Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Brattinella]

I would never take Lyrica for anything; have you read their fine print?  EEK!

[janie jones]

Toe hair is gross, but I'd never shame someone over it.

[Lola16]

There's a new Liberty Mutual commercial.   The lady talks about buying a new car after doing tons of research, then runs it right into a tree -- and her horrible insurance company raises her rates.  She says she should have researched her insurance company better.   I got an idea, research driving schools - and take a course on how to drive.  

 

^5.  That's what I shout at that commercial too.  Gah those LM commercials make me stabby!

[crowswork]

That lady talking about that face spackle stuff - filler for "the apples of your cheeks"  was a bad choice. She looks like she has apples in her cheeks - or at least nuts for the winter. Or mumps? Gaunt thin face with artificially round puffed cheeks that don't belong on her face. It's like when people pluck and draw eyebrows where they don't belong or guys wear or have transplanted hair too low on their foreheads.

 

(I loved Kevin Dobson's look on Kojack - later he got some hideous hairpiece that came halfway down his forehead... could never stand to watch him, all I saw was rug.)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Dobson#/media/File:Kevin_Dobson_1975.JPG

 

Portrait artist here. I know that when a persons face is so wide and so long that those cheekbones or nose or hairline DON'T belong there

Edited May 27, 2015 by crowswork

[ari333]

Oh Dear God, sweet baby Jesus I AM enraged! I hate that "Education Connection" commercial with that chick who tries to "rap" and the creepy dude peeping in her window and the random four people doing choreography  and backup singing on the ground outside the window. I  HATE IT...with the heat of a thousand ....nuns... :) Just pull the trigger.

Edited May 27, 2015 by ari333

[CarpeDiem54]

Oh Dear God, sweet baby Jesus I AM enraged! I hate that "Education Connection" commercial with that chick who tries to "rap" and the creepy dude peeping in her window and the random four people doing choreography  and backup singing on the ground outside the window. I  HATE IT...with the heat of a thousand ....nuns... :) Just pull the trigger.

No shit! If you're too stupid to figure out where to go to college you probably shouldn't go. I'm seeing a long career flipping burgers in their future.

[ari333]

Nothing wrong with flipping burgers. :)

Edited May 27, 2015 by ari333

[90PercentGravity]

And then there's one of the products for removing hair from people that talks about removing toe hair. Toe hair! Since when is toe hair a problem.

According to that NYT article on nail salons, toe hair is so disgusting that making someone do a pedicure on a man with toe hair is a punishment for not being Korean. Or something like that.

[CarpeDiem54]

Nothing wrong with flipping burgers. :)

True, if they'd pay a living wage. A good burger is a thing of beauty. ;-)

[AntiBeeSpray]

True, if they'd pay a living wage. A good burger is a thing of beauty. ;-)

 

Yea. Any job with a living wage would be great!

[meep.meep]

So, can you take Lyrica for moderate to severe toe hair loss?

I don't know but I bet pelvic mesh and bladder sling could clear it right up!

[riley702]

A side effect of peripheral neuropathy is no toe hair.

 

At least there's something good about it. Neuropathy sucks.

True, if they'd pay a living wage. A good burger is a thing of beauty. ;-)

There's a guy on the short order grill at work and that man is a true artist. Always in motion, remembering like 7 orders simultaneously. Everybody likes that guy. Sure hope he's getting a living wage...

[Muffyn]

That lady talking about that face spackle stuff - filler for "the apples of your cheeks"  was a bad choice. She looks like she has apples in her cheeks - or at least nuts for the winter. Or mumps? Gaunt thin face with artificially round puffed cheeks that don't belong on her face. 

She's just trying to be a Who from Whoville (or Heather Dubrow http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656686/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t7).

[MaryPatShelby]

And then there's one of the products for removing hair from people that talks about removing toe hair. Toe hair! Since when is toe hair a problem. I have never paid attention to whether anyone has toe hair or not! I guess toe hair is the next arm pit body shaming thing.

