Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[proserpina65]

16 hours ago, Spunkygal said:

It was mildly amusing the first hundred times I saw it, but now I can't hit the mute button fast enough. Thanks for ruining Lionel Ritchie for me. I watch a lot of sports and holy crap....those Peyton on a Sunday morning commercials are shown ad nauseum. I think I just saw it for the 378th time. No, there it is again..make that 379. 

Okay, well I can see your point about seeing it waaaaay too many times.  I've been fortunate enough to only see them occasionally.  I'd probably change my mind if I saw them as many times as you have.

[DrSpaceman73]

Well if you watch the NFL for 6 hours on Sunday like I do you get tired of all the commercials.  Even the good ones

I like the Peyton commercials.  You don't wear a robe to the store anyway, except Wal Mart.  Just ads to the ridiculous nature of the situation. 

His kids are in school, said so on the Thursday night broadcast, and pretty sure his wife works.  She isn't the stay at home trophy wife type at least, they've been together since college. 

My favorite "retirement" commercial though is one ESPN did way back in the 90s.  I remember it had a whole bunch of retired athletes in a retirement home down in Florida playing shuffleboard, I think it was at least Barry Sanders and Bo Jackson.  Would have to look it up.  ESPN did some great commercials like that back in the 90s. 

[TattleTeeny]

22 hours ago, candall said:

Oh, you guys.  I'm as anti-kid/pro-pet as they come and I just see a dad who spots his "first baby" hurting and addresses it.  It's not like he activated one-step ordering for a doghouse, a stake and a chain.

Besides, the dog looks happy to be lion-doggie and get in there close to love on that baby. 

Dogs, they rise to meet the occasion.

I get annoyed at this commercial too, but these are good points you're making! However...

These people could conceivably just gradually introduce the baby to the dog by not forcing it; allow the baby to do its thing and the dog to do his, and sooner or later that baby will be used to the dog's presence and see that he is not scary. And I'll add that at least the people aren't rehoming their pet or leaving him at a shelter because the baby arrived.

[xaxat]

On 9/11/2016 at 8:07 PM, Cobalt Stargazer said:

And on that note, I hate the guy who used to say 'Can you hear me now?' only now he works for a rival company. He seems way too smug for someone whose former employer decided he was no longer effective, so he went to work for their competitor.

A friend of a friend was his agent during his initial ad campaign, and IRL he was apparently kind of a dick.

[roamyn]

I actually LIKE the Geico/Marco Polo commercial.

What I DISLIKE is the amount of times it's played every day!

[Ohwell]

On 9/12/2016 at 4:29 PM, candall said:

Oh, you guys.  I'm as anti-kid/pro-pet as they come and I just see a dad who spots his "first baby" hurting and addresses it.  It's not like he activated one-step ordering for a doghouse, a stake and a chain.

Besides, the dog looks happy to be lion-doggie and get in there close to love on that baby. 

Dogs, they rise to meet the occasion.

But is the dog gonna have to wear that thing all the damn time though?  There will come a time when he'll get sick of the father putting that thing on him.   

[theatremouse]

9 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

There are so many things wrong with the Viagra singles commercials that I don't even know where to begin. 

Why is this needed?  How is a Viagra "single" different from any other prescription you would get?  I mean I know ultimately its a marketing gimmick and probably just is some way they can protect or extend the patent for Viagra and sell it as a brand name and make more money, but still, I don't understand why its needed as a "single" pack. 

I do not like any of these ads and I think the product is ridiculous. However, when these ads first came up a while back, it was hypothesized by someone (sorry someone, I'm too lazy to go back and give you credit), that those things can be damn expensive and usually not covered by insurance. So for someone to be able to get a prescription and one buy or two pills, rather than fill a whole prescription that might be for say, 30 at once, that might expire before being used, increases their market share. If the price point of filling the whole thing would truly price out some potential customers, but those same potential customers would be willing to spend for one or two, if there are enough people who fit that bill, it could be very nice margins. So, that's why it's "needed"/ "how it's different". 

