Zepchick: Funniest damn thing…hubby and I were watching TV when a Zovirax commercial came on. Briefly. It got interrupted by another commercial, as has been known to happen, and so we got this:
Decent looking blond chick: “I take Zovirax…(comes in closer, slightly under breath)…for my [sub]genital herpes[/sub].”
Commercial got cut off right there. I’m telling you, that was one helluva good laugh. “Gee, thanks for sharing! Good for you!”
Meanwhile, a new commercial that drives me CRAZY:
The V8 commercial with annoying boy making weird-ass noises in a restaurant. I start shrieking when I hear that “Dum dah dah dumm…” music start up, because I know those annoying sounds are following…
ANY commercial (mostly car ads but everybody else is now using the technique) where something fast moving (car) comes into the frame, then suddenly slows down to about 1/10 th of the initial speed with which it was moving, apparently so you can see and appreciate the details. This was pretty cool and eyecatching the first few times I saw it but now literally EVERYONE is using and it has become (for me) just irritating. But I have an incredibly high resistance to advertising in general anyway.
I also detest the voice-overs that attempt to duplicate the TRULY unique and innovative techniques of Ken Nordine. He’s the voice-over artist who pioneered the technique of “equalizing” the high and low audio frequencies out of the feed (and reducing the volume) during certain segments of the copy so it sounds more like a telephone conversation and sounding like your “conscience” talking to you over your shoulder. Many have tried this technique since Ken introduced it, probably close to 20 years ago now, but they all soundy like copy-cats to me. It’s kind of like hearing a “cover” of a hit song. NOBODY can do it like the original artist and I wish they’d quit trying. A good place to start for the Nordine uninitiated would be http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/Nordine/
Just found out he was born in 1920, WHAT A GUY!
And what’s with that OH-SO hip, St. Vitas Dance-afflicted, break-dancing/boogying-in-the-seat gal in the [forgot-brand-already-if-I-ever-knew-it] car ads? Does that really make all the “X” laden freekers want to go out and buy that sled?
And just WHERE is that hemi-cylindrical tunnel with the green lights that EVERY FRICKIN CAR IN THE WORLD seems to have to pass through to get where it’s going? SHEESH!
The commercials for scratch off lottery tickets usually talk about how “fun” it is to play.
Lets see…scratch the spots off, occasionally win a few bucks, hmm. Doesn’t make me want to dance or high five anybody. Maybe if I won a few thousand on one.
Any commercial that features somebody whose entire life revolves around the product. I automatically develop a revulsion to those products.
There’s this lame commercial from the California Energy board’s conservation campaign. The point is that if you wait to use major appliances until after 7PM it doesn’t tax the grid as much, so to demonstrate they show this woman reading a book to her daughter in her high chair. The girl is munching on a bowl of dry Cheerios and the woman reads slower and slower stretching the story out so it ends at exactly 7 o’clock. The minute the story ends the little kid dumps the Cheerios on the floor and the mom starts wildly vacuuming them up.
#1 - Dry Cheerios do not require a vacuum, you could use a broom and dustpan and not use ANY electricity at ANY time of the day.
#2 - STOP GIVING THE FREAKING KID CHEERIOS IF SHE KEEPS DUMPING THEM ON THE FLOOR!!!
Is it just me?!?! Jebus, I want to kill someone when I see that!
The Mitsubishi robot girl creeps me out.
Any commercial with Carrot Top in it enrages me.
But the one that causes me to grab the remote is one for Michelina’s Bowls frozen meals. There are two of them done to the tune of the Macarena. And they are hideous!
That damn Subway ad where the obnoxious guy and his two lackies drive up to a fast drive-in and order a sandwich exclusive to Subway.
“I don’t think that’s on our menu,” says the worker.
“Not only is it not on your menu, its’ not on your radar screen,” says obnoxious guy.
“We have a radar screen?”
I wish the fast food worker had called the cops just like on the Simpsons (Sir, its’ a crime to tease the box.) and the obnoxious guy and his lackies were beaten to a pulp.
least favorite radio commercial: At the dump, at the dump, at the dump dump dump!
Also, all of the romantic diamonds are forever commercials. First of all, not being in a romantic situation at the moment, they make me sick! Also, if it takes a diamond to get a woman’s interest, then you have a problem.
I’m sorry, I know this thread is almost dead, but…I have to make an exception. I have found what is possibly the most enraging commercial ever…Just thinking about it makes my back molars tingle with anger and annoyance.
Cut to screen of a gondola going over water…“Somewhere in Venice…California”. Then it goes to this chick pacing around her kitchen, “Ah! Pah-sta!” in a HORRIBLY overdone Italian accent. She goes to the freezer and says (in the same accent), “Ah! Bennay!”. She sticks the thing in the microwave, and, while anxiously waiting with bulemic anticipation, what sounds like: “Multo bellay! Un-kol Bennay!” and other unbelievably stupid and nonsensical Italian/English phrases. She feeds it to her boyfriend (“Antonio!”) and after he tastes the stupid shit, she’s like “Good, huh?!”.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! EXCUSE ME WHILE I BASH MY HEAD IN AGAINST THE TELEVISION!
I’m sorry, I know this thread is almost dead, but…I have to make an exception. I have found what is possibly the most enraging commercial ever…Just thinking about it makes my back molars tingle with anger and annoyance.
