Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[mmecorday]

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And now I have that stupid Jardiance jingle stuck in my head! 

Ugh! Me too! Did some lyricist from Tin Pan Alley come back from the dead to write the jingle? "Jardiance is really swell. The little pill with the big story to tell." 

[Tom Holmberg]

1 hour ago, mmecorday said:

Ugh! Me too! Did some lyricist from Tin Pan Alley come back from the dead to write the jingle? "Jardiance is really swell. The little pill with the big story to tell." 

It's "really swell". Yeesh.

Edited July 21, 2023 by Tom Holmberg

[peacheslatour]

3 hours ago, mmecorday said:

Ugh! Me too! Did some lyricist from Tin Pan Alley come back from the dead to write the jingle? "Jardiance is really swell. The little pill with the big story to tell." 

Why? Why would you do that? Now it's stuck in my head too.

[Annber03]

7 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Why does she change clothes? 

My mom wonders about this every time she sees that commercial, too. 

[Browncoat]

I figured the first part was a rehearsal, and the yellow dress part was the actual filming.

[Prevailing Wind]

That yellow dress is hideous.

[tres bien]

GOLO is driving me crazy. I had to Google the facts about GOLO. It's pretty expensive and if you follow the plan you'll loose weight even without yummy gummies.

 

[millennium]

The Voltaren commercial:

 

Maybe sonny's knees would feel better if he wasn't doing things like pushing his father up the side of a mountain in a wheelchair. 

[millennium]

The Charmin Bears -- but my complaint isn't about the bears ...

 

 

It's the demonstration portion at the end.

Who are these people getting poop on their forearms?

[Vermicious Knid]

20 years ago there was a fast food outlet called Quiznos and they unleashed horrifying things on the world called spongmonkeys. The old TWoP commercial board was both enraged and freaked out by them for weeks. I bring this up because Quiznos is staging a comeback, and bringing the spongmonkeys along for the ride.

I'm not posting the new commercial because it's included in the link, and so your choice to subject yourself to this nightmare incarnate. :)

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

I liked their little song and the animation was cute. It was the creepy snaggle teeth which creeped everyone out. 

[millennium]

"Butterball.  Today, we turkey."

wtf?  Today we turkey?   Another entry into the lazy and annoying trend of copywriters using nouns as verbs.   Another one I heard recently is "Kitchen right."  

[cinsays]

10 hours ago, Vermicious Knid said:

20 years ago there was a fast food outlet called Quiznos and they unleashed horrifying things on the world called spongmonkeys. The old TWoP commercial board was both enraged and freaked out by them for weeks. I bring this up because Quiznos is staging a comeback, and bringing the spongmonkeys along for the ride.

I'm not posting the new commercial because it's included in the link, and so your choice to subject yourself to this nightmare incarnate. :)

loved quizno's

never saw that commercial, but, yeah, bad visual... maybe even worse than the deranged looking  BurgerKing King

[Tom Holmberg]

On 7/21/2023 at 9:34 PM, Prevailing Wind said:

That yellow dress is hideous.

I think she borrowed that dress from Kelly Clarkson

[Tom Holmberg]

13 hours ago, Vermicious Knid said:

20 years ago there was a fast food outlet called Quiznos and they unleashed horrifying things on the world called spongmonkeys. The old TWoP commercial board was both enraged and freaked out by them for weeks. I bring this up because Quiznos is staging a comeback, and bringing the spongmonkeys along for the ride.

I'm not posting the new commercial because it's included in the link, and so your choice to subject yourself to this nightmare incarnate. :)

I liked Quiznos' sandwiches. There was one right near where I worked.  Sort of miss them, but then I also miss Kenny Rogers Roasters, despite Kramer.

[Stevie Nicks]

16 hours ago, millennium said:

The Charmin Bears -- but my complaint isn't about the bears ...

 

 

It's the demonstration portion at the end.

Who are these people getting poop on their forearms?

The same people who, on a Facebook page for vintage stuff and ads, see an old ad for bathrooms with carpet and clutch their pearls because apparently they pee all over the floor instead of the toilet. Not saying carpet in the bathroom isn't gross, but I never knew people routinely pee all over the floor. 

[mmecorday]

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I liked their little song and the animation was cute. 

"They got a pepper bar!" 

