Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Dirtybubble]

On 11/12/2022 at 11:19 AM, TattleTeeny said:

Is Domino’s really alerting people to the fact that they can have leftover pizza? Idiots.

Also, I still can’t deal with the helium-voiced women in/narrating commercials, no matter how saturated that landscape becomes. 

IKR?!  We should be like OMG you mean you can actually reheat the pizza?!  And it still taste like pizza?!  What is the witchcraft you speak of??🙄

[dleighg]

so so many. Partly because I keep seeing them over and over.

• The one for some Medicare Advantage thing where these two "older" (well, duh) Black ladies are calling a hotline to find a "good" Medicare (Advantage) plan. The young woman supposedly answering the phone has such a smug attitude, like "of course by the end of this call I'll have herded you into something I'm selling."
• The one which riffs on the ridiculously overused Christmas-time "big red bow on the brand new car" thing. In this case the big red bow blows off the parents' house onto the son's brand-new car as he pulls into the driveway. And the father thinks his son bought him a car. And the son, very reluctantly, goes along with it. Yeah, right.

[Haleth]

13 hours ago, dleighg said:

The one which riffs on the ridiculously overused Christmas-time "big red bow on the brand new car" thing. In this case the big red bow blows off the parents' house onto the son's brand-new car as he pulls into the driveway. And the father thinks his son bought him a car. And the son, very reluctantly, goes along with it. Yeah, right.

I actually thought this was a funny way to turn that cliche on its head.

[Deskisamess]

Megan Thee Stallion's ColorStay lipstick commercial. So we are back to different color lipliner and lip shade? Gah.

[TattleTeeny]

20 hours ago, Dirtybubble said:

IKR?!  We should be like OMG you mean you can actually reheat the pizza?!  And it still taste like pizza?!  What is the witchcraft you speak of??🙄

This sort of tangentially reminds me of the various- or half-the-usual-sized paper towels for which the commercial (or the label) tells us we can use the size we want, as if I couldn't do that before. I know it's referring to where the perforations are, but paper towels rip neatly in half fairly easily, so calm down! Also, there's one brand with various sizes on the same roll so you can get the size you need! Like WTF? What if the size I want is not the next one? I'd still have to rip off more than I need, even if I don't use it right away! Now that I think of it, I haven't seen those lately; maybe they realized it was kind of silly.

Edited November 16, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[xls]

18 hours ago, dleighg said:

The one for some Medicare Advantage thing where these two "older" (well, duh) Black ladies are calling a hotline to find a "good" Medicare (Advantage) plan. The young woman supposedly answering the phone has such a smug attitude, like "of course by the end of this call I'll have herded you into something I'm selling."

I used to work Medicare customer service and I can tell you people on the phone will tell you anything to make the sale and Medicare severely limits the time of a call so it's very rushed. CS reps can't actually spend quality time helping a caller out.

[chenoa333]

4 hours ago, xls said:

I used to work Medicare customer service and I can tell you people on the phone will tell you anything to make the sale and Medicare severely limits the time of a call so it's very rushed. CS reps can't actually spend quality time helping a caller out.

Sounds like ANY call center for ANY product. 

[Deskisamess]

And once again, McCormick is running the commercial with the mom cooking at the stove with the baby strapped to her front. She spills a spice on the baby's head, and blows it away like it's nothing. Can you imagine what cinnamon would feel like in the baby's eyes? Or red pepper? Or salt? Or the steam coming off the pans on the stove on the baby's feet?

It's a horrible commercial for many reasons. I left a complaint on their web site last year and got a canned response about "considering my concerns."

[peacheslatour]

1 hour ago, Deskisamess said:

And once again, McCormick is running the commercial with the mom cooking at the stove with the baby strapped to her front. She spills a spice on the baby's head, and blows it away like it's nothing. Can you imagine what cinnamon would feel like in the baby's eyes? Or red pepper? Or salt? Or the steam coming off the pans on the stove on the baby's feet?

