Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[CrystalBlue]

30 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

My question about that commercial is....who's driving the truck? We never do see a driver, it just seems to suddenly manifest itself and ride up to the couple. 

It's the woman's other boyfriend driving.  Guess what he's getting for Christmas?

[Popples]

47 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

My question about that commercial is....who's driving the truck? We never do see a driver, it just seems to suddenly manifest itself and ride up to the couple. 

I've never even thought about this.

[SoMuchTV]

6 hours ago, PrincessPurrsALot said:

I worked in an office in the 90s that had those horrible motivational posters everywhere.  One of our Sales Managers loved the one that said, "Whether you're a lion or a gazelle, you'd better wake up running."  We used to all joke about.  "Yep, woke up running this morning, right into the wall" or "forgot to get out of bed first. Accidentally kicked my husband in the ass" or "slipped in the shower today.  Why? I was running!"

When my son was younger, he got a bunch of stuff from a site with de-motivational posters. You could get a calendar made with your favorites. Like “THE SKY IS THE LIMIT Too Bad You Can't Fly.”  and “VALUES You wouldn't believe how little we spent on a poster to show how much you're worth”. Despair.com is the site. I still get occasional emails from them. Can’t look at those “inspirational” posters without translating them into “real” messages. 

[mojoween]

There is an ad for somesuch vehicle - Toyota? maybe? - where this couple are zooming backwards through a forest because they saw something creepy.  When they finally stop, dude in the passenger seat looks out the window and is like “wow look how amazing this strange place we ended up is” so they get out of the car.

Into a meadow.  And the lady driver is wearing boots and short shorts.  I hope the extended version of the ad has him checking her for ticks!

[CrystalBlue]

1 hour ago, Popples said:

I've never even thought about this.

Yep, that's him, the mystery Christmas truck driver.  He doesn't know his GF has another BF (or is she actually married?)!  😅

[CrystalBlue]

Speaking of Toyota, Toyota Jan is back with her Christmas Toyotathon with the elves on top of the "missing" Tundra or Tacoma.  It's a repeat ad.  I thought we'd gotten rid of her!

[chessiegal]

7 minutes ago, CrystalBlue said:

Speaking of Toyota, Toyota Jan is back with her Christmas Toyotathon with the elves on top of the "missing" Tundra or Tacoma.  It's a repeat ad.  I thought we'd gotten rid of her!

Toyota Jan isn't going anywhere. She's been with us all year.

[CrystalBlue]

3 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

Toyota Jan isn't going anywhere. She's been with us all year.

I thought they ditched her.  I guess I've been watching channels and shows not sponsored by Toyota!

[Colleenna]

4 hours ago, CrystalBlue said:

don't know, but Gordon Ramsay is hawking his own set of pans, HexClad Hybrid Cookware, 6-piece set only $379 on Amazon.  As of this post by me, a set has 666 reviews of 5 stars.  Yes 666 reviews.  GR is famous for his show "Hell's Kitchen." 😁

Tom Coliccio is also hawking a line of cookware called MadeIn. He claims it's used in his restaurant.  If that's true, it certainly would explain why the food there is so expensive.  

[CrystalBlue]

Here's my favorite cookware pan heartily endorsed by my favorite chef:

Red Copper

😁

[nokat]

2 hours ago, mojoween said:

There is an ad for somesuch vehicle - Toyota? maybe? - where this couple are zooming backwards through a forest because they saw something creepy.  When they finally stop, dude in the passenger seat looks out the window and is like “wow look how amazing this strange place we ended up is” so they get out of the car.

Into a meadow.  And the lady driver is wearing boots and short shorts.  I hope the extended version of the ad has him checking her for ticks!

Isn't that the truth. Checking for ticks is a family adventure. Boots are for the possible rattlesnake, and long beige pants to see the ticks.

[Prevailing Wind]

4 hours ago, Annber03 said:

My question about that commercial is....who's driving the truck? We never do see a driver, it just seems to suddenly manifest itself and ride up to the couple. 

That's because she whistled for it. It comes when beckoned.

[cynicat]

14 hours ago, CrystalBlue said:

Yeah, and she just has to one up the boyfriend or whatever with her truck.  Just as long as Mr. Wonderful doesn't run over the puppy in his new truck!

