Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Sandman87]

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.

Yeah, I thought it was the greatest thing ever too...when I saw it at a drive-in at the age of 10. These days, not so much. Like I said, a kids' movie.

[RCharter]

Yeah, I thought it was the greatest thing ever too...when I saw it at a drive-in at the age of 10. These days, not so much. Like I said, a kids' movie.

I can still watch Star Wars and be entertained.  I can also still watch Never Ending Story (although its a bit harder because those were some 80's movie effects for real!) and Princess Bride.  Some movies just hold up.

[peacheslatour]

I can still watch Star Wars and be entertained.  I can also still watch Never Ending Story (although its a bit harder because those were some 80's movie effects for real!) and Princess Bride.  Some movies just hold up.

I can't.  Oh god, poor, poor Artax. *sob*

[mojoween]

What I don't get about the glut of Star Wars ads is that it is absolutely not necessary. That movie is going to make billions whether they show one commercial or eleventy-seven.

And for some reason the one that irritates me the most is the girl who opens her light saber in Subway.

[Watcher0363]

What I don't get about the glut of Star Wars ads is that it is absolutely not necessary. That movie is going to make billions whether they show one commercial or eleventy-seven.

And for some reason the one that irritates me the most is the girl who opens her light saber in Subway.

There was a financial write up about why Disney was spending so much money promoting the movie. As for any woman who reveals her light saber. I would swipe right.

Edited December 12, 2015 by Watcher0363

[Amethyst]

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.

 

Nothing like seeing a nurse devour your newborn baby.  Of course we're talking about a pop-tart, but the whole thing comes off as more creepy than funny.  It's like the Lay's commercials with the husband and wife (who are chips) eating chips.  Would that be food cannibalism?

 

 

What I don't get about the glut of Star Wars ads is that it is absolutely not necessary. That movie is going to make billions whether they show one commercial or eleventy-seven.

 

Bingo. It's going to make bank no matter what, the influx of commercials is just obnoxious at this point.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Nothing like seeing a nurse devour your newborn baby.  Of course we're talking about a pop-tart, but the whole thing comes off as more creepy than funny.  It's like the Lay's commercials with the husband and wife (who are chips) eating chips.  Would that be food cannibalism?

 

Ask the Cinnamon Toast Crunch people. They started it.

[RCharter]

There was a financial write up about why Disney was spending so much money promoting the movie. As for any woman who reveals her light saber. I would swipe right.

You want a woman to show you her light saber?  You're a dirty bird!

[Betelnut]

The Dealdash commercial where the woman says, "In four months, I've won 104 auctions." Jesus lady, I guess we'll be seeing you on an episode of Hoarders soon then, eh?

[90PercentGravity]

Ask the Cinnamon Toast Crunch people. They started it.

I think the California Raisins started it.

[Maharincess]

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.

I'm 50, think it sucks and am so damn sick of the commercials.

[NinjaPenguins]

I'm at my limit with Cricket Wireless commercials, especially the recent one where voiceover lady says "woo-hoo" in the dumbest way possible. Also, "the merrier carrier?" Stop it.

I confess that I am easily annoyed by voiceovers. The free verse-spouting douche droning on about Mazda, the guy doing the GMC ads who utters the word "precision" in a way that gives my brain piss shivers, and Julia Roberts talking about Nationwide in a monotone all harsh my mellow.

I could think of many more, but I want to discuss the new series of Farmer's Only commercials that put the WTF in fuckwittery. Am I to infer that country guys and farmers are inconsiderate dipshits who can only stare slackjawed as their sissified city dates experience physical misfortune? Where do they find the cartoonish stereotyped city princesses they're dating at the beginning of each commercial? Should rural folks be the most offended? Should city folks? Maybe they should be equally offended? I think I'd rather be lonely than visit Farmer's Only dot com (feel free to steal my jingle, Farmer's Only people!)

[Maharincess]

All of the Liberty Mutual commercials are bad but to me the new one is so, so bad.

The 45 year old cry baby whining that his insurance company didn't ask how he was is the worst. They didn't ask because they don't give a shit you big baby.

