Commercials that just PISS YOU OFF?

[derby378]

Poll question: Commercials that just PISS YOU OFF?

I grouped them for you to make it easier. Vote, damn you! Vote!

[trotsky]

1. What, no Hummer option?

The one where the kid gets dropped off at school annoys the crap out of me.

[derby378]

7. Mea Friggin' Culpa!

I'm adding that option right now...

[trotsky]

17. Awesome!

Too bad I can't change my vote from "other" though!

[Wisc Badger]

21. There is a Hummer radio commercial

about a boy picking up a guys daughter for a date that is a hoot (What time will my first born be home tonight? 9:30 sir.) I have a daughter and I lma.

[Nevernose]

2. The "If you love me, you'll buy me diamonds!" ads

Message: all women are prostitutes, or at least should be.

[Momgonepostal]

14. Ding Ding Ding...we have a winner!

I HATE those ads.

Also, several years ago DeBeers had ads that said something like, "Is two months salary too much to spend on something that lasts forever?" In my opinion, YES!

[Plaid Adder]

115. DeBeers...don't get me started.

You know they did that ad campaign for a while that showed just the black silhouettes of the couple, except for the diamond jewelry that the guy gave the woman every 10 years or so, while playing that Vivaldi-esque violin music?

We were watching that one time a few years ago and we got to talking about how for us, the silhouettes wouldn't be wandering along the beach at Martha's Vineyard and eating at fancy restaurants and crap like that, we'd be doing the dishes and scooping the catbox. Now whenever Liza scoops the catbox I sing along with the commercial theme: "Dee doo dee doo, dee doo dee doo (SCOOP SCOOP SCOOP) dee doo dee doo, dee doo dee doo (SCOOP SCOOP SCOOP)" and so on.

Well, it's funnier if you know the tune.

C ya,

THe Plaid Adder

[Momgonepostal]

119. LOL...My silhouette doesn't do anything that requires diamonds

I'd look better in silhouette, though. :D

[redqueen]

16. I hate those as well.

Showing women getting orgasmic over glittery rocks.

Spare me.

[derby378]

23. "Diamonds - that'll shut her up!"

Maybe I should've included those ads for Jared, "The Galleria of Jewelry."

[Plaid Adder]

116. Man! I hate those too!

And what is this stupid bunch of ads with some chick named Jewel Cadet? I can't even remember the outfit she shills for, just her stupid name.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Left Is Write]

37. Yes! Now THAT pisses me off.

No man can "prove" he loves a woman without a diamond. And mind you, he's got to cough one up at EVERY occasion - Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, her birthday, their anniversary, the anniversary of their first date, the anniversary of the proposal, the birth of a child, the child's subsequent birthdays, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Sweethearts' Day, blah blah blah.....

[Debbi801]

92. Parking myself right here.

[Plaid Adder]

99. All diamond ads SUCK!

Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone.

Every time one of those stupid fucking ads comes on the radio I turn to Liza and say, "Don't ever get me a diamond." She says, "Don't worry." And on we drive.

I mean, if you like diamonds, and you want to wear them, be my guest. But why is it that every goddamn diamond commercial assumes that 1) the men are buying the diamonds 2) for their annoyingly demanding women because 3) they can't figure out how to actually fulfill their women's emotional needs so they may as well blow a huge wad of cash on this hunk of faceted carbon because it will make them happy because that's all women want, really?

:puke:

They market to fear, just like the Bush commercials: you know that if you try to get your woman somethign ELSE for Christmas, it'll be WRONG, and she'll be MAD at you, and you won't even know why, because women are irrational like that, so just be a lemming and buy the fucking diamond or else TERRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN!

:argh:

The Plaid Adder

[fluffernutter]

109. i love this man, oooahhh. he bought me a diamond.

gag

[Plaid Adder]

117. Diamonds. THey're like, Essence of Patriarchy.

I dunno what it is, but it's like if you took the patriarchy and put it in a crucible and boiled it down to its purest form, you'd have a diamond. Now why is that?

