Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

OSM Mom · December 9, 2015

That annoying blonde model who's hawking Stelara needs to go away. And take all those people whose whatever is showing with her. Obnoxious twits.

peacheslatour · December 9, 2015

And I have to say Gaga looks stunning here.

I agree, I just wish they hadn't chosen such a rapey song.

KLovestoShop · December 10, 2015

I know this commercial has been around for a while, but I HATE the Trop 50 commercials. When she tells her personal trainer to drop and give her 50, she looks at him like he's got a huge woody in his pants.

peacheslatour · December 10, 2015

I know this commercial has been around for a while, but I HATE the Trop 50 commercials. When she tells her personal trainer to drop and give her 50, she looks at him like he's got a huge woody in his pants.

I hate the way she over-enunciates every friggin word!

Cobalt Stargazer · December 10, 2015

I know this commercial has been around for a while, but I HATE the Trop 50 commercials. When she tells her personal trainer to drop and give her 50, she looks at him like he's got a huge woody in his pants.

Great, now the next time that ad comes on I'm gonna be wondering if they're doing some weird sex thing when she's sitting on his back while he does push-ups. Like elbow sex, but different.

LuciaMia · December 10, 2015

Just why the heck are George Clooney and Danny Devito doing a coffee commercial? They don't have enough money?

KLovestoShop · December 10, 2015

George has to cover the expenses of his wife's clothes shopping. Rumors have it that she can go through $100,000 a month in her super high end designer clothes. She doesn't wear off the rack, and her shoes and handbags alone cost thousands.

Actually, I don't know why A list stars do commercials, knowing they make $20 million per picture, or $1,000,000+ per episode to do a tv show. And if you travel internationally, you'd be surprised by how many big name stars you see on huge billboards and doing commercials. Celebrities are especially revered in Japan and China.

I don't know about you, but if I dislike a celebrity, I refuse to buy a product they endorse.

Edited December 10, 2015 by KLovestoShop

peacheslatour · December 10, 2015

George has to cover the expenses of his wife's clothes shopping. Rumors have it that she can go through $100,000 a month in her super high end designer clothes. She doesn't wear off the rack, and her shoes and handbags alone cost thousands.

Username checks out.

RCharter · December 10, 2015

George has to cover the expenses of his wife's clothes shopping. Rumors have it that she can go through $100,000 a month in her super high end designer clothes. She doesn't wear off the rack, and her shoes and handbags alone cost thousands.

If she is married to George Clooney and paying for clothes she is doing it wrong.

peacheslatour · December 10, 2015

If she is married to George Clooney and paying for clothes she is doing it wrong.

She's a highly educated international human rights attorney and published author. I think she can afford her own clothes.

RCharter · December 10, 2015

She's a highly educated international human rights attorney and published author. I think she can afford her own clothes.

She is all of those things, and I'm certain she can afford her own clothes (although 100k a month is pretty high, even for the most well paid of attorneys)

However, since she is married to George Clooney and is photographed all the time she should be getting designer clothes for free. Or even getting paid to wear them so she can get photographed in them.

Calamity Jane · December 10, 2015

And the fine print in the ad says "compared to a 6-year-old PC". Well, no shit, anything will be better compared to any computer from 6 years ago.

Ha - made me remember that we used the same desktop computers for the whole nine years I was at my last school before retiring in June. We were using Windows XP until last year. Maybe the year before. Anyway, that's a loooonnnnggg time for a computer.

RCharter · December 10, 2015

Ha - made me remember that we used the same desktop computers for the whole nine years I was at my last school before retiring in June. We were using Windows XP until last year. Maybe the year before. Anyway, that's a loooonnnnggg time for a computer.

I still miss Windows XP. I refuse to have anything to do with Windows 8....I would use a piece of paper, a pen and an abacus before dealing with that. In fact, when I was last looking for a computer I specifically looked for ones pre-loaded with Windows 7. It made my search much easier.

CarpeDiem54 · December 10, 2015

I still miss Windows XP. I refuse to have anything to do with Windows 8....I would use a piece of paper, a pen and an abacus before dealing with that. In fact, when I was last looking for a computer I specifically looked for ones pre-loaded with Windows 7. It made my search much easier.