[shoovenbooty]

I don't know if this has already been discussed, but what I don't understand about the scared baby/dog commercial is this: If we are to assume the dog was the couple's "first baby" and has been in the house all along, before the baby was born to the couple, why isn't their daughter used to him yet? Or is he a new dog? Or is she a recently adopted, few-months-old baby? Or have they been hiding the dog in another room all these months until they figured the baby was old enough to interact with him? It just doesn't make sense to me that the baby is scared of the dog, and has been all along, and NOW the dad is figuring out, "Hey, maybe if I dress the dog like my daughter's favorite stuffed animal, she'll like him!" But I've never known a child who had a dog precede his/her arrival in the home, that grew up with the dog, that was afraid of the dog.

Edited September 13, 2016 by shoovenbooty

[kat165]

The baby is a baby, everything is new to her. And from her perspective that dog is HUGE.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

"Honey, your rump roast just broke the internet" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.

That is all.

[sofaslug]

Cannot stand the Time Warner Cable ads with the asshat neighbors.  If you've got that service stay the hell home and use it...leave your neighbors alone!

[Jamoche]

52 minutes ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

"Honey, your rump roast just broke the internet" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.

That is all.

Yesterday one afternoon show got it at every single commercial break. I am not exaggerating. If I were inclined to shop at Ikea, I'd have to stop.

[erikdepressant]

A while back, we discussed the Dannon Yogurt commercial in which a woman resists food temptations by shrinking other people's snacks.  Now we have the assholes in the oft-aired Invokana commercial.

What if farmers needed that rain?  What if someone wanted potatoes for dinner?  What if I wanted to enjoy a sugary beverage?  --In an elevator, because I was too lazy to take the stairs?

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That commercial makes me think of Invokana: The Gathering, a trading card game in which players use power discs against each other:

"I use my Red Smiley-Face Disc of Telekinesis to throw poison at you."

"Okay, I use my Blue Droplet Disc of Purification to turn your poison into water."

"Really?  Then I use my Orange Shoe Disc of Portals to send you into a forest!"

"Oh yeah?  Well, I use my Green Broccoli Disc of Reality Collapse to crush you in a produce aisle!"

[bilgistic]

53 minutes ago, erikdepressant said:

A while back, we discussed the Dannon Yogurt commercial in which a woman resists food temptations by shrinking other people's snacks.  Now we have the assholes in the oft-aired Invokana commercial.

What if farmers needed that rain?  What if someone wanted potatoes for dinner?  What if I wanted to enjoy a sugary beverage?  --In an elevator, because I was too lazy to take the stairs?

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That commercial makes me think of Invokana: The Gathering, a trading card game in which players use power discs against each other:

"I use my Red Smiley-Face Disc of Telekinesis to throw poison at you."

"Okay, I use my Blue Droplet Disc of Purification to turn your poison into water."

"Really?  Then I use my Orange Shoe Disc of Portals to send you into a forest!"

"Oh yeah?  Well, I use my Green Broccoli Disc of Reality Collapse to crush you in a produce aisle!"

What the hell did potatoes ever do to the folks who make Invokana is what I want to know! Fried, mashed, scalloped or hashed, potatoes are delicious!

Invokana sounds like the name of the most beautiful and magical white witch.

[backformore]

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These people could conceivably just gradually introduce the baby to the dog by not forcing it; allow the baby to do its thing and the dog to do his, and sooner or later that baby will be used to the dog's presence and see that he is not scary. And I'll add that at least the people aren't rehoming their pet or leaving him at a shelter because the baby arrived.

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The baby is a baby, everything is new to her. And from her perspective that dog is HUGE.

BUT -  the dog is already there, in the home.   The baby is sitting up - looks to be at least 6 months old, not a newborn.   Babies who grow up with a  dog in the house, do not suddenly develop a fear of the dog.  