Cut to screen of a gondola going over water…“Somewhere in Venice…California”. Then it goes to this chick pacing around her kitchen, “Ah! Pah-sta!” in a HORRIBLY overdone Italian accent. She goes to the freezer and says (in the same accent), “Ah! Bennay!”. She sticks the thing in the microwave, and, while anxiously waiting with bulemic anticipation, what sounds like: “Multo bellay! Un-kol Bennay!” and other unbelievably stupid and nonsensical Italian/English phrases. She feeds it to her boyfriend (“Antonio!”) and after he tastes the stupid shit, she’s like “Good, huh?!”.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! EXCUSE ME WHILE I BASH MY HEAD IN AGAINST THE TELEVISION!
The worst one in our area has got to be the one about Trojan Condoms. Their in a row boat and they run aground and she says something inane like he doesn’t have the right equipment. He whips out the Trojan Her Pleasure and she says, “Oh Larry, now you have the right equipment” Oh gag.
Most of the commercials end up making you hate the product and definitely NOT using it.
How 'bout Cal Worthington and his damn used car dealerships. He was run out of Southern California so now he’s moved up North, here with me…UHG!!!
And that ludicrus crap he says about Standing on his head to beat all deals…PLEEEEZE…He has showcased animals, a few considered wild over the years and I couldn’t even count the times that I prayed the tiger would maul him to death or the Rhino would run over him and stomp him to death or even that he might get a feather stuck in his throat from the rooster he had on a leash, and choke to death. But NO, he’s still around. Go figure!!!
The car commercial where it shows a part of the car, and the camera turns to another part, then goes back to the first one. Also, “We Will Rock You”, one of the most annoying songs ever written, is playing.
It’s talking about my car (Protege.). I’m so ashamed.
I can’t stand those commercials either.
I hate the McDonald’s one with the rapping princess and prince, talking about some new pita thing they’ve got, and then it snaps to the couple on the couch and the woman grabs her husband’s(?) pita and devours it. It wouldn’t be so bad, but the rapping they do it so horrible, and his voice is so flat and has no rhythm or beat at all. Ugh ugh ugh.
I hate almost any local commercial that has the owners kids playing the main parts. Also, on the same note, commercials with kids singing.
There was one that showed in Houston when I still lived in TX, for a furniture place, IIRC. It had two 40-something men wearing beanbags, and at the end of the commercial, when they were telling you where the store was, they’d say “Where the bean bags are!”, but on different words, they’d either stick their arms out in front of them, or hit their chests. Argh.
Mesquite, TX used to have a bad one in the early 90’s for Trophy Nissan. Lots of business type people singing “At Trophy, Trophy, Trophy Nissan! You can buy it from a girl, you can buy it from a man!” (I might not be 100% correct on the words, but that’s how I remember it.)
Radio Shack, with the chick from Lois and Clark. Ugh. Someone dispose of her, please.
The AOL commercial that’s been running recently. You know, one person says "And when I log on, a REALLY COOL voice tells me “You’ve got mail!”
Next person: “Oh, I just LOVE that!”
Person 3: “I wonder who that guy is?!”
Another Houston one? The Mattress Giant. He kind of looked like a tall, butch-er Mr Clean in Jesus sandals, and the jingle sounded pornographic. "Oooh, Aaah. Ooo, Ahhh. Only at Mattress Giant (Oooh, Ahh), only at Mattress Giant (and this is where the porno chick comes in. A very long, drawn out, “Oooooooohhhh, Ahhhhhhh”)
It’s talking about my car (Protege.). I’m so ashamed.
I can’t stand those commercials either.
I hate the McDonald’s one with the rapping princess and prince, talking about some new pita thing they’ve got, and then it snaps to the couple on the couch and the woman grabs her husband’s(?) pita and devours it. It wouldn’t be so bad, but the rapping they do it so horrible, and his voice is so flat and has no rhythm or beat at all. Ugh ugh ugh.
I hate almost any local commercial that has the owners kids playing the main parts. Also, on the same note, commercials with kids singing.
There was one that showed in Houston when I still lived in TX, for a furniture place, IIRC. It had two 40-something men wearing beanbags, and at the end of the commercial, when they were telling you where the store was, they’d say “Where the bean bags are!”, but on different words, they’d either stick their arms out in front of them, or hit their chests. Argh.
Mesquite, TX used to have a bad one in the early 90’s for Trophy Nissan. Lots of business type people singing “At Trophy, Trophy, Trophy Nissan! You can buy it from a girl, you can buy it from a man!” (I might not be 100% correct on the words, but that’s how I remember it.)
Radio Shack, with the chick from Lois and Clark. Ugh. Someone dispose of her, please.
The AOL commercial that’s been running recently. You know, one person says "And when I log on, a REALLY COOL voice tells me “You’ve got mail!”
Next person: “Oh, I just LOVE that!”
Person 3: “I wonder who that guy is?!”
Another Houston one? The Mattress Giant. He kind of looked like a tall, butch-er Mr Clean in Jesus sandals, and the jingle sounded pornographic. "Oooh, Aaah. Ooo, Ahhh. Only at Mattress Giant (Oooh, Ahh), only at Mattress Giant (and this is where the porno chick comes in. A very long, drawn out, “Oooooooohhhh, Ahhhhhhh”)
LoL, that AOL commercial is hilarious! I generally find AOL commercials to be extremely funny, as if they were really subtle SNL skits. In fact, a lot of the commercials that people have mentioned here are quite funny, in my opinion. But I guess I find that people trying not to act stupid but failing… very amusing…
The only commercials I really don’t like are the out and out annoying ones, like that Radio Shack Teri and Howie bit, and Carrot Top is starting to bug me too. Anything loud or obnoxious basically. The dumb and lame commercials are just funny in their lameness. Not that it makes me want to buy their product, but at least I am entertained until the show comes back on…
And I tend to forgive any commercial that has good music, unless they happen to butcher it to work in the product names. In that case, I get angry :mad: