Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Ancaster]

On 10/8/2024 at 4:07 PM, dleighg said:

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

 

On 10/9/2024 at 4:28 AM, tres bien said:

I think that commercial is repulsive. Again objectifying women

I said something on another thread about finding the commercial problematic and was questioned why I thought so.  I guess we still have a long way to go, but as the mother of three daughters I'm depressed and even appalled that people don't see anything wrong.

[Palimelon]

I din’t think its problematic. Just dumb.

[Haleth]

On 10/23/2024 at 11:16 AM, Haleth said:

I just saw a new Jacuzzi commercial without Christina Whateverhernaneisthisweek. It still had the shrieking lady though so it’s still annoying. 

And now Christina is back but the shrieking lady is gone!  Why do we have to suffer through one or the other?

[proserpina65]

On 10/29/2024 at 9:40 AM, chessiegal said:

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is doing quite well.

And let's not forget Barbie. Its promotions were everywhere!

There are always exceptions.

15 hours ago, Ancaster said:

 

I said something on another thread about finding the commercial problematic and was questioned why I thought so.  I guess we still have a long way to go, but as the mother of three daughters I'm depressed and even appalled that people don't see anything wrong.

I find absolutely nothing problematic about that commercial.  The women are identifying a scent which apparently they find appealing.  Nothing particularly sexual is going on in it.  It's not like any of the women are scantily clad or in compromising positions of any sort.  Yes, they're blindfolded but that in and of itself is not an issue to me.

[Gharlane]

On 10/13/2024 at 6:06 AM, xls said:

This one! I hate it so much!

Hate that 50 shades 💩!

It reminds me of this old commercial that always struck me as... odd.

 

[Ancaster]

The commercial with the obnoxious child on a swing hitting the fence.  I'm sorry, your parents decided they could make $$$ off you, but I mute you immediately.

[cinsays]

One that i really hate right now is the one with Oprah yelling about her favorite things which is going to be shown on Good Morning America. 

Girl, you gave us Dr Phil and Dr Oz, so just go sit down.

[Browncoat]

12 hours ago, Ancaster said:

The commercial with the obnoxious child on a swing hitting the fence.  I'm sorry, your parents decided they could make $$$ off you, but I mute you immediately.

I hate that one, too.  And the commercial parents could turn the swing the other way and it would probably be fine.

[Palimelon]

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Girl, you gave us Dr Phil and Dr Oz, so just go sit down.

And take them with you.

[proserpina65]

33 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

I hate that one, too.  And the commercial parents could turn the swing the other way and it would probably be fine.

That's what bugs me about that commercial.  The swing doesn't have to be oriented in that direction.

[andromeda331]

You know given how many people don't like dentists and kids are scared of them having commercials of them accosting their patients in cafes, on runs and other places probably isn't a good idea. 

[AgathaC]

Add me to the group sick of that damn Wicked Target ad. I saw it on Broadway years ago, bought the cast recording, but I feel no real compulsion to see the film. That commercial makes me even less inclined because I’m sick of hearing that song. (And the fan art drama doesn’t help.)

I have mixed feelings about the Roku TV commercial with the couple screaming at each other. Obnoxious as hell. But yesterday I saw another version and have to admit, I chuckled when the woman bellowed “EVERY DAY WITH YOU IS A GIFT!” Now that the surprise has passed, I’ll go back to hating.

Edited November 2 by AgathaC

[dleighg]

I keep seeing this ad for Verizon (I think) where a few 20-somethings are dancing around to a loud song (I don't want to go to school). It didn't bother me the first few times but on whatever I'm streaming it shows up EVERY SINGLE COMMERCIAL BREAK.

[Gharlane]

There's a new refrigerated dog food commercial in which a guy gets kicked out after commenting that it's weird to keep the dog food in the garage fridge. 

On 11/1/2024 at 11:59 AM, cinsays said:

One that i really hate right now is the one with Oprah yelling about her favorite things which is going to be shown on Good Morning America. 

Girl, you gave us Dr Phil and Dr Oz, so just go sit down.

Among others... 

Take your faux-yelling gimmick elsewhere.