[90PercentGravity]

I like the Amazon doggie commercial because it features an Asian family. Is that wrong?

[roamyn]

On Friday, September 09, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Prevailing Wind said:

 

But those commercials make me stabby. Why do people feel the need to have a big, expensive funeral?  Spend that money on appreciating the person while they're still alive.  When they're dead, what difference will it make?  Are they afraid "other people" will think they didn't love mom enough to send her off in style?  Screw that.

I'min the cemetery business. 

I'm taking this over to Small Talk to answer your questions.

[fishcakes]

6 hours ago, 90PercentGravity said:

I like the Amazon doggie commercial because it features an Asian family. Is that wrong?

Not to me. There are so few of us on TV, I'm always glad to see an Asian face that isn't Ken Jeong. And I don't have anything against Ken Jeong, but whenever a show needs an Asian guest star, it's always Ken Jeong. He's this century's Pat Morita.

In any case, this commercial was made in Japan for amazon.jp. So it's an Asian family just because the commercial is an import, not because Amazon or their ad people made the deliberate choice to make a commercial for the American market using Asian actors.

[Prevailing Wind]

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What the hell did potatoes ever do to the folks who make Invokana is what I want to know! Fried, mashed, scalloped or hashed, potatoes are delicious!

They are pretty big on carbohydrates, which turn into sugar that can't be processed too well in a diabetic's body. So what if you wanted to take the elevator or eat potatoes or drink a sugary beverage? Those folks in the ad have diabetes 2 and they need to not have potatoes or sugary beverages and to take the stairs for more exercise. They didn't change everything for everybody, just themselves. (well, except maybe for that stopping the rain thing, which has nothing to do with diabetes.)

My SIL is taking it and lost a fairly large amount of weight, but I read the side effects and I just don't think it's worth taking the risk.

[Brattinella]

The main thing that bothers me with the Invokana ads is the blasted LENGTH of them!  They are OVER two minutes long, maybe two and a half!  That is a ridiculous chunk of time to be inculcating viewers who might not want to be watching drug ads at all!

[backformore]

14 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

"Honey, your rump roast just broke the internet" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.

That is all.

Yes. And then the dad says "as it should". What???? Smug bastard.

I always laugh at the version that ends with some voice-over about family time being together time, or some such shit.  Because they show all the family members standing around with their phones, taking photos of the dinner they just all prepared!!

Yeah, in my house, when dinner is ready, we sit down and EAT it.  But we're not a bunch of pretentious pricks.

[DeLurker]

12 hours ago, bilgistic said:

Invokana sounds like the name of the most beautiful and magical white witch.

Sounds like a lesser known Trump child to me.  I'll resist further urge to comment.

[janie jones]

21 hours ago, xaxat said:

A friend of a friend was his agent during his initial ad campaign, and IRL he was apparently kind of a dick.

He seems to be kind of a dick in the commercials, too.  All of them:  the Verizon ones and whatever one's he's doing now.  Which, by the way, might not be a good strategy for whatever company he's working for now.  I so strongly associate him with Verizon, Verizon is all I can think of even when I know he's advertising something else.

 

11 hours ago, backformore said:

BUT -  the dog is already there, in the home.   The baby is sitting up - looks to be at least 6 months old, not a newborn.   Babies who grow up with a  dog in the house, do not suddenly develop a fear of the dog.  

Yeah, this is what doesn't make sense to me, either.

[mmecorday]

The Domino's ads about their new salads are so damn dumb. I'm not sure what they're charging for what they call salads, but I'm sure it's too much. And the lady who is ruining everyone's dinner plans because she wants a salad while they want pizza is eating mostly radishes. So why doesn't someone just say, "OK, eat your radish. We're getting pizza."

[Brattinella]

I would never bend to the will of someone who eats what my family called "rabbit food".

[janie jones]

I never eat at Domino's, so all that has happened to me from the salad commercials is that I'm now surprised that Domino's didn't have salad in the first place.

