Right now, any of the auto company commercials that imply you should be purchasing one of their vehicles as someone’s Christmas present. Every year, more and more of the car companies seem to be jumping on this bandwagon.
Plus, he has cop hair. (I love that line, just comes right out of left field.)
The ad for Pam Cooking Spray with the little brats at the birthday party, pounding the table and yelling “Re-do, re-do!” when the hostess comes out with the mangled cupcakes.
There is a commerical for some cosmetics featuring Sara Jessica Parker. I don’t know what brand or product it is. She is so airbrushed in this commerical that she ends up looking literally like a cartoon. It is as if she is rotoscoped. Or more like someone took a peach crayon and colored over the film. It’s just laughable. It is so terrible looking and obvious that it could only serve to hurt the product, since whatever it is isn’t good enough to hide Parker’s ugly oldness. It literally looks like a cartoon drawing of SJB superimposed on a real background.
ivn the pit boss does have a point in this case. There’s a perfectly serviceable commercial hate thread over in the Café.
That’s for irrational dislike. My hate for the commercial in the OP is entirely rational.
They’ve been doing that a long time, actually…I have a couple of old print ads(one from the late teens, the other from the early twenties) that encourage purchasing a car as a “family” Christmas gift. Of course, the concept of the giant bow had yet to be invented…
Drug ads have gotten worse too. There’s one really disturbing one that consists of various people talking right into the camera (all you see is a close-up of the lower part of their faces); a couple see fit to belch. Eww. At least the drug name pronunciations are funny; there’s one that sounds like “toby-ass”, and another that sounds like “ass-effects”.
Every penny someone gives to a shelter is another penny curlybitch isn’t potentially a recipient of. She finds that highly offensive.
Basically, she’s a like a con man who is too lazy to do the actual conning part.
Well, sure, but he’s an ex-football player who wears GLASSES! That makes him smart and trustworthy!
-Joe
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There’s a Disney commercial where they play the Small World song, if I can’t get to the mute button quick enough I have to cover my ears and sing “la la la” or the earworm will eat my brains.
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Duff Beer for me, Duff Beer for you, I’ll have a Duff, you have one too!
Any commercial where someone sings a slogan that would be just as effective spoken.
And the stupid ones that make no sense. There’s one for a pizza. The pizza is so loaded that the guy holding it falls through the floor. First, the pizza is only four pounds. Second, you could only sell one before you’d have to close up and repair the floor. Sometimes I take things too literally, I guess.
But one made me laugh yesterday. A klutzy guy comes home and tells his wife he found a job. He’s falling and stumbling over everything. “What’s the job?” “Demolition”. “You’ll be in the office?” “No, I’ll be using nitroglycerin!” She goes to her computer and searches for what – body armor? Crash helmets? Nope. Life insurance. 
I hate the sarcastic droning guy who does the burger ad – I think it’s for Hardee’s.
“Futon world! blah blah blah blah at Futon World! blah blah blah blah Futon World! We love shouting Futon World! It’s what we do for fun! Come down to Futon World! so we can shout at you some more! Futon World! Futon World!”
And I don’t even watch TV, it’s just that the computer is in the same room. Grrr. I’ll be coming to FUTON WORLD!, all right- to slash up your stupid futons with razor blades.
Gaaaa. I got stabby just reading that.
How about
“Why buy a mattress any place else?”
I can change the channel now within the first two notes of the music- and it is awful. I have to cover my own eyes to do it so that I don’t accidentally get a glimpse- some of those images have haunted me… That is probably what they are going for as far as sympathy and haunting imagery etc. but it is having far from the desired effect I think, at least in my household. Not only do I turn the channel, but since the commercial is so long I end up never turning it back, so whatever show I was watching just no longer exists for me. More than that, it is rare that I will turn back to that channel within the same evening (having gotten interested in something else during the hour-long cry fest of SPCA commercials) so not only is the program losing viewers but the entire station is. I am pretty sure that is not how commercials are supposed to work for a television company.
That said, I am sensitive to the plight of homeless, abandoned, abused, and injured animals. I have been donating to the SPCA my entire life along with animal related causes. I do not need the extra guilt and sob stories, especially when the animals that “star” in those commercials are no longer in need having been rescued or euthanized by now; the latter making me feel even sadder and more helpless. There are ways to rally the community and get people involved without resorting to this kind of emotional blackmail.
The lie is that the HSUS does anything about it. Unless things have changed very recently, they don’t have any shelters and spend their money on things that PETA wants.
Those commercials with the store mannequins instead of people. Old Navy maybe?
Very annoying.
I hate one that’s similar: it shows a guy cutting up a pizza, and then the pizza falls through the floor to the apartment below, where the two morons who live there start eating it, saying stupid shit like “don’t come down here, we’re naked!”
If that were me, I’d be going down there myself and taking a hammer to their ballsacks. You do NOT deny me my pizza and then be an asshole about it. Ever.
Yes, the Old Navy Supermodelquins. Ick.
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That comercial makes stabby.
I’ve just discovered a version with Derek Jeter instead of Thierry Henry (Jeter looks suspiciously CGI’d in). Great - so they’ve hired four of the most expensive sportsmen in the world for these commercials. Nice. At least they left off the collective beating at the end of this version.
I’m going to start a weak Pit thread specifically so he will show up.
Best part of not living in LA anymore (aside from no longer living in traffic) is I never have to hear those goddamned “You’re killing me, Larry!” commercials anymore. MY GODS, THOSE FUCKING COMMERCIALS MAKE ME WANT TO BURN SHIT! I hate them so much. I always go to sleep with the TV or a fan on (need white noise), and there is nothing worse than being awakened by that shit. If it got late, I would make a point of turning to a non-local channel so that there was no chance of me having to hear it accidentally, or worst of all, it infiltrating my dreams.
Actually it’s some sort of little handheld Watchman style TV thing. It’s kind of sweet until you realize that you can buy an 19" flatscreen HDTV for the same price.
My most hated commercial right now would be any ad for Viagra or Cialis or anything in any way involving penises.