Annoying tv commercials that make our stomachs turn.

[devilgrrl]

Those Cingular commercials... the ones where these two weenies sing the wrong lyrics to "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash? I don't recall the exact words they use but something about cashbox or catbox - whatever the deal is it's really annoying and makes my stomach turn... must find MUTE button!

[mark414]

1. it's a tragedy that a serious song about middle eastern oil politics

by the clash, no less, is used for a stupid cell phone commercial

joe strummer would kick their ass!

[Hippo_Tron]

8. I gotta say, I find the commercial funny because I could never figure out the words either

For those of us that weren't born when it came out, we don't have any context unless we research it.

[Left Is Write]

122. Yeah, but how'd they manage to download the song...

without knowing its name?

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Joe's spinning so fast in his grave taht you could use him as an industrial lathe, I'm sure.

[mark414]

30. heyyyy what's up dude

i haven't been around for awhile...but this place i'm now temporarily settled in for a couple more months has the internet so...i'll be around for the time being

good to see yer still alive

[ghostsofgiants]

46. Home for the holidays, haha.

I'm always around, though my computer was out of commission all last week. It was hell, haha. Good to see you around as well.

[chknltl]

2. Geico pickin' on them poor cavemen...

The lizard really should intervene imho

[Left Is Write]

125. First of all, I'm not 100% in love with your tone right now.

:rofl:

[Vanje]

3. Those dumb rubes gettting all stoked about a HEMI

Uuuuuugghhhh. shudder

[WindRavenX]

4. oh those assclowns--I hope they have a heart attack or something soon

I HATE "git-r-done" type putzes peddling their oil sucking trucks...

[EnviroBat]

34. My version would have those two chained up, lying on the ground,

just as the one asshat asks, "Hey does that thing got a hemi?" the camera pulls back to see them being dragged away chained to the bumper... A little morbid I know, but commercials really hit a nerve with me lately.

[Vanje]

5. Jon Lovett's Subway : "Eat Fresh"

horrible

[Left Is Write]

123. Completely agree.

[ReadTomPaine]

6. Leptopril/Leptoprin

and the Girls Gone Wild spots. Pure torture, and the volume is always twice as loud as anything before or after...

:mad:

[Left Is Write]

124. What I hate about the Leptopril commercial -

They show a clip of the Leptoprin ad and say, "If you're significantly overweight, you've probably seen this commercial."

Hey - guess what, Leptopril lady! I'm not significantly overweight, but I've seen the commercial anyway! And I think you're all obnoxious!

[6000eliot]

7. I hate those car commercials that use the song the kids sing

from The Sound of Music, "So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye." Stupid and infantalizing.

[QMPMom]

117. I actually kind of like that one. It would have been better if it was

a VW commercial, though.

[Hippo_Tron]

9. Head On

Need I say more?

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. Apply directly to forehead.

Yeah, I know, go fuck myself.

[Lady Freedom]

11. Head On

[Lady Freedom]

12. Apply Directly to the forehead

[begin_within]

21. "I hate your commercial but your product is GREAT"

[pinniped]

14. Nothing sucks more than the folks at Concass (Comcast).

They routinely air their crap two to three times in a row. Earlier, I saw those nuts air four crap commercials during one commercial break! It was three in a row, something else, and another POS Concasshole one.

They suck and obviously this is why they like to increase cable rates. They even peddle their crap on non-cable channels.

How the F are you supposed to save "Big Bucks" and "Moolah" when they keep raising the rates?

[ballabosh]

15. What's really annoying

It says very clearly right there on the phone "Rock the Casbah," so why would these two dinks think it's anything else? And "Stop the Catbox" doesn't even make any sense.

How were these people able to download this song without knowing what the title was?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. He went to Jared!

:banghead:

[EnviroBat]

32. OMG I want to throw my TV out the window when that comes on...

[Left Is Write]

126. Even worse: "Every kiss begins with Kay!"

[Avalux]

17. Capital One commercials - family has to go on a crappy vacation.

They drive me insane. x(

[Lars39]

18. That one where they wind up in the boxcar with the tramps

is especially horrible.

