Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Watcher0363]

The worst part about this commercial is that the mother asks, "What was I supposed to do, keep it forever?" And the father says, "YES!" And apparently HE'S right.

 

 

Well, dontcha know, men have no idea how to parent their children, only women do. Commercials said so.

 

 

True.  But in this case, Dish is saying the MAN is right.  That's why they added all that extra space so Brat never needs to live without her Special Pretty Pony show.  So I guess in a way, Dish is groundbreaking with this ad.  LOL.

Well in this case, a grown man living in fear of his little princess throwing the never ending temper tantrum, over a recorded tv show, can't be the best of parenting skills. However saying that, in this dvd and dvr world, the wife should be familiar with young children's viewing habits. How young kids today can watch the same movie or excat same episode of a show twice a week for several months is beyond me.

Edited September 16, 2014 by Watcher0363

[Bort]

How young kids today can watch the same movie or excat same episode of a show twice a week for several months is beyond me.

Twice a week? Those little stinkers will watch something over and over ten times a day if you let them.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Twice a week? Those little stinkers will watch something over and over ten times a day if you let them.

I think Modern Family did a riff on that. Mitchell was taking some time off from work while Cameron got a job, so he was staying at home with Lily "plotting the death of Dora the Explorer." :-P

[Aquarius]

Twice a week? Those little stinkers will watch something over and over ten times a day if you let them.

 

I read something about this, I think in one of Malcolm Gladwell's books.  If I remember correctly, because of the way children learn, repetition is actually the best part of things for them.  While adults might find it boring, they find it exciting.  Programming to that need was the basis of "Sesame Street," which was groundbreaking at the time. 

[Bruinsfan]

Running across the inescapable fiat commercials with that awful, repetitive clanking "music" fifty times a day has ensured that I'd buy a horse and ride it bareback to and from work every day before I'd shell out money for a fiat.

[Brattinella]

I have heard several commercials lately that have jarring, clanking, discordant "music".  I HATE IT.

[riley702]

I think I've referred to it as demented carnival music.

[Brattinella]

 

Wovenloaf

 

In the next episode of "Aren't Terribly Behaved Children HILARIOUS HARHARHAR

The one for Bounty paper towels where the kidlets are blowing into their chocolate milk and spewing it all over the table, Mom is chuckling, voice-over says "Why interrupt their fun" or some such nonsense.  YARGH!  This is NOT OK, Moms.  Truly, do parents really let their little "creative" monsters get away with this kind of shit?

[Rick Kitchen]

Running across the inescapable fiat commercials with that awful, repetitive clanking "music" fifty times a day has ensured that I'd buy a horse and ride it bareback to and from work every day before I'd shell out money for a fiat.

 

Is that the one where the music is accompanied by the sound of somebody clicking their tongue?  Kill me.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

The one for Bounty paper towels where the kidlets are blowing into their chocolate milk and spewing it all over the table, Mom is chuckling, voice-over says "Why interrupt their fun" or some such nonsense.  YARGH!  This is NOT OK, Moms.  Truly, do parents really let their little "creative" monsters get away with this kind of shit?

Not in my house, they didn't. My mom would have knocked the cold shit out of me if I had been running that act.

[heebiejeebie]

The Inifiniti Q50ad that shows the worst driver who apparently has the attention span of a toddler who still automatically grabs his little penis when stress or, well, BRAVO's Andy Cohen.  And says the car allows you to drive.  Well no.  According to the ad it lets you be a completely and utterly irreponsible idiotic asshole who should have to use public transit.  Gee imagine the stunning shock that cars in front of you might brake.  might turn.  Might merge into traffic.  This idea that somehow cars have to make the crass indignity of having to share the road as little the driver's responsibility does not make me admire their car or new shiny system that allows and encourages less of such responsibility.  It makes me downright road rage-y from the comfort of my tv lounge.

