Bow. Flex.
If you think you hate all the previously mentioned commercials wait until you get a load of the new K-Mart ad campaign produced and directed by Spike Lee. Jesus, what the fuck were they thinking?
In the series of 30 second spots, that will begin airing a week before Mother’s Day, Lee manages to exploit every racial/ethnic sterotype imaginable and lamely tries to put across the theme that, “All God’s chillun’ shop at K-Mart.” Hoo-whee!
Even less convincing is the ‘spin’ that Lee puts on the multi-cultural appeal of the Kathy Ireland and Martha Stewart product lines.
The only message that really comes across in these Spike-fo-mercials is the underlying desperation of the once mighty retailer to appeal to any consumer base. Especially after The Federal Bankruptcy Court ruled that K-Mart had to pull their sponsorship from NASCAR, whose audience demograhic is a lot closer to the average K-Mart shopper than say the audience demographic of everyone who saw, “Do The Right Thing,” "Jungle Fever,“Summer of Sam,” etc…
Anyone who is holding on to K-Mart stock in hopes that these commercials are going to turn things around better get ready for the cold, hard, running-fuck-slap of reality. After these pieces of shit air, K-Mart is going to need “The Mother of All Blue Light Specials” to keep from sinking faster than a Russian submarine.
Denture commercials, in general, but especially those Sea-Bond ones that show an “orchestra” of happy denture wearers crunching into apples, corn-on-the-cob, and similar foods at appropriate cues during the Blue Danube Waltz.
That commercial, as much as anything, finally got this fory-four-year-old to start flossing religiously.
I concur with most of what has already been said.
I actually like the kia highschool reunion commercials.
I can’t stand:
Any collect call commercials. I hate them ALL. They are such horrible mindless drivel.
Those stupid KFC commercials
I loathe that rogaine commercial!! It potrays women as shallow apperence-obsessed harpies. I can care less about a man’s hair.
on the same subject, I would be plenty happy with a simple gold band as my wedding ring.
Almost all “personal injury” lawyer ads. Locally, we have this guy who claims to “blow away the insurance companies” and with bad graphics turns into a tornado, blowing papers around his office.
Ads with any pop star.
The toenail infection commercials…with all the side effects of that pescription, it’s not worth it.
Pillsbury commemercials.
Clorox cleaning products. (Momma keeps a house…) All of these commercials potray the mother as nothing but the family servent, cleaning up their messes. I have nothing at all against homemakers, but there is far more to them than the family servent.
Almost all commercials geared towards children.
Finally those ads for gastric bypass surgery, acting like a serious procedure is like weightwatchers, only eaiser. Only in America would surgery be advertised on tv.
Thank you, Cosmopolitan. I thought I was the only person who felt that way. If I compared The Olive Garden’s tomato-flavored swill to the food my grandmother makes, she’d kill me.
And the Italian stereotypes they portray aren’t funny. If a fried chicken or barbecue joint tried to develop the same kind of commercial with African-American stereotypes there’d be blood in the streets but portraying anyone whose last name ends in a vowel as Vinnie Gagootz is OK, I guess. :mad:
Zap!
NSYNC for Chili’s Baby Back Farging Ribs (these commercials used to be bad enough with the kitchen/wait staff singing that inane song).
And there’s several of them out there.
“Dude, you’re getting a Dell!”
trembling with rage Fuck you, asshole!
But I do like the Aflac duck.
Lay off Steve the Dell Guy. He’s gorgeous.
I hate the carrot top commercials… loathe them. Whoever put him on TV should be shot. And I absolutely abhor the lie-filled “Truth” commercials. God I hate them. I hope they all die. Of lung cancer.
I’d agree with most of what I’ve seen here, and humbly submit my vote for the most annoying person since “Ian” first shared “Auri” with the world: Billy May(e?)s, of “HI! BILLY MAYS HERE, FOR OXYCLEAN!” fame.
Ditto “Bowflex.” Ditto “Ditech.com.” Ditto the entire retinue of commercials endlessly tape-looped on TLC / Discovery / History Channel.
Non-sequitur award to the American Express commercial with the inexplicable flying chubby kid.
OTOH, I find the VW commercials with proud new owners showing off cool features to people who could care less kinda funny…
This new White Castle commercial (at least new to me). There’s a dude sitting in his car chowing down on a WC burger. Ok, fair enough, no problemo so far. Knock at the window, rolls it down, there’s a car wash guy there “Want us to clean the inside too?” “Nah, just the outside.”
Guy opens the door and dozens of empty WC boxes come tumbling out of the back seat, the whole backseat is full of WC boxes! The guy was sitting in his car savoring the stale, greasy smell of old fast food containers, BLECH! Even worse, the car wash guy sits in the car to take it through the wash, picks up an empty box, and gives it a nice, big, sniff.
ewwwwwwwwwww, just thinking about it makes me queasy.
TV commercials in general suck, but fast food commercials really piss me off. They always involve people whose entire lives seem to revolve around their next order of nuggets, or sliders or whatever. They’re just such stupid people, they don’t deserve to eat.
I have to say though, as bad as TV commercials are, Radio commercials (especially the fast food ones) are even worse.
And yes, I hate those jewelry commercials with a passion. Look, let’s just paraphrase them all and get it over with:
“You’re engaged/celebrating an anniversary/having an affair and there’s no way to show her how much you love her except to buy a piece of jewelry that costs the same as a moderate sized home. If you don’t buy it you’re a cheap piece of slime who doesn’t deserve her and everybody will know it.”
The other day within the span of an hour I saw an FDS commercial, an Always commercial, and Monistat commercial featuring the exact same actress.
All I could think was, ‘Honey, I know way too much about your vagina.’
Wow! I didn’t know Margret Cho was a Doper! Waaay cool!
Courtney Cox was the first actress to say the word “period” in a tampon commercial. I read that in Glamour once.
Anyway, count me in on the hating the spastic woman in the Mitsubishi. She looks like a minme.
-Myron
The maniacal fuzzball in the Honeycombs cereal commercial. Don’t even start me on the annoying voice and the bad grammar.
I also hate all commercials for kids’ cereals. Most, if not all, encourage selfishness (that cereal is MINE and I will keep you from having it at all costs!!!), and they undermine the concept of sharing that parents like me are trying to teach their children. They also seem to be saying that if there is something you want that you aren’t being allowed to have, then you should try to acquire it through trickery and deceit. And the Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials in particular tell children how dumb adults are and how much smarter kids are than their parents, an attitude we all have to fight every day without encouragement like that!! :mad:
“My name is Gwen, and I’m here to WASH YOUR VAGINA!”
The Epil-stop-n-shit or whatever commercial. Supposed to take hair off anything.
**Totally disgusting… **
THATS A WOMAN!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
And a lot more eeks.
Ya know the Ads on tv don’t bother me.
Then again I don’t watch tv, I just listen to it while I cook, read or play video games.
Suckers 
I despise that fucking Colgate 3-in-1 commercial where a couple goes into an ice cave and throws mouthwash and toothpaste all over, then it turns into a fucking replica of the product. I HATE THAT FUCKING THING! That’s the stupidest shit I have ever seen. Whoever wrote that commercial ought to be fist fucked up the ass by Freddy Krueger.