[devilgrrl]

38. Yeah. Those are really bad.

:puke:

[terrya]

115. CapitalOne ads are all crappy.

All of them. The worst ones were with ultra-smarmy David Spade as a pitchman. Ugh.

CaptialOne has engendered some of the worst ad campaigns in advertising history.

[Zavulon]

19. The seniors driving those carts singing "you made me love you..."

I've never seen worse, and that includes commercials for chia pets, Ovaltine, the Clapper and Subway.

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. "I'm not a singer, but...."

I got news for ya buddy. Neither are the twits you put in your freaking commercial! Oi! My head!

[PVnRT]

20. It can only be JAAAAAARED'S

*shoots TV*

[EnviroBat]

33. "Every kiss begins with kaaaay"

*chews own face*

[begin_within]

22. The horrifying BMW commercial with the 2 kids opening their Christmas presents and

screaming like they are being tortured and strangled. Couldn't they have chosen video footage with a joyous sound instead of the sound of a horror film?

[Phillycat]

40. OMG I HATE THIS COMMERCIAL. HATE.

[begin_within]

45. I'm planning to write a letter to BMW about it.

Telling them I'll never buy a BMW, just because of that commercial. (I probably would never anyway, but they don't have to know that.)

[CC]

69. LOL My mom

wrote them a letter telling them that because of that commercial she will never buy a BMW. That was after she told them that since she turned if off so fast to avoid ear damage she had to look up what the commercial was about so she could complain.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

108. My youngest loves that commercial so much

that he started to scream after he opened his first present. Fortunately, he stopped when we told him to.

Thanks, BMW. Thanks a whole helluvalot.

[RedStateShame]

23. The NASDAQ and Outback ads that use Of Montreal songs

The Outback one actually as the lyrics altered to talk about Outback. Ugh. Wasn't there a time in my life where that was called "selling out," and it wasn't held in high regard among musicians, or was I just asleep?

[rockymountaindem]

24. Boniva: A repost from a similar thread...

My girlfriend told me she has to set aside time *once a week* to take her ostioperosis medication."
"I take Boniva, it fits my schedule."

Oh the humanity! Every week!?!?!? You have to take a pill every week??? I can hardly imagine how inconvienent that must be :sarcasm: It's like saying "I'd love to hang out with you later, but I have to take a vitamin so I don't have time". Please. If you only have room in your schedule for one pill a month, you've got more problems than just ostioperosis.

Signed,
Rockymountaindem: taking vitamins every day and still making it to bed on time for years.

[Beausoir]

25. Lol. Too funny. n/t

[deepthought42]

35. Along a similar vein, how about the birth control commercial

I think it's for NuvaRing, basically saying it's such a hassle having to remember to take a pill every day! OMFG, what has this world come to!?

I am not shoving no ring up there! :rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Rockymountaindem, I've said the same thing

about that commercial. You have to set aside 20 seconds a MONTH to take your pill? Oh, the humanity.

That's very disturbing to me.

[rockymountaindem]

50. Somtimes there just aren't enough hours in a day

Can you imagine if people had *two* prescriptions? I don't know how they'd survive.... probably starve to death since they wouldn't have any time to eat.

[Left Is Write]

127. The same thing bugs me about that stupid commercial.

I take three pills a day every day, plus the occasional extra. Who the hell has to "set aside" time to take a once-weekly pill? Give me a break.

[samplegirl]

27. HDTV

I don't know that is but I want it. Jessica Simpson makes me
sick in this commercial. She puts the billy on way to thick.

[femmocrat]

28. All commercials containing animated mucus. n/t

[IDemo]

29. I'm Jellin', eyes wellin' cuz this commercial is smellin' n/t

[PVnRT]

39. My SNL version:

Snide, snotty elitist yuppies standing around a pool, talking about gellin'.

Crazed gunman runs in and slaughters them all, shouting, "ARE YOU GELLIN' NOW, FUCKERS?"

[SacredCow]

111. I think Samuel L. Jackson would be perfect for that....

"I'm sick and tired of you motherfuckin gellin motherfuckers!!!!"

[EnviroBat]

31. "Tim's car has to have a good safety record..."