[Haleth]

18 hours ago, Stevie Nicks said:

The same people who, on a Facebook page for vintage stuff and ads, see an old ad for bathrooms with carpet and clutch their pearls because apparently they pee all over the floor instead of the toilet. Not saying carpet in the bathroom isn't gross, but I never knew people routinely pee all over the floor. 

Apparently you’ve never lived with an old man. 🤣

[cynicat]

1 hour ago, Haleth said:

Apparently you’ve never lived with a an old man. 🤣

[Stevie Nicks]

3 hours ago, cynicat said:

4 hours ago, Haleth said:

Apparently you’ve never lived with a an old man. 🤣

Actually I have, and I've never had my floor covered in urine. Nothing has ever been soaked in urine. A drop or two on the floor, but not like they missed the toilet totally and just peed all over the floor. 

[sempervivum]

My hatred of Lume and Dr. Shannon will not die! 

Is there truly a market out there for 'toasted coconut' or 'totally tangerine'- scented butt cracks?

[tres bien]

AG1 looks like swamp sludge. I keep waiting for someone drinking it to gag or throw up 

[dleighg]

19 minutes ago, tres bien said:

AG1 looks like swamp sludge.

oh, you are so right. I've been tempted to look up what the heck is in it, but then again, I don't really want to know.

[Bruinsfan]

On 7/22/2023 at 9:23 PM, Vermicious Knid said:

20 years ago there was a fast food outlet called Quiznos and they unleashed horrifying things on the world called spongmonkeys. The old TWoP commercial board was both enraged and freaked out by them for weeks. I bring this up because Quiznos is staging a comeback, and bringing the spongmonkeys along for the ride.

I'm not posting the new commercial because it's included in the link, and so your choice to subject yourself to this nightmare incarnate. :)

Oh, I hope this means we get to check in on Scott and the talking Quiznos toaster oven as an old married couple!

[proserpina65]

23 hours ago, Stevie Nicks said:

Actually I have, and I've never had my floor covered in urine. Nothing has ever been soaked in urine. A drop or two on the floor, but not like they missed the toilet totally and just peed all over the floor. 

My dislike of carpet in the bathroom (and I am old enough to remember when it was a trend) has nothing to do with someone peeing on the floor.  It's about the toilet overflowing.

21 hours ago, tres bien said:

AG1 looks like swamp sludge. I keep waiting for someone drinking it to gag or throw up 

And apparently it has functional mushrooms in it.  As opposed to non-functional mushrooms, I guess?

[chessiegal]

13 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

And apparently it has functional mushrooms in it.  As opposed to non-functional mushrooms, I guess?

That had me scratching my head too. Looking at the lengthy list of ingredients, the last is shitake mushrooms. I never knew they were functional. 😅 The green color is so unappetizing. When I was in junior high, one of my classmates did a study on how color affects how we perceive taste. She took vanilla pudding and added different food colorings and had us taste them. I think green was one color people didn't like. And they were all the same vanilla pudding.

[peacheslatour]

We have carpet in the bathroom because this house was a rental for many years and the last renters spilled paint all over the bathroom floor but it's just a Sears vinyl backed, washable throw. 

[Prevailing Wind]

Taking the green gloop and bathroom rugs to Small Talk.

[Glitches]

5 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Taking the green gloop and bathroom rugs to Small Talk.

Where is Small Talk? I searched at Forums Home but it’s not there. 

[Bastet]

53 minutes ago, Glitches said:

Where is Small Talk? I searched at Forums Home but it’s not there. 

There are a bunch of Small Talk threads (most multi-thread forums contain a Small Talk thread for off-topic chatter); the poster is referring to the one within this Commercials forum, which is here.

[andromeda331]

On 7/24/2023 at 8:20 AM, cynicat said:

On 7/24/2023 at 7:13 AM, Haleth said:

Apparently you’ve never lived with a an old man. 🤣

Or worked in a store where you had to clean the men's bathroom. What do they do in there? How when it's so big they still miss? 

[MicheleinPhilly]

Any and all commercials featuring former boy band members. This includes an insurance commercial with a gaggle of them (even though Joey McIntyre was my first celebrity crush), a cat food commercial with an N'Syncer, and a laundry detergent commercial with the Backstreet Boys. 

They all made GOBS of money in their heyday. Get better money managers!!!! 

