Most annoying commercials on TV right now?

Inspired by the "Best commercial evuh!" post by kat45, which one currently on TV annoys you most?

Besides "all of them."

My pick is the Staples one - "WOW!! ... That's a low price!!"

The 'singing' isn't bad, but I could do without the images.

SO annoying. x(

I don't even remember what the commercial was for, but since I hate Autotuned "music," I don't find Autotoned talking any better.

I think its a beer ad, surprise, surprise...:eyes:

That woman's voice makes me cringe. I can't get to the remote fast enough!

What an anachronistic take on a modern couple. The woman badgering her husband to call Sunsetter because she is unable to use the phone? She doesn't have any money? What? I hate that ad. But I do empathize with the husband being trapped inside a house with that woman.

:grr:

I'll never buy another Volkswagon.......

"Son, I'm deeply disappointed in you... and I'm drunk again. Let's go by the Volkswagen dealership!"

"No, daddy, nooooo....!"




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It'd take balls to run a commercial like that. German balls. Or just have a nazi guy sitting next to a rabbi at a bus stop and he goes "red one!"

I want to see the commercial where someone pulls the punching thing on a friend and the friend cold-cocks them in return.

Oh, it was beautiful.

Every time one of those yahoos says "black one", "red one" or whatever, my inner 13-year-old screams "THE GAME IS CALLED PUNCHBUGGY, YOU ASSHOLES!!"

:D

What asshole at VW thought that was a good idea?

When they punch someone?

Then one of them pops up with an idea, "Hey, I know! Let's fire all the guys in the copy room who printed up our budget reports and outsource it all all to Kinko's!"

It's like they don't even know that they're stupid, overpaid, and redundant.

Cialis is the worst.

You mean to tell me you and your SO have never been out walking in the woods and come upon two claw foot bathtubs drawn up for you? Happens to me all the time.

"Hey, honey wanna have sex?"

"Well, only if you take a bath."

"Love you too sweetie."

:shrug:

What are they trying to say with the tubs? Sex is dirty, dirty, dirty... so bathe frequently.

cracks me up. So did the Charo one :D

Every other commercial...

“It’s my money, and I need it now!”

:banghead:

suddenly able to hear the birdies, sing in church and play bingo. All for only $19.95.

It drives me nuts.

My grandpa is in his late 90's and while he constantly complains about not being able to hear, he refuses to get a hearing aid. No one can convince him (not even my dad who actually has a hearing aid). So my dad bought him this gadget to see if he would use it because it wasn't a hearing aid. So my grandpa puts it on and right away says, "What the hell is that whirring noise?" "That's your oxygen machine" "It's too damn loud" and he turns the gadget off and refuses to use it. LOL, at least we know it works!

I have a 95 year-old aunt who is deaf as a doornail but won't wear her hearing aids. One afternoon with her, having to yell in her ear constantly, results in a major migraine.

Says the almost naked mom. Sure, she looks good, but her kids must want to
STAY under water.

if it is the same commercial.

they actually have that as a selling point- YOU can be a nosy neighbor!!

one, where the guys says I KNOW, always makes me laugh, and i have no idea. hubby ready to commit me.

Hoveround, that damn ad is driving me crazy.

Or the Staples one, it's a tossup.

I think everyone in the universe has heard about their stupid Xfinity bullshit by now.

If I opened a bag of lettuce and it started playing fucking disco music, it would go right into the trash.

They are on constantly, and they are very annoying!

Ugh.

The damn baby commercials. I guess it's e-trade? Hubby loves them, and I mute them.
Something about babies talking like adults creeps me out.

Any adultification/sexualization of children and/or babies is creepy. Marketers know sex sells, even latent pedophilia.

Can't watch them.

I have to hand it to Geico, their lame ass commercials are always memorable.

Very, very annoying.

I've blanked out the products because I'm just sick of the commercials, probably because they run about a million times a day on all networks and local stations..

...the cell phone commercial asking you to remember what it was like when you were 5 years old...I really liked the Gene Wilder "Willy Wonka" song until this ad came along.

