Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[xls]

20 minutes ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I don't like the apple ai commercials with Bella Ramsey.  It's like she forgot how to act.  And I generally like her. But those commercials are just hard to watch. 

I feel the same about the Jennifer Coolidge Discover ones. I love her in movies but I can't change the tv or radio channel fast enough when they come on!

 

[DrSpaceman73]

1 hour ago, xls said:

I feel the same about the Jennifer Coolidge Discover ones. I love her in movies but I can't change the tv or radio channel fast enough when they come on!

 

Yeah I hate those too.  But more because they're badly written.   

[Bastet]

13 hours ago, Haleth said:

I just hope the stuff she cooks in Oct is going into the freezer. 🤢

This came up when it first aired, and, yes, she's clearly shown putting it in the freezer, not the refrigerator.

[proserpina65]

On 9/20/2024 at 5:24 PM, dleighg said:

That one drives me bananas (as a trained scientist, I can't help but do the math). It's for Bobbi Brown makeup I think.

Yeah, it's for the new line she started after she sold the brand with her name on it.  That annoys me, but also the fact that the product she's selling in that commercial makes everyone's face pink, which is pretty much the opposite of what I want from foundation.

19 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I don't like the apple ai commercials with Bella Ramsey.  It's like she forgot how to act.  And I generally like her. But those commercials are just hard to watch. 

They are bad.  I'm gonna blame the writing/directing since I know Ramsey can act.

 

19 hours ago, xls said:

I feel the same about the Jennifer Coolidge Discover ones. I love her in movies but I can't change the tv or radio channel fast enough when they come on!

 

I generally can't stand Jennifer Coolidge (except in that episode of The Closer) so the Discover commercials are obnoxious to begin with, simply for having her in them.  But they'd still be terrible even if it were a different actress.  Although the one where the customer service asks her to prove she's a real person was funny the first hundred times they ran it.

 

[mojoween]

I don’t know why the Credit One ads rankle me so, but I swear as soon as I hear that music my teeth involuntarily clench.

Especially the one where the dad and daughter are screeching at each other on the beach.  So if I get your stupid credit card I’ll have a giant house made of sand?  Is that what you are telling me?

[millennium]

Quilted Northern found a way to make the worst rock song ever even worse.

The old lady looks she's taking a crap up there above the other shoppers.

(Can you believe ad agencies get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for this stuff?)

Edited September 25 by millennium

[xls]

The chick fil a radio ads 🙄!

The customers act like they never had a pickle slice on a sandwich before!

FFS-calm down!

[mojoween]

Could Will Ferrell please ride that ass off of my screen forever?  Please?

[dleighg]

The ad for ClearCaptions (a "phone that captions in real time") drives me nuts. This couple overacts SO much; it's like they've taken too many happy pills. Who smiles while talking with the doctor's office about an appointment?

And at the end the woman switches from the person using the service to a person pushing the service "for your loved ones." I guess it's not totally non-sensical but it always strikes me as weird.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/fbEd/clearcaptions-easy-solution

[chessiegal]

1 hour ago, dleighg said:

The ad for ClearCaptions (a "phone that captions in real time") drives me nuts. This couple overacts SO much; it's like they've taken too many happy pills. Who smiles while talking with the doctor's office about an appointment?

And at the end the woman switches from the person using the service to a person pushing the service "for your loved ones." I guess it's not totally non-sensical but it always strikes me as weird.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/fbEd/clearcaptions-easy-solution

That program is federally funded for people who need it at no cost to them. You'll notice that all the verbiage is shown on the screen because it is for people who are hearing impaired. Unless you qualify, you can't get it. The commercial is not pushing something people have to pay for, it is free for people who qualify.

[dleighg]

I know all that. What does that have to do with why the commercial annoys me? I just found it weird that she goes from being the customer, to the one telling people to "get it for their loved ones."

 

Edited September 26 by dleighg

[KWalkerInc]

The Domino's commercial where Simon Cowell is judging the placement of toppings on the pizza is rather annoying, but I guess good for him for getting paid without even having to pretend he will eat their pizza?

