I’ve ranted it before and I’m sure I’ll rant it again. I LOATHE all of the Mentos commercials. Something about those smarmy bastards makes me want to grab a chain saw.
still trying to think of something witty to say here.
Ok, I’ve not owned a tv for about 15 years, but since friends, relatives, and the occasional roommate have yet to kill their televisions, I still have to put up with them.
Runners-up:
All so-called infomercials. 30-second spots are bad enough, but an ad that lasts for 30 minutes? Who watches them, anyway?
Any ad that pretends to be a video, featuring an original rock song. How DARE they try to sell products using Blitzkrieg Bop and Search And Destroy! Death to both Nike and Bud Blight.
The worst, though, was within the last month or two. I think this had something to do with telephones: Dawn Wells, her interviewer, and the audience, were all talking in the lyrics to the Gilligan’s Island theme song. I immediately walked out the front door, telling my friend over my shoulder, “Ask me again why I don’t own a fucking television!”
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” – Mark Twain
We don’t watch much TV anymore. Every time we do, I remember why we don’t watch much TV anymore.
We were watching Frasier last night, and there was an ad for some prescription drug (I don’t remember which one). First, they never said what the drug was for. Then, the voiceover starts on the side effects, one of which was abdominal pain. There was something about the way she said it, though, that made it sound desirable! Sure, abdominal pain is something I always seek out in my medication regimen. :eek:
Never attribute to malice anything that can be attributed to stupidity.
– Unknown
Laxative ads are the worst!
What about the laxative ad with the two sisters. The one sister finds the premo laxative. “What a find”, she exclaims. Man, it’s like she just took the dump of her life. A pleasure dump. She half-assed scolds her sister for holding out on her.
How about this for a nauseating sequential line up:
Taco Bell and rat dog.
Pepto Bismol and the stretchy bellied people.
Beano gas.
The Exlax sister
Mr Whipple.
I really hate the CISCO SYSTEMS ads-all those third-world zombie children mumbling…are you ready? Gowd-does CISCO have a competitor-if so, I’ll buy from them!!
The Shane Company
Direct Diamond Importers and Direct Annoyance Exporters
They don’t have a web site. If you, like me, are disgusted by these terrible radio ads starring Tom “Mr. Monotone” Shane, write your letter of protest to them at the following address:
The Shane Company
Attention: W.M. Stone
9200 East Mineral Avenue
Suite 200
Englewood, CO 80112
My letter is going in the mail today.
What is William Shatner doing to us with those priceline.com commercials…
Somebody beam that poor bastard up…