Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[LoneHaranguer]

13 hours ago, janie jones said:

Well, in the "dental monitor" one, if I recall correctly, it sounds like they don't just call the cops, they also work to get your stuff back or somesuch.

Yes, but they're not really getting across what's so great about having someone do both. No matter what dentist you have, there's a limit as to what may be done in a routine visit; some things need a specialist.

[MrSmith]

12 minutes ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

That reminds me - there's a new anti-smoking ad where a young woman appears to be at a party, and she's in the bathroom about to light a cigarette. Suddenly, what I guess is supposed to be her future self bursts into the room and tells her not to do it, that if she lights that cigarette she'll become addicted to smoking and it will ruin her life.

First off, dial it back a notch, Sally Struthers. Yes, smoking is bad for you, and yes it is very difficult to quit. I should know, I tried more than once before I stopped, but good Lord. Its like those shows when somebody tries something once and within five minutes is a hopeless junkie living on the streets. What if she lights it and decides she never wants to smoke again? For those of you who remember that first puff off a cigarette, was it an awesome experience that you wanted to try over and over?

Ugh. The first time I ever tried a cigarette it was a Marlboro Red. Damn. That was like smoking a piece of wood. I was 17 at the time; one puff and I was done. When I was about 20 or 22, I tried a Newport (menthol). It kept me awake during the rest of the night's training (I was at Great Lakes for Hospital Corpsman training). I haven't smoked any cigarettes since then and I find that I'm more sensitive to the smoke the older I get. I have to be very careful when I go to my mother-in-law's because she's a very heavy smoker and I can feel asphyxiated very quickly when I'm there.

[Ilovecomputers]

I smoked from the time I was 16 until 30, but only because I thought I looked sooo glamorous and sophisticated. If I'd found a jeweled cigarette holder, I probably would have smoked longer. The first puff felt like an elephant stomped on my chest. I've done so many stupid things and smoking ranks up there in the top three. Btw, a World War II vet once told me the soldiers were given cartons of cigarettes for free--I think with their c-rations. This ended before I was in the service. 

[bad things are bad]

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Has anyone seen the new Honda commercial for its hydrogen-powered car, the Clarity? 

Have not seen, but that sounds creepy. IIRC the Clarity is only available in California so the ads might not go national

[mmecorday]

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a World War II vet once told me the soldiers were given cartons of cigarettes for free

That is true. And after the war ended, the tobacco companies cranked out tons of print ads telling people that since rationing ended, they were free to smoke any brand they wanted again.  I used to collect Life magazines and I was always amazed at the sheer number of cigarette ads.

Regarding the Chevy ads -- Chevy needs to regard this thread as a focus group. Then the company would know that the current campaign is awful and it's time to go back to the drawing board.

Also, Match.com needs to redo its ads. The idiot who goes around asking people about their love lives is an intrusive douche. "So you're meeting people on your own? How's that working out for you?" None of your damn business, asshole! He should get together with Cottonelle Bum Bitch.

[Lnbkr99]

Cute commercial with a wrestler and his daughter playing tea party but why do you need a gross Pervy mail lady making that gross Face in the beginning. Makes me violently ill.  

[Betelnut]

20 hours ago, TeapotDiva said:

Has anyone seen the new Honda commercial for its hydrogen-powered car, the Clarity?  It shows multitudes of disembodied children's heads floating around space! and they're singing Fleetwood Mac ("Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow")!  It is SO CREEPY!  I'll try to attach it here; apologies if this doesn't work.

https://ispot.tv/a/AvwN

I kind of like it...  :(

[spiderpig]

New subject:

Commercials with doorbells.

Do any of you have dogs?

[peacheslatour]

7 minutes ago, spiderpig said:

New subject:

Commercials with doorbells.

Do any of you have dogs?

Or the ones on the radio with sirens. Fuck that noise, scares me every time.

