Time once again for Most Hated Commercials

I keep wondering why, if he’d be able to get a house on his own credit as a bachelor, couldn’t he just get a house on his own credit as a married man. He doesn’t HAVE to put anything in her name–after all, DH and I got our home on HIS credit, because I had no credit history at all back then.

I really hate that tax ad where the guy says he’s stuck and his wife acts like a snarky, sarcastic BITCH and keeps ragging on him for using a computer program over the advertised service (I think it’s H&R Block). If she’s so damn smart, she should be the one doing all the work instead of being a shrewish critic!

Seems like the creators of the Head-On commercials have heard of that one as well.

In the universe where the tardbiscuit in front of me has to go through every pocket, entire purse, each and every fold of the wallet, kid’s diaper bag, her shoe and her bra six times each in order to eke out the change necessary to make the exact amount. Oh yes, please DO hold us all up for a month so you don’t get socked with horrors COINS!!11ELEVENTY!11! :rolleyes:

Oh, for a laser gun–or at least a 2x4!

But in the commercials the person with the cash always has his/her money ready, so that’s not the issue they’re raising. Apparently the mere fact of the clerk having to actually make change is what rings the universe to a grinding halt.

HughesNet’s “Don’t believe it!”

Have you actually seen how slow it takes most cashiers these days to make change? Even when the exact amount they need to give me is staring them in the face on the screen? Christ almighty, I’d reach over the counter and get it myself if it didn’t make me look like i was robbing the place.

To be honest, I hadn’t thought about that being a possible cause for delay because I charge most of my purchases in order to take advantage of my rewards bonuses. The few times I’ve paid cash I’ve never noticed any particular delay in getting my change. Maybe I’ve just been lucky.

Didn’t that jingle used to be, “You bet your sweet Aspercreme!” and then, for some reason, it changed? I assumed someone had complained but was never interested enough to look it up. Unless I hallucinated the whole thing.

Completely off-topic, but I’m tired and groggy from a head cold, and I originally read this as, “Do they not have any fact chickens?” and for one shining moment I envisioned a world in which chickens in stern eyeglasses kept us all on the straight and narrow. And then I re-read the post and the moment was gone.

My morning news show keeps running my current least favorite commercial. It’s for a casino one state over which recently started offering table games. (Sweetums, I think you’ll know where it is.) A petite, demure-looking woman goes up to a deli counter and asks for a half a pound of smoked ham or something. The guy behind the counter duly measures it out when all of a sudden she smacks the counter and yells harshly, “HIT ME!” He adds some more and she smacks the counter again and yells, “HIT ME!” She then demurely says “I’ll stay” and decides to add a half a pound of bologna.

Now, I’ve nothing against gambling and actually enjoy playing blackjack, but this ad bothers me. In addition to the harsh, rather vicious-sounding edge to the woman’s voice, there’s nothing like showing a someone who looks like she’s become so fond of gambling it carries over to everyday routines to get me to want to go to a casino.

It was! I always thought it was funny, but apparently someone had a problem with it.

Yesterday, I saw a commercial for Burger King’s spicy chicken sandwich for the first time. It features an old-school martial arts master training a chicken to give “just a little kick,” then cuts to the sandwich. This lead me to realize my own personal version of Homer Simpsons’ “You can’t kill a pig wearing people clothes!” is “You can’t kill a chicken I share hobbies with!”

(Bureger King Chicken Sandwich kung-fu Commercial)

Damn, but that seems like a lot of time and effort going into training an animal that is going to be between two pieces of bread soon…

OK, now the credit-report singer has been featured in a really pointless one, in which he’s lamenting that he could not buy a new car and has to settle for a used heap. WTH??? With or without access to your credit report, you would STILL have been only able to afford a used heap – the only thing you could have done different is not bother to even go to the dealer because you’d know ahead of time you can’t get a loan!