Actually, when I was in Paris a couple years ago I went to an 'exhibit' about diamonds that DeBeers was sponsoring at the Place Vendome. It was FREAKY. But, amdist all the freakiness, they did actually reveal the fact that they have been working very, very hard to get people to identify "diamond" with "permanence of your relationship to the person who gave it to you." Diamonds last forever, etc. So, if your lover gives you anything BUT diamonds, it must not be bound to last.

The absolutely most hilarious instance of this was from their catalogue, where they talk about the 'history' of the diamond engagement ring. There's a plate showing "rush rings"--woven out of reeds--that couples used to use to get married after they'd eloped in a hurry to Gretna Green (a place in Scotland that was the Vegas of 18th century Britain, apparently). The caption says, "The marriages often lasted about as long as the rings." See? Get married with anything other than the hardest substance known to man...and you're DOOMED!

Sigh,

The Plaid Adder

[Lindsay]

3. Ditech.

Can you imagine how much they're ripping people off to be able to afford THAT MANY commercials?!?!?!?

[nytemare]

88. Yep, those crappy commercials!

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. I hate Old Navy on the sole basis of their commercials.

That Overstock.com spokesperson's kinda hot.

[Cuban_Liberal]

5. Local auto dealership:

"All credit applications accepted," which of course makes most people watching think that these sleazebags actually approve the damned things, which they don't.

:grr::nuke:

[TwentyFive]

15. Yeah - like it's a big thing they're going to accept somebody's credit app

[Bunny]

22. Oh no. They'll accept them, AND approve them.

It all depends on how much interest you care to pay. Believe me, they will finance anybody, at usury rates if need be!

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Those TGI Friday ads with the idiot husband!

and several of the others in the poll

[TwentyFive]

8. Any commerical where they defile classic rock songs.

[Frogtutor]

98. No doubt! Have you seen the Wrangler jeans commericial?

They use selective parts of CCR's "Fortunate Son" to try to create a patriotic mood; Well, anyone who's ever listened to the lyrics of that song knows better!

Geez, how stupid can they be?

[Lavender Brown]

9. I like the Dyson guy.

"A few hundred prototypes later, and I had it." Kills me every time.

The worst are the Olive Garden commercials where Italian people pretend to like the food.

[Frogtutor]

100. Yeah, I love his accent, too...n/t

[Skittles]

120. my mum is a Brit and cannot stand his hoity-toity accent

nt

[Frogtutor]

122. Oh: I wouldn't know hoity-toity from anything else...

since I'm not British, and don't really even know any Brits.

:)

[readmylips]

10. Dirty-Looking Singing Cowboy Truck Commercials....

Please it's the 21st century, John Wayne long-gone.

[Jessica]

11. McDonald's - Stay away from my chicken selects & the pinky one.

On edit: And also the local community/technical college commercials. So overdone & cheesy as hell.

[Lisa0825]

12. I hate the Nature Sweet Tomatoes commercial!

It's an animated commercial, making the tomatoes into injury victims in sort-of a triage situation. Tomato juice squirts like blood while Dr Tomato yells for a tourniquet. Another tomato is panting like a dog, while someone squishes his topside and says, "head injury."

I hate it. We have soldiers fighting dying and getting serious injuries, and they think this shit is something to joke about?!

[derby378]

25. I like the first NATURE'S SWEET ad

The one where the tomato says "Taste so sweet because they RIPEN ON THE VINE!" with increasing vitriol.

[Lisa0825]

29. yeah, I liked the first one.... A while back, a pesticide company had

a commerical showing weeds dying from their product, and they were talking as if they were dying on the battlefield, "My roots! I can't feel my roots!" I hated that one too. I just don't think soldiers dying/being injured is something they should attempt to identify with at all.

[Wisc Badger]

13. Any GEICO commercial that

does not have the Gecko. I HATE THE "I JUST SAVED MONEY ON MY CAR INSURANCE"!!!!!

[Sympleesmshn]

56. same here

I can't stand the caveman one and even the Gecko ones get old after awhile.

