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does anyone else find the commercials for ELF cosmetics featuring oddly made up individuals in a Judge Judy-type courtroom weird? They aren’t funny and all the characters seem like doll or puppet figures. I don’t understand how they are supposed to suggest to viewers that they would WANT to be wearing these products.

Mea culpa, folks. I apologize to everyone- guess I’ve been living under a rock for the past fifty+ years. I have read nice things about Dave Grohl - but I still think it’s a stupid commercial, sorry!

Just saw (for the thousandth time) a commercial for CrownRoyal featuring a “musician” thanking everything in the sound studio. “Thank you guitar pick, thank you, sliders…” To be honest he sounds a lot more like he has been indulging in another type of substance (think inhaled rather than swallowed). I know people who indulge in alcohol can be mellow, but if it’s going to turn me THAT weird, I’ll pass, thanks!

So Pooph is like Lume for critters! Whatever will our olfactory nerves do since people and pets are the sources of so much terrible stink!

Yes, I admit to being an old codger. But is it really too much to ask that a company sponsoring national commercials at least learn to use spell-check? Downy “Unstopables” is a visual nails on the blackboard sensation - it makes me want to scream and wonder if ANYONE who worked on that commercial graduated from the sixth grade!

I was “privileged” or more honestly unfortunate enough to see the “pooping pineapples” verbal imagery in the Colace commercial. It is another one that made me lose my appetite - why is it important to be disgusting? (Looking at not only Colace, but Charmin, Lume, and dozens of others!)

Okay, there’s another pet food commercial that is irrational and therefore exasperating. It’s the one about “pets are raw”. It goes on to list examples “raw emotion, raw play” and other complete nonsequiturs about pets. The point is to emphasize that “raw food” matches “raw pets” or something equally bizarre. I often love pets better than people so this whole concept is weird, irrational and only successful in ensuring that I will never feed my critters such stuff!

As much as I despise and detest the omnipresent Morgan & Morgan (personal injury attorneys, for those blessed not to know), I think that possibly they have taken an interesting step. They are going after Tepezza (the obnoxious ads for “thyroid eye disease”) because of hearing loss that may be associated with the drug. So it’s the battle of the revolting titans - direct to consumer drug ads vs “it’s a good day to sue somebody” ads. The fallout might remotely reduce the number of horrible commercials - yeah, I know, I’m living in a dream world! I just saw the anti-Tepezza ad for the first time!

So I was making dinner for the family and a commercial for Jardiance came on….I wasn’t paying much attention but then there was a disclaimer saying something about “infections of the perineum” and the accompanying words on the screen described the perineum as “the area between the anus and the genitals” - WAAAAYYY more detail than necessary for a dinner time commercial! Of course, I think pharma marketing direct to consumer is fraught with conflicts of interest, but this is just horrible!

Okay, a new (to me) and supremely annoying commercial for some kind of sticky cosmetic (WHY?) is the one with Jennifer Coolidge. I kinda understand her overblown enthusiasm, but truthfully, I would think you’d run for the hills rather than apply that kind of adhesive to your face! It’s beyond puzzling how they thought this would be a good message - unless I’m missing something!

I really dislike the tv dad line of commercials. Reginald VelJohnson was the dad on Family Matters (long ago tv comedy) which was a favorite of my son’s. It’s a shame to see him playing such a bumbling and clueless character now - and I still find the whole series of commercials irritating!

I know the Lume commercials have been reviled and thoroughly discussed previously. And I agree that the founder of Lume and the advertising team have made a new art form out of making repulsive commercials. Last night, after somehow being subjected to a string of them, it occurred to me to wonder - when did our skin become such a source of olfactory offense? Listening to the verbiage about the plethora of skin sites which without Lume would smell so horrendous as to make us cause any humans in scent-territory to run screaming off the scene. I actually take offense at the suggestion that if I don’t use Lume I am committing some sort of anti-human, repulsive and purposeful disgusting behavior. It makes me want to go out of my way to avoid all of this woman’s products!

Singing and dancing pubic hairs? REALLY???

Can anyone explain to me the “tv dad” commercials for one of the insurance companies? The one where the kid didn’t make the team (or the play, or whatever) and the dad’s “customary” response is something about saving money with insurance - and the kid even says that these “wise words” were no help to her….what exactly is the message we are supposed to take from this other than “how incredibly stupid do they really think audiences ARE?”

Could we as a society just make a blanket rule that screaming is just not appropriate for any commercial with sound??! (Looking specifically at you, Drew Barrymore, in this instance!)