...the other cell phone commercial that walks back a couple's life from the time when their kid is inaugurated as president to when he sees her across the tracks on a subway train...:puke:

...and the OTHER cell phone commercial (I think this one is AT&T) where people are draping big orange swaths over the Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, etc., while a guy croons some kind of annoying quasi-folk song...

I'd take a whole evening of watching the Sham-WOW guy and the late, great Billy Mays over these pieces of commercialism any day. Companies need to learn that carpet-bombing their stuff all over the airwaves may sometimes create more heartburn than potential sales.

at first.

My problem with these ads, I guess, is that they are running **constantly.** Or fmaybe I'm just watching too much of the teevee these days.

but they're all over-played

Did somebody feel sorry for Stephanie Courtney? You can watch her stand-up routines on YouTube, and she sucks mightily.

The ads make me want to throw a brick at the screen.

Wayyy too much eyeliner, fake eyelashes, too much lipstick, and a shredded haircut.

ICK.

Why anybody thinks a haircut where you look like you were attacked by an out of control razor is attractive, is beyond me.

the most annoying.

They make me want to cockpunch not only the guys in the commercial, but the corporate nitwits who approved them and the ad agency that came up with them.

Their ads appeal to the snarky, moronic frat boy demographic. Add to that they are owned by repuke fundies, and Sonic is a 100% blue company, and you have the tie-breaker.

Autotune on Megan Mullally? Yuck. The song is awful, but Megan really has a fabulous voice, why ruin it with Autotune?

The one where people are chomping on them to the tune of the Kit Kat jingle. It's disgusting.

because that was the first thing that came into my head when I saw this thread. I wondered if I was the only one who absolutely despises those ads.

Those Staples commercials are incredibly annoying.

Julie

Are they still showing those?
I thought I heard one on the TV the other night when I was in here on DU

with their stupid coffee cups

I did see a cool Volvo commercial a while ago where two chicks start exchanging clothes. It was fantastic but I haven't seen it in a while. I wonder if it was considered too risque...

My favorite is the one where the baby barfs on the keyboard.

One (of many) commercial I find annoying is the Old Spice commercial aimed at young men, trying to be cool something so that young men will want to wear Old Spice, or their women will want to buy it for them for their birthday (instead of thinking of it as something their grandfather wore). I was floored when I saw an ad guy on the Today show citing it as the best commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

Hate to sound like a grouchy old fart, but I just don't watch TV because of the commercials. Watched LOST and then it ended, mercifully so because the commercial interruptions were endless and had me to the point of screaming at the set. I like baseball, but the idiotic, incessant commercials have driven me away from watching that on TV (the Coors Light and Viagra ads are just so painfully stupid and pathetic). Commercials are everywhere in our society: TV, radio, internet, movie theaters, buses, billboards, taxi cabs, newspapers, men's rooms... you name it. I've had it with the marketing stalkers trying to frantically bang down my door and pry into every aspect of my fucking life so they can sell me more shit I don't need and try to tie it to my self-esteem via psychological manipulation. I work in IT and have salesmen all over my ass constantly to the point I don't even dare to contact a company to inquire about a product because they want to shove me right into their marketing database and start calling me ninety times a day. Fuck them.

As the great Bill Hicks said it best:

"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.

Seriously though, if you are, do.

Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.

Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."

God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.

"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?

"What didya do today honey?"

"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" "Yeah, you know the mums will love it."

Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?"

"Have you ever driven a car that makes calming breezes, like a forest? Have you ever driven a car that has pure silver dust hand-polished into the woodwork?"

I will hear it once too often, and run amok shrieking 'No! Because I'm SANE!!!!"

Every time I see that ad--"Have you ever driven a car with a 2000-year-old redwood steering wheel? Have you ever driven a car that has a gold plated seat belt latch? Have you ever driven a car that has an old black dude shining your shoes for you while you drive?--God help me, all I can think is "Up against the wall."