I want to see the whole family die in a fiery crash!
Oh, and least I forget, any god-damn commercial where someone has bought a new Lexus SUV for their husband or wife for Christmas. Republican commercial if I've ever seen one. The sound of that pompous-ass narrating makes me want to PUKE! Then go on a murderous rampage...

[yy4me]

36. Capital One credit card. It projects anger. They need a new

agency. I'm surprised the decision makers approve this ad campaign. It leaves you with a scowl. Are you not supposed to feel good about a product so that you will buy it? I would never apply for their card. Surely someone at the corporate level at Capital One can see how bad this series is.

[KamaAina]

37. "Vote Republican..."

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[northernsoul]

41. The Gap's Audrey Hepburn "Back in Black" atrocity

I love Audrey Hepburn and I love AC/DC. That ad was an insult to both of them.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. I hate that size 2 girl in the NutriSystem commercial...

:puke:

[Blue Gardener]

51. Me Too!

I just want to shove a cake in her face.

[calimary]

78. The one with the boasting and smugness and that nauseating giggle?

Damn! I do, too. ICK!!!

[RubyDuby in GA]

83. This is the winner! I hate that total bitch.

Oh look at you you're a size 2. What were you before, a 10?? You fucking cow!

I hate this woman. I hate this company. I hate anyone associated with the goddamned product.

I hope they all rot in their size 2 hell.

[Kceres]

86. YES!

I'm so glad someone mentioned that one. She annoys the hell out of me. What is it about that commercial? Hate it! :banghead:

[Sparkly]

100. I was gonna say that!!!

"Look at me, I'm a size teh!!"

The male version of that ad is a riot in contrast. "My sex life is great!" while they catch basketballs from off camera and stuff...

[Initech]

43. Why do cell phone companies always picture their customers as the dumbest people on the planet?

It's not just Cingular, it's every fucking cell phone company on the planet!

[spinbaby]

47. AT&T

Where they say that the German word for safe is siefe.

[LynneSin]

48. Cadillac when they used Led Zeppelin's "Rock & Roll"

I realize that they got a shitload of money for that (And Plant has always been a fan of Cadillac) but geez, it was so fricking annoying everytime those damn commericials came on to the point where I can't stand listening to the song anymore

[Efilroft Sul]

88. Cadillac originally wanted to use a Doors song.

"Break on through to the other side."

Their motto is still "Break through," if you noticed, despite switching over to Zep.

[ganeshji]

49. Ameriprise Financial

Those commercials play to every stereotype of the sixties in a really annoying, pandering, and cliche way. They have also ruined a few of my favorite old songs by playing them AGAIN AND AGAIN. They have sucked the soul out of decent music, much like I assume their service would suck the soul out of decent people.Those commercials make me want to retire from one thing: the human race. Thanks for letting me get that out!

[Blue_In_AK]

53. Are those the ones with Dennis Hopper

talking about dreams and daisies?

[ganeshji]

60. Yes.

And saying asinine shit like; "A generation as unique as this needs a new generation of financial planning. We can relate to that." and "You're a generation that gave new meaning to a meaningful relationship."
I think this is the reason that these commercials irritate me so much. If they really believed what they were spewing, then they would know that no one (as far as I can tell) relates to these cheesy ads. Everyone I know from that "generation" is a hell of a lot cooler than Ameriprise apparently thinks.
As I'm typing, that commercial is coming on!
The mute button is not enough!

[Left Is Write]

52. I want to know how they downloaded the song without knowing its name.

[Blue Gardener]

54. Any boner pill commercial

Who in the hell sits in a bathtub out in the middle of nowhere?

[ballabosh]

55. Any annoying mail order crap commercial

Because they invariably show people who use any older product as a complete moron.

Ginsu or similar knives: shows a woman using a conventional knife holding the handle with both hands and pressing the blade down on a tomato. People this stupid should probably avoid knives altogether.

Pasta Express: Shows a woman unable to fit her spaghetti pasta into a pot far too small. In addition the commercial says that one of the problems with cooking pasta in a conventional method is "You have to wait for the water to boil!" My gosh! Then is says, to put pasta in the Pasta Express and add boiling water. Wait a minute.....

