commercials that annoy

[RetailWorkhorse]

Besides that, I can't stand those damn Kidz Bop commercials, just get the clean version of songs and make your own mix for your kids instead of getting that crappy lame ass ear-bleeding CD!

Come on, come on, do the locomotion with me. Ya gotta swing your hips now, ah come on baby, jump up, jump back.

I saw the Halls commercial today (the one with the poor stocker girl snuffling and coughing and she takes a Halls drop and some military dude comes out of NOWHERE and starts screaming at her).

I nearly ripped the cable cord from the wall.

[Bella_Vixen]

We have a winner!!

Bella, what does GG win?

The vice of her choice.

And don't get me started when they covered a song by Shakira. They took out the word "breasts" and replaced it with "troubles" or "problems" or something along those lines.

[draftermatt]

As we were leaving the store, "What's Up Pussycat" came on the rotation.

Hey the Chipmunks covered that song too, lol

It's not just about a kitty?

[Dreamstalker]

I guess that one's not too horrible...those mixes could be just about the rhythms for little kids after all. Still, some of the song choices are

Even worse is the sixties song "Li'l Red Riding Hood" sung by eight-year-olds.

[Jester]

Let's not forget that tv ad that had kids singing Poison's "Nothing But a Good Time."

Did anyone really listen to that song? Sure, they only had the kids singing the chorus, but this is the song with such lines as "Saturday night I'd like to make my girl." And of course the classic line in the song, "I spend my money on women and wine, but I couldn't tell you where I spent last night."

I know, I know, the kids never sing those lines, but the fact that they are singing a song about boozing and womanizing is a bit creepy, especially to anyone who knows what that song IS all about. I don't care how cute the damn ad was.

[Cookiesaur]

There's a commercial here for a local air conditioner outfit that features a penguin in a bow tie whose mouth sort of wobbles open and shut out of sync with the actual words, while red duck feet shuffle back and forth at the top of the screen as children sing "If you want some COLD AIR, EZ AC IS there" over and over and over. It gets stuck in my head for HOURS.

And somehow we always get stuck behind one of their company vans at traffic lights and I have to stare at that stupid painted penguin while the song plays over and over in my head.

I'm sure I've done something to deserve this.

[Bagboy]

Those Empire carpet ads. I'm glad I've forgotten the number. Also, Water Country ads are. the. worst. In STL we have something even worse: Raging Rivers-Its Cool when its hot!

[Sonoma]

One that drives me nuts is the JG Wentworth "IT'S MY MONEY, AND I NEED IT NOW!!!!!" that people randomly scream out of windows. If that was an effective way of getting funds, I wouldn't need to budget.

[Giggle Goose]

The vice of her choice.

Funnel cake with the calories removed, please

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who picked up on that! You think the artists would express how insulted they were with kids singing about VERY adult topics. But they probably got royalties so they wouldn't give a crap, I guess.

[Bella_Vixen]

Funnel cake with the calories removed, please

As soon as I can manage that, it's yours.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who picked up on that! You think the artists would express how insulted they were with kids singing about VERY adult topics. But they probably got royalties so they wouldn't give a crap, I guess.

I wonder about that, too...

[Bandit]

The AlarmForce TV ads with the CEO on it. His look and especially the voice is - well, just wrong - to sell an alarm system.

It's just too creepy.

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[Danno]

So I went to the movies again this weekend, and I'm again wondering what is up with the Kid Rock "video" before movies that's recruiting for the National Guard. It's the inclusion of NASCAR that sends it into surreal territory for me, especially when the National Guard car is zipping deftly around the crashing and burning vehicles flipping all over the track. What is this doing in a commercial for the military?

The cuts alternating between soldiers being nonviolently heroic contrasting with the surprisingly violent NASCAR scenes is supposed to symbolize what exactly? What does one have to do with the other? And does NASCAR usually try to get you to watch it for the accidents? (I honestly don't know; I don't follow the sport). It's just all around Whiskey Tango Foxtrot to me.

[Nurian]

I preferred the 3 Doors Down song for the National Guard "Citizen/Soldier".

Any commercial that makes germs out to be chemical warfare that will make your child sick/vicious killer/commie and says the only way to protect them is with Brawndo(tm) spray.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I feel kind of old when I mention this commercial, because only rapidly-aging people who are nearing thirty, like myself, remember this commercial. It was for a local business here in Western North Carolina.

The problem is, nobody remembers what sort of business it used to be, or what it sold, but by God we know where it was. Why? Because throughout the commercial they shrieked the address over and over and over and over and over again. They sang it, actually. It was their jingle. The entire jingle.

Everybody sing along! 329 Merr-imon Av-enue! 329 Merr-imon Av-enue! 329 Merr-imon Av-enue! 329 Merr-imon Av-enue!

Meanwhile, the hip, new, with-it modern commercials that make me want to do something rash are those commercial featuring idiots selling their gold. Someone mentioned them earlier, actually. My (least) favorite features the woman who exclaims, "I had no idea my old gold jewelry was worth so much!"

The question this raises is why. Why did she not know her old gold jewelry was worth so much? "Gold" and "worth so much" tend to go hand in hand. Being "worth so much" is in fact and has historically been one of the most noteworthy hallmarks of "gold." Another is the fact that it does not tarnish.

If she did not know that her "gold" was "worth so much" what exactly did she think she was selling, anyway? Perhaps artfully-disguised and shaped pyrite? Painted plastic? Slag? Pig iron? What?!

[Drakstern]

THe ones that drive me nuts are the 'GET THE IRS OFF YOUR BACK' commercials.

Mostly because I always want to yell 'IF YOU'D PAY YOUR TAXES, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM'.

I could go on, but I'd probably say something Fratchingworthy.

I always used to get annoyed by the Ford commercials with 'Like a Rock' in them, mostly because it would get the song stuck in my head, and it's just about my least favorite Bob Seger song...