What's the commercial you hate the most?

[thermodynamic]

Despite the disingenuous, chummy Burger King commercials of recent (I'd love to tell them where they can stick that open fire of theirs), I still think that Ruffles advert with the pencil-drawn baby saying "r-r-r-ruffles have r-r-r-ridges" with the parents going "oh, that's so cute" has got to be the most irritating thing on tv right now.

Nobody in their right mind would feed their baby junk food.

A baby would not talk so incoherently; indeed, it wouldn't talk at all.

And who bloody cares about ridges? Is that such a major selling point?

A long-forgotton ABC special from 8 months ago about the delightfulness of junk food and corporate America's intent to dominate the world (but in a patronizing, supportive manner of course) reminded us of one potent fact: A Chinese communist woman in appearingly good physical shape told the journalist in front of the camera that a 8 pound bag of potatoes costs $1.89. Powerful stuff, yet Americans continue to buy Ruffles and Frito Lay and all the rest without a second (or perhaps even a first) thought.

(Now how much does a 1 pound bag of Ruffles cost: $3.89, you say?) That Chinese woman would make a far more intersting political commentator than any American "news"caster right now.


Hmmm, how many more not-so-poignant messages can I fit in here? I've spit on capitalism (as usual), pointed out that healthy people charmingly denounce America's junk food (and in front of our very eyes and in a way that most Americans won't "get"), pointed out how commercials are insulting to one's intelligence...

[Allah Akbar]

1. I hate the one for Price-Waterhouse

or some financial advisors. Anyway, Joe Suit throws a piece of paper at the trash and it bounces off the rim, so he dives on the floor to catch it and put it in. Then some lame ass says something about "they go all the way in all they do" or some such tripe.

I just think the whole thing is so insulting to the intelligence I can't imagine wanting to give them any business. Not that I have the cash for them to bother with me anyway.

[salmonhorse]

2. The Nokia wireless phone ad on my LAUNCH Cast Videos...

The piece o'shit plays like every 2-3 vids and it is 30sec of sheer boredom ~ but I won't 'up grade'...

I refuse!!!

:argh:

[StClone]

3. Any with

ATVs, SUVs, Hummers tearing across the land with little regard for who owns it or what damage is done. Ad people know that shiny things speeding over rugged terrain makes the morans drool. The same may be said of Personal Water Crafts.

[Champion Jack]

4. The one for sheridan hotels

using the stones "let's spend the night together" with some bad lame-o stones wanna be's lip syncing the song.
Yeeccchhhhh.

[Chicklet]

5. Furniture polish ad

With the little brat using his crayons to color on all the wood furniture in the house as the voiceover says, "Mark makes marks..." Mark is followed by a Stepford Moomie looking even more Xanaxed than Laura Bush, carrying a rag and a can of Pledge. Maybe if, instead of Pledge, mom opened up a can of (metaphoric) whup-a** on Mark, he wouldn't make the marks.:eyes:

[Skittles]

18. that's the way I learned

welcome to the DU, Chicklet. :D

[RMJ]

24. LOL! the first time...

my daughter saw that commercial she said, "What is she doing!? Why doesn't she make him clean that up himself? Give the kid some paper! Or a bucket of chalk and send him outside! Geez..." After that it just devolved into incoherent angry, disgusted sounds.

[goddess40]

6. JC Penny's slam on dads

Where the mother goes shopping and the father is so pathetic that he can't take care of his own children.

[catpower2000]

26. "Where is your mother?"

I hate that one too. Maybe you should have thought about not bringing children into the world if you're so useless, dude!

Cat

[zbdent]

7. Not necessarily the commercial, but the kid in it

forget the brand of car, but the kid does a stage whisper "zoom zoom".

Yet another "shiny" bauble for the masses to acquire.

Hey, "They Live" was just on cable the other day . . .

[Archae]

8. THE worst...

Any and all of the ones for precription medications.

The worst of all being that one with the "Gotta go, gotta go..." jingle.

