This is so I wouldn’t get off topic on the “Do the new anti-smoking ads piss you off” thread. Naw! I haven’t seen any of the “blow up” ads, just the PC police roaming an affluent neighborhood with the bull horn…
My favorite “get right on your last nerve ad” The new and loudly annoying West Side Story-esque Gap ad. This ad is at least two notches louder than the regular scheduled program. Not to mention the fact that it is just jarring, period. But then I also have to laugh at the Gap-rip-off Target ads. I saw the oriental girl, the one from the little motor scooter ads. She’s on that boring women’s show, can’t think of the name, is it “The Edge” or something stupid like that? Anyway, she interviewed as to why she did the Target ads. Said she wanted American to see an oriental woman not walking 3 feet behind some white guy, or something to that effect. I almost laughed out loud. Why didn’t she just fess up and say…They paid me! Jeez! It’s a frigging ad for pedal pushers, not a social commentary! (Oh yeah, that’s right, they’re called capri pants now aren’t they?) Damn me!
My all time hated commercial was the one for Shake 'n Bake. Geesh I wanted to ring that little girl’s neck every time I heard her say, “and I helped”. Yea, right. Let me help you. I know it’s an old commercial, but I’ve seen it on Nick at Night and some of the TV stations that show the old sitcoms. It still sends a chill through me.
The current series that has me lunging for the MUTE button is for Sherwin Williams paint, with the tone-deaf Bob Dylan-type lady wailing, “Hey, can ya tell me where I can paint the world . .” or something like that. She’s got a voice that could STRIP paint, not sell it.
This didn’t just annoy me, it really pissed me off.
During the news this morning I saw an ad that I absolutely could not believe … for the new gold dollar. I was rushing around and didn’t catch the whole thing, but it had some guy with George Washington’s face sitting in the back of a cab or something, talking. What the hell??
WHY are they advertising this? Hasn’t it gotten enough press already? TV ads cost money, and aren’t they supposed to generate revenue? Is there something going on with this new coin that I’m missing? Are these ads paid for by WalMart, or what?
Come to think of it, the same thing goes for ads for stamps, and for the post office. Our tax dollars pay for this. I don’t know about you, but I want my money back, goddamnit!
I’ll sign a contract with the devil, committing to drinking Pepsi products for all eternity, if they’ll make that horrible little brunette girl and her horrible little acting and those horribly made commercials with their horrible “bah-bah bah-bah-bah song” go away.
And I think I speak for everybody in the Western World when I say that if I ever found out where that goddamned Pepsi Girl lived, I would choke her so hard her head caves in. I got your fuckin’ Pepsi right here, bitch.
Budweiser has had a series of commercials with people going “AHHHHHHHHH!” at each other. Then at the end it says “Budweiser. True.” I have no idea what it means, other than MysterEcks protests by drinking Coors.
I agree with jab1. The 1-800-COLLECT ads with David Arquette are fuckin’ annoying.
And now, Adam Corolla from Loveline is doing them too. I don’t remember if it’s for 1-800-COLLECT or 1-800-CALLATT, but the fact that he has stooped to that level is pathetic.
The ads for a mini-van, I don’t remember which one, with the curly-haired smiley lady. She takes her daughter to soccor practice in the mini-van in one ad. In another I believes she goes shopping. I hate that fake smiley, laughey lady.
There is dot.com commercial that shows a lady standing on a NY street corner asking for the time and everyone ignores her. This just would not happen. She would get 20 responses, all different and all wrong.
I hate all of these ads featuring cute animals with computer animated mouths. Seems like every damn pet food/kitty litter commercial these days features one of these post-Babe-the-Talking-Pig anthropomorphic nightmares. Nauseatingly “cute”.
Along with that damn pepsi girl (my friends neice looks JUST like her…I always turn down babysitting for her because I am afraid I will let my inner urges out and I will kill her) I HATE those commercials with that Bob’s furniture guy…I think that they are only shown locally, but they are THE WORST! I cannot stand that fucking moron.
The commercial the really disturbs me is the one for that juice pack. (Sunkist maybe?) It’s basically one long series of disturbing sexual innuendo- targetted at children. I shudder every time I hear “Punch the pack,” or “I’ve got a big mouth, which makes me easier to get into.”
I love sushi. I am addicted. SO when Terry Bradshaw does a 1-800-COLLECT or 1-800-CALLATT ( I can never tell the difference. I alternate in using them so as to confuse 'em) and claims “You forgot to cook this!”, I feel the need to explain to him via a shovel upside the head that he is a HICK!!!
What’s so eff-ing extreme about goddamn soda. I much prefer the way old ad campaign with the …give me a mountain with nothing to dojingle…that made me want to [baaabaaasheepboy]drink the slop[/baaabaaasheepboy]…
Greyson3, you’re right about the Welch’s ads. Ick.
What about the “Pepsi One” ad where the people are sitting at a table on a ferry, and as it rocks back & forth, they drink out of each other’s cans of Coke or Pepsi One as they slide back & forth on the table? Not only is that a stupid commercial, but the idea of sucking on someone else’s backwash is totally disgusting. Gag.
And I saw a new Pepsi ad tonight that unearthed latent homicidal tendencies in my psyche. Follow the bounching Pepsi ball and sing along with…a Polka! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!