[RANT] Commercial That Annoys You

[Dr. Harry]

Those commercials for AT&T with Carrot Top.

And a couple I thankfully haven't seen for a while.... The ones for Chili's with people singing, and the stupid one for hummers using that song about Jack being happy. You know, the one where the kid makes a "hummer" for a gocart race or something and cheats by leaving the course, and they make it sound like it's a good thing.

I always imagine a line across the bottom, reading "MSRV as shown, $34,718"

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Those commercials for Nokia Wireless or something about two-way messaging that have the old people grinding on each other and stuff. Not truly annoying, but disturbing as all get-out...

 

[Kaleon Moonshae]

Agreed.

I can't think of a current one right now, but I'm sure there are some. The one that comes to mind was the stupid Raisin Bran commercial from a few years ago. It’s about a guy who wakes up, apparently after a party or something. He wants some Raisin Bran. He pours a bowl. But there isn't any MILK!! Then he looks out the window and sees a "cow" on the hill and gets an idea The viewer is supposed to think he's about to go milk the cow to get milk. But then his friends wake up and see him and one says, "Isn't that a boy cow?"

:rollseyes:

I swore to never buy Raisin Bran ever again after that stupid ad.

"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"

If they had just said "Isn't that a bull?" it would have been all right. But "boy cow" is so asinine and urbanite it just pissed me off.

Most cattle ranchers in oklahoma would laugh you off their land if you called tehm bovines. That may be their correct name, but cattle is the typical word used. Even cattle ranchers, however, call them *cows* be they male, female, or neuter. Sorry, just grew up around cattle people and find this rant a little overboard considering even people here in texas call them cows;P

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

My current one is a Honda ad that talks about how some guy who buys his car with a six year payment plan thinks he's doing good, then they show this cute smirking girl who was "smarter" and leased her Honda for $199 per month and how in three years she can get a new Honda, while the idiot guy still has three years of payments left.

Yeah, and in three more years, you know what she has? NOTHING except more lease payments! The guy at least in six years OWNS his car and doesn't have to make any more payments.

Oh, and up here in the Boston area, the KFC ads with doofus Red Sox player Kevin Millar swinging a drumstick like a bat and imitating Carlton Fisk hitting his famous home run.

 

[Creamsteak]

I can't think of a commercial I like, but I really can't stand advertisements that try to get an impulse purchase (mostly by phone) for some overpriced product.

 

[Villano]

I'll add another one, the Diet Coke commercial with Adrian Brody. Someone yells, "Hey, Brody!", then he opens a can of Coke and these little bubbles follow him around as he walks around the city. I can't explain exactly why I hate this commercial.

 

[evildm]

- That horrible Chiclets at with the japanese girls singing while some guy who can't moderate his voice attempts to translate.

- The ambulance chaser ("injury lawyer") ads here for Celino & Barnes in NY trying their best to act sincere, complete with sappy music.

- The Skittles ad with the rapping grandma who bares her breasts at her grandson (I'm not kidding. I wish I were).

- Valu Home Hardware or something. Local hardware store in NY with terrible ads. Features disturbingly bad "dancing" at the end of every ad.

- Bad Boy furniture. Local thing. Terrible ads that feature the somewhat-scary ex-mayor of Toronto's son. Now they have CG that looks as if it was made in the early 90s.

There's more, but I can't remember any right now. That might be a good thing though.

 

[Xath]

You know what commercials I love? The Citibank identity theft commercials. They are soooooo well done.

 

[Iron_Chef]

I hate the pharmaceutical commercials for all those damn pills, with glossed over side effects like "liver failure, death and/or diarrehea." But in particular, I hate the new commercial that has people saying defeatist comments like: "I don't want to be a famous artist, I just want to hold a paintbrush with less pain" --- which translates in my mind as "I want to be a loser who doesn't stick it out from the crowd and never does anything with my life." IMO, if you pick up a paintbrush, you should have aspirations to be a great at painting (not necessarily museum great, but good enough to sell your work if you wanted) or else you really have no business even lifting that brush at all. Go do something else you could be great at... Why people are willing to accept mediocrity for themselves and their loved ones is beyond me when there is clearly a choice.

These kinds of commercials are dangerous, because they brainwash people into thinking they're losers and damn lucky just to be able to take a stupid, overpriced pill that may cripple or kill them because it hasn't been tested properly, and the side effects not adequately revealed to them beforehand. Those drug companies spend billions marketing their crap every year and a drug commercial is on TV every 60 seconds. Doctors are in on the conspiracy to mass-medicate the public, too. They get bribes from the drug companies to push certain pills on their patients. What you are prescribe from one doctor to another for the same symptoms could differ greatly, depending on which drug company's pocket each doctor is in. The drug companies figure it's cheaper to settle lawsuits from victims of their products than spend a few extra years testing them --- it's better for their stockholders to get it out quick... screw the poor suckers that actually take the damn drug. And have you noticed that there are no new cures coming out? That's because there's no money in cures for the drug companies --- everything is about "symptom management"! So you're stuck taking their stupid, dangerous pills the rest of your life if you catch something. And they're making up new diseases like "nervous anxiety disorder" so they can get doctors to prescribe their pills more for conditions that may not warrant medication. Their goal is to get the world hooked on their (legal) drugs and damn the consequences. Plus, they are price-fixing in the US and lobbying to limit Americans access to their (lower-priced) pills shipped in from other countries. It's a national travesty.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I hate the pharmaceutical commercials for all those damn pills, with glossed over side effects like "liver failure, death and/or diarrehea."

I like the 'and'. Who cares about a little spot of diarrhea if you're going to DIE?

I also liked one I saw a few years back, I don't think it's on anymore, for a herpes medication. It advised people "do not take this drug if you've been diagnosed with HIV". You know... if I had AIDS, I'd have more important things on my mind than clearing up my herpes. Sheesh.

I hate the ones that give the side effect as "certain sexual side effects". Lots of room for some not-so-nice effects, there...