Hair shaming is kind of a thing, I think. I love how men can grow hair anywhere, including those ridiculous long unkempt beards, and be considered awesome, but women have a little bit of hair somewhere and it's gross. And I'm talking clean and well-groomed women, the kind who might wear sandals anyway despite not having had the time or money for a recent pedicure. Hey if it bothers you, don't look at my feet!!

[bubbls]

I guess I'm guilty of foot shaming. I'm always getting onto my mom for walking around with nice clothes, pretty sandals and gross toenails. By gross I mean too long and yellowish. She needs to cover those things up with some polish. She just cackles and agrees.

Edited May 28, 2015 by bubbls

[janie jones]

I'm sorry, not trying to be an asshole here, and like I said, I'd never shame someone over not doing it, but since when is toe hair removal not a thing?  I've been shaving my toes and the tops of my feet since I started shaving my legs.  Maybe advertisers haven't been talking about it, but there are plenty of people who shave their feet.  I've had conversations about it, so I know I'm not alone.  It would never occur to me to shave my legs but then let the hair on my feet run wild and free.  (Though I'm sure if you're blonde or have generally sparse body hair, it would be a different situation.)

 

I agree with 100% with everything that buffylew said above.  I'm just saying, this isn't a case of some invented problem that advertisers came up with to get people to feel bad about themselves and buy something. 

[bubbls]

Janie Jones, I too have been shaving my toes since I was 13. I'm dark haired and even though my big toes aren't wild and wooly you can still see hair if I don't shave them.

[iMonrey]

You know the Levis commercial where everyone is dancing around? And the guy gets splashed by a bus then holds his jeans out the bus window to dry them? OK, I can't be the only one who is creeped out by the curly, red-haired child in that commercial. She looks so dead-eyed, she reminds me of the animated dancing baby from Ally McBeal. Totally inhuman. I'm also kind of put off by the lady whose daughter walks in and catches her unbuttoning her boyfriend's pants. Get a room, lady.

[pandora spocks]

"Stupid good" and "crazy good" are used to describe how tasty the advertized food is. I find it just stupid in general.

Speaking of stupidity, when the blond Sonic guy yells, "Wah-BOOSH!," is this the new douche mating call?"

[riley702]

I've been shaving my toes and the tops of my feet since I started shaving my legs. 

 

Totally not trying to hair-shame you here, but I've never known anyone who had hair on the top of their feet. A bit on the toes, yes, but mostly just the big toe and maybe a teeny bit on the next one. 

[theatremouse]

Totally not trying to hair-shame you here, but I've never known anyone who had hair on the top of their feet. A bit on the toes, yes, but mostly just the big toe and maybe a teeny bit on the next one.

Or possibly you did know them, but didn't realize it because they remove it and didn't discuss that? Just throwin' out the possibility.

As with hair in general, varies a ton among humans.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Speaking of stupidity, when the blond Sonic guy yells, "Wah-BOOSH!," is this the new douche mating call?"

 

Is that the one where the random dude says to the dark-haired Sonic Moron, "You hang out with this guy?" Because I kind of like that one, 'cause someone else finally noticed that these guys are idiots.

[SoSueMe]

Those insurance commercials -- Liberty Mutual I think? -- with the people who don't understand how insurance works are driving me nuts.  Especially the young woman who's the "poster child for paying on time" who taps a bumper ("no big deal!" except it must have been a big deal for the other driver to make a claim) and gets upset when her insurance rates go up. "Newsflash! Nobody's perfect!"  Apparently paying on time should make up for any and all car accidents you cause.

 

Also, I think that is company that offers to replace your car with one a year newer and with 10,000 miles fewer on it.  That makes me want to sign up, just to challenge them to find a 2002 version of my car with fewer than 75,000 miles on it.

 

 

I hate them all, but the one that makes me stabby is the one where the guy has a his first accident and calls his insurance company "looking for some support."  Then - BAM! - he finds out the horrible fact that most of us other insured people have known all along - his rates are going up.  And he's all like "Don't these people know you're already shaken up?"  Like somehow his emotional state should change the rules of insurance. 

