Well, that may be, but if the ads I have taped with old episodes of MST3K are any indication, his eyebrows and mustache combine to make it look like caterpillars are trying to colonize his face. He certainly sounds sincere, though, doesn’t he?
I can’t stand the SBC ads with Tommy Lee Jones, I mean come on, how much are they paying for him? Seems like the bigger the company, the more they have to show how much of our money they can piss away on shit like pointless ads. I just got rid of my phone line and use my cell phone as my only line now. Only costs about half as much anyway, it’s pre-paid and I don’t use them much anyway(phones in general, that is).
Here in Houston, TX, we have a local furniture store called Gallery Furniture. The owner is quite the success story and is a textbook business model for the power of advertising. He’s also a great guy in person and gives back to the community bigtime.
But his commercials are some of the most annoying things in the world. And what’s worse is that his success is causing others to copy him, so we have a slew of local advertisers that I would not buy a penny’s worth of crap from as a result of their horrible commercials.
That kid who does the “Vuh-lasic” pickle ads gets on my nerves so bad I could smack her.
I, too, hate the JC Penney commercials with their implication that Dad thinks Mom needs to get her butt back to the house RIGHT NOW, before he has to actually change a nasty diaper or something, and besides, he wants to hit the golf course.
Dulcolax stool softener–“it doesn’t MAKE you go–it makes it more COMFORTABLE to go.” That’s just nasty, people.
I never want to hear ANY MORE about someone’s feminine itch.
Ditto for the laxative ads that say, “I pilfered in your medicine cabinet, took one of your pills, and pooped your pot full this morning.” Yuck.
I’m so sick of Avlimil ads that I could hurl. They keep showing the same two over and over again, ad nauseum, and they always air them together–NEVER just one at a time. I hate, hate, HATE them!!!
No one has mentioned the ads that make me rush for the remote so fast I almost injure myself : those fucking awful Philadelphia Cream Cheese ads with the curly haired ditz and her “manservant” (It’s a little taste of Heaven - God help us!) I don’t know what it is about these ads that annoys me so much - anyone else?
Mayflower–
Are you kidding? There’s actually a television ad that uses the phrase “pooped your pot full”? Oh my God. This had escaped me. Could they be any more gross?
Well, no, it doesn’t actually use that exact phrase. But that’s the essence (har!) of what’s being said. It goes on about how this laxative works with a natural ingredient and the woman says, “And very effectively, too!” to which the other woman gives a knowing smile and nod and says, “You tried it!” In other words, she took one of the pills the night before and laid a mile of cable that morning–I mean, really! The whole thing is just repulsive!
How about those damn Charmin ads with the ass-wiping bears?
The most recent abomination involved the daddy bear lecturing baby bear that the new version of the toilet paper requires fewer squares to absorb baby’s leftover caked-on fecal matter than the old version did. Then they launch into a whole song and dance routine (literally!) about the wonderful new and improved feces-absorption qualities of their favorite ass-wiping paper.
And it’s all done in pastel-like animation.
Well I must say this thread did amuse me. And here is my 2 cents:
Juicy Fruit ads where they have a guy singing a really bad old school song, and then someone comes and breaks his guitar or sucks him up in a street cleaner. They are making fun of how bad there song sucks, and that nobody wants to hear it anymore, yet they still make us hear it!
Zoom zoom, time to get a new ad campaign.
Pizza Pockets, the ones where they claimed to be so stuffed full of yummy goodness that they would explode. Then some ass would come along and eat the exploded pizza stuff of the face of the person, or window of car or whatever. I hate this commercials so much I no longer eat the whole genre of product.
Michaleno’s (sp?) where they would sing that stupid song whose name is escaping me right now.
In all honesty I hate more ads then like. I would rather spend the 2-3 minutes just endlessly flipping then watching any ad.
I actually like the Mechelinas’ jingle. I don’t think its meant to be taken seriously.
“Donta costa a lotta so a lot you musta savea” Heh heh heh - just goofy and fun.
Band name!
You are what is wrong with this world 
There are two web sites that sell movie tickets online out here on the West Coast, Fandango and MovieTickets.com. Their ads play before movies in the theatres they have deals with.
Fandango ads are clever, memorable, catchy and cute, from the classic “I work for Mr. Fandango” to the current “My happiness is a golden poem”.
The movietickets.com ad, on the other hand (there seems to be only one), is painfully unfunny, tries to be cool and edgy but fails, and is borderline offensive.
That’s a rare case where my choice between two competing products is directly determined by my enjoyment/appreciation of the advertising.
And going back a few years, I still haven’t forgiven Burger King for the BKTV guy, and the totally asinine slogan “sometimes you’ve gotta break the rules”. What rules? WHAT FUCKING RULES???
The one I hate the most is the Meijer ad with the new mother and father standing over the bassinette. The mother is thinking things like, “Oh, my baby is so precious, etc.” and the father is thinking about what a huge inconvenience and a great expense the baby is. It’s awful. Duh, motherfucker, having a kid isn’t cheap.
I worked at Burger King when this ad campaign was running. Sometimes customers would ask me what the “rules” were and all I could do was shrug and give them a “fuck if I know!” type of expression. Fortunately this campaign was short-lived. Nobody else knew what the hell it meant, either.
…the late Harley Earl (the deigner from GM). Buick brought him back from the grave…to sell you the latest Buick POS! I mean, who the hell dreamed this up?
You bring back a guy who has been in his grave for 25 years…and all he has to say is “buy a Buick”?
Anyway, the ads just vanished…what happened? Did GM get in trouble for raising the dead? :rolleyes:
Ron may very well be the nicest guy in the whole, wide world…but I still think he comes off as a complete asshole in his ads. Being in the mattress industry “forever”, being married to a lovely lady, having six children and giving 25% of his income to charity doesn’t make a bit of difference.
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Any company advertising anything before the movie starts in the theatre. Stuff 'em all with rusty nails. Coke, Jeep, etc.
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Mitsubishi. That fucking gravel-voiced annoying SOB. Maybe those commercials are local to the Bay Area in which case count yourself lucky but if you’ve heard 'em you know what I mean.
McDonald’s.
Old Navy.
Fanta.
Whatever company it is with the slogan, “Are you gellin’?”
Taco Bell
Sprite
I LOVE the paper bag Fandango commercials.
What’s the movietickets.com one like? How is it borderline offensive?