[proserpina65]

21 hours ago, kat165 said:

The baby is a baby, everything is new to her. And from her perspective that dog is HUGE.

She's not an infant, though, so unless she's newly adopted (or the dog is), the dog shouldn't be new to her.  I've obviously spent too much time thinking about this commercial.

12 hours ago, 90PercentGravity said:

I like the Amazon doggie commercial because it features an Asian family. Is that wrong?

That is one good thing about it.  That, and the adorability of the dog.

[iMonrey]

OK . . . Dominos has salads now, but - the family in the commercial is already eating salads. So clearly, they have salad in the fridge. No need to order salads from Dominos if some of the family wants pizza. 

[peacheslatour]

24 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

OK . . . Dominos has salads now, but - the family in the commercial is already eating salads. So clearly, they have salad in the fridge. No need to order salads from Dominos if some of the family wants pizza. 

If the family wants pizza and she wants salad, she could just throw something together. I mean, they want 5 bucks for those "salads". I bet she could easily make something better from what's in the fridge.

[mmecorday]

Seriously! She could make one of those Ree Drummond inspired wedge salads. They're so easy to make! You just chop a head of lettuce into fourths, add cayenne pepper, some thousand island dressing, a can of creamed corn, Worcestershire sauce, some fried onions, a handful of bacon bits, some jalapeno peppers, two ounces of Miracle Whip salad dressing, and a dash of paprika. Bon Appetite!

[DeLurker]

That's so much healthier than pizza too so she can continue to smugly act superior.

[DrSpaceman73]

23 hours ago, theatremouse said:

I do not like any of these ads and I think the product is ridiculous. However, when these ads first came up a while back, it was hypothesized by someone (sorry someone, I'm too lazy to go back and give you credit), that those things can be damn expensive and usually not covered by insurance. So for someone to be able to get a prescription and one buy or two pills, rather than fill a whole prescription that might be for say, 30 at once, that might expire before being used, increases their market share. If the price point of filling the whole thing would truly price out some potential customers, but those same potential customers would be willing to spend for one or two, if there are enough people who fit that bill, it could be very nice margins. So, that's why it's "needed"/ "how it's different". 

It doesn't matter how a prescription is written for a product, if you just want one tablet of Viagra, or anything, you can just ask for it at the pharmacy and just pay for one.  There is no need to package it different by the manufacturer to make the price different.  Plus this came up on another medical based message board I was on and the price for Viagra anymore is not that outrageous. 

In other words, if a doctor writes you a prescription for #30 Viagra, but you just want one, you just tell the pharmacist you want one because that is all you can afford, they give you one then then there are #29 left on the prescription.  They put one in the bottle or whatever package.  There is no need to package it different just to make the price different.  I know this from working as a physician and also having worked in a pharmacy when I was younger.  Writing the prescription instead for Viagra #1 of these with 30 refills or however many should not change the price or the ability to obtain the prescription. 

You can't get MORE than is written for at a time, but you can get less. 

[theatremouse]

Right but it's an ad so the product's existence is a marketing strategy to get people thinking about it one at a time, because even though they could fill it one at a time, it's not necessarily going to occur to them to do so, and if it doesn't occur to them that they could do that, it might not occur to them to bother getting the prescription in the first place.

I also imagine some focus group decided being able to have it in its own little individual packet to have on one's person, rather than a full on pill bottle, was desirable.

Again, I'm not on board with the product, or the advert. I'm just saying I don't find it nonsensical that someone came up with it.

Edited September 14, 2016 by theatremouse

[friendperidot]

shoovenbooty, I said all that exact stuff about the Amazon Lab/lion either several pages ago or in a different thread. It annoys me that the baby doesn't already accept the dog as her family. 

[Jamoche]

8 hours ago, backformore said:

Yes. And then the dad says "as it should". What???? Smug bastard.

The ad could almost work if the actors used a tone of voice that said "we know this is silly, but it's a family joke". But they're taking it all seriously, and no.