Locally, it's used car dealers.
(snore)

Seasonally, it's political ads, (especially the really negative ones,) followed by "Get into the spirit of the (fill in the blank holiday) by buying (fill in the blank)."

[Kurovski]

9. that sandwich eating pest,Jarod

Subway, it is now time to move on.

But they're all produced by lying shitbags. You can tell by the smell.

[nuxvomica]

10. Wachovia Securities

The whole "uncommon wisdom" series. "Financial advice is like a canoe, don't lose the paddle when you're up shit creek" or something like that. I can't even remember any of the similes because they were so lame they annoy me just to think about them. I'm annoyed right now.

[smallprint]

28. hahahaha nice

Shit Creek Financial Services-- i like the sound of that

:evilgrin:

[Art_from_Ark]

39. Hey, I was one of their customers once

By the time they were through fleecing me, I didn't even have enough left to buy a paddle

[MrScorpio]

11. Thosse damned Viagra commercials...

That skirt around the fact that homeboy is walking around with a shit-eating grin and nobody can figure out why.

Yeah, we know that its because he can start popping a woody again.

I'd rather hear testimonials from the guy's babe.

That would be more relevant, wouldn't you agree?

[JVS]

12. "Hey Bob, I heard you are having erections again!"

[Skittles]

16. YES MR SCORPIO

I AGREE; YES INDEED.

[BiggJawn]

27. "New haircut????"

And I seem to recall that the guy is either close-cropped or shaved....I'd love to see someone say "Hey, did you get LAID????"

[number9]

13. anything that's 30 minutes long

and calls itself a commercial or infomercial

[roguevalley]

14. that athletes foot commercial where the damatafyte

lifts up the toe nail like a chest lid and crawls in.
I almost die and scream each time I don't turn it off
fast enough.

[skippysmom]

43. blech

can't stand that one either. I can feel someone bending back my toenails just thinking about it....

[indigo32]

15. How about those damn Oven Mitt commercials

for Arbees. GET AWAY!!!!!

I have to admitt the Vegas Tourism Bureau commercials are pretty humorous though "ask me no questions"...
though I've never been and probably never will go to Vegas

[WindRavenX]

22. OH DEAR GOD YES

Those fucking Arby's ads are THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.
"Don't have ears!!"
SO ANNOYING I COULD SCREAM. :argh: :argh: :argh:

[BlueJazz]

44. Geez...I agree

I'd love to put that little F*cker in an oven for about 30 minutes on 600 degrees.

[BiggJawn]

34. Been to Vegas this year. Didn't get laid....

Ooops!
I forgot, that should've "Stayed there"....:7

[Skittles]

17. the one with the snotty little girl printing car info off the internet

and giving it to her parents. The little brat never smiles and there's absolutely no interaction between her and her parents, whom she obviously thinks are dopes and holds in utter comtempt. Of course, dad brags THOSE ARE *MY* GENES. Don't be so sure, pops.

It's f***ing CREEPY.

[lpbk2713]

19. Gotta be the Ditech.com commercials......

There's about 5 or 6 of em and they are all equally assinine. They seem to be targeting an audience of morons.

[Michael Daniels]

29. Any product/service commercial on Fox-News (and not just because it's Fox)

Which remains to this day the only place I've ever seen the Ditech.com ads you speak of above.

You can tell what type of audience that channel markets to just by the quality of the ads that do appear on anything other than their financial programs.

As for the Ditech.com guy, shouldn't he have been fired from his loan officer job by now? Damn, if I was that imcompetent I'd be living at home with mom/dad (which, based on one of the spots it appears he does.)

[mitchum]

20. All of them

I really hate marketing jackals.

[Maddy McCall]

21. Local commercials--Gene's Tire Center and Pawpaw's Camper City

Horrible...they use their children and grandchildren in the commercials. "That's a good camper, Pawpaw." :puke:
"Who loves you baby?" :puke:

Everyone hates these narcissistic ads--you end up not remembering anything about the ad except for their gratingly down-home progeny.

