[Hugin]

Subaru-- Young couple are looking for a nature trail on a map in a country store, and a blind guy tells them "You can't find it on a map, but I can take you there". Driving there he tells them to turn left here, and when they get there tells them "if you listen closely you can hear the whales". I know Hollywood would have us believe all blind people get magical Daredevil like powers that allow them to do everything sighted people can, but BLIND PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE WHEN RIDING IN A CAR! In my version they turn left and go off a cliff.

McDonalds-- Black teenager runs into McDonalds with a letter from a college he applied to and hands it to the manager. The manager gathers the whole staff around as he opens and reads it (can the applicant not read?), leaving the cars in the drive through waiting for their burgers and fries. Everyone waits in suspense as he opens it and they find out he is accepted and everyone cheers. But what if he's rejected, and totally humiliated in front of the whole staff?

So what ads irritate you?

[ssaftler]

This doesn’t so much “irritate” me, but I found it quite inappropriate.

Watching “Last Man Standing” on CMT around 5:45, when they showed an ad for an OVER THE COUNTER “Plan B” pill. Glad my 10-year-old niece wasn’t watching. I wouldn’t want to have explain this one to her!

Of course, there’s always the Geico and Regressive Insurance ads to irritate me. And, while watching something on CBS, (still like Hawaii Five-O, Scorpion and Seal Team), they have to shill for that grinning fool, Stephen Colbert, at every ad break. Talk about “Barf City”!!!

[EdnaMode]

I rarely watch live with commercials anymore. Don’t miss them at all.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Slightly OT, but there are two radio commercials that just drive me crazy. First one is for Dinovite, some sort of really cool dog food. Fine. But they could do without referring to their dogs as stinky, smelly, mangy, etc.

The other one is of online courses at Arizona State University where they tell *graduate school* candidates who want more info on their program to "text the word offer to ##### -- that's O-F-F-E-R to #####." The other one substitutes the word "school -- that's S-C-H-O-O-L". Now come on, people, why on earth do you have to tell GRADUATE SCHOOL candidates how to spell the word OFFER? Or regular students, who by the time they're eligible to get into ASU, to spell the word SCHOOL??

Drives me completely crazy.

[Springman]

Bump for later.

[omniscient]

MyPillow is the absolute worst, due to its mind-numbing frequency.

Deal Dash — Where do they find these people?

And the smug retirees: “We no longer NEEDED the coverage.”

But I still like the National Car Rental guy in the leisure outfit:

“Control ... suits me.”

[jmacusa]

That Kit Kat commercial. The crunching noise!

[vpintheak]

Insurance ones who have complete wusses for sons that can’t change a tire. And mommy loves them for it.

[Sir Napsalot]

ALL of the local car dealership commercials.

No matter where you are, or whenever you travel, all of the car commercials by local dealers are G*D AWFUL.

[fredhead]

Here in Norfolk, VA we have been assaulted daily for 35 years by the screaming ads for the injury lawyer Lowell “The Hammer” Stanley. CALL 459-CASH!!!!!!!

[IrishBrigade]

‘So what ads irritate you?’

as long as we’re venting on this subject, I have to ask, is there some reason why females must be so snarky on these ads...? three in particular, the CarGuru wife “Why don’t I help’, the military insurance one ‘I outrank my husband in the military and at home’, and the State Farm where the wife sticks her finger in her husband’s back ‘too bad we don’t get discounts on gym memberships’...

[Rainbow Rising]

I can’t stand the Charmin commercials with the animated bears. The whole bear family sits around fondling the toilet paper in a semi-erotic daze while soft, romantic music plays, until Mama Bear suddenly jumps up and says, “This is getting a little weird!” Ya think? What would Mr. Whipple say?