[Bunny]

18. I hate the radio ads for Outback Steakhouse.

The jingle is sung with such a stupidly exaggerated Aussie accent. When Aussies and Brits sing, you do not hear their accents! :mad:

[mcscajun]

19. Please buy our cars...they're doing things you should NEVER do with them.

But don't let that stop you...it's the fantasy that Maybe someday you'd be crazy, reckless, stupid or suicidal enough to try the stunt you saw in the ad. But remember...we TOLD you Not To Attempt this.

Buy our cars.
Buy our cars.
they can do impossible things.
You Can't.
Buy our cars anyway.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Any "Surprise Your Spouse With A $60,000 Car" Ads

If my wife surprised me with a brand new Jag convertible (my dream car, admittedly), i call a shrink, because i'd be sure she lost her flippin' mind.

Now, if she surprised me with a 1972 Jag convertible, that'd be different.

The Professor

[Phillycat]

27. Exactly. Exactly!

it's a fucking November to remember, my ass! The day my husband wastes 60 grand on a fucking Lexus, we'll remember it because I put him in an early grave!

(my fictitious husband, that is.)

[derby378]

30. I originally had those Lexus ads as a voting option...

...but changed it to the Hummer ads.

[Catherine Vincent]

24. Most of them do. I don't know about the overstock.com ones.

Can someone give me hint? But I do like the Chili's commercials, especially their latest ones where the hubby sees the wifey and walks over to ask where are the kids and she says they are with my mom and they both look over to see the mom and the kids at another table. Hilarious!

[derby378]

28. Recent Overstock ads

They feature a red-headed actress situated against stark white sets extolling the virtues of Overstock, including their new auctions: "Much like eBay, but with lower fees." I know of some women who just can't stand her - it's a gut thing.

[Catherine Vincent]

40. Thanks. It still doesn't ring a bell.

Maybe they don't show in Texas.

[derby378]

101. They do in Dallas

I think they've gone nationwide on cable markets.

[Not_Giving_Up]

111. I'm in the Houston area, and I see them constantly

It's all about the O

[yellowdogintexas]

76. that is the TGI Friday one that I hate

LOL

[fudge stripe cookays]

97. Yep. It's a male-domination thing.

The guy looks so bereft that his wife is actually out having a good time too, instead of being "home with the kids."

The first time I saw it, every feminist bone in my body ACHED because it sucked so much.

FSC

[Skittles]

121. isn't that TGIF?

nt

[Mr.Green93]

26. Onstar

[Skittles]

124. people who need a satellite system to unlock their car door

idiots

[Abelman]

31. I forget

most of the commercials I hate. I hate McDonald's commercials, mostly, but I love those BK commercials in the office.

I HATE Wal-Mart commercials. "We're an evil soulless corporation harboring thoughts of world domination - come in and we'll treat you like family." The worst lies ever.

[Padraig18]

32. Any pickup truck commercial.

Although I own one, I'm tempted to sell it every time I see a commercial forone, simply because I'm afraid people will see mine and assume I'm some beer-swilling, tobacco-chewing, unshaved, he-man moron like the guys in the comercials.

;)

[iamjoy]

33. Hummer...Earth...WTF?

The Hummer commercials which always pan away and show the globe, the earth looking all clean and peaceful...when they are making a product that is destroying our planet....
:wtf:

The jewelry ones kind of annoy me too...making women look shallow and greedy. Like a man doesn't really love a woman if he doesn't get her sparkly crap.

[2sheds]

45. Hummers make me SO MAD!!

But here's a fun site:

FUH2

[Burma Jones]

34. Enzyte, Natural Male Enhancement.................n/t

[Left Is Write]

35. They don't really piss me off, but I finally saw the Old Navy

commercial with the carolers singing about teenagers and leg warmers and whatnot.

That is the worst piece of garbage ON has produced to date.

[Ekirh]

36. Mine have to be...

The god awful BA BA BA BA BA I'm Lovin it radio and T.V Mcdonald's commercials... ughhhh

[Dora]

38. Other: I don't suffer through rage inducing commercials

I don't own a tv.

[Kali]

39. All if them

except the beer commercials people send me by e-mail. (especially non-american beer, though some are funny)

[sakabatou]

41. The Quiznos singing mutated hedgehogs

URGH!

