Those dumbass Visa commercials where everyone’s doing the consumer ballet, and then it all screeches to a halt when someone pays cash. My first impulse is to pay with pennies now on.Tarnished pennies. Which they have to launder to even determine they’re pennies. Fuck the plastic overlords.
Their commercials have always pissed me off; they go out of their way to depict women as stupid, fragile, helpless little creatures. One of their newest commercials is a bit more refreshing, though…it depicts the husband practically soiling himself upon seeing a shadowy figure outside the house.
I think it’s an ad for Dyson vacumns (which I hear are great) - They show a series of clips of people using other vacumns but they play a soundtrack of squeaky toys being squeezed repeatedly - That noise drives me right up the wall. I’m a little worried nobody else mentioned it. Am I the only one who has to hit the mute or change the channel?? I must be getting way oversensitive.
The Brink’s home security ads get another vote from me for stupid and insulting. I realize why they call to verify before sending the police but I don’t think it is a good selling point. If I’m trying to hide from an intruder, answering the frigging phone to chat with some minimum wage idiot is not something I want to do.
They piss me off too. I always think: Visa - do you think we have never shopped before? Plastic is *not *quicker than cash! (Although it *is *quicker than the people who write checks!)
Particularly annoying is the newest one, where everyone is juggling their purchases in a toy store and the woman starts to write out a check (while still one-handedly juggling a toy robot) and then, when the entire universe grinds to a halt, smiles sheepishly at the clerk who smiles approvingly at her as she pulls out her Visa check card to pay instead.
The obnoxious radio adverts for diamonds (Dean and Yumie, “It can only be Jah-RAD!”, Wedding Day).
Indeed. I especially sneer at the one where Mom and the kids are watching a movie, and the Shadowy Lurker appears out the window, scaring Mom. Her brilliant strategy? “Run, kids! Upstairs!” Oh, great idea. Upstairs. The one area in the house you can’t possibly escape from. Brilliant. Might as well put on some sexy lingerie and place your valuables neatly in sacks for the intruder, too.
Also, Miller Lite. “Coach!” “Miller Lite is the only league-sanctioned beer.”
The Ben Stein Alaskan seafood commercial.
“Eat up, there’s plenty more where that came from!” ? 
Ummm…NO, there’s NOT plenty more! You’re supposed to be a smart guy, ahve you even read any of the thousands of scientific studies that show we ARE running out of fish/marine life?! We should be encouraging everyone to stop eating fish unless it’s farm raised, IMO, not the other way around. I half expect him to be in an anti-global warming commercial:
“So go ahead and drive your car everywhere, there’s plenty of atmosphere where that came from!”
Also, seafood is disgusting anyway.
Not really a commercial, but the autism PSA where this little girl sings “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. Always forces me to mute the TV as fast as possible.
Seriously though, does it not bother anyone else how the woman arms the alarm while she’s inside it during a beautiful day? Is that what Brinks suggests we do with their alarm system? Yes, It’s a beautiful day, and hubby just dropped me off. I better go lock up because YOU NEVER KNOW WHO COULD BE LURKING!!! 
The annoying thing to me is that their product has a legitimate use. It’s so people don’t steal your stuff while you’re gone. That’s what every alarm system I know of has ever been used for. Nobody arms it when they’re there. Why not just call the cops when you hear someone break in? Same difference. The most hilarious part about the whole commercial is two-fold. The reaction of the thief. He bolts it immediately. “Oh no! Brinks home security foiled me again!” Secondly is the relief the woman shows after the guy calls her. The guy could possibly be lurking in her house RIGHT THEN! It’s the perfect storm of stupidity.
I have 2:
One is some infomercial type commercial selling a planter you keep on your kitchen counter to grow herbs and lettuce and what-not. I like that the voice over says something to the effect of “Because nothing is safer than food your grow yourself!” Oh great, cause I get the (piss) shivers thinking my grocer’s lettuce is going to kill me one day! Also, it shows this silly thing full of fresh grown lettuce. They claim it took 36 days to grow this lettuce. It’s enough lettuce to make a salad for a family of 4 I’d imagine. Dummies.
The second is the Taco Bell commercial where older brother is telling younger brother his 3 rules in life:
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Never own a lapdog
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Never date a girl with a dragon tattoo
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Something about chili on nachos.
Then older brother’s girlfriend, who has a dragon tat on her shoulder, drops a dog on his lap, “take your dog for a walk.” And walks away. The thing is though…She’s fucking HOT! it just makes no sense. I miss the chihuahua.
For herbs this makes sense as they lose much flavor when bought dried. But for veggies? :rolleyes: Maybe they are really going for the “other” “herb” market? wink wink. 