Personally, I think the puppy is one up over the truck.

[Gharlane]

17 hours ago, Colleenna said:

I hate this douchey commercial with a white hot passion 

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/2MZo/gmc-sierra-puppy-t2

Who's driving the truck and how did he hear her whistling and know it was her, not the man? 🤔

10 hours ago, CrystalBlue said:

Here's my favorite cookware pan heartily endorsed by my favorite chef:

Red Copper

😁

Wow, Cathy is still around? 

[Welshman in Ca]

11 hours ago, CrystalBlue said:

I thought they ditched her.  I guess I've been watching channels and shows not sponsored by Toyota!

May be more to do with a lack of available new cars, oh and the rip off prices dealers have been trying to get away with due to that lack of availability.

[janie jones]

16 hours ago, Annber03 said:

My question about that commercial is....who's driving the truck? We never do see a driver, it just seems to suddenly manifest itself and ride up to the couple. 

Probably the same person who was keeping the puppy from wandering off.

[CrystalBlue]

4 hours ago, cynicat said:

Personally, I think the puppy is one up over the truck.

So do I but she seems to think bigger is better.

[CrystalBlue]

3 hours ago, Gharlane said:

Who's driving the truck and how did he hear her whistling and know it was her, not the man? 🤔

Wow, Cathy is still around? 

Not sure if she's still doing infomercials but Cathy is 75 now, per the Internet.

[marceline]

With the holidays here I'm seeing a lot more perfume/cologne commercials and they all seem insane. Just random bonkers bullshit. The one I keep seeing now is this one from Gauthier.

Is there any perfume commercial out there that isn't a ripoff of an 80s style, cocaine fueled MTV video?

Edited December 15, 2022 by marceline

[peacheslatour]

2 hours ago, marceline said:

With the holidays here I'm seeing a lot more perfume/cologne commercials and they all seem insane. Just random bonkers bullshit. The one I keep seeing now is this one from Gauthier.

Is there any perfume commercial out there that isn't an 80s style, cocaine fueled MTV video from the early 80s?

It's Marketing 101.

[BookWitch]

I find it weird that Christmas plugs perfume and makeup as gifts. That kind if stuff is a personal choice and should be left to them to choose. What might work on you won't on someone else. 

[mmecorday]

The Invisalign commercial with the Walmart brand Blake Lively singing that stupid mopey, dopey song about braces has to go. That's all I want for Christmas. That and an air fryer.

[millennium]

The Dupixent Commercial with the soccer girl and the dancer.

Am I the prude or is this young girl sexualized to the point of looking like a twelve-year-old whore?  Why is a commercial like this okay in a world so informed about child pornography, sexual abuse and sexual harrassment?

Edited December 13, 2022 by millennium

[janie jones]

17 hours ago, marceline said:

With the holidays here I'm seeing a lot more perfume/cologne commercials and they all seem insane. Just random bonkers bullshit. The one I keep seeing now is this one from Gauthier.

Is there any perfume commercial out there that isn't an 80s style, cocaine fueled MTV video from the early 80s?

That ad is hilarious and I love it.

3 hours ago, BookWitch said:

I find it weird that Christmas plugs perfume and makeup as gifts. That kind if stuff is a personal choice and should be left to them to choose. What might work on you won't on someone else. 

I don't think it's weird to get people the scent they usually wear. But I do agree with you that it's not usually* a good gift to get someone something random and new.

*I have a friend who loves trying new perfumes, and I think she'd probably enjoy getting something random and new.

[peacheslatour]

I hesitate mocking "real" people in ads but Kimberly in the Clear Choice Dental Implants commercial is such a sad sack. If this is her "energized", I'd hate to see what she was like before.

[Bruinsfan]

1 hour ago, millennium said:

The Dupixent Commercial with the soccer girl and the dancer.

Am I the prude or is this young girl sexualized to the point of looking like a twelve-year-old whore?  Why is a commercial like this okay in a world so informed about child pornography, sexual abuse and sexual harrassment?