Newest WTF? commercial is for Cheetos. Bitchy looking girl in a laundromat gets ticked off because an equally bitchy looking girl has cleaned her stuff out of the washer and piled it on the counter, apparently dropping some on the floor in the process. So, while she’s eating Cheetos, an imaginary cartoon cheetah urges her to put a handful in the dryer that contains Bitch #2’s white laundry.

It’s hard to even count the number of wrong things in this commercial, but let’s focus on the “do you really want to emphasize that your product is composed of radioactive orange crap that you don’t want anywhere near your clothes?” aspect. Who thought that was a good idea? Not to mention giving jerks the world over the idea that dumping Cheetos in a dryer would be a hilarious prank. I’m guessing the Cheetos company is going to be getting some cleaning bills in the near future.

Finally, I think both women in this commercial should be tumbled together in the same washer with some Cleanso (NOW with Civility added).

“Doing things is what I like to do” from Duncan Donuts.
The words are just plain stupid. Really, really stupid. And yet, it’s strangely catchy, so the stupidness sticks in your head.

And, as there isn’t a DD shop anywhere in the state, I’m not their target audience.


I also hate the cable companies telling me that the phone company is going to overcharge me for cable. As though they haven’t been doing the exact same thing with their monopoly for decades.

I like to watch cartoons on Saturday and I’m fucking SICK of that papers commercial with the swing music and the baby who goes “ah!” in different tones to indicate it’s emotion at getting it’s ass wiped. Once was cute, but it runs EVERY break from 7-11 am. Seriously.

Yeah, I thought this was a really disturbing commercial. Cheetos wants customers that sabotage other people’s laundry? Fucking bitch. And word, the fact that the product can ruin clothing doesn’t make it remotely palatable to me.

I want to bitch about the stupid Verizon commercials with the “Can you hear me now” douchebag. There’s one airing with some loser in a funk because he has to take his obnoxious Christmas light display down. Some other dick comes by and says that Verizon has phones for sale. Loser gets excited and the CYHMN douchebag is in the background…

…and then there’s another with CYHMN douchebag. He’s all panicky, and Verizon thugs pick him up in a cab… because his wife is having a baby! Seriously, who gives a shit? Isn’t it enough that he’s the most annoying commercial mascot ever… now they’re trying to make it a serial? What’s next, CYHMN Baby’s first words are… “can you hear me now?” :rolleyes: :mad:

I’m not convinced that’s quite what’s going on in this commercial. I think because the pregnant woman is using a cell phone to communicate with her husband (who is NOT CYHMNDB), the CYHMNHDB is undergoing sympathetic pains. (Because obviously the weight of the world is riding on Verizon making sure that phone call goes through.) In other words, they go through whatever you go through.

I’ve got Comcast at home, but haven’t seen these commercials on any other carrier, so I think it might be a carrier-specific phenomenon.

They just CANNOT get over the Big Ten Network. Seriously. Every single commercial break there is at least one commercial about how the BTN is screwing Comcast and all you poor TV viewers out of money, and the BTN is “The MAN” and we must stick it to them… Ok, I’m exaggerating a little. Mostly they contain “newspaper” type headlines without any source on them proclaiming “the people’s” views on the BTN (aka, how it is evil, cheating, and a waste of money", or some statement about how the BTN is now “doing the same thing to college basketball” that it did to college football. They make this sound like a new dastardly plan, when that was kinda the idea all along.

Everyone else has moved on! You are pretty much whining now, and it is beyond irritating. While the commercials themselves are dumb, it’s the sheer volume of them that inspires so much hate.

J. G. Wentworth, with that hugely annoying old fart with his wheezy voice. Want to know how I know it is a scam? The fact that they are running a nationwide ad campaign which would only appeal to-what? 1/1000th of 1% of the audience, those who have gotten big cash rewards in a court somewhere but it’s currently tied up in red tape. There’s no fucking way they can have a profitable budget using that kind of business model unless they are making a fortune off of every sucker they drag into whatever passes for their payment plan. For the other 99.99% of us these ads are completely pointless and maddeningly aggravating.

What’s even worse is their new series of commercials with idiots yelling out their windows, “It’s my money and I need it now!” over and over again.