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    Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

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    On 10/15/2018 at 7:50 AM, Zevious Zoquis said:

    the Match commercial with the dark-haired gal (Lisa?) who keeps saying she "definitely" wants this and she "definitely" wants that...i think i know why she might be having trouble getting a relationship going.  

     

    oh, and there's an ad running for some diarrhea med that features 2 "moms" describing their different vacay experiences where one took the med and the other didn't.  the one who didn't of course got sick and spent the entire vacation [whisper voice]"in the bathroom"[/whisper voice].  the diarrhea mom is perfectly casted...she truly looks like a person who suffers constant poop issues.  good job whoever chose her!

    Here's the stomach drug I was refering to...this ad...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-knTly4EOU

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    the Match commercial with the dark-haired gal (Lisa?) who keeps saying she "definitely" wants this and she "definitely" wants that...i think i know why she might be having trouble getting a relationship going.  

     

    oh, and there's an ad running for some diarrhea med that features 2 "moms" describing their different vacay experiences where one took the med and the other didn't.  the one who didn't of course got sick and spent the entire vacation [whisper voice]"in the bathroom"[/whisper voice].  the diarrhea mom is perfectly casted...she truly looks like a person who suffers constant poop issues.  good job whoever chose her!

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    On 2018-09-25 at 10:49 PM, bilgistic said:

    I keep seeing the insipid commercial for this new show, New Amsterdam. The new hospital administrator(?) (don't know, don't care) that the show is about is having a meeting in a surgical theater(?) (there are bleachers(?)) and asks the surgeons to raise their hands. They do, and he says, "You're all fired." The commercial has come on SO MANY TIMES that I refuse to watch the show just out of spite.

    The generically handsome white male doctor is going to turn this hospital around! Spare me.

     

    i fucking HATE that commercial, and by extension, that show!  i want somebody to punch that sanctimonious douche in his holier-than-thou throat.  in fact i'm pretty sick of that general type of show really - focused on some totally awesome, in control, self-assured perfect leader person who always makes the correct most profound decisions...bullshit

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    Man, there is just no end to the stupid Chevy commercials.  Just saw one now that I think must be a newer example - the beardy dweeb and his selection of dumb real people are standing out in some desert watching a bunch of trucks drive towards them across the dunes while Beardy McDweeb asks them questions about which truck won what award or something and as the dopes call out wrong answers such as "Ford" the wrong answer trucks peel away from the approaching phalanx so that eventually only the 3 Chevy trucks are still coming toward them.  The ad ends like that, but in my fantasy imagination the 3 Chevy trucks continue driving toward the group of idiots and actually plow right through them all...

     

    These ads are so fucking stupid it's beyond belief.  Seriously, they might as well just have created about 20 different commercials with Beardy McDweeb doing nothing but standing there literally telling his group of imbeciles they should buy Chevy trucks cuz they're good.  That's essentially what the ads consist of.  Chevy trucks are good.  Buy one.  

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    7 hours ago, iHateAmpersands said:

    I don't know if it's because I don't like the taste of them, but I can't stand those Twizzlers commercials where the people in them are stonefaced until the Twizzler shows up causing them to break into a smile.

     

    yeah those all suck.  the fact is, Twizzlers ain't all that fun!  

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    Here's an ad that I think runs locally in my city (I believe the company is local)...just look at this thing!  Could they have picked a less appealing couple of people - especially the woman!  annoying as hell!  And at the end when the guy leans over and takes a big chomp off the burger she's just bit into...ugh so gross!

     
    edit - actually the company originates in my city but looks to have gone national so maybe you've all seen the ad.

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    yeah the ads for back pain are the same way.  people who are really suffering from chronic lower back pain should absolutely take meds to dull the pain so they can run around and play with their grandchildren!  I mean it isn't like that darn annoying pain signifies the fact that there's damage in those soft little discs between the bones of your spine or anything so sure, mask the pain and go out and twist and bend and bounce on them discs to your heart's content!  it won't harm you in any way!

