Nationwide Auto Insurance has two new ads, both variations of the same thing. Someone looking out a window asks a friend about his/her auto insurance, then watches while (presumably) the friend’s car is being demolished, without saying a word. Yeah, that’s the kind of friend I want.
Agh, that potato chip commercial where the chick is getting her nails done, she’s watching some other bimbo mack out on a bag of chips. Then chip girl walks off, leaving her bag behind–next we see the chick who was getting her nails done sitting there with something in her mouth, but what’s really sick is that her red polish is smeared all over and there are FUCKING CHIP CRUMBS EMBEDDED IN HER NAIL POLISH!! My gods, that one almost had me hurling.
The ads for the fucking reflexology foot pads make me really stabby, except the stupid contained within seems to be reducing my IQ far enough that I can’t remember where the knives are or which end is the stabby end once I stumble across one.
The Campbells microwavable soup commercials where the guy is moaning and groaning like he’s going to have an orgasm right in the can over some microwaved crap just gives me the creeps.
Who the hell does that with soup?
I think the idea is that someone screwed up his credit (identity theft or whatnot) and since he has no credit he cannot get a car loan. Thus he is stuck with buying in cash, of which he does not have a lot.
Hunger gets what Hunger wants.
Dear Og, the big hairy arm in the middle of the dumbshits chest just creep me wayyyy out.
Those are even worse in printed form. Earlier in the year, Marvel and DC comics were full of those disgusting ads. Nothing takes you out of a story like turning the page and seeing some kid with a giant arm sticking out of his torso.
Although they don’t publicize it, Converse is a division of Nike. Make of that what you will.
Ditto–I mentioned those groteseque ads in an earlier thread. Just. Plain. Nasty.
How about those Tanqueray gin commercials? The ones with Tony Sinclair. Who the frell is Tony Sinclair, other than the world ugliest Englishman? He announces it like we should know who he is. 
Perhaps he is the guy who got laid after some woman drank an entire bottle of the stuff.
I hate this commercial so much that I actually am drawn to it at the same time…
kinda like the donkeyshow concept (cant stop looking!)
This fucker deserves a punch in the mouth. It also might improve his orthodontics. (From someone who has a less pronounced gap in his teeth.)
Seriously? I guess that might make sense, but the whole setup makes it look like he’s being escorted by Verizon wageslaves to the hospital as well.
C’mon, Finagle, let my hate live!
I hate when commercials confuse me. I’m fairly certain that I’m not stupid, so when it happens I assume it’s the commercial that’s to blame.
There are two I can think of, and I actually just figured out what the first one means when I saw it tonight. I believe it’s for Circuit City. A couple are sitting in front of their new hi-def TV, looking backwards over the couch at the camera. The woman is speaking into the camera, saying “I promise to only watch football on Sundays. And Saturdays. And… Thursdays.” Meanwhile the husband is prodding her along making it apparent he’s fed her the lines she’s speaking. For the longest time I had thought she was pledging to watch football only on those days, which made no sense to me. I’m a huge football fan, and I don’t watch much on Tuesday cause there aren’t no damn games on then. Only today did I realize she must mean on those days she will watch football and football alone. Ok, now it makes sense, but it could have been a little clearer.
The second commercial isn’t clicking. It’s for McDonald’s and features a few financial a-wipes standing around talking about how the value of the dollar is plummeting. Then some pleb wanders in holding a sack from McDonald’s, which of course contains some burger from their “Dollar Menu.” The a-wipes are impressed and change their tune, saying the dollar is lookin’ strong! Hilarious!
Now the part I don’t get. The lead a-wipe guy then asks the pleb, “How are you set for fries?” The pleb responds, “I’m good on fries, thanks.” One of the deputy a-wipes says something like “Ouch!” and makes one of those you-got-burned expressions toward the lead a-wipe, who says “Thought I’d ask.”
Ok, so who exactly delivered and received the burn? And what the hell was it? Was the a-wipe asking about the fries because he wanted some, and got turned down? That’s the only explanation I can come up with that makes a lick of sense, and it aint much of a lick. If anyone can explain it I’ll be eternally grateful.
Oh, and while I’m at it. I hate all diamond commercials in general. Especially bad was the one I saw before Christmas where the dad pulls in to the driveway and is bombarded with snowballs as he exits his car. They’re coming from his photogenic wife and kids. After the onslaught has forced his retreat into the trees, he holds out a bag from some diamond store in an attempt to end the carnage. Are we to believe that what we were seeing wasn’t just good-natured fun between a man and his family? Didn’t the kids want him to maybe throw a snowball or two back? Did he have to buy his freedom with metal and stone? Was mom calling the shots in the bushes, and ordered a cease fire when she saw the bag? Who knows. At least it wasn’t more of that “He went to Jared” crap. 
You know, women are total suckers for the baubles of their men. Case closed.
I’m an occasional lurker to this site and feel compelled to participate this time.
The ads I hate the most are the ones that play off a “hidden camera” scenario. It’s a trend that needed to go away years ago when it began. There is one or two I can’t think of at the moment:
The Burger King ad is beyond annoying and so is the Diet Coke ad where people claim to be from the Coke division and try to convince some idiot attorney to sue the Diet Coke label for tasting too much like regular Coke.
There’s a radio ad (Hardee’s?) that is in the same vein and equally annoying.
Thank you! I’ve been wondering if I was just too unhip to know who this “person” was! Whoever he is, he gets on my nerves BIGTIME. To call him annoying would be an insult to annoying people the world over.
It’s an old one but: A guy and a girl are at a populated public place, the asshole screams, “I love this woman, I love this woman,” and proceeds to whip out a diamond or some crap. The woman whispers, “I love this man, I love this man,” and I die a little bit each time. I completely understand how Elvis could have gone through so many TV sets.
Oh, and someone needs to hurt those Rappin’ McNuggets guys… seriously.
Those McDonald’s commercials about the dollar annoy me too.
And I wish AT&T would stop with the stupid “row of five bars of increasing height” in the background of every scene of their ads. It’s like they exist in some Bizarro universe where everyone is compelled to do things like arrange potted plants, stack newspapers, and design buildings just to promote their “more bars” advertising.
The Burger King “little hands” commercial. Ugh1
Somebody slice n’ dice that talking Applebee’s apple, already! When come back, bring pie.