[Tom Holmberg]

3 hours ago, KWalkerInc said:

The Domino's commercial where Simon Cowell is judging the placement of toppings on the pizza is rather annoying, but I guess good for him for getting paid without even having to pretend he will eat their pizza?

I don't watch AGT so I was wondering if that was a Simon Cowell impersonator doing the commercial the first time I saw it.

[MarthaEllisanne]

On 9/16/2024 at 12:06 PM, DrSpaceman73 said:

4 imprint for certain 

 

This is so dumb.  It's a company that's makes promotional stuff with your logo on it.  They're making their whole campaign around the fact you'll definitely get the logo and words you want on your items. 4 certain! Ok....Great. that's like the bare minimum I'd expect from such a company. And if you screw it up I'd think you redo it. That's all they have to promote their company?  We'll get the words and logo right....anything beyond that I guess it's a crapshoot. 

I think this company is trying to make its motto a catch-phrase that go viral and live in infamy. Each time I see this commercial I mutter "Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.

[DrSpaceman73]

1 hour ago, MarthaEllisanne said:

I think this company is trying to make its motto a catch-phrase that go viral and live in infamy. Each time I see this commercial I mutter "Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.

They're trying to be streets ahead i guess

[Gharlane]

8 hours ago, KWalkerInc said:

The Domino's commercial where Simon Cowell is judging the placement of toppings on the pizza is rather annoying, but I guess good for him for getting paid without even having to pretend he will eat their pizza?

I cannot say topping placement has ever been a problem for me. Has anyone had a pizza with all the olives piled up on one side?

[cinsays]

19 hours ago, dleighg said:

I know all that. What does that have to do with why the commercial annoys me? I just found it weird that she goes from being the customer, to the one telling people to "get it for their loved ones."

 

why wouldn't she want others with hearing issues to be able to get the service? or am i missing your problem with her?

[Browncoat]

2 hours ago, Gharlane said:

I cannot say topping placement has ever been a problem for me. Has anyone had a pizza with all the olives piled up on one side?

Only when I request it that way.

[jennifer6973]

3 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Only when I request it that way.

Same here

[chessiegal]

2 hours ago, Gharlane said:

There's a commercial campaign I've been seeing which features a girl who is trying to be like Ellen Page from Juneau using the AI on her mobile device to trick people into thinking she remembers meeting them or has read the crappy book they wrote. It's annoying as hell because she's obviously sppsd to be quirky and charming but she seems like a sociopath and then mugs for the camera like she's pausing for our applause. 😡

The woman in that ad is actor Bella Ramsey of Game of Thrones. It is promoting the iPhone 16 Pro's AI features.

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The Game of Thrones actor features in three short spots, each highlighting a different feature on the latest device.

Hot on the heels of its September event promoting its newest iPhone, Apple has unveiled a new campaign with three ads.

Each of the films, directed by Emmy-winner David Shane and Oscar-winning cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, centers on the company’s artificial intelligence platform, Apple Intelligence, and how it can be integrated into everyday scenarios.

The ad where she uses it to remember someone's name and also quickly summarize an email she hasn't read does seem disingenuous, but on the other hand, wow.  

 

[dleighg]

I've seen the ad where she's trying to remember the guy's name, but what my husband and I thought was that she was way younger than him. I looked her up and she's only 21; he looked to be in his 30s, at least to us, which seemed a bit creepy.

[HyeChaps]

I am so disgusted by the Volkswagen ad where the little girl gathers up every dirty cup in the house and fills them with water in the shower then offers them to thirsty soccer players.

[DrSpaceman73]

7 hours ago, Gharlane said:

There's a commercial campaign I've been seeing which features a girl who is trying to be like Ellen Page from Juneau using the AI on her mobile device to trick people into thinking she remembers meeting them or has read the crappy book they wrote. It's annoying as hell because she's obviously sppsd to be quirky and charming but she seems like a sociopath and then mugs for the camera like she's pausing for our applause. 😡

Yeah those commercials are awful i hate them too. That's Bella Ramsey. I think she's supposed to be awkwardly cute or quirky in the commercials but fails badly. 

