Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Nacos for Rufus]

On 12/12/2024 at 3:40 PM, kathyk2 said:

I hate the Shriner's ads because they treat disabled teens like children. Caleb must be a teenager by now.

If Caleb is a teenager, then Alec must be collecting a pension! There are other actual children who could be spokespeople. Wish they’d let them retire.

[kathyk2]

26 minutes ago, Nacos for Rufus said:

If Caleb is a teenager, then Alec must be collecting a pension! There are other actual children who could be spokespeople. Wish they’d let them retire.

Alec is in college now.

[Prevailing Wind]

46 minutes ago, kathyk2 said:

Alec is in college now.

Well, he was when THAT particular commercial was made. it's several years old now.

[chessiegal]

Shriner's is repeating their previous Christmas ads right now. Saves them money, which I think is a good thing for an organization that is asking for money.

[Prevailing Wind]

3 hours ago, chessiegal said:

Shriner's is repeating their previous Christmas ads right now. Saves them money, which I think is a good thing for an organization that is asking for money.

They could save even more by not "rewarding" donors with those adowable blankets.

 

[Tom Holmberg]

13 hours ago, kathyk2 said:

Alec is in college now.

He graduated from Northwestern Univ in June of this year.  Not sure what he's doing after graduating.

Edited December 20, 2024 by Tom Holmberg

[MagicEyes]

On 12/17/2024 at 4:56 PM, peacheslatour said:

The one I never want to see or hear again is the Ulta Did we just become best friends that plays at every single break.

I was just wondering if anyone else remembered Egoiste! 😊

[Ancaster]

On 12/5/2024 at 11:22 PM, Ghost of TWOP Past said:

There's a commercial with a kid singing to his mother (I think) in Spanish. Is it my imagination or is this commercial significantly louder than others? It seems like it, anyway, and the kid has kind of a piercing voice. Between the two, I can't switch away from it fast enough. 

 

On 12/11/2024 at 5:58 PM, Wildcard said:

I promise I'm not a totally horrible person, but I can't deal with the Christmas Shriner's commercials. I'm sure they do good work, but I think I'd rather listen to a 1-800-Kars-4-Kids in an hour loop.

The Shriner's one I hate the most (and Caleb isn't even in it) is the one with some guy in a cowboy hat who has the most awful adenoidal, nasal voice in living memory.  I assume he's someone famous who makes his money singing, but I can't mute it fast enough.*

*  Apparently it's someone called Trace Adkins.

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, Ancaster said:

The Shriner's one I hate the most (and Caleb isn't even in it) is the one with some guy in a cowboy hat who has the most awful adenoidal, nasal voice in living memory.  I assume he's someone famous who makes his money singing, but I can't mute it fast enough.*

*  Apparently it's someone called Trace Adkins.

He does obnoxious ads for Wounded Warrior, too. And his speaking voice is SO different from that nasally singing voice. I've worn the print off my mute button.

[Phebemarie]

Anyone else annoyed by the latest Jennifer Coolidge Discover commericial?  It's on all the time, and a little Jennifer Coolidge goes a long way in my house.  

 

Edited December 31, 2024 by Phebemarie

[Gharlane]

On 12/30/2024 at 11:34 PM, Phebemarie said:

Anyone else annoyed by the latest Jennifer Coolidge Discover commercial?  It's on all the time, and a little Jennifer Coolidge goes a long way in my house.  

 

All of the Discover commercials with her in them annoy me.

[chessiegal]

On 12/30/2024 at 11:34 PM, Phebemarie said:

Anyone else annoyed by the latest Jennifer Coolidge Discover commericial?  It's on all the time, and a little Jennifer Coolidge goes a long way in my house.  

 

Not sure what it says about me, but no, the Jennifer Coolidge ads not only don't annoy me, but I find them mildly amusing.🤷‍♀️

[KWalkerInc]

There are two new ads for Freshpet.  In one of them, a woman's mother comes over and, as in all their ads, complains about dog food in the fridge, only to have the woman reply with their dumb slogan.  Unlike the previous ads, it seems like the mother gets kicked out not for getting overly worked up about the food, but because she sneers, "I should have known" when she finds out that the "Peter" her daughter has met is a dog.  It isn't too annoying for a Freshpet ad.

