Current Television Commercials That I Hate:

[Dinger]

Countrywide -eternal fucking ads. Stop already. Whassa matter? Is business that bad?
OMG, those sickening nutri-system commercials with the "trophy-wife" bullshit. Go away already!

For now, those two stand out to me.

[AllegroRondo]

1. anything with that guy yelling at me to buy his products

its like he thinks that YELLING will make me want to buy his crap.

[Dinger]

2. Oh Yeah, what Is That Shit He's Screaming About?

A cleaning product I think. Can't recall the name.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Oxi-Clean -- Billy Mays is the guy.

[LaraMN]

3. Oh! Oh! Oh!

There's a commercial about vacationing in Florida. It features a woman sitting on the beach who turns her head really slowly, in weird directions, and makes REALLY annoying facial expressions.

Every time it comes on, I get really mad; almost as mad as I did when the obnoxious HughesNet woman was on.

HATE it!

[Kutjara]

61. Christ, that HughesNet woman!!!!

"How cool is that?" Not very.
"The high speed Internet you've been craving." I crave a lot of things, darling, your hideous death among them, but Internet access isn't on my list of "cravings."
"A clear view of the Southern sky." So your saying I have to live in Australia?

[CBHagman]

4. "People are smart."

No, Ditech, many people are by no stretch of the imagination smart. They eat bad food, vote for crappy politicians, and let their cell phones ring in theaters and churches.

[dolo amber]

16. ...

:D :thumbsup:

[Tyler Durden]

21. CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!

People like to FLATTERED by marketers CALLING them smart when actually most of them have to think twice on the proper way to wipe their ass: "Let's see front to back, but I'm a guy so it really doesn't matter....HELP ME!!!!!"

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Yaz Birth Control...

"Well, I didn't go to medical school for nothing"

:mad:

[LaraMN]

10. Augghhh! Yeah- she went, alright.

That is where she was paid fifty bucks to let students practice lobotomy techniques on her.

SO annoying!

I think the next time one of my friends complains about a discomfort or ailment when we're at a bar, I'm going to read off the list of side effects and directions pertaining to the treatment of said condition, in a pseudo-conversational tone. 'Cause that's totally normal. :eyes:

[bicentennial_baby]

12. If you watch closely, it appears that it's not even her voice...

:D

Hahahahaha! Do it! Do it! :rofl:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

24. I noticed that the other day. The audio and lips match up, but it

doesn't match the environmental audios that it's playing over.

[bicentennial_baby]

33. Bingo!

:D

[Tyler Durden]

22. The meaningless SHELL OIL commercial with the dutch guy...

What, to they think this is IMPRESSIONISM?? Most people on the time slots watching your commercials couldn't pour piss out of a boot.....


OH MY GOD!!! I'M IN THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC!!! KILL ME!!!

[begin_within]

7. The stupid Mercury Insurance "we're not run by aliens" commercials

It was not a very good joke in the first place "Mercury Insurance is not run by aliens," and they have stretched out an unfunny joke into 3 or 4 commercials that have been shown hundreds, if not thousands of times, in our area. It's bad enough when you see the same commercial hundreds of times in a month, but worse when it's lame and painfully unfunny

[Kutjara]

63. They wannabe Geico so bad, but...

...unfortunately hired an advertising company that normally specializes in work for funeral homes. Unfunniest...ads...ever.

[racaulk]

8. All those commercials for Enzyte

That man with the permanent smile on his face always creeps me out, not to mention that the announcers voice is incredibly annoying. I hate those commercials!

[Digit]

55. Yeah, and my parrot likes to whistle along with the tune

The commercial is actually so stupid, I find it amusing.

Notice all the the not so subliminal "erection like" symbols....the angle of the arms, the chart, etc.

[peekaloo]

9. Viva Viagra!

Ode to the Chode.

[LostInAnomie]

62. Agreed. Not only is it annoying...

... but it is SO FUCKING LOUD!

I personally wish they would take all boner pill commercials off the air.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. The Farmers Insurance commercial where the girl's hair is blowing around

Then papers fly, then she gets blown into the wall. There is no announcer, just this music that I can't describe, other than really annoying.

[HamdenRice]

13. Head On: Apply Directly to the Forehead!

This has to be the dumbest commercial of all time. I'm not exaggerating, it's just the dumbest commercial ever produced. It seems to be a headache remedy that is APPLIED DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

Basically the announcer screams Head On, Apply Directly to the Forehead. Then what sounds like a room full of people scream at you, the viewer, Head On, Apply Directly to the Forehead. Then the announcer screams it at you AGAIN!

And did I mention, that the message of the commercial is Head On: Apply Directly to the Forehead?!?!?!?!

Didn't the copy writer know how to write any other sentence whatsoever???

[Seashell Eyes]

49. It is terrible

I didn't know it was possible to get a phrase stuck in my head. What the hell is that anyway? The forehead doesn't need deoderant.

[HamdenRice]

50. It appears to be a headache remedy applied, wait for it ....

DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!!!