[mojoween]

There is an ad for something or other where this chick tells this guy she will go on a date with him so he has to sell all of his worldly possessions to afford it. First off, if it doesn't work out you're going to be sad that you blew all that cash on one dinner and second if you couldn't afford dinner without selling everything you need to rethink your choices and third if you could only afford the one dinner because there is nothing left to sell you better tell her that.

[peacheslatour]

There is an ad for something or other where this chick tells this guy she will go on a date with him so he has to sell all of his worldly possessions to afford it. First off, if it doesn't work out you're going to be sad that you blew all that cash on one dinner and second if you couldn't afford dinner without selling everything you need to rethink your choices and third if you could only afford the one dinner because there is nothing left to sell you better tell her that.

And their date ends up at some lame cafeteria looking place and she says wow you really stepped it up this time.  If she wants to go out with him so much why, in the name of Gloria Steinem doesn't she pay for the friggin date?

[Eliot]

Well, I learned about misophonia (sp?) on these threads. I think I have it to some degree or I just loathe certain things. There was a stop smoking ad in which a man had lost teeth. He'd slurp and pull out his dentures which would clack together. I couldn't hit mute fast enough. I also hate any Hardee's commercial bc they are always slurping and smacking and whatnot. When we were kids, my dad would smash the potato chips in the bag so they'd become small crumbs... so they wouldn't crunch. :) NO really....

 

There is now a Beneful commercial with a dog slurping his Beneful and "talking" at the same time about how much he loves Beneful. I now hate that disgusting dog.

 

Also, are all LandRover owners just assholes who associate with other assholes? First we had the douchey wedding party that insisted on grousing their way up a hill during a driving rainstorm so they could get married on their stupid mountaintop, snarking and bitching at one another all the while. Now we have a crabby lady stuck on an ice floe with her huskies and a sullen driver who picks her up and ferries her and her dogs to the other side with nary a smile or thank you between them.

Edited December 15, 2015 by Eliot

[meep.meep]

The stupid Halo's commercials with the homicidal children and their whipped parents can just go the hell away now.

 

I hate tangerines.  They can have them all.

[peacheslatour]

The Xfinity ad with the kid who is moving and all his friends basically tell him to fuck off makes me sad.  My kid moved a couple times when he was early twenties and his friends always helped and he always helped them. 

[CarpeDiem54]

The stupid Halo's commercials with the homicidal children and their whipped parents can just go the hell away now.

I hate tangerines. They can have them all.

I went to the store and on my list was Clementines. The only brand they had was Halos. I bought navel oranges instead. Hate those psychopathic little brats. Edited December 14, 2015 by CarpeDiem54

[meep.meep]

The Xfinity ad with the kid who is moving and all his friends basically tell him to fuck off makes me sad.  My kid moved a couple times when he was early twenties and his friends always helped and he always helped them. 

There's actually two - a guy and a girl are each moving.  This may be the only helpful thing that Comcast does......

 

I had a friend who we moved several times.  The last time, we realized that we were moving the same boxes of empty bottles that we had moved the previous time.  And it was over.

 

To quote Mark Brandanowitz:  I hate having a pickup.

[iMonrey]

Speaking of Star Wars-related ads, there is a commercial where various people are quoting that famous line "If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine . . . " and one by one they disappear and their clothes fall into a pile. What on earth is this ad for??

[RCharter]

Speaking of Star Wars-related ads, there is a commercial where various people are quoting that famous line "If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine . . . " and one by one they disappear and their clothes fall into a pile. What on earth is this ad for??

The book of revelations?  the weird movie kirk cameron made?

[Maverick]

Mannequins

[RCharter]

Mannequins

That was an excellent movie

[peacheslatour]

That was an excellent movie

The one with Andrew McCarthy?

[RCharter]

The one with Andrew McCarthy?

That is the one....Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattral.

 

They did a Mannequin 2......I was not as amused.

[SoSueMe]

I want to hunt her down and hurt her.

[AimingforYoko]

Not so offended by Fred, but Carrie you're in Sleater-Kinney for God's sake. Show some indie pride!

