commercials that annoy

[Becks]

Ask Becks.

Words can't describe her hatred.

[Bella_Vixen]

And those new Dominos commercials.

And a few other new ones.




I've started yelling at the TV again.

[Danno]

So it seems there's a few new rotoscoped Charles Schwab ads, cuz I guess they haven't gotten the gimmick out of their system yet. I'm not sure why people who appear to live in a posterized acid trip are dispensing financial advice, but I ain't taking none of it from a creepy cartoon.

The funny thing about these commercials is that they'd be "normal" if they used the original footage. They'd work just fine without the gimmick, but someone convinced somebody in a boardroom somewhere that applying a few Photoshop filters makes it cooler.

[blas]

Hahaha...I love the Hillshire Farm commercials.

The new Subway commercial where the guy doesn't know what to get and a stampede of people run/dance into Subway going "5....5 dollar footlong!"

[Bella_Vixen]

The new Halls commercial.

[freeatlast]

Is anybody else bothered by this?

The yogurt commercial where the woman opens and sucks down the container of yogurt in the store really bothers me. It seems that this commercial glamorizes opening and eating food before it is paid for. Just seems wrong to me.

[teller]

there was an add for a clothes store some time back and it had that high pitch radio noise that hurt. they replaced it with a silent add later that was much better in my opinion.

these days there is a virgra type add that bothers me because it on in the middle of the day and they use bad noises in it all the time.

[Bagboy]

-Head on, i guess the ywant you to aplly it directly on the forehead or something.
-For a while, there was Ernie Boch telling everyone to come on down
-The radio ad for my previous employment, telling you to sail away.
-the dr. of grillology on the Cape, I forget the name of the place.
-Island Queen ads(Sail away to Falmouth, sail away on the Island Queen! its a 35 minute trip on a swingin' ship.)
-For a while, Island Air had pretty bad radio spots. (They claimed to have the earliest flights,early in the morning and flights late into the night, yeah right, 8 PM is late?)
-Various places in Hyannis obviously never heard of good advertising.
-Christmas Tree Shops(Don't you just love a bargain?)
-Ocean State Job Lot

[depechemodefan]

I never seen that commercial, but yeah, I agree, is wrong.

[Stormraven]

An update for those who hate the Aleve commercials.

I just saw one with a badminton player that took the 'ignore the pain with Aleve' idea and all its baggage from subtext to plaintext.

The woman said "My doctor said my knees couldn't keep doing this, but that wasn't the answer I wanted to hear. With Aleve, I won't ever stop playing."

So, now they're saying 'ignore your doctor's advice. Take Aleve, and you'll be fine.'

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I used to hate Pepto Bismol's commercials.

"Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!" as people do some stupid dance. Let's just say when I suffer from those things, about the last thing I want to do is dance.

[CaroPhoenix]

How about the Old Navy Jeans commercials with the talking mannequins? "Hey! Look at me! I have a shelf butt." or "Hey, since I'm a mannequin, I can turn my head and look at my own butt." Puh-lease.

[protege]

The ones I'm really starting to hate...are the "gold for sale" ones. Every commercial starts with two twits trying to get people to buy gold coins. That wouldn't be so bad...if they'd quit bitching about how it was our "last chance." I've been seeing the commercial multiple times per day for the past 6 months. Last change...my ass!

[Bagboy]

Those "I'm totally debt free now, thanks to John Commuta" ads. There's another ad that sounds exactly like that one.

[malmalthekiller]

Whenever I watch TV, it's pretty much the Travel Channel (anthony bourdain, really), and it's all commercial for old people.

The one features a medical supplement plan that "you've been waiting for."
The commercial starts off with the couple talking about how the wife wouldn't marry him, and he waited 3 years for her to say yes. "I said no, twice!" Uh, ok.

Then it goes to explain about the "plan you've been waiting for."

Then goes back to the couple, the wife says, "One time he sang outside my window...until I told him to stop!" Yes, even with the awkward pause in the middle.

Cue going back to the medical information.

"Some things are just worth waiting for."

Um, ok?