20 hours ago, erikdepressant said:

A while back, we discussed the Dannon Yogurt commercial in which a woman resists food temptations by shrinking other people's snacks.  Now we have the assholes in the oft-aired Invokana commercial.

What if farmers needed that rain?  What if someone wanted potatoes for dinner?  What if I wanted to enjoy a sugary beverage?  --In an elevator, because I was too lazy to take the stairs?

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That commercial makes me think of Invokana: The Gathering, a trading card game in which players use power discs against each other:

"I use my Red Smiley-Face Disc of Telekinesis to throw poison at you."

"Okay, I use my Blue Droplet Disc of Purification to turn your poison into water."

"Really?  Then I use my Orange Shoe Disc of Portals to send you into a forest!"

"Oh yeah?  Well, I use my Green Broccoli Disc of Reality Collapse to crush you in a produce aisle!"

The Little White Blob of Sadness beats all of those!

(This guy. It had quite a following back on the TWoP commercial boards:)

[peacheslatour]

2 hours ago, mmecorday said:

Seriously! She could make one of those Ree Drummond inspired wedge salads. They're so easy to make! You just chop a head of lettuce into fourths, add cayenne pepper, some thousand island dressing, a can of creamed corn, Worcestershire sauce, some fried onions, a handful of bacon bits, some jalapeno peppers, two ounces of Miracle Whip salad dressing, and a dash of paprika. Bon Appetite!

And some bal-saam-ic vinegar. Oh, and don't forget the SPRINKLES!!!

[Brattinella]

Viagra is a reliable product for its purpose, I don't understand the animosity shown for it.

Also, not all pharmacists will allow you to take home a portion of a prescription, they have considered it as a 'filled' prescription.  Maybe different states have different laws.

[ennui]

On 9/10/2016 at 10:30 AM, Ubiquitous said:

The car with a pickup truck bed instead of a trunk?

Are you referring to the El Camino (Chevrolet) or the Ranchero (Ford)? I don't recall Dodge made anything like them.

Oops! I clearly missed a few pages before posting .... sorry to be out of step.

Edited September 15, 2016 by ennui

[Brattinella]

4 hours ago, mmecorday said:

Seriously! She could make one of those Ree Drummond inspired wedge salads. They're so easy to make! You just chop a head of lettuce into fourths, add cayenne pepper, some thousand island dressing, a can of creamed corn, Worcestershire sauce, some fried onions, a handful of bacon bits, some jalapeno peppers, two ounces of Miracle Whip salad dressing, and a dash of paprika. Bon Appetite!

Can of CREAMED CORN??  Bleh!

[DeLurker]

3 hours ago, Brattinella said:

Viagra is a reliable product for its purpose, I don't understand the animosity shown for it.

I think it is the marketing that generates the hate.

I find the actor portraying Sébastien Artois in the Stellar Artois commercials highly punchable.

[Brattinella]

9 minutes ago, DeLurker said:

I think it is the marketing that generates the hate.

I find the actor portraying Sébastien Artois in the Stellar Artois commercials highly punchable.

I have to agree that the marketing for Viagra is pretty gross, but the product is not inherently hateful.  There are some physical maladies that make this pill invaluable.

[NinjaPenguins]

Yeah, I wouldn't even give a thought to Viagra if it weren't for the off-putting ads. It would have my total apathy.

I really dislike those Red's Apple Ale commercials where people get beaned in the noggin with flying fruit. 

[Prevailing Wind]

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I also imagine some focus group decided being able to have it in its own little individual packet to have on one's person, rather than a full on pill bottle, was desirable.

But aren't guys usually hoping they'll get lucky?  That's why they'd buy more than one - to be prepared in case that chick with the Brit accent shows up.

[DrSpaceman73]

15 hours ago, theatremouse said:

Right but it's an ad so the product's existence is a marketing strategy to get people thinking about it one at a time, because even though they could fill it one at a time, it's not necessarily going to occur to them to do so, and if it doesn't occur to them that they could do that, it might not occur to them to bother getting the prescription in the first place.