It's a horrible commercial for many reasons. I left a complaint on their web site last year and got a canned response about "considering my concerns."

I think it's just a dried herb like celery seed or thyme.

[Deskisamess]

2 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

I think it's just a dried herb like celery seed or thyme.

That's not really the point. Many spices could be painful if gotten in your eye. Cooking at a hot stove with a baby on your front is a bad idea, no matter how you spin it. Toss some celery seeds or dried thyme in your eye, let us know how it felt.

[Crashcourse]

As bad as dumping seasoning on the baby's head is, it's cooking on a hot stove with the baby in front that really horrifies me. 

[Miss Bones]

4 hours ago, Deskisamess said:

And once again, McCormick is running the commercial with the mom cooking at the stove with the baby strapped to her front. She spills a spice on the baby's head, and blows it away like it's nothing. Can you imagine what cinnamon would feel like in the baby's eyes? Or red pepper? Or salt? Or the steam coming off the pans on the stove on the baby's feet?

It's a horrible commercial for many reasons. I left a complaint on their web site last year and got a canned response about "considering my concerns."

I just saw this commercial the other day, and said the same thing to my husband, "What if that was pepper and it got in the kid's eyes??"

[Glitches]

On 11/9/2022 at 3:18 AM, KWalkerInc said:

There was also an ad for Charmin toilet paper where the blue bear was talking "sexy" to the toilet paper about how soft it is.  I know they had a different commercial where the wife declared that it was "getting weird," and that applied even more to this ad than that one!

And the one where papa bear takes a long time. When he exits the toilet he asks if they were all waiting “for this” and wiggles his rear end at them. Seriously inappropriate. A human adult would not do this. 

[renatae]

On 11/9/2022 at 12:18 PM, sempervivum said:

No, that one has been trying for YEARS to lose 22 lbs. She's in a size 4 pair of pants!

Yeah, and I'm a size 000.

😊

[proserpina65]

On 11/17/2022 at 10:44 AM, Deskisamess said:

And once again, McCormick is running the commercial with the mom cooking at the stove with the baby strapped to her front. She spills a spice on the baby's head, and blows it away like it's nothing. Can you imagine what cinnamon would feel like in the baby's eyes? Or red pepper? Or salt? Or the steam coming off the pans on the stove on the baby's feet?

It's a horrible commercial for many reasons. I left a complaint on their web site last year and got a canned response about "considering my concerns."

I'd be more concerned about something cooking on the stove spattering on the baby and burning it.

[sempervivum]

On 11/16/2022 at 7:52 AM, Deskisamess said:

Megan Thee Stallion's ColorStay lipstick commercial. So we are back to different color lipliner and lip shade? Gah.

Aside from the fact that this 'style' used to be known as 'stripper lips', my particular lips are barely big enough to accommodate the liner much less the inside color. In general, looks designed for stage wear won't translate successfully to real life.

This is old, but: I can't stand those two dimwits bugging their eyes out and making 'yummy' sounds about Lindt chocolates.

[bankerchick]

iRobot has a series of commercials where there are people in an office, supposedly directing the vacuum to avoid different obstacles on the floor.  They are amusing enough, and I was watching the one with the pixellated dog crap on the carpet.  The the camera pans back and there are 2 people sitting on the couch, making no effort to clean up dogshit on their carpet!  What the hell?

[CrystalBlue]

On 11/17/2022 at 7:44 AM, Deskisamess said:

And once again, McCormick is running the commercial with the mom cooking at the stove with the baby strapped to her front. She spills a spice on the baby's head, and blows it away like it's nothing. Can you imagine what cinnamon would feel like in the baby's eyes? Or red pepper? Or salt? Or the steam coming off the pans on the stove on the baby's feet?

It's a horrible commercial for many reasons. I left a complaint on their web site last year and got a canned response about "considering my concerns."

Yeah, they need to can that commercial after considering your concerns.  McCormick must have gotten tons of complaints and bad comments about the safety issue.  Yet they still air it?