[BabyVegas]

Oh geez, heebiejeebie, you read my brain. I see those commercials and I want to be like "YOU SHOULD STOP DRIVING." But instead of taking some personal responsibility, this guy just wants his car to protect him. He probably has Liberty Mutual Insurance so that when he inevitably wrecks his car and someone else's, he doesn't have to pay anything extra. 

[Stella MD]

Not only not pay extra, but also be paid back extra because 'why should [his] $40,000 car depreciate before its first oil change?!?' (the fact that he throws out the high price tag makes him an extra huge tool in my book - he can either afford the car, in which case it's extra assholeish to expect his fellow insured people to pay for it, or he shouldn't have even bought it in the first place). So much hate!!

Edited September 17, 2014 by Stella MD

[Prevailing Wind]

Re blowing bubbles in your beverage:  We were taught to drink properly out of a glass and didn't have straws with which to do that.  Why would you want to spit into your beverage?  'Cause, y'know, that's what's happening there.  There's a reason brass instruments have spit valves.

[RealityGal]

Re blowing bubbles in your beverage:  We were taught to drink properly out of a glass and didn't have straws with which to do that.  Why would you want to spit into your beverage?  'Cause, y'know, that's what's happening there.  There's a reason brass instruments have spit valves.

Yeah, I don't remember getting straws at home, I think my parents would have seen it as a totally unnecessary expense.

 

But beyond that, in my house chocolate milk was a treat.  I wasn't playing games, blowing bubbles and lollygagging when it came to chocolate milk, my game plan was to get it down my trap as soon as possible.  If I had started blowing bubbles my mom would have taken it away, and that would have been punishment enough.

Not only not pay extra, but also be paid back extra because 'why should [his] $40,000 car depreciate before its first oil change?!?' (the fact that he throws out the high price tag makes him an extra huge tool in my book - he can either afford the car, in which case it's extra assholeish to expect his fellow insured people to pay for it, or he shouldn't have even bought it in the first place). So much hate!!

I'm confused, his car is depreciating before its first oil change no matter what.  Does he not understand the concept of depreciation?  If he tries to sell his car two days after he buys it, he isn't going to get what he paid going in.  Maybe he just realized this fact and is going to crash his car before his first oil change.  

Edited September 17, 2014 by RealityGal

[Stella MD]

That's exactly right - he doesn't understand that his car depreciated the second he drove it off the lot (and that he, like everyone else in the world, assumed that risk by driving it off said lot) and he insists upon an insurance company who will play along with this little deluded fantasy of full new-car value for a used car. Because, you know, basic rules of society don't apply to this entitled fool. Plus you can't possibly expect him to find a new car with the $37K he got back from his old insurance company, can you? I mean, that's just cruel and unusual.

[Aquarius]

But beyond that, in my house chocolate milk was a treat.  I wasn't playing games, blowing bubbles and lollygagging when it came to chocolate milk, my game plan was to get it down my trap as soon as possible.  If I had started blowing bubbles my mom would have taken it away, and that would have been punishment enough.

 

Word re: the chocolate milk.  That was down my hatch before it ever occurred to me to use it as a toy.

 

 

I'm confused, his car is depreciating before its first oil change no matter what.  Does he not understand the concept of depreciation?  If he tries to sell his car two days after he buys it, he isn't going to get what he paid going in.  Maybe he just realized this fact and is going to crash his car before his first oil change.  

 

That's exactly right - he doesn't understand that his car depreciated the second he drove it off the lot (and that he, like everyone else in the world, assumed that risk by driving it off said lot) and he insists upon an insurance company who will play along with this little deluded fantasy of full new-car value for a used car. Because, you know, basic rules of society don't apply to this entitled fool. Plus you can't possibly expect him to find a new car with the $37K he got back from his old insurance company, can you? I mean, that's just cruel and unusual.

