Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Gramto6]

The last time I flew was Summer 2019. I did use my phone  to check in as I recall. I'm old (72 soon to be 73) and I didn't have to do the shoes off stuff or have my carry-on searched. Guess there are a few perks to being old...

[dleighg]

there's this ad that I see about every 10 minutes- it's almost as annoying as ones that show parents allowing their "darling" children mess up the house. It's a "dog mom" who's going around replacing the pillows, furniture, sunglasses... that her dog has ruined. The ad is for some credit card where she gets % back on her "replacement" items.

Now sure, it's of course appropriate that she's replacing the items. But if I were one of those put-upon people, I would still not be very happy with my stuff being ruined. And the "dog mom" seems more amused than really angry at her rotten dog.

[Bastet]

14 minutes ago, dleighg said:

there's this ad that I see about every 10 minutes- it's almost as annoying as ones that show parents allowing their "darling" children mess up the house. It's a "dog mom" who's going around replacing the pillows, furniture, sunglasses... that her dog has ruined. The ad is for some credit card where she gets % back on her "replacement" items.

That's Regina King, whom I really like, playing herself, so I want to like it, but I hate that commercial!  Until the dog is properly trained, she needs to hire a dog sitter when she goes out and stop dragging his undisciplined ass over to people's houses and businesses to ruin their stuff.  That she can afford to replace it doesn't excuse the irresponsibility in the first place.

[littlebennysmom]

On 3/31/2022 at 1:11 PM, Gharlane said:

Would you rather watch the one with people yelling and screaming about how fast the eye wrinkle cream works? 

"Words I can't say on TV, hyuck yuck yuck!"

[KWalkerInc]

There's a Rocket Mortgage commercial where a woman I guess is trying to find things wrong with the house and keeps popping out suddenly from unusual places (breaking through the walls, a vent, coming out from inside the couch).  The man keeps screaming at the top of his lungs every time she pops out from somewhere.  This would probably be a realistic reaction in real life, but hearing all that screaming repeatedly in a commercial is a lot to take.

 

[Haleth]

The boarding passes sent to your phone also indicate TSA approval. 

It's my experience that more than half of the passengers still use paper boarding passes but that's likely to change as people get more used to having them on their phones.  Of course the premise of the commercial is that the "young home owners" (who aren't all that young) don't know the difference between tickets and boarding passes anyway.  (I mean, a boarding pass is a ticket to entry, right?)

[Gharlane]

15 hours ago, dleighg said:

There's this ad that I see about every 10 minutes- it's almost as annoying as ones that show parents allowing their "darling" children mess up the house. It's a "dog mom" who's going around replacing the pillows, furniture, sunglasses... that her dog has ruined. The ad is for some credit card where she gets % back on her "replacement" items.

The thing that annoys me the most about that commercial is that it has happened repeatedly, because she appends "again" to her apologies to everyone. Bitch, that's not how it works! 🤬

4 hours ago, KWalkerInc said:

There's a Rocket Mortgage commercial where a woman I guess is trying to find things wrong with the house and keeps popping out suddenly from unusual places (breaking through the walls, a vent, coming out from inside the couch).  The man keeps screaming at the top of his lungs every time she pops out from somewhere.  This would probably be a realistic reaction in real life, but hearing all that screaming repeatedly in a commercial is a lot to take.

The woman (his wife?) popping out of the couch reminds me of this scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:

 

[Crashcourse]

6 hours ago, KWalkerInc said:

There's a Rocket Mortgage commercial where a woman I guess is trying to find things wrong with the house and keeps popping out suddenly from unusual places (breaking through the walls, a vent, coming out from inside the couch).  The man keeps screaming at the top of his lungs every time she pops out from somewhere.  This would probably be a realistic reaction in real life, but hearing all that screaming repeatedly in a commercial is a lot to take.

 

I can't stand that screaming guy.

[proserpina65]

6 hours ago, Haleth said:

Of course the premise of the commercial is that the "young home owners" (who aren't all that young) don't know the difference between tickets and boarding passes anyway.  (I mean, a boarding pass is a ticket to entry, right?)

It's stupid because they're already past the point where they'd need tickets so why the hell was he even asking that?

[knitorpurl]

The Amazon Medusa commercial is back in rotation- ugh. Guess they paid so much for all the special effects that they want to get their money's worth.

[janie jones]

The "pss pss" in the Flonase commercials is the most annoying thing on television right now.