I just got a new Windows 10 laptop to replace my nine year old Windows XP one. It's sitting on the dining room table. I haven't even plugged the poor thing in. I iz afraid.

RCharter · December 10, 2015

I just got a new Windows 10 laptop to replace my nine year old Windows XP one. It's sitting on the dining room table. I haven't even plugged the poor thing in. I iz afraid.

I've heard good things about Windows 10. But I'm in no hurry at all. As soon as I saw Windows 8, I knew I had to try to make my old laptop last as long as possible, because no way was I getting involved in that disaster.

But, even knowing this laptop had Windows 7, it took having the hard drive on my old computer give out before I actually turned this one on.

And I still don't know what KIK'ing is.

Cobalt Stargazer · December 10, 2015

I just got a new Windows 10 laptop to replace my nine year old Windows XP one. It's sitting on the dining room table. I haven't even plugged the poor thing in. I iz afraid.

I just installed Windows 10 on my new(ish) laptop after using 9 for ages, and I've got no complaints. There are some differences between the iterations, but not enormous ones.

CarpeDiem54 · December 10, 2015

Thanks guys. I've been told Windows 10 is pretty easy to navigate. I used to train people on software (mid-size IBM systems) for goodness sake, and would get annoyed with scaredy cats like me.

You're ahead of me, RCharter. I've never heard of KIK'ing and don't want to know!

Calamity Jane · December 10, 2015

I just got a new Windows 10 laptop to replace my nine year old Windows XP one. It's sitting on the dining room table. I haven't even plugged the poor thing in. I iz afraid.

I liked XP, but adapted to the new one, whatever it was. I stopped paying attention a while back. ;-)

RCharter · December 10, 2015

Thanks guys. I've been told Windows 10 is pretty easy to navigate. I used to train people on software (mid-size IBM systems) for goodness sake, and would get annoyed with scaredy cats like me.

You're ahead of me, RCharter. I've never heard of KIK'ing and don't want to know!

Whats 10x worse is that I've had at least 5 people try to explain to me what KIK is and I'm still confused.

I remember writing code in BASIC....those were the days......long, long ago.

Calamity Jane · December 11, 2015

Whats 10x worse is that I've had at least 5 people try to explain to me what KIK is and I'm still confused.

I remember writing code in BASIC....those were the days......long, long ago.

My husband wrote in assembly language, got all these punch cards, then took them to a different facility to have them assembled (I think that's the term), which resulted in long, long hole-punched rolls of narrow paper. He would bring both home when they were done, and my 3-year-old would wind/stack them in the dishwasher to make his own "pocuter." Them was the days.

RCharter · December 11, 2015

My husband wrote in assembly language, got all these punch cards, then took them to a different facility to have them assembled (I think that's the term), which resulted in long, long hole-punched rolls of narrow paper. He would bring both home when they were done, and my 3-year-old would wind/stack them in the dishwasher to make his own "pocuter." Them was the days.

sister, you got me beat!

frenchtoast · December 11, 2015

Hi folks! We seem to have wandered from complaining about commercials to complaining about computers. Both commercials and computers assuredly annoy, irritate and enrage, but we need to stick to just commercials in here. Feel free to discuss computers etc in the Small Talk area, though.

Thanks!

Calamity Jane · December 11, 2015

sister, you got me beat!

I'm old, and my husband was a good bit older than I, so this is going back to the seventies.

RCharter · December 11, 2015

I'm old, and my husband was a good bit older than I, so this is going back to the seventies.

does he watch Halt and Catch Fire?

Haleth · December 11, 2015

Never mind. I was ranting about Win10 before I saw frenchtoast's post.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Haleth

spaceytraci1208 · December 11, 2015

Is anyone else bombarded by ads for a product called "Fill N Freeze"? It appears to essentially be spackle for the lines in your face. I have to change the channel before the "customer testimonial"...the lady's voice makes me want to punch her.

