Most hated tv commercial or PSA

[Bossy Monkey]

PSA is Public Service Announcement, in case anybody doesn't know. My own current least fave is the one with the kid whose mom is "trippin' about weed." The big payoff is that because she was so firm, he turns down a drag the next time it's offered. And I'm always thinking, "...and when he gets home and she can smell it on him, she'll just know psychically that he didn't actually smoke anything." Yeah, I know, I watch too much tv and obsess about it too much. Sue me. :P

I note in passing that these are heavily represented on the nerd channels (Discovery, Science, History, A&E, etc); those without cable may be fortunate enough not to have to put up with some of them.

Now it's your turn to rant!

[GainesT1958]

1. That damned car commercial with the stupid clowns...

Who the heck thought THAT was a way to get people to buy a car? It wouldn't even get a kid who loves clowns to want their car!

That commercial's a "three-puker", to be sure! :puke: :puke: :puke:

B-)

[ProudGerman]

4. That one's a serious head scratcher for sure

It was so vague, that I made sure to really pay attention the next time I saw it. Maybe that was what they were going for, heck, I remember the product, something I know they go for. But I still have no desire whatsoever to buy a Saturn, they need a hotrod and/or a car with at least some personality to its looks.

[Uzybone]

53. I thought it was good commercial

putting the fun back in cars.

[7th_Sephiroth]

46. that one

that says if you smoke weed your a terra-ist

[Cush]

2. The "Enforcer Mom"

it's played way too much

[pstokely]

22. as heard during Savage Weiner

?

[MisterP]

3. "The Enforcer" and "The Inqusitors" parents ads:

let's continue the glorious tradition of PSYCHOSIS.

[mlawson]

5. That "Trisket" thing, with the guy crunching like a camel!!!

I was eating my breakfast sandwich, that came on, and I almost threw up!!! Annoying almost beyond belief!

[theorist]

6. I haven't been watching much TV lately,

but the pot=terrorism ones always bothered me the most.

[BiggJawn]

7. ANYTHING with the words "Ask Your Doctor..."

"If Fuckitall is right for YOU. Fuckitall, the new anti-anxiety mediation. Ask your Doctor if the vomit-yellow horse-pill is right for you..."

And I actually LIKE to watch that woman in the "Swifter" spot shake her ass...YUM!!!

[hlthe2b]

18. Yes, especially the one with all the women baring their abdomen

for a drug designed for abdomenal bloating, discomfort...

I half expect to see one of the spew out diarrhea on my tv set....:evilgrin:

[REP]

27. Zelnorm Doesn't Treat

that type of IBS; only the constipation-prevelant type. Those women *can't* crap, let alone spew diarrhea - that's the Crohn's people ("A day at the mall is a) fun b) exhilerating c) agony").

[hlthe2b]

42. yeah, I know... it's just the visual image of intestines

within all those exposed abdomens cranking up to do their thing.... (gas or otherwise) is just GROSS.

[BiggJawn]

34. All those tummies and not ONE "6-pack"...

OK, so it's more "Real and shit" to have all these women showing off their "Freshman 15", but damn....ansd why didn't more of the mature ones show off their tickle spots?

[Shakespeare]

8. The Carl's Jr. commercials where they're cramming food into their mouths

Accompanied by disgusting smacking and chomping sounds. I have boycotted them for 3 1/2 years because of that obnoxious, revolting series of ads.

[anti_shrub]

9. The cruise line commercials

That use "Lust for Life"....I always wonder if they know what that song's really about.


Plus I always chuckle for perscription drug commercials that sound like Happy Fun Ball... "Do Not Taunt Vioxx....Vioxx may explode if exposed to air"

[MrBenchley]

17. Cracks me up to imagine

toothless, decrepit-looking Iggy on the nod, hanging out with those Yuppies.

[mark0rama]

10. The anti-drug disinformation campaign with...

...the two guys sitting in restaurants and "debating."

