Random thoughts on some annoying TV commercials

[ashling]

Cisco -
Ellen is not even as well known as Sarah P., so how come she is invited to see the town's new digital virtual polics ststion, and an elementary school being that she is also totally clueless?

Viagra -

This guy who goes around talking to himself in store windows has probably got bigger (no pun intended, I assure you) problems than erectile disfunction. How about asking your doctor about anti-psychotics?

please feel free to add your own.

:rofl:

[ashling]

1. No one?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. What's with the bathtubs in all the ED remedy commercials?

And if it's such great stuff, why are the couples sitting in separate tubs?

[6000eliot]

3. Outside?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Exactly.

Does Viagra make people want to boink in public?

[KurtNYC]

5. Endzyte - Bob

Okay so Bob has a hard-on all day long and grins about it. Sounds like HR should have a talk with him.

[yankeepants]

31. I worry about Mrs. Smilin' Bob

She must be hiding in the linen closet everytime he pulls in the driveway in his race car.

[jp11]

6. Hmmm.

5 hour energy-
the guy is annoying popping up in work environments trying to push his 'red bull' like product, he could be a drug dealer pushing cocaine

star bucks via-
instant coffee that a daisy chain of people 'share' with each other through out the commercial, I'm supposed to believe that all these people carry around a half a dozen packets of star bucks via to give out to people?

[ashling]

11. OMG, I hate those

:grr:

[ashling]

18. Gotta wonder what she's REALLY handing out

:shrug:

[doc03]

22. I like the Starbucks commercial n/t

[Generic Brad]

7. The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup

If that's supposed to be the highlight of my day, then it's all downhill after that cup of Folgers. How horridly depressing.

[nuxvomica]

8. Those poor Chinese kids were forced to stay in school at night

Just so they could have a virtual field trip with the American kids. I just think that's wrong.

[ashling]

12. Could be worse

they could be sewing soccer balls with there teeth. :shrug:

[Dr Morbius]

9. Why are all husbands idiots in commercials?

There's a series for Corona which has a couple sitting on the beach. His woman squirts him with lime juice, outsmarts him when he shakes her beer, etc; why is he still sitting there?

[jp11]

10. She drugged him,

when the sun sets she's going to drag him into the ocean and let him drown.

[annabanana]

13. Because it's almost always the women who're spending the money.

We have to be convinced that the poor doofus isn't capable of making such "wise" decisions..

[kentauros]

14. For that matter

why is it that men in commercials are the Emerils of the backyard grill, but can't find the meat in the refrigerator without pictures from HP printers? :crazy:

[Patiod]

28. When we see those commercials, I turn to my SO and say:

"why?"

and he will reply: "Because men are stupid"

It's annoying.

[IcyPeas]

33. to somewhat counter the "men being stupid posts"....

why is it still women in commercials doing the mopping, dusting and all those other "women's jobs"?

[KurtNYC]

34. bc of the Devo music in the soundtrack -- it's fun

[Dr Morbius]

39. Now that you mention it, I have never ever seen an ad with a man

operating a vacuum cleaner. Not once.

[kentauros]

41. I have.

But the ad was for a camera or printer, because it was so "unusual" for the wife and family to see the husband actually doing housework, that they had to take a photo of it and then send it to all their friends and family, I guess to embarrass him further...

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. any commercial that you have no idea what it's for

but at the end the word Monsanto or something equally offensive pops up

I also hate hate hate that stupid Starbucks commercial

[S n o w b a l l]

16. What about the Charmin Strong commercial with the bears with pieces

of toilet paper on their butts? Yuck!

[BurtWorm]

37. I thought that was very tastefully done.

Just hinting--not being so vulgar as to come out and actually say it--at the question, "Does a bear shit in the woods."

:applause:

[yankeepants]

40. I hate those bears

[TreasonousBastard]

17. "Good Morning..." with irritating shoulder motions all for an expensive coffee cup....

takeout coffee ANYWHERE doesn't come in cups that cost that much-- why are they trying to sell us coffee cups that cost almost as much as a cup of coffee?

[Patiod]

29. In defense of those cups

They are awfully nice to have around for the rare times that you're heading into a situation where a reusable to-go cup isn't feasible: for example,
- if someone is giving you a ride to the airport at 5 am
- if you're going to be sitting at the train station for a while, and would like some (home-brewed) coffee while you wait
- you're sending a guest away from your house with a fresh cup of coffee.

We go through maybe 2-3 packs a year (if that), using them for these types of situations.

But to use them in your car on your house? What a waste.

And the commercials ARE really annoying.

[BurtWorm]

38. Oh man! I thought I was the only person who hates that commercial!

:wtf:

I don't mind the product, but why are they making it look like only old fogies would go anywhere near it? Maybe because only old fogies really are the only ones who go near it? Everyone else has a thermos cup or just buys their coffee at Starbucks?

[Pool Hall Ace]

19. Hardee's -- I can't stand those ditzes

sitting there munching on those . . . deep-fried chicken globs (I don't remember what the product is called). Even if I were not a vegetarian, these two dames do nothing to sell this product to me.

And in this era of high unemployment, how galling it is to for them to just pick up the ringing phone and hang it right back up, without even answering. If I were their supervisor, those chuckleheads would be on the street in no time.

[gratuitous]

20. Tie between Carl's Jr. and Kit Kat

Any commercial with all that glomping and lip-smacking, chewing and swallowing, especially because the sound is so much louder on those commercials, has me on a personal boycott of both of those products.

[Initech]

26. The Dairy Queen one with the talking lips freaks me out.

[kentauros]

32. It even has eyes

but they are only visible when it's really surprised at some amazingly cheap corporate special...

[doc03]

21. My old number one annoying commercial is Hoveround

It is being replaced by that Cadillac CTS commercial, it has a sound like a telephone ringing in it, it drives me nuts. There is another one I think about alzheimer's or something that has a phone ring sound on it too. I keep reaching for the phone every f----g time they come on.

Oh I have to add any McDonald's commercial.

[jp11]

23. I started my own boycott when they launched "I'm lovin' it".

Not that I ever went there more than once a year if that.

[doc03]

24. Maybe a couple times a year I get hotcakes and sausage

at McDs, I don't think I have eaten one of their sandwiches for at least 20 years.

[Initech]

25. Beer commercials

I love beer but the mainstream brands (Bud, Miller, Coors, etc) all have shitty advertising.

Coors: The Coors window commercial where the woman dressed in lingerie keeps trying to lead the guy on, and he is so fixated on his beer being cold through the window on the box. If I were the woman I'd be looking up the name of a good divorce attorney.

Another Coors: The one where they keep referring to the beer as cold. Does it really have any other redeeming qualities than the fact that it's cold?

[Patiod]

30. No. No it does not

Have any other redeeming qualities.

Having said that, I was conducting market research in suburban Denver a few years ago, and noticed a lot of 20-something men in the lobby. I asked what was going on and was told "beer taste-testing". I asked for who, and they said they couldn't tell me, although who the hell else is in Golden?

I did wonder what sort of lottery a young guy had to hit to get PAID for tasting beer for an evening....

[Skittles]

27. have a happy period

whoever thought that one up just needs to be killed

[Initech]

35. Oh the E*TRADE talking babies drive me crazy..

[Initech]

36. The KISS Dr. Pepper commercial

To quote Bill Hicks: "You do a commercial you're off the artistic radar forever. You're just another corporate fucking shill, another whore in the capitalist gang bang."