Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Mabinogia]

I hate that RealReal commercial. You couldn't pay me to wear that crap and there is no way in hell I'm going to pay to look like a pretentious circus clown. If I'm supposed to want to be like these people or hang out with these people then the commercial is an epic failure. 

[chenoa333]

On 5/16/2019 at 3:15 PM, garnet207 said:

  Agreed, which is what makes this video awesome:

That was f'n awful 😁

[andromeda331]

I hate the beginning of the Chobani yogurt commercial where the woman's holding a tray with several bowls of cereal in cafeteria and says she please can she have less. I know its a play on the Dickens quote "Please Sir can I have some more." But it makes no sense. If she didn't want the cereal then why did she get? Why not just grab the yogurt? The rest of the commercial I don't mind.

[zoey1996]

I’m annoyed at the Mazda 3 commercial that uses the same music as the University of Phoenix commercial where the woman gets her degree, and changes the poster to say, We can do IT.  With so many pieces of music to choose from, they couldn’t find a different one?

[ams1001]

On 5/1/2019 at 9:21 PM, LucindaWalsh said:

I was annoying a few months ago in a Shoney's (I didn't know they were still around!) 

Shoney's isn't in my area and I think I ate in one once when I was in college in Pennsylvania. One of my friends worked there for a summer or two and she taught us all the birthday song they had to do. It's been over twenty years and I can still sing it.

[Silver Raven]

On 5/17/2019 at 7:23 AM, QuinnInND said:

There's some app now that you can get $100.00 from your next paycheck before your payday. The ads are awful. If you're taking $100.00 out of your check early all the time, maybe you need to reevaluate your finances a bit. 

Is that the app that's named ... "Dave"?

[Jaded]

4 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Shoney's isn't in my area and I think I ate in one once when I was in college in Pennsylvania. One of my friends worked there for a summer or two and she taught us all the birthday song they had to do. It's been over twenty years and I can still sing it.

My Mom and I would go there once a week when I was young since kids under 12 ate free on each Wednesday I think it was. We would end up there if one of my Mom's friends with kids chose it too. I say all that because I'm the same in regards to it being well over 20 years and I can still remember the words to their birthday song. I changed the words and sang it to my cat once on his gotcha day.

I'm still hating those Cancer Treatment Centers of America commercials. They've changed the "Mother Standard of Care" one they came out with not long before Mother's Day but kept the same visuals from what I saw before changing the channel. Then there's one of the anti-smoking commercials that also came out around Mother's Day with the woman who smoked that died two days after the clips they show of were filmed. The daughter in it kinda looks like me and the way she talks about being a caregiver gives me flashbacks to being the sole caregiver for my Mom which memories of doing that at all for the most part probably aren't what anyone else wants to think about during holidays commemorating a parent. My Mom didn't have cancer due to smoking herself but was around it for a long time growing up with both parents being smokers and later on when we lived with my Nana who did die from cancer related smoking. I helped my Mom care for her so the commercial I described above makes me think of her too somewhat. 

Other commercials really do drive me crazy but for most of those muting is enough to get through them when watching TV live.

[ams1001]

On 5/8/2019 at 8:25 AM, andromeda331 said:

I think that's the only time it pays to have a first and last name that no one can pronounce. You can always tell right away their trying to sell you something when only your family and friends can pronounce both. 

My dad likes to give telemarketers "one more chance" to say our name correctly. It does have an -ie- in the middle that makes people want to add a syllable, but we just pronounce it as one (-ee-). But it's Italian so at least that makes sense (I'm sure it was slightly Americanized after my great-grandparents came here). What I don't get is when they add entirely non-existent letters. (No matter what they say on the second try, he tells them they're wrong and hangs up.)

On 5/8/2019 at 10:19 AM, QuinnInND said:

 My first and last name rhyme. The next person who points that out will get throat punched. Also the next time anyone calls me Harley. 

My friend's dad's first name is Harley. He so does not look like a Harley (actually he reminds me of Bill Nye the Science Guy); he goes by his middle name. (The only other Harleys I ever knew were a Golden Retriever and a Black Lab.)

On 5/8/2019 at 7:17 PM, mojoween said:

There is an ad for...something or other...financial planning maybe? I don’t know and the girl says something like “I know what it’s like to grow up without financial stability.  We ate a LOT of leftovers.”

Um.  What the fuck?  Only poor people eat leftovers?  If you use their financial planning service you will throw all of your food away?  