"But how do you know buying marijuana that your next-door neighbor grows himself funds terrorism?"

"It does. I just know."

"Oh. Okay."

I'm extremely offended that my taxes helped to finance this piss-poor excuse for an educational campaign.

[AmandaRuth]

14. yup

see below. I'm extremely offended that we let the contra /drug thing just go below the radar and spent 40 million on a bj.

[Astarho]

11. Old Navy ads

They're just weird. I don't know what it is, but there's something not right about them, and it drives me nuts that I can't figure it out.

[Skip Intro]

12. Toby Keith/Ford - "Look Again"

I don't know if this is nationwide, but it is played almost non-stop here.

Toby Keith standing in some feild with a guitar singing "if you haven't seen a ford lately, look again." Somewhere in this he's driving one of these pickups and, with the cowboy hat and sunglasses, grins as he drives by the camera.

Over and over again.

Bleach.

[AmandaRuth]

13. the psa about the drug/terra connection

I haven't seen it in a while , but the drug/terra connection really bugged me. Went sort of like this....


2 guys talking -- "if you use drugs, you support terrorists I do not --- yes you do --- I do not ----you do too" or something along those lines.

When I saw it for the first time, my husband turned to me and said, oh my gosh are they gonna fess up about Ronnie/Contras/Cocaine?

[IADEMO2004]

15. SUV's driving through meadows

smashing everything in its path bird nests turtles wild flowers baby deer. for what a bouncy ride?

[grannylib]

16. The one for pediasure or vitamins or whatever that features that WAY

too cute little kid who is so annoying ya just wanna smack him one (or his parents for breeding the little blighter)
It's the one where the kid has a bunny and he wants it to grow big and strong "just like me"

[caledesi]

19. That f*cking Hummer commercial.

Almost shot my TV scree (Elvis-style).

[_NorCal_D_]

33. That one sucks.

The punk kid wins the soap-box race by cheating? Now isn't that a wonderful family value! :grr:

[Bozita]

39. worst ad ever

[kckc]

20. eeewwwwwww

Gotta be the one with the guy suckling the wolf. Don't ask me what the hell it was about- it was too creepy to stick around to find out!

[Bossy Monkey]

21. Welcome to DU, kckc!

and I'm not just saying this to kick my thread :)

[NickB79]

23. Ah, the Quiznos commercial?

My dad keeps giving me crap about that one (I work at a Quiznos part-time). Something about "you'd have to be raised by wolves if you don't enjoy a Quiznos sub" or such, right? Yeah, that one does kinda creep me out too.

[laconicsax]

24. Those comercials were just too bizarre

for me to like or dislike. I mean--why would being raised by wolves make it so you won't enjoy a Quiznos sub? I had a Quiznos sub once and I didn't really care for it. I wasn't raised by wolves.

The guy I'm inventing for the purpose of this comment was in fact raised by wolves. He swears by Quiznos--or at least did until they launched their vicious attack ads that unfairly portray people who were raised by wolves.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Thank "Bob" I don't watch television...

I'm spared the horror of these misguided creative-department abortions actually occupying headspace I could be giving to more important things...

[BiggJawn]

28. Would that be the "Male-ness Enhanced" Bob?

Saw that spot yesterday while I surfed past ESPN (figures)

[Bossy Monkey]

47. Reference is almost certainly to Douglas Adams' "Mostly Harmless"

but your way's funny, too. :)

[Spider Jerusalem]

61. No...that would be J.R. "Bob" Dobbs...

http://www.subgenius.com

[Lady Freedom]

26. A one who has made TV PSA's...

I would like to say that if you are ranting then you must be watching! So thank you for your viewing!

[DoNotRefill]

29. that polyp commercial....

it's EVERYWHERE!!!

bastards.... :grr:

[felonious thunk]

30. The "KFC is good for you" commercials

Basically, they say that KFC has less fat than a Whopper, and thus, KFC is good for you, and you should eat it to be healthy. It's laughable, completely unethical, disgusting, but I'm sure they'll never be called on it.