[chessiegal]

42 minutes ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

Any and all commercials featuring former boy band members. This includes an insurance commercial with a gaggle of them (even though Joey McIntyre was my first celebrity crush), a cat food commercial with an N'Syncer, and a laundry detergent commercial with the Backstreet Boys. 

They all made GOBS of money in their heyday. Get better money managers!!!! 

I doubt they need the money. If someone offered me easy money for what is probably one day's work, I'd take it. I don't begrudge them at all.

[janie jones]

On 7/19/2023 at 11:34 PM, millennium said:

  She seems to have zero concern that she'll find a vacation spot where she and her kids will have a great time and create the kind of memories that will last a lifetime.  Screw that, gimme child care.

But is the commercial (I haven't seen it) advertising hotel amenities or travel destinations? If they're advertising hotel amenities, as I've inferred from the discussion here, then whether they're at a location that's good for making lifelong memories is irrelevant, unless they're planning on spending the entire vacation in the hotel.

On 7/22/2023 at 7:23 PM, Vermicious Knid said:

20 years ago there was a fast food outlet called Quiznos and they unleashed horrifying things on the world called spongmonkeys. The old TWoP commercial board was both enraged and freaked out by them for weeks. I bring this up because Quiznos is staging a comeback, and bringing the spongmonkeys along for the ride.

I'm not posting the new commercial because it's included in the link, and so your choice to subject yourself to this nightmare incarnate. :)

My husband and I were recently talking about how we missed Quiznos and how funny we thought those commercials were. Here's your target audience! 😀

[dleighg]

4 minutes ago, janie jones said:

But is the commercial (I haven't seen it) advertising hotel amenities or travel destinations? I

It is for booking.com. So more or less "both"; i.e. she says she doesn't care if it's a beach house, a .... I can't remember anything else. 

[Jynnan tonnix]

On 7/9/2023 at 12:11 PM, sempervivum said:

Sorry, but I must return to the Lume ads- now in addition to the odious Dr. Shannon, some bug-eyed minion of hers is telling us that she works for Lume, and how to get free Lume products when we order (as if!). She's marginally more bearable than Dr. Shannon, BUT why is she filming this ad in a room that has 2 different-colored toilets in it?? (Couldn't find the clip to attach here, but it's on all the time)

Not getting the hate for Dr. Shannon, but she looks very much like a friend of mine who is the most selfless and wonderful people in the world, so I kind of liked her on sight (and those original, extended musical commercials they had were such a hoot!). I'm not about to slather lume between my butt cheeks, but it does actually work pretty well.

[Gramto6]

I recently saw a new Lume ad. It just shows products and talks about them. No butt cracks/under boob discussion. No spokes person shown, just an announcer. I guess they are toning them down and making them a bit more professional.  Maybe they are finally picking up on how gross their other ads were.

Edited July 26, 2023 by Gramto6
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[peacheslatour]

I hate that card fairy commercial with the guy telling the little kid about how, if you get turned down for a certain credit card the card fairy leaves fifty bucks under your pillow with every fiber of my being.

[Prevailing Wind]

48 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

I hate that card fairy commercial with the guy telling the little kid about how, if you get turned down for a certain credit card the card fairy leaves fifty bucks under your pillow with every fiber of my being.

I haven't seen that one.

There's yet another "get paid two days early" card. Two people are doing yoga, talking about it. He says that banks keep your money two days so they can make money off it. As she says, "that's twisted" they both contort themselves (via CGI, AI?) and all I can think of is if it saves me having to pay a monthly fee, go ahead, use my money for 2 days.

[kathyk24]

10 hours ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

Any and all commercials featuring former boy band members. This includes an insurance commercial with a gaggle of them (even though Joey McIntyre was my first celebrity crush), a cat food commercial with an N'Syncer, and a laundry detergent commercial with the Backstreet Boys. 

They all made GOBS of money in their heyday. Get better money managers!!!! 

Celebrities have always done commercials even Oscar winners like Elizabeth Taylor. The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync were victims of fraud by their former manger Lou Pearlman. American Greed did an episode about him. I'd rather see the Backstreet Boys in ads than Kevin Hart or Tom Selleck.

[andromeda331]

13 hours ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

Any and all commercials featuring former boy band members. This includes an insurance commercial with a gaggle of them (even though Joey McIntyre was my first celebrity crush), a cat food commercial with an N'Syncer, and a laundry detergent commercial with the Backstreet Boys. 

