I have to admit, that commercial went right over my head. I had no idea it was for a penis pill, I thought it was for something like Celebrex for muscle or joint pain. Get back in the game!
That is the worst commercial ever HANDS DOWN. I know, because I have the privileged of seeing it 5-10 times a day. I would like to meet the guy, and I bet it is a guy, who green-lighted that piece of crap. I will never purchase anything from Spectrum ever.
Let me add the reverse.
There are certain ads I like a lot. I even have a small collection. Like the Miller Lite Man Law ads, and the VW Unpimp my ride. I know them, like them, watch them every so often.
I’m never going to drink Lite or buy a VW. But I would call them successful ads. They don’t make random viewers hate the product!
Is the OP referring only to TV advertisements? Because that doesn’t come close to the worst ad I’ve seen on line, which has been the looping in-your-face audio about SOFT AND CHUNKY COOKIES! (And let’s not derail this thread by recommending ad-blockers - that’s great advice, but we’re just discussing the commercials themselves here.)
Charter seems to prefer extremely annoying commercials. This is the third in a row that I have hurt myself trying to get to the mute button.
Aw shucks. It isn’t even the worst Charter commercial ever.
But the redhead’s cute!
I’m in California, and I watch The Daily Show on satellite, so I get to see it at 8 pm our time. The commercials for the 8 pm showing and the later 11 pm I think showing are way different - the later one having a lot more meet hot girls phone sex ads.
Here’s one that’s played all the time here in Connecticut. It’s over-the-top bad:
In Portland we are blessed with the Outrageous Audio guy.
Here is what makes those Charter commercials so bad. They have a HOT chick they could be showing us instead.
I don’t even care what she is saying.
You people that just put up a link to youtube and then say “Oh no THIS is the worst” aren’t really making me want to click on that link. It reminds me of that old SNL skit, “Boy this cat box STINKS, here smell!”
Due respect, Ambi, but you threw out a “somethingest something ever” to a bunch of Dopers, and expected taciturn nods?
I miss Smilin’ Ed too. And I certainly agree about the lube commercials. I was watching some stupid show at 10 in the MORNING and they were showing two people in bed gazing into each other’s eyes and touching each other and talking about how this stuff makes you tingle all over or something. Ick. 10 at night, ok. Mornings are for game shows and shit. Not lube.
Finally, some sense. 
Yes. After all, errbody around here is smart, right? Well then they should know Im correct. 
In my humble view, the marketing geniuses in Japan have the market cornered on annoying commercials:
Exhibit #1: Lotte Fit’s gum
Exhibit #2: pIZZA-LA
Exhibit #3: Gummy Sours
Your mileage may vary, of course.
When I was a kid playing television, we would say, “Let’s pause now for station identification” (remember that?) I could envision kids nowadays sitting in the wading pool holding hands and saying, “We’re playing Cialis commercial.”
:smack:
BTW, the launch of Cialis was delayed by some months because some people with the surname Cialis found out about it and sued the drug company (unsuccessfully) to have its name changed. TRUE STORY
Hey, I was actually IN a TV commercial that bore a certain resemblance to the one linked in the OP - mainly in that it featured an irritatingly cheerful jingle with rather plodding lyrics about how much customers would like the product. I didn’t have to sing or lip-sync, though.
In my case, “cheap” was the order of the day (the day being 1993), so a bunch of us employees had to be in the commercial, rather than hiring professional actors. The product was a job hotline that used a 900 number to let people hear job advertisements, which they could select by going through a voice-mail process to select type of job, location, etc. It wasn’t a bad idea at the time, but it was poorly implemented and was only even remotely viable in the pre-Internet era.
Anyway, to the tune of “call 1-976-JAY-OH-BEE-ESS!”, we had to stand around looking “professional” or something. I believe I was dressed in nice clothes but not a business suit, and I was consulting a clipboard. So I don’t know what job I was supposed to represent. Door-to-door fundraiser for an advocacy group, maybe?
I like these. Especially the Pizza-La one.
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