[ctlady]

On 11/17/2022 at 10:33 PM, renatae said:

  On 11/9/2022 at 1:18 PM, sempervivum said:

No, that one has been trying for YEARS to lose 22 lbs. She's in a size 4 pair of pants

On 11/17/2022 at 10:33 PM, renatae said:

Yeah, and I'm a size 000.

While she looks  narrow and trim on the bottom, and most likely is being helped with a bump & roll smoothing body shaper, her upper body looks proportionally bigger.  I don’t buy any of these fast weight loss gimmicks. Most ‘after’ photos are all clever angles, twisted pony leg, hand on hip and arm thrust back poses and Spanx to make them look thinner. 

[bankerchick]

Can I be the only person who hears 'Oreos placenta' instead of 'Oreos for Santa' in the Oreos Christmas commercial?  Or the Tide commercial where the woman wonders whether it will work on 'my kids' f*****g stains?'  After hundreds of views, I'm still not sure what she's supposed to be saying.  Funky stains?

I know my hearing is bad, but I don't believe it's just me.

[ctlady]

On 11/18/2022 at 11:09 AM, proserpina65 said:

I'd be more concerned about something cooking on the stove spattering on the baby and burning it.

Yes - this!  How about just putting your baby in a jumper, swing or baby seat while you're cooking?

16 hours ago, bankerchick said:

iRobot has a series of commercials where there are people in an office, supposedly directing the vacuum to avoid different obstacles on the floor

Those are quite fun from the iRobot headquarters POV, but the one with the lady having her Alexa, whatever to tell her iRobot to vacuum under the DR table irks me.  The level of enable-ment (I made that word up) these products create is astounding.  Go vacuum your own carpet, lady

Same with the Daily Harvest commercials.  "Emily hasn't bought groceries in weeks.  So...how is she creating this masterpiece?"  Said 'masterpiece' is a smoothie made from opening her freezer and pulling out a carton of frozen fruit from DH.  You have GOT to be kidding me?  I think some Michelin chefs may want to debate you on what constitutes a culinary masterpiece?

There's another one with some whiny, soy-latte millenial saying that it's too hard or takes too much time to "chop my own vegetables".  I truly perish the thought of these spoilt little brats having to fend for themselves in the Zombie Apocalypse without their soy, triple foam, no sugar caramel latte, Door Dash and cartons of frozen fruits and vegetables that they don't have time in their SUPER busy lives to go purchase or - Lord forbid - grow in a garden.  I actually had a conversation about food shortages with a 20-something who said "well, if the stores run out of food, then I'll just order online"  I didn't have the strength to ask her where she thought the online food delivery companies got their food from - the Magical Grocery Store Tree?

[mbluecpa]

This one has probably been discussed upthread since it’s not particularly new: the Liberty Mutual “young people having fun with insurance” commercial.  It’s more like “young people acting douchey” and I can never un-see the lead douche’s mullet and bushy pits.

[TattleTeeny]

7 hours ago, ctlady said:

There's another one with some whiny, soy-latte millenial saying that it's too hard or takes too much time to "chop my own vegetables".  I truly perish the thought of these spoilt little brats having to fend for themselves in the Zombie Apocalypse without their soy, triple foam, no sugar caramel latte, Door Dash and cartons of frozen fruits and vegetables that they don't have time in their SUPER busy lives to go purchase or - Lord forbid - grow in a garden. 

For whatever reason, I can’t quote your whole post. But anyway…

I’m not a millennial and don’t use whatever food delivery service that is (and not sure why nondairy milk in one’s coffee is connected to lazy entitlement?) and I feel the same way. I know how to chop vegetables but I am more than fine buying what I need already that way. And I always have frozen fruit on hand. Utilizing available services and conveniences doesn’t necessarily reveal anything about one’s character or mean anything negative (eg, I despise food shopping, so I just don’t do it, and place an order instead. I feel lucky, not lazy). And maybe they are busy. Personally, I don’t have time to grow a garden either (also, I live in a condo so there’s that too).

