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?
Any and all commercials about interracial couples (usually a black man with a white wife) bouncing around on a mattress where neither of them have wedding rings on.
And every damned commercial that has at the very least, one black guy or black woman in it, no matter how stupid it looks: 4 kids sitting a a breakfast table, one of whom is black. Four guys sitting watching a football game; one of whom is black.
And any and all commercials where the black ladies hair look like it exploded.
And top it off with almost every single man in all commercials who has a three-day beard. Men are not allowed to shave anymore no matter what they’re advertising.
And all commercials with the male-put-down who show a fat guy with red hair (gotta’ have red hair) who is dumber than a rock, usually married to a very good looking woman.
Almost all of them irritate me and for all the reasons mentioned plus a few more.
The Snickers commercial where the doctor left his phone in the patient. During a Gonzaga game, it played 26 times...how do I know? It was reported in the game coverage.
All the late night phone sex ads.
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.
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.
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?????????????????????
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!
‘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...
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
The best are the Gutfeld Show movie and event trailer "commercials".
I like the ones where a sheister attorney says “If you’ve taken (miracle drug) or “If you’ve used this (medical device) and now have terminal brain cancer, call my office immediately and I’ll turn your surviving relatives into millionaires (after I take my 40% of the action)”.
The scary thing is that, presumably, the FDA cleared these drugs and devices for use by the public.
EVERY single one for pharmaceuticals.
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