TV commercials that drive or drove you nuts

My all time worst commercial was the Nyquil commercial where a couple were in bed. The man is coughing, then whines in a stuffed up voice, “Honnnnnn-eeeeyyyy. I can’t sleep.” SHE lumbers out of bed and gets him his freakin’ night cold medicine. Skip to a scene where the husband is sleeping peacefully and the woman is playing solitaire. “Well, at least ONE of us can sleep.”

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!! What an insensitive clod! Was he incapable of getting his own medicine?

Viagra. “Do you suffer from…E.D.?” Makes family viewing excrutiating.

I like how one of the guys in the “ED” commercial is posing next to his expensive little red classic sportscar. Oh, yeah! I’d never guess he had penis problems!

I also hate the “Dodge, Different” commercials. For some reason they actually OFFEND me. Like they think I’m so dumb they can actually CONFUSE me into buying a grotesque product of theirs.


“Welcome to the Knowledgeum, I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such automated information kiosks as ‘Welcome to Springfield Airport’ and ‘Where’s Nordstrom?’”

Two more come to mind…THOSE 3 BRATS: MORE OVALTINE PLEASE. And

That woman who “Wants to live to be 100” I want to snuff out her life right now.

That Campbell’s Soup spot (NOW, I LOVE Campbell’s soup), with the two screaming little shits playing a television game when Mommy calls them in for Chicken and noodle soup, where they proceed to slop it around and eat it with their fingers while giggling and making a mess! Then Mom goes in and shuts off the TV.

Nothing like displaying good table manners to the susceptible American young.

I hate the Shake and Bake one…all time stupid…we don’t sound like that in the south…no true southern would use that junk. I hate the Pepsi commercial where the kids get sucked into the bottle…how stupid… but the one that gets me now are the ones for Geico Insurance…the one for toliet tissue and paper towels…get real…how about the one where the little old lady throws the frid over to advertise a paper towel…yea right…

Fuzzy reminded me: y’all, stay away from Geico. From what I understand (yeah, I know, show documentation. Will do, as soon as I can find some), Geico is the worst of all insurance companies in using their profits to buy radar/lidar guns which they then give away to police departments.

Why spend their profits on radar guns they plan to give away? Because when you get a ticket, they have an excuse to raise your premiums. Which means more profits, which leads to more radar guns.

Bastards. Anyway. Back to more words from our sponsors.

I really despise all the ecampus.com ads. After the one where a kid belches the alphabet, I also hate the one where a kid fries up his goldfish. How revolting and sad :frowning: Besides, if he were really a college kid, wouldn’t he be swallowing it live?


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The newest Visa ad on TV, partners with REI (the outdoor shop) making fun of the National Park Service - came out here in Hawaii about the same day a Ranger was shot and killed.

REI would barely exist without the Park Service… Tasteless, hypocritical…

There’s a Nyquil ad where a full grown man has the head of a baby. It’s creep and weird and gives me nightmares. I thought it was gone, but I saw it again last week. AIEEE!

I hate all the “Got Milk?” ads, especially the billboards. Gosh I dunno, what’s offensive about people with white paste smeared all over the faces?

The one redeeming “Got Milk?” ad was terrible too. It was one where this magician was performing for a bunch of old people, and he used up all the milk doing a trick. So then they all turned into these Night of the Living Dead style zombies and started coming at him. It was pretty great because, in addition to being a horrible ad for a substance which is mildly toxic to most of the world’s population, it portrayed old people as walking dead. I mean, why just insult the audience when you can target a couple of demographic groups as well?

No, general I’m not that sensitive to mockery of old people, but this commercial pushed all my buttons.


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I also hate those 1-800-COLLECT ads with Adam Corolla and a guy who looks enough like Dr. Drew that the first couple times I saw them I said, “Is that Dr. Drew? Can’t be, he wouldn’t do something like this. No, it’s not him, wait, maybe, no, it’s not. Wait… no.” These commericials, like all commercials about phone service these days, are loud and obnoxious. Plus, I hate being jerked around like that :slight_smile:


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I never wanted to kill a small child in my life, until those horrific Pepsi ads with the girl who supposedly talks in ‘funny’ voices.

Poorly acted and lip-synched, completely unfunny, bizarre for a company that can spend as much on its ad campaigns as Pepsi can.

A hated commercial resurfaces: Ray Charles’ 5 for $5 Arby’s commercial.

This is the one where Ray Charles talks about his tremendous sense of smell and raves about the smell of Arby’s roast beef sandwiches. Two or three times during the commercial he sniffs loudly and says what kind of sauce is on the sandwiches based on their smell. I swear, they must have jammed the microphone halfway up his sinus passages when he sniffs. You can almost hear the wind whistling through his nostril hairs.