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AARRGH!!!

What is it with television advertisements? Every time I fire up the tube I'm assaulted with an endless barage of idiocy so thick it can almost qualify as matter. It seems like every company is making horribly noisy and obnoxious ads anymore. Seizure inducing bright colors and flashing images mixed with cheesy rip-offs of old songs make me want to go into a violent homicidal rage. For the longest time I've always considered car commercials to be the worst, but lately it seems they've been knocked into the #2 slot by fast food joints. I have a brick on standby for the next time that damn Quizno's commercial comes on. But even that pales in comparison to... *shudders with loathing* ...The recent rash of McDonald's ads featuring their brilliant "I'm lovin' it!" slogan. I speak the truth when I say I'm a dangerous person to be within swingin' range of when that shit comes on.

How are these ads effective? How can you possibly perpetuate a positive image of your business by inducing pain in potential customers? Or am I the only one who has a borderline aneurism every time I endure one?

Yes. The McDonald's corporation should burn.

Only the beer companies make really good ads.

Sometimes I want to throw a brick at my TV though.

The most agonizing commercial to sit through is Worship Together

Fucking idiots swaying like skyscrapers

Maddox had a good article on this a few months back. It is indeed another endless bout of fucking tedious ads that have little meaning or relevance to the product they advertise.

Again, another reason TV is getting more and more the lowest denominator's realm of choice if it isn't already.

Gandalf wrote:Only the beer companies make really good ads.

Sometimes I want to throw a brick at my TV though.

I really like the Coors ads right now.

"See this crew
of smoking hot chicks
Who just shot down
Guy number six?
But to get the ladies all you need to unveil
Is your four legged buddy, with his nine inch tail.
Wingdog makes pick up lines disappear.
If he can hold one, then buy him a beer.
Wingdog!"

Just tune the damn things out and you hardly notice them.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Just tune the damn things out and you hardly notice them.

Up your nose with a rubber hose

I don't have a damn remote for my tv, and it's highly annoying to trek across my room just to turn the volume down

I meant IGNORE them.

Badabababaaaa I'm lovin it!

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I meant IGNORE them.

That's the thing. I can't. It's like a psychic blast that bores it's way into my head and painfully bounces around my skull for several minutes after the initial attack.

kojikun wrote:Badabababaaaa I'm lovin it!

I kill you!

kojikun wrote:Badabababaaaa I'm lovin it!

You're asking for some sort of aerial bombardment in your general vicinity.

The Quizno's commercials rule.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:

kojikun wrote:Badabababaaaa I'm lovin it!

You're asking for some sort of aerial bombardment in your general vicinity.

I'd settle for a immensely satisfying minigun-strafing run.

kojikun wrote:Badabababaaaa I'm lovin it!

nevermind

you deserve a hot object up the butt for that one, though

In my opinion, nothing holds a candle to those Old Navy Commericals. It seems that no matter what atricle of clothing that they're advertising, they find a way to make it painful to watch. Although that car commercial that advertises those sensors on the minivan is annoying too. Sure, the car in the "new way" could park without problem because of the sensors, or because it is obvious that it has more space to work with.

Some wouldn't be so annoying if they weren't played every break, espeically the movie ones.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:In my opinion, nothing holds a candle to those Old Navy Commericals. It seems that no matter what atricle of clothing that they're advertising, they find a way to make it painful to watch. Although that car commercial that advertises those sensors on the minivan is annoying too. Sure, the car in the "new way" could park without problem because of the sensors, or because it is obvious that it has more space to work with.

Some wouldn't be so annoying if they weren't played every break, espeically the movie ones.

I don't know, the "The Girl Next Door" commercials are pretty amusing. And no, I'm not saying that just because I'm a warm-blooded teenage male.

Demiurge wrote:The Quizno's commercials rule.

What!? They've had some mildly funny ones in the past, but their latest one makes me want to go ballistic.

What the fuck are those things supposed to be, anyway!? Some kind of rodent? And God damn how can anyone tolerate their shrill singing?

Lazy Raptor wrote:

Demiurge wrote:The Quizno's commercials rule.

What!? They've had some mildly funny ones in the past, but their latest one makes me want to go ballistic.

What the fuck are those things supposed to be, anyway!? Some kind of rodent? And God damn how can anyone tolerate their shrill singing?

My best guess is a demented hamster. Ladies and gents, this (and the Infinitum Lab's Phantom http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?d ... 1-22&res=l), is what you get when you try to do your job under the influence of hallucinigenic substances.[/url]

The animals in the Quiznos ads are Spongmonkeys.

And they were on the front page of the local newspaper today. Yes, as an article.

Yes, the FRONT PAGE. I'm totally serious. Hell, I'll even go and scan it.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:The animals in the Quiznos ads are Spongmonkeys.

And they were on the front page of the local newspaper today. Yes, as an article.

Yes, the FRONT PAGE. I'm totally serious. Hell, I'll even go and scan it.

This I have to see.

The Master Card ads have used a similar idea to the Spong Monkeys using penguins though and the Crusha milkshake ads used the kitten idea. We've already had Weebl & Bob make ads from the Badger Song and Kenya fame.

Hamel wrote:

kojikun wrote:Badabababaaaa I'm lovin it!

nevermind

you deserve a hot object up the butt for that one, though

Why are you rewarding him for such atrocious behavior?

And McDonald adds makes me vomit. No quality in any of em.




How can you live without a remote ?

SecondStorm wrote:

Hamel wrote:

kojikun wrote:Badabababaaaa I'm lovin it!

nevermind

you deserve a hot object up the butt for that one, though

Why are you rewarding him for such atrocious behavior?

And McDonald adds makes me vomit. No quality in any of em.




How can you live without a remote ?

One word: moneh

My scanner isn't large enough to scan the entire front section, so I did the relevent fourth.


If you think it's doctored, look at the newspaper's website, which, for the remainder of the day, has blurbs of all the front page stuff.