Adverts you hate

zahra · Oct 16, 2007

I really hate the ad on UK TV at the moment, that shows various famous actors doing 'work experience' in some supermarket. The actors trying to be like 'ordinary folk' gets right up my nose, you just know they're thinking 'Thank God I don't have to do this in real life', and the real workers, overexcited cos they've met James Nesbitt or Victoria Wood, sadden me.

My Mum, who's in the US, cannot stand the Caveman Verizon ads. Tee-hee, they now have their own sitcom, apparently.

seun · Oct 17, 2007

The Burger King one with the anger management class gets on my tits at the moment. Other than that, I hate the way the volume on adverts seems louder than the programmes.

dpaterso · Oct 17, 2007

The Cadbury's chocolate ad with a gorilla playing drums over Phil Collins' "Something In The Air Tonight" -- makes no sense whatsoever, drags on for ages, and I don't like the unmanly music, I change channel as soon as it comes on, doesn't matter what show I've been watching I won't go back to it.

-Derek

seun · Oct 17, 2007

dpaterso said:
The Cadbury's chocolate ad with a gorilla playing drums over Phil Collins' "Something In The Air Tonight" -- makes no sense whatsoever, drags on for ages, and I don't like the unmanly music, I change channel as soon as it comes on, doesn't matter what show I've been watching I won't go back to it.

-Derek

I thought someone had slipped me some acid the first time I saw that one.

dpaterso · Oct 17, 2007

seun said:
I thought someone had slipped me some acid the first time I saw that one.

What makes you think they didn't?

-Derek

seun · Oct 17, 2007

dpaterso said:
What makes you think they didn't?

-Derek

The goblin in the corner told me so.

aadams73 · Oct 17, 2007

zahra said:
My Mum, who's in the US, cannot stand the Caveman Verizon ads. Tee-hee, they now have their own sitcom, apparently.

That would be Geico, not Verizon.

I pretty much hate all commercials.

maestrowork · Oct 17, 2007

The Budweiser ad with the gorillas. It's annoying.

wyntermoon · Oct 17, 2007

That HORRIBLE Pepto-Bismo dance. It makes me nauseous.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Oct 17, 2007

I'm with aadams. Occasionally there's a really clever ad that is more entertaining than 99% of the programs, but not too often.

Locally, Sonic commercials make me reach for the mute button. Whoever developed that wonder feature on the remote is the one who really deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Years and years ago, we had a woman named 'Linda Soundtrack' who yelled at us to come to her electronics store. She had a baby, named him 'Sluggo' and brought him on the ads, too... we celebrated when she moved the whole mess to Atlanta.

seun · Oct 17, 2007

Does anyone else loathe the Clit Bang ad? The example of cleaning the penny always makes me wonder who would want to clean their pennies.

Bmwhtly · Oct 17, 2007

seun said:
Does anyone else loathe the Clit Bang ad? The example of cleaning the penny always makes me wonder who would want to clean their pennies.

Ummm... that would be 'Cillit Bang'?
They don't advertise sex aids on TV. Unless I'm watching the wrong channel.

"Hi. I'm Barry Scott!" which leaves me thinking 'who?'. Yes. Godawful.

But then, there aren't any good adverts.

There have been in the past. Guiness have had some good ones.

seun · Oct 17, 2007

Bmwhtly said:
Ummm... that would be 'Cillit Bang'?
They don't advertise sex aids on TV. Unless I'm watching the wrong channel.

WOOPS! I thought it was spelt CILT and wasn't paying attention to my typing.

Still, if it was called CLIT BANG, they'd probably sell a lot more.

RumpleTumbler · Oct 17, 2007

The radio ads with the mortgage loan assholes yammering on and on who think they are cool but are just frightened little boys.

The Air Tran ad's where they seem to search out people who can't speak English. First it was Michael Vick and now it's some Russian guy. Ignorance sells seats I guess.

The Comcast ad where the guy is like "Roger, you Tiger now." WTF does that mean anyway????

wordmonkey · Oct 17, 2007

wyntermoon said:
That HORRIBLE Pepto-Bismo dance. It makes me nauseous.

If you take some pepto, it'll settle your stomach.

Any ads I hate get a BLIP!

Tivo (DVR), gotta love it!

jodiodi · Oct 17, 2007

The pepto ads are repulsive.

My husband an I also hate any ED ads (why do we care about some guy's limp schlong?), that happy guy with male enhancement (he'd better be enhanced because he's damn ugly and that's the only way he'll get any), and the Girls Gone Wild ads (because it's just pathetic that anyone would find them exciting, would pay for crap they can get on the net for free, and my husband's daughter is 9, beautiful and we're thinking about her going to college).

Burger King ads with that creepy king in them also repulse me.

There are quite a few good ads, but most of them are beyond stupid and insult the intelligence of the viewer.

RumpleTumbler · Oct 17, 2007

Don't you love how they talk about priapism on the ads?

It makes me want to scream because I know all the idiots are going to try to get a prescription after that.

CaroGirl · Oct 17, 2007

Any ad for any prescription medication. Probably because of regulations, the ads don't even tell you what the drug is FOR! They just show miserable people turn into happy people, dancing around because of said drug. And then they list all the lovely side effects: may cause headaches, vomiting, anal leakage, blue tongue, squirrel bites, arse pustules and cellulite. Mmm, I definitely want to get me some of that.

Shadow_Ferret · Oct 17, 2007

zahra said:
... you just know they're thinking 'Thank God I don't have to do this in real life'....

I think that, too, whenever I go shopping.

RumpleTumbler said:
Don't you love how they talk about priapism on the ads?

I don't even know what priapism is.

Toothpaste · Oct 17, 2007

Okay I think this is a Canadian ad. It's for Rogers Wireless and the 5 friend programme (where you can choose 5 people to call for free on your cell phone). There's this one guy hanging with his 4 other friends. There are many different versions of it, but basically this one guy constantly is somehow the butt of jokes from his friends (like in one ad they find out that one of his 5 people that he's chosen for his phone is his mom). They are always laughing at him, and he still wants him to be in his 5 friend thing. DUDE! You are way better than them! Get some new friends!!!!

Thank you for letting me vent about that.

III · Oct 17, 2007

They don't show them as much as they used to, but those male enhancement commercials with "Bob" and the whistling in the background. I can't even remember which drug it was for - one of Viagra's competitors. I guess that says how effective the commercials were.

seun · Oct 17, 2007

III said:
They don't show them as much as they used to, but those male enhancement commercials with "Bob" and the whistling in the background. I can't even remember which drug it was for - one of Viagra's competitors. I guess that says how effective the commercials were.

Don't try and pretend you didn't buy them.

WendyNYC · Oct 17, 2007

The Lamisil toe fungus ads.

Ew.

maestrowork · Oct 17, 2007

The genital Herpes ads are annoying... they have these attractive couples looking all lovey dovey and happy... like they're discussing dinner plans.

And all the "I'm not so fresh" ads on daytime TV. Do they have to air those during lunch hours?

CaroGirl · Oct 17, 2007

maestrowork said:
And all the "I'm not so fresh" ads on daytime TV. Do they have to air those during lunch hours?

Daytime tv is inherently evil.

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