In the other one, Steve Schrippa plays a mobster and his character and friends apparently kill a guy for complaining about there being dog food in the fridge.  I know they're mobsters and it's presented as "humorous," but this might be a slight overreaction!

[KLovestoShop]

I know this is an older commercial, but it has just annoyed the crap out of me forever. It’s the guy for Dupixant who’s who’s playing it a kitty pool and he has people bring all his food onto a floaty and he stacks up everything on top of one another by the end of the commercial he’s got a couple of hotdogs and maybe four or five huge hamburgers. What the hell does that mean.

There are so many commercials that pissed me off, but the thing that’s bothering me more and more is that if you have a 30 minute television program, we’re gonna be lucky to have 15 minutes of the actual program and the other 15 minutes is going to be commercials. I mean now an hour procedural show only runs 42 minutes because all the rest is commercial. Maybe they should have one or two cable channels that show nothing but commercials every commercial out there would be on these channels and then we wouldn’t have to watch all this lunacy of shorter and shorter programs. 

Why does almost every commercial have to have people dancing around like they have live fire ants in their butt? I mean most of the people are shitty dancers to begin with, and the music they’re hopping around to stupid. But it doesn’t matter what the commercial advertises they’re all running around. It’s like just once I’d like to be on a set and put actual fire ants in their pants.

[andromeda331]

Like the graza olive oil has older women dancing around and drinking the oil. It doesn't make me want to buy the product but wonder what's in it. Is it alcohol? Drugs? Both? 

Edited Sunday at 01:27 AM by andromeda331

[Blergh]

13 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

Like the graza olive oil has older women dancing around andd drinking the oil. It doesn't make me want to by the produt but wonder what's in it. Is it alcohol? Drugs? Both? 

Not to mention, if they drink too much, wouldn't it have the same effect as. ..castor oil (in which case, they'd need to trade their happy dances for jitterbugs and jitter their ways to the nearest restrooms)?

[Gharlane]

On 1/4/2025 at 12:57 PM, Blergh said:

Not to mention, if they drink too much, wouldn't it have the same effect as. ..castor oil (in which case, they'd need to trade their happy dances for jitterbugs and jitter their ways to the nearest restrooms)?

I thought that's why she was guzzling olive oil.

[SweetieDarling]

On 1/3/2025 at 10:57 PM, andromeda331 said:

Like the graza olive oil has older women dancing around and drinking the oil. It doesn't make me want to buy the product but wonder what's in it. Is it alcohol? Drugs? Both? 

Is that the commercial where they drizzle olive oil over ice cream? Who? Why? Ew! Do people really do that? Of all the ice cream topping possibilities, olive oil would never cross my mind (neither would Old Bay but welcome to Maryland-they put that shit on everything. I digress)

Edited Monday at 12:39 AM by SweetieDarling

[fairffaxx]

Martha Stewart & the NY Times recommend olive oil on ice cream.  So I tried it & it's really pretty good.  

[Prevailing Wind]

While visiting Mexico, I had vanilla ice cream with corn kernels in it. It was pretty good once you got past the shock of Niblets in your ice cream.

 

[dleighg]

9 hours ago, SweetieDarling said:

Is that the commercial where they drizzle olive oil over ice cream? Who? Why?

when we visited an olive oil "farm" in spain they had us try some orange-peel-infused olive oil. They served it over ice cream. Very good!

[Browncoat]

Oh my.  I just saw the newest iteration of the Jardiance ad.  It's the worst yet!  The slightly slower pace of the song, the ridiculous "dancing" around the supermarket...  It's just awful.

