What is are some opinions for the worst TV commercial of the decade? I think that commercial for flautulance is the worst. I can’t think of the name of product (beano maybe? not sure) but the ad shows this woman at a party talking to several men…all of a sudden she has to retreat to the balconey where she apparently passes gas and then goes back to the party to talk to the men who are blissfully unaware that she has just come back from farting like a govenment mule.
SECOND WORST…
Woodstock …Tampax was there!!! ( include all feminine hygene product commercials here).
“Ward, You’re upsetting the beaver.”
Barbara Billingsley
Well, personally, I hate the damned Carl’s Jr. commercials; they all sound like they stuck a microphone in someone’s mouth while they were eating. This is supposed to be appetizing?
And I especially love those medicine commercials, where some company’s hocking it’s latest concoction, and then at the end they do the speed-talk thing, telling us about the possible side effects.
Now, I realize most of those side effects will never occur in the vast majority of people taking those medications, but GOD! Those side effects sound worse than the damned malady they’re supposed to be curing!
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I am annoyed by all the lists that put the “Apple Computer Commercial that aired only once during a 1980’s SuperBowl” on the top of their favorites.
I wouldn’t call it a bad commercial, mostly because I don’t remember it. Why does everyone make such a big deal of it? And why didn’t Apple ever show it again? Why didn’t they want to milk it for what it cost them? Maybe they thought it was a bad commercial!
I think this falls in more along the lines of MPSIMS (in fact, they’ve had discussions similar to this in there before), so that’s where I’m sending it. Have fun!
Radio ad (McDonald’s): The Mickey D’s Menu Line commercials with the southern lady who can’t sing. Also, all of their adds with the whisper, “<small>Did somebody say McDonald’s?</small>”
Let the Truth of Love be lighted/ Let the Love of Truth shine clear. Sensibility/ Armed with sense and liberty
With the Heart and Mind united in a single/ Perfect/ Sphere. - Rush
I really can’t stand the Taco Bell chihuahua. Ok, maybe that first Yo queiro commercial was cute, but ever since then, ugh. Talk about beating a dog to death. Please, bring back the ‘make a run for the border’ or something, anything other than that ugly-ass dog. It would make my big beef burrito supreme so much more enjoyable.
so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. what’s so amazing about really deep thoughts? Tori Amos
I also hate that ugly little rat in the Taco Bell commercials. I think they continue to use him because the creatures like him are their major meat supply.
“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx
ANY of those goddam long-distance phone company ads. Candice Bergen, French Stewart, Dennis Miller . . . They all make me want to throw my phone out the window.
And those “milk” print ads make me physically ill—like, I really want to see people with milk smeared on their faces? Especially guys with facial hair? Urgh . . .
Eve: And those “milk” print ads make me physically ill—like, I really want to see people with milk smeared on their faces? Especially guys with facial hair? Urgh . . .
Especially since what’s really on their face is some conncoction that looks nice and white under studio lights.
Let the Truth of Love be lighted/ Let the Love of Truth shine clear. Sensibility/ Armed with sense and liberty
With the Heart and Mind united in a single/ Perfect/ Sphere. - Rush
Any commercial featuring Paul Reiser. I love how Paul looks so brilliant when he’s surrounded by brain-dead people who can’t conceive of the exciting new calling plan he’s spouting about.
I couldn’t say for sure if it was in this decade or the last, but there was this really, really stupid Levis Jeans commercial that I despised. It was so nonsensical, I can’t even describe it.
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Is that is reiser’s younger brother in the store where reiser is buying some candy? The guy behind the counter? The one that says “we charge more between certain hours” They look just alike.
And those psychic commercialsss!!! Oh man how could anyone be blissfully stupid enough to call that number. And why are the psychics all women?? When that pie faced black woman says…"Your gonna lose both your boyfriend AND your husband."I want to just shit a brick.
“Ward, You’re upsetting the beaver.”
Barbara Billingsley
oooooh . . . trying to bite my tongue but I can’t help myself . . . someone in this thread just insulted the daughter of the great Edgar Bergen . . . nnnnnnngh . . . nnnnnnnnnnnnngh . . . ack!
please don’t do that.
(phew) now that I’ve gotten that off my chest: today I saw a lipstick commercial featuring Shania Twain and her “Man! I feel like a woman” song. I saw it twice. It was annoying both times
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
(1) Anything with Candace Fucking Bergen in it. Especially the Sprint “WHOWHH!” commercials.
(2) “Purple girl” talks about Welch’s Grape Juice. There’s something vaguely unsettling about a little girl talking about good it is to stuff purple things in her mouth.
Geezzz anyone remember when prescription commercials first came out? I had not a clue what some of them were or why you would need them. One just showed a woman on a hillside with flowers growing… Then they gave the latin name for the product along with the diarrhia and other things that could happen later after you have taken it.
all I could think of was…HUH?
“Ward, You’re upsetting the beaver.”
Barbara Billingsley