 

Every time this entitled jackass says, "The question is, why would you have that insurance company?" or whatever he says, I respond, "Because that's how depreciation works in the real world, asshole."  I hate that commercial.

[TattleTeeny]

Exactly.  The racism rampant in the ad is disgusting.

Ugh, this reminds me of the Manga mascara commercial with the exaggerated and vaguely offensive accent. 

 

The use of the word "nom" drives me crazy.  The douchebag guys are bad enough, but something about the middle-aged blond woman taking a bite, then looking around as she says "nom" makes me extra stabby.  I was looking up recipes on line today.  One included pictures, the last of which was entitled "noming".  Not making that recipe.  It's as bad as kids on my lawn!

 

Oh, me too. I hate "nom," I hate "num," and I even hate "yum" and "yummy," especially when it's used for things that aren't food, e.g., "This sofa's leather upholstery is just so yummy!"

 

It reminds me of the ad for the place that buys used and broken cell phones.  The woman say something along the lines of "It's like I send them my cell phone and they send me money" as if she's astonished by the thought that they did what they said they would do.

 

This made my BF (who is far more tolerant of shit like this) say, "It's not like that, it is that...asshole."

Edited September 17, 2014 by TattleTeeny

[mmecorday]

All of those Liberty Mutual commercials suck donkey balls. I keep wishing that the Statue of Liberty will step off her pedestal and crush those jackasses under her sandaled feet.

[TattleTeeny]

I was about to post the same thing.  Hallmark is advertising their Christmas movie marathon, where they show nothing but Christmas movies 24/7 (and annoy all us Gold Girls and Frasier fans).  It's going to start on 10/31.  So they are advertising Christmas movies for 2 months, before they play them for 2 months.  Wow.  It's only my love of GG and Frasier that keeps me watching that channel.

OH MY GOD, this is the bane of my existence! I need Frasier and GG and all that shit to go to sleep to! See, I can't leave the TV on something too boring, but I also can't leave it on something new and interesting; it has to be an old dependable standby! And these crappy Christmas movies are not that! Oh, I am mad.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Is it permissible to complain about ads on youtube? Because they keep running a particular one over and over again before almost every video. This woman is in her kitchen doing stuff, and then she voice overs about how the high cost of everything is "just eating the middle class up". Then she talks about how she wishes a certain politician would "put North Carolina families first" and do something about runaway spending in Washington.

 

Now, let me preface this by saying that I hate all political ads, no matter their stripe, and like Christmas commercials they seem to start earlier and earlier every year. But this woman's voice is so whiny and annoying to me that every time she opens her piehole it makes me stabby. Taxes, like car depreciation, are inevitable, and while I'm sure everyone wishes they could pay less, I still want her to shut up and go away.

[Aquarius]

OH MY GOD, this is the bane of my existence! I need Frasier and GG and all that shit to go to sleep to! See, I can't leave the TV on something too boring, but I also can't leave it on something new and interesting; it has to be an old dependable standby! And these crappy Christmas movies are not that! Oh, I am mad.

 

Not to worry.  This was clarified by another poster some time back, but it just means new Christmas movies airing Sat/Sun nights starting October 31.  I think Frasier and The Golden Girls are probably safe, until closer to Christmas at least.

 

http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas

Edited September 17, 2014 by Aquarius

[TattleTeeny]

Good. But still, I am scared.

[Bastet]

Every time this entitled jackass says, "The question is, why would you have that insurance company?" or whatever he says, I respond, "Because that's how depreciation works in the real world, asshole."  I hate that commercial.

 

Add me to the growing list of those who hate the idea that depreciation is some new, horrible thing that Liberty Mutual is taking a stand against.  And to those who think choosing as the representative of the company's philosophy someone who's whining about only getting $37k instead of $40k probably isn't the most effective advertising strategy in this economic climate.