[theatremouse]

Commercials that involves phone buzzing. Drive.Me.Nuts. Agree on sirens. Especially if it's a radio ad and not completely clear for more than a second, if I'm driving I think I need to pull over and then realize, nope, that's the radio.

[Brattinella]

The doorbell ads ALWAYS are my exact doorbell!  I hate it!  And sirens are no joke in my area of the world, so I always have to mute those so I can be sure it is not coming from outside.  I always have the telephone muted, so phone buzzing is not a problem on the TV.

Spiderpig:  We had three dogs, and they would always jump when a doorbell rang on TV.

[spiderpig]

2 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

The doorbell ads ALWAYS are my exact doorbell!  I hate it!  And sirens are no joke in my area of the world, so I always have to mute those so I can be sure it is not coming from outside.  I always have the telephone muted, so phone buzzing is not a problem on the TV.

Spiderpig:  We had three dogs, and they would always jump when a doorbell rang on TV.

And, Brattinella, why are they always timed to coincide with Mr. pig dropping off into peaceful slumber in his Lazy Boy?  Just when I think I can change the channel to Food Network.

[chenoa333]

Anyone familiar with the ad where this older guy is telling us how smoking (?) is bad for us and then he proceeds to remove his false teeth that make the most disgusting clicking, wet, slurping noise.  

Edited March 7, 2017 by chenoa333

[configdotsys]

I usually like the Flo commercials for the most part but as far as I'm concerned, she has officially jumped the shark with this new commercial that I saw for the first time yesterday: she and Jamie are dolls and the Flo doll starts rapping. I wanted to smash my tv.

I am also being driven crazy by the 10,000 times a day commercials for Camelback. It's an indoor water park with zip lines and hiking ands stuff, skiing in winter. I think it's in the Poconos area of PA but I'm not positive. They keep showing this family enjoying all the stuff the place has to offer and it gets old after a while but there is one scene in one of the commercials where the son is biting into a pretty large cheeseburger and his parents are looking on in wonder. The father even puts his hand over his mouth. So stupid.

[Silver Raven]

1 hour ago, chenoa333 said:

Anyone familiar with the ad where this older guy is telling us how smoking (?) is bad for us and then he proceeds to remove his false teeth that make the most disgusting clicking, wet, slurping noise.  

God, yes, I hate the noise he makes more than the image of his not having teeth.

[Ohwell]

Taking my first time smoking experience to small talk...

[ari333]

3 hours ago, chenoa333 said:

Anyone familiar with the ad where this older guy is telling us how smoking (?) is bad for us and then he proceeds to remove his false teeth that make the most disgusting clicking, wet, slurping noise.  

Oh dear god. I have to mute it.

[Prevailing Wind]

The Avon ads used to have a "ding-dong" doorbell. "Ding-dong; Avon calling" and my brother's German Shepherd would bark like crazy at the TV - only on the Avon ads, no other doorbell-in-ad.  One evening an Avon Lady actually came to the door (early 70s), rang the bell, and the dog went nuts barking at a REAL Avon Lady.

I looked up the Honda Clarity and it says, "Lease Only."  WTF?

[janie jones]

5 hours ago, theatremouse said:

Commercials that involves phone buzzing. Drive.Me.Nuts. Agree on sirens. Especially if it's a radio ad and not completely clear for more than a second, if I'm driving I think I need to pull over and then realize, nope, that's the radio.

One of my local radio stations does cars honking as the intro to the drive-time traffic report.  The honking makes me tense up because I think someone near me is about to get into an accident.  It strikes me as very unthinking on the part of the radio station.

[Brattinella]

41 minutes ago, janie jones said:

One of my local radio stations does cars honking as the intro to the drive-time traffic report.  The honking makes me tense up because I think someone near me is about to get into an accident.  It strikes me as very unthinking on the part of the radio station.

This sort of thing makes me livid.  Why do they have to SHOCK you into hearing them?  I resent it so much, I never patronize whichever establishment or product they are shilling.