Tablemate: Shows woman straining her back with an old tv tray. Come on, how heavy is a tv tray. The old metal ones we had weighed about three pounds. There's another scene with the woman (don't know why it's always women) getting her feet tangled up in the bar at the bottom of the old tv tray, because she obviously has it BACKWARDS. The other annoying thing, is it claims the tablemate can be set to 18 different positions, but it shows some of the positions with the tablemate tilted 135 degrees away from where a person would be sitting. I can't fathom what you would use that position for. Maybe racing matchbox cars or something.

[myrna minx]

57. You crack me up, ballabosh.

:hi Welcome to DU. I know! I suspect that the morons in the commercials using those old kitchen drudgery products would probably accidentally decapitate someone with a Flobee or Ronco Album Vacuum. :hi:

[RubyDuby in GA]

84. These are the people that they have to put warning labels on products for

My personal favorite is for the AutoShade: Do Not Drive with AutoShade in Place.

Oh my...

[deepthought42]

80. Thank goodness I'm not the only one who hates the Pasta Express

Honestly, I can hardly cook to save my life, and even I can manage to boil water for pasta! Fucking A!


AHHH I HATE STUPID PEOPLE!!!!! :banghead:

[haf216]

106. I work at BB&B.

We sell a ton of the Pasta Express and we laugh about it all the time. I just wish I was the one who came up with the idea so I would be laughing with all the money!

[Sparkly]

112. Yes!

The pasta one is hilarious!! It's such a problem to pour the cooked pasta into a collander, because she's splashing it around anywhere BUT the collander. We make fun of that one a lot around here! :hi:

[Left Is Write]

121. She obviously needs, not the Pasta Express, but the Flat Fold Colander!

http://www.flatfoldcolander.net/

[mark414]

56. oh, and dell using the 13th floor elevators

and that jeep commercial that features all the legendary old school hip hoppers like the rock steady crew and grandmaster flash....makes me angry :mad:

[Blue_In_AK]

61. Yes, that one really upsets me...

I hope to God they gave poor old Roky a ton of money for the rights to that song. Using the 13th Floor Elevators is pure sacrilege, as far as I'm concerned.

[nytemare]

58. "This is Our Country" Chevy commercials.

That fucking song will not die!

[Rob H.]

59. "Bob" and his wang-enlargement pills

aka Enzyte commercials. Hate them!

[devilgrrl]

63. and yet they won't advertise condoms

:crazy:

[ElboRuum]

119. Whatever happened to those "Trojan Man" commercials?

[Initech]

72. Enzyte is horrible, but have you seen these infomercials for Extenz?

Talk about :puke: inducing. They refer to a penis as "that certain area of the male body". Honestly, if you're stupid enough to buy pills off of an infomercial, you deserve whatever side effects you get.

[Rob H.]

81. "Extenz"?

Oh, good lord. Why not call it something like Hüng and just get it over with? :rofl:

I'm with devilgrrl--they show commercials for enlargement and erectile dysfunction, but won't show commercials for condoms? That's just crazy. I saw a condom commercial on satellite TV about a month and a half ago, and that commercial was far more tasteful than those others.

[Avalux]

62. **New annoying commercial alert**

I just saw it, and started screaming "noooooooo!" at the TV -

cue original Star Trek theme song; black screen with white stuff moving forward (like stars going through space) - suddenly, it's snow hitting the windshield of......a......HUMMER!! NOOOOOOOO!

:cry:

[devilgrrl]

65. Yep. That one kills me too.

In fact all those HUMMER commercials are lame.

[Avalux]

67. This one really bothers me -

I LOVED that show when I was little, especially the opening, with the music. Nothing is sacred I guess. :hi:

[TommyO]

66. I just hunted it down on YouTube

ARGHHHHHHH! This one definitely takes the top spot on my annoying commercial list.

[blondeatlast]

107. I saw that for the first time last night on Countdown.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK.

[bigwillq]

64. Those Jetta crash commericals.

I hate those.

[Chiyo-chichi]

85. Me too.

I mute those now. I'm sick, sick, SICK of 'em for a number of reasons.