[Tom Holmberg]

3 hours ago, janie jones said:

The "pss pss" in the Flonase commercials is the most annoying thing on television right now.

Jimmie Walker thanks you!

[Gharlane]

22 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

Jimmie Walker thanks you!

I've been seeing his commercials more often lately. 🤬

[cinsays]

5 hours ago, Gharlane said:

I've been seeing his commercials more often lately. 🤬

what about the non-stop commercials for the kartrashians lately

yuck

[mmecorday]

I like watching the reruns of "Modern Family" on the E! Channel, but the commercials for "Paris in Love" drive me nuts. Someone on the commercial says, "No one deserves a fairy tale wedding more than you, Paris." And why is that? Has her life been so hard that she warrants a wedding celebration worthy of a royal? She's an heiress and can do whatever she wants with her money, but she's no poor little rich girl.

[Tom Holmberg]

19 hours ago, cinsays said:

what about the non-stop commercials for the kartrashians lately

yuck

One of the Kardashians should marry Shaq then that would be all we'd ever see.

[Dirtybubble]

This might have been mentioned before but this Allstate commercial bugs me to no end!  Who the F drives in a convertible with a multi tier wedding cake in the back seat?!  All the bugs and dirt getting in the fondant--not to mention the thing simply flying apart, UGH!

 

[Gharlane]

45 minutes ago, Tom Holmberg said:

One of the Kardashians should marry Shaq then that would be all we'd ever see.

Please don;t giuve those filthy Kardashian whors any ideas! 😱

 

42 minutes ago, Dirtybubble said:

This might have been mentioned before but this Allstate commercial bugs me to no end!  Who the F drives in a convertible with a multi tier wedding cake in the back seat?!  All the bugs and dirt getting in the fondant--not to mention the thing simply flying apart, UGH!

Ohh, we have discussed it a little! 🤣

At least the one with the screeching hood ornament is gone!

[Browncoat]

But the infuriating Dixie plates one is back -- the one where the guy is trying to carry a metric shit-ton of spaghetti and meatballs on a paper plate and drops it all on his date.  Dude, if you had, oh, I don't know, REAL plates instead of any kind of paper plates, that would never happen.  Also, if you're trying to impress your date by cooking dinner?  Use REAL plates! 

[Tom Holmberg]

1 hour ago, Dirtybubble said:

This might have been mentioned before but this Allstate commercial bugs me to no end!  Who the F drives in a convertible with a multi tier wedding cake in the back seat?!  All the bugs and dirt getting in the fondant--not to mention the thing simply flying apart, UGH!

 

Wedding Cake - Now with more sprinkles!

[Bastet]

18 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

But the infuriating Dixie plates one is back -- the one where the guy is trying to carry a metric shit-ton of spaghetti and meatballs on a paper plate and drops it all on his date.

Ugh, yes, it is so stupid.  He is so stupid.  He "spent all day trying to master [his] nana's recipe" and then serves it up on paper plates?  Tacky, but the food wouldn't have wound up in her lap if he'd kept two hands under it like he was originally holding it.  And then an hour later, his dog (who ate the mess off the floor) still has dried spaghetti sauce in her/his fur, that this idiot continues to ignore because he simply must sit down and write a one-star review of the store brand plates. 

[Colleenna]

1 hour ago, Gharlane said:

Please don;t giuve those filthy Kardashian whors any ideas! 😱

 

Ohh, we have discussed it a little! 🤣

At least the one with the screeching hood ornament is gone!

I hate the screeching hood ornament with a passion so intense that it would melt the sun.

[peacheslatour]

48 minutes ago, Tom Holmberg said:

Wedding Cake - Now with more sprinkles!

[TattleTeeny]

Not any one particular commercial, but the exaggerated way people in commercials hold things gets on my damn nerves. For instance, the unnatural thumb position when holding a bottle or can when pouring it into a glass or drinking from it. I get that it’s to make sure the label/logo isn’t obscured, but it looks dumb. But even worse is the gripping of, like, say, a tortilla chip (usually being dipped into a bowl of salsa or something); it’s always so tight and clutchy and weird — if I held a chip like that, it would break into pieces!

ETA: there’s a commercial for Tyson chicken that shows just the mouth of a red-lipsticked woman extremely exaggeratedly biting into and chewing a chicken finger in a way-too-serious manner. And then this reminds me of another thing I really hate: people in commercials who nod and smile while chewing a food! 