Looking at it, the one thing I really cast a side-eye at is the girls' outfits being two-piece short enough to expose their midriffs. Otherwise I don't think they're too brief for kids doing something active like dance routines, and the makeup looks fine to me.

[Bastet]

2 hours ago, janie jones said:

I don't think it's weird to get people the scent they usually wear. But I do agree with you that it's not usually* a good gift to get someone something random and new.

*I have a friend who loves trying new perfumes, and I think she'd probably enjoy getting something random and new.

I don't have one scent I normally wear; I probably have three or four different bottles at any given time as there are so many out there to try.  I've both given and received perfume/cologne as gifts and never thought anything of it.  If someone gave me a scent I didn't like, I'd just pass it on to someone else.

[Crashcourse]

Taking perfume talk to Small Talk.....

[millennium]

1 minute ago, Crashcourse said:

Taking perfume talk to Small Talk.....

I read this as "Taking perfume talk to Smell Talk ..."

[knuckles491]

I'm sorry, but the Apretude commercial (HIV) is just disgusting.

[Bastet]

It must be a different one than what I found online, as I can't figure out what in here would be considered disgusting -- it's one of those typical montage of people living their best life thanks to their medication spots:

I can't find another one on YouTube or iSpot.

[peacheslatour]

5 minutes ago, Bastet said:

It must be a different one than what I found online, as I can't figure out what in here would be considered disgusting -- it's one of those typical montage of people living their best life thanks to their medication spots:

I can't find another one on YouTube or iSpot.

This one just has nice, loving couples. I don't see a problem.

[SoMuchTV]

7 minutes ago, Bastet said:

It must be a different one than what I found online, as I can't figure out what in here would be considered disgusting -- it's one of those typical montage of people living their best life thanks to their medication spots:

I can't find another one on YouTube or iSpot.

My only issue with that ad is that every time I hear an ad for "prep" it puts me in mind of my upcoming colonoscopy :-(

[Bastet]

1 minute ago, SoMuchTV said:

My only issue with that ad is that every time I hear an ad for "prep" it puts me in mind of my upcoming colonoscopy :-(

A couple of years ago there was a commercial for either this or a similar medication, and I kept hearing "PrEP" as "prev" -- I got all irritated that "prev" was some allegedly hip slang for "prevention" until I realized my ears were the problem.

[millennium]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

It must be a different one than what I found online, as I can't figure out what in here would be considered disgusting -- it's one of those typical montage of people living their best life thanks to their medication spots:

My only gripe is that, like other commercials for related medications, it traffics heavily in stereotypes and looks (to me anyway, an LGBT person) like it was made to reflect and reinforce straight/cis notions of LGBT people.

[dleighg]

35 minutes ago, millennium said:

like it was made to reflect and reinforce straight/cis notions of LGBT people.

Interesting. I'd love to know more. I saw (at least one version of it) and didn't find it offensive, but can maybe get what you're getting at. 

[TattleTeeny]

I kept waiting for something disgusting to happen in the Apretude commercial and nothing. Also nothing that would harm a kid.

I did, however, laugh at the drama of one of the head-turns (I think it’s at the “waiting for the train” part) and at the delivery of the second instance of “I prep without pills.”

Edited December 14, 2022 by TattleTeeny

[CalicoKitty]

Speaking of perfume commercials:  the one I dislike (and can't figure out) has a woman driving--I think a truck--with flowers in her hair and screaming some song, and then ends up lying in a flower field.  No idea how she ended up dressed differently in the field.  And stop screaming!!   I thought commercials were supposed to make you want to buy the product.

[proserpina65]

On 12/12/2022 at 7:01 PM, marceline said:

With the holidays here I'm seeing a lot more perfume/cologne commercials and they all seem insane. Just random bonkers bullshit. The one I keep seeing now is this one from Gauthier.

Is there any perfume commercial out there that isn't an 80s style, cocaine fueled MTV video from the early 80s?

At least these people look like they bathe once in awhile, unlike Johnny Depp in those stupid Sauvage commercials.

[Deskisamess]

On 12/13/2022 at 11:59 AM, millennium said:

The Dupixent Commercial with the soccer girl and the dancer.

