Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Milburn Stone]

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I think the bladder's cute, too, but that chick that's supposed to be the digestive tract is nauseating.

Yeah, plus I don't get her "it's all about me" attitude when she and her owner are out supposedly enjoying themselves. 

[janie jones]

1 hour ago, Milburn Stone said:

Yeah, plus I don't get her "it's all about me" attitude when she and her owner are out supposedly enjoying themselves. 

I thought that was the point?  You're a slave to the whims of your digestive tract.

[Bastet]

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I always found that little bladder in that other commercial kinda...cute. Maybe it has something to do with his little face...

I love the Myrbetric (or something like that) bladder; for me, it's those big eyes, especially when they're just visible over the table, going back and forth between the woman and her doctor.

[Brattinella]

1 hour ago, janie jones said:

I thought that was the point?  You're a slave to the whims of your digestive tract.

That IS true.  I've had days I can't be more than about 5 feet from my bathroom.  Nevermind going out!

[Milburn Stone]

2 hours ago, janie jones said:

I thought that was the point?  You're a slave to the whims of your digestive tract.

No, I get it, that is the point--that before you take the drug, you're a slave to the whims of your digestive tract. But now, in the "after" or "solution" scenes, when the lady with the disease is taking the drug and is out and about enjoying life, "Digestive Tract Girl" still wants to make it all about her. Shouldn't the point of the drug be to make it possible to forget about your digestive tract?

[Fostersmom]

On October 1, 2016 at 11:03 PM, janie jones said:

There's some commercial for ancestry.com or something where this lady refers to her husband's ancestor as "our ancestor."  Unless you two are related, it's not "our ancestor."

I get annoyed with pretty much ALL of the ancestry.com ads. Has there been one yet without an annoyingly smug twit? This one where they are apparently brother and sister, the "I now check other" lady, and the one who claims she's a quarter Native American, all of them are incredibly off-putting. I'm vaguely remembering 2 African American brothers, twins I think, who must not have been too annoying since they managed to not imprint themselves into my brain in a negative way.  

[kat165]

My comment doesn't really fit in with the title of this thread, but I'm hoping someone here can give me a clue. This is a commercial that baffles me, everytime. I can never figure it out what they're trying to say. It might be for Adorn/Adore me.com. It's about lingerie/bras?  through the mail (and is probably a club type thing like Just Fab), but I'm not sure I've got the name right. At the end of the commercial some chick says to her not seen friend, "I know you're phone is out, so look them up." What the fuck? What does that mean?

[Bastet]

I don't recognize that one, but try in the Say What? thread and maybe someone can decipher it for you.

[kat165]

Thank you, Bastet!

[peacheslatour]

9 hours ago, kat165 said:

My comment doesn't really fit in with the title of this thread, but I'm hoping someone here can give me a clue. This is a commercial that baffles me, everytime. I can never figure it out what they're trying to say. It might be for Adorn/Adore me.com. It's about lingerie/bras?  through the mail (and is probably a club type thing like Just Fab), but I'm not sure I've got the name right. At the end of the commercial some chick says to her not seen friend, "I know you're phone is out, so look them up." What the fuck? What does that mean?

These days people always have their smart phones in their hands, she wants you to go to their website and look at their stuff and then buy some.

[mmecorday]

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I'm watching Jessica Fletcher trying to solve a murder with a guy playing the victim's young nephew and, as an old guy, he pops up on an AARP car insurance ad, "Hello. I'm Matt McCoy. How long have you had your car insurance?..."

He just seems an odd choice for a spokesman. I think most people -- at least in my generation -- remember him as Lloyd Braun, George Costanza's nemesis on "Seinfeld."

[SoSueMe]

On 10/8/2016 at 0:21 PM, Milburn Stone said:

Yeah, plus I don't get her "it's all about me" attitude when she and her owner are out supposedly enjoying themselves. 

 

On 10/8/2016 at 2:19 PM, janie jones said:

I thought that was the point?  You're a slave to the whims of your digestive tract.

I think it's kind of cute considering the subject matter. The red headed digestive tract chick does pretty well in a thankless role. Also it seems like real girl is accepting that  digestive tract chick is part of HER and they are working on having a cooperative relationship, not adversarial. 

Okay, well I am really thinking about this way too much, lol.

[ivygirl]

8 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

These days people always have their smart phones in their hands, she wants you to go to their website and look at their stuff and then buy some.

I always laugh at this because I typically AM looking at my phone or iPad. :)

Edited October 11, 2016 by ivygirl

[TattleTeeny]

I hate the way the lady in the Domino's commercial eats her stupid salad.

[riley702]

5 hours ago, SoSueMe said:

 

I think it's kind of cute considering the subject matter. The red headed digestive tract chick does pretty well in a thankless role. Also it seems like real girl is accepting that  digestive tract chick is part of HER and they are working on having a cooperative relationship, not adversarial. 

