Jeep Liberty. Neil Diamond. Stop it already.
There are adverts for Capital One credit card over here with the victim of identity theft talking about the purchases that the ID thief has made. You’re supposed to think it’s absolutely ridiculous that the CC issuer they’re with would allow the petite blonde’s card to buy a Monster Truck or the butch Alpha Male to buy ballet lessons. Naturally the CC issuer should have been able to veto these transactions, and Capital One certainly wouldn’t have got caught out like that. :rolleyes:
This damn commercial on on whatever channel my daughter watches, for a giant ass piggy bank that makes the sounds of a train everytime you put a coin in. For real the damn commercial is like 5 minutes long and every so often they have the children of the corn chanting “Lionel coin bank, Lionel coin bank.”
The one for Jarrod’s where the two women are talking about the text messages that a friend keeps sending them during her date, which includes the fact that “He went to Jarrod’s!” :rolleyes: It ends with them sending her a photo message for him asking him if he has any brothers. Maybe I’m strange, but if I was on a date and she kept updating friends on what we were doing, it would be our last date.
Those drive me nuts too, particularly the one where they’re living in her parents’ basement because they can’t buy a house because he didn’t run a credit check on his fiancee before they got married and find out that her credit was bad. If he had, then he’d “be a bachelor with a house of my own”. So if you had known she had bad credit you wouldn’t have married her?
I think a special circle of hell should be reserved for the creators of most prescription drug ads.
There’s a new one out for Celebrex, a prescription painkiller, that is nothing but fine print. Literally. All fine print. There are these park scenes - walking dogs, riding bikes, trees, etc., and all of the drawings are composed of little lettering which describes the side effects, warnings, and other information about how the drug will practically kill you. The long version of the commercial goes on forever in TV terms, easily longer than most normal commercial breaks.
Ah…here it is on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GvYI4VdVEI weighing in at 2 min and 28 seconds! Who in the world thought this was a good marketing strategy?
The only one I hate more is the Jarvic cholesterol one, but I know that’s been pitted before.
Any of the Comcast commercials, but especially the ones with the turtles and the one that I just saw where some guy has something go through too slowly and it sets off a chain reaction of people being pissy towards each other.
Considering she says “that part of town”, they probably don’t live in bike or walk distance of the theater.
i second the mcdonald rapping chicken thing. absolutely horrid. those 2 should be left on you tube.
McDonald’s commercials have always been lame.
I would like to promise here and for all to hear, if I ever see Billy Mays in person while I am armed, I will do the entire world a huge favor.
I have to add this about Mr. Mays, from Wikipedia, because I doubt it will be there next time I go to look:
Thank you, yes. I hate that commercial too. I always respond to the ad as if I were her father, “ok then, you can ride your bike to the theater.” Not only is the girl a hypocrite, she is also being unconscionably rude to her father, who is doing her a favor by giving her a ride to the theater. Dad needs to teach his daughter some manners.
I was coming to point out exactly that spot. It causes great loathing.
I hate, hate, hate, hate the beer commerical (suck on it admakers – I can’t even remember which brand it is) in which a football coach’s press conference is intercut with two doofuses asking idiotic questions about the beer whose brand I cannot remember. They are not remotely funny, mostly because the answers that the coach gives are so generic that they can be spliced with almost any question. Example:
2 DOOFUSES: “Hey coach, do you drink [whatever brand beer they’ re hawking]”?
COACH: “Yes, I do.”
Is this the one that has her going through the rest of her day with various Walmart staffers cheerfully appearing periodically to let her know “It’s TRUE!” with smug little smiles? On the phone, sitting on her skylight, tucking her into bed… those pesky Walmart employees are worse than a locust infestation, I tell ya.
I’m still waiting for the version where she shoots one of them dead for trespassing and bugging the crap out of her. Sigh.
The one that is currently top of my list is the one about skanky Tony trying to sell some sort of automated bed. Silk pajamas, a mobster accent, bad teeth - every time I see it I assume that the company is crooked some how, since they’ve chosen such a creepy spokesman. So that’s an example of an advert that I remember, but didn’t achieve the goal of an advert, to persuade me to buy their product - it’s had the exact opposite effect - no way I would deal with them.
“Whopper Freakout” is number one. The message I take from it is “Some of the stupidest and least rational people on Earth eat at Burger King. Want to come here and join them?”
Any commercial in which a household object is lectured to as if it were a person gains my instant loathing. “Look, it’s time you left my life. You don’t suit my needs and can’t make things how I want them to be…” Oh ho! It’s her glass cleaner! Wow, that was clever. Never saw it coming :rolleyes:
The “Dropped call” commercial in which the daughter is in Vegas and the mother hisses into the phone “Don’t make the same mistake I did!” always prompts me to say “It’s funny because your mom is trapped in an empty, loveless marriage!”
I can’t stand the Sonic commercials. Any of them. They’re so filled with snide passive-aggressiveness I instantly hit mute or change the channel the moment they start. How are irritating people that I would loathe in real life supposed to sell me food? But there seem to be a lot of the commercials so I guess somebody like them.
Featuring Willard Scott. [Lewis Black] That man smiles so much, I don’t think he has a central nervous system. [/LB]
Three words:
RICH
CHOCOLATE
OVALTINE
(and I also can’t stand that animated bee with the French accent hawking Nasonex)