[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?

[rockinqsranch]

What TV ads DON’T drive me nuts would be a better question. It seems they are all from the minds of idiots.

[savedbygrace]

All GEICO, Progressive, and Old Spice ads.

[halfright]

Going to sit here till the ad comes on but its a Zerelto or something like it with the 70’s music and moron bee bopping to the music.... will report back but as soon as I hear it I change the channel till it’s over.
infuriates me

[RickGee]

Anything with Marie Osmond.
OK, she could sing back in the day, but I don’t need to see her (almost) every day of my life.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Cologuard commercial where an animated talking box sits on a toilet and takes a crap while trying to frighten me into buying their test.

And it runs CONSTANTLY!

If my doctor thinks I should take it he will tell me, thank you.

[Political Junkie Too]

The grandparents with Comcast. Grandma tells kid to make password "whydontyoucallmoreoften." Grandpa playing with a drone.

-PJ

[Enchante]

I am glad I don’t watch TV.

[Migraine]

Captain Obvious is gay (like it wasn’t obvious).

Now they have a new Captain Obvious motel commercial where 3 gays are stomping grapes homoerotically, dressed like Queen and doing Richard Simmons workout moves.

[Freedom4US]

What is this “TV” device of which you speak?

Am I to understand you pay a rather hefty monthly subscription service to voluntarily allow degrading and insulting commercial advertisements into your home?

[Redleg Duke]

All the progressive commercials, for starters.

The Home Advisor commercials where the neighbors ask for a list of candidates, and by the way, do a background check, etc.

That stupid Land Rover commercial driving up that long set of steps.

[SMM48]

My Pillow and every add ever produced for PCMatic

[yarddog]

Most of the ads are trying to hype much more than the product.

They are doing the exact same thing as most movies or television shows.

It is simple Pavlovian conditioning. See a really pretty 95 pound girl whip a 230 lbs brute. The first time, it seems odd. After seeing it several thousand times one begins to wonder if beautiful 95 lb. girls really are that tough.

Even worse, some 110 lb. girls begin to think they can do it too.

They are not just showing a different world, they are creating one. If 70% of all couples you see are Black/White you begin to think that is the way it should be. Note I did not say inter-racial as all races are not shown. Just about all of them are Black Male/White female.

[upchuck]

I haven’t watched TV, don’t own one, since Aug, 2008.

On occasion I have watched TV briefly while eating at a place that has TVs for the customers. My opinion of the commercials, and TV in general, is that they a waste of time and are directed at folks with very low IQs.

[scottinoc]

Pretty much every commercial made in the last 10 years. Every ad is hyper-PC. You can’t risk offending anyone, oh except elderly people, it’s ok to make fun of them, like that stupid E-Trade (?) commercial where older people have to work until they’re 85, and it’s just so hilarious /sarc

This is a great venting thread, thank you.

[sparklite2]

Seeing kids being used to beg for money by some hospital organization is okay once or twice. But Fox runs the same thing during The Five day after day after day. Enough is enough. I fast forward through it with alacrity.

Thanks to my DVR-fu, though, I actually watch very few commercials at all. Ambulance-chasing lawyers and catheter suppliers are now seldom seen.

[GingisK]

Do they still have TV? Really?

[redcatcherb412]

The Blue Nile Diamond commercial where it has the song? Or an attempt at a woman singing a song that has a voice like a cat with a tail caught in the blender. It sends me diving for the mute button every time. They finally have 2 different commercials with actual singers, but sneak the shrieker in at the times.

[mass55th]

I record every program I watch so I can fast-forward through all the commercials. But the one ad I cannot stand is the stupid one by Liberty Mutual: "You owned a car for 4 years. You named it Brad. You loved Brad. And then you totaled him."

Argggghhhh!!

[Conan the Librarian]

Any of them that use the word “Technology” when they should be using “techniques”.

“The technology in our washcloth will get you extra clean!”

Sorry, that is just so wrong.

[bgill]

The list would be shorter for the ones that aren't annoying but here's a few: Every one of the Liberty Mutual Insurance commercials make me want to go all Elvis on the tv. Is that one with the oh so gay kid who had a wreck in the drive thru one of their commercials? It's the worse. What's with all the diversified marriages and biracial kids? It wouldn't matter what race the little girl on the Eggo commercial with her name on the waffle is, but she's freaky scary UGLY. There's a local car dealership commercial ("Billy Boyd, y'all!" - just shut up already) with some country singer, can't remember his name - ok, it's Kevin Fowler. Had him on for so many years my finger automatically hits the remote. Another dealership in Austin has the wife practically yelling at you, dressed like Moo and flaunts her hooties. Those freaky little monsters on the old Quiznos sandwich commercials turned me off their sandwiches quick. Same with the Kia rats. The Vince Young Steakhouse (Austin, TX) woman. Nearly as scary as the monsters above. She's so fast talking and demanding that it's hardly a place I'd ever want to enjoy a meal. She'd be a great Nazi, dominatrix, dictator, etc. Some medication ad with the little kid at the end who sort of lays his head down and gives the camera a come hither look and says all seductively, "And no steroids." Seriously? Talk about Hollywood and child molestation. I holler at that commercial every time. It's sickening.