[Baltimore Betty]

14 hours ago, SweetieDarling said:

Is that the commercial where they drizzle olive oil over ice cream? Who? Why? Ew! Do people really do that? Of all the ice cream topping possibilities, olive oil would never cross my mind (neither would Old Bay but welcome to Maryland-they put that shit on everything. I digress)

I miss Chi Chi's Fried Ice Cream.

Don't knock the Old Bay however these super tasters putting it on ice cream is ick as is the olive oil, someone thought long and hard about that one and nobody is buying it, did they have a focus group and gave them a choice between olive oil or motor oil as a topping?

I have yet to see that commercial.

 

Edited Monday at 03:23 PM by Baltimore Betty

[Bookish Jen]

On 12/16/2024 at 7:13 PM, janie jones said:

I'm not getting a murderer vibe here, but I don't feel comfortable that I walked in on their pre-threesome.

I know! I took a look at that commercial, and thought to myself, "I think I need to leave the room."

[DrSpaceman73]

45 minutes ago, Baltimore Betty said:

I miss Chi Chi's Fried Ice Cream.

Don't knock the Old Bay however these super tasters putting it on ice cream is ick as is the olive oil, someone thought long and hard about that one and nobody is buying it, did they have a focus group and gave them a choice between olive oil or motor oil as a topping?

I have yet to see that commercial.

 

Chi chis is coming back in some areas. I hope they have the fried ice cream. 

[Babalu06]

13 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

While visiting Mexico, I had vanilla ice cream with corn kernels in it. It was pretty good once you got past the shock of Niblets in your ice cream.

 

Magnolia ice cream (Filipino brand) has a queso mais (cheese and corn) flavor that I had once in Hawai’i. I agree it was a bit of a shock at first, but after a couple of bites, I liked it. 

[Bastet]

I haven't seen the commercial, but ice cream with olive oil and sea salt is on quite a few menus here, so it's not odd to me.

Edited Monday at 08:34 PM by Bastet

[littlebennysmom]

The Trust & Will ad with the obnoxious nasal vocal fry of Kelly Stafford and her husband Matt Stafford, the actual famous guy, in the background (LA Rams quarterback).

Why didn't they have Matt do the talking? 

Between this one, the excruciating Tovala yeah it's a vibe fry, the dentist who says "namel" instead of "enamel", etc, etc, it seems vocal fry is the new Shaq of commercials.

Edited Yest. at 03:41 AM by littlebennysmom
Clarification

[MerBearHou]

44 minutes ago, littlebennysmom said:

The Trust & Will ad with the obnoxious nasal vocal fry of Kelly Stafford and her husband Matt Stafford, the actual famous guy, in the background (LA Rams quarterback).

Why didn't they have Matt do the talking? 

Between this one, the excruciating Tovala yeah it's a vibe fry, the dentist who says "namel" instead of "enamel", etc, etc, it seems vocal fry is the new Shaq of commercials.

I mute both of those so quickly. They both sound like they are sophomores in high school.  

[andromeda331]

17 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

Chi chis is coming back in some areas. I hope they have the fried ice cream. 

I hope so too. It was the best.

[KWalkerInc]

Gametime has come up with another annoying ad.  This time they have two guys talking about how it helped them get a good deal on tickets for the game, which is fine (and they actually occasionally have ads where showing why people should use the product is the only focus).  Then they wonder how their friends who didn't use it are doing, and it pans up to the back row of the stadium--except the way they do the camera work is strange, so it seems like the guys with the "good" tickets are only about ten rows ahead of them.  The part I don't like is when one of the guys in the back row sadly says that he spent hours to get these seats, and one of his "friends" calls him trash.  (It might be the same actor from an earlier ad where a guy tells a stranger who paid more, "I'm a better fan than you," but maybe it just seems that way because both are jerks.) 

This ad probably just hits too close to home because it reminds me of spending most of a day online when tickets went on sale for all dates in the first season of a ballpark and I could only get the back row even for a weeknight game against a team that wasn't popular.  (Gametime wouldn't have done any good if it had existed then.)  My father would not stop making jokes about how high up/far back the seats were, which I didn't appreciate!