I wish I could remember what it was for so I could actively not use it.

I grew up squarely middle class; not rich, but we had everything we needed and a fair amount of what we wanted. We had leftovers all the time. It's actually a running joke in my family that no matter how many bone-in chicken breasts my mom made, there was always one left. Usually she'd make four (probably because they came two in a package), but no one would eat a whole one, so one person would take what they wanted from one, and the next person would take the rest and maybe a bit from another, and so on, and three would end up being enough for the four of us. There were definitely occasions where she made three and I guess we weren't that hungry and there was still one left. We joked that if she made one no one would happen to feel like eating that day. It was never on purpose but it almost always seemed to happen.

On 5/13/2019 at 8:47 AM, Woopwoopkitty said:

The ProEnamel toothpaste commercial is nails on a chalkboard to me!  The nasally voice and halting cadence of her speaking drives me nuts and does not instill credibility.  I get, you wanted a female of diversity, but really this was the best you could do?  You left me thinking women aren’t capable of being competent dentists and I’m female.

The sensitive-teeth toothpaste ad where she says you'll start feeling a difference in "three days" ...she says "three days" several times and every time I see it I think, "So, did I hear that right? It takes three days?"

On 5/15/2019 at 10:31 AM, Katy M said:

I once lived someplace where only bedrooms were upstairs, kitchen and bath downstairs. Actually, now that I think of it, that's the only place where I've lived where my living area encompassed two stories, not including basements. 

My college has a townhouse complex for seniors (five buildings, 6-8 units in each). I lived in an upstairs flat (above one of the two handicapped-accessible units), but the rest were two-story units and the bathrooms were upstairs in between the two bedrooms (each had two sinks, two showers, and one toilet, for four residents). I've only ever lived in one-story homes so kitchen vs. bathroom for middle-of-the-night water was just a matter of how far I felt like walking. Where I am now I prefer filtered water but I just put a small glass on my night stand before I go to bed (even filtered it doesn't taste that great after a day).

On 5/15/2019 at 4:56 PM, chessiegal said:

It's Progressive. I think it's funny.

I was mildly amused until about the 232nd time I saw it...

On 5/16/2019 at 8:59 PM, Prevailing Wind said:

I get paid on Friday, as well. Come Thursday AM, my pay is *almost* in my account - it shows up as a "pending" transaction, but it doesn't truly post to the account until Friday.

I think mine does that, too. I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to worry about when it goes in, because I know I have enough in there to pay my bills, but I have noticed it when I've happened to look at my account on a Thursday. I don't know what time it goes through, though. I would guess they do it slightly early in case of any technical issues that might cause people to be paid late if they did it right on the day of. Last time I got a real check I worked in a store and they let us cash them out of the registers.

On 5/18/2019 at 2:47 PM, mmecorday said:

That time when Posh Spice, Tyler Perry and Lady Gaga all got together to par-tay! (And some of these clothes are REAL ugly, IMO.)

What the hell was that gingham monstrosity?

Edited May 19, 2019 by ams1001

[Brattinella]

What the heck is up with the current crop of loons on Chevy Potsch douche commercial?  They are all whooping and dancing and throwing up their arms!?  When will he EVER go away?

[Ubiquitous]

On ‎5‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 6:37 PM, peacheslatour said:

Ugh, the Chime Bank commercial "Whoopie, I got direct deposit with Chime. I get paid two days sooner!" Makes me crazy so I'm shouting "So will literally every other bank. Literally EVERY OTHER BANK!!1!"

I assumed Chimes is just another payday loan. Basically, they give you a short-term loan for the amount of your paycheck, then use your paycheck to pay off the loan. I have no idea how this can be profitable, unless they charge an exorbitant fee if something happens to your paycheck or you don't receive the entire amount of your paycheck.

On ‎5‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 3:12 PM, proserpina65 said:

My mom wasn't much for casseroles as a rule, but we did eat a lot of Hamburger Helper when I was a teenager.  I still like some of those.

I hated the ones with dried potato slices. Those things NEVER rehydrated quite right.

You know, I don't think I've seen a Hamburger Helper commercial for several years.

[Katy M]

1 hour ago, Ubiquitous said:

You know, I don't think I've seen a Hamburger Helper commercial for several years.

And I was thinking recently I hadn't seen a gum commercial for years.  All those twins out of work.