I also hate the Geico commercials.

[JCMach1]

23. grr

The chick in the new exercise equipment ad... I forget which company....

[CO Liberal]

33. That's Bowflex

"I feel like I could take on the world. Grr."

:puke:

[REP]

25. Any Ad With Children

I do not want to see a baby being diapered anywhere, thankyouverymuch.

[Chicklet]

55. The Welch's juice demon spawn are scary (nm)

[mac56]

30. The spasmodic woman doing that pathetic dance

in the front passenger seat of the Mitsubishi.

Makes Elaine's dance (from "Seinfeld") look like Baryshnikov.

Like on Dave Chappelle's show: she'd be on the kerb if I were driving.

[sendero]

31. where would I start?

About the only kind of advertising I like is soft-sell with comedy/entertainment thrown in.

Any kind of ad that tries to prey on insecurities, or equate status with a product is on my black list.

An especially egregious offense against good taste would have to be the earlier Bowflex ads. Now, they have recently changed them to "everyday people", which was probably a good move - since by now everyone with a functioning brain knows that 20 minutes a day, 3 days a week will not, under any circumstance in the world including steroid use, get you the the kind of body the models had.

In fact, if you don't have the "genetics", you could work out on a Bowflex or any other machine 24/7 for decades and never look remotely like that.

So I consider that just plain false adversising. Selling dreams that unfortunately the average American is uninformed enough to buy.

[MissMillie]

32. J.C. Penney's

Every single one of them where the man is home with the kid and he can't handle it. "Where is your mother?" he says, as if to imply that he didn't sign up for watching his own kid.

Men who can't handle watching their own kids shouldn't have any.

[playahata1]

35. ALL OF THEM are irritating.

It's like I am being shouted at, being told 24/7 to BUY! BUY! BUY!

[underpants]

36. ARE YOU GELLIN'?

God what a stupid idea and an obvious attempt to start a catch phrase.

I agree all commercials are stupid that is why experienced TV watchers such as my self always have a second and third option to watch during commercials.

[catpower2000]

38. GELLIN' LIKE A FELON!

AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cat

[mac56]

41. WANT SOME MELON?

soooooo pathetic

[BiggJawn]

46. WHAT is this CRAP we're Sellin'???

He ain't Gellin'....

[catpower2000]

48. LOL BiggJawn...

Good one! :thumbsup:

Cat

[Art_from_Ark]

40. I haven't seen American commercials in a while

but the last time I was in the US, I was so disgusted at the sheer stupidity and in-your-face hard sell that I nearly threw a book at the TV.

On a related note, the AFLAC duck has come to Japan!

[Zolok]

37. Here is to the mighty wingman...

gruesome beer commercial, bitterly misogynistic and amped up with a nasty high pitched jingle as well.
No doubt it'll sell millions of gallons of bowel-loosening pilsner.

[CBHagman]

42. The GE ad about the model and the geek

Has anyone else seen that General Electric appliance ad about the marriage of beauty and brains? The characters featured are some bespectacled guy, his supermodel-type wife, and their adorable baby. It's amazingly creepy and sexist. :puke:

[ronnykmarshall]

45. Any Carl's Jr. commercial

They have a new one that attacks the French.

There's this one comercial (don't know the company) that has this guy driving an Ice Cream truck with the gawd awful "Ice Cream Man" song. :puke:

[catpower2000]

49. It's for Kohl's dept store...

That commercial cracks me up, actually. The guy driving the truck won't stop for all the people who want to buy ice cream, then he taunts them by waving ice cream out the window and eating it himself. lol! :)

Cat

[ACK]

47. Any freakin' Mickey D commercial

Happy smiling minimum wage workers stuff rancid foods at salivating children while Disnesque music gleefully plays in the background and that evil clown from hell runs across the landscape trying to push off salads with fried chicken pieces in it to the parents.

Ugh.