[otherlander]

14. The Mercedes commercial "love your car"

The lady in the wierd dress has flowers falling on her from nowhere because she has a new car. Whoopie. ¬_¬

[bluethruandthru]

41. But all those people who LOVE their cars never drive them!!

They're all just staring lovingly at their cars. I guess they paid so much for them that they can't afford the gas.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. BP (beyond petroleum) Commercials. I HATE THEM! how dumb do they think we are?

[HamdenRice]

18. Didn't they abort some weird commerical campaign?

It had no content really. Just a guy sitting, thinking. Then the announcer says something like Karl Johansen has a problem ... Then it just says BP, beyond petroleum (or maybe it's another oil company).

I have no idea what the fuck that was about unless it was supposed to be part of a series, like the old Folgers soap opera.

[Tyler Durden]

23. It's Royal Dutch Shell.

Doesn't make the concept any less idiotic.

[HamdenRice]

28. Right -- so what the hell is that commercial about????

It has to be the first in a series. Otherwise it makes no sense whatsoever.

[CottonBear]

38. The oil engineer gets the idea to drill horizontally when the pimply faced kid

sucks up the last of his milkshake by putting the flexible end of the flexible straw down in the bottom of the glass to suck the milkshake off the side of the glass.

Stupid and annoying ad. :(

[LibertyLover]

43. Over the past several weeks

we have gotten at least 3 copies of a DVD with the Royal Dutch Shell commercials on them, apparently in sequence, so that the whole "story" is there. I say "apparently" because whenever the husband or I see the darn things we toss them. I dislike that commercial series very much, although I agree with a poster up-list about the Smilin' Bob and Enzyte commercials. And don't get me started on the ED drug commercials. My 5 year old actually asked me the other day if I took that medicine. Uh, no dear, I'm female and that medicine is just for men.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. "He's a Verizon VIOS Tech."

"It's plus 10 DB hot. That's true quam."

What the fuck does that mean?! :mad:

[Zavulon]

19. If you're referring to the commercials with the little kid,

I couldn't agree with you more.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Yep, that's the one.

[Zavulon]

44. Can't stand it.

I don't mean to sound like an insensitive curmudgeon, but untalented kids do not amuse me. Not all kids are cute, and this kid's voice just grates on me.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

48. Believe me, I agree.

:rofl:

[SoxFan]

36. I kind of like that one

The tech spews his propeller-head geekspeak, but then the kid chimes in with "he's got a really cool truck". For some reason, it struck me as cute.

[Zavulon]

46. I never saw that version, I saw a subsequent one

in which the kid's punchline is "you should see his truck" after the kid himself spews the technospeak. I wasn't amused.

[Sequoia]

25. The one with the pink fuzzy slippers fake French accent song.

But the Adams Family dark chocolate M&Ms is fine.

[EstimatedProphet]

26. I do love DVR

going through this thread I realized that I haven't seen many of these commercials, because I've been fast-forwarding them.

[mitchum]

27. I hate all commercials (n/t)

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

29. The DirecTV one with Sigourney Weaver in Aliens

It pisses me off for some reason.

[Mythsaje]

59. Oh, yeah...

That one really annoys the hell out of me. In fact, the whole concept behind those commercials annoy me.

[Seashell Eyes]

30. Head on. Apply DIRECTLY to the FOREhead

I also hate the beep beep dot com commercials.

[hyphenate]

31. I actually sent an email

to nutri-system about those fucking commercials. I told them that the anorexic bimbo who fit into a size 2 doesn't represent most of us. And that other bitch with the "smoking hot" body is just over the top.

The one I've seen that makes me want to put my fist through the TV is the Prilosec commercial, with that dipshit bothering the woman at her desk. The one who is pacing, picking up his pencil, saying to the girl that her blouse was a little too "casual" for the office, and then towards the end does a bendover and tells her he's doing "yoga." The commercial just smacks of sexual harassment to me.

There are plenty of others that are annoying, but I can't think too much right now.

[deucemagnet]

32. This was gone for a while, but for some reason, it's BACK.

Happy peanuts soar
over chocolate-covered mountaintops
and waterfalls of caramel
prancing nougat in the meadow
brings a song of satisfaction to the world.

:banghead:

[Mad_Dem_X]

34. That Las Vegas commercial with Alan Thicke. n/t

[HughBeaumont]

35. Any commercial that tells you how to get rich via a mail order course.

Carleton Sheets, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Get Rich via E-bay, Cash-Flow System, Foreclosures, Auctions, SMC, (insert any one of the hundreds of day-trading courses here), etc, etc, etc.

All bullshit.

Put it this way: if becoming a self-made millionaire was as easy as ordering an extremely thin-on-content pack of books (over 90% of which consists of Amway-esque "pump-you-up" fluff, minus the meat-and-potatoes, how-exactly-do-you-do-it secrets to the supposed "success strategies", many of which are anecdotal situations that depend on pie-in-the-sky improbabilities to begin with) and tapes and then you become wealthy in 1 1/2 to 3 years, where would be the need for colleges or theory? Where would be the need for licenses, certification, degrees, experience? Where ARE all these mail-order, real-estate, e-Bay millionaires?

