I know what you mean. Around here, there is one local news station running a promo for an investigation of a prostitution ring. The location was a local park. The title of their story? Why, “Sex, Slides and Videotape”, of course! :rolleyes:
As for bad commercials, I only have three words to add:
“Like a Rock”
Oh, and also that incredibly stupid 7-UP commercial where the guy wheels the tv into the bathroom while a man is on the toilet and forces him to watch a 7-UP commercial. What were they thinking? How on earth is that image supposed to encourage us to buy 7-UP?
The Subway spokesguy. How I hate him. I’m still boycotting Burger King for employing Dan Cortez as their spokesperson in the late 80s and I can do it again.
Mastercard. C’mon guys, it was cute way back then and I know the economy’s tight so you have to stretch the ad dollars, but give it a colossal rest already. I want the last commercial to say “Finally Putting An Ad Campaign Out of Its Misery: THANK GOD!!!”
This may be a regional thing, but those new (I think) Sprint celluar phone commercials where old people talk street. I can’t understand half of what they are saying, plus it’s annoying.
Herbal Essences. Doubly bad when they featured Ruth Westheimer. ::shudder::
Beyonce Knowles hawking Pepsi and singing Carmen. I think it’s a Spike Lee commerical. Pretentious. The fact that I don’t understand the appeal of Beyonce Knowles doesn’t help.
Thankfully I don’t seen this Mitsubishi commerical anymore but the one with the girl in the pageboy cap “breakdancing” in the car to “Days Go By”. I officially hate that song because everytime I hear the song, I see that girl and her stupid moves.
Not to mention that Mastercard threatened to sue Ralph Nader and the Green Party for doing a campaign ad that parodied the credit card’s “Priceless” ads.
That alone is enough to make me dislike Mastercard.
The Fabreeze one where the guy keeps going in and out cause his house seems so good after using the product. What did his house smell like before Fareeze? If he’d just left the windows opened for a couple of hours, he wouldn’t even need the product!
That Bounty commercial featuring that kid eating BBQ chicken and getting BBQ sauce all over his face, then he takes a paper towel, wipes his mouth, and tosses it on the floor. Really gross, and stupid. Commercials that show kids misbehaving do not make me think “AWWW How cute”. They make me think “Beat the hell out of the kid.”
Any commercial that shows driving as a glamourous adventure. Driving is not going through a massive forest onto a cliff. Driving is being in gridlock with the constant honker behind you, and the dumbass going 25 mph on the interstate who believes that his turn signal is a sacred object, and that all human touch will make it impure in front of you.
The commercial with that stupid “gotta go gotta go gotta go right now” jingle.
Any commercial featuring babies in diapers. I imagine pedophiles get a lot of joy out of these ads.
Any commercial which uses old rock hits to advertise some mudane product. I got my first exposure to Led Zepplin from a Tide commercial. I wish I was kidding.
Thank you, both for proving that I’m not the only “beat the hell out of the kid” viewer of commercials, and for reminding me of that particular one… I’d forgotten about it, but I was the only one in my house who hated it. My mom and sister "aww"ed over it while I wanted to throw thow the TV out the window.
A similar offender is the girl in the Welsche’s (sp?) Grape Juice commercials. “I wuv the jooce!” Argghhh.
Similar commercials have either a kid or a pet spilling something over the floor, then the mom figure turns around and smiles as she wipes it up. Sometimes she goes over and hugs the child or pet! I would probably be scolding the kid or the pet. At the very least I would look annoyed. And then there’s this one where a puppy is completely destroying a feather pillow, and the owner just smiles and hugs the puppy.