[Uzybone]

50. LOL

I nearly spit my drink at that one. Happy smiling minimum wage inadequate pulic transportation riding workers indeed. I cant remember the least time a food service worker ever smiled. Its not cheerful work.

Speaking of less than cheerful work, I hate to see US Army (an army of one? ha!) commercials nowadays.

[Rhiannon12866]

51. "Where are you going to be when your diarrhea medicine quits

working?" Please!!!
:puke:

[Wcross]

52. Anti-drug ads

They are so full of excrement, that they are not reaching anyone. I love the one about funding terrorists if you buy Pot. So whats a patriotic pot smoker to do? Grow your own! Isn't that the message they are sending?

[AntiCoup2K4]

53. The fucking AFLAC duck commercials!

Because Gilbert Gottfried is a talentless piece of shit!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

54. Christian rock CDs...

Over on BBC America I am assaulted by these nasty commercials for Christian rock from bands I have never heard of. Everyone in the audience is young, white, beautiful, squeaky-clean, and orgasmic over what they are hearing. Lots of closed eyes with palms raised in the air.

I literally will hit the mute or turn the channel when one comes on.

I also hate commercials that makes meanness or wrongdoing funny and/or acceptable. The "Ice Cream Man" commercial is one that fits the mean spirited category, and the folks having a fun Friday night trashing a laundry mat for a booze ad fits the latter.

There was also an ad showing two young men engaging in some contest heating burritos in microwave ovens. The person whose burrito heated first won whatever the product being advertised was (can't even remember, it was that "good"). Fella A's was the winner and asked to get the prize since he'd "won" -- fella B walks over to him, dumps fella A's burrito on the floor, and takes the prize for himself. Fella A is projected to be a wimp/dork, while fella B is the "cool" one.

Nice message. Actually, on reflection, it's very Republican in natural -- even if you win something fair and square I'm gonna steal it from you!

[anti_shrub]

59. Christian music ads

For some reason they are those a LOT on Cartoon Network during the overnight hours (I'm a night owl who doesn't go to bed till 4 AM), and even if I wasn't already a non-fan of religion that commerical would seal the deal for me.

I mean I guess they do those crowd shots to show that there's an arena full of people and that Christian music isn't just a fringe thing, but the sea of blank faces with upraised hands just gives me the willies.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

56. The Ruffles commercial...

is a direct pitch to the Baby Boom generation. That commercial is a restyling of the original Ruffles baby campaign from back in the early 60s when Ruffles were the first chip to HAVE "ruffles". It was their way to stand out from the chip crowd.

When I saw the new version I was immediately thrown back in time 37 years and remembered how I would walk around the living room trilling "Ruffles have ridges". :)

I still eat Ruffles to this day. I was "branded" early.

[UrbScotty]

57. Actually, that Ruffles one is cute.

Can't think of anything I don't like. Except Republican campaign ads.

[lilbub]

58. Devry Institute commercial with the loser

who sold his soul to work for a big corporation. The guy insists that his " English degree just wasn't doing it " for him and his writing was going no where.

It's an insulting commercial to English majors who are already well aware that they will have a crappy job in their future. Now Devry has to rub it in our faces.

- The Carl's JR. commercials. Esp. the new one for the $6 beef slime burger :puke: If it doesn't get all over the place...

[stopbush]

60. "Heartbeat of America" Shit

from Chevy.

Everytime I hear that god-awful singer getting his larynx amputated with a rusty pocket knife, I cringe ("a-w-w-w- like uh rock. Standin' arr-ah straight..."). Ditto the James Garner voiceover at the end ,"...like a ROCK." Makes me want to puke.

OTOH, it's sort of nice to know that all of those rednecks are buying trucks with a FRENCH name from a company that was, I believe, founded by a Frenchman (check me on that one).

[LynneSin]

61. Any of those Pepsi Commercials with Hallie Kate Eisenberg

Is that kid irritating or WHAT.

Those stupid voice overs were just that - STUPID!