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    i see it was mentioned a page back, but holy hell the Ozempic commercial is bad!  are all these drugs made by the same company and the ads by the same ad agency?  they all have such a similar (weird) look and feel - people wandering around playing with butterflies and attending various neighbourly gatherings and other such bullshit.  "oh oh oh ozempic!" (to the tune of Magic by Pilot.) ugh...

     

    lol...do not use Ozempic, if you are allergic.  to Ozempic.  

     

     

    solid advice.

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    ray liotta's face appears to have a range of expression starting at "weird little half-smile" and extending all the way over to "1/4" wider weird little half-smile.".  That chantix ad is frightening.  

     

    i suspect part part of the explanation for the bad plastic surgery results you see on celebrities is that they are attempting to fix issues that aren't really very bad.  the flaws they hope to fix are just really minor normal aging things that any normal person wouldn't be worried about but because they see themselves so often on screen they are hyper critical.  the doctors are often likely caught in a difficult situation and it's probably pretty easy to over-do it...

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    On 2018-07-27 at 6:45 PM, Jamoche said:

    Because most adults have an "and then a car didn't stop" story, but it usually ends with "it was just a minor ding, and fortunately neither of us had Liberty Mutual, so we got it sorted".

    lol.  

     

    actually, i think it bugs me because it's such a contrived way of writing just to achieve the brief dramatic moment.  stories don't really "stop." They end.  And cars don't "end," they stop.  saying "and then a car didn't stop....and neither did our story" just sounds kinda dumb.  

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    15 hours ago, funky-rat said:

    Yeah, that's Subaru.  And it's a stupid commercial.

     

    I have a pretty fundamental negative response to advertising by any large corporation that’s based on the premise that the Corp is exercising special concern for the safety of its customers.  Whatever safety features are in that car, if Subaru thought they’d sell more by removing those features and dropping the price, they’d do it.  I guess i’m Just too cynical, lol.  Also, the “...and then a car didn’t stop...[dramatic pause]…and neither did our story” bit really bugs me for some reason.  

     

    Oh oh and Look!  Trivago goof has some friends over for a night of Trivago fun!  What a great guy! 

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    The bubbly water companies all seem to have jumped on this ploy where they pretend society feels the same about soda pop as they do about smoking or being an alcoholic.  Nobody is sneaking out to the patio or getting peer-pressured in the school bathroom to have a sip of pepsi.  And I don't know about anyone else, but adding bubbly fizz to water doesn't come close to making me want to drink it instead of a Dr. Pepper.  It ain't just the bubbles...

     

     

    Also, not specifically related just to commercials - big full screen close-ups of food being pulled apart or having sauce drizzled over it.  It's starting to get to me, lol!  you see it in ads sometimes, but it's seen in food shows like "You Gotta Eat Here" constantly and it's usually pretty gross.  The worst is Carnival Eats!  Watching a full screen close-up of some sugary goop being drooled over a sugary pile of dough is just disgusting.

    [...just now I have You Gotta Eat Here on and the host is mixing a huge bowl of pizza sauce with his bare hand - just shoving his hand in there and swirling the sauce around.  Now I understand the stuff is cooked at high temp before it gets eaten, but still...gross! ]

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    ...any ads that feature people - usually kids - licking food off any surface other than a plate!  Invariably disgusting.   There's one right now in which some kid licks a bunch of watermelon off his ipad screen - anyone who has used an ipad after a kid has had it for more than about a minute knows how fucking gross those screens get.  The idea of licking one makes me squirm.

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    I don't know.  Isn't that a lot like saying "who needs a remote control??  I can just get up and walk over to the TV to change channels!"  or "Cordless phone???  Why???"  I mean technology often makes menial stuff easier...being able to call out to turn up the thermostat of switch off a light is pretty handy.  And who the heck looks anything up in dictionaries or encyclopedia anymore??  Do they even still print those? lol...but I don't like the ads for that stuff either.

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    I mentioned that EasyFinancial ad a couple pages back.  I’ve seen it several more times and man that is some evil shit!  The shift from debt-ridden misery to happy, laughing no troubles family joy is just such a bullshit lie it should be illegal.  You’d think this wonderful financial “institution” was just handing out $25000 cheques and saying “here you crazy kids take this money and solve all your problems and have a great life!  Now get outta here the both of you!”  

