I actually kinda like the singing pet commercials.
But some other bad ones : that german car co, that always shows its cars spraying gutter water on the poor serfs, while they look on inappreciation. If some asshole with a nazimobile sprayed gutter water on me, I WOULD look on in appreciation–I’d appreciate how my brick just smashed his windshield.
Another series is my local NBC affiliate: whenever they have aspecial or miniseries coming up, they run SO many ads for it, that by the time for it rolls aroud, we loathe the damn thing, no matter what it was.
Or how about the Japanese car co that shows it’s SUV playing polo: by tearing the hell out of some nice scenery. Shows that too many SUV owners are assholes.
There’s a particularly annoying commercial that I’ve seen a lot of lately, although I’m not sure if it’s just a local ad or not. Basically, this blonde with really bad looking short hair starts talking to this other woman, and brags about how she’s been to Mexico on vacation, and how she tries to go there once or twice a year. She then goes on to say it’s because her job gives her a lot of freedom, and finally the other woman asks her what she does for a living. Her response?
“Oh, I’m a hairstylist!”
Yeah, RIGHT. We’re supposed to believe that not only does this bitch get enough time off to take two vacations a year, but has enough money to stay in freaking Acapulco? In the meantime, if she’s so great at her job, then why is her hair so damn lousy looking?
This is, of course, an ad for a hairstyling (oh excuse me, cosmetology) school, and I really hope the people attending it don’t believe a word of what this commercial is trying to tell them.
Oh yeah, the priceline.com commercials with William Shatner… how could I forget…
There is a lot of positive feedback for this commercial, but I don’t see how that could be. Why does everyone like this commercial? I mean, am I the only one who didn’t watch T.J. Hooker and Star Trek? Does Shatner have that strong a following? What the FUCK is going on?
I love the commercials with Shatner singing. They crack me up everytime.
Mister Armageddon. I’m glad I’m not the only one who loaths the stupid hairstylist commercial.
I really hated the SUV one with people playing polo the first time I saw it, because I thought “Who would EVER do that?” THen the last bit says “Not that you would, but you could.” Which amused me a lil bit.
THe rest of the previous mentioned commericials, I AGREE completely.
THere is one I remember from a few years ago, when I lived in Utah. THe Beni Hana commercial with some cook saying “And this month is Managers Treat Month.” (Whatever that is) That in itself was not annoying, but I swear to God, for five years * every month was Managers Freaking Treat Month! *
I, uh, didn’t see the Herbal Essences commercials (you know, with the freaky lady who is, umm, a little toosatisfied with her shampoo, and in a public court or supermarket, no less) mentioned yet. Those are fucking vile.
Lately, the Pepsi commercials with the Einstein lookalike have pissed me off. The man was a goddamn brilliant pioneer in the field of physics, and what does he get after he dies? An ad that has him endorsing a bottle of fizzy sugar water. That is very tasteless indeed.
This has to be the oldest zombie I have ever seen. I was reading through, wondering if the 1-800-COLLECT ads were even still on, and then noticed the date.
As a class, contingency fee lawyers. I don’t like them very much as people but their ads I fucking hate. “Hurt? Think you were hurt? Don’t know if you think you were hurt? We’ll get money for you and its all free!”
Specific ad - I want to kill that one little Geico piggy all the way home. Even in his home. I just want him dead.