I also imagine some focus group decided being able to have it in its own little individual packet to have on one's person, rather than a full on pill bottle, was desirable.

Again, I'm not on board with the product, or the advert. I'm just saying I don't find it nonsensical that someone came up with it.

Oh it doesn't surprise me at all that they came up with it or are trying to push it this way.  Its the same thing they did with Zithromax Z-Pak.  You just package it different, but its still Zithromax a certain number of pills.  The Z-pak made BILLIONS though thanks you successful marketing.  I am sure they are hoping this is the same way. 

But it still bugs me and is really completely unnecessary from a medical or pharmaceutical standpoint.  Its sole purpose is from a marketing standpoint. 

[DrSpaceman73]

13 hours ago, Brattinella said:

Viagra is a reliable product for its purpose, I don't understand the animosity shown for it.

Also, not all pharmacists will allow you to take home a portion of a prescription, they have considered it as a 'filled' prescription.  Maybe different states have different laws.

I am not against Viagra the product.  It works great (........or so I've heard, of course), and has a purpose. 

My objection to it and similar products is more due to having to sit and watch these commercials every 10 minutes on Sundays, with my young son, who luckily has yet to ask anything about them, and the lack of any necessity other than marketing for making a Viagra single pack. 

And even if pharmacy laws vary by state, all they would have to do then is call the doctors office and ask then to change the prescription to Viagra #1 dispensed at a time. 

[bilgistic]

23 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

They are pretty big on carbohydrates, which turn into sugar that can't be processed too well in a diabetic's body. So what if you wanted to take the elevator or eat potatoes or drink a sugary beverage? Those folks in the ad have diabetes 2 and they need to not have potatoes or sugary beverages and to take the stairs for more exercise. They didn't change everything for everybody, just themselves. (well, except maybe for that stopping the rain thing, which has nothing to do with diabetes.)

My SIL is taking it and lost a fairly large amount of weight, but I read the side effects and I just don't think it's worth taking the risk.

Yes, I know potatoes are starchy carbs. That doesn't negate their deliciousness.

[SoSueMe]

On 9/13/2016 at 7:42 AM, DrSpaceman73 said:

There are so many things wrong with the Viagra singles commercials that I don't even know where to begin. 

 

Why is this needed?  How is a Viagra "single" different from any other prescription you would get?  I mean I know ultimately its a marketing gimmick and probably just is some way they can protect or extend the patent for Viagra and sell it as a brand name and make more money, but still, I don't understand why its needed as a "single" pack. 

 

I am surprised they don't do a package deal with a Viagra and a condom together. 

 

On 9/13/2016 at 10:23 AM, rhys said:

Those Viagra ads annoy me no end. They never show the guy's face; only the woman's. WTH?

I expect that the male actor doesn't want to be typecast, lol.

On 9/13/2016 at 10:35 AM, riley702 said:

I think that's so each guy watching can imagine himself with those women.

I pretty much hate all the viagra commercials, cialis is only slightly less offensive. And as others have said, it's the commercials, not the product. But I must say, at least I don't have to endure that horrendous "Viva Viagra!" from several years ago (it's been a while, thank goodness. 

[proserpina65]

18 hours ago, Brattinella said:

Can of CREAMED CORN??  Bleh!

I like creamed corn, but not on a salad, and I'm not a big fan of some of the other ingredients either.  But still, get some veggies at the store and make yourself a damned salad, pizza-hating trolls.

15 hours ago, DeLurker said:

I think it is the marketing that generates the hate.

I find the actor portraying Sébastien Artois in the Stellar Artois commercials highly punchable.

I think he's both kind of cute AND highly punchable.

[peacheslatour]

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I think he's both kind of cute AND highly punchable.

Me too!

[Brattinella]

Oh dear, I just saw a commercial for a lawsuit against Invokana, one side effect they are suing for is LIMB AMPUTATION!