[BiggJawn]

32. Until they get Andrew Weil to shill for them....

I'll just say "Uh-Huh..."

2 places I NEVER eat because the grease gives me the squershy hurts...KFC and Long John's.

[ohiosmith]

31. Any Dell ad w/those fucking dudes and/or geeks

[indigo32]

35. Anything with the Arbees oven mitt

he is seriously annoying Ughhhh

[Kolesar]

43. kind of cruel

Him getting his face slapped and smacked and forced to into the oven....

[Loonman]

36. Jared and the Dell interns

I thought it was cool when Dell fired Steven, but I would not swerve to avoid the interns if they were walking in the road.

[kyrasdad]

37. Can you hear me now?

Good.

ARGHHHHH

[The_Gopher]

38. any GAP commercial.....eeeeviiiillll

[MissMillie]

40. JC Penney: "Where is your mother?"

What--a man can't watch his own kid?

[tom_paine]

41. Man, I can't believe you forgot, "I helped kill a judge" spot

What a disingenuous joke of a lie of a spot!

[Bossy Monkey]

48. Never saw it; can you give me some more information?

It certainly sounds bad.

[tom_paine]

66. Anti-drug spot with some abortion refernces kicked in...

Also, it first ran during the Super Bowl of 2002, I think. Another Bushevik kickback to chums (unreported in Corporate TV Pravda but as the bottom line of a Style Section article) in which the Imperial Family through their Privy Purse (which used to be the Treasury of the Old United States) kicked some $7 million to Faux for running the spot in spite of the fact that PSAs are supposed to be given for free?

Of course, what is really the Rule of Law to the genetically and morally superior Imperial Family of Amerika?
:puke: :puke: :puke:

A to the actual content of this odious commercial...

A series of kids deadpanning lines:

"I helped kill a judge"
"I helped blow up a building."
"I helped assassinate a government official"
"It my body, I can do what I want with it."

and so forth, culminating in the distinct message that if you use drugs, you are helping terrorists.

Now, I am not big fan of hardore narcotics, but this is the most odious propaganda...much worse than showing the flatline brainwaves of a coma victim and pretending it was what happens when you smoke a joint.

[Kolesar]

44. Fossil fuel endorsements on NPR

The partnership for energy choices--coal
Hydrogen, whatever outfit--they synthesize hydrogen from natural gas

[spinbaby]

45. Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go...

Those stupid ads for that drug that make you pee less.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

49. "Ever wonder what it's like to be a soldier?"

"Picture yourself in this free video..."

That damned Army recruitment ad seems to run all the time on cable. In fact, it ran twice during the Japanese news on International Channel this morning. It shows young guys doing MAAAANLY things like climbing onto helicopters and enjoying excellent sports facilities. It makes the Army seem like The Boy's Own Jolly Good Adventure Story.

If I had multimedia skills, I could make a really wicked Flash animation (calling Symbolman and American Stranger!) using the soundtrack of that ad with combat footage from Iraq.

[myrna minx]

50. The cartoon bears hopping around, requiring more absorbant

toilet paper. Oh--and that stupid oven mitt. They couldn't even come up with a name for him. Soooo stupid.

[SmileyBoy]

63. Oh God, I HATE that oven mitt!!!!

I want to make a cartoon where that idiot is bothering all the Arby's employees when it's the lunch rush hour, and he keeps yakking about something annoying to this one guy working there, and then the guy gets really pissed off at that stupid mitt, and says something like: "Oh, you like our oven-roasted taste, HUH, YOU ASSHOLE??!!! WELL, TASTE IT!!!" And he shoves that sorry-ass mitt in the oven, wnile he screams to bloody death: "AAAAAHHHH!!!! YAAAAAHHHHH!!!! NO! NO!!! STOOOOPPPP!!!! ugggghhhhhh......"

And then the guy says to the burnt oven mitt: "How are YOU burning today???"

