Most Hated Commercials, Holiday Edition

[Rick_Kitchen]

I love the Peter Pan ad.

[Voyager]

@GrumpyBunny

And the Hess Truck ads. Do kids still get those?

Hell yes. My daughter’s first acting gig was in one of these. Not a favored job, since they sell out over the Thanksgiving weekend which means no residuals. Bummer.

[kayaker]

@DrDeth

nm

Somebody needs to take a deep breath (through their gaping maw).

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Voyager

Hell yes. My daughter’s first acting gig was in one of these. Not a favored job, since they sell out over the Thanksgiving weekend which means no residuals. Bummer.

… is your daughter a truck?

[Justin_Bailey]

@El_Kabong

Not sure it’s seasonal, but the GEICO commercial with Peter Pan at the class reunion. About 30 milliseconds after that crack about ‘not looking a day over 70’, I’d kick him square in his undescended balls.

That line is kind of dumb anyway. The commercial is for their 50th reunion, so she is 70. Also, if Peter Pan attended a regular high school, he wouldn’t be forever a kid anymore. So it’s extra dumb.

[Nava]

@Kimballkid

I think they are horrible. A sad, sad thing to do to chocolate. I must not have a fancy enough palate for them.

Thank you, I keep getting gifts of those things and wondering if the gift-givers actually like them. Is it terribly impolite to say “oh, how nice, I really appreciate the thought! Here, have the whole box, I hope you enjoy it”?

[TheFaerie]

Today’s stupid commercial was a local radio spot for a popular shopping destination here that features a giant Mayor’s Christmas Tree in the courtyard. The tree is telling us all about the wonders to be found there and then expresses regrets that it can’t hug us because it’s a tree. My grumpy-before-coffee response was “and you’re dead and don’t even know it.”

[lance_strongarm]

@curlcoat

Snort. I thought everyone knew that giving to the HSUS didn’t translate into helping abused animals.

Of course giving to the HSUS helps abused animals. What do you think they do all day, play video games?

The money may not end up going to animal shelters…but so what? They never said it did. Shelters aren’t the only need. HSUS advocates for laws protecting animals, for instance.

Thanks for reminding me of that loony campaign against HSUS.

And any charity that is just providing bandaid solutions and not addressing the actual problem isn’t fixing anything.

Well, yeah. So give to the ones that are addressing the actual problems instead.

[lance_strongarm]

@El_Kabong

Not sure it’s seasonal, but the GEICO commercial with Peter Pan at the class reunion. About 30 milliseconds after that crack about ‘not looking a day over 70’, I’d kick him square in his undescended balls.

ANY GEICO commercial. I hate every one of them. Though the caveman thing is meh.

[running_coach]

@El_Kabong

Not sure it’s seasonal, but the GEICO commercial with Peter Pan at the class reunion. About 30 milliseconds after that crack about ‘not looking a day over 70’, I’d kick him square in his undescended balls.

Wouldn’t do much good if they’re undecended as they would be protected inside his body.

Much the same as sumo wrestlers are able to draw them back in during a match.

Yes, I know it’s a phony fact spread by Ian Fleming

[WolfpackJeep]

@running_coach

Wouldn’t do much good if they’re undecended as they would be protected inside his body.

Much the same as sumo wrestlers are able to draw them back in during a match.

Yes, I know it’s a phony fact spread by Ian Fleming

I came in here to bitch about the ultra-depressing Johnson & Johnson ad with the cancer kid – it’s even popping up online now – but now I can’t get the image of retractable sumo testicles out of my head. If such a thing existed, maybe it would be based on some kind of ratcheting mechanism, triggered when the wrestler does that leg-lift thing before the match.

[running_coach]

@WolfpackJeep

If such a thing existed, maybe it would be based on some kind of ratcheting mechanism, triggered when the wrestler does that leg-lift thing before the match.

That’s just gas.

[Drunky_Smurf]

I’m torn on this Carls Jr/Hardees Rick and Morty ad. On the one hand I don’t like that they shilled for Carls Jr. but on the other it might provide some exposure. But it probably will only ever air on Adult Swim at night who is already the target demo for the show and on the other hand maybe they got money to help out the show.

- YouTube

[El_Kabong]

@running_coach

Wouldn’t do much good if they’re undecended as they would be protected inside his body.

Well, it would make me feel a bit better.

