Your least favorite current commercials

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[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!]

I second the Wendy’s ads with the red wigs. I’m only the second person in this thread to mention those ads, which scares me.

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Those are bizzaro/surreal enough to be interesting to me – at least once. They remind me of an old Wendy’s ad, that was yanked pretty quickly, which involved Red Headed doom warriors battling battalions of Ronald McDonalds and Burger Kings. This was when Wendys was trying to earn a very distant third place. Apparently the McDs and BK lawyers were not amused.

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[QUOTE=ShibbOleth]
Those are bizzaro/surreal enough to be interesting to me – at least once. They remind me of an old Wendy’s ad, that was yanked pretty quickly, which involved Red Headed doom warriors battling battalions of Ronald McDonalds and Burger Kings. This was when Wendys was trying to earn a very distant third place. Apparently the McDs and BK lawyers were not amused.
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Addendum: My hatred for the Wendy’s ads is exacerbated by the guy in the very first ad (the “Hot And Juicy” one on the forest) who was very much like Will Ferrell. I hate Will Ferrell.

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So many…

  1. Dick enhancement pill commercials. Always have some busty chick talking about how wang size matters, and their herbal pill (NOT APPROVED BY THE FDA) doubles the size. Cut to dickheads “in the street” talking to “reporters” about how hung they are. Christ, are people this stupid - the dick pill buying public, or the admaker?

  2. That fucking Girls Gone Wild commercial with the steel drums and the losers form various MTV reality shows. FOAD, willya?

  3. Any ad that is recorded 2x louder than the usual TV. There’s one about melting your gold down that makes me jump out of my seat every time it comes on.

  4. Wendy’s has really been without a good ad since Dave Thomas died. Red wigs are stupid.

  5. Any ad for a car with a disclaimer stating that the truck can’t actually do what’s being demonstrated in the ad… shouldn’t you show what the damn thing can actually do?

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So, I gotta say, I saw this commercial just now and it infuriated me. Most commercials underestimate the intelligence of their audience, but this one does it at every turn and in such an insulting way it deserves special mention.

Yes, BRINKS home security. How does this start? Well we see some perfect white-washed community. Typical suburbs, very nice area to be living in. Some guy just got through dropping off his wife, and she’s walking home, enter a jogger running down the street. He stops in front of the house and bends down to “tie his shoe” The husband stares at him suspiciously which he disarms with a friendly smile. “I’m just a regular white guy like you!” The husband drives off. The wife closes the door to the house AFTER setting the alarm (?!) The runner suddenly stands up, puts his hood form his hooded jacket over his head and sprints towards the door, executes a perfect flying kick to knock it in. BLAM! Then the alarm goes off. Next thing we see, the would-be robber is running away from the house at full speed. The wife is in the kitchen when this happens and is scared, but hears the phone ring. The man on the other side of the phone answers, “Mrs. White, we received an alarm, is everything ok?!” To which she replies, “no, I think someone tried to break into my house!” “We’ll send someone right away!” At which point the video becomes a fuzzy shot of her and her husband talking to someone and the voiceover chimes in, “Wouldn’t you like to feel safe?” I don’t know where to even begin!

Just to get this clear, this situation is not going to happen, and this is not the reason why people have alarms on their houses. Notice that the wife is white and single? Wonder why that is? This is something out of a Hollywood movie! These kinds of incidents almost NEVER happen. First, a robbery in a suburb in full daylight?! What?! Are you serious? There is no way in hell some well-planned robber is going to try that.

Secondly, upon hearing that the home was alarmed, he makes an about face and leaves. I can’t say that I believe that.

Thirdly. Does this chick set the alarm when she’s at home? That’s pretty effing paranoid, I gotta say. I can imagine when you leave the house you set the alarm. Maybe when you sleep at night, but in the afternoon? Are we supposed to go outside of our houses on a sunny afternoon?

Fourthly, the prompt response of the guy on the phone really seems to soothe her, although it’s a bit ridiculous. I can’t see why anyone would be concerned about this. Maybe they should hide or find something to defend themselves with rather than talking to a guy on the phone?

It’s just such a blatant fabrication from start to finish that I find totally insulting

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The “pig-man” ads for Trojans:

Evolve
Use a condom every time.

Excuse me? If you use a condom every time doesn’t that sort of take you out of the evolution game? What’s next: Hydrate, never drink a beverage?

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I can’t believe nobody has mentioned the Lowes one with the guy who unscrews his dick and hands it to his wife at the beginning.

“Ahh, that’s done, it looks nice. Now I’m going to enjoy the…wife glares at him…trip to Lowes to spend more money remodeling the basement/kitchen/bathroom. Please don’t hurt me honey”.

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[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi]
The GD frikken Nissan Rogue commercials!!! :mad: Enough already!! :stuck_out_tongue:
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I actually love the Nissan commercial! It’s definitely played often - almost every commercial break on every station - but I think it’s cleaver and the song is catchy.

I have a personal dislike for the Orbit gum commercials - Clean it up with orbit - They drive me crazy! I can’t watch them.

