There’s one I’ve seen a couple times lately for Time Warner cable. It’s promoting the fact that if you get cable and phone with them, you can get caller ID to pop up on the TV. In the commercial the family (parents and what appears to be a young teenage daughter) is settling in to watch a “comedy” and talking about how they can watch the movie uninterrupted by phone calls.
Based on a couple of shots of the TV screen, the “family comedy” they are getting ready to watch is “Watchmen”. :eek:
There’s a commercial for Febreze, or, perhaps, some other air freshener type product that really bugs me. A mother comes in to tell her teenage son to clean up because he’s going to have guest arriving. She ends up using the product on the furniture in his room before he two guest, teenage girls, arrive.
Girl#1: Ooo, it’s nice in here.
Guy: I like to keep things fresh.
In and of itself it isn’t the worst commercial in the world. The problem is that instead of using the actor’s real voices they have dubbed them in with the voice of other actors. The sound is just so jarringly bad that I hate the commercial.
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I don’t have audio on this computer, but can anyone else confirm from this YouTube version that when the mom says they have to “wash” the whole room, at around 0:09 in the commercial, that her mouth isn’t moving at all? My husband and I swear you can’t see her mouth move on the broadcast version, and we’ve got a pretty good-sized TV.
Some other poster in another thread said he hated the AT&T mom and couldn’t see how this commercial sold anything with the haranguing mom. I love the AT&T mom, she can melt teenage poutiness and adolescent smartass with her mom-stare!
Other commercial people I should hate but don’t-- Enzyte Bob (can’t help it, he cracks me up) and Vince the Shamwow Guy.
Every time I see that commercial, it makes me think of just how nasty and gross a bear’s ass would be. 
Ooo, I have lots of commercial hate right now.
First up is Walmart, with the bitch blinking rapidly in her SO’s face while the voiceover talks about how much she loves her vibrating (!) mascara applicator. As the camera pans out, the SO finally turns the TV remote over to the bitch, apparently making her happy.
Carolina Flooring is currently running a set of TV and print ads showing all the different types of flooring they carry, along with their tagline, which is “We Do Floor®”. It irritates me; I’ve never seen the word “floor” used this way.
Any commercial where a little brat is shown making a complete mess, followed by the parent (often the mother) cheerfully cleaning it up.
GM’s OnStar commercials have gotten pretty stupid too. The worst one is where the couple has a wreck after swerving to avoid a deer. Any other auto company on the planet would have shown how the car’s various safety systems would help you avoid the deer; but not GM! No, their product will go careening into a tree at the first sign of a road hazard – but look, they have OnStar, so at least you’ll get help fast!
And finally, Brinks Home Security (now Broadview, I think). All but one of their commercials plays on the “helpless little woman home alone” angle. It’s absolutely disgusting, especially since the woman is always shown cornering herself (for example, dashing upstairs) after the break-in.
This reminds me of another home security system where the robber is watching the house and waits until the family gets home to break in. If burglars are gonna be this stupid who needs an alarm system?
Nobody’s mentioned Jim Breuer’s Pizza Hut commercial? Jesus, that guy’s annoying as hell to begin with, but this seems like a more-obvious-than-usual cash grab.
That, and the way PH does their stuffed-crust now makes it look unappetizing. It was better when I couldn’t see the ring of fat, thank you.
Thank Og I’m in Iraq right now so I don’t have to see that commercial twice during every commercial break during football games.
Oh awesome - happy to have reunited you with her 
The yogurt one is one of her very best. “Hey ladies, want yogurt? No? Too bad, because yogurt wants you.” Heh.
Well, since the Comedian was Silk Spectre 2’s father, that should count, right?
The ones that kill me feature the great handling that allows you to swerve and miss whatever hazard shows up. But you never see the swerver slowing down. Maybe I’m a wussy driver, but when I see something in the road or someone/something leaps in front of my car, first thing is BRAKES!!!
I guess it’s just me…
Yogurt! :mad: I forgot the yogurt ads…like that super-nasty one where the girl is sucking the yogurt out of the container so hard that the container conforms to her face, or the Yoplait one where they’re encouraging you to lick the yogurt top before sticking it in an envelope and mailing it in. Ew!
They gotta show the handling.
I can’t stand the Shamwow guy, but I honestly loved Billy Mays. I would buy anything he sold. Don’t know why, but I just would.
Ooooo, I just thought of another one:
Those “need a moment?” twix commercials. Every single one of them. The one I hate the most is the one where the guy invites the girl into his apartment, and the place is a mess. He, being the “smooth” one, exclaims “oh no! I’ve been robbed!” and the girl expresses sympathy. First of all, why are these ads encouraging lying to a potential (or actual) girlfriend like it’s no big deal? What else is this asshole going to lie about? Cheating on her? Having an STD? Being in debt?
Second of all, it assumes that the girl is stupid enough to fall for his shit. If I were her, I wouldn’t be all “oh, you poor thing,” I’d be insisting that he file a police report, or at least contact them. If he’d really been robbed, the place would now be a crime scene. I should hope that most girls would be smart enough to know that much, at least.
As an addendum to my last post, I found this Brawny commercial, which shows the kid helping mom clean up the messes they made. Yay Brawny! 
I really don’t think I ever heard more than a couple of consecutive sentences out of Billy Mays, because that’s how long it took me to find the remote control and shut him off. His yelling, his pitch style, and his voice just grated on me.
Confirmed - yup, Mom is not moving her mouth when she says, “We’ve got to wash this whole room.” So not only is that Febreeze commercial poorly dubbed, they also add in an extra line of dialogue when no one is actually talking.
We are of the same mind.
Yeah, he opened with his best joke.
I hate this one. How could so many people (involved in the production of the commercial) not have at least some idea how a hovercraft works?
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I think everybody involved in those Aspen Dental ads deserves to have no teeth. “I used to have the worst teeth in the world, I looked like a jack o’ lantern, people would cross the street to avoid my mouth full of shoe pegs, I’d wear a paper bag over my head to get my oil changed – and now I just can’t shut up about how happy happy happy I am that I got my teeth fixed and people cross the street to keep from hearing me talk about my fucking teeth!” and they play that stupid song over and over and over that has only one line.