[spiderpig]

4 hours ago, Silver Raven said:

God, yes, I hate the noise he makes more than the image of his not having teeth.

Now you've done it.  During my last visit with my dottie grandmother she pulled her dentures out and asked me to wash them off.  She'd been eating a soft-boiled egg.  I can watch surgeries with no problem, but gooey eggy false teeth - scarred for life.

[Brattinella]

7 minutes ago, spiderpig said:

Now you've done it.  During my last visit with my dottie grandmother she pulled her dentures out and asked me to wash them off.  She'd been eating a soft-boiled egg.  I can watch surgeries with no problem, but gooey eggy false teeth - scarred for life.

LOL!  Sorry!  Some day, though, you may have to be washing your own, and clacking them.  It kind of sucks.

[chenoa333]

I don't smoke but I've been around many hard core, lifetime smokers (my grandfather, uncles etc) and none of them had to get false teeth because they smoked cigarettes. WTF?

[spiderpig]

2 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

LOL!  Sorry!  Some day, though, you may have to be washing your own, and clacking them.  It kind of sucks.

That day creeps nearer and nearer...

I suppose I ought to listen harder to the Life Alert spots.  My doggie is beautiful and talented, but I can't seem to teach her to bark "911".

[TattleTeeny]

On 3/6/2017 at 10:01 PM, spiderpig said:

Why are heads nice when they're attached to bodies, but terrifying when they're floating around unattached?  Attention MadMen:  stop it!

I sleep with the TV on and also wake up a lot in the middle of the night. And on one such night, I sat up only to be looking right at Zardoz. I didn't know what the hell was happening, and haven't been the same since.

[Wings]

On 3/7/2017 at 7:45 PM, spiderpig said:

Now you've done it.  During my last visit with my dottie grandmother she pulled her dentures out and asked me to wash them off.  She'd been eating a soft-boiled egg.  I can watch surgeries with no problem, but gooey eggy false teeth - scarred for life.

Oh yes. I had a short stint in a nursing home when I was a teen. First night I was asked to remove an patient's dentures and brush them. My only job the first night.  I threw up and quit before the enviable firing . Time on job, 47 minutes.  

Edited March 12, 2017 by wings707

[riley702]

9 hours ago, chenoa333 said:

I don't smoke but I've been around many hard core, lifetime smokers (my grandfather, uncles etc) and none of them had to get false teeth because they smoked cigarettes. WTF?

I just googled that, because I was thinking that smoking reduces blood flow, but apparently smoking interferes with the normal function of gum tissue cells and affects the attachment of bone and soft tissue to your teeth. Smokers are prone to gum disease and other oral health issues and are twice as likely to lose their teeth than nonsmokers. Huh.

[spiderpig]

I'm back!

How about Den-Tek, the tooth grinding guard?

Horrible grindy sound effects with a visual of a nutcracker while they talk about exerting 250 pounds of pressure on your choppers.

I guess I'm tooth-obsessed.

[chenoa333]

5 hours ago, spiderpig said:

I'm back!

How about Den-Tek, the tooth grinding guard?

Horrible grindy sound effects with a visual of a nutcracker while they talk about exerting 250 pounds of pressure on your choppers.

I guess I'm tooth-obsessed.

What???? Nope...haven't seen it or heard it but THANK YOU for the PSA (warning) for that one. Are these advertisers trying to see exactly how much it takes to gross us out? Are they trying to sell a product or make us push the mute button? And don't get me started on the ad for Plexaderm with the male "model" who has HUGE bags under his eyes. I know those are fat deposits under his eyes but where does the fat disappear to after using it? Can I apply it to my ass and stomach? How much do I need to purchase for a large body mass? ?

[spiderpig]

8 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:

What???? Nope...haven't seen it or heard it but THANK YOU for the PSA (warning) for that one. Are these advertisers trying to see exactly how much it takes to gross us out? Are they trying to sell a product or make us push the mute button? And don't get me started on the ad for Plexaderm with the male "model" who has HUGE bags under his eyes. I know those are fat deposits under his eyes but where does the fat disappear to after using it? Can I apply it to my ass and stomach? How much do I need to purchase for a large body mass? ?