You know the one where it's at an office all the women are hunched around a computer screen talking about vibrators? I'm fucking sure that would pass as appropriate workplace conversation. :eyes:

there's just so damn many of them

the "amazing heel cream"...and they show all sorts of crusty, cracked, DIRTY heels in closeup. I have to look away so I don't vomit.
Truly gross!

:puke:

I don't think I've watched a commercial in years.

"It HUGE Rochester, HUUUUUUUUUGGGGGEEE" for those in the area.

My other is not on tv, but an ad from work that I have to endure every 30 minutes or so featuring Paula Dean "Ya'all!" It really makes me stabby.

:eyes: I hate that guy. :grr:

Since it's Gilbert Gottfried we're talking about, let me qualify what I mean by "comes on my TV". I loathe his act, his face, his existence on planet earth. That said, the marketer in me thinks it's hilarious that he's pitching a product geared towards old people. His voice actually makes the product more memorable, which is the whole art of advertising. But also, that's kind of how you have to talk to old people. My parents have just reached the age where they can't hear for shit. They're otherwise in great shape, stay active, go on lots of vacations. But talking to them really requires enunciating every little syllable and yet their ears still manage to garble half of what I say to them.

So this is a perfectly matched product to sales pitch commercial. I respect the hell out of that.

Whoever came up with that gross-out (no doubt a reference to what a bear does in the woods...) deserves a good ass-kicking... x(

Do I want a cartoon bear telling me which toilet paper to buy? Does a bear use toilet paper? Do bears or people examine each other to see if there are any scraps left? This whole concept is stupid!

I won't buy it on purpose.

The commercial when the whole bear family got out of their car :eyes: in the woods, clued me in to the "what bears do in the woods" reference, which was bad enough, but the one that offends me the most is the one where they're looking through a telescope (huh?!) and see a closeup of the bear in the tree with the scraps stuck to his butt. (They really are on all of the time! x() It never shows how he gets rid of it, but it's too gross for words and I don't get it, either. They probably think the bears are cute. They're even on the package! x(

...is not a way to convince me to purchase whatever goods and/or services one is providing.

Billy Mays may be gone, but annoying-as-hell pitchmen live on. "Fettucine, linguine, martini, bikini!" :banghead:

:mad:

I'm usually pretty good at tuning commericals out, too, so you know this one has to be particularly grating for it to get my attention.

I despise those commercials with every fiber of my being.

Hooray for TIVO.....

I hate seeing two supposedly grown men make such fucking idiots out of themselves.

are marching down to street heading to BK singing about it. It's stupid and annoying--not to mention the concept of going to brunch at Burger King being absurd.

You know, the one of the guy in his bath who puts a sponge on his head, and then stands up to tell his wife that he's Sponge Bob No Pants.

Here's the video on YouTube;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5PeyGh2Ciw

:shrug:

assholes sitting around a pool start singing "ain't no brat like a (whatever the brand name is), blah, blah, something about beer baked in." Simply awful.

the one with the woman on the ladder painting the walls and the "bath-tubbed" husband, apparently doing nothing until he gets horny.

i can ask my "ladies of a certain age" what would really happen in that scenario, and it wouldn't be the walls turning in to the world all around ,-)

for it to air again before answering a question such as yours . . . (**tsk**)

Well, anyway . . . I couldn't wait any longer; but, here's the
spokesperson who appears in the annoying commercial(s) --->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wzbBqItlPc&feature=related

...where we (the women) are to believe that the woman just LOVES this new cleaning product and that we would too because, y'know, that's our "thing."
We can relate to that bliss in cleaning and chasing around the kids while daddy is presumably doing man's work at work.

So... yeah, any of the cleaning product commercials

WTF.

A block of cheese yells "CHEEEESE" and then laughs. Can't get to the remote quick enough.

I believe the "Thou shalt not kill" commandment was invented to protect these obviously drug-induced reprobates that make this crap up from getting killed by the angry screaming masses out here in TV-land.

of the fishmonger's variety

an ad for a green tea drink

lame

wonder how the ad agency presented that without hanging their heads in shame.