[Salacious Kitty]

4 hours ago, Gharlane said:

There's a new refrigerated dog food commercial in which a guy gets kicked out after commenting that it's weird to keep the dog food in the garage fridge. 

Among others... 

Take your faux-yelling gimmick elsewhere.

That commercial is a year old. It was the first one in the Fresh Pet line (also guy throwing out his Donner date and woman throwing out her sister on a camping trip).

[Gharlane]

2 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

That commercial is a year old. It was the first one in the Fresh Pet line (also guy throwing out his Donner date and woman throwing out her sister on a camping trip).

I think this is a newer one. In this one, the dog owner is black and his friend is there to watch a football game.

[Salacious Kitty]

13 minutes ago, Gharlane said:

I think this is a newer one. In this one, the dog owner is black and his friend is there to watch a football game.

Yep, that one was shown during football season last year. 

[Haleth]

"He was bad luck anyway."  

[Gharlane]

13 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Yep, that one was shown during football season last year. 

The first one I saw was with a man kicking his date out.

[Salacious Kitty]

6 hours ago, Gharlane said:

The first one I saw was with a man kicking his date out.

That was the second one I saw. Followed by the sister kicking her sibling out of the RV. 

[Bastet]

According to FreshPet's YouTube channel, the commercials were released in this order:

Dinner Date
In-Laws
Gameday (football version)
Gameday (basketball version)
Work From Anywhere

And then the Meghan Trainor one that isn't part of the above series, where the owner throws someone out.

That's the order I saw them in.  My favorite is the woman in the in-laws commercial, who tells her dog "You're lucky you're single".

[Salacious Kitty]

Wow, never saw the in-laws or the basketball version. I imagine I saw the football one first because I watch a lot of sports. 😀

Is the Meghan Trainor one the sisters camping in the RV? Because I have seen that one almost as much as the others I've seen. 

[Bastet]

23 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Is the Meghan Trainor one the sisters camping in the RV?

No, the sisters are in the Work From Anywhere commercial.

Meghan Trainor's isn't part of the series the rest all come from, where someone throws someone else out.  It's just her singing about being a dog mom.

[Gharlane]

On 11/3/2024 at 6:05 PM, Bastet said:

According to FreshPet's YouTube channel, the commercials were released in this order:

Dinner Date
In-Laws
Gameday (football version)
Gameday (basketball version)
Work From Anywhere

That's the order I saw them in.  My favorite is the woman in the in-laws commercial, who tells her dog "You're lucky you're single".

OK, that jives with what I've seen. I don't think I ever saw the basketball version and I do not recognize the last one.

[andromeda331]

They brought back that horrible tax commercial with the guy saying his problem is he hadn't paid his taxes in 8 years. I don't know why they made the commercial to begin with let along bring it back. Do they expect us to feel sorry for him? It's his fault the IRS is after him and I'm completely fine with that. I hope they get every cent and throw his ass in jail. I don't want him to get help or a reduction in how much he owes. The rest of us paid our taxes.  He should have paid his.

[proserpina65]

On 11/2/2024 at 3:31 PM, Gharlane said:

There's a new refrigerated dog food commercial in which a guy gets kicked out after commenting that it's weird to keep the dog food in the garage fridge. 

I hate all those Fresh Pet commercials.  Not because it has to be refrigerated but because it IS freaking dog food.

On 11/2/2024 at 10:36 PM, Salacious Kitty said:

Yep, that one was shown during football season last year. 

I don't watch football so it was relatively new to me when I started to see it this year.

 

[peacheslatour]

I haven't read the whole thread so apologies if this has already been discussed but the Instacart commercial ( I had to force myself to watch it so I could come here and complain about it, lol) with the guy shouting about losing his mind up in here. Instacart? InstaMute is more like it!

[Gharlane]

17 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I hate all those Fresh Pet commercials.  Not because it has to be refrigerated but because it IS freaking dog food.

I hate them because in most cases, the pet owner is overacting.

[Baltimore Betty]

19 minutes ago, Gharlane said:

I hate them because in most cases, the pet owner is overacting.