[Prevailing Wind]

I've seen the gum commercial with the Brit chick with the sparkle on her teeth. Orbit? But no Wrigley's in eons.

[Tom Holmberg]

2 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

You know, I don't think I've seen a Hamburger Helper commercial for several years.

I don't think I've seen a Shake'n'Bake ad in a long time either. I always hated the way that kid said, "...And I hepped!"  Except for the perennial Kraft's Mac and Cheese, this kind of cooking must be considered too low-rent.

[smittykins]

I thought it was “And Ah hey-yelped!” 😛

[Tom Holmberg]

5 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I've seen the gum commercial with the Brit chick with the sparkle on her teeth. Orbit?

That's not really gum.  Gum's supposed to rot your teeth not whiten them!  Bazooka Joe told me so.

[bkathi]

I don't understand the Subaru commercial where they leave the Grandma (who is a little girl thru most of the commercial but turns back into grown up Grandma in the car) at the bottom of her porch steps instead of walking her inside.  She could wave from the porch.  I don't even see rails to help her get up the stairs safely.

[chenoa333]

On 5/14/2019 at 4:38 PM, chessiegal said:

The Slingers can go away yesterday. That is all.

Yeah. That commercial needs to be buried with no memorial service. But I'm sure,even if it goes away for a couple months, it wiil resurrect itself. 

[Hyacinth B]

On 5/18/2019 at 7:51 PM, Mabinogia said:

On 5/18/2019 at 1:47 PM, mmecorday said:

That time when Posh Spice, Tyler Perry and Lady Gaga all got together to par-tay! (And some of these clothes are REAL ugly, IMO.)

I hate that RealReal commercial. You couldn't pay me to wear that crap and there is no way in hell I'm going to pay to look like a pretentious circus clown. If I'm supposed to want to be like these people or hang out with these people then the commercial is an epic failure. 

Not only are the clothes used in the commercial butt-ugly, but the site has been mentioned quite a few times by posters in a major Purseforum for selling counterfeit luxury brand handbags and accessories. Apparently their "authenticators" aren't nearly as qualified or careful as TRR wants everyone to think they are.

[chenoa333]

Kraft Macaroni and Cheese AND Enya. SEPARATELY, ok....I'm good with those two. But I just don't get the combo. So wrong. 

And just a side note: PLEASE GO AWAY MARIE OSMOND

[Woopwoopkitty]

On 5/18/2019 at 8:24 PM, zoey1996 said:

I’m annoyed at the Mazda 3 commercial that uses the same music as the University of Phoenix commercial where the woman gets her degree, and changes the poster to say, We can do IT.  With so many pieces of music to choose from, they couldn’t find a different one?

I hate that Enterprise rental cars uses the music from Ice Age.

The can-you-hear-me-now guy from Verizon who now shills for Sprint can go away any time.  The pinched face, the sighing — seriously, dude lighten up! It’s a cell phone, not world peace.

[Tom Holmberg]

19 hours ago, bkathi said:

I don't even see rails to help her get up the stairs safely.

I doubt they bother to think these things through. He should helped her up the steps or just shown her on the porch.  It's a very sentimental commercial and I'm sure some people like that.   I like to think they are abandoning her in some random neighborhood. That makes me feel better.

[LoneHaranguer]

15 hours ago, chenoa333 said:

Kraft Macaroni and Cheese AND Enya. SEPARATELY, ok....I'm good with those two. But I just don't get the combo. So wrong. 

Maybe it's because the lighting in her Only Time music video gives the piled sand a yellowish color that makes it resemble powdered cheese.

[Ubiquitous]

On ‎5‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 2:47 PM, mmecorday said:

That time when Posh Spice, Tyler Perry and Lady Gaga all got together to par-tay! (And some of these clothes are REAL ugly, IMO.)

Holy crap! People pay to wear those clothes?

[chenoa333]

8 minutes ago, Ubiquitous said:

Holy crap! People pay to wear those clothes?

Are they selling clothes to people who are Carnival workers?

Because that video is featuring hideous looking $hit that they're trying to pass off as "fashion". 

[QuinnInND]

The ad for Poshmark. The blonde is ugly as a mud fence, IMO. They're blabbering about how much money they're saving or making from using this app. Here's an idea. Stop buying ugly-ass over priced clothes and shoes in the first place. 

Edited May 22, 2019 by QuinnInND
Because my phones idea of the right word and mine differs greatly.

