Heh, lumbersexual. I’m so going to use that. But yeah, that guy just may be the single most irritating thing on TV at the moment. In the one where he throws the raw eggs at people, I find myself hoping there’s a deleted scene where one of them flipped out and started beating him with a brick.
There’s a Mazda commercial that annoys me because they seem to think I’m stupid. Starts with a young man happily driving through some hills on a 2-lane road. Note: 2 lanes, one in each direction, double yellow stripe down the middle. Then a cop comes up behind him, and he gets a sort of “uh oh” expression. The cop starts to pull around on the kid’s left side (and suddenly the double yellow center stripe has turned into a dotted white line). Then the cop starts to go by him and looks at him from his own driver’s window, and we see from the cop’s POV the right side of the Mazda. Then the cop nods and goes by. Then the kid is magically driving again on a 2-lane road.
Really, did Escher make this ad? First on the left, then on the right, first a 2-lane road, then a freeway, then back to a 2-lane road.
(I fully admit this commercial is only annoying because I was guilty of paying enough attention to notice these discrepancies. Can’t help it, made that way.)
A Netflix add that uses the term “eye guzzling”. One of the worst words ever.
Flo from Progressive. Not only are ALL her commercials annoying, but she sent me a letter. I have no car, no insurance, and not even a driver’s license.
Oh, yeah - and the very point of that ad leaves me simply gobsmacked. You’ve finished bingeing this show, now you have nothing to watch? Oh, woe is you …
Good grief, there’s so many things I’d like to re-watch or watch in the first place or catch up on, I cannot imagine a time where I might say, huh, guess I’ve seen everything there is worthwhile as far as television entertainment. Guess my life is over now. Sheesh - if falling into “the showhole” is your biggest problem, I don’t even want to know you. Myself, I’m currently in the middle of a rewatch of “The West Wing” (so good, yet so sad when you compare it to today’s political landscape) and there’s more than a dozen shows yet on my list I’d like to see or just revisit.
Or you could, you know, open a book. Or a magazine. Or a freaking newspaper.
I commented the other day while one of those commercials came on that it made me want to just take all of the animals home with me. My brother replied that he has the same thought when a Victoria’s Secret ad airs.
You leave the future Girl Wonder out of this. She’s too cute to be annoying.
Annie, I’ve said before that those Progressive commercials really aren’t even selling the insurance anymore. Flo is now coming across as a raving lunatic who can’t shut the hell up about insurance, even during holidays, or playing Pictionary.
Agreed, they really annoy me also for some reason.
Fixed that for you. 
On the “eye-guzzling”, showhole, binge-watch thing, at lest for me, I cant imagine the mindset required to do that even once. I guess I am not the target audience for that one, either. That woman looks kinda pathetic and vacuous already, and she is about to fill that void by wasting even more of her life in front of the boob-toob.
My most irritating word is “mouth-watering”, as in “When you come to Jim-bob’s casino, you are in for a mouth-watering treat!”. Let’s just list other bodily functions along with salivation shall we?
There’s one in Fullerton, just off the 91. Take the Lemon Avenue exit, turn left, and it’s about half a mile up, on the right, in the Wal*Mart lot.
The service isn’t very fast, though, and you can’t just walk up to the window and order without involving the car hop. So it’s really not worth it.
If you’re Geico, your commercials get stupider with each one. It’s what they do.
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It’s especially annoying to us, since we live in Gardena and the closest Sonic place is in Duarte*, at least 20 miles away.
*Duarte is known as the home of the City of Hope hospital.
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I know we’re getting off-topic in this thread but in terms of fast-food burgers in the LA Basin, aren’t there a lot of better choices than Sonic? For example, what about In-N-Out, Tommy’s, or Fatburger?
Is that a real commercial?
There’s an IN-N-OUT just about to open in the small shopping center a block away, where there are also an Albertsons, a Starbucks, a Papa Johns, a Panda Express, a Baskin Robbins, a Flame Broiler, a Chipotle, and a Panda Express.
Who needs to drive from Gardena to Duarte or Fullerton, with this?
I just saw a really nauseating commercial for Namenda, a pill that ‘MAY hold off Alzheimers for a while’. Old lady slobbering all over her old man as they spend their final lucid days strolling hand in hand, kiss kiss, smooch smooch - ‘he’s my EVERYTHING’. So touching and romantic! Enjoy, old lady, pretty soon you’ll be changing his diaper and enduring all the other fun stuff that goes with Alzheimers. You’ll never be able to leave the house and will be praying for a quick merciful death - for either or both of you.
There’s a new “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercial that features a slow-motion, extreme close-up of an elderly woman flailing on the floor. The scene goes on and on with no noise…very odd. (It’s possible that the old woman’s impressively large hair would indeed prevent her from rolling over and getting up.)
One of those monster truck shows is going to be in town soon. For a month, at least, we’ve been treated to a commercial that tells us that, “It’s the sport where every athlete is in it to win it!” Um, what athlete in any moneymaking sport isn’t trying to win? Couldn’t the ad agency come up with anything better than that?
The Comcast commercials where the guy calls all his friends to help him move and finds that they are all busy doing other things and don’t want to drop what they’re doing and come help him move right this moment. Jeez did the moron not think to call his friends a week before he’s moving and line up some help? That plus it looks like he’s got 4 or 5 boxes and a few pieces of furniture to move. I want to say dude it would take you about 5 minutes to throw that stuff in the back of a Honda Fit all by yourself.
Not just insurance - life. For instance, you’re supposed to pay your bills on time! That’s not you doing your insurance company a favor. Those ads seem to be saying Liberty Mutual wants the most clueless people in the country to be their customers.
And yeah, the Sonics guys. There’s one a quarter mile from the house I’ve never been to because of those ads. Not only the spokesmen, but they don’t make the food look appealing, and if the pros on set can’t make it look good, what hope do the high schoolers working there have?
The newest one for the Chevy Malibu is equally infuriating.
They bring out a car with the branding removed, show off the features, then ask people what they think it costs and what brand it is. The answers are stuff like “oh it seems like a Lexus” “feels like a BMW” and “costs about $50-65k” “$80,000 bracket.” Then the guy tells them it’s a Chevy Malibu and starts at $22,500.
Bottom of screen disclaimer: “As shown, $36,550”
THEN WHY DON’T YOU SHOW THEM THE $22500 MODEL AND SEE WHAT THEY THINK THAT ONE COSTS
Ha! I missed that.
When my car was in the body shoppe, the insurance company gave me a rental for more than a month. That car? A Malibu. Biggest POS I’d ever driven. No power, no room, no features, noisy, uncomfortable. I thought, “who but rental companies would buy this?” Could someone go through the dealer lot and see on and say, “yep, that is the car for me! It speaks to me!”