[Generator]

68. Make it a December to Remember at your Lexus dealers

Well, it makes my husband's stomach churn. I love the theme song. I WANT a BIG RED BOW, dammit! (the car, naw, I'd rather keep the 55 grand for something else..you know that's worth 55 grand)

[ariesgem]

70. CARL'S JR.- Any of their commercials where they have people

smackin' their mouth's while eating

OR

rubbing on cows!!!!

:argh:

[Throd]

101. I look a lot like the cow-rubbing guy...

...and apparently every jackass in town needs to point that out.

[deadparrot]

71. The car commercial with the salespeople waving the vehicles goodbye

and singing "So Long, Farewell," from The Sound of Music.

It's on every. damn. time. I turn on the TV.

:banghead:

[barb162]

73. the BMW commercial with the screaming kids

opening presents

[Critters2]

74. That commercial where the kid is screaming while unwrapping a Christmas present

I think it's a commercial for a car, but I actually switch the channel before the part that lets me know what it's advertising. I truly hate it.

[ellie]

75. The Radio Shack

one where the woman in the raincoat is asking her husband to go pick up a bunch of useless crap from Radio Shack for the useles crap they received for Christmas gifts. She speaks so quickly and is so out of breath that it makes my blood pressure go up. I have to mute it when it comes on.

[acmavm]

No one finds Kirstie Alley annoying? She makes me cringe.

[Telegram Sam]

77. She should have stayed fat...was less annoying then.

[Lost4words]

98. Dont look now, she is still huge,

they must be scraping the barrel to get commercial actors larger than her for those commercials.

I just picture a cigarette in her lips and the image is complete.

[Telegram Sam]

76. Any commercial featuring that yelling bearded man.

Oxy-Clean et. al.

[myrna minx]

93. Welcome to DU, my main man.

:hi:


On edit--I absolutely loathe commercials that have the screaming sound of an alarm clock as a sound effect. I don't want to awake to that sound, so why on earth would I want to hear it at any other time?! :grr:

[YankeyMCC]

79. The one with the sterotyped Eastern European

or are they sterotyped slavs? I don't even know and I think it's for a credit card but I don't know which one but I find that incredible annoying.

The Mentos commercials are horrible too. Maybe I'm just not hip enough to get it with those. :shrug:

[Strawman]

82. Fitness Made Simple

The more recent ones actually have songs playing in the background about John Basedow. I think it may be a cult. The mere sight of that guy gives me the creeps.

[Efilroft Sul]

87. Any commercial that says, "I'm George W. Bush, and I approved this message."

[deucemagnet]

89. There are two that send me scrambling for the mute button right now.

amp'd mobile: The one where a couple is having dinner, the woman is talking about the phone, and the guy keeps interjecting nonsense like "Bam!" and "Boo-ya!". She needs to smack him upside the head, 'cuz I can't reach through the TV to do it.

Snickers commercial from the ninth circle of hell:

Happy peanuts soar
over chocolate-covered mountaintops
and waterfalls of caramel
prancing nougat in the meadow
sings a song of satisfaction to the world.


:banghead:

[Lost4words]

90. Any auto commercail where computer animation is used.

Like that stinking dodge nitro falling through the earth. Or GM cars driving above ground like jets. What these commercails say to me is, we got nothin to offer but arent these computer special effects great!

And that clothing ad that has someone singing Boys, I dont know the product cause I am rushing to the mute button.

[chaska]

91. That disgusting Hardee's chili burger commercial....

with its lovely excretory sounds.

[Lost4words]

92. the Home Depot ad police harassing Santa.

Sick just sick.

[LaraMN]

94. Aughh! I have a list!

*The HughesNet commercial with the obnoxious facial expression woman.
*The diet commercial with the "I'm a size tyewww" girl.
*A local commercial with people holding stethoscopes in front of their mouths.
*The Hummer commercial with the guy buying organic food.
*Some for-sale-on-tv commercial for a kids product that jacks the volume way up.
There are more...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

95. Dunkin Donuts gets worse and worse!

The one over the summer with the soccer mom in the van ("KARA-TAAAYAY")was bad but they've followed up with these droning herds of yuppies ('is it french or is it italian? perhaps it's fretalian).