 

Plus, all these Liberty Mutual campaigns - in addition to proudly displaying entitled, irresponsible people - seem attempts to fool people into paying more for policies that offer benefits unlikely to ever be realized.  So, I go out and buy a $40k vehicle.  I can pay X dollars for a "normal" insurance policy, knowing a) odds are good said vehicle is not going to be totalled shortly after I buy it and b) if that does happen, and I just can't possibly find a replacement for $37k, I can surely live with forking over the extra $3000.  Or I can pay more money for this Liberty Mutual policy that I am statistically unlikely to reap the benefit of.  Gee, let me think ...

Edited September 17, 2014 by Bastet

[RealityGal]

OH MY GOD, this is the bane of my existence! I need Frasier and GG and all that shit to go to sleep to! See, I can't leave the TV on something too boring, but I also can't leave it on something new and interesting; it has to be an old dependable standby! And these crappy Christmas movies are not that! Oh, I am mad.

I have every season of GG on DVD, just for emergencies like assholes trying to play Christmas movies in August or some such nonsense.

Is it permissible to complain about ads on youtube? Because they keep running a particular one over and over again before almost every video. This woman is in her kitchen doing stuff, and then she voice overs about how the high cost of everything is "just eating the middle class up". Then she talks about how she wishes a certain politician would "put North Carolina families first" and do something about runaway spending in Washington.

 

Now, let me preface this by saying that I hate all political ads, no matter their stripe, and like Christmas commercials they seem to start earlier and earlier every year. But this woman's voice is so whiny and annoying to me that every time she opens her piehole it makes me stabby. Taxes, like car depreciation, are inevitable, and while I'm sure everyone wishes they could pay less, I still want her to shut up and go away.

What exactly does she want him to do about runaway spending in Washington?  Is he going to be personally in charge of the budget?  I love that political commercials are all about doing some vague thing about some problem that is only going on in Washington.  I haven't even seen the commercial and I can tell you that her voice reminds me of Yoplait and paper towels you buy for kids blowing spit bubbles into chocolate milk.

[LoneHaranguer]

 

The Inifiniti Q50ad that shows the worst driver who apparently has the attention span of a toddler who still automatically grabs his little penis when stress or, well, BRAVO's Andy Cohen.  And says the car allows you to drive.

Is that the same car as in the ads showing the woman who doesn't notice the big yellow school bus until it's practically already gone by? Of course, the car has long since braked itself, and she gives her kids kind of a "oopsie" look, like that's hardly the first time. If people who don't belong behind the wheel buy these cars expecting it to save them, maybe the herd will get thinned a bit; there are all sorts of traffic situations where the technology is worthless.

[riley702]

Is it permissible to complain about ads on YouTube? 

Yes, but AdBlock Plus is completely free and you'll never see those YouTube (or Facebook) ads ever again. In fact, I get perverse pleasure seeing the little number go up as it tells you how many ads it's blocking on any particular page. FYI - only 2 on this page.

Edited September 17, 2014 by riley702

[CoderLady]

Much as I hate ads, I turn AdBlock off on this site. I actually want these guys to get the ad revenue, as opposed to having it turned on when I'm on big fatass corporate sites with multiple revenue sources. That's just me, of course.

 

This is off-topic but I want to put in a plug for small business.

Edited September 17, 2014 by CoderLady

[peanutbunny]

Most reputable auto insurance companies offer some kind of new car replacement endorsement with your policy - it may have to be put on when you actually buy a new car, but it isn't something unique to Liberty Mutual.  It's like Homeowners insurance - again, most reputable insurance companies automatically offer replacement cost for personal property.  It's there, how it works is generally misunderstood.

[xaxat]

All of those people that for some reason feel the need to s-p-e-l-l their n-a-m-e-s in the ad for that C-O-P-D medication can just S-T-F-U.

[merylinkid]

My god, I finally saw the "pee happens" commercial.   Were the people who came up with that one high at the time?   Seriously, I can see some seriously stoned ad folks sitting around giggling and going "pee happens."

