full glasses of milk and a bag of Oreo cookies. It reminds me of “The Scream Skull” episode of MST3K were Crow shouts at a man trying several times to carry many flower pots “Get a box!”
I like the GEICO gecko but not the “good news” crap. Next car we get is going to be insured by GEICO, just like the last two.
“Can you hear me now?” I don’t want to hear you now, or ever!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there has got to be some agreement among Mercedes dealers to have the stupidest commercials on radio. The absolute worst, however, are Don Beyer Volvo’s pun-fests. Those damn things make my head hurt!
I get annoyed by insuance commercials who state “105% of people switching to InsureCo saved money!” Well no shit, most of us are concerned about the price first and foremost and don’t switch if the price is going UP.
I disdain any commercials for prescription medication. You shouldn’t ask your doctor for that, he should tell YOU what’s best for you. Sheesh, he’s got over a decade of schooling, you’ve just seen a commercial.
Of course, I love the AFLAC duck. Poor guy takes a lot of abuse.
I fucking hate the BP commercials where the question is asked “would you rather have clear air or a car?” Fuck you and your false dichotomies.
And your name is British Petroleum, not “beyond petroleum” you deceitful fucks.
Sonic’s. I hate their smug, smarmy attitudes in the ads, especially the ones where the guys are sitting at the drive thru of the competition and saying something like, “Yeah, we like took your breakfast burrito with us in a wind tunnel, set it on hurricane, and the burrito just like blew away, man.” Hey, squidfuckers, if you’re too stupid to realize that fast food, recreational pharmacuticals and wind tunnels don’t mix, why the hell should the folks at the place which sold you your burrito feel sorry for you?
The “I unofficially work for Wendy’s” guy. Shoot him…SHOOOOOOOOT him!!!
Have fun if you ever want to file a claim.
Or if you ask for a legal document showing you have insurance- they’ll cancel you. Or- when I misunderstood the premium amount- and underpaid by under a dollar for two months- their response was not to send me a note telling me that I had screwed up, or anything like that. Nooooo- they sent me a cancelation notice- postdated by two months- which means that according to them I had been driving for 2 months without insurance! :mad: Not to mention- they refused to refund me my “underpaid by under a dollar” premium for those two months! Donkey-felching assholes- I know why they use a gecko- because every executive has to do a “gerbil ala gere” with a gecko instead! :eek:
Have you noticed it’s only guys in that commercial?
Not a single woman in sight.
I’m not complaining, exactly, but I wonder if that’s quite the message they meant to send.
My boss at my old job told me he hired me because my name is Bob and he liked that commercial. He was actually dumb enough for me to believe him.
Since this has lasted longer than I expected and been moved to the pit I might as well list more companies I loathe because of their adverts. It’s mainly financial ads…
Ocean Finance, Yes Car Credit, Marble loans, elephant.co.uk. Those are the only ones I can remeber, because they managed to enter the conscious clarity of awareness. the rest, being so abundant have mish-mashed into an obnoxious pile of white noise in cloudier parts of the mind, so that I can’t recall any particular details, just that I hate them and I turn over within a split second of detecting them on telly.
I’m Insert politician’s name here and I approved this ad.
Motherfucking Red Bull commercials. Shitty little cartoons with illogical plotlines and grating voices. I have sworn that I will never again buy one of their products.
Oh, and any small-business owner who flogs their shitty merchandise by dressing up in a bizarre costume and screaming at the top of their lungs. They’ll be first against the wall, come the revolution.
There’s some dog food commercial where the guy is obsessed with his dog and how great the dog food he got his dog is and all the different shit that is in the dog food and he talks in this stupid cutesy voice and it’s on every 10 minutes and oh god. Even hardcore dog fans wince at this commercial.
Pepto Bismol commercials… totally unnecessary. If you’re going to be gross, at least go for the gold and be gross and funny, rather than gross and fucking stupid.
I thought it was supposed to be the mindless jerks at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation who were going to be first. When did this change, and why wasn’t I informed? (Damn it! Now I’ve got to change my plans! This is so inconvienent!)
Carelton Sheets and his money-for-nothing “system” infomercials that run non-stop on cable TV. Memo to cable TV stations: go back to showing the test pattern from midnight to 6 a.m.
Slimy bastard :mad:
Yes! There is a company in the Cincinnati area called “The Original Mattress Factory”. The owner does the most insipid commercials ever! They always start out with him telling a little story that goes like this: “The young couple was looking for a mattress. They’d tried the chain stores…”
I’m sure he’s a nice man but for God’s sake hasn’t anyone told him that he shouldn’t take such a condescending tone of voice???
I’d sleep on a sticky movie theater floor before I’d buy one of his mattresses. So there!
Look, we sent you the memo…it’s your fault for not coming to the meetings. Jesus, what a whiner!
One word - “Boswellox”.
(IANA woman but it really takes the piss the words they come up with for the new ‘micro enzyme super graunule quantum atom particles’ in their newest product, and ‘boswellox’ is a made-up-word too far. fans of an old UK TV show named ‘bread’ will know exactly what I mean)