There’s a commercial for some decongestant that shows two yellowish blobs representing mucus. It’s just about as bad as the Lamisil yellow toenails ads… ick!
There’s a new Axe body wash commercial that shows hundreds of bikini-clad women converging onto the beach towards the dude. Yeah, as if…
I’ll second Vonage. I have that damn infernal “whoo hoo hoo” jingle looping in my mind right now.
At Sonic, you park, there is a menu beside your space, and teens on rollerblades come to deliver your food. So they aren’t in a drive-thru.
It’s been playing so often it’s driving me insane. Last night, after my husband picked me up from work, we were pulling into our driveway, and the damn jingle came on the radio. Mr. Stasaeon, however, saved the day for me, when, as the commercial began: “So long, farewell…” he clicks the radio off, looks at me, and continues singing, “…and thanks for all the fi-ish!”
Apparently, not having watched The Sound of Music, the song makes him think instead of the recent Hitchhiker’s Guide opening music.
Safe sex.
I prefer the original Head On commercial to the new version. The “acting” is so awful, I think they must have just borrowed the janitor or the secretary to film those spots.
The commercial that really bugs me right now is the radio commercial for McDonald’s iced tea. It has a nice girl asking her grandmother if she would like some tea. The grandmother accepts and the girl says, “Earl Grey or Orange Pekoe?” Right away, the grandmother gets all belligerent and starts detailing all the criteria her ice tea has to meet. Fuck you, grandma! You’ll be drinking your own denture-water before* I* offer you anything again.
Another stupid one from TV is 1-800-MONEY-FAST (or something like that). The commercial is the usual paycheck-advance crapola but I find it very amusing that all of the operators who are standing by just happen to be pretty young women exposing maximum cleavage. If you were watching this commercial with the sound off, you’d probably think it was one of those late-night chat line ads. I’ve started to think of that commercial as 1-800-MONEY-BOOBS.
Are you kidding? Do you know how many accidents take place in the bathroom each year…oh, wait. Maybe removing the tub from the room would solve the problem.
Someday someone is going to give you the water and charge you twice as much as for a normal glass of iced tea.
Well, a commercial definitively doesn’t work if it not only is so annoying that I refuse to buy the product but refuse to watch the program/web site that carries the ad!
Yes, I’m talking about an ad for a certain website that’s plastered over the Internet. I’m seriously thinking about getting ad blockers for the first time ever.
Now, if I could only find a complaint email for cnn.com without having to go to the web page and risk the chance of seeing the ad…
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There’s a commercial for some decongestant that shows two yellowish blobs representing mucus. It’s just about as bad as the Lamisil yellow toenails ads… ick!
Similarly, I hate the animated phlegm commercials which show the phlegm guy (and, in other one, the phlegm kid) setting up “house” in people’s lungs.
Actually, “animated phlegm” is pretty much all you need to say to sum up what’s wrong with the ads.
Right now I’m hating the Juicy Juice commercials that depict high fructose corn syrup as some unnatural chemical. I’m truly surprised the corn industry hasn’t attacked them for it yet. (And I’m pretty sure that isn’t real corn syrup they’re slinging around in those commercials; it doesn’t look right.)
I’m sorry, badkittypriestess, I like this one- I find it funny. For years it seemed that advertising executives felt that only men had a sense of humor (as evidenced by Budweiser and GoDaddy) and it is nice to see women get a chance to get a giggle as well. Granted, the ad execs missed the chance to have 5 or so Speedo clad men appear to cavort about the bathroom as soon as the stick is peed upon, but still. Baby steps.
The commercial is shown during programming aimed at a female audience, technology and scientific advancement is stressed, and the word “pee” is an everyday, common word used acceptably everywhere except the dinner table and a business meeting. If I were to believe commercials for feminine products made over the last thirty years, then my *down there * needs to be powdered, aerosoled, defoliated, and flooded with caustic concoctions designed to disguise or otherwise misrepresent my man trap. No dancing around the subject with this product- I appreciate the truthiness of the commercial.