3 hours ago, dleighg said:

I've seen the ad where she's trying to remember the guy's name, but what my husband and I thought was that she was way younger than him. I looked her up and she's only 21; he looked to be in his 30s, at least to us, which seemed a bit creepy.

I think it's supposed to be like an agent or writer or something she's trying to make a connection with not a sexual thing.  

Doesn't matter though those commercials suck.  

The problem is she's so awkward in the interactions even with the AI info.  Seems to defeat the purpose of having the AI. 

[Gharlane]

9 hours ago, chessiegal said:

The woman in that ad is actor Bella Ramsey of Game of Thrones. It is promoting the iPhone 16 Pro's AI features.

I have never watched nor had any interest in watching that show. 😄

6 hours ago, HyeChaps said:

I am so disgusted by the Volkswagen ad where the little girl gathers up every dirty cup in the house and fills them with water in the shower then offers them to thirsty soccer players.

Clearly, she hates soccer. 😉

 

4 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I think it's supposed to be like an agent or writer or something she's trying to make a connection with not a sexual thing.  

I got the impression she has a crush on him but has never approached him before and is using the phone to give information on where she last saw him.

[Bastet]

12 hours ago, Gharlane said:

Ellen Page

Elliot.  Ellen is his deadname.

[dleighg]

1 hour ago, Gharlane said:

have never watched nor had any interest in watching that show.

she was also in that apocalypse thing (that I never watched) The Last of Us

[DrSpaceman73]

2 hours ago, Gharlane said:

I have never watched nor had any interest in watching that show. 😄

Clearly, she hates soccer. 😉

 

I got the impression she has a crush on him but has never approached him before and is using the phone to give information on where she last saw him.

In the commercial i thought she says they had a meeting a few months back.  

Plus the other commercial she's talking business with another person about a script thought that was the theme. 

[tres bien]

It didn't take long but I'm already sick of Bradley Cooper and Howie Mandel as spokespeople 

[Gharlane]

8 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

In the commercial i thought she says they had a meeting a few months back.  

I must have misunderstood what she said because I didn't think she meant they were at a business meeting, just some social event.

[Haleth]

13 hours ago, Gharlane said:

I got the impression she has a crush on him but has never approached him before and is using the phone to give information on where she last saw him.

Yeah, not likely.

13 hours ago, Bastet said:

Elliot.  Ellen is his deadname.

In all seriousness, since he was credited in the movie as Ellen what is the proper non offensive way to now discuss his role?  I really want to learn.

[Bastet]

6 hours ago, Haleth said:

In all seriousness, since he was credited in the movie as Ellen what is the proper non offensive way to now discuss his role?  I really want to learn.

You always use a transgender person's chosen name, even when referring to a time when they were known as the deadname.  (Just like how you've correctly used he/his pronouns because that's who he is, a man; you don't say she/her just because that's how he was known at the time of that film.)  It's rooted in the fact people don't become their chosen name when they come out, it's who they've always been (and that hearing a deadname can be painful, a reminder of when they were forced to live an identity other than their own, thus the move to calling it that instead of birth name).

[littlebennysmom]

Perdue's "is that homemade marinara?" squeaked out by some guy who MUST be a Perdue to have been prominently featured.

 

[Prevailing Wind]

18 hours ago, Bastet said:

(and that hearing a deadname can be painful, a reminder of when they were forced to live an identity other than their own, thus the move to calling it that instead of birth name).

Oh the other hand, some just don't care. My niece doesn't care if you, who have known her pre-transition, call her by her given name. As long as you don't use it in front of folks who only know her post-transition and who may not know she once had a boy's name.  (Although, I think her given name of Jordan could actually go for either gender, it's her deadname and she's now Natalya.)

[tres bien]

Bombas ads are getting dumber and weirder 

[Gharlane]

I'm not sure if there are TV versions yet, but these BDSM commercials for Clorox are driving me crazy!😣

[Baltimore Betty]

I have realized that the latest Ziploc baggie commercial claims it stays sealed to avoid leaks and blow outs...that is the same verbiage as a diaper commercial.