[DeLurker]

That's what you get when you hire the Foreman-Hyde-Kelso Advertising Agency in Point Place, Wisconsin.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Yes, but AdBlock Plus is completely free and you'll never see those YouTube (or Facebook) ads ever again. In fact, I get perverse pleasure seeing the little number go up as it tells you how many ads it's blocking on any particular page. FYI - only 2 on this page.

Thanks, riley702, I have installed that add on!

[Brattinella]

I'm so spoiled, I use AdBlock Plus, MBAM, and NoScript.

[Haleth]

Gee, I must be an overly permissive parent since I don't see the harm in the bubbling chocolate milk.  It's not like the kid is setting fire to the cat.  It's a little spilled milk, what's the harm?  (Though I would hand the kid the paper towel as a teachable lesson on the consequences of being deliberately messy.)  However I do draw the line at the screechy girl yelling for her pretty pony video.  I pity her Kindergarten teacher.

[RealityGal]

Gee, I must be an overly permissive parent since I don't see the harm in the bubbling chocolate milk.  It's not like the kid is setting fire to the cat.  It's a little spilled milk, what's the harm?  (Though I would hand the kid the paper towel as a teachable lesson on the consequences of being deliberately messy.)  However I do draw the line at the screechy girl yelling for her pretty pony video.  I pity her Kindergarten teacher.

 

My parents both came from an incredibly poor country and neither of them saw any amusement in messing with or wasting food/drink, they insisted that food be treated with respect.   So I think its mostly a difference in perspective, they would have had a problem with me messing with my food and/or setting fire to a cat.  As for screeching, it never would have even crossed my mind as a kid to try and use that as some sort of tool to get what I want.

[xls]

What next E-Hawmoney? Actual porn? Tired of seeing "Jack and Emma" almost doing it in front of their guests! Why don't you just come out and say "E-hawmoney couples have more hot-monkey sex for years than on any other dating site" and be done with it!.

Ya sound hard up for customers, must be the bad word of mouth.

(Out of consideration for others I won't post the commercial, but it makes me want to eat ice-cream out of my skull.)

[Brattinella]

I know.  My skin crawls at that commercial, too.

[Prevailing Wind]

I already forgot about eating ice cream out of my skull.  It's such a great phrase, too.  I need to remember it.  Maybe if I use it... My boss of nine years makes me want to eat ice cream out of my skull.

 

The fact that Leverage was cancelled oh-so-long ago makes me want to eat ice cream out of my skull.

 

Yup.  Works for me.

[merylinkid]

I know those people are so hot for each other -- or have such bad manners -- they can't even behave for a couple hours at their own party.    Geez.   Behave graciously then when the guests are gone, you can have all the hot sex you want.

 

Emily Post would not approve of sneaking off to have sex at your own party.

Edited September 18, 2014 by merylinkid

[St. Claire]

Most reputable auto insurance companies offer some kind of new car replacement endorsement with your policy - it may have to be put on when you actually buy a new car, but it isn't something unique to Liberty Mutual.  It's like Homeowners insurance - again, most reputable insurance companies automatically offer replacement cost for personal property.  It's there, how it works is generally misunderstood.

 

Liberty Mutual isn't unique in accident forgiveness either. I actually do use LM (I got my policy years ago, before they had such awful commercials, when I found that I could get better coverage for less money than even the budget insurance companies like GEICO and Progressive could offer me), and the agent who processed my claim after I hit an ice slick and screwed up my alignment by smashing into the on-ramp curb told me that the accident forgiveness was something that all of the insurance companies offered in my state. I will say that the service I get from LM is better than anyone I've dealt with, either within my own policy or when dealing with the other drivers' (over the years, those companies include by are not limited to: GEICO, Allstate, State Farm, USAA, and Nationwide). But their ad campaigns leave a lot to be desired.

