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What commercials out there do you really hate?
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:21pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
You know those commercials, they're either offensive, overplayed, annoying, or a waste of time. Out of all of them, which ones really made you want to put a bullet into the TV?
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:24pm
by Stormbringer
Any of the Belle Tire commercials. I hate that whiny bitch they've got on them and they all sounds the same. There's nothing fun or cute about them. They're dull and uninteresting.
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:25pm
by Mike_6002
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:26pm
by Joe
The new Sam Adams Light commercials.
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:30pm
by Laughing Mechanicus
I'm sure people in the UK will agree the Lombard Direct advert with the talking telephone is extremely annoying, it was on TV when I started secondary school and its still on now, thats 7 years in which it has remained completely unchanged. It's also repeated an excessive ammount which adds insult to injury...
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:47pm
by Brother-Captain Gaius
The new 7UP commercials. The old ones were great, spawning such quotes as "Make 7, Up Yours!". But this new crap sickens me, esp. the one where he's talking about sponsoring youth hockey.
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:50pm
by Captain tycho
I hate that Estee lauder commercial where that fake-looking woman is standing there in a wedding gown looking stupid while a little girl smiles at her.
It ain't realy stupid, but I find that woman annying, even though she doesn't talk. That dumb look ahe has on her face reminds me of a certain troll....
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:51pm
by Zaku-chan
Geico commercials have been known to make me
and groan, especially the recent ones.
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:52pm
by Howedar
Geico, Verizon, red-headed Collect ads
Posted: 2002-12-05 07:53pm
by aerius
Furniture store commercials, especially around Xmas when they have the Xmas themed ones. They're part of the reason I don't watch TV anymore other than the weather reports.
Posted: 2002-12-05 08:01pm
by Ghost Rider
currently 1-800-COLLECT ads.
Oh why has no one killed Carrot Top?!
Posted: 2002-12-05 08:08pm
by Mr Bean
For all those who have ever driven through the American state of Connetect will have witnessed THE Most Annoying Comercia's on the Planet
I speak of...
BOB'S DISCOUNT FORUNITUE STORES
Take the most annoying little man you know, clone him, then breed more annyoingness into him until his voice is enough to make the Dali Lama Drop kick somone then add in idiot music and typical annoying lines in a Furniture add
And you have the pure essance of annoyingness
To date Mr Bob has been assulted in his stories three times over said annoying comerica'ls and he has yet to cease thier production, Strangly enough he's highly succesful from people wanting funriture from this evil evil annyoing man
And yes the price are to die for DAMN THAT LITTLE MAN HE'S RIGHT AND ITS ALL THE WORSE FOR IT!
Posted: 2002-12-05 08:25pm
by Zaia
I hate whichever department store (maybe J.C. Penney's?) has the kid at home, making a mess, and the father saying, "Where is your mother?" and she's off shopping at some one-day sale. Like he can't clean up the mess himself? Or like women are
always out shopping? Grrrrrr.
Posted: 2002-12-05 08:29pm
by guyver
Durran Korr wrote:The new Sam Adams Light commercials.
Ditto I hate that one
Posted: 2002-12-05 09:12pm
by Damaramu
I despise ALL Old Navy commercials. They're fucking retarded.
And while they were showing it, I absolutely hated that fucking 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial with that stupid chick doing that lame assed "pop-lock" club dance. That godawful spastic movement...and that fucking blank stare/retard look that kept popping up on her face.....I just wanted to slap her through the damn TV.
Heh....I like the girl in the Glad Lock commercials...despite her ear drum shattering squeaky voice!
Posted: 2002-12-05 09:12pm
by BlkbrryTheGreat
"Dude, your getting a Dell...."
Nothing else needs to be said.
Posted: 2002-12-05 09:13pm
by Master of Ossus
I dislike all of the 1-800 COLLECT/ATT/10-10-321 adds.
I also don't like the "drink responsibly" commercials that the beer companies are putting on, now. One of my fellow editors, when seeing a Miller Light add, said it best: "That is a socially irresponsible advertisement."
Posted: 2002-12-05 10:27pm
by CmdrWilkens
Zaia wrote:I hate whichever department store (maybe J.C. Penney's?) has the kid at home, making a mess, and the father saying, "Where is your mother?" and she's off shopping at some one-day sale. Like he can't clean up the mess himself? Or like women are
always out shopping? Grrrrrr.
Are you insulting the company that deigns to shell out a few denarii every other week for me? If so then you can join the ranks of every single Penney's employee in the region. I love my store but God I can hate my company.
Oh yes and (in order from worst to not as worst)
Sam Adams Light
Is there anything more annoying than some shmuck just shouting at the top of his lungs for no fucking reason? Yes..he can do it more than once in the same damn ad.
Jim Coleman Honda
You'd have o be a Balt-Wash area resident to see them but its the middle of fucking winter (well late fall at least) and they have ads running with a "lets go to the beach" theme. I'm sorry but the sight of a cardboard cutout fat guy in a swimsuit doesn't make me want to buy cars...it makes me want to vomit.
1-800-CALL-ATT
Someone just shoot Carrot Top and put us out of our misery.
Posted: 2002-12-06 12:28am
by Slartibartfast
I'd post a commercial, but you guys wouldn't have seen it so it would be pointless. So I'll just post to up my post count
Posted: 2002-12-06 12:43am
by TrailerParkJawa
I hate commercials that try to make you feel bad if you dont have a GO-GO-GO-GO life. You are so busy you dont have time to comb your hair! How could you possibly take care of your children. With the new mobile, wireless, tv dinner of course!
Posted: 2002-12-06 01:18am
by Dalton
I'll have to concur with MoO here. What really gets me about those ads is how they scam you. "Oh yeah, 99 cents for the first 20 minutes!" What they DON'T say is that even a two-minute call costs 99 cents.
Posted: 2002-12-06 01:24am
by TrailerParkJawa
I hate those line splitter commericals on TechTV. The ones that show people not getting calls beause they are on the internet.
I hate cooking informercials that make boiling water look to damn hard unless you have their special pot. Uh...I think there is a waffle commercial out there for some special waffle iron.
One of my buddies got one of the special hamburger cookers, looks like a waffle iron of sorts, it does cook hamburgers twice as fast. But since you cant get the machine wet, ie no dishwasher or sink, it takes longer to wash it than, if you just use a regular pan.
Posted: 2002-12-06 01:25am
by Dalton
Goddamn infomercials. WTF, a colander too good for you?
Posted: 2002-12-06 03:01am
by Johonebesus
Not as bad as some of the ones already mentioned (I hate Old Navy), but those animated toilette paper commercials. I don't care if they are cute cartoon bears, I don't want to watch them taking a dump and wiping their rear ends.
Posted: 2002-12-06 03:17am
by neoolong
The Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic, I forget which, commercial line that had that chick saying "You gotta get this look." Damnably annoying despite the chick being good looking. That line is just fucking annoying.