The new McDonald’s iced coffee commercials drive me NUTS. The ones that show people doing various unpleasant things without the coffee drink, looking unhappy (voiceover: “Chore.”) and then with the coffee drink, looking happy (voiceover: “Choré.”) Other examples are “Commuté” “Cubiclé” and “Shuttlé.” I hate them.
You mean the commercial that’s gayer than Stewie-heavy episodes of Family Guy and all of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy combined? Oh yeah, I hate that one.
Another one is the car commercial with the “Cub Scouts” and the “Pinewood Derby”. But they don’t have the boys in real Cub Scout uniforms - BSA has been known to sue over that sort of thing. So instead of a fake Scout uniform, or a sash, or identical t-shirts, the producers put the boys in Brownie Vests. :smack: :eek: :rolleyes: So wrong, so very wrong.
Cartoon Network/Adult Swim has endless repeats of the World’s Worst Commercial for When Your Wife is Sleeping - the one for GameFly/GameTap/NetFlixGames/WhateverTheBleepThetCallIt where idiots are screaming at the tops of their lungs (over bad computer games) during the ENTIRE spot. It makes for a long thirty seconds. Dental work long. I usually find the mute button on the remote just as the ad finishes up. :mad: Whoever wrote that ad should have a colicky baby in their house every night forever. In hell. In the part of hell next to the refineries. With jackhammers.
And every Land of the Lost promo I see makes me less likely to see the movie. That’s mostly a reflection on the quality of the product.
Just the commerical I was coming to talk about tonight. I find it deeply disturbing, and I wish they’d stop showing it. It’s the cheerful version of the Black Hole of Calcutta!
One I despise is the battery commercial where the little kid wanders away and “suddenly everything depends” on the batteries in the kid locater working. Or, you know, the mother could look around. The commercial just reinforces the whole societal paranoia we have in which every other person must be a child molester or mass murderer.
I think the department of public health would be interested in that particular franchise. 
I saw that commercial again tonight and, with the porn titles thread in mind, came up with a title for a Quizno’s-themed porn: “Jizz-'mo’s man sandwich.”
Something is massively wrong in that commercial. The child appears to be about 6 years old or so – old enough to walk around on his own for extended periods, anyway – yet the mother is hauling an apparently empty stroller around. The area she’s in appears to be pretty flat; just how fast can the child move, anyway?
Also, I get a kick out of how the mother carefully repacks her purse and the stroller before going to find the wandering kid.
Oh, that’s because, you know, she trusts those batteries.
While there doesn’t appear to be an actual baby in the commercial, it’s clear to me that the mom character is meant to be attending to a baby in the stroller, which is why she doesn’t catch the older kid wandering off, and why she brings the stroller with her retrieve the 6 y.o.
The really off thing is the mom happily hugging the wayward child. Real parents would have that look of happy relief for 2 seconds, then run up and shake the kid and yell at him for wandering away to get a frickin balloon, when he should know better!
Love the gecko.
Flo needs to GO.
Creepy Burger King needs to go.
anything with singing, especially freecreditreport.com, subway, and hillshire farms. The one exception is the one where the guy is throwing the pizza crust - is that a credit card commercial? I don’t even know, I’m mezmerised by the guy’s skills. The song about mambo italiano whatever.
I forgot about this one, hate it too, And wendy’s has an equally annoying commercial for umm some frozen coffee/frosty thing.
I’m always thinking, “No way I’m eating pizza that rolled over that guy’s sweaty neck.”
Nike: Shoes for asthmatic puppet children that don’t know when the shut the hell up. Specialized shoes for a specialized customer base? :rolleyes:
BTW, I don’t go to YouTube often. Is it common for videos to have the word “funny” in their title when they are not in the same time zone as “funny”? I watched a few of the “puppet Kobe and LeBron” ads, and only one changed my expression from 
to the tiniest smile. That’s a couple minutes of my life I am not getting back.
Just saw this one last night for the first time…I was thinking to myself, “Does Nike WANT me to hate them?”
Judging from the undersexed vibe she gives out, what Flo really needs is to come.
In other, possibly old news*, the Talking Babies of eTrade are back, and they’ve multiplied.
Hate hate hate. And hate BABIES! The market does terrible things to a man’s soul.
*I only just returned to the day-trading belt after a year in the Potbelly of America, so the ads are new to me.