[RANT] Commercial That Annoys You

[orchid blossom]

Those Fanta ads are terrible.

The pig ads are running in our area now. They're for satelite TV over cable. "Don't be a cable pig!" Well, satelite people, after that horrible commercial I'd have to be a Stepford Wife to get your services, so I guess that backfired.

Oh, and the ads for the drug Crestor, narrated by Patrick Stewart and written in bad, bad Dr. Suess parody. I dive for the remote to mute the TV during those.

 

[Mercule]

Any of those HORRIBLE McDonald's "I'm lovin' it!" ads. You know what? I am NOT loving it! See! Correct grammar, you corporate assh*les! Stupid cigar-puffing twits assuming that all us non-rich-by-charging-way-too-much-for-a-hamburger-that-tastes-like-masking-tape people all speak a mix of 'urban slang' and ebonics. DEATH TO THEM ALL! Preferrably by a combination of sandpaper and lemon juice...

Amen, brother! Those commercial saps all desire for McDonald's from me. Whoever brainstormed them should be fired and blacklisted from the industry.

There was a commercial about a year ago that I hated more, but I seem to have blocked it from my mind. So, the best thing I can say about the "I'm lovin' it" commercials is that it doesn't cause psychosis.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Oh. Any commercial for a medication that tells you to contact your doctor to find out if XXX is right for you, but never tells you what the hell it does.

 

[Hypersmurf]

"cow" isn't a species. It's Bovine. "Cows" are adult, female bovines, specifically those that have given birth. A "boy cow" is as stupid as saying a "boy woman"

cow
n.
1. The mature female of cattle of the genus Bos.
2. The mature female of other large animals, such as whales, elephants, or moose.
3. A domesticated bovine of either sex or any age.

Looks fine to me...

-Hyp.

 

[Ashwyn]

Commercials are a pet peeve for me. I want to punch smilin' Bob everytime those commercials come on. The pepto-bismol commercial with that damn song really gets to me too. The dancing, please stop the dancing! The fanta commercials are horrible too. And I hope the creators of those "I'm lonin' it." commercials burn in hell. It's gotten to the point I just automatically mute my tv when they go to a commercial break, it has become a reflex. A lot of the problem I have with them is they seem to be predicated on the belief that people are incredibly stupid. Like, survived-a-nuclear-blast stupid.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I don't have TV. Can I get a description of the Quizno's commercial? I am intrigued.

 

[jasper]

Im not mad at the creators because they are getting paid to create them. Now the ad exec who buy the ads. Into the ocean with the lawyers.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Any of the Hummer commercials. As if driving a huge beast of a gas hog isn't irritating enough, they act as if being obnoxious while driving the damn truck is cool, because you've got a big truck and everyone will let you get away with it.

Sorry, but anything that is built like a tank and needs to have an extra safety grill built underneath the front end so it won't crush a normal sized car in an accident doesn't belong on the road.

I hate Hummers.

 

[Arnwyn]

- Any McDonald's commercial - I haven't seen a tolerable one yet.
- Any Pizza Hut commercial - I haven't seen a tolerable one yet.
- Any milk commercial (why are they always so incredibly insipid?).
- loads of others that I (thankfully) don't remember right now.

 

[drothgery]

I don't smoke, and can't stand smoking, but the most recent set of "the truth" anti-smoking public service announcements were really, really awful.