[Haleth]

I am sick to death of all the Star Wars related commercials.  Every other commercial has stormtroopers, light sabers, "I am your father," etc.  Blech.  Even our local news anchors are doing promos dressed in SW costumes.  Please let these all be over once the movie opens!

[90PercentGravity]

How does that cross promotion thing even work? For instance, there is a Star Wars themed Dodge commercial. Does Dodge pay Disney for the licensing or does Disney pay Dodge for the promotion?

[St. Claire]

I'm still trying to figure out how the second couple's clothing is more acceptable for dinner than Carrie & Fred's. OK, Fred's wearing a hoodie (that could be stepped up, although new boy's untucked flannel isn't winning any fashion awards) but the new woman isn't dressed more nicely than Carrie is (sweater dress and ginormous scarf vs. casual pants and blazer- she even put a bird on it). 

 

Of note: my spellcheck now accepts "ginormous" as a real word, but doesn't like "untucked."

[peacheslatour]

There was just a commercial for Omaha Steaks and the VO says you can order them during the busy holiday season, but I mis-heard it as "during the Disney holiday season" and thought well that's it, Disney now owns Christmas.

[meep.meep]

How does that cross promotion thing even work? For instance, there is a Star Wars themed Dodge commercial. Does Dodge pay Disney for the licensing or does Disney pay Dodge for the promotion?

Everybody pays Disney.  It's kind of their thing.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Everybody pays Disney.  It's kind of their thing.

 

They're like Geico customers, its what they do.

[Brattinella]

I heard the tail-end of a commercial yesterday, and it mentioned "Disney's KERMIT".  WTF??  Isn't that Henson's Kermit?

[yourmomiseasy]

I want to hunt her down and hurt her.

 

So does my dog.  I have to fast forward whenever this is on or she goes ape shit.  It's right up there with other animals and babies on the list of things she doesn't like to see/hear on TV.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

The Humane Society does good work, and putting a stop to seal hunting is a noble endeavor.

 

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7cuf/humane-society-ending-animal-cruelty-featuring-kaley-cuoco

 

But Kaley Cuoco either needs to enunciate or tell them to hire a new spokesperson. The word is Canadian, not comedian, and yet the latter is what I hear every. single. time.

[peacheslatour]

I heard the tail-end of a commercial yesterday, and it mentioned "Disney's KERMIT".  WTF??  Isn't that Henson's Kermit?

Not any more, from Wiki:

 

In February 2004, The Walt Disney Company purchased the Muppets and the Bear in the Big Blue House characters from The Jim Henson Company. The purchase did not include the Sesame Street characters, which are separately owned by Sesame Workshop, nor did it include Fraggle Rock and other franchises, which The Jim Henson Company retained.

[Brattinella]

Not any more, from Wiki:

 

In February 2004, The Walt Disney Company purchased the Muppets and the Bear in the Big Blue House characters from The Jim Henson Company. The purchase did not include the Sesame Street characters, which are separately owned by Sesame Workshop, nor did it include Fraggle Rock and other franchises, which The Jim Henson Company retained.

 

Wow.  This breaks my heart. :(

[peacheslatour]

Wow.  This breaks my heart. :(

Me too.

[Rick Kitchen]

 

So does my dog.  I have to fast forward whenever this is on or she goes ape shit.  It's right up there with other animals and babies on the list of things she doesn't like to see/hear on TV.

 

That's Missy Elliott!

 

[RCharter]

That's Missy Elliott!

 

I just added that song to my workout MP3.  I know no one cares, but I shared anyways.  So happy Missy is getting talked about again, in a world full of hip hop artists all doing the exact same thing in the exact same way, she is a breath of fresh air.  And she manages to keep all her clothes on, which in and of itself is startling these days.

[Maverick]

Wow.  This breaks my heart. :(

 

 Well, on the bright side they've owned them for almost 16 years and you have noticed so they didn't screw them up too bad.