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    When I find jeans I like and that fit well I pretty much don’t wash them unless there’s some specific need to, such as I spilled something or splashed mud on them or something like that.  I’m a very non-sweaty person.  Now that of course really only applies to jeans I care about.  I have jeans I wear just for everyday kicking around in and those go in the wash.  

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    So lately every time I watch TV I’m treated to an ad for a company called EasyFinancial.  It tells the sad tale of a young family suffocating under the burden of their debt load.  We see mom and dad trying to go about their business but there’s stress on their faces and the family fridge door is papered by bills with ”past due” stamps on them.  Mom is up late at night worrying!  But then...while web browsing for any possible solution, she happens upon the EasyFinancial web page and there’s a big banner there announcing the availability of “$25,000 loans!” Hurrah!  Mom heads over to get her 25 grand and voila!  Like magic all their troubles are behind them.  Now, the fridge door is covered with nothing but happy family pictures!  Life is great...

     

     

     

    ...until 2 years later when mom is scouring the web for some place that will loan her 50 grand so they can pay off the previous loan plus all the debt they’ve accrued since getting it!  Such a bullshit ad.

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    Not really a commercial per se, but there’s a promo running right now for the current season of The Bachelorette (which of course I don’t watch) that features the titular lady proclaiming at the end “let’s do the damn thing!”  It’s supposed to I guess show us what a “saucy cookie” she is or something - show us she’s got “tude”...it’s so lame and annoying.  It sounds like a person you know is totally not a saucy cookie trying to sound like she is a saucy cookie.  

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    On 5/30/2018 at 4:29 PM, Zevious Zoquis said:

    that always bugs me too.  Also, when people are holding whatever product is being advertised in such a manner as to ensure that the logo on the product is clearly visible and not obstructed at all - it usually requires them to hold it in what is obviously a weird/unnatural way.  Like if it's a Pepsi ad they'll hold the can of pop with their hand around only the bottom inch of the can so the top 5 inches is not at all covered.  Its always so obvious that it makes me angry...

     

    further to this annoying thing done in adverts...y'know that ad for Sodastream where the woman sneaks out to her patio and takes a secret sip from a can of pop she has hidden in a planter out there?  Annoying ad to begin with, made even more so by the fact that for some unknown reason she holds the can of generic cola in that weird "don't hide the logo" way!  It's like there's some advertising rule that no logo of any sort shall ever be obscured, lol.  Even a generic non-brand "cola" logo!

    Just in a general sense, I think it's actually really wrong-headed thinking on the part of the entire advertising industry that they do that.  I get the idea - you want the logo to be really strongly visible in the ad.  But the weirdness of the effort to not obscure it whenever it's visible is distracting and what it does is contributes to the strong impression that the people in the ad are not actual people - they are fake people hawking product.  Therefore you can't really trust them.  It seems to me advertisers should be making an effort to have things appear in a more natural and believable way.  If its a Pepsi ad, show us the logo in a very clear way - a bottle of pepsi sitting on a counter for instance.  Big close up.  Tell us about it.  But when it comes time to show a room full of people having a fun "Pepsi party" don't have them all standing around holding their cans of pepsi in some weird contorted way so the logos are all staring us clearly in the face!  We can see whatever colors are visible and we'll assume as long as they are Pepsi colors that thats a can of Pepsi in this Pepsi commercial!  And maybe we'll be slightly more inclined to believe the ad because the people look a little less like weirdos shilling Pepsi!  

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    6 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

    I have no idea why but I detest this Crest lady. She and her prolonged smile at the end are just so stupid.
    https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wJob/crest-gum-detoxify-irritated-gums

    Also, I hate when people in commercials hold out a product with a completely straight arm, tilted just so. No, I have no idea why that bugs me either.

    that always bugs me too.  Also, when people are holding whatever product is being advertised in such a manner as to ensure that the logo on the product is clearly visible and not obstructed at all - it usually requires them to hold it in what is obviously a weird/unnatural way.  Like if it's a Pepsi ad they'll hold the can of pop with their hand around only the bottom inch of the can so the top 5 inches is not at all covered.  Its always so obvious that it makes me angry...

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