Incidentally, some millennials are in their 40s. And everyone in the zombie apocalypse will miss stuff from the before times, haha!

That said, this is mean of me, but I find Emily really annoying for a few other (and admittedly petty and possibly inexplicable) reasons. 

As for other commercials, I hate “do a dollop.” The usage of “do,” the word “dollop,” all of it, damn it!

Edited November 20, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, TattleTeeny said:

As for other commercials, I hate “do a dollop.” The usage of “do,” the word “dollop,” all of it, damn it!

I really do like the sour cream, however.

[ctlady]

15 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

I’m not a millennial and don’t use whatever food delivery service that is (and not sure why nondairy milk in one’s coffee is connected to lazy entitlement?) and I feel the same way. I know how to chop vegetables but I am more than fine buying what I need already that way. And I always have frozen fruit on hand. Utilizing available services and conveniences doesn’t necessarily reveal anything about one’s character or mean anything negative (eg, I despise food shopping, so I just don’t do it, and place an order instead. I feel lucky, not lazy). And maybe they are busy. Personally, I don’t have time to grow a garden either (also, I live in a condo so there’s that too).

Incidentally, some millennials are in their 40s. And everyone in the zombie apocalypse will miss stuff from the before times, haha!

I hope you realize that my comment was directed at how the individuals portrayed and come across in the commercial and not personally to anyone here - whether in their 20s or 40s

I understand these services are a boon to elderly, bed-ridden, shut ins or when one is just too overwhelmed and needs a bit of help.  But they can easily become the norm.  Today, people can run their entire lives from their cell phone while never having to leave their couch watching Netflix.  Tech and conveniences meant to be another ends to a means are slowly becoming a way to enable the abled.  Again, this is my opinion

[TattleTeeny]

Sure, they can become the norm. My point is that we can't assume that they do, simply because of a tiny perception. I mean, sure, some people are lazy and were likely that way before these conveniences. Someone who is not lazy is probably not suddenly going to turn that way because of them or because of how they like their coffee (< this is just the most confusing thing to me) or what year they were born, and definitely not because they choose not to do a thing that they don't like doing.  (I'm in my early 50s, but I am just not a "kids today" kind of person -- though, oh my goodness, my BF is becoming one, ahahahahhaha!).

Edited November 20, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[marceline]

So how does this community handle Christmas/holiday commercials? Is there/should there be a separate thread?

I've already got one ad driving me crazy. Where do I talk about it? 😀

[Prevailing Wind]

14 minutes ago, marceline said:

So how does this community handle Christmas/holiday commercials? Is there/should there be a separate thread?

I've already got one ad driving me crazy. Where do I talk about it? 😀

There's a thread for Seasonal/Holiday ads.

[Bastet]

15 minutes ago, marceline said:

So how does this community handle Christmas/holiday commercials? Is there/should there be a separate thread?

Yes, it's here.

[TattleTeeny]

Speaking of convenient services, there’s a Fresh Direct commercial with 2 roommates about splitting up the housework, only instead of, say, clean the bathroom or vacuum or whatever, they’re deciding who will do the laundry vs. the food shopping, including specific foods for one of the roommate’s mother’s visit. I know the ad needs to have a way to showcase Fresh Direct, but this seems awkward — at least to me it does; those are not what I recall to be “shared” chores. 

EDIT: The one girl does actually mention cleaning the bathroom, which makes sense as a shared task. The rest, however, still does not!

Edited November 22, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[Bastet]

1 hour ago, TattleTeeny said:

Speaking of convenient services, there’s a Fresh Direct commercial with 2 roommates about splitting up the housework, only instead of, say, clean the bathroom or vacuum or whatever, they’re deciding who will do the laundry vs. the food shopping, including specific foods for one of the roommate’s mother’s visit. I know the ad needs to have a way to showcase Fresh Direct, but this seems awkward — at least to me it does; those are not what I recall to be “shared” chores. 