Maybe I just don’t like to see people eat on TV.

Edited April 9, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[Kitty Redstone]

Mostly I like the Dr. Rick commercials of not becoming your parents, but will still print out directions/maps even if it's considered old lady.  We day hike and have learned the hard way that cell phone signals can be quite finicky, and I will not ever go on a new trail without a paper map again.

In other news, I'm getting ready to give up watching Perry Mason and Matlock on FETV.  There's a fucking zocdoc commercial every single break and it's ridiculous and infuriating.  I do not have good thoughts about the people who came up with these ads or the channel that takes their money to air them.

[Leeds]

 

16 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Did you really need to give me a reason to post a Sandra Lee Kwanzaa cake photo?

[Popples]

On 4/8/2022 at 2:43 PM, Tom Holmberg said:

One of the Kardashians should marry Shaq then that would be all we'd ever see.

[Bruinsfan]

A cake should not so closely resemble meaty paté canned cat food.

[Gramto6]

22 minutes ago, Bruinsfan said:

A cake should not so closely resemble meaty paté canned cat food.

LOL!! My cats love the paté cat food!

[Browncoat]

"Everybody DampRid!"

 

[peacheslatour]

1 hour ago, Browncoat said:

"Everybody DampRid!"

 

It's the new dance craze that's sweeping the nation!

[Blergh]

9 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

It's the new dance craze that's sweeping the nation!

But likely a far more popular dancing craze in Florida and Louisiana than  in Arizona or Nevada! In the latter two states, I wouldn't be surprised if there were folks who've made homemade jerky in their   closets via just suspending meat on  coat hangers!  LOL

[KLovestoShop]

The new Uber Eats commercials literally make me gag, and I turn the channel.  These idiots ask if you can eat everything that Uber Eats delivers and one guy takes a big bite out of a bar of soap and another is shoving cellophane tape in his mouth. Those things really trigger my gag reflex.  

[littlebennysmom]

On 4/9/2022 at 1:54 AM, Kitty Redstone said:

Mostly I like the Dr. Rick commercials of not becoming your parents, but will still print out directions/maps even if it's considered old lady.  We day hike and have learned the hard way that cell phone signals can be quite finicky, and I will not ever go on a new trail without a paper map again.

In other news, I'm getting ready to give up watching Perry Mason and Matlock on FETV.  There's a fucking zocdoc commercial every single break and it's ridiculous and infuriating.  I do not have good thoughts about the people who came up with these ads or the channel that takes their money to air them.

Their first reference in that zocdoc commercial that is understandable is "and it hurts when you pee" sung/whispered in the rapid-fire lyrics.  Same reaction to this as the bent carrot commercial -- face averted, a look of distaste and the thought, "I can't believe advertising professionals came up with this...."

 

[millennium]

On 4/10/2022 at 11:48 AM, peacheslatour said:

It's the new dance craze that's sweeping the nation!

 

Sometimes I think there's not enough dancing in commercials nowadays.

[cinsays]

there's a new ad for something with the property brothers and melissa mccarthey with her breaking glass items for good luck. 

dumb and really, this is supposed to be funny or what? 

[Gharlane]

On 4/10/2022 at 9:09 PM, KLovestoShop said:

The new Uber Eats commercials literally make me gag, and I turn the channel.  These idiots ask if you can eat everything that Uber Eats delivers and one guy takes a big bite out of a bar of soap and another is shoving cellophane tape in his mouth. Those things really trigger my gag reflex.  

I saw that commercial for Uber eats and despise the man in it.

[OldStandard]

I was also going to comment on the Uber Eats commercials.  Surely, the advertisers aren’t suggesting that their customers are truly that moronic.  I know, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the buying public, but this whole line of commercials is so insulting as to be maddening.  At this point I’d go out of my way to avoid using them (if I lived in an area that had this service) just because the commercials are SO annoying!

[Baltimore Betty]

The newest H&M commercial...I cannot mute fast enough.  "Ooobie doobie," or whatever the lyrics are to that ABBA like song they sing makes me cringe and it is stuck in my head.

[TattleTeeny]

On 4/8/2022 at 3:58 PM, Browncoat said:

But the infuriating Dixie plates one is back -- the one where the guy is trying to carry a metric shit-ton of spaghetti and meatballs on a paper plate and drops it all on his date.  Dude, if you had, oh, I don't know, REAL plates instead of any kind of paper plates, that would never happen.  Also, if you're trying to impress your date by cooking dinner?  Use REAL plates! 

