Posted on 04/24/2018 1:44:29 PM PDT by Hugin
OK, what TV commercials really bug you? Make you want to scream at the TV every time you see them? Leaving aside the stupid dads and always white burglars, here's a couple that I see all the time lately...
Too numerous, but good topic.
I agree w/many choices here.
And then there’s the Voya orange squirrel. WTF?
It’s so stupid I had to look up what company it is, so I think that tells me they’re missing the mark.
“Old jalopy’s on the blink, go see Cal...”
I cut the cable 5 years ago so the only time I see TV is when I’m visiting my parents.
One thing that struck me — having watched only Netflix for years — is how MANY commercials there are in any given program on TV. One after another.
The chili’s commercial with the mega irritating music. I mute it asap.
Sounds like an invitation to stalkers.
we watch almost no BoobToob
but the constant begging on PBS is just HORRID!
and... on radio, we get all kinds of RIPOFF sounding high-pressure screech type ads to sign up for various dubious-at-best investment schemes... or to purchase Magical pills that will turn old, tired guys into HUGE Jack-hammers
Radio used to have ads for recognized goods like cars and foods, or retailers like Sears or Macys or Walmart. Now, so many of the ads are for SUCH TRASH.. I wonder what’s happened?????????????????????
Ditto. I watch movies (mainly old ones) when I want some entertainment. Some years I remember to watch a couple of Super Bowl commercials to see some Don Draper style adman creativity. I used to use my TiVo to fast forward commercials, but that’s a pain in the neck so I stream content and borrow discs.
Tree falls on car.
Pizza is safe until dufus picks it up and slips on ice.
Bingo! Replacement pizza!
First time...it sucked!
Next 10,000 times...even suckier!
Tree falls on car.
Pizza is safe until dufus picks it up and slips on ice.
Bingo! Replacement pizza!
First time...it sucked!
Next 10,000 times...even suckier!
“Kars for Kids..OMG I want to punch those kids in the face LOL Ok maybe that’s pushing it”
That ad can’t suck too much! It’s been running on the radio in Chicago area for years. Can’t take it and always turn it off. The pink highlighted mini- rock group on T V is obscene.
The My Pillow ad is pretty repulsive too.
‘So what ads irritate you?’
State Farm ad where the snotty wife encounters her husband trying to find a vehicle, and she says ‘why don’t I help’...I say ‘why don’t you go sit on a tenpenny nail...?’
another bugaboo; posters who rush to inform us they no longer watch TV on a thread like this, thus establishing their culturally correct virtues...
All ads for prescription drugs.
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Yep, Don’t take (insert drug name here) if you ...
All I take away from them is don’t take this drug!!
Ben Mankiewicz and some twit on the TCM Wine Club:
“I’m scared to sniff the milk...”
Both are insufferable, and more so because it runs twenty times a day. Their wine club must be like the Columbia Record Club, easy to get in, but then only one hit wonders after the first order.
I’m getting really tired of Flo, the Gecko, the talking Progressive box, and Jim Adler - The Texas Hammer.
Mother is distraught after husband dies. Son sees mom crying and goes out. Mother thinks he's rebelling and staying out all night. Kid got job to help mom pay the bills to keep the house.
The commercial just seems a bit too overwrought to me.
-PJ
There was a thread the other day about the reformed addict founder of My Pillow. A full THIRD of their revenue goes to ads!
“If an erection lasts for more than four hours then call a doctor.”
Heck, if it lasts more than four hours, I’m calling EVERYBODY!
Any ads by "on-line" schools, Orc..., anything by Oprah, reverse mortgages, ...
The ad companies have got to stop relying on the google "ad meme generator app", and actually start being creative.
The best are the Gutfeld Show movie and event trailer "commercials".
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