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[QUOTE=Bootis]
Every one of those damn investment banking ads where the people are made to look like animation. Each one has the person talking about investing while in the middle of doing something else, so only half their focus is on whoever they’re supposed to be talking to, I guess to make them seem more “real”. So why make them cartoons?! I hate the way the actors try so hard to appear casual and candid, it makes it all the more fake and nausiating
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That style of animation is so repulsive. They look like horrific paint-by-numbers chosen from some colorblind 60s palette. Ick. Ick ick ick.

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There is a Mexican light beer radio ad, where they try to make the point that “Cervesa” is better than “Beer”. Not the word, the product. :rolleyes:

The “feasting” ads are cute- once.

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We can’t have a commercial hate thread without me mentioning McDonalds radio adverts. They are almost all horrible. I suppose they wouldn’t be nearly so bad if I didn’t have to hear the same ones every day several times an hour on my drive to work.

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[QUOTE=TripleTee]
Apparently I am really, really old. I couldn’t figure out that commercial. My first thought was, “Why is he asking her about the rap mix? Is she supposed to be his girlfriend? She’s just hanging out at the studio while he works?”

And my other question was, “What does country have to do with hot wing doritos?”

I don’t know the slightest thing about rap obviously.

But honestly, why does Doritos need commercials? As far as I am concerned, they sell themselves.
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I never paid close attention to this commercial until yesterday, so I assumed the point was that they combined flavors that no one would expect to find together that worked out well, along the lines of somone adding country to a rap song. I was surprised to find out the big taste collision they were pushing was…hot wing and blue cheese.

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All comcast ones, but most especially the ones with the turtles and more specifically the ones with the turtles that go on and on about this and/or that.

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[QUOTE=pinkfreud]
I think that’s James Read. The commercial is for T-Mobile.
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Nah, I don’t think so.

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It’s the insurace commercials.

“They have lowered their car insurace rates. Here’s why. This represents the number the accidents in California. And this represents their rates. the number of accidents have gone down…”

Yeah, thanks. I would have been able to wrap my head around that difficult conecpt without you putting the stickers on the car windows. It makes sense now!

I swear, I want to do harm to that actor.

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Thissss Is Owerrrr Cuntttrrrrryyyyyy… :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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That Coors Light commercial that shows us when the mountain turns blue, the beer is cold enough to drink. OK, great. His wife comes out and says something bitchy to him and he mentions that it reminds him of her eyes, which are blue. She freaks out, goes into the bedroom, slams the door and wails out a “My eyes are green!!!” Her reaction infuriates me.

  1. The guy’s not too smart if he confused his wife’s eye color. He obviously wasn’t malicious. This should be known and understood by now, right? Why is it OK for her to completely freak out over something so trivial?

  2. Walking into a bedroom and slamming the door isn’t even something I’d tolerate from a child, let alone an adult female. Is this conduct acceptable to anyone?

  3. He was showing you something on a beer bottle that he was obviously interested in, and you showed that you didn’t give a shit, and that was entirely OK.

Not only is TV showing men as stupid ALL THE FUCKING TIME, but they’re also showing women who behave like children as acceptable.

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[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
That Coors Light commercial that shows us when the mountain turns blue, the beer is cold enough to drink. OK, great. His wife comes out and says something bitchy to him and he mentions that it reminds him of her eyes, which are blue. She freaks out, goes into the bedroom, slams the door and wails out a “My eyes are green!!!” Her reaction infuriates me.
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She doesn’t say something bitchy. She just got a positive on a pregnancy test and is excitedly telling him that the test turned blue at the same time he’s excitedly telling her that the bottle turned blue.

It’s still a stupid commercial, but you didn’t get the gist of it.

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[QUOTE=jsgoddess]
She doesn’t say something bitchy. She just got a positive on a pregnancy test and is excitedly telling him that the test turned blue at the same time he’s excitedly telling her that the bottle turned blue.

It’s still a stupid commercial, but you didn’t get the gist of it.
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No, I got it, but I forgot to mention the pregnancy test thing. The implication of the commercial was that a) he’s stupid, b) he’s more concerned over the beer bottle turning blue than having a child, and c) she’s allowed to act like a child over something so obviously stupid and blown out of proportion.

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None of these commercials nauseates me or produces visceral hatred in me. The ones I don’t like merely bring a “meh” reaction from me and I just don’t buy the sponsor’s product. They’re just commercials. Some of us can hit the skip button on our DVR’s, but I know many of you feel you’re a captive audience and have no option except to switch the channel. Some of the ones mentioned here I actually like, but YMMV. But the ones that don’t grab me, I don’t let my day be ruined by them and just don’t understand the extreme reaction they seem to bring out in some.

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[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
No, I got it, but I forgot to mention the pregnancy test thing. The implication of the commercial was that a) he’s stupid, b) he’s more concerned over the beer bottle turning blue than having a child, and c) she’s allowed to act like a child over something so obviously stupid and blown out of proportion.
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I have to disagree with you. I’ve been in the early stages of pregnancy. Had my husband pulled that shit, I would not only cry and act like a child, he’d likely be wearing his balls on a string.

Robin