Or at least just have a reasonable expectation of a paper plate, even -- especially -- when you're on a date with a seemingly low-maintenance, chill kind of girl!

[Gharlane]

On 4/8/2022 at 3:58 PM, Browncoat said:

But the infuriating Dixie plates one is back -- the one where the guy is trying to carry a metric shit-ton of spaghetti and meatballs on a paper plate and drops it all on his date.  Dude, if you had, oh, I don't know, REAL plates instead of any kind of paper plates, that would never happen.  Also, if you're trying to impress your date by cooking dinner?  Use REAL plates! 

I've seen one where it's two women painting  a room and passing off something on "the other brand"'s plate and holding it wrong, so yeah, everything falls off. 🙄

[proserpina65]

5 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

The newest H&M commercial...I cannot mute fast enough.  "Ooobie doobie," or whatever the lyrics are to that ABBA like song they sing makes me cringe and it is stuck in my head.

Do NOT sully the name of ABBA by associating it with that crappy song!  Oh, and the clothes in that commercial are hideous as well.

 

1 hour ago, Gharlane said:

I've seen one where it's two women painting  a room and passing off something on "the other brand"'s plate and holding it wrong, so yeah, everything falls off. 🙄

I see that one and say "Why would you take the food to the person painting instead of having them come over to the table where the food is?" every single time.

[Baltimore Betty]

14 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

Do NOT sully the name of ABBA by associating it with that crappy song!  Oh, and the clothes in that commercial are hideous as well.

 

I see that one and say "Why would you take the food to the person painting instead of having them come over to the table where the food is?" every single time.

Believe me, I was not happy that they tried to be anything close to ABBA, they have no shame.

Yeah about the flimsy paper plates, when they put the food on the plate and picked it up did they not feel how flimsy it was at that moment and then decide to carry the plate in such a way they did not support it from underneath? Do they even know how a paper plate works?  Do they understand how wet paint and paint fumes work? Who wants to eat in the middle of a room that is being painted?

[Bruinsfan]

I wouldn't mind, but then I have fond memories of being in the painting studio at university and watching non-art student visitors enter only to turn green after breathing in a lungful of turpentine and linseed oil fumes.

[TattleTeeny]

22 minutes ago, Bruinsfan said:

I wouldn't mind, but then I have fond memories of being in the painting studio at university and watching non-art student visitors enter only to turn green after breathing in a lungful of turpentine and linseed oil fumes.

YUP! Sort of in the same category of coming to terms with the fact that, as a full-time visual arts student, you're probably going to always be a bit dirtier than your non-art peers.

Edited April 13, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[peacheslatour]

21 minutes ago, TattleTeeny said:

YUP! Sort of in the same category of coming to terms with the fact that, as a full-time visual arts student, you're probably going to always be a bit dirtier than your non-art peers.

I worked in a paint and decor shop for twelve years. I got pretty good at not getting any paint on myself. One thing that used to crack us up was that the Shakeys' Pizza across the street would fire up their deep fat fryers on hot summer days when we had all the doors open. All you could smell was that rancid fat smell, even over the paints, lacquers and solvents. 

[PrincessPurrsALot]

Let's get back on topic of commercials that annoy, irritate or outright enrage.  Thanks!

[sempervivum]

I just saw this icky Venus razor commercial, which seems to be a year old-so I apologize if it's already been commented on: The Pube Song

I thought their 'Thin Skin' one was gross enough, but this one is actually worse ,imo.

[mmecorday]

Quote

The newest H&M commercial...I cannot mute fast enough.  "Ooobie doobie," or whatever the lyrics are to that ABBA like song they sing makes me cringe and it is stuck in my head.

It's "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" by he Spanish duo Baccara. It was a runaway hit in most of Europe, but bombed stateside.

The two women were flamenco dancers. Yes sir, they can boogie, but they can't sing.

[Bastet]

1 hour ago, sempervivum said:

I just saw this icky Venus razor commercial, which seems to be a year old-so I apologize if it's already been commented on: The Pube Song

That tune is nowhere near as catchy as it needs to be if they're going to make a one-minute commercial out of it (although the aired version is likely shorter), but I love the "Why the mass hysteria about the pubic area?  There's nothing diabolical about this little follicle" part (both the lyrics and the music).