It’s ridiculous and I hate it and I hope whoever thought it up it gets fired and has a hard time finding a new job. :mad:
Yeah, there have been commercials since the beginning of time with blue liquid dripping onto maxipads, etc., but this one is mind bogglingly insulting to human intelligence.
Have you seen it? “Dove moisturizes better than the other brands! Just look at this!” Then they show two containers of transparent gel-like beads which is somehow supposed to represent human skin. Someone pours blue liquid on each of them, and I suppose the blue liquids are supposed to be the “moisturizing agents.” WELL I’LL BE! One of the blue liquids is pulled deeper into the magical skin-emulating transparent gel beads!!! I don’t need any more convincing than that!!!
There are so many things wrong with it. What are these beads made of? What does it have to do with human skin? What’s the blue shit supposed to be? Why not just put the fucking Dove product itself on it?
Maybe it got to me so bad because I had to watch it every ten minutes while watching a season’s worth of TV shows on Hulu.
Another annoying soap commercial: Two women lather up, then we see (under blacklight) the residue that’s left behind by the competitor’s product. Interesting concept, until you read the fine print: Artist’s representation. So, your entire pseudoscientific demonstration is fake? Besides, wouldn’t you want a soap to leave residue? After all, moisturizer is residue, and come to think of it you do sell moisturizing soap too, don’t you?
My current most hated commercial is for some credit card or another.
You’ve got your run-of-the-mill hottie commercial wife flouncing into the living room wearing some fancy-schmancy dress. She models it for her run-of-the-mill doofus commercial husband who is duly impressed and he goes off on a flight of fancy about where he could sweep his wife off to and where they should spend all the credit card points they’ve collected … Florence? Rome? Venice? Where should we go honey?
As it turns out, they can’t use their points for a European vacation, because sweet-ums has spent it all on a dress. At this point the husband smiles. The end. Use our credit card.
On what effing planet is this going on? Because here on earth, hubby is still yelling, sweet-ums is filing for restraining orders, and there’s $3,000 dress in shreds hanging from a back yard tree.
I no longer have cable, but there is currently an ad for some local auto sales place in which the guy screams like Billy Mays while annoying music and voices in the background repeat the same few words the entire commercial.
I really, really do not like being screamed at by ads.
I have sworn if I ever actually see this guy who makes me loath my free driving entertainmen, I’ll nail his tongue to a tree and burn the tree just for the pleasure of watching his face melt.
Yes! :eek: I saw that one and had to rewind the DVR to confirm the plot of the thing. Meanwhile, my husband watched it in horror, looked at me, and said, “I love you, honey!”
I hate that ad for OnlineBootyCall.com with the two guys in a club; one of them’s date is a ‘nice’ gal he met on Match.com and the other fella has a skankasaurus from Onilne Booty Call.
The mesage seems to be that “all men want a sleazy, STD-ridden slutpuppy who’ll fuck the socks of any random dude she meets on the internet”. I can’t decide which is creepier; that the one guy is actually kissing the skank without a tongue condom of some sort —which is tantamount to sucking off an entire Star Wars chatroom by proxy— or that the second guy seems envious.
Then there’s the one of a woman scrubbing a toilet with bleach and suspiciously studying the snow-white, pristine results with a magnifying glass. The message? Just because you can’t see them anymore doesn’t mean the stains AREN’T STILL THERE!! See, we just pour some dye in the toilet, and now we see stains again!
Well, duh. You just dyed the porcelain. And as well, if the bleach removed the stains, IT REMOVED THE STAINS, DUMBSHITS! Who wants their toilet clean at a sub-atomic level, if it’s at all possible? Go sell your paranoid cleanliness message to Adrian Monk.
It doesn’t matter what is being sold - I absolutely abhor all those ads that show the husband/boyfriend/male person to be a total idiot who needs the smug, competent bitch to rescue him from, well, everything.
I can’t stand the commercials with catchy, earworm inducing jingles. My most hated right now is “who stole the cookie from the cookie jar”. Not only is the jingle god awful, but the whole idea of eating cookies to lose weight seems ridiculous.
Wow! That’s disgusting and really disturbing. I’m sure the kiddies just love that! Oh, and was the a hernia that guy picking up granny got? That was the grossest.
The recent Pizza Hut commercial for their pasta dishes. The premise is that a TV reporter is going around to people’s houses to see how the recession has affected their dinner habits. He goes in to one house and the mom is scooping up plates of the Pizza Hut pasta and disgustedly says ‘This isn’t a story, they’re still eating pasta!’ (or something to that effect)
He repeats this in a few houses and then sees the pizza hut delivery guy going up to a house and says ‘Not you again!’.
Get real! Feeding your family on pasta is NOT some huge expensive prospect. The whole thing is just incredibly stupid.
There’s a new one for a maxi pad that uses blue water to represent absorption. Yeah, old hat - but this one is magician themed, with blue water filling up one of those boxes that magicians/their assistants escape from. Of course there is a woman in the box, and thinking about what the water is a substitution for…it just makes me gag.
