MY kid would be cleaning his or her own blood up.
(I kid…sorta.)
Another annoying yogurt ad–actually there are several in this series—the Yoplait ones with the 2 women talking about how good the yogurt is—“It’s day-at-a-spa good”, “It’s shoe-shopping good”. In one ad, they’re eating yogurt in some fancy room, after they have been bridesmaids at a wedding. Who serves yogurt at a fancy wedding?
I hate those commercials! Who do they think they’re kidding with that “day-at-the-spa-good” crap? It’s fermented milk! Even chocolate truffle yogurt, which is a million times better than anything Yoplait makes, isn’t “Swedish-massage-good” (but it is very tasty).
I can’t stand that annoying Ford “beep beep” song. I’m surprised I haven’t sprained my ankle running for the remote when that one comes on. But the most annoying ad (this week, anyway) is a local car dealer that has a little song, almost to the tune of “I heard it through the grapevine,” but not quite, and the singers are all really, really bad, and it’s very painful to listen to. I’ll never buy a car there, just because of that commercial.
I just have to wonder, do ad agencies hire sadistic people on purpose? It seems like they enjoy torturing us, or we wouldn’t have Enzyte Bob or the smug, creepy JG Wentworth guy, or the yucky Jello wiggle song, or the Charmin bears, or every Viagra commercial, because I really don’t want to think about these people having sex, ever. Way, way TMI. But I kind of like Robert Vaughn, because it’s a little bit entertaining to see just how many different ways he can say “You mean business!” And they wonder why people want to get Tivo and skip over all the commercials. Maybe if they’d make better commercials, people would want to watch them.
I hate the Jarred’s jewelry bitch, too. I can’t believe they think this is good advertising. This woman is a total bitch to her sweet husband because he didn’t buy her overpriced, ugly jewelry from a chain store. I think he needs to just stop buying her any gifts if she’s going to be that bitchy about it. And they’ve used the same commercial for at least two years now. Is the economy that bad that they can’t afford to make a new one?
Okay, didn’t read the entire thread to see if this is mentioned, but here it is:
Radio commercial for Wendy’s Frescada sandwiches. Two guys talking back and forth about the new sandwiches at Wendy’s and how it has GENOA salami, and one guy says that Ciao means goodbye in Italian and Chow also means food and isn’t it ironic?
I thought we all had battled the morons on the definition of ironic – and won. The fact that they would screw this up is the opposite of what is expected to be true.
Cheers,
Y.
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I like Skittles.
Until now.
:: shudder ::
Not. Any. More.
:: shudder ::
People complain about those Enzyte commercials, but I absolutely love them. I love how they can’t actually make any actual health claims. (Supplements can make “structure and function” claims - basically, saying “This may improve heart health” or whatever but they can’t claim to prevent or treat diseases without proof.) So instead, they use the absolute most blatant visual references they can come up with - smiling Enzyte Bob contrasted with his frowny neighbor who is using a very droopy hose to wash his car and so forth. I just find the complete lack of any kind of decorum in what they’re discussing hysterical.
I’ve wondered this too. A sufficiently crappy ad will get people talking about your product all the time. A crappy ad won’t make people rush out to buy a product, but neither will a good ad. I enjoy quite a few ads for products I would never in my life purchase.
The singer’s pronunciation of “beep beep” as “baeep baeep” just makes it worse.
The other car dealer…is that Mark Jacobson Toyota? I liked it better when it was Toyota of Durham…the big guy in the overalls was funny. Now, the commercials range from dull to creepy (what’s with all the commercials he aims at kids?).
Oh good Lord. I just saw one that made me want to kick in the TV set.
It’s for a VW Passat wagon, and this typical yuppie-looking couple are in the car at a traffic light. There’s a truck in front of them that doesn’t move at the split second the light changes, so Yuppie Wife hits the horn (I should point out that Yuppie Husband is driving - nothing I hate more than passenger-side driving). Big tough guy jumps out of the truck to whup some ass - while Yuppie Husband cowers in the car (“Nice one, honey!” “Lock the doors!”). Only he walks past the Passat and goes up to the car behind it - a monstrous SUV - and starts wailing on the window, “Open the window!” Yuppies take advantage of the mistaken ID and drive off.
Tagline is “lowest ego emissions vehicle.” Er, no. Yuppies clearly felt some ego inflation when they honked the horn on the car. And it makes the owners complete fuckin’ cowards. How about, “Hey, sorry about that - can I call you a tow truck?” And then they have some poor SUV driving sap getting his ass kicked because of their dicktitude.
I get it - the tough guy figures there’s no way in hell that the humble Passat honked at him because Passat owners are Great People Without Ego. Shit, I live in Boston. No car exempts you from being an asshole. Fuck you, Volkswagen!
There’s a heavy trend in advertising over the last few years. The protagonist of the commercial will be a male late adolescent, early adult, or sometimes middle aged. If younger, he will be wearing a grey or red thermal undershirt under a tee shirt, and perhaps a knitted or fleece cap. He may have a pierced ear. No matter what his age, he is likely to be stubbly and give the impression that he wouldn’t smell entirely clean. He is a white guy.
The punchline of the ad, regardless of what’s being advertised, is that this guy is an affable loser. His car rolls down the hill because he doesn’t set the brake. He forgets and important event. He is reduced to stealing sandwiches or beer due to his poor impulse control.
I hate all of these ads with a hot hate.
There’s some weird new ad for a shower gel (?) called Axe and a website listed called orderoftheserpentine.com. I didn’t look at the site because the ad is so stupid.
Also, the Terminix ads with the faces coming out of the walls and cupboards to nag the housewives about their termite and roach problems have really got to stop.
Those cell phone commercials with the long talkers–one a teenage girl and one a realtor chatting incessently.
it’s so bad I don’t want to remember the name of the company.
"The backs of mah legs…
stickin’ to the pleathah!"
Not only is it the most annoying 16-bar earworm of all time, but the girl in the passenger seat who sings the “pleather” part cuts off her lypsynch just a *nanosecond * too soon…
Can somebody pass the Paxil?
The realtor one is actually kind of amusing, because I’ve known realtors who would say things just like that.
“Any closet is a walk-in closet if you try hard enough.”
“If a celebrity dies in your house, it makes it a landmark.”
“It’s a buyer’s market!” One second later: “It’s a seller’s market!”
That would be a great tagline for a commercial for Paxil.
The most annoying commercials to me…?
Every last damn one of those Hardees (I guess that’s Carls Jr. to those of you in some other areas of the country) where people are eating like fucking slobs, talking with their mouths full, and biting their burgers so that the contents spill out onto their laps.
Yeah, we get it. You have a big fricking burger. So do lots of other places. But I think I’ll choose to eat at places where people don’t eat like snorting rooting pigs, thanks much. Those commercials guarantee that I will NOT want to eat at Hardees.
The new ones for some fast food place (which I can’t remember) men singing about being so manly they eat some burger there.
Yah, that’ll sell really well to women.
This new VW ad campaign is infuriating, especially because the $40,000 Passat isn’t exactly the most humble, ego-less car on the road.
say what you want about the Yari commercial with the car squishing the gas nozzle spider, but the niose the it makes when the car stops in front of it is the cutest thing in world.
Also hate the netscape ads, those are BAD
The car commercial where the family decides to take a vacation by getting in their car and only making left turns.
There’s an Aunt Jemima ad where the mother smugly announces that she insists on giving her family a hot breakfast. Then she opens a package of pre-made pancakes and sticks them in the microwave. Wow don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back.