Holy Toledo! I just saw an ad for Lotramine f or athletes foot. A couple are in bed and the guy is jerking his and under the sheet. “What are you doing!” the girl says horrified.
The guy says something like ‘my feet!’ and he pulls the blanket off and you see he’s got a stick and is scratching his feet. I don’t know if I’d call this commercial bad-- more WTF did I just see? They can get away with that?!
TV commercial doctors don’t do that when writing prescriptions. All they do is very neatly write the brand name of their wonder drug, in perfect cursive, then underline it. Don’t bother with nagging details like the patient’s name or the dosage or even signing it. Just get that brand name underlined.
That reminds me of a scene from the wonderful movie “Evelyn” I watched the movie with my mother and stepfather. There was a somewhat uncomfortable scene where the Evelyn character, a pre-pubescent girl, gets taken from her father and moved into a Catholic-run orphanage (in 1940s Ireland). She’s shown to her bed in the dormitory, and she gets into bed and lies face-down … only to have a nun force her to turn onto on her back, with her hands above the covers. The nun says to her, “We don’t want to tempt the devil!”
My mother was utterly baffled by that scene, and said so. I didn’t have the heart/courage to explain it (and, for the record, neither did my stepfather, and I’m sure he got it).
I came in here to mention this exact ad.
I hate that entitled, whiny little twit. “Hey Insurance companies! News flash… Nobody’s perfect!”
Hey, you whiny little twit! News flash! Not everyone has an accident every 4 months! And guess what? Adults know that unless they have first accident forgiveness, they WILL get a rate increase. And adults also know they don’t get a new car if they total their old one!
You suck at driving? You pay more for insurance. That’s how it works… And that’s how it SHOULD work.
Gawd, I hate that young woman in that commercial.
Sorry, 1950s Ireland.
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to restrain myself, not to throw something at my TV. I would never, ever, buy insurance from a company that says it’ll buy people a new car . . . because, well, “nobody’s perfect.” If they’re trying to get every moron to buy their insurance, then include me out.
No, YOU, apparently, are supposed to tell your doctor about the side effects. Not to mention tell HIM/HER what other medications you’re taking, because the doctor is too incompetent to know those things.
The kid is using his remote control for his car, which is sitting next to the Dad in the passenger seat. The Dad is watching the remote control car’s wheels and moving his car in the same direction as the kid is telling the remote control car to go.
I find the commercial for the foot pedicure really gross ! It’s always when I am eating dinner. Who want to someone removing dead skin from their ugly foot.
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Dodge commercial for one of their models with a big powerful engine. The hapless driver gets passed (“by a Passat!”) and so is pulled over by not-a-cop and some stuffed animal. They berate him for being (in effect) a big pussy*; and then when they find out that he is listening to chamber music, tell him to get out of the car.
Tagline: “There are some things you just don’t do in a Dodge.”
Here are some things you apparently don’t do in a Dodge:
I, for one, believe this commercial totally. I can see that a Dodge is not the car for me.
*I apologize for using this term in this way, but I feel sure that it is what they wanted to say, but were only prevented by TV standards and practices.
God I hate that commercial. I hate how she says Brad. I hate her. Instant mute on that commercial.
Yeah, we know this.
His screaming “I fixed it!” got old after the first time.
That’s one of the few ads that will get me to change the channel. Not only is the Giant Toe annoying, but the sequence in the ads makes it clear that the product doesn’t actually cure fungus but just makes it somewhat less obvious. Yeah, I’ll run right out and buy the stuff.
As for pickup trucks, the current champion stupid ad is the one where the announcer says that all pickup trucks can carry loads, haul things etc. but our pickup is…(I have just mentally tuned out). What, it has more chrome, a bigger logo or something? Shouldn’t you promote an actual difference between it and other pickup trucks?
The one for the eye med, with that unblinking Stepford Wife of a doctor. I used to shout at the TV: blink! BLINK! BLINK, GODDAMNIT!
The Nissan commercial with the guy whose kid has missed the school bus. So like any dad trying to be a good example, he races the bus to school. :rolleyes:
I wonder how many heart attacks the mute button has prevented.
Even better than the mute button; the thirty-second skip ahead button. If I don’t want to watch any commercials, I don’t have to.
The National car rental commercial with Patrick Warburton, where choosing a car is the same as picking up someone like a one night stand.
Is that Stannis in the Game of War commercial?
I don’t know if it is a regional commercial, or nationwide, but the Value City Furniture spot with the couple arguing about how to pronounce the word “chaise” makes me want to hurt people.
They show it here in FL. A lot. I always think “I will never set foot in that store, if I ever remember what store it is”. So we’ve got advertising fail on 2 levels.
I don’t see Wendy’s commercials nearly as much as I did for a while there, but when I do I want to slap Ginger in the puss with her own ciabatta bread. I’ve heard a few chime in here that really like her, so sorry guys. She’s perfectly pretty and nice and yet she gets on my last damned nerve.
Yeah, that one is really, really dumb.
But in terms of sheer obnoxiousness, I am currently deeply in hate with the 5-hour Energy jingle that is frequently played between songs on Apple Radio (I don’t know if it’s played anywhere else?) The lyrics are horrible, the guy’s “singing” voice is horrible, it’s not catchy at all, just unbearably lame.
Obviously neither of those nits took French or they’d know how to pronounce chaise. That, more than anything, annoys me about that particular ad.
Another that has me shaking my head - for one of the home security companies. “That’s why you see our signs popping up in all of your neighbor’s yards” or some such. So, I should get your service because everyone else does? Helluva sales pitch…
Oh, and the home security software that you can use to lock your house while you’re at the beach. Um, if you’re stupid enough to leave your home unlocked *AND *you go to the beach to play with your tablet, I don’t want to know you or do business with any company you happen to choose. Because you’re an idiot!