ZaldamoWilder · December 11, 2015

Sorry if it's been discussed. Scrubbing Bubbles, the stray dog. Thankfully there is enough lead time before the mom opens the bathroom door for me to make a hasty exit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_CwSC2miY

Carleen · December 11, 2015

Hmm…let's see….besides Strudel Boy, Creepy E-Harmony Dude and Cawowine…there is Flo from Progressive Insurance who is becoming rather tiresome, the supposed "real people" who gush about "different positions, different speeds" in the Trojan Vibrations commercials (not the actors whose hair blows back), the Yoplait Light teenaged girl being snotty with her mother about "swapping" her inarticulate boyfriend for a grungier model. The two guys from the Sonic commercials who sit in their car and bicker. I can't decide if they are a nerdy gay couple or a pair of socially awkward cousins hiding out from their nagging wives.

Carleen · December 11, 2015

The one that skeeves me out is the Neulasta commercial with the two sisters. The younger one looks like she's about to give her smug older sister a beatdown.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Carleen

Seaheart · December 11, 2015

The Pop Tart commercial with the baby pop tart in the nursery...when the nurse says "Feeding time, mmmmmmmmm" it's like a commercial for a kid food suddenly morphed into a disturbing food porno. "Jammit!" I have to believe this commercial was written by someone high on pot and having the munchies.

And speaking of crazy, the "milk face" commercial really creeps me out!

Hmm…let's see….besides Strudel Boy, Creepy E-Harmony Dude and Cawowine…there is Flo from Progressive Insurance who is becoming rather tiresome, the supposed "real people" who gush about "different positions, different speeds" in the Trojan Vibrations commercials (not the actors whose hair blows back), the Yoplait Light teenaged girl being snotty with her mother about "swapping" her inarticulate boyfriend for a grungier model. The two guys from the Sonic commercials who sit in their car and bicker. I can't decide if they are a nerdy gay couple or a pair of socially awkward cousins hiding out from their nagging wives.

I always thought those Sonic guys were way too immature and pathetic to ever get a girlfriend, let alone wife

Edited December 11, 2015 by Seaheart

mmecorday · December 11, 2015

Sorry if it's been discussed. Scrubbing Bubbles, the stray dog. Thankfully there is enough lead time before the mom opens the bathroom door for me to make a hasty exit.

Zaldamo Wilder (love your name!), that commercial has been disturbing me for some time now. What exactly was on that dog? Was it dipped in gravy?

There's an ad now for an Alzheimer's drug called Namzeric. The first time I heard it, I thought, "Why name a prescription drug after the keyboard player from The Doors?"

InDueTime · December 11, 2015

No offense to Star Wars fans, but I am sick of it being referenced in every other ad that comes on my screen. How many times can that damn "I. AM. YOUR. FATHER." quote be beaten into the ground? For example:

I know it's supposed to be heart-warming, but really dude? Star Wars is the only thing you can bond over with your kid? You have no other hobbies and interests? God forbid she likes something different from you.

Bastet · December 11, 2015

Wow, that commercial is awful. So he spent her whole childhood forcing Star Wars shit onto her even though she wasn't into it, and now she's taken it up because it's the only way he'll interact with her?

CoderLady · December 11, 2015

No offense to Star Wars fans, but I am sick of it being referenced in every other ad that comes on my screen.

Cars & trucks, fast food, toys, big box stores, electronic gadgets, clothes -- all Star Wars, all the time. If it weren't for the double whammy of an impending movie opening and Christmas there probably wouldn't be such an overload, but it's still making me borderline stabby.

Watcher0363 · December 11, 2015

Cars & trucks, fast food, toys, big box stores, electronic gadgets, clothes -- all Star Wars, all the time. If it weren't for the double whammy of an impending movie opening and Christmas there probably wouldn't be such an overload, but it's still making me borderline stabby.

As if the double whammy is coincidence. Lol. What's funny is I think those commercials are aimed more at the parents than their children.

ZaldamoWilder · December 11, 2015

Zaldamo Wilder (love your name!), that commercial has been disturbing me for some time now. What exactly was on that dog? Was it dipped in gravy?