Okay, well I am really thinking about this way too much, lol.

Yeah, the one in the office shows digestive tract chick after the doctor visit slowly becoming more cooperative. She starts by throwing a paper wad at real girl, who bats it away. DTC is then shown trying to be a real girl(?) by mimicking RG's hand motions, then ends up collating RG's report and watching proudly as she delivers it. She's getting there.

[kat165]

Thank you, Peaches. But can't you do that from your phone?

[OSM Mom]

"End the hot water wars..."  Hey, here's an idea.  Learn to take turns with stuff.  Use your time wisely.  Ugh.. Hate hate hate. 

[janie jones]

12 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

I hate the way the lady in the Domino's commercial eats her stupid salad.

These ads are targeting salad eaters, aren't they?  So why are they acting like they hate salad eaters?

[peacheslatour]

10 hours ago, kat165 said:

Thank you, Peaches. But can't you do that from your phone?

Yes.

[CoderLady]

20 hours ago, riley702 said:

Yeah, the one in the office shows digestive tract chick after the doctor visit slowly becoming more cooperative. She starts by throwing a paper wad at real girl, who bats it away. DTC is then shown trying to be a real girl(?) by mimicking RG's hand motions, then ends up collating RG's report and watching proudly as she delivers it. She's getting there.

Oh, even better: at the end RG is having a lunch date with a guy, and very subtly DTC pushes her forward to hold hands with him over the table. Sweet.

@riley702, thank you for spelling out your terms (real girl, digestive tract chick) before using acronyms for them (RG, DTC). It made it so much easier for my lazy ass to write my own comment. Cheers!

Edited October 12, 2016 by CoderLady
Giving props where due

[Jamoche]

8 hours ago, janie jones said:

These ads are targeting salad eaters, aren't they?  So why are they acting like they hate salad eaters?

Salad eaters will just order from a different restaurant. They're targeting pizza eaters who hate salad eaters, but are trapped in a loveless marriage, just like the ones trapped with yogurt bitches.

[riley702]

9 hours ago, CoderLady said:

Oh, even better: at the end RG is having a lunch date with a guy, and very subtly DTC pushes her forward to hold hands with him over the table. Sweet.

@riley702, thank you for spelling out your terms (real girl, digestive tract chick) before using acronyms for them (RG, DTC). It made it so much easier for my lazy ass to write my own comment. Cheers!

No problem - that bugs me, too. And I have no idea if they still teach this, but back in high school, we were taught to do that with all acronyms used in a paper.

Edited October 12, 2016 by riley702

[proserpina65]

On ‎10‎/‎09‎/‎2016 at 11:24 PM, Fostersmom said:

I get annoyed with pretty much ALL of the ancestry.com ads. Has there been one yet without an annoyingly smug twit? This one where they are apparently brother and sister, the "I now check other" lady, and the one who claims she's a quarter Native American, all of them are incredibly off-putting. I'm vaguely remembering 2 African American brothers, twins I think, who must not have been too annoying since they managed to not imprint themselves into my brain in a negative way.  

Idris and Jamil - I liked that ad simply because I recognized them from their stint on the Amazing Race.

[SpikeGal]

On ‎10‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 8:21 PM, Jamoche said:

Salad eaters will just order from a different restaurant. They're targeting pizza eaters who hate salad eaters, but are trapped in a loveless marriage, just like the ones trapped with yogurt bitches.

The best Dominos salad commercial is the one where they whole family is around the table with their salad and they all look miserable...except the mother who's in Heaven, devouring every single morsel. The pizza delivery guy is right next to her and practically screams in her ear, "EAT A PIZZA ONCE IN A WHILE!"

I find myself saying that when I see too-skinny models in TV or magazines! LOL!

[Prevailing Wind]

I'm on a stupid diet until mid-December. I CAN'T eat pizza. I can't eat anything with yeast in it. Damn, I miss my sandwiches.

[SpikeGal]

2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I'm on a stupid diet until mid-December. I CAN'T eat pizza. I can't eat anything with yeast in it. Damn, I miss my sandwiches.

I bet you don't devour every single morsal of salad the way that mother does in the commercial! LOL!!

[ennui]

On 10/9/2016 at 8:24 PM, Fostersmom said:

I get annoyed with pretty much ALL of the ancestry.com ads. Has there been one yet without an annoyingly smug twit? ... the one who claims she's a quarter Native American ...

I wonder if she can apply for federal funds now, or if you need to prove a tribal affiliation (there are benefits to being NA). Being "quarter Native American" is kind of vague.

[iMonrey]

Some of the ancestry.com ads make me wonder . . . don't you know who your parents are?? I mean, sure - that's possible in some cases. Or their family has been misinformed for generations about where they came from. But, they seem to think they're something else until they find out otherwise. Seems to me that's where the real story is. Why did you grow up thinking you were Irish when it turns out you're German? Were your ancestors Nazis or something?