There used to be a radio ad for something similar, and I nearly ran off the road while driving when I heard that disgusting  crunching noise.  Argh.   Yuk.  Barf!

Your comment on undereye bags reminds me of the spot for double chins!

[novhappy]

Speaking of annoying sounds commercials how about the Kit Kat candy bar ads with the exaggerated snapping sound of people biting it's stupid crispness. So loud it is horrendous

[Brattinella]

I don't know if we have covered this ad before, but Jennifer Aniston in "EyeLove".  "It's all about the Eyelove, my friends!".  BARF.  And, to add insult to injury, they use my beloved Beatles as background music for this stuff!  I love that song "All You Need Is Love", and it is now ruined for me, thanks a bunch!

[spiderpig]

6 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

I don't know if we have covered this ad before, but Jennifer Aniston in "EyeLove".  "It's all about the Eyelove, my friends!".  BARF.  And, to add insult to injury, they use my beloved Beatles as background music for this stuff!  I love that song "All You Need Is Love", and it is now ruined for me, thanks a bunch!

Anything with Aniston unleashes my nasty streak.  I don't know why, but I just don't like her.  (And I love the Beatles.)

[ennui]

On 3/6/2017 at 3:05 PM, TeapotDiva said:

Has anyone seen the new Honda commercial for its hydrogen-powered car, the Clarity?  It shows multitudes of disembodied children's heads floating around space! and they're singing Fleetwood Mac ("Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow")!  It is SO CREEPY!  I'll try to attach it here; apologies if this doesn't work.

https://ispot.tv/a/AvwN

"Clarity Fuel Cell is currently only available through authorized Honda Clarity Fuel Cell dealers in California to residents of California living or working in proximity to a hydrogen fueling station."

Well, that certainly sounds practical. 

I hate the commercials, too. CREEPY. But I think of Star Trek:OS. Lots of floating alien heads there.

Edited March 9, 2017 by ennui

[janie jones]

1 hour ago, spiderpig said:

Anything with Aniston unleashes my nasty streak.  I don't know why, but I just don't like her.  (And I love the Beatles.)

I don't have anything against her; I have a problem with people's attitude toward her.  I don't think her beauty and talent are commensurate with the adoration of her.

[spiderpig]

1 minute ago, janie jones said:

I don't have anything against her; I have a problem with people's attitude toward her.  I don't think her beauty and talent are commensurate with the adoration of her.

Maybe that's it.  One of my favorite movies is Office Space, and while she didn't stink it up, she didn't add anything to the film.

[ennui]

Now that we've discusssed the Honda Clarity, I'm getting their online ads in my feed. The adult disembodied heads with the hydrogen atom zooming around are better than the singing children, though.

[spiderpig]

10 minutes ago, ennui said:

Now that we've discusssed the Honda Clarity, I'm getting their online ads in my feed. The adult disembodied heads with the hydrogen atom zooming around are better than the singing children, though.

Damning with faint praise, ennui.  Yuk!

[janie jones]

Actually, I do have a problem with Jennifer Aniston.  She's in too many commercials.  It's the same problem I have with Shaq.

[spiderpig]

10 minutes ago, janie jones said:

Actually, I do have a problem with Jennifer Aniston.  She's in too many commercials.  It's the same problem I have with Shaq.

Yeah, I'm kinda there.  If I see her shilling for a product, my first instinct is not to buy it.

[Moose135]

2 hours ago, ennui said:

"Clarity Fuel Cell is currently only available through authorized Honda Clarity Fuel Cell dealers in California to residents of California living or working in proximity to a hydrogen fueling station."

Well, that certainly sounds practical. 