I can't believe Carleton Sheets even still has ads. There must be an endless parade of suckers that are brave with the hip-waders. I got his course out of our library and laughed my ass off at his "strategies". I work in the mortgage banking business; I guarandamnTEE that only the most shady, slimier-than-sub-prime salesmen would accept deals like the ones Sheets outlines. Any reputable house/bank would laugh the Sheets student out of the joint promptly. Two people I work with looked at his course once and questioned the legality of it all.

Even though John Reed is kind of a freeper, he sheds some light as to why these people don't get shut down and are still allowed to have ads:

http://www.johntreed.com/authorities.html

[SoxFan]

37. Bob's Discount Furniture

Bob's is a regional New England furniture chain. For reasons that escape any logic, the owner, who has the charisma of a head cold, decided to appear with his wife in the company's ubiquitous ads. He has a high-pitched, whiney voice, and Mrs. Bob is constantly fidgeting around, mugging for the camera.

Oh, and that's not all. His delivery trucks have a six foot high picture of Bob's face on the back door. Try getting stuck behind that in stop-and-go traffic.

I'll also second the nomination for the creepy Enzyte ads, and suggest any spot that Coors (The Beer for Guys With a Small Penis) runs during football season.

[Kat45]

58. Yes, Bob annoys the shit out of me.

His face and his voice.

[YankeyMCC]

39. Pretty much any of the new Prescription Drug commercials

I mean it just seems insane in the first place that there should be direct advertising to lay people on products they have to go to professionals to. Information should be readily available to everyone but marketing?!? I don't think that's a good idea at all.

And the commercials themselves are just...odd...

There's one that after a brief overview the announcer says something like "Let's dig deeper" Deeper!? In a 30 second marketing piece? :eyes:

And half of them I don't even know what the drug is intended to treat by the end of the commercial.

And the listing of side affects is the only redeeming feature, not for the information (I don't think you can rely on any information from a commercial) but for the entertainment factor.

[SoxFan]

40. I enjoy the list of side effects

Some of which sound infinitely worse than whatever it is the pill is supposed to cure.

Who can ever forget the utterly delightful pharase "gas with oily discharge"...

[bluethruandthru]

42. Isn't there one drug for heartburn or herpes or something

where one of the side effects is Leukemia? I remember hearing that and thinking "WTF???" That must be a really bad flare up of heartburn to risk leukemia to get rid of it.

[Frank Cannon]

65. I love how the lists of side effects are presented cheerily...

and enthusiastically. "Please let your doctor know immediately if you experience chest pain, difficulty breathing, paralysis, or rectal bleeding"... in this happy-go-lucky voice that makes it sound like you'd be crazy not to want to experience any of that.

[SteppingRazor]

45. I love the one for Restless Leg Syndrome ...

where the side effects include gambling and/or sex compulsion.

Um ... at that point, is it really worth it to take a drug for a syndrome that was essentially invented by the drug company so that it could sell this pill?

[Mythsaje]

60. I've suffered from restless legs.

I know it sounds weird, but it's for real. NOT fun. This was back in the late nineties and I had to look for info on it.

[MysticalChicken]

47. Have you been to this site?

http://www.commercialsihate.com

I post on the message boards almost daily.

Some of the most amusing messages are Jimbo's and Thor's political arguments in the off-topic section. Jimbo is a liberal and Thor is a conservative (despite this, I don't hate him, because I don't believe in hating someone solely for their political beliefs), and their threads are usually highly amusing.

[NaturalHigh]

51. I hate the ones about making men's dicks bigger...

or making men last longer or get it up faster. I wouldn't hate them so much if they didn't show some of them during family television time.

[Auggie]

52. These are NOTHING compared to political advertising

[NC_Nurse]

53. Cialis...ugh! The sultry guitar, the meaningful looks....

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Puh-leeze! And if these people are so into it, why are they in two SEPARATE tubs?!? :wtf:

[southerncrone]

54. Agree, Countrywide Loans & Nutrisystem ! Overkill already!

These same ads have been blasting on every channel since the first of the year or longer! :puke:

They must be making tons of $ because advertising that much ain't cheap!

But then Amurka is financially ignorant & obscenely obese, so go figure. :eyes:

[GOPBasher]

56. I hate the ones you mentioned, plus any drug commercials. n/t

[Digit]

57. Mine

The screaming plumber guy
The investing one with Dennis Hopper
The headache one
Almost any of the pharmaceutical ones
The one..You can get broadband, believe it
The paying for funeral expenses

I have gotten to where since I don't have the remote on me all the time,
I will just turn off the TV to be free of the crap.

[hippywife]

64. A new one!

It may be new to me since I rarely watch TV but I had to scream at the TV last night when I saw one that compared the high price of gas to the prices at Walmart and insinuated that anyone not shopping at WalMart right now is crazy!!