 

Hey, douchebag!  Newsflash!  The insurance companies are there to, you know, insure you.  They are not there to be your nursemaid in times of stress.  You need to hug it out, call your mom.

I pretty much hate all the Liberty Mutual commercials with the possible exception of the 'we're only human' ones. At least they almost managed to be humorous as opposed to those annoying Statue of Liberty ones.

Then going back farther there were the ones that made me feel like I was being lectured to "do the right thing" by an insurance company no less. They are all so altruistic, don'tcha know.

Edited May 28, 2015 by SoSueMe

[SoSueMe]

There's a series of new commercials for (I think) American Standard toilets that have 10x the flushing power or whatever. One has a middle aged couple at a BBQ and the man squirts ketchup all over his shirt and the wife says "nobody likes splatter." Cut to a toilet, sitting right next to them, in the backyard next to the picnic table as the woman extolls the virtues of the superior flushing mechanism. Most horrifying, however, is the tag where the woman's head pops up out of the toilet bowl and exclaims "It's clean!"

Ugh, I haven't seen it but it sounds pretty bad.

I must admit however that I kind of like the Delta toilet commercial with the little kid in the dino suit, he's adorable. I do wonder how they rehearse him and is he a lot older than he looks and does this cause a setback in his toilet training. So many questions and worries.....

[Brattinella]

 

 

I pretty much hate all the Liberty Mutual commercials with the possible exception of the 'we're only human' ones. At least they almost managed to be humorous as opposed to those annoying Statue of Liberty ones.

Then going back farther there were the ones that made me feel like I was being lectured to "do the right thing" by an insurance company no less. They are all so altruistic, don'tcha know.

 

THIS.  From a super-annoying 20-something  who thinks a tapped bumper on a parked car is no big deal. 

[SoSueMe]

THIS.  From a super-annoying 20-something  who thinks a tapped bumper on a parked car is no big deal.

Oh yeah.

But I must say, even though I would hope that I would be a good citizen and do all the right things, it is the combination of this song and again, being lectured that really bugs me (particularly with this old commercial) Liberty Mutual does not please me....

[janie jones]

Totally not trying to hair-shame you here, but I've never known anyone who had hair on the top of their feet. A bit on the toes, yes, but mostly just the big toe and maybe a teeny bit on the next one.

Or possibly you did know them, but didn't realize it because they remove it and didn't discuss that? Just throwin' out the possibility.

As with hair in general, varies a ton among humans.

Well, exactly.  If you met me you wouldn't know hair grew on my feet unless I told you.  Have you never even met a man with hair on his feet?

Edited May 29, 2015 by janie jones

[slensam]

I've got hair on my feet. Never really thought about it. Must be like a monkey or something.

[riley702]

Well, exactly.  If you met me you wouldn't know hair grew on my feet unless I told you.  Have you never even met a man with hair on his feet?

We were talking about women, I thought. I apologize for my transgression and will bow out of this one.

[janie jones]

Well, when you said "anyone," I took that to mean man or woman.

[DeLurker]

Can't say which aspect of the Love your Lax commercial by Miralax bugs more - the concept that people go around with shirts or writing on the beach that they love their lax or the pastel colored graphic of the colon in action.

[OSM Mom]

Pastel colored graphic of the colon in action.. There's a visual that will haunt me the rest of the day.

[mojoween]

I'm started to get a little creeped out by nearly-naked Hannah and her talking horse.

[pandora spocks]

"I'm started to get a little creeped out by nearly-naked Hannah and her talking horse."

Is Russell Brand the voice of the talking horse?

[proserpina65]

We were talking about women, I thought. I apologize for my transgression and will bow out of this one.

Women can get hair on their toes and the top of their feet.  Trust me.  I'm not talking hobbit feet here, but mine would be noticeable if I didn't shave them when I shave my legs.  An absolute must if I'm wearing sandals in the summer.