[LoneHaranguer]

1 hour ago, Ubiquitous said:

Holy crap! People pay to wear those clothes?

The ad is showing models being paid to wear things the company hasn't sold yet, so maybe not.

[Ubiquitous]

Speaking of ugly clothes, there's a ad I think is for Amazon.com with a woman fantasizing about herself standing on the stairs wearing an ugly gold lame fringe dress who ignores my protests and orders it.

Edited May 23, 2019 by Ubiquitous

[Brattinella]

Dear Chevy:

Every time you create a new ad, you include the following unbearable people:  Mr Potsch, who leers and preens.  But even worse, you have the "real people" who attend your unveiling, with FAKE joy, and they even DANCE and clap their hands at the gorgeousness that is Chevies.  Please stop!  I would never buy any of these vehicles due to your commercials.  Thanks.

[Eliot]

On 3/16/2019 at 7:13 PM, BigBingerBro said:

What's with the slow-motion yelling of "NOOOOOOOO" in so many commercials lately?  "Let me check my credit score.... - NOOOOOOOOOO"   Kid spills a jug of Kool-Aid at the dining room table - NOOOOOOOOOOO.  Did this trope come from some series or show that's popular?   It's making me stabby.

I don't know...but I have to confess I love the little kid in that one commercial who's yelling "Nooooo!" in slow motion after his dad steps on one of his legos and pitches forward, spilling some sort of liquid all over the place. He really gives his all to that one line.

[Eliot]

8 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I doubt they bother to think these things through. He should helped her up the steps or just shown her on the porch.  It's a very sentimental commercial and I'm sure some people like that.   I like to think they are abandoning her in some random neighborhood. That makes me feel better.

I have similar thoughts about the Subaru commercial with the couple who encounters the blind guy in some country store where they're asking for directions. He offers to take them to their destination himself. The next shot is of the three of them, clearly hours later because it's dark. I like to think they kidnapped him and he's blind so he hasn't noticed.

[Zevious Zoquis]

Epclusa.  A med for Hep C.  The ad features various people happily going about their business and pausing to describe the unique nature of "their" Hepatitis C.  It comes off sounding like they are proud of the disease..."My hep C damaged my liver." "Mine is common."  "Mine is rare." 

these drug ads are a real nasty virus on TV.  There's dozens of them and they are all really dumb and annoying.

[Calamity Jane]

5 hours ago, Zevious Zoquis said:

Epclusa.  A med for Hep C.  The ad features various people happily going about their business and pausing to describe the unique nature of "their" Hepatitis C.  It comes off sounding like they are proud of the disease..."My hep C damaged my liver." "Mine is common."  "Mine is rare." 

these drug ads are a real nasty virus on TV.  There's dozens of them and they are all really dumb and annoying.

And so many of them use either incorrect or hopelessly awkward language. It is really a hallmark of pharmaceutical ads. 

About Charmin’s “Enjoy the go” tag line - not to over share, but any time I haven’t enjoyed the go, it had nothing to do with the TP I used. Stupid line. 

[KWalkerInc]

There is a commercial that I think is for PNC Bank (or something to do with it) that starts out with a guy losing his credit card when his wallet goes flying up in the air during a roller coaster ride, followed by a woman who isn't getting any business at her stand because she can't take credit cards.  The part that annoys me is when they show a little girl who has decided, according to the voiceover, that her dad's credit card needs to follow the family goldfish by being flushed down the toilet.  I could maybe see a two-year-old flushing random items and getting a hold of it, but this girl looks way too old to not know better, so it really bugs me.

[Ubiquitous]

On ‎3‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 7:13 PM, BigBingerBro said:

What's with the slow-motion yelling of "NOOOOOOOO" in so many commercials lately?  "Let me check my credit score.... - NOOOOOOOOOO"   Kid spills a jug of Kool-Aid at the dining room table - NOOOOOOOOOOO.  Did this trope come from some series or show that's popular?   It's making me stabby.

Yeah, it's totally a trope.

Edited May 23, 2019 by Ubiquitous
Added link.

[Tom Holmberg]

20 hours ago, Eliot said:

I like to think they kidnapped him and he's blind so he hasn't noticed

That's nicer than my theory that he kills them and dances in the moonlight wearing their skins.

[Tom Holmberg]

6 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

NOOOOOOOOOOO.  Did this trope come from some series or show that's popular?   It's making me stabby.

My reaction is when somebody in a commercial yells "NOOOOOO!" is to go "NOOOOOOO!" I guess it's catching.