[xls]

I know those people are so hot for each other -- or have such bad manners -- they can't even behave for a couple hours at their own party.    Geez.   Behave graciously then when the guests are gone, you can have all the hot sex you want.

 

Emily Post would not approve of sneaking off to have sex at your own party.

What makes it even worse, the guests keep standing in the doorway gawking!

[Bastet]

I'm sure eHarmony wants me to watch that commercial and think, "Oh, how wonderful - eHarmony matches people so well they're still hot for each other after years of marriage," but instead I'm sitting there thinking, "So eHarmony puts ill-mannered people together, doubling the obnoxious factor and subjecting the world to uncouth pairings.  Thanks a lot, creepy old dude."

[Brattinella]

 

merylinkid, on 18 Sept 2014 - 1:20 PM, said:

    I know those people are so hot for each other -- or have such bad manners -- they can't even behave for a couple hours at their own party.    Geez.   Behave graciously then when the guests are gone, you can have all the hot sex you want.

    

    Emily Post would not approve of sneaking off to have sex at your own party.

What makes it even worse, the guests keep standing in the doorway gawking!

 

 

Yep, I'm surprised no one has pulled out their cell phone to take a video!

[Rick Kitchen]

I normally don't have a problem with the hotels.com Captain Obvious ads, but their new one is disgusting.  Captain Obvious is sitting in a bar and a hot woman is looking at him, so naturally, as you do, he pulls out his cell phone and makes a reservation for a hotel room before he's even talked to this woman.  And then she walks past him to talk to a guy behind him, so he has to cancel the hotel room.

 

gtfo.

[xls]

In this Honda Fit commercial, there's a guy about half-way who's standing there holding rope surrounded by garbage bags, looking like a kidnapper or serial killer or something. What were you thinking people? 

[Rick Kitchen]

But you weren't upset about the centaurs, @xls ?  :D

[slensam]

What next E-Hawmoney? Actual porn? Tired of seeing "Jack and Emma" almost doing it in front of their guests! Why don't you just come out and say "E-hawmoney couples have more hot-monkey sex for years than on any other dating site" and be done with it!.

Ya sound hard up for customers, must be the bad word of mouth.

(Out of consideration for others I won't post the commercial, but it makes me want to eat ice-cream out of my skull.)

That old guy in that commercial would make me think of the monk-hood as a lifelong career.

[riley702]

My parents both came from an incredibly poor country and neither of them saw any amusement in messing with or wasting food/drink, they insisted that food be treated with respect.   So I think its mostly a difference in perspective, they would have had a problem with me messing with my food and/or setting fire to a cat.  As for screeching, it never would have even crossed my mind as a kid to try and use that as some sort of tool to get what I want.

I GREW UP incredibly poor. My parents made sure we had as much milk as we could drink, but chocolate milk was a treat, and usually just Quik powder added to white milk. They would have been very irate with a stunt like that, both from the wasting of food AND the making a mess POVs. As for screeching, they would have shut that down tout suite. I would have quickly discovered that was SO the wrong thing to do.

 

What makes it even worse, the guests keep standing in the doorway gawking!

 

Probably wondering where the fire hose is to MAKE THEM STOP, ALREADY! Geez Louise.

 

I normally don't have a problem with the hotels.com Captain Obvious ads, but their new one is disgusting.  Captain Obvious is sitting in a bar and a hot woman is looking at him, so naturally, as you do, he pulls out his cell phone and makes a reservation for a hotel room before he's even talked to this woman.  And then she walks past him to talk to a guy behind him, so he has to cancel the hotel room.

That's actually the first one I saw.

[xaxat]

This Wal Mart ad is fascinating.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjysZM7_lo

 

They show the owners of the farm, and brag about the people that pick the grapes. While you see the backs, hands and profiles of those people, they artfully avoid showing any of the faces of the people that pick the grapes. Presumably because they are almost certainly immigrant workers. 

Edited September 19, 2014 by xaxat