[millennium]

On 9/26/2024 at 4:53 PM, dleighg said:

The ad for ClearCaptions (a "phone that captions in real time") drives me nuts. This couple overacts SO much; it's like they've taken too many happy pills. Who smiles while talking with the doctor's office about an appointment?

There's another commercial where a pair of grandparents (both apparently near-deaf) huddle by the phone reading captions as their grandson describes his baseball game.   The kid's voice sounds like AI, which led me to wonder how far off we are from the kid being able to instruct AI to call the grandparents and carry on a lame conversation so he doesn't have to.

[chessiegal]

The aetna Medicare ad with the woman not believing that their plans cover vision, dental, and hearing because her presumed friend "tends to exaggerate". Either a plan covers it or not. In my mind she's not accusing the woman of exaggerating, she's accusing her of flat-out lying. Miss Doubting Thomas appears not to believe the aetna agent at first. Ditch that supposed friend.

[Rock73]

The comments about the ClearCaptions commercial reminded me...I found out recently that the woman in that commercial is the actress who played Sissy on the '60s sitcom Family Affair!  Talk about feeling old...

[Deskisamess]

17 hours ago, Rock73 said:

The comments about the ClearCaptions commercial reminded me...I found out recently that the woman in that commercial is the actress who played Sissy on the '60s sitcom Family Affair!  Talk about feeling old...

When I first saw that commercial some time ago, I did some searching because she looked so familiar to me. I've rewatched FA a few times on Prime, and the way she lifts the side of her mouth when she talks is a real tell. She wrote a book too, Surviving Cissy.

She was also in a series that never aired in 2020, Aunt Cissy.

Edited October 5 by Deskisamess

[TattleTeeny]

On 9/20/2024 at 9:32 AM, chessiegal said:

What is Heavy Duty DNA? GMC - I'm assuming that's the car company? Which would explain a lot.

Not necessarily -- "heavy duty" in this instance would likely be hyphenated; a lot of style guides advise that the second word in a compound modifier doesn't need to be represented in an acronym/initialism. 

Edited October 7 by TattleTeeny

[chessiegal]

22 minutes ago, TattleTeeny said:

Not necessarily -- "heavy duty" in this instance would likely be hyphenated; a lot of style guides advise that the second word in a compound modifier doesn't need to be represented in an acronym/initialism. 

My question stands - what is heavy duty or heavy-duty DNA? This scientist bristles at the misuse of deoxyribonucleic acid. Trucks do not have DNA.

[TattleTeeny]

Oh, whoops. I must have grabbed the wrong post; clearly I was addressing the one that inspired your reply. Sorry!

Edited October 7 by TattleTeeny

[Tom Holmberg]

I've noticed a sudden rash of men's cologne ads.  Usually these only show up just before Father's Day and Christmas.  Am I missing something?

[Prevailing Wind]

7 minutes ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I've noticed a sudden rash of men's cologne ads.  Usually these only show up just before Father's Day and Christmas.  Am I missing something?

A treat for the Dads of Trick or Treaters?

 

[TattleTeeny]

Hahahahhaaaa! Imagine if people threw those paper cologne samples from magazines into kids' bags

[Crashcourse]

Christina Halls voice is annoying enough, but I also hate that woman screaming in that Jacuzzi Bath remodel commercial, sounding like she's being attacked by strangers. 

[Ancaster]

9 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I've noticed a sudden rash of men's cologne ads.  Usually these only show up just before Father's Day and Christmas.  Am I missing something?

Say what?  Christmas is just around the corner as far as advertisers are concerned.  It's only three months until Christmas after all.  Keep your finger on the mute button.

[dleighg]

did you see the one where women are blindfolded and men come nearby--- very 50 shades -- no of course I never read those books LOL

[andromeda331]

3 hours ago, Ancaster said:

Say what?  Christmas is just around the corner as far as advertisers are concerned.  It's only three months until Christmas after all.  Keep your finger on the mute button.

That's why I'm always replacing batteries in my remote. The mute button.