[Uncle_Jocko]

They’ve been around for a few years, but I see General Motors has brought back the ads where one person is excited about “saving hundreds” on Black Friday by camping out overnight/getting up at the crack of dawn/fighting off other shoppers (one guy even has a black eye, for the love of Pete). Unfortunately these people live next door to smug, self-satisfied braggarts who “slept in” and “saved thousands” as they gesture toward their shiny new GM vehicle.

All of the people in these ads are unlikable buffoons. I don’t see how acting like a complete jerk to your neighbor while humblebragging about how much you saved on your car while “getting a solid eight” hours of sleep is supposed to get me to buy a Buick.

[Bonaventure]

Everything posted so far is a mere pretender to this thing:

- YouTube

It plays every five minutes on kids’ channels. It invades your dreams and will eventually drive everyone who has heard it, even if only once, insane. Click if you dare.

PEEKABOO!

[Death_of_Rats]

@Uncle_Jocko

They’ve been around for a few years, but I see General Motors has brought back the ads where one person is excited about “saving hundreds” on Black Friday by camping out overnight/getting up at the crack of dawn/fighting off other shoppers (one guy even has a black eye, for the love of Pete). Unfortunately these people live next door to smug, self-satisfied braggarts who “slept in” and “saved thousands” as they gesture toward their shiny new GM vehicle.

All of the people in these ads are unlikable buffoons. I don’t see how acting like a complete jerk to your neighbor while humblebragging about how much you saved on your car while “getting a solid eight” hours of sleep is supposed to get me to buy a Buick.

At least they were able to identify a Buick. That puts them above most people in current Buick ads!

[Seanette]

@WolfpackJeep

Don’t forget the stack of Ferrero Roche! Not really sure why these are advertised as being so fancy…they taste very underwhelming, IMO. Maybe they’re meant to be consumed with lots of alcohol?

@Kimballkid

I think they are horrible. A sad, sad thing to do to chocolate. I must not have a fancy enough palate for them.

I love those things! And no, no alcohol involved.

[Spiderman]

@GrumpyBunny

And the Hess Truck ads. Do kids still get those?

Yup, though it’s now all online (or in one of 10 mall kiosks) since they sold their retail gas stations. Ironically, the commercial came on TV while I was typing this

As for this thread, all I can ask is

@splatterpunk

Nothing good ever comes of insufferable pantywaists posting in the Pit.

@SmartAleq

Shut your cunting arseflap, you insufferable tiny dickcheese.

@Miller

Hey, dickhead. If you don’t like the Pit, you are more than welcome to fuck off to another forum - or even better, an entirely different website altogether. I doubt there’s a single poster on this board who would miss your execrable brand of smug idiocy, your constitutional inability to recognize simple humor, or your constant attempts to troll people by trying to dictate what’s an “acceptable” way to discuss something you saw on TV. You are, in general, one of the dimmest, dullest, dampest posters we’ve ever had the misfortune to grace our electrons here, and I, personally, cannot wait for the day I never have to see another one of your moist little nuggets of what tragically passes as thought in your tiny - and largely solid - skull, you insipid, mouth-breathing shitbag.

Happy now, Morgenstern?

[Green_Bean]

@Kimballkid

I never knew Hess existed until I watched Christmas Through the Decades: The Sixties on The History Channel. We’ve never had Hess around here. They looked like neat little trucks though.

Recently, the Hess Building in Woodbridge, NJ went up for sale. It’s a bit of a local landmark.. As you can see from the photo in the article, it’s a big white building with green letters - same design scheme as the gas stations and the trucks. Consistent brand image, and an iconic one at that.

My company considered buying the building. It had a lot of things going for it, including the visibility that makes it a landmark. Take Hess’s name off, slap ours on, and we’re golden, right? And very recently renovated too…

Then we saw the interior photos. Holy mother of god.

Hess was so committed to their design scheme that they did the whole interior in white and bright green. The lobby was bright white marble inset with green marble. The cafeteria had a bright green-and-white checkerboard floor. The carpeting looked like astroturf… It just didn’t end.

We were gathered around the offering memorandum just laughing and laughing at what an astonishing eyesore it was. If we had bought the building, we would have had to rip absolutely everything out and start over from scratch. It was just that bad. There were other reasons it wasn’t a good fit for us so we passed on it, but I’ll tell ya, that St. Patrick’s Day-fest of an interior did not help.

The trucks are awesome, though.