And - not for nothing, but in most cases DNA tests won't tell you a specific region in Europe if you have markers that show you are mostly European. It's just going to come back "European." Could be Italian, could be Spanish, could be German, could be Hungarian, could be Polish, etc.

[friendperidot]

from what I've learned through osmosis, living in Oklahoma, is that you have to prove your tribal affiliations and be on tribal rolls. In order to be on a tribal roll, you have to know who your ancestor is, what tribe and you may have to have sponsorship to get on the roll. Some tribes have a lot of money due to casinos and some are very poor. I have a great-grandmother that full some tribe or other, I haven't a clue and no one else in the family does either. In the early parts of the 20th century, a great many Native Americans "passed" and hid all of their Indian heritage. I would love to know more about this grandmother, but I'm afraid it's lost to time. And I'm not native to Oklahoma and the part of the family that this grandmother is from is not either. My best guess is a northern plains tribe, which one, haven't a clue.

[Jamoche]

21 minutes ago, friendperidot said:

 I have a great-grandmother that full some tribe or other, I haven't a clue and no one else in the family does either. 

So much this. And combine a few different great-great-grandmothers (usually grandmothers, because women tend to join their husband's people instead of the other way round), and it's entirely possible that you could get to a total 1/4 native DNA. Genealogy is a fun way to add a personal component to history, but the thing that matters to your cultural identity is the culture you were raised in. It's cool that if you go back about 4 generations I have a link to Meriwether Lewis, but I'm not going to go on Ancestry to obsess over it.

[ennui]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

Some of the ancestry.com ads make me wonder . . . don't you know who your parents are?? I mean, sure - that's possible in some cases. Or their family has been misinformed for generations about where they came from. But, they seem to think they're something else until they find out otherwise. Seems to me that's where the real story is. Why did you grow up thinking you were Irish when it turns out you're German? Were your ancestors Nazis or something?

Before computers, it was easy to move to a new town and change your name and become someone else. We joke about living off the grid, but back then, there was no grid. People hide for any number of reasons, and a big one during WWI was dodging the draft. During the Depression, people would move from town to town, stopping when they got a job. Maybe they were dodging debts, etc.

I think some of the Ancestry people seem to have been adopted, especially the ones with no clue. 

[Prevailing Wind]

I don't think ancestry.com could help me very much. Both sets of grandparents immigrated from Europe in the early 20th Century and I doubt, seriously, that Fritzlar, Germany & Timisoara, Romania has records that would mention them, nor would the two tiny towns in Poland the paternal grands came from.  I know where my grandparents came from. What good does it do to know more?  Family legend is my maternal grandfather's father was the town drunk, so I DO have that bit of knowledge, as well as maternal grandmother's father was the town blacksmith.  My Nana won all sorts of prizes at carnivals at the "3 strikes to hammer a nail" game. She'd always flatten the thing in two strikes and then proudly claim, "Blacksmith's daughter!"

[kat165]

That new google phone commercial. The two boys who start off the commercial. The younger one sounds like he's saying look it up on "goo-goo." Very sloppy advertising. You'd think they'd want their product name to be enuciated so that it's clear/understandable.

Edited October 15, 2016 by kat165

[Silver Raven]

The Party City ad pisses me off.  They say "Come in now and get free candy for your entire neighborhood."  Yeah, the fine print in the print ad says "If you spend over $50".

[peacheslatour]

"Give it to me I'm worth it, uh huh, give it to me I'm worth it....." Christ, it's like chewing tin foil.

[Brattinella]

16 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

"Give it to me I'm worth it, uh huh, give it to me I'm worth it....." Christ, it's like chewing tin foil.

Seriously.  :((

[Brattinella]

The new Toyota ad with "You Don't Own Me".  FIX IT Toyota!  Everyone else on the ad actually sings the song; the guys on the Basketball Court?  NO NO NO NO they are just shouting, this makes me mute your commercial every time! 

[ennui]

49 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

The new Toyota ad with "You Don't Own Me".  

Is it a leasing promotion?  (I jest.)

[Cobalt Stargazer]

4 hours ago, Brattinella said:

The new Toyota ad with "You Don't Own Me".

 

3 hours ago, ennui said:

Is it a leasing promotion?  (I jest.)

Does seem counter-productive, doesn't it?

[BusyOctober]

I had a pretty crappy day at work then sat in inexplicable traffic for 2 hours.  All I wanted to do was get home, put on my fuzzy pj's and watch some mindless TV to mellow me out.  Turned on the TV and was aurally assaulted with the 3 ads that ignite rage in me like nothing else can lately... one right after the other; Panera's "Or something" judge-y whiner, Mazda's condescending douche bag and Sprint's (via Verizon) king of smug.  Thank God I could see through the red blinding rage to shut off the TV & call up the Great British Bake Off on my iPad to lower my BP and restore my sanity. 