[Lost4words]

96. Dont forget that Dunkin Donuts and Dairy Queen are owned by Carlile Group

When you buy from these companies you are supporting the BFEE. Oh and Dr. Pepper just to name a few.

I wont go near unless its to stick my head in the door to tell everyone who owns the company.

[Critters2]

105. I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. No more dunkincinos for me! nt

[Lost4words]

113. Tell everyone you know Dunkin donuts & dairy Queen are BFEE

Dr. Pepper

8643

[GenDem]

114. That's a bummer...love their coffee.

[deepthought42]

99. As a barista, the DD one pisses me off!

:banghead:

OMG, ordering a latte is sooooo complicated! :sarcasm:

You think that's a real latte you're ordering at DD!? You're the kind of customers that probably asks for a cappucino w/no foam! (not kidding, I've been asked for that one before)


Edited because the gingerbread latte (a grande!) I made myself has worn off...sigh.

[ElboRuum]

118. Screw the lattes

Just give me a straight cup of strong black coffee that doesn't taste like battery acid. I just had a 24oz from Drunkin' Donuts and it tasted like it might actually kill my lawn if it contacted the soil. Funny, I'm pretty damn sure that DD used to have decent coffee. Not great, but decent.

[rhiannon55]

97. The Dish Network commercial with the stoooopid husband

who is "building his own comedy club, or his own theater, or his own..." (there are several versions), his long-suffering wife, and her smart-aleck friend. I feel sorry for the guy and want to slap the smart-aleck friend. Why do teevee husbands always look so dumb?

[ceile]

102. Ditech.com

"I lost another one to Ditech!" aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[DainBramaged]

109. Ditech is now owned by GMAC, that douche is gone forever

[Throd]

103. That smug pimply prick representing Apple

and the incompetent oaf representing IBM. I want to grab both of them by the back of their heads and pound their faces together about eleven times.

[deepthought42]

104. OMG, thank you! I'm not alone...

Yesterday at work everyone was comparing their ipods and I just wanted to scream "Apple sucks! ipod this, ipod that, shut the f*** up!". Love the technology, hate the product.

[SacredCow]

110. Those new Pepto commercials...

Hands down.... Do I really need to see Godzilla pantomiming diahrrea?

[GenDem]

116. The Musenex commercials...

where the flem ball characters have moved in and taken up residency. It makes me want to puke. :puke:

[hyphenate]

120. Wow--this is a thread I can really get into

As it so happens, I sent an email just yesterday to the Nutrisystem people, about their commercials.

Here's my letter--do you think I'll ever get a response? :)

_______________________________________________________________________
I have to say I've been watching the commercials for Nutrisystem for awhile, and I guess I have an unpopular opinion.

As someone who has been overweight her entire life, I find several of the commercial women offensive. Instead of looking like women who have dealt with significant weight trouble, they are presented as underweight, anorexic bimbos who couldn't stand to have a little meat on their bones. Anyone who has gone from a "size 4" to a "size 2" is not what I would consider a role model for those of us who have more to deal with than fitting into the latest fashions.

I assume that your products are well received by those who only need to lose a few pounds, but those of us who struggle with the need to lose a great deal more are less likely to stay on a continuous diet plan for which we would have to pay a lot more than we can afford. I would suppose I am not part of the targeted audience anyway being over 35 and poor, so it makes my opinion a lot less compelling than someone who would be more inclined to be on your plan.

Considering the attention span of the average audience member is a lot less than it used to be, I realize that catching the viewer's interest is the main component in today's consumer world. However, it is also important to take into consideration that if you want to expand your circle of consumers at any point, you need to be as honest as possible with people about the limitations and the possibilities of your product and the expense of it as well. Too many of these weight loss products give the perception that they can cure all of life's ills in a short few months, and cite only the most sensational examples of achievement, instead of the more average results. There is little wonder that the "fine print" on a television screen is so tiny that it is impossible to read it--companies really don't want that to be read or understood, but can fall back on it when there are complaints.

Thanks for letting me give my opinion.