Lol, thanks! See that's the thing, I can't figure it out. Gravy, mud, doggie gifts, whatever it is, there is sooooo much wrong with the scene that it triggers my inner Sheldon Cooper. Why aren't the children, who seem to have plucked this poor thing from a life of filth, themselves filthy? How did both of them (under let's say 7 years old) manage to sneak an animal in the house, upstairs, fill a bathtub with water and begin to bathe him completely undetected? finally, after that, why is he STILL not clean?

It's an all white bathroom, there should be more than one bottle of scrubbing bubbles in there.

Jamoche · December 11, 2015

The two guys from the Sonic commercials who sit in their car and bicker. I can't decide if they are a nerdy gay couple or a pair of socially awkward cousins hiding out from their nagging wives.

Not even the most desperate Judge Judy defendant would marry either of those two idiots.

CoyoteBlue · December 11, 2015

Lol, thanks! See that's the thing, I can't figure it out. Gravy, mud, doggie gifts, whatever it is, there is sooooo much wrong with the scene that it triggers my inner Sheldon Cooper.

It's, like, some reddish clay-mud that must have been several inches deep on that dog to cover that much of the room? Maybe they brought a ball of mud home and were surprised to find a dog in it when they accidentally dropped it in the tub...

Muffyn · December 11, 2015

Lol, thanks! See that's the thing, I can't figure it out. Gravy, mud, doggie gifts, whatever it is, there is sooooo much wrong with the scene that it triggers my inner Sheldon Cooper. Why aren't the children, who seem to have plucked this poor thing from a life of filth, themselves filthy? How did both of them (under let's say 7 years old) manage to sneak an animal in the house, upstairs, fill a bathtub with water and begin to bathe him completely undetected? finally, after that, why is he STILL not clean?

It's an all white bathroom, there should be more than one bottle of scrubbing bubbles in there.

I'm afraid I am going to make this commercial worse for everyone. It always appears to me that the dog has been covered in raw sewage, like it did a Shawshank Redemption escape to the bathtub. Totally skeeves me out.

LoneHaranguer · December 11, 2015

Not even the most desperate Judge Judy defendant would marry either of those two idiots.

I don't think the Sonic guy on the right is any worse than many sitcom dads, but you'd probably have to be looking at animated shows to find one to match the idiot on the left.

peacheslatour · December 11, 2015

I like to think guy on the right is taking his re..er differently abled cousin out for a treat.

Sandman87 · December 12, 2015

No offense to Star Wars fans, but I am sick of it being referenced in every other ad that comes on my screen. How many times can that damn "I. AM. YOUR. FATHER." quote be beaten into the ground?

Enough with the Star Wars crap. It's a damn kids' movie, not a way of life. If I hear that stupid music from the cantina scene one more time...

riley702 · December 12, 2015

I'd question whether or not it's a kid's movie...

Watcher0363 · December 12, 2015

Enough with the Star Wars crap. It's a damn kids' movie, not a way of life. If I hear that stupid music from the cantina scene one more time...

I'm 53 and them there are some fighting words. 14 yrs old, lawn mowing money, mom drops me off at the Grove Park theater. Two hours later and I had seen the best movie ever made.

RCharter · December 12, 2015

I'd question whether or not it's a kid's movie...

Nothing is just for kids anymore. I just watched a documentary about grown men into My Little Pony. Like really into My Little Pony

Rick Kitchen · December 12, 2015

Nothing is just for kids anymore. I just watched a documentary about grown men into My Little Pony. Like really into My Little Pony

They call themselves Bronies.

Cobalt Stargazer · December 12, 2015

Jesus, did I ever pick the wrong time to poke my head into this thread. D-:

Rick Kitchen · December 12, 2015

Taking brony followup to the small talk thread.

RCharter · December 12, 2015

Jesus, did I ever pick the wrong time to poke my head into this thread. D-:

Really? I figured I was doing a public service!

Ubiquitous · December 12, 2015

I'm 53 and them there are some fighting words. 14 yrs old, lawn mowing money, mom drops me off at the Grove Park theater. Two hours later and I had seen the best movie ever made.

Oh, what did you see? ;-)

Yeah, I'm tired of the Star Wars tie-in ads too.

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