iPod commercials are the worst.
Music is my boyfriend!
Music is my girlfriend!
Music is my dead end!
Music’s my imaginary friend!
I’m glad a little Brazilian group got some airplay, but after 17,000,000,000 airings of that goddamned song, I hate it with the fiery, blazing heat of a thousand suns.
There should be a rule that no commercial may be shown more than once in the same ad break; part of the program must be shown between instances of the commercial.
Furthermore, all “and now back to your program” announcements, if shown, must be the last thing in the commercial break.
Come to think of it, I’d refine the first rule to say that “no commercial may be shown more than once an hour”.
It’s been awhile, but the last time the summer Olympics were on (when they were in Athens) we’d just gotten HDTV, so we were watching the games in HD. Apparently they couldn’t find too many sponsors willing to pay for it, because the same commercial played–I am not kidding or exaggerating–EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK. There were about three others that they rotated along with promos for upcoming shows, but that one commercial played every time.
Even more annoying was the fact that the commercial was *for *HD–it had a huge crowd of people outside some guy’s window, trying to watch his TV.
Management requires that we keep the Weather Channel on at work. In the last day or so I have started seeing a car commercial using the song “Maniac” from Flashdance. After a few seconds of painfully embarassing gyrations by someone who is supposed to be a car salesman, he ends up lying back in a chair (a la the stripper shower scene in the movie) looking up the dress of some woman who appears to be standing on a grand piano)(Why is there a grand piano on a car sales floor?) who then dumps a bucket of water on him.
Kind of like a car wreck - you know it’s bad but you just can’t look away.
Oddly enough I have no idea at all what kind of car they are selling.
You think that’s bad? I follow the local college football team.
That thing has played Every. Single. Break. During. Every. Single. Football. Game. For. The. Entire. Fucking. Season. Sometimes they’ve played it multiple times per break.
GAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Everyone I know is thinking about contacting DP to explain that they won’t be buying any DP products if they ever have to watch that ad again.
Dude.
That one, along with every other beer commercial, really irritates me. It’s either “Budweiser/Sam Adams/Miller/Coors is bottled ambrosia! It’s craftbrewed by our own horses! It’s classy!” or, “[Insert stupid sexist crap] is how a man is supposed to act, and by the way, if you don’t turn into a drooling mess at the prospect of a bottle of our piss-water, you’re not a man.”
I actually like(d) that 1-2-3-4 song until I heard it for the 80 millionth time on the iPod commercial. It finally got to the point where I’d hear:
“One Two Three Four”
and immediately, my mouth would follow up with:
“I declare a thumb war!”
Man, XM channel 47 has discovered that song and it’s in heavy rotation. The TV commercial lets you off easy, the song goes, " One Two Three Four Five Six Nine or Ten". Sorry, Seven & Eight, you didn’t make the cut.
I have gotten heartily sick of that ad with the rotten little brat under the table who makes “vroom vroom” noises while ramming a toy car into Daddy’s foot.
It is one of those rare ads that manages to be obnoxious yet leaves no imprint of the sponsor (some car-selling website?) on my memory.
Hey! It ain’t working! Shaddup!!
Let’s not forget the precocious little twit who, when asked if she believes in Santa, repiles, “I believe in cashmere.”
And by the way, who would ask a kid “Do you believe in Santa?” If the answer would have been Yes, you’re just opening a door that the kid’s parents might be ready to have opened.
ETA: As soon as I saw the thread title, I thought, “I bet he’s watching NFL football.”
I’m not a big sports fan. My first thought was “Must be watching Disney Channel” which doesn’t even show advertiser-paid commercials, just promos for other Disney products. Yes, I know the goddamn Hannah Montana DVD is available, you’ve been telling me every 11 minutes for the last 2 months. And God forbid I not be aware of what time the 10,000,000,000th airing of “High School Musical” will be. If I miss it, I might have to wait another 48 hours to see it. :rolleyes:
Cartoon Network is almost as bad. Not only do you air the “Ben 10” movie 6 times in 5 days, you advertise the next showing **every **commercial break, AND put up screen-obscuring reminders **during **the show I’m trying to watch.
The one that pisses me off is the Hyundai “Duh” commercial. Basically a big chorus of people saying “Duh” over and over to the chorus of “Carol of the Bells”.
I don’t care about your freaking cars. Don’t ruin one of the most awesome Christmas songs ever while insulting your potential customers at t he same time.
Asshats.
It’s not even December yet, and already I’m sick to death of the Radio Shack commercial with the iPod on the remote-controlled car.
Sometimes they’ll do stuff like that so consistently, you come to like it. I’ve been listening to the same guy do Chevron commercials during Giants’ radio broadcasts for so long, it’s as comforting as the announcers’ voices themselves. In fact, Chevron guy’s been around a lot longer than any of our current broadcast crew. US/United Rentals has done the same thing.
If it’s a 30-second commercial, 120 times.
Oh wait, this isn’t GQ.
Umm… fucking jizz-guzzling sperm-sucklers!