[Ekirh]

42. QUIZNO SUBS!!!!

I hate to say it.. but I actually like that commercial... it was a cult favorite in my ex-community college's student lounge. Just enough amount of WTFness to keep us amused I guess "shrugs"

[Left Brain]

46. Rat Turds

My husband calls them the rat turds. Nasty little buggers. Worst commercial ever.

[americanstranger]

62. They're from here -

http://rathergood.com

That site is actually pretty funny. I love the punk kitties.

-as

[realisticphish]

70. we love the mooooooon! nt

[ironflange]

77. I like the moon!

[derby378]

89. I LOVE THE QUIZNO'S HEDGEHOGS!!!

Saw then for the first time the day after the Superbowl with Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction." It was the "When you bring in a coupon" ad. When the commercial ended, ginbarn and I just looked at each other in astonishment and went, "YEAAAAAAHHHH!!!"

Pure. Friggin'. Genius.

[fluffernutter]

108. urgh is right, they are so obnoxious in so many ways.

[Cadence]

43. The grape nuts commercial

where the guy is crunching really loud and the bear tries to get his girlfriend in the background. I hate that sound. x(

[trotsky]

50. Arrrrgh, yes!!!

I will change the channel rather than watch that stupid commercial. I don't like to listen to other people's chewing sounds, but usually I can tune them out. Of course when the POINT of the damn commercial is to AMPLIFY those sounds.... ARRRRRRGH!

[CornField]

44. Any ad (especially radio) that uses siren noise to get my attention

Not that I'm always paranoid about a cop pulling me over... but damn!

[LDS Jock]

47. Fitness Made Simple by John Basedow

gawd I'm sick of those commercials and that weird looking guy. How did THAT not make the list of nominees?

[Eurobabe]

52. his head size doesn't match his body

[njdemocrat106]

67. That's why I call him "Scrawny Neck Basedow"

:evilgrin:

[Red State Rebel]

75. There's just something wrong with that boy....

not sure what it is, but it's something.

[pinniped]

84. Must be the Peter and Paquita one.

He dyed his hair in later ads and looks worse.

[Maestro]

127. Oh yeah!!!

Forgot that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[americanstranger]

48. The Jessica Simpson Christmas album ad.

Talentless harridan...

And why does she say she saw mommy kissin 'Santa Clothes?'

Make. It. Stop.

-as

[GRLMGC]

49. There is a female sex pill

Avlamil. How do I know this? Unfortunately, I saw that my Aunt was using it :shudder: Needless to say, she seems much more relaxed nowadays. Anyway, I remember the commercials. They were stupid. "Passion, I've got passion!"

[Eurobabe]

51. top all time Why Cable is Better THAN PUPPIES

I actually wrote to the Cable Association in Arlington to tell them that was the dumbest fucking ad I had ever seen. They wrote back and tried to "explain" it to me. Told them to get a new PR firm.

[Blue_Tires]

53. THOSE FUCKING IBM COMMERCIALS

with that "too hip" crew meeting in the coffee house and talking about servers and and microprocessors all day....I swear I want to burn down IBM HQ

[Ekirh]

54. I take that back..

The I'm luvin it commercials aren't the ones that annoy me the first..

the onlycablecan.com commercials really really really annoy me...

I think it's onlycablecan.com commercials.. it's the one in which this obnoxios guy explains why cable is better than puppies, choclate and other things etc. etc. ughhh

[GreenPartyVoter]

55. Victoria's Secret

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[derby378]

90. Even the ad with Bob Dylan in Venice?

"Buy our lingerie - or Bob Dylan will kill this model."

[Hobarticus]

57. Cadillac commercials and their damned arrogance...

Notice in every commercial, someone's getting their ass kicked by a Cadillac...whether it's some poor schmuck's car windows getting blown out, or other cars cowering in fear of a Cadillac, or kayakers getting tsunami'd away by a Cadillac's sonic boom...it's a really strange macho-asshole subconscious thing.

[VTdem]

58. The Verizon commercials have to make the list

"Can you hear me now? Good."

I want to smash my TV when those commercials come on.

[ironflange]

78. Absolutely

I'd like to wring that guy's skinny neck, and as he's about to lose consciousness for the last time, yell "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? GOOD!"

