the girl who “doesn’t want to get anyone in trouble but everyone just seems to be chit-chatting” is bad enough, but the suck-up bozo who nods his head & flaps his hand chit-chat style and LATER makes fun of her for her comment- I’d kick his friggin @ss from here to HQ!
Governor Quinn, Avis’s campaign has always meant to infer Hertz. They’re number two, Avis is, but they try harder.
And panamajack, you’re taking your vendetta out on the wrong company. A quick check shows us Stouffer’s (Stouffer’s’s?) parent company is Nestlé.
There’s a series of radio commercials for Southern comfort that I hate. It’s always a group of friends chit-chatting about personal anecdotes and constantly working in the phrase “So-Co” (for Southern Comfort). It sounds like an amteur actors workshop improv exercise in which they were told “Ok, you’re all old friends, remembering good times. Be spontaneous, be funny, work the product into the conversation and make sure you say ‘So-Co’ a lot.”
It’s like they really think that people are going start going around saying “So-Co” now to make it more hip.
Another phrase I hate is the Taco Bell commercial for a quesadilla or something in which one guy in a staff meeting says “they’re calling it the hot new handheld.” Really, who outside of an advertising campaign calls it “the hot new handheld?”
Commercials are stupid.
There’s no annoying catch phrase, but I really, really hate those Turning Leaf wine commericals with the man preparing dinner for his wife.
There are two slightly different versions; one with the guy fixing a dinner at home, while his wife is out shopping, and the other is the guy fixing dinner on the roof and leaves a cute little note with an “up” arrow for her to find when she comes home.
When the woman comes home and finds him making dinner they exchange these deep meaningful looks. Of course, the dinner is ready and the wine is chilled at the exact moment she arrives home.
They’re chock full of loud, annoying sound effects: chopping onions, pouring vinegar, uncorking the wine.
I don’t know what it is, but they just annoy the crap out of me.
The Washington Post newspaper used to run print and television ads with the slogan “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it”. Don’t get what?
Hooray! I’m not the only one who boycotts companies because of their stupid comercials. And I’m with you, I will not be buying Dr. Scholls because of this one.
Boy, they piss me off too! I thought I was the only one…
So this is what it feels like when doves cry.
hrh
Simple. If you don’t get it (the Washington Post), you don’t get it (“unbiased” information that lets you make informed decisions, and obviously you’re ignorant because you don’t understand that getting the Post lets you be intellectual and informed and superiour).
Heaven help me, I’m interpreting MARCOM.
I hate hate hate that gellin’ commercial, and all the smug gellin’ looks on those smugly gellin’ people.
This isn’t exactly a catchphrase, but I also really can’t stand the commercial for the new Tums where the guy describes it by saying, “It’s like…whoosh”. 2 second later, a woman at the table says the same thing, and makes the same ‘whooshing’ gesture with her arms.
Descriptive. Thanks.
well at least you don’t get the sizzle &stir advert with the lapdancers, the mechanic and the broken van.
in a word, sexist.
i’m quite fond of the Pot Noodle adverts with “you know you want to”.
they had to change it from “slag of all snacks” :rolleyes:
I think these commercials cry out for a parody, where the wife comes in from shopping to find the kitchen in shambles and something in flames on the stove.
Uh, guys, I think the gellin’ commercial is a parody. I think they are making fun of silly hip slang. I mean, really, if they were serious about the slang, would they make it so funny and have a bunch of square white people say it? Besides, Scholl’s isn’t exactly a hip company.
There’s this line of herbal teas or something that I hear on the radio a lot. They all have someone in some sort of horrible situation, and a “What to do,” like getting bit by a rattle snake. You support your leg, drink an ice tea, and wait to die, because pretty soon the venom’s going to send your body into shock and there’s no way you’ll be able to enjoy the tea then, so you might as well drink it now. They’re lame as they are, but what’s worse is the tagline:
Nature’s a mother. Drink to it.
Just really lame.
And When UPN came out, they used to have Sunday morning cartoons, with a bunch of kids in neon and black light running around screaming “Oopin’!” and “Are you Ooopin?”, or “Get Ooopin’!” Trying to make UPN into a synonym with “Cool” just doesn’t work no matter how you push it. Especially considering their lineup.
To be honest, I thought the "gellin’ " spots were for some sort of cellular phone service. Just goes to show it doesn’t take long before I hit the mute buttom on the remote.
I think the “Mentos” ads deserve a special mention. And what’s up with all the car ads blaring obnoxious music about 3000 db louder than the human ear can take? I do like the Chevy truck ads with James Garner narrating, particularly the one with the “and nobody knows it but me” poem. That sounds like something from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses”.
StG
Maybe they should’ve gone with “Gellin’ like Magellan”?
(I feel like Chandler Bing)
To me, that’s irrelevant. I just hate the commercial.
hrh
UPN also happens to be pronouncable if you turn it into a word. “Upn” is a lot easier to pronounce than, say, “Wb” or “Cbs.” So we’re lucky that one failed.
Hey, some of my favorite shows are on Wub and Cabbis 
and a half empty bottle of cheap wine in the hand of the unconscious husband.
Okay, it’s not a catch phrase, but this annoying commercial for some ISP.
At the end, this little kid who tries his hardest to look like he’s mentally handicapped, says, really slowly…
“Yeah, and then I can do my homework WAAAAAAAY fyaster!!!”
Grr.