Yeah, that sounds weird.  Most couples each do their own laundry, never mind most roommates.  And, even if they normally do take turns buying groceries, at least for staples they both regularly use, the one whose mom is coming should be buying special stuff for her, not assigning her roommate to do it.

[marceline]

6 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

There's a thread for Seasonal/Holiday ads.

6 hours ago, Bastet said:

Yes, it's here.

Thank you!

[Gharlane]

On 11/18/2022 at 7:31 PM, bankerchick said:

iRobot has a series of commercials where there are people in an office, supposedly directing the vacuum to avoid different obstacles on the floor. 

They're sppsd to be inside the Roomba, driving it. Those commercials are both annoying and sometimes perplexing.

[Gharlane]

On 11/7/2022 at 5:20 AM, KWalkerInc said:

I'm sure this was discussed because it's several years old, but Geico has brought back the ad where the gecko brings treats to a neighbor, and the man just shoves them in his mouth (without offering any to his wife) and eats them all immediately, then makes a rude comment before keeping the gecko's plate. 

Isn't that jerk Mark Ruffalo? It makes sense if it is.

On 11/7/2022 at 7:02 AM, Haleth said:

Yes.  I am so disappointed in Shutterfly for hiring that... woman to promote their products.  And no, I do not believe she actually makes her own Christmas cards and gifts.

I don't remember this being in the original commercial, but now she makes some fake down-homey vague cliched statement about "loving your crazy family". 🙄

Edited November 21, 2022 by Gharlane

[Haleth]

2 hours ago, Gharlane said:

On 11/7/2022 at 5:20 AM, KWalkerInc said:

Isn't that jerk Mark Ruffalo?

No, it’s not. 

[Winston Wolfe]

On 11/4/2022 at 8:35 PM, Gramto6 said:

I finally saw the 2023 Puppet Martha commercial. OMG Why??? Why would they do that???

A little late to the Party on this one, but Puppet Martha seems 1,000% more chill than real-life Martha. Maybe it's those Cannabis gummies she's taking for her Glaucoma?

Edited November 22, 2022 by Winston Wolfe

[proserpina65]

On 11/19/2022 at 7:04 PM, TattleTeeny said:

I know how to chop vegetables but I am more than fine buying what I need already that way.

Yeah, sometimes it's worth paying a little more for pre-chopped and save the time.  But I do think the point about Emily creating a "masterpiece" with her Daily Harvest frozen fruit is valid.  Because, while she may have created a tasty smoothie/shake with that fruit, it is in no way a masterpiece.

On 11/19/2022 at 9:36 AM, ctlady said:

While she looks  narrow and trim on the bottom, and most likely is being helped with a bump & roll smoothing body shaper, her upper body looks proportionally bigger.

Some women are top-heavy; my aunt is one of them.  But yeah, those commercials mostly used very carefully edited photos.

[Nicmar]

I cannot stand  the Baerskin Hoodie ad that is shown on Youtube, its so stupid a a guy putting on layers of jackets on and he even had a jacket on backwards, and I'm sorry but $200 for a hoodie is just ridiculous!

[janie jones]

On 11/15/2022 at 2:51 PM, dleighg said:

• The one for some Medicare Advantage thing where these two "older" (well, duh) Black ladies are calling a hotline to find a "good" Medicare (Advantage) plan. The young woman supposedly answering the phone has such a smug attitude, like "of course by the end of this call I'll have herded you into something I'm selling."

The thing I hate about that commercial is the phony notepad. It's obviously typed in a handwriting font and not someone's actual handwriting. It's annoying.

[TattleTeeny]

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Yeah, sometimes it's worth paying a little more for pre-chopped and save the time.  But I do think the point about Emily creating a "masterpiece" with her Daily Harvest frozen fruit is valid.  Because, while she may have created a tasty smoothie/shake with that fruit, it is in no way a masterpiece.