It's still fairly new technology, and the fueling stations are not widely available, so the distribution of vehicles is still limited.  Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Hyundai have also introduced hydrogen fuel cell cars, only Toyota will sell one to you, MB and Hyundai are also lease-only.  It's not that unusual with first-generation vehicles like this, when Toyota introduced the Prius in 2009-2010, they leased them to selected users in limited areas.  Once the vehicles and fueling stations become more prevalent, I'm sure they will be available to purchase.

Edited March 9, 2017 by Moose135

[riley702]

12 hours ago, Brattinella said:

I don't know if we have covered this ad before, but Jennifer Aniston in "EyeLove".  "It's all about the Eyelove, my friends!".  BARF.  And, to add insult to injury, they use my beloved Beatles as background music for this stuff!  I love that song "All You Need Is Love", and it is now ruined for me, thanks a bunch!

Yes, I've mocked it before. My friends know me SO well, they can tell what I'm thinking just by looking in my eyes. She then goes on to say they don't know she has dry eyes. So apparently, they haven't noticed her hitting the eyedrops all day, every day of her entire adult life.  I don't like JA because she reminds me of several high-maintenance people I know. It's all about them, all the time.

[bad things are bad]

Saw Eyelove last night and I have to say that is the WORST commercial Aniston has ever done, and she's done a crapton of commercials. Horrible horrible ad. 

[chenoa333]

Jumping aboard the Aniston hate train!! And I'll bet my left brown eye that Aniston wasn't born with blue eyes! I'm only betting one of my eyes cause I could be wrong. But "eye" know that you can buy "cosmetic" contact lenses which do nothing but change your natural eye color, no vision correction involved.

So eye say, fuck off J.Aniston. you are getting old and you are a one trick pony when it comes to "acting" and I'm sick of seeking your mug everywhere. 

[peacheslatour]

28 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:

Jumping aboard the Aniston hate train!! And I'll bet my left brown eye that Aniston wasn't born with blue eyes! I'm only betting one of my eyes cause I could be wrong. But "eye" know that you can buy "cosmetic" contact lenses which do nothing but change your natural eye color, no vision correction involved.

So eye say, fuck off J.Aniston. you are getting old and you are a one trick pony when it comes to "acting" and I'm sick of seeking your mug everywhere. 

Fun fact; did you know that everyone has blue eyes? The have perfected a a technique for removing the brown pigment and leaving you with blue eyes.

[Brattinella]

12 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Fun fact; did you know that everyone has blue eyes? The have perfected a a technique for removing the brown pigment and leaving you with blue eyes.

Wow, that sounds horrible!

[peacheslatour]

Just now, Brattinella said:

Wow, that sounds horrible!

I agree but you know what some people will put themselves through for "beauty".

[StaceyNotStacie]

Not sure about the Swiffer commercial with the little boy who thinks he's a hairstylist. He was cutting the hair of all of the toys and then he moved on to his sister. He looks at his mom with a demonic look on his face. Next thing we see is the mom sweeping up hair. I really wanted to see the finished haircut. 

Also, the two people from the McDonald's McPick 2 commercial need to go away ASAP, especially the obnoxious woman who thinks she's so cute. 

[Brattinella]

26 minutes ago, Stacey1014 said:

Not sure about the Swiffer commercial with the little boy who thinks he's a hairstylist. He was cutting the hair of all of the toys and then he moved on to his sister. He looks at his mom with a demonic look on his face. Next thing we see is the mom sweeping up hair. I really wanted to see the finished haircut. 

Also, the two people from the McDonald's McPick 2 commercial need to go away ASAP, especially the obnoxious woman who thinks she's so cute. 

I routinely mute every McDonald's commercial.

[LoneHaranguer]

It looks like BK's "someone's gonna get fired" guy and his buddy have been replaced by two bearded fellows who look even less like they should be wearing paper crowns. It's slightly less annoying, but I don't know who the guy on the right is supposed to be talking to when he says "he wears glasses"; he glances over to his buddy's left where no one is sitting.