What do we do when we think we might be pregnant? Do we run ecstatically through a field of daisies wearing a prissy white virginal gown? Nah. We pee on a stick. Makes sense to me.
I hate that Wendy’s commercial where there are two guys, one eating a Wendy’s value meal, and the other eating the itty-bitty value meal from a competitor. The guy with the miniature meal whispers to the other, “2.99”. The guy with the Wendy’s meal whispers back, “2.99”. This in and of itself isn’t that bad. The problem is that they run the same commercial up here in Canada, and because of the exchange rate, they have it dubbed so that they each whisper “3.99”. In fact, the dubbing sounds so similar that it seems like they planned to do this from the get-go. It gives the impression that Wendy’s thinks that we don’t also get american channels up here. At the very least, it’s a cheap-ass hand-me-down of a commercial. Furthermore, it acknowledges that value meals are much smaller than they used to be, and really just says, “At least our tiny value-meals aren’t as tiny as the McDonald’s value meals.”. 3.99 used to get you a full-sized combo meal, and no matter how you advertise it, the new value meals are just a bad deal. To run ads trying to pass this off as a good deal is just plain insulting.
And yes, I do boycott companies that run advertising. I will boycott Wendy’s for at least as long as they run these commercials. I’m glad that Subway stopped running those dreadful commercials with Jon Lovitz, because I can now lift my Subway boycott. I don’t care how bad of a headache I have, I’m not going to buy any Head-On. I may never buy Robitussin on account of their Dr. Mom commercials (even if they aren’t running them next cold season). The list goes on and on.
Out of context, this quote is funny as hell.
I like the commercial for its parody value, but we’re talking pregnancy here. In most cases either it’s someone who pleasepleaseplease don’t let me be pregnant, or pleasepleaseplease let me be pregnant. Not something to joke about.
Speaking of which, I love the one:
“Wouldn’t it be great to know the moment you got pregnant?”*
*No pregnancy test can test for the moment you get pregnant.
And actually, no. Could I get my rocks off first and then think about whether I’m pregnant?
I haven’t had access to actual broadcast television for two or three years now, but when I do catch a glimpse every now and then it kills me how obnoxious the commercials are. The ones I really find amusing show the aproned housewife struggling to figure out a way to clean her floors or get stains out of the laundry… then some big burly man comes out of nowhere and leads her around showing her the proper way to clean a home. Meanwhile she’s just nodding and staring up at him adoringly. You don’t really notice it when you watch TV all the time… but when you catch that stuff after two years of TV celibacy it’s so beyond the scope of reality it seems like a cartoon.
Reminds me of this:
I hate those annoying dancing Pepto Bismol people: “My bowels are finally moving properly and I feel so good I think I’ll dance!”
The commercials that have been irking me the most lately are ones for law firms.
“Have you been injured in an accident that was not your fault? You may be entitled to money for your injuries plus money for your pain and suffering. The law limits the time you have to file claims, so call today and get the money you deserve!”
It’s not the service which bothers me because injured people should get representation; it’s the crushing emphasis the announcers put on the word money. It has all the subtlety of a stomping rhinocerous, and I’ve heard this strange over-emphasis used in several different commercials.
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I loath this ad as well, but I have to confess it did prompt me to ask “How about some Mucinex?” a few days ago, when my girlfriend was having chest congestion. It seems to work.
Maybe they’re local to the SF Bay Area but those damn awful Mitsubishi commercials make me change the radio station at light speed. Some throaty-voiced jackass who sounds like the love child of Adam Corolla and Lemmy.
“Hello ma’am, I’m here to talk about Mitsubishi!”
Commercials are why I love me some public broadcasting. I listen to NPR a lot, and every time I switch to commercial stations it astonishes me how much of their time is spent hawking crap. I’m happy to pledge a few bucks each year to help keep KQED running.
In our neck of the woods the lawyers are rather sanctimonious, and make it seem
like they are saints sent by God Almighty Himself to save you from the Evil Whoevers.
One even has a site called ForThePeople.com-my friend and I call it ForTheMoney.com.