Almost any local ad where the owner is too cheap (or too vain) to hire someone to act in it. HELLO! That’s why they’re called professionals! Because they make you look like the rank amatuer you are. Also any business person/politician who uses their children or grandchildren to promote their product. “Buy a home from our grandma because we’re just too darned cute for words!” It makes me wish the parents were just a little more careful with their birth control.
StG
Wow, this far and no one has mentioned the Sloppy Eater Kid? This commercial is for Bounty paper towels, and features this chubby, ugly-as-hell kid messily eating barbuequed chicken. He then takes the paper towels, wipes his mouth on them, and tosses them on the floor. A very disgusting commercial. I’d just assume have goatse.cx on my screen for 30 seconds. And the one time I saw this commercial unmuted, there was obnoxious accordian music playing. My dad actually stopped by Bounty paper towels because of that commercial.
Commercials showing kids misbehave isn’t appealing. We don’t think “Awww, isn’t that cute.”. What we are thinking is closer to “beat the shit out of the kid.”
AND I CAN NEVER STOP SCREAMING!!! EVER!!! WHY??? BECAUSE THE BICYCLE SHORTS I WEAR ARE SQUEEZING MY NUTS DOWN TO THE SIZE OF GRAINS OF SAND AND THE ONLY WAY TO TAKE THE SHORTS OFF IS TO HAVE THEM SURGICALLY REMOVED!!!
I just saw a Powerade tie-in for the Matrix. Man, that was annoying.
I just heard a radio ad where the guy repeatedly plugs his “high efficient” air conditioneers. He says it like three or four times. GAAH! It’s “highLY effecient” or “high efficienCY”!!! Dumbass.
I was always annoyed by the herpes medication ad for Valtrex(?), where the one girl says “Five pills a day? For five days?! Who has time for that?!” I’m just sitting there thinking, “Well, you had time to get herpes…”
Don’t forget Becky’s Carpet Warehouse or whatever the hell it is… I can’t get enough of her flying in front of the Arch! I swear, they should pass a law mandating good taste before special effects can be used.
With regards to that Valtrex commercial… the scene that sticks out in my mind is the firefighter turning to the guy next to him and saying, “It burned when I urinated.” I mean, really, who’s gonna say that? I can see “Jesus, my dick’s on fire when I take a piss!” But I guess you couldn’t put that in a commercial.
Valtrex. For when you’re dick’s on fire.
argh
YOUR DICK! YOUR DICK!
Sorry. I’m anal about your and you’re.
My reaction was similar. When she says, “I don’t have time for that. I have a LIFE!” I think to myself, Yeah, it’s pretty obvious you have a VERY active life!
And of course, taking pills is such a time consuming chore. :rolleyes:
That reminds me of a commercial for PetMeds.com (I think). These two ladies and their dogs are sitting around talking about pet medications. One lady is proud of herself for get her dog’s heartworm pills through PetMeds; the other lady spends the duration of the commercial whining about what a hassle it is to actually place her dog in the car and go to the vet’s for the same pills.
I honestly want to strangle that lady. If taking your dog to the vet for a checkup is that much of an inconveinence for her, she doesn’t need to have a dog as a pet. I’m thinking that a rock would be a more fitting pet for this person’s lifestyle.
We have some radio ads out right now warning us of the dangers of power lines.
*sounds of man on metal ladder, rusting leaves[i/]
Tom: Wow honey, these gutters are really full. Maybe we should get the kids to clean them next year! hehe.
Suzy: Tom, we are NOT going to put a 12-year-old up on a ladder. How much longer are you going to be? We’ve got to pick Katie up at six.
Tom: Oh, I’ll be done soon. I’ve just got this one section left. (grunt)
Suzy: TOM!!! Watch out!! THE POWER LINES!!!
clank clank - BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTT - thud
Suzy: Tom? TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Announcer: You must be aware of power lines when working on your house, blah, blah, blah.
WTF??? So we get to hear what electrocution sounds like??? Gee, thank!! Scare tactics at work again.
I hate radio ads and Mercedes ones are the worst. The ads in the current campaign run like people area asking the company for advice, there’s one with a woman whose husband is so tall that he keeps bumping into ceiling fans. Naturally, the advice is to buy a Mercedes, a C class in this case. WTF? I’ve been in a C class. I’m only 6’2" and had to sit with my head tilted toward the door! Our Dodge has more headroom than a freakin’ Mercedes!
Then there’s the ads for Verizon wireless. Believe it or not, these are worse than the “Can you hear my now?” ones on TV! These ads have some annoying guy narrating the story of people who don’t have Verizon and are trying to make a call but they can’t find a signal wherever they may be. Problem is, the majority of those people are in a place where there would be plenty of payphones around! Yeah, the point of having a cell phone is to not have to use payphones but you are not SOL if you can’t get a signal a few feet away from a working payphone.
"Hey, Brian, are you gellin’?"
"Man, I’m gellin’ like a felon."
At first I thought this was an ad for hair gel, but after I saw it about 20 times in the space of 2 hours I no longer care, I just change the channel whenever it comes on.
So, what is everyone “gellin’” about?
And you can’t the medication without a prescription in the first place, so you have to take the dog to the vet anyway. The vet writes the script and you mail it off to PetMeds, rather than just buying it from the vet. It may be cheaper, but it’s certainly not anymore convenient.
And you have to see the vet on a regular basis, too, for other reasons.
I hate that one.
After forcing myself to watch the commercial again, it appears to be some sort of (Dr. Scholl’s?) product to put in shoes to make them comfy. Have no idea if they work (and now wouldn’t buy them simply because of the ad), but there you go. Advertising in action.
Hey, shut up! That’s where I bought my kitchen cabinets for the house I owned. 
How about throwing in a classic? The “Ancient Chinese Secret” ad for Calgon. If you don’t know this one, it shows the stereotypical Chinese laundry guy telling his customer it’s a secret how he gets her clothes so clean. Laundry guy’s wife comes out from the back saying “We need more Calgon.” And, she did it on purpose. Is wife beating legal in China?
Another one. Do they still run that ad for Diet Dr Pepper? The tag line says it tastes “more like regular Dr Pepper.” More than what?! Coke? Pepsi? It drives me nuts.
I was a little off earlier, it’s the M class they’re pushing in that particular Mercedes spot. I wouldn’t know about that one but I stand by my headroom comment regarding their cars.
I have my own “radio” station at Launchcast, and they play this anti-drug commercial that annoys me to aneurysm. An announcer says something like “This is your heart on meth” with a car revving. At the end of the commercial, the car stops, and the announcer says something like “This is you heart on meth. Your heart has just stopped.” It’s soooo dumb, and really annoying to have a car revving at me.