[BW Manilowe]

Not any more, from Wiki:

In February 2004, The Walt Disney Company purchased the Muppets and the Bear in the Big Blue House characters from The Jim Henson Company. The purchase did not include the Sesame Street characters, which are separately owned by Sesame Workshop, nor did it include Fraggle Rock and other franchises, which The Jim Henson Company retained.

But the thing about Kermit is, he is & he also isn't a Sesame Street character. He's, like, the only Muppet which is in both SS & the more "adult" Muppet stuff, like the current The Muppets show, the older The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight, & the movies. But it looks like he wasn't considered a SS character for the purposes of the Disney deal.

[Ubiquitous]

The Xfinity ad with the kid who is moving and all his friends basically tell him to fuck off makes me sad.  My kid moved a couple times when he was early twenties and his friends always helped and he always helped them.

To be fair, he didn't ask them ahead of time instead of the day he was moving.

Speaking of Star Wars-related ads, there is a commercial where various people are quoting that famous line "If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine . . . " and one by one they disappear and their clothes fall into a pile. What on earth is this ad for??

I think it's a video game.

[SoSueMe]

That's Missy Elliott!

 

The one I was talking about is Lady Leshurr. I had to google the commercial. I'm a glutton for punishment, lol.

[legaleagle53]

But the thing about Kermit is, he is & he also isn't a Sesame Street character. He's, like, the only Muppet which is in both SS & the more "adult" Muppet stuff, like the current The Muppets show, the older The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight, & the movies. But it looks like he wasn't considered a SS character for the purposes of the Disney deal.

 

That's because Kermit actually pre-dates Sesame Street by more than a decade.  He made his debut as Jim Henson's very first Muppet back in 1955.  Sesame Street didn't premiere until 14 years later in 1969.

[theatremouse]

I'm still trying to figure out how the second couple's clothing is more acceptable for dinner than Carrie & Fred's. OK, Fred's wearing a hoodie (that could be stepped up, although new boy's untucked flannel isn't winning any fashion awards) but the new woman isn't dressed more nicely than Carrie is (sweater dress and ginormous scarf vs. casual pants and blazer- she even put a bird on it).

This is just a guess. I am self-proclaimed not fashionable. But my impression based on their outfits wasn't that the adult-table friends were necessarily fancier dressed or "nicer" dressed. I think the point was they were better dressed. As in, Fred's character is too casual, hoodie, whatnot. Carrie's is dressed, I'm just guessing, too old for her age. Or they think her outfit just isn't on trend. Or something. The implication isn't that they're in tatters, or underdressed or overdressed, just that they don't look good and apparently these friends will banish you just for that, and apparently Old Navy is supposed to be more stylish. That's how I interpreted it.

 

 

I heard the tail-end of a commercial yesterday, and it mentioned "Disney's KERMIT".  WTF??  Isn't that Henson's Kermit?

Even though the deal didn't happen until this century, Henson was trying to sell the Muppets to Disney back when he died. So it's not some brand new concept of Disney owning Muppets. Meanwhile, Henson's children since then have sold and bought back the Muppets a couple of times (earlier to a company other than Disney, most recently Disney). Although I believe officially they are still named "Jim Henson's Muppets" which just happen to be currently owned by Disney. So it is weird to me, even though Disney does own the muppets and has for over 10 years, that there would be an ad that's allowed to refer to "Disney's Kermit". I thought all that verbiage stuff was 8 million words of legalese worked out in the deal. I am not a lawyer though nor was I directly involved in any of this.

[RCharter]

Not so offended by Fred, but Carrie you're in Sleater-Kinney for God's sake. Show some indie pride!

I didn't watch this entire commercial.  But any party that requires me to step foot in an Old Navy is not the party for me.  And I don't appreciate any commercial that suggests the only way I can have friends that won't put me at a kid table is to buy shitty clothes from Old Navy.  And that party looks like it sucks anyways, I would rather stay home, eat a sandwich and snark with you guys (although you'll probably all go to to holiday parties)

[Watcher0363]

I think the takeaway from the Old Navy commercial is. You either wear clothes made in a third world child labor sweat shop. Or you dine with the insufferable brats. The Sophie's choice of the millennial's.