There’s just one ad that bugs me right now; it’s advertising CSI on SpikeTV.
It plays a home invasion robbery and implied murder for laughs. Not that I don’t have a kooky sense of humor, but this one just doesn’t strike me as the slightest bit funny.
What’s on your “could do without” ad list right now?
Huh, I think that one’s kind of funny. I can see where some people might take offense, but I like it.
Which ones do I despise? Too many to name.
One of new ones for those McDonald’s Chicken Strips comes to mind immediately, if only for the poor grammar.
A young woman has taken them on a plane, and the flight attendant is coming around collecting trash. As he approches her, she looks at him and says, “You better don’t!”
Ugh.
The DELL commercial with the preppy girl and the goth chick…please go away :mad:
About the only time I can’t avoid adverts is during sports broadcasts. They are plagued by that frigging “Rippin’ and Dippin’” Pizza Hut spot. If I ever ate there, those ads would have ended it for me.
Give her three months and Goth chick will be introducing Missy to Fisty McLovearm.
Anyway, the Saturn “what’s the catch” ads make me ill.
Every McDonald’s commercial, both TV and radio, that I’ve encountered in the last 6 months.
The Ditech commercials.
Local lawyer commercials.
The worst commercials ever made, anywhere, are the Seattle-area Money Tree commercials. I cannot find a clip, but perhaps that’s for the best: it might inspire many of you to destroy your monitor and burn down your house.
I’ll second the Chicken Selects campaign. [SNL]Who are the ad wizards who came up with that one?[/SNL]
I’ll nominate the vague “Home Based Business” ad that runs quite often on the lesser cable channels. It features a spam-ish URL that changes from week to week (9MyCareer.com, 7Career.com, etc.). It features a slew of “home-based business owners” (actually actors, and bad ones at that) who brag about how much money they make and how easy it is. One of the owners/actors now also appears as a man touting his new hearing aid in another equally bad cable commercial. I have a feeling that a full 30 minute version of this commercial airs at 3am somewhere…
The Dairy Queen commercials for their new shakes. There’s one where a woman is at a blindfold taste test and she likes the espresso shake so much that she runs away when the director of the study asks her to put it down. But she’s still blindfoled, so she runs into a wall. Har har. (Why didn’t she take the blindfold off?)
In another spot, a man is licking fudge from an egg beater when it turns on and his lip gets caught. (Why didn’t he unplug the egg beater?)
Is there no one in the Dairy Queen company or their ad agency capable of realizing that these just aren’t funny?
I like the DQ Moolatte commercial with the blindfolded woman, personally, but if I ever run into that asshole that’s in the McDonald’s chicken selects commercial, I’m going to rip his genitals off and choke him with them.
I ***HATE ***that campaign.
Just one: the Toyota parody of those “let us rebuild your car” shows. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Fortunately, I haven’t seen it in a while.
The Skittles commercial with the guy in the eagle’s nest. He sits there making “baby eagle” noises until the mother bird drops off a mouthful of candy.
“Taste the Rainbow”
What the hell? At least the Quizno’s mutant gerbils had a catchy theme song!
Now, THAT would be some good TV!
Dell GothChick is reallllly hot! Missy is OK, too.
The one for Ford that starts off like it’s an ad for Raiders of the Lost Ark: “He wore a FEDORA! He broke BOX OFFICE RECORDS!”
This has exactly FUCK ALL to do with trucks. It makes no sense. It makes my brain try to leap from my skull in protest. I hate it.
What about that Levi’s commercial? The guy is in white t-shirt and shorts, and is barefoot, walking along with a bouquet of flowers. He arrives at what must be the apartment of his (former) girlfriend, and wordlessly offers up the flowers. She motions him on in and goes to get a vase for the floweres. He hurries to a window and reaches out to a tree where his Levi’s are hanging. She must have earlier thrown him and his clothes out. Hurriedly he dons the pants, and leaves again, just as she is coming back. As he walks smirking down the sidewalk the vase and flowers hit the ground behind him.
Ugh, how disgusting.
Any ad for any politition of any party running for any office.
I live in MN but get WI TV. WI is a big battleground state and 99.99% of any commercial break will have an ad for president (and most have an ad for BOTH candidates) or for the senate primary. I don’t remember the time period or the exact statistic, but I heard somewhere where the average viewer in battleground states had seen 100+ political ads (where “safe state” viewers had seen less than 5)
I’m probably not the only one who is looking forward to the election just so we don’t see the stupid ads.
Brian
I absolutely fucking despise the “Rippin’ and Dippin’” PH commercials.
“Where you guys going? We ain’t done RIPPIN AND DIPPIN YA’LL!!” And the kids go ape shit. That old bag must say"Rip and Dip" 10 times in the 20 sec spot.
I also hate the PH commercial where the guy is ordering 5 for 5 or something and he gets all excited rattling off different pizza types until he ends up saying something about “pizza slamma-jamma” or some shit. I want to punch him in the balls.
the damn coca cola c2 ones that seem to play before every movie i have seen in the past 2 months. people dancing on desks etc.
She’s old. She’s excited she’s found something cool to say and she’s going to milk it dry.
Heh. I was looking at that one again the other day, and I could swear that Goth Chick was about to cop a feel at the end when she was introducing Missy to the big snake…
So many ads grate on my nerves (including some mentioned here, especially those frickin’ McDonalds chicken strips things). I dunno that I’ve seen one recently, but those BankOne credit card ads with the checkout clerk were about to drive me to throw a brick through my TV.
Oh, and dear God, please let Christmas come and go this year without letting me get exposed to whatever annoying Old Navy ad they have loaded up for us.