McDonalds almost always has bad commercials, but the one running now with the guys rapping makes me nuts. I would beat them both with a stick.
What are you hating now?
(Yeah, yeah, we all know someone will come in and say that it did the job it was intended to do, make me remember McDonalds. Someone always does. Shall we say that I’ve covered that nonsense and leave it out for the rest of the thread?)
Three words: Publisher’s Clearing House. The current series, with the repeated cuts of moronic people screaming, IMO, has displaced the Head-On spots as the Most Annoying Advertising of All Time.
I’m not sure if all commercials are universal, but there’s two running here now that bug the hell out of me.
Ikea - “Start the car! Start the car!” (As she looks at her receipt and thinks she was way under-charged for the products in her cart.
Wal-Mart - Same idea. Only after paying and looking at the receipt does Mrs. U.S. Housewife thinks that she scored one helluva deal.
Look, if you go shopping and have absolutely no freakin’ idea what ballpark figure will be coming out of your bank account until after you’ve made the purchases, then either your name is Melinda Gates or you have an IQ of about 40. And the latter is what these companies apparently think of their customers.
Whopper Freakout. The first ads were bad enough (when a Burger King supposedly stopped selling Whoppers for a day) but the ones they’re running now where customers are given a Big Mac or a Wendy’s Burger instead of a Whopper are even worse. Particularly when The Burger King comes out to the counter.
I’m hating the commercial for some car with the salesman doing the “Maniac” scene from Flashdance. Completely irritating from the start.
I don’t hate it, and I don’t remember what the ad is for (so that part doesn’t work) but I don’t get the point of the one where somebody’s doing something (like grocery shopping) and there are several little duplicate somebodys following them around and doing the same thing.
I think it’s about increasing your productivity (but it’s not the funny Southwest ads). If I wanted to be more efficient, I wouldn’t have a mini-me doing the exact same thing big-me is doing.
The guy doing the ad looks like Dennis Hopper but he has an accent. He’s cute, but the ad is just silly.
Too. Much. Thrusting.
My eyes, the goggles do nothing!
This was what I came to post. The little bit of homophobia in the first ad–“They might as well call it Burger Queen”–was the icing on a huge cake of awful.
Also, that damn John Mellencamp truck ad, mostly 'cause that cheesy song is stuck in my head on endless loop and it’s driving me crazy.
Most of those commercials for the indestructible trucks are amusing, but there is a new one that makes me sick to my stomach. Aliens come in a huge ship and destroy the Earth with a giant laser beam. Tiny particles of what used to be our planet are hurtling through space, and on one of them is a horrified dude in his perfectly intact red truck, its windshield beginning to frost over. Nevermind all the scientific wrongness of it. What bothers me the most is this: who in hell would want to be that guy? I would rather be one of the millions driving the inferior trucks who never knew what hit them. Showing consumers a horrible death is not going to sell them a truck.
that guy with the annoying voice who is always trying to sell you crap. cant remember his name but hes currently selling some putty crap, a knife sharpener, and who knows what else. the only thing I want from this asshole is a device that mutes his voice permanently.
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(edit) remembered after post Billy Mayes is his name.
The commercial with the roommate who looks in the refrigerator and screams (because there’s something from his roommate’s anatomy studies in there) is horrible - mostly because the roommate screams at maximum volume for about 15 seconds.
It’s the advertising equivalent of going out to dinner, and a kid at the adjoining table has a tantrum.
I dislike the commercial for the hybrid Ford Escape. As the daughter is walking to the SUV with her father, she says, “Hey dad, I want you to drop me off a block before we get to the theater. You know, just because people in that part of town are riding bikes and have hybrids and stuff.” The father explains that their Ford Escape is a hybrid, which the daughter is surprised to hear. What annoys me is the hypocrisy of the daughter. If she’s so concerned about the environment instead of what other people think, why isn’t she riding her bike or walking to the theater, rather than having her father drive her?
And, while they aren’t commercials, the GM billboards with the “Gas friendly to gas free” tagline bother me. They’re promoting the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid concept car. GM plans to use lithium-ion batteries to give the vehicle an electric-only range of up to forty miles. (That would be enough that most people would be able to get to and from work without burning any gas.) But they don’t expect to sell the car until 2010. So they’re promoting a car that’s not even available yet, just to sound more ecologically conscious than they are.
And on review, a commercial for the Volt is here.
Not only that, but did he have the only one of that kind of truck?
All those commercials tell me is that if you go to Burger King, you’ll be treated like shit and toyed with by Acme McAndy all for the commercial gains of the giant corporation. It’s not, “Oh, people freak out because they don’t have a Whopper.” It’s more like, “Oh, that fast food place is being a colossal dick for financial gain, let’s never eat there.”
I can’t recall the name of the service, but I can’t stand the ads that feature a guy playing a guitar and singing about how failing to use a credit-checking service ruined his life. One is set in a basement, the other in a seafood restaurant. The song gets stuck in my head, and both scenarios are ridiculous.
The ones where people find random bits of human flab and handle them and talk about them gives me the heebie-jeebies.
“Oh, look, he must have lost his love handles playing in the park with his kids.”
They raise all my “flight” reactions - hair on the back of my neck, gag reflex, etc. They make me look away.
Ditto on Billy Mayes. Why is this man yelling at me?
Lately I dislike that ball-busting bitch belittling her husband for doing the taxes using a program. “Why don’t you ask the box?” Jeezus lady, give him a minute to check the Help file, or Google up an answer.
I hate the following Arby’s ad: a guy and his girl are sitting on a dock by a body of water one evening. The girl suggests going for “a dip”. She pulls off her clothes and gets in the water; he gets in his car and drives to Arby’s for their new French Dip sandwhich.
:smack: :smack: :smack:
Yeah, that guy’s entirely too dumb. The girl loses her hot swim, but she gains the valuable knowledge of how close she came to a further relationship with a guy as dumb as TWO boxes of rocks.
Most of the spots in the “dropped call” spots for some phone company are funny. The “special burger” spot is really annoying. The moron burgermaker, his instantly pointy-haired boss, then the dropped call, and “Okay, here’s your raw meat on a plate.” Far from funny.
“get Me A Whopper!”