Posted on 08/15/2025 4:51:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I received such an outpouring of comments to my recent bad T.V. and cable ads article that I thought I’d give this another shot.
Currently, there are so many bad ads I had no problem finding truly dreadful examples.
First, let’s check out an ad campaign that worked, American Eagle’s ads featuring Sydney Sweeney, a popular young Hollywood actress.
Apparently, she not only has good genes, but good jeans.
SNIP
Moving away from never-fail cheesecake ads, there is another new Orange advertiser. Yes, Orange is indeed the new orange. Why this remains so is beyond me. There is no study I’ve seen suggesting that orange is a palate that sells products.
This is the fourth currently running ad campaign, and the second cell phone provider – Boost Mobile – to use orange “as a message” in their ads.
Ted Danson’s ads for Consumer Cellular are saturated in orange. Now they have a less well-produced copy-cat competitor ad, cellular provider Boost Mobile.
This is the most gawdawful annoying ad on cable today.
Because of their visual similarity, the saturated orange in this horrendous ad automatically degrades the impact of all orange ads – especially when the advertisers are direct competitors.
Note to advertisers: DO NOT use your competitor’s color scheme, unless you seek to help them generate more business … at your expense.
One truly tone-deaf ad is the worst of a series of ads by LeafFilter, a product that claims to prevent gutters from becoming clogged with fallen leaves.
Several ads, shot in what looks like a warehouse, feature the president of LeafFilter, Chris Counahan, talking with a woman, Emily Barrett.
She looks and sounds like an original Reddit/YouTube/TikTok “Karen.” Cementing this notion, she’s identified as president of HOA of America.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
SMH, expensive 72 hour no stink stuff when people are complaining they can’t pay the rent. Psst, take a shower!
The absolute worst for me are the prescription diabetes or weight loss ads. Now we know where overweight theater majors collect a paycheck. Dancing down the street bragging about lowering their AIC like they’re back in HS doing a musical.
Wait a few years and those tv pharmaceuticals will be in the middle of lawsuits.
It isn’t as if you can write a prescription for them.
I'm rooting for Kennedy to remove pharma adds from TV
I'm old enough to remember the Marlboro Man.
I'm pretty sure I can recover from the absence of morbidly obese dancers hawking $1500 per dose "cures".
Prescription drug ads are the absolute worst!!!
Lume deodorant ads are a close 2nd to those prescription drug ads.
I recall reading of a study done at least back in the 70s that orange stimulates hunger or desire for food (in this case fast food). Hence the prevalence of orange in fast food colors.
Here’s an idea: any ad with farts in it will not only stick in people’s minds, they will enjoy gleeful anticipation.
...bears...
The commercials are sickening, and I am a long-time user of the product.
There’s a woman who comes up on youtube selling something like that. I can’t even stand to look at her.
I never knew Asians made up 75% of the American population.
I’m surprised Tenneseeans wouldn’t help you even if they didn’t work there...
I watch many ads on TV and after they finish, I wonder what product they were trying to sell.
It’s not that they wouldn’t help. They couldn’t help. They were just shoppers like I was, and basically clueless.
Sorry to say but most of the spokespeople making those commercials have to be foreigners. LOL
I once worked where foreign students were trained as B727 Flight Engineers and every student from a foreign country BATHED IN COLOGNE!! Even the upholstered furniture in the office smelled like them...There were meetings (demanded by other students) with instructors and students when it came time to end ground school and get in the simulator, that the COLOGNE had to go!!!!! SHOWER? Not in their vocabulary! The company should have confiscated the cologne when they were met at the airport and taken to company housing.
It would be funny if the guy was a fat slob.
They are selling men’s scent. Would make more sense. “So nice even fat guys get noticed”.
If the females looked like that I wouldn’t need Blu-Chew.
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