What commercials give you an urge to throw the remote through the TV screen? Any commercial featuring the little Pepsi girl are automatically assumed, but luckily I haven’t seen her on TV lately. Now she just taints my movie-going experiences.
-Any recent Taco Bell commercials. What ad agency are they using for Chrissakes? I hated the “Zesty!” guys, then along came the “We will rock you” idiots, now I am repeatedly forced to watch a bunch of jackasses say “Steak!”
-M&M’s most recent commercial, featuring the yellow M&M getting eaten by a toddler. This is just plain disturbing.
Is its release with Hannibal a coincidence?
-The new Coke ad campaign, featuring people dancing in the woods with pithy messages on the bottom of their cans. I like the music in the latest one, but it just seems like a bad way to sell soda. Does anyone really believe people are going to take Coke along for a night of dancing in the woods?
I don’t even need to see the commercials for Pepsi and Taco Bell to inspire feelings of teeth grinding hatred. The products themselves do that just fine.
I can’t stand the Volkswagen commercial with the car in the tree. It makes me want to throw my shoe at the TV.
Hmmm… seems like there was a similar thread a few weeks ago … but it didn’t show up in a 10-day search …
But since I’m HERE …
The KIA commercial with the moron who doesn’t realize he just bought a car (Who’s car is that in the driveway?) But if he has that attitude about the payments, he won’t have his Korea-mobile for long. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving idiot.
Just about any beer commercial (and that’s pretty much all of them) that depicts guys as being shallow, oafish, immature slobs.
[sub]…not that it isn’t mostly true, but jeeez, do I need to be reminded every other minute?[/sub]
What are YOU Doing?!
two words …
Miss Cleo, that psychic, tarot card over the phone reading, Jamaican accent having #%#@$@!!!
Sorry, I just really hate that whole concept. How can you get a tarot card reading over the PHONE?!? How do you know what cards she is pulling, or if she even has a deck for crying out loud? I have to either mute the tv or change the channel when her ads come on.
All of them!
Dem tarot, dey neve’ lie!
That’s pure tea-very! Why you Tea-ven?!
My young ones, they tell me, Miss Cle-o, you keep it rreeel and that’s what I do, I keep it rreeel!
There’s a commerical on AT&T cable shown at least 3 times a day. It’s set in a high school reunion and these people are talking about the guy that was the most popular in the class, naming off all his accomplishments. The last thing one of them says is that he steals cable. The band in the reunion then plays a song, which pretty much lets the popular guy know that he’s a cable thief, embarrassing him in front of everyone.
At the end, the announcer man says “No one like a cable thief, legalize your cable connection today.” What the fuck! :mad: I pay for the cable and they’re accusing me of stealing it!
Those damn Verizon wireless commercials! (Maybe they’re only on the west coast?) The girl who sings the ‘verizon song’ makes me want to rip my eardrums out with my thumbnails!
Those stupid cruise commercials where two women are chatting in some everyday setting. “Oh, it was so romantic.” blah blah blah. Too bad the ship didn’t go down.
The EarthLink commercial where the characters are shown as red drawings. It has it all: The stereotypical black guy who I’d like to smack right in the face, the stereotypical giggling teenagers, the stereotypical female computer idiot.
Not as much as those horrid Carl’s Junior commercials with a couple of mooks talking with their mouths full. You know “munch, munch — cheese paper, garf,munch, grr”. “Burger, fries, and a coke. don’t bother me, I’m eating. Watchoo lookin at, faggot? I’ma kick your ass. M’fuggin real men eat m’fuggin beef, aight?”
And then they have the one where they try to legitimize the whole concept by having some hot chick stuffing her face with some huge burger and dripping ketchup and grease everywhere.
I used to eat there a lot. But now I can’t, because those commercials literally make me sick.
Sprite[sup]TM[/sup]'s rapping giant heads campaign. It took about four of them before I could even remember what the hell they were selling. They would not, however, be improved by someone rhythmically spitting in the background for accompaniment.
“Thbppt-thp-phbth-BPPPTHH-pth-thbppt-thp-phbth-BPPPTHH…”
I hate commercials where, for some unknown reason, they dub over the original voices. It just looks so fake and I can never concentrate on the commercial - I just keep staring at their lips and wondering what sub-standard advertising company put out this drivel. I mean, it’s not like there are incredible special effects or anything; more often than not, it’s a woman holding an item up and commenting on it. A multi-million dollar company doesn’t have enough money to redo that advertisment???
The one with lady lawyer & herbal shampoo. The judge says ‘I urge you to continue’, which is enough to send the bubble head off into fantasyland where her hair is washed in herbal essence by the dancing boys in black t-shirts singing ‘She’s got the urge to herbal’!!!
Darn you for making me think of it!
Damn, spooje, you beat me to it! There are a few versions of that commercial now and I hate them all. I can’t hit the mute button fast enough when I see one.
Grrr … now I’m gonna have that ad stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
One that creeps me out (and I can’t tell why) is a car commercial with a kid leaning towards the camera and whispering “zoom zoom” and cue the music “zoom zoom zoom”
I couldn’t even tell you which car it’s advertising.
I Thought the Taco Bell “Steak” Commercial was much better than the stupid Dog by a damn sight.
I used to live in Massachusetts and there was a regional Furniture company “Bob’s Discount Furniture”, sure the guy sold quality furniture at discount prices, but did he have sound so g-d frickin annoying in the commercials, he had this high whiney voice, and these stupid commercials with dancing and talking living room sets.
FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE GIVE IT UP BOB!!!
I recently moved to Connecticut…my wife and I were astounded at the “Bob’s Discount Furniture” commercials. Now they mostly seem to just be him talking about how great he and his stores are…no dancing furniture.
But the stunning thing is the sheer amount of commercial time he buys. He runs commercials (on the radio too) NON-STOP. I mean, it’s like “ok, Bob, I get the friggin’ picture - you sell discount furniture. You don’t have to hammer it home 24/7 - you’re annoying as hell.”
If you live in the NE, you will never see or hear a company advertised as much as this guy - and I’m talking more thanr the Coke/McDonald’s/GM companies.
I think the name of the company is Cellular One. Ugh to the whole campaign, highlighted by a commercial in which a young man comes out as “using cellular” at a big family dinner.
The campaign first got under my skin during the Summer Olympics, when the ad with the guy who “got caught using cellular” behind the barn by his father was on practically EVERY commercial break. Come to think of it, NBC’s coverage of the Olympics was a really annoying commercial, but I’m not sure for what.