I have one cat, a spoon full of food from a can for each feeding then I put a cap on the can and store the uneaten portion in the fridge, it is contained, nothing spills out or smells. I have a little shelf in the door in a door thing on the fridge, I am not going to throw out the uneaten portion of kitty's expensive prescription food because someone might think it's odd.  

 

[proserpina65]

2 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

I have one cat, a spoon full of food from a can for each feeding then I put a cap on the can and store the uneaten portion in the fridge, it is contained, nothing spills out or smells. I have a little shelf in the door in a door thing on the fridge, I am not going to throw out the uneaten portion of kitty's expensive prescription food because someone might think it's odd.  

 

But do you tell people it's not cat food?  Because that's what the idiots in those commercials are doing - saying that it's not dog food when it very clearly is.

[cinsays]

On 11/5/2024 at 9:28 PM, andromeda331 said:

They brought back that horrible tax commercial with the guy saying his problem is he hadn't paid his taxes in 8 years. I don't know why they made the commercial to begin with let along bring it back. Do they expect us to feel sorry for him? It's his fault the IRS is after him and I'm completely fine with that. I hope they get every cent and throw his ass in jail. I don't want him to get help or a reduction in how much he owes. The rest of us paid our taxes.  He should have paid his.

agreed

and the other one where they reduced what he owes so much that he could take the family on a big vacation.  so i pay what i owe so can't take a vacation but he doesn't and gets rewarded for it? nah, not liking that

[Baltimore Betty]

On 11/7/2024 at 11:27 AM, proserpina65 said:

But do you tell people it's not cat food?  Because that's what the idiots in those commercials are doing - saying that it's not dog food when it very clearly is.

A cleverly disguised casserole, lol.

[chessiegal]

In the early 70s, I wrote a letter to Folgers to complain about a commercial I found misogynistic. I got a letter back, saying the focus groups they ran it by did not find it offensive. Therefore, I assume all the commercials we see have been tested with focus groups, but the ones tossing out friends and relatives over pet food in the fridge (I think they're funny), wouldn't seem to fly based on comments here. 🤷‍♀️

[peacheslatour]

1 hour ago, chessiegal said:

In the early 70s, I wrote a letter to Folgers to complain about a commercial I found misogynistic. I got a letter back, saying the focus groups they ran it by did not find it offensive. Therefore, I assume all the commercials we see have been tested with focus groups, but the ones tossing out friends and relatives over pet food in the fridge (I think they're funny), wouldn't seem to fly based on comments here. 🤷‍♀️

Lol, was it the "Bill never has a second cup of coffee at home"?

[chessiegal]

19 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Lol, was it the "Bill never has a second cup of coffee at home"?

No. It was a woman whose male partner told her the coffee was decaffeinated. The woman says - de- what? Poor little woman couldn't handle those big words! Still makes me angry. 

[peacheslatour]

2 hours ago, chessiegal said:

No. It was a woman whose male partner told her the coffee was decaffeinated. The woman says - de- what? Poor little woman couldn't handle those big words! Still makes me angry. 

The ring around the collar was the one that always got me. Somebody would say something like "Eww Bob, you have ring around the collar!" and everyone would look accusingly at his wife. My mom used to shout "Maybe Bob should do his own laundry!"

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:

My mom used to shout "Maybe Bob should do his own laundry!"

My mom would shout, "Maybe Bob should wash his neck."

[andromeda331]

7 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Lol, was it the "Bill never has a second cup of coffee at home"?

Bill never throws up at home.

[peacheslatour]

9 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

Bill never throws up at home.

Maybe she should up his dose of anti freeze.

[mojoween]

I know this is so last week, but I was watching a Duke game on ESPN Monday and they were showing ads for people up for election in North Carolina.  I was watching in Syracuse New York.  WTF?

My newest hate is the bitchy mom in the Verizon ad who apparently forgot her husband’s birthday, and gets all shitty about the husband enjoying what his daughters gave him, so she makes a video on her iPhone.  The look she gives the camera at the end makes me want to smack her.  Competing with your kids?  When you forgot?  Loser.

[mojoween]

Oh.  Oh!  I forgot about Warren, who uses AI to rewrite an email so coherent his manager can’t believe it came from him.  So we don’t have to do anything any more?  Just have our phones do all of our thinking for us?  