They all made GOBS of money in their heyday. Get better money managers!!!! 

The commercial makes no sense but I love the ending with her singing "Bye Bye" and the band pointing out that wasn't them. The joke of people confusing Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and 98 Degrees still cracks me up. 

[Gharlane]

On 7/24/2023 at 6:36 PM, Bruinsfan said:

Oh, I hope this means we get to check in on Scott and the talking Quiznos toaster oven as an old married couple!

Mechaphile! 

[mmecorday]

I've always hated the Babbel commercial with Mary Ann and her crappy French, but now there's an animated version. What have we done to offend the advertising world? 

[proserpina65]

On 7/26/2023 at 1:17 PM, dleighg said:

It is for booking.com. So more or less "both"; i.e. she says she doesn't care if it's a beach house, a .... I can't remember anything else. 

I think the other option was in the mountains.

23 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

Not getting the hate for Dr. Shannon,

I hated her from the very first Lume commercial I saw where she claimed to be a gynecologist but then basically said vaginal infections were over-diagnosed and over-treated and if your lady parts smelled bad you just needed to use her deodorant.  Which is not only horseshit, it's downright dangerous.

[Bastet]

2 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I hated her from the very first Lume commercial I saw where she claimed to be a gynecologist but then basically said vaginal infections were over-diagnosed and over-treated

Maybe she was referring to this study:
 

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Methods

We evaluated the misjudgement rate of the aetiology of vaginal complaints. A total of 220 vaginal samples from women with a vaginal complaint were obtained and analysed for numbers of total lactobacilli, H2O2-producing lactobacilli, total aerobic cell counts and total anaerobic cell counts including bifidobacteria, Bacteroides spp., Prevotella spp. Additionally, the presence of Atopobium vaginae, Gardnerella vaginalis, Candida spp. and Trichomonas vaginalis was evaluated by DNA-hybridisation using the PCR and Affirm VPIII Microbial Identification Test, respectively.

Results

The participating physicians diagnosed Bacterial vaginosis (BV) as origin of discomfort in 80 cases, candidiasis in 109 cases and mixed infections in 8 cases. However, a present BV, defined as lack of H2O2-lactobacilli, presence of marker organisms, such as G. vaginalis, Bacteroides spp. or Atopobium vaginae, and an elevated pH were identified in only 45 cases of the women examined. Candida spp. were detected in 46 cases. Interestingly, an elevated pH corresponded solely to the presence of Atopobium vaginae, which was detected in 11 cases.

Conclusion

Errors in the diagnosis of BV and candida vulvovaginitis (CV) were high. Interestingly, the cases of misjudgement of CV (77%) were more numerous than that of BV (61%). The use of Amsel criteria or microscopy did not reduce the number of misinterpretations. The study reveals that the misdiagnosis of vaginal complaints is rather high.

 

Edited July 27, 2023 by Bastet

[Crashcourse]

That's a pretty small sample size.  This Dr. Shannon is still annoying as hell. 

[sempervivum]

So now we're going to get to hear about 'itchy vulvas' courtesy of new Vagisil ad.

[peacheslatour]

I'm going to preface this by saying I'm not vegan or a vegetarian, I have been known to enjoy a hamburger now and then but some of these commercials (looking at you Arby's) just show gigantic wads of meat and ranch and oozing fake cheese and I'm getting nauseated just typing this...

Edited July 28, 2023 by peacheslatour

[Shrek]

23 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

I'm going to preface this by saying I'm not vegan or a vegetarian, I have been known to enjoy a hamburger now and then but some of these commercials (looking at you Arby's) just show gigantic wads of meat and ranch and oozing fake cheese and I'm getting nauseated just typing this...

It's the Carls Jr/Hardees ads that I hate, they always have some sort of sauce or ketchup oozing out of & dripping off the burger. Turns me off to the point of driving past their establishments no matter how hungry I am and how much I want a burger. Give me a simple In n Out burger every time no matter the length of the line (I've waited over an hour in a drive through line more than once during the last couple of years).  By the time I get to order I'm so hungry I need a 3x3 with grilled onions just to fill me up.

[tres bien]

Oh brother. GOLO's got a new product with the president and co-founder as the spokesperson. She is a holistic medicine specialist.

She's selling GOLO Release which is better than regular GOLO apparently.

It contains three minerals that you can buy at the drugstore and several plant based ingredients that probably don't do anything.