:evilfrown:

[212demop]

59. Jimmy Dean bumpkin employees testifying about their sausages

talking in deadpan, all charming country folksy- sorry country folky DUers, but these sausage people are such caricatures every time I see those ads I watch them one after another and think, "You voted for Bush," "You voted for Bush" "You voted for Bush."

The Jimmy Dean people don't charm me ANYMORE. Neither do the Post cereal factory workers. Sorry. They voted for Bush too. At least the voice in my head says so while I'm watching them tout their favorite flave of Post cereal they take home to their families.

[Obamarama]

60. Any feminie product commercial....

Especially for panty liners with wings to prevent leakage. I want to HURL everytime one comes on. The FDS feminine deoderant "not so fresh feeling" commercial used to yuck me out as well. I once saw a Starkist Tuna commercial follow an FDS commercial and just about died laughing.

[bigwillq]

61. Right now, those awful Old Navy ones

I really dislike that little boy in the middle.

[slackmaster]

63. Bob the Enzyte guy

:mad:

[pinniped]

85. LOL!...Bob looks like his pants are on a little too tight.

.

[Kire]

64. Jared

"Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki" - that phrase is so obviously market-tested that it drives me up the wall everytime I hear it.

And then there's the commercial where Jared says:

"You know that McDonald's commercial that says Don't Touch my Chicken Selects? That's good advice."

Actually, I don't know that commercial. And I don't know anybody that does know that commercial. Do you?

[derby378]

91. But I like Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki...

Hell, haven't you ever tried French fries with honey mustard just for grins? I have. They're not bad together.

I do think some flavor combinations are way too off-the-wall, however. When I hear an ad for something like Schmelogg's Special Blend Honey Peanut Vanilla Almond Multigrain Cereal, it makes me think the Amish have a damn good point.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. "Ever wondered what it's really like to be a soldier?"

Those Army recruitment ads that appear on cable and make life in the Army look like one big long summer camp, only with war toys.

I keep saying that someone with film/video capabilities really needs to capture the audio on that and substitute images from the Iraq War.

[njdemocrat106]

68. Saturday Night Live parodied those ads back in the late 70s.

"The Navy Adventure" or something like that. It showed sailors mopping the decks and scrubbing toilet bowls.

[njdemocrat106]

66. I f*ckin hate GEICO

That gecko annoys the shit out of me. I used to really hate them because their commercials ran non-stop here in New Jersey, yet GEICO didn't do business here. I still hate them even though GEICO does sell insurance here now.

[pres2032]

69. how about ANY Old Navy commercial????

they all have rich, elitist, spoiled kids in them.

[Hans Delbrook]

71. Those Carrot Top phone ads

Arrrgghhh!
That's why the mute button (I generally mute all commercials) is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century.

[FizzFuzz]

72. some luxury car ad I saw last night

a hot black girl standing in front of the car. Camera at low angle, so that it peers up making her ass appear to be emphasized. Several different shots, same camera position, all with her in front of the car, wearing a different shiny clingy evening gown in each shot. Clearly nothing underneath, frantically sticking her ass out, rubbing it, undulating and licking her lips.

I would like to find the guy who thought this up and ass rape him with a cactus. As well as the people who neglected to say this is shit, we won't support this.

[ContraBass Black]

87. That's what it takes to make a Buick look sexy.

[FizzFuzz]

96. HA!

:D

when I described the gyrations as frantic, that was the most accurate word I could find. I mean, seriously, F-R-A-N-T-I-C!!! It looked absolutely ridiculous!!

[Skittles]

123. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

A SKANK FEELING HERSELF UP OVER A G.D. CAR, THAT'S WHAT IT IS

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

73. the foot fungus one

where the personified fungus goes over to the big toe and opens it up like a car hood.. aaaahhh i just can' watch it!

[GRLMGC]

79. ahhhh ahhh ahhh

Yeah, that commercial is sooooo disturbingly gross.