Edited October 19, 2016 by BusyOctober

[chessiegal]

9 minutes ago, BusyOctober said:

I had a pretty crappy day at work then sat in inexplicable traffic for 2 hours.  All I wanted to do was get home, put on my fuzzy pj's and watch some mindless TV to mellow me out.  Turned on the TV and was aurally assaulted with the 3 ads that ignite rage in me like nothing else can lately... one right after the other; Panera's "Or something" judge-y whiner, Nissan's condescending douche bag and Sprint's (via Verizon) king of smug.  Thank God I could see through the red blinding rage to shut off the TV & call up the Great British Bake Off on my iPad to lower my BP and restore my sanity. 

Thank  the Lord for PBS. Wishing you a relaxing weekend.

[Prevailing Wind]

Books are even better than PBS.

[NinjaPenguins]

That Panera "or something" ad is just hard to take. The food is great; just tell me about the great food. Show me the great food sitting prettily on a plate, not being shoveled into someone's maw. And for dog's sake, no matter how great the food is, it is still just a damn sandwich. It's not on par with becoming a doctor or being a good parent, so get the hell over yourselves, Panera. Get a new voiceover person while you're at it.

[Brattinella]

52 minutes ago, NinjaPenguins said:

It's not on par with becoming a doctor or being a good parent, so get the hell over yourselves, Panera. Get a new voiceover person while you're at it.

Truly.  Panera will not be saving the world, just make your damn food.  Voiceover girl sounds like a petulant child.

[bilgistic]

Their macaroni and cheese is divine, paticularly for chain restaurant food. I risk digestive upset to eat it.

[janie jones]

On 10/13/2016 at 1:15 PM, iMonrey said:

Some of the ancestry.com ads make me wonder . . . don't you know who your parents are?? I mean, sure - that's possible in some cases. Or their family has been misinformed for generations about where they came from. But, they seem to think they're something else until they find out otherwise. Seems to me that's where the real story is. Why did you grow up thinking you were Irish when it turns out you're German? Were your ancestors Nazis or something?

I don't think it's that they don't know as much as they don't think.  I think it's more like people hold on to one place and forget that they're a mixture.  For example, my paternal grandparents are from Germany.  My paternal grandmother's family has been in the US for too long for anyone to keep track of.  My mom is Filipino.  My husband has no idea where his family comes from.  If we had kids, they'd be 1/8 German, 1/4 Filipino, 5/8 ?.  So they might call themselves German-Filipino, since it's all they have a label for, even though they are, for all they know, mostly something else.  So after a few generations of people being German-Filipino because that's all they have a label for, they could end up having most of their ancestors from Italy.

I mean, I think it's ridiculous that people don't seem to think about the fact that just because they know one place that some of their ancestors came from, that doesn't mean that that's where all of their ancestors came from.  But I know people who identify as Italian-American, but who knows when the last member of their lineage actually came from there, never mind that the other side of the family, the one whose last name doesn't get passed down could be from anywhere.  (On the other hand, knew someone once who seemed to identify as Irish, seemingly ignoring his German last name.)

[Ohwell]

The lady who says "You don't know AARP" just drives me batty.  I worked at their headquarters in DC for six years (late 80s, early 90s) and it was instilled in us to NEVER say "AARP."  We had to either say A-A-R-P or American Association of Retired Persons.  I don't know when they changed it, but every time she creeps up on the scene I change the channel.  I think she's the Executive Director.   I have never joined and I hate them now, lol.

[kat165]

That AARP lady reminds me of Wanda Sykes so whenever I see her I'm waiting for a joke.

[Maverick]

I can't stand that AARP woman.  "Hey!  We hear ya!"  STFU lady.  Why the hell is she eavsdropping on these people and just popping up on them out of nowhere?

[Cobalt Stargazer]

5 hours ago, Ohwell said:

The lady who says "You don't know AARP" just drives me batty.  I worked at their headquarters in DC for six years (late 80s, early 90s) and it was instilled in us to NEVER say "AARP."  We had to either say A-A-R-P or American Association of Retired Persons.  I don't know when they changed it, but every time she creeps up on the scene I change the channel.  I think she's the Executive Director.   I have never joined and I hate them now, lol.

Interesting. I guess if you went around saying AARP people would excuse you, think you burped.

2 hours ago, Maverick said:

I can't stand that AARP woman.  "Hey!  We hear ya!"  STFU lady.  Why the hell is she eavsdropping on these people and just popping up on them out of nowhere?

She's prolly related to the bum wipes woman. Stealth must run in the family or else a lot more people would run away at the sight of them.