..other annoying stupid commercials.

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I didn’t want to hijack Finagle’s thread about the xbox’s stupid commercials so I’m starting my own.
(Ya, I think the xbox spot is really dumb, just for the record.)

Why has it become so trendy to dis people in the service industry in commercials anymore?

I give these examples:

The DishTV guy showing up at a house with some snot nose brat telling him to ‘get to it’. SNB’s parents are completely oblivious to what’s going on. SNB then tries to pay him with a jar of pennies with the parents looking on. This is funny?

Here’s a better one. CDW’s current spot. Fred the IT guy, seen from his perspective, listening to some complete morons grinning and describing what they did to fuck up the system. The spot ends with some grimacing asshole asking him “What’s wrong, we’re only asking the impossible.”
Anyone want to kick him it the teeth? I do, but as a professional one can’t give in to those feelings.

Here’s the topper. TNN’s running a spot, for the WWF I believe. Scantily clad girls wanting to watch WWF on there TV on some remote island, but their TV don’t work. So after a hard journey, a service tech shows up to fix it, and through his amazing ability to turn the power button on, takes care of the problem then collapses. One of the chesty teeny bops is over him, “OK, you can leave now. Hehehehehehe…….”
I just want to shoot her in the face with a bazooka.

Hey, I been in the service industry in various form since I’ll been working, and I have seen over and over again the attitude some people have, namely “I created a problem, and you better get over here and fix it you little asshole.”

I can live with that, you’re just stupid, plus your assholeishness is overcome by those who appreciate what we’re doing.

But seeing this stupid bullshit attitude portrayed in the TV spots as something funny, well, I gotta say, I’m missing the joke.

As a rant, I’d gotta give this one a low 3, maybe 2, but I hope ya folks see my point.

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And the REALLY perverse thing is that the people appearing in these commercials are low-grade actors, who stand in line for something like 10 auditions a day, are dismissed into the afternoon sun with a curt “thank you - next!” after 12 seconds, and then spend the evening subsidising those auditions as waiters in an only more slightly less eat-shit sector of the service economy.

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Ever see “The Honeymooners?” This isn’t new.

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Here’s one I was just thinking about the other day that annoys the hell out of me. The Hall’s cough drop commercial where the dad has a sore throat and the kids are whining that he promised to take them skiing and that he was “bumming them out” by wanting to stay in bed. Imagine the selfishness of a sick parent who even considers staying in bed instead of going out into frigid weather so his kids could go skiing. :rolleyes: You’d better believe that the next time they cried sick, their butts would be up and doing the dishes or heading for school. Not a bit of sympathy–just a demand that they not bum me out!! Man, do I hate that commercial!

I also hate the hemorrhoid commercials that feel they must demonstrate the word “shrinks” (as in “shrinks the swelling of hemorrhoidal tissue”) by holding their hands apart, then drawing them together.

I begin to suspect that Tampax is holding a contest to see who can come up with the grossest, most inane commercial. They are all maggot-gaggers. BLECH!!

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What’s this? An “annoying commercials” thread in the Pit when we already have one in the Café? Granted, the Café thread will remain open for just another couple of pages, but Pit material this ain’t.