[Frogtutor]

102. EEEEEWWWW, I know! It makes me cringe every time n/t

[messyca]

74. Other...

All of the above and then some! I was tempted to put overstock, but then remembered how much I hate the old navy commercials, and as I looked through the list I couldn't pick just one. I would like to add, however, those freaking Lexus Christmas commercials. It just seems so mean, putting out those ads during a time of the year when people are broke and freezing because they can't afford heat, a time of year when the suicide rate goes up, and people are on their last nerve. I see those ads and I want to scream! ....Lexus, what a bunch of assholes!

[Fleurs du Mal]

80. Any Hummer propaganda

[Dukkha]

81. I'M FULL!!!

...of shit

[pinniped]

82. That computer box asshole in those stupid vehix commercials...

- #1 asshole is the vehix jerkoff
- ALL Concast commercials suck ass ( fire those morans )
- John Basedow ( bought up all the empty time slots- day/night and needs his ass kicked )

[Swamp Rat]

83. ALL of them

[ghostsofgiants]

86. You can't even comprehend my hatred for those fucking Old Navy ads.

They automatically drain me of all my xmas spirit. And I'm FULL of xmas spirit.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

93. I hate the Mercedes ads

"I've been needing one of these!" Who NEEDS a Mercedes??

[Lady Effingbroke]

94. the "Bowflex grandma" commercials,

where the "Bowflex grandma" claims that "my Bowflex is very zen, and fits in with my zen lifestyle." WTF??? It ain't "zen", it's a huge ugly, hulking pos which will likely be used as a clothes rack!

[Frogtutor]

104. Is that the 50-year-old grandmother one?

I don't care what anybody says, that bitch has had some plastic surgery...

[Lady Effingbroke]

114. that's the one!

Not only has she had plastic surgery, she is filmed in "soft focus" so you can't see how she really looks!

[ContraBass Black]

129. Does a bowflex give you breast implants?

:eyes:

[Briarius]

95. How about all of the above?

seriously, all of those suck!

[Plaid Adder]

103. Wait! I know! That BMW/Mistletoe commercial!!

You know, the one where the couple kisses under the set of BMW keys dangled over their heads?

:puke:

What's even WORSE are the radio ads where all they do is DESCRIBE that commercial.

Basically, any ad with the message, "Buy this ridiculously overpriced useless item because otherwise you don't love your woman/your woman won't love you," I hate. Love has got nothing to do with a fucking BMW! ARRRRGH!!!!

:argh:

The Plaid Adder

[Frogtutor]

105. The exterminator one with the big roach crawling on the TV screen;

I think it was Orkin. We had just moved from our old house where we had a problem with those gigantic water bugs (I swear I used to have nightmares about them). We're sitting in our new house, where we have seen NONE of these creatures, and that commerical comes on...I just about came unglued...

[fluffernutter]

106. those finger tootbrushes with the dorky dance and the swoosh, ahhh.

[Frogtutor]

112. Geez; I forgot about that one...hate it n/t

[greyfox]

107. The dancing lesbian

whatsherface.... who came out and now flaunts it everywhere....dancing fairy for some credit card company... ELLEN DeGenerate!! Yeah that one.

[ironflange]

110. The diamond one. . .

Where the man can spontaneously scream out his love for his wife/whatever, but she can only say it, quietly, after he gives her the shiny bauble. Pretty shallow.

[electricmonk]

113. The National Bank of Scotland (Ithink)

Where the guy is choking and they just sit there and talk about it. It used to come on every night on CNN Headline News while I was on lunch break . Just what I want to hear while eating. :puke:

[Skittles]

118. the ones that imply only women care about clean toilets

I mean, really.

There's also a current one running with some skank feeling herself up over a g.d. car; disgusting.

[DontBlameMe]

125. Dyson. 100,000 times the force of gravity?????

So, were talking 980,600 meters/second squared???

Really? How's that work, anyway?

[Maestro]

126. Other

It is those stupid two-bit, second rate, horribly acted group of commercials that are all over my satellite and I suppose on cable as well. You know which ones. The ones like those inane ones by Bell & Howell selling utter crap gadgets or those silly lose weight commercials. "When is a pill worth $153 a bottle?" All of these types are so horribly acted that they make me want to throw a brick at my t.v.

[ThorsHammer]

128. GEICO, amusing at first, but very annoying now (nt)