I tend to agree. But who am I to say what is a masterpiece to someone else -- even Urban Harvest Emily?

EDIT: Haha, whoops -- I mean Daily Harvest! Oh my goodness, "Urban Harvest" is a Children of the Corn sequel, ahahahhaaaaa!

Edited November 22, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[CalicoKitty]

On 11/18/2022 at 9:28 AM, sempervivum said:

This is old, but: I can't stand those two dimwits bugging their eyes out and making 'yummy' sounds about Lindt chocolates.

THIS!!  I hate this commercial. 

[Jaded]

7 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

I tend to agree. But who am I to say what is a masterpiece to someone else -- even Urban Harvest Emily?

EDIT: Haha, whoops -- I mean Daily Harvest! Oh my goodness, "Urban Harvest" is a Children of the Corn sequel, ahahahhaaaaa!

When I first saw William Devane doing in the Medicare commercial my first thought was to wonder why Greg Sumner was needing to do that. I guess they pay well and at least he's not doing reverse mortgage commercials like some people. I will say that in the commercial at least he doesn't look 83.

[proserpina65]

18 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

I tend to agree. But who am I to say what is a masterpiece to someone else -- even Urban Harvest Emily?

EDIT: Haha, whoops -- I mean Daily Harvest! Oh my goodness, "Urban Harvest" is a Children of the Corn sequel, ahahahhaaaaa!

Daily Harvest is People!!!!!!!

[proserpina65]

11 hours ago, Jaded said:

I will say that in the commercial at least he doesn't look 83.

That was my reaction too, that he was looking pretty good.  Of course, he was one of those people who for years looked older than his actual age so I guess now he's caught up with it and then passed it by.

[Maverick]

27 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

Daily Harvest is People!!!!!!!

 No, this is people!

[Dirtybubble]

On 11/19/2022 at 7:04 PM, TattleTeeny said:

As for other commercials, I hate “do a dollop.” The usage of “do,” the word “dollop,” all of it, damn it!

"Do a dollop, do do a dollop of Daisy!"  Ok now I've got that jingle stuck in my head😄

I see the hipster Santa commercials are back.  UGH I want grandfatherly, Coke a Cola Santa not hip, fashionable Santa 😡

[InDueTime]

There's a Bubly ad where people are breaking dishes, and Michael Buble is saying is breaking the dishes means fewer chores to be done. Um, wrong. It means extra chores because now they have to clean up shards of the broken dishes. Also, they'll need to buy more dishes to replace the ones they broke. 

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/bfB5/bubly-wedding-gift-featuring-michael-bubl

[Spartan Girl]

Bear with me, because this might be another case of me hating a commercial just because it’s played over and over…

But the commercial about colds affecting blood pressure/age where it starts out with the guy sneezing then saying “Its just a cold” immediately sends me to my ragey place because in our pandemic times, that phrase should never be uttered again. Especially when I’m still trying not to flinch every time there’s an unmasked person coughing or sneezing.

[dleighg]

For years (I think) I've been reading you folks complaining about Medicare Martha, and I had never seen her, really! Until this year, when she's b**tching about having to re-enroll and whatever. Truly annoying, and now I understand. I guess whatever company that "owns" Martha has just moved into our geographic area. I can't believe I've just missed her, as I watch plenty of TV LOL.

[chessiegal]

1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:

Bear with me, because this might be another case of me hating a commercial just because it’s played over and over…

But the commercial about colds affecting blood pressure/age where it starts out with the guy sneezing then saying “Its just a cold” immediately sends me to my ragey place because in our pandemic times, that phrase should never be uttered again. Especially when I’m still trying not to flinch every time there’s an unmasked person coughing or sneezing.

I totally understand, but since rapid in-home tests are readily available, I'm assuming he's already taken a test if the symptoms match. My husband got his third COVID booster for free at our county senior center. In addition to his shot, he came home with 2 bags of N95 masks and 2 at home tests. Last I looked we had 6 at home tests that we got for free.