[cmf]

51. The Christmas Cheese commercial.

The one where the family comes downstairs to find that Santa left them an incredible amount of loot for Christmas. The dad turns to the little girl and says, "Those must be some cookies you left Santa." and the little girl replies, "I didn't leave him cookies, I left him cheeeeeeeeze."

I HATE that little girl and the way she says cheese. I just want to go ballistic when I see that commercial. :nuke: And unfortunately we're getting to that time of year they'll be airing it all the friggin time.

[BlueJazz]

54. AH! ...A person after my own heart.

I hate that ad about as much as I can....
I agree also on the girl...she says Cheeeeeeeeesssseeeee..AAAGGGG!!!

[catmandu57]

52. All that's been listed and some more

The nextel commercials drive me up the wall using walkie talkies to get married, have a business meeting, no, that's just too stupid. The geico commercials especially the one with the broad asses woman running down the street to pick her kid up, damn I know it's just a character, but I'd love to dope slap that woman.
The gap commercial, all clean cut, probablly would love lawerence welk's america, the woman in or near thirty hanging out with twenty somethings.
I still like the aflac duck though.

edit: should be assed, though it does look like more than one.

[kayell]

55. This is Wonderful!

I didn't recognize a single one of those. My tv watching habits must have dropped even more than I realized.

[nonconformist]

56. Oh, I have a couple...

I can't stand the marijuana PSA's. I can tolerate the 'enforcer mom' better than I can the others actually. The terrorist one was awful, but I haven't seen that one in a long time. My current least favorite is the one where the guys are getting stoned in a fast-food drive thru and pull out and hit the little girl going by on her bike. Also, I just saw an ad the other day where a toddler is going off by herself to a pool and it says something like "explain to her parents that you were smoking weed instead of watching her".
:wtf:

My husband's least favorite is the ad for some kind of flu medicine that shows the mom in bed so dad's in charge, and he lets the kids go off to school in beach summer gear during a snowstorm and he's walking around all confused in the kitchen... and so on. He says it offends him.

Also, I can't help but feel appalled when I see commercials for the video game Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad.

[brainshrub]

60. I don't own a TV...they have a "Back 2 Baghdad?"

Weird.

[noonwitch]

57. The ads that equate drug use with funding terrorism

I don't hate the enforcer ads. I liked the one with the punked out kid getting ready to leave and the parent asking questions before he left. The message was something like "Let Your Kids be who they are, but know where they are and what they are doing".
I also always hated the "this is your brain on drugs" one, but liked the heroin version with the girl trashing the kitchen with the frying pan.

[brainshrub]

58. On the Subject of stupid Drug-ads. Check out this flash cartoon!

You'll love it!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=115382

Click the "Watch this movie" icon

[nonconformist]

59. HAHAHA!

That was great! Thanks for sharing.

[GOPisEvil]

62. The Citibank one with the old lady and the "singing dog".

GOOD GOOD THAT IS ONE ANNOYING COMMERCIAL!!!!! The noise that comes out of that dog goes right to my eardrums!!!! Usually I turn that commercial off when it comes up, but I was trapped in the bathroom when it came on last.

:argh:

[onebigbadwulf]

64. The intro to Radiopower.org

My internet is choppy and if I am trying to listen to that stream, i hear the same damn crap 100 times a day.

I finally gave up and just switched to ieamericaradio

[KCDem]

65. Range Rover "Respect" commercial is totally disrespectful.

It shows a wedding in a small town in India (I'm assuming) with a parade of horses, dancers, and a carriage with the couple. From the other direction comes a Range Rover. Everyone stops. Then the bride signals for the RR to go first. Then, across the screen, comes the word "Respect". :puke: , I can't think of anything MORE disrespectful than ruining tradition with a fuckin' SUV.

[Throckmorton]

67. Dope can't get it together, you've got to get it together yourself.

"Found him crash in his bed, OD'ed and Dead"