[DeLurker]

Pastel colored graphic of the colon in action.. There's a visual that will haunt me the rest of the day.

My sincerest apologizes.  I hadn't noticed that graphic until this morning and felt compelled to share my horror.

[Brattinella]

Lavender colored poop is really unsettling.

"I'm started to get a little creeped out by nearly-naked Hannah and her talking horse."

Is Russell Brand the voice of the talking horse?

 

God, I really hope not!  I cannot stand his smarmy arrogance!

[AntiBeeSpray]

I'm started to get a little creeped out by nearly-naked Hannah and her talking horse.

 

Heck I can't stand that commercial. It's just another way to get guys to get Directv. Gotta love how sex sells ;). It makes me want the Rob Lowe commercials back, PRONTO!

[Rick Kitchen]

Another "women have to do everything because men are so stupid" ad:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyWm-kHkEQ

[OSM Mom]

"Hannah and her talking horse" sounds like a porn video..

My sincerest apologizes. I hadn't noticed that graphic until this morning and felt compelled to share my horror.

Apology accepted. ;)

[smittykins]

Pastel colored graphic of the colon in action.. There's a visual that will haunt me the rest of the day.

Pinkish-purple poop! Yay!

(Except not.)

[theatremouse]

Can't say which aspect of the Love your Lax commercial by Miralax bugs more - the concept that people go around with shirts or writing on the beach that they love their lax or the pastel colored graphic of the colon in action.

Seriously, first time I saw that ad, I was confused why people would go around with shirts announcing their love for Los Angeles International airport.

[riley702]

Heck I can't stand that commercial. It's just another way to get guys to get Directv. Gotta love how sex sells ;). It makes me want the Rob Lowe commercials back, PRONTO!

She was in ads before Rob Lowe as the pornolicious DirectV Genie in the white lace "dress" at the end of this ad. I'm trying to decide if her lips are less puffy now.

 

Edited May 29, 2015 by riley702

[AntiBeeSpray]

She was in ads before Rob Lowe as the pornolicious DirectV Genie in the white lace "dress".

 

 

Ah. Still NOT a fan of her.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Another "women have to do everything because men are so stupid" ad:

 

There's another one of that ilk for some kind of dish detergent, but I can''t find it on youtube. There's a father and son in the kitchen, and they're spraying the dishes with something so that the food won't stick to them before they go into the machine, and the mom is giving them this look that's like, "How did I get saddled with these morons?" So annoying.

[theatremouse]

Expedia commercial presumably fawning over their smartphone ap. Is basically a bodycam-style shot of said phone in someone's hand open to said ap throughout the ad.

Begins with the phone vibrating and then ringing and then "off you go" style the person holding the phone, I donno, goes places?

EVERY TIME it comes on I think my phone is buzzing. Drives me bonkers. HULK SMASH. Cannot stand this ad.

Edited May 30, 2015 by theatremouse

[MrsEVH]

That annoying woman on the Toyota commercials.

[BW Manilowe]

The recent Cheez-It/Variations on Original Cheez-It crackers commercials, with the immature, talking wheel of cheese. The original was, maybe, *kinda* funny, but I think the longer the premise goes on, the less funny--& more immature, & stupid--the premise gets.

[millennium]

Today, while watching a show on Nickelodeon, the network for kids (although that ship sailed a long time ago), I saw an ad for the Shick Hydro Razor.   It featured three bikini clad women trimming strategically placed bonsai bushes, to visually suggest they are trimming their pubic hair.   The one on the right trims her bush into a heart shape.

 

Really?  What is American culture coming to?   Commercials about shit smearing the side of the toilet, now women trimming their pubic hair on a kid's network?

 

It left me speechless.

[butterbody]

I just saw a commercial for rite aid, where this sickly husband is on the couch and the wife says she'll go get him some medicine.

Then this bitch pulls into Macy's and proceeds to try on jeans & buy headphones while her husband is dying back at home.