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Bayard

(22,011 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 01:57 PM May 2017

TV Commercials Overload

What is the TV commercial that you despise the most that is running currently? The one that makes you throw things at the TV?
Mine is the one where the guy is walking along the street bitching about not being able to find a shirt that looks good un-tucked. It is his, "passion". So he opens his own store.

Now....you have to wonder. Does this guy have no other issues in his life? How can you be passionate about any article of clothing?

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TV Commercials Overload (Original Post) Bayard May 2017 OP
ANY drug commercial benld74 May 2017 #1
+++++++++++ HAB911 May 2017 #8
Pillow Commercial Me. May 2017 #2
That guy is the absolute worst Afromania May 2017 #4
Totally Agree Me. May 2017 #5
My bestest friend! Floyd R. Turbo May 2017 #3
The one with the fake Morgan Freeman trying to talk oldies into doing a reverse mortgage. Iggo May 2017 #6
And that fucking shirt cyclonefence May 2017 #7
Pills and penis problems. we can do it May 2017 #9
TV commercials? Ha! mwooldri May 2017 #10
Buick commercials. femmocrat May 2017 #11
Bosley Hair Restoration Skittles May 2017 #12
That Peter Brady turned out to be quite the handsome gentleman though, eh? Iggo May 2017 #15
oh absolutely Skittles May 2017 #16
Groupon Zorro May 2017 #13
like picking the smelliest turd rurallib May 2017 #14

benld74

(9,901 posts)
1. ANY drug commercial
Fri May 12, 2017, 02:07 PM
May 2017

especially the ones that say

Tell your doctor about CuresYourDisease.

IF you have to tell your doctor about a drug

Maybe you need a new doctor

Afromania

(2,768 posts)
4. That guy is the absolute worst
Fri May 12, 2017, 02:31 PM
May 2017

That weird ass blue silk shirt and cross combo makes him look like a lounge lizard or something. Then 10, or 2, years he's been making this pillow is obviously a long enough time ago that the pictures needed to be in black and white.

Iggo

(47,537 posts)
6. The one with the fake Morgan Freeman trying to talk oldies into doing a reverse mortgage.
Fri May 12, 2017, 02:58 PM
May 2017

I don't care how much bullshit they throw at me. I can take it.

Leave the oldies alone.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
7. And that fucking shirt
Fri May 12, 2017, 03:22 PM
May 2017

does *NOT* look good untucked.

I hate all commercials, even the funny Geico ones, and almost all the tv I watch any more is either on channels that don't have commercials like PBS and the premium cable channels or is stuff I've recorded so I can ff through the commercials. Of which there are two million during each break.

Ronald Reagan did this to us, you know. His FCC dropped the rule on time limits for commercial breaks. Goddam Republicans.

mwooldri

(10,302 posts)
10. TV commercials? Ha!
Fri May 12, 2017, 06:06 PM
May 2017

UK residents have to have this to have commercial free broadcast TV (or actually, any TV)...



Between BBC and Netflix I can avoid the annoying commercials. (note: very long cord required to receive UK domestic BBC TV in the USA).

though the commercial I hated the most (that's not running) - is that darned "Head on" commercial.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
11. Buick commercials.
Fri May 12, 2017, 07:39 PM
May 2017

"It doesn't look like a Buick!" then the most annoying music ever. I can't hit the mute button fast enough.

Also.... has anyone ever noticed in those ads for prescription medicines that the people seem to be walking in slow motion? (Like the mother and daughter selling pebble jewelry at a craft fair.) All of those "scenario" ads are sooooo sloooooow. Ugh.

I also really hate that one for Viberzi (?) with the little red head dressed like an intestines and being deliberately annoying. Really? That is what you came up with?!

Zorro

(15,724 posts)
13. Groupon
Fri May 12, 2017, 09:16 PM
May 2017

Some woman who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket singing. See it on streaming media all the time lately.

rurallib

(62,387 posts)
14. like picking the smelliest turd
Fri May 12, 2017, 09:34 PM
May 2017

I try to avoid commercials, but Flo the Progressive basketball star is a special kind of suck.

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