Am I the prude or is this young girl sexualized to the point of looking like a twelve-year-old whore?  Why is a commercial like this okay in a world so informed about child pornography, sexual abuse and sexual harrassment?

My husband and I thought the same thing. It's horrible.

[TattleTeeny]

The commercials are trying to kill me right now, I swear. First, the iced tea one where the stupid narration lady says, "start sippin'." I hate it. Then, the horrible voice of "the laundry jug" lady in a Tide commercial -- vocal fry + helium. Then, "this rental car is so boring to drive." If a car is boring to drive (a sentiment I am not even sure I understand), it's not because it's a rental car.

[marceline]

On 12/13/2022 at 5:45 PM, Bastet said:

It must be a different one than what I found online, as I can't figure out what in here would be considered disgusting -- it's one of those typical montage of people living their best life thanks to their medication spots:

I can't find another one on YouTube or iSpot.

There's something about that ad that feels so 1980s to me.

[xls]

On 12/13/2022 at 11:59 AM, millennium said:

The Dupixent Commercial with the soccer girl and the dancer.

Am I the prude or is this young girl sexualized to the point of looking like a twelve-year-old whore?  Why is a commercial like this okay in a world so informed about child pornography, sexual abuse and sexual harrassment?

So TOTALLY agree with you! .  Who is their target audience here?

hate that 'dance mom' kiddie burlesque shit so much-shameful 

Edited December 15, 2022 by xls
corrected spellig

[CrystalBlue]

3 hours ago, marceline said:

There's something about that ad that feels so 1980s to me.

Maybe it's the Fame-like dancing?  "Fame" the movie was released in 1980.

Things about the acceptance of LGBT people portrayed on TV, movies and other media have certainly changed since the advent of HIV/AIDS in the 80s.  Like a poster above said, this particular commercial is a stereotype of LGBT men and women.  To me it is mildly offensive and irritating because of that.

[sempervivum]

20 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

Then, "this rental car is so boring to drive." If a car is boring to drive (a sentiment I am not even sure I understand), it's not because it's a rental car.

I was going to complain about the dumb name of this car rental outfit- SIXT- thinking it was new and made-up-but I googled and it was founded in Germany in 1912, so😏

I guess people who use rentals a lot (are there still traveling salesfolk?) probably develop a taste for certain rides. On the rare occasions we need them, we pick whatever's cheapest.

[andromeda331]

33 minutes ago, sempervivum said:

I was going to complain about the dumb name of this car rental outfit- SIXT- thinking it was new and made-up-but I googled and it was founded in Germany in 1912, so😏

I guess people who use rentals a lot (are there still traveling salesfolk?) probably develop a taste for certain rides. On the rare occasions we need them, we pick whatever's cheapest.

Yeah, that's the part that makes no sense in the commercial. Rental companies have different cars but it all comes down to the cost. A sports car is going to cost more than a regular car. Most people go with what they can afford. We always went with whatever was cheapest because that was what we could afford.

Edited December 15, 2022 by andromeda331

[Dirtybubble]

I can NOT with this Cologuard ad!  Stop singing about pooping in a box 

[Crashcourse]

22 minutes ago, Dirtybubble said:

I can NOT with this Cologuard ad!  Stop singing about pooping in a box 

Also, if false positive or negative results might happen, then what's the point of getting this product?   Maybe getting a colonoscopy would be better. 

Edited December 15, 2022 by Crashcourse
typo

[andromeda331]

11 minutes ago, Crashcourse said:

Alo, if false positive or negative results might happen, then what's the point of getting this product?   Maybe getting a colonoscopy would be better. 

Good question. I worry more about the false negative. People take the test, get that and walk around not knowing they actually have it until it gets worse. False positive will freak you out but at least your doctor will tell you that you don't have it after probably very, very uncomfortable tests.

Edited December 15, 2022 by andromeda331

[dleighg]

46 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:

False positive will freak you out but at least your doctor will tell you that you don't have it after probably very, very uncomfortable tests

Actually you just get a regular colonoscopy then. Which is unpleasant of course, but that's what one hopes to avoid with this thing. But yeah, the false negative is worrisome. But if people do this instead of avoiding the whole thing, it's a win.