[Gharlane]

On 11/7/2024 at 11:27 AM, proserpina65 said:

But do you tell people it's not cat food?  Because that's what the idiots in those commercials are doing - saying that it's not dog food when it very clearly is.

I was under the impression they got into an argument about putting cat food in a fridge which contains human food.

On 11/8/2024 at 4:12 PM, Baltimore Betty said:

A cleverly disguised casserole, lol.

That happened to me once, actually. 😄

On 11/8/2024 at 9:44 PM, peacheslatour said:

The ring around the collar was the one that always got me. Somebody would say something like "Eww Bob, you have ring around the collar!" and everyone would look accusingly at his wife. My mom used to shout "Maybe Bob should do his own laundry!"

Maybe she should learn an ancient Chinese secret. 😏

[Baltimore Betty]

1 hour ago, Gharlane said:

Maybe she should learn an ancient Chinese secret. 😏

OMG! I love that I am not alone in remembering the coffee that Bob never has two cups of and the ancient Chinese secret, etc...wait, do I love that am that old?

[Shrek]

18 hours ago, mojoween said:

I know this is so last week, but I was watching a Duke game on ESPN Monday and they were showing ads for people up for election in North Carolina.  I was watching in Syracuse New York.  WTF?

 

I'm in California & keep seeing an ad for a church in Detroit. Maybe it was an election ad but I don't pay enough attention to say for sure but it does say to visit them at the end.

[Bastet]

On 11/7/2024 at 8:27 AM, proserpina65 said:

But do you tell people it's not cat food?  Because that's what the idiots in those commercials are doing - saying that it's not dog food when it very clearly is.

Yeah, I find the people freaking out about dog food being in the refrigerator the more annoying half of the equation in these commercials (especially that horrid snot in the Dinner Date installment), but the company going with the ridiculous "It's not dog food, it's FreshPet" slogan makes the dog owners absolute morons.  Normal people, upon being confronted with someone being rude enough to question why dog food is in the refrigerator, would say something along the lines of "Because it's made with fresh ingredients that will spoil unless kept refrigerated, just like our food" (or, you know, "Why the hell do you care what's in my refrigerator?").  Not say "It's not dog food."  Of course it's dog food!  FreshPet is a brand.  A descriptive one, but it's just a brand.  It's still dog food.

(When I've fed raw cat food, that has to be kept frozen until it's time to thaw and eat.  If someone had picked up the bag and asked why there was cat food in the freezer [which has never happened, as I don't let stupid people in my house], I would have responded along the lines of the above, not "It's not cat food, it's Nature's Variety".  Of course it's cat food; I'm sure as hell not going to eat it.)

Edited November 10 by Bastet

[Prevailing Wind]

6 hours ago, Bastet said:

When I've fed raw cat food, that has to be kept frozen until it's time to thaw and eat. 

I have a FB friend that moved from Virginia to a small town in Mexico. She makes her own raw cat food and says the aging cat is acting like a kitten again. She's astoundingly healthy!  But Trish didn't say if she freezes the batches she makes for Futbol.

[kathyk2]

Geico brought back the Caveman he's still annoying. Progressive needs to retire the Dr. Rick ads. He was funny at first now he's rude who cares if people want to talk about the weather?

[Annber03]

10 minutes ago, kathyk2 said:

Geico brought back the Caveman he's still annoying. Progressive needs to retire the Dr. Rick ads. He was funny at first now he's rude who cares if people want to talk about the weather?

I don't mind the weather ones, myself, 'cause, as I said in the "favorite commercials" thread, I find them WAY too relatable :p. 

But yeah, seeing the Geico cavemen coming back is a wild blast from the past. 

Edited November 11 by Annber03

[Haleth]

With the Fresh Pet commercials I think the implication is that the rude people questioning having dog food (yes, dog food) in the fridge don't like dogs.  I mean, would any pet owner freak out over seeing someone's dog's food in the fridge?  Clearly these people who are grossed out don't like dogs.  As such they deserve to be tossed out. 😄

[Tom Holmberg]

10 hours ago, kathyk2 said:

who cares if people want to talk about the weather?

I'd rather talk about the weather than insurance.