[peacheslatour]

"I spent a fortune on this vacation so I better look amazing." *Stabbiness rising* "Goals!" *Full stabbiness achieved*

[Zevious Zoquis]

On 5/22/2019 at 4:15 PM, Brattinella said:

Dear Chevy:

Every time you create a new ad, you include the following unbearable people:  Mr Potsch, who leers and preens.  But even worse, you have the "real people" who attend your unveiling, with FAKE joy, and they even DANCE and clap their hands at the gorgeousness that is Chevies.  Please stop!  I would never buy any of these vehicles due to your commercials.  Thanks.

lol, the lame dweeb wearing shades and a bizarre rainbow sweater/jacket and walking backwards looking at some drop-dead-dull chevy suck-mobile and exclaiming in awe "that is sharp!"  hahaha...

[Tom Holmberg]

1 hour ago, Zevious Zoquis said:

the lame dweeb wearing shades and a bizarre rainbow sweater/jacket and walking backwards looking at some drop-dead-dull chevy suck-mobile and exclaiming in awe "that is sharp!"

Car ads basically are selling a lifestyle. Buy our brand car and you'll be ...a speed-demon racer tearing up the desert ...a cool urbanite driving through oddly empty city streets  ...an adventurous outdoorsman driving through the woods  ...an XGamer crashing through snow banks on the way to snowboard ...or a nerd who spazzes out over a Chevy.

Edited May 24, 2019 by Tom Holmberg

[Gramto6]

Just started seeing the ad for Delta shower heads where the dorky guy strips down, gets in shower and the spray makes him some kind of "dancing star". OMG way more than I want to see! Brain bleach needed!

Edited May 24, 2019 by Gramto6

[mmecorday]

Maybe this is a local ad, but there's a commercial for Myrtle Beach with the least appealing commercial jingle of all time. It consists of some bozo singing "Let go and unwiiiiiiiind on Myrtle Beach time." Make.It.STOP!

[Browncoat]

42 minutes ago, mmecorday said:

Maybe this is a local ad, but there's a commercial for Myrtle Beach with the least appealing commercial jingle of all time. It consists of some bozo singing "Let go and unwiiiiiiiind on Myrtle Beach time." Make.It.STOP!

I get that one on my local station in the mountains of Virginia.

[NinjaPenguins]

Oh, Paul, formerly of Verizon but now with Sprint, could you please stop being so damn condescending by talking about those mean mobile companies and their “complicated, tricky language?” Also, you specifically refer to complicated, tricky language about networks. Motherfucker, when you started shilling for Sprint, all you did was blab on and on about how their network speed or reliability was within 1% of everyone else’s. ONE PERCENT. 

Since I’m picking on phone companies, let’s talk about those insufferable Verizon commercials where a person stands in a blank white space with equipment hanging in the shot. The person tells us a story about how Verizon saved their life or lets them stay in touch or whatever. The dramatic stories, like falling out of a tree and breaking one’s pelvis or being swept away by a flood, are told in an oddly jaunty manner that make getting your pelvis crushed or climbing a giant tree to escape floodwaters sound like quite the lark. One guy stands there with his son and brags that he created a rock star. In another, a daft young woman explains how she uses her phone to choreograph while she’s on the subway. During most of these atrocious story times in hell, the camera will awkwardly zoom in on some random part of the person’s face. Eat shit, Verizon.

[BigBingerBro]

2 hours ago, Browncoat said:

I get that one on my local station in the mountains of Virginia.

I get it on my local station in a beach town in Florida.  It's definitely an earworm.

[Browncoat]

28 minutes ago, BigBingerBro said:

I get it on my local station in a beach town in Florida.  It's definitely an earworm.

That's a ridiculous bit of advertising.  If you live at a beach in Florida, why would you even consider a beach in South Carolina?  At least here it makes sense, though it is an earworm.  Lots of folks from here go to Myrtle for vacay.

[Tom Holmberg]

3 hours ago, mmecorday said:

Maybe this is a local ad, but there's a commercial for Myrtle Beach with the least appealing commercial jingle of all time.

In Chicago we get ads like this all winter for warm destinations, but its late Spring (except here in Chicago, where Sprinter's just ending) and if you live in Florida , do you need to go to Myrtle Beach?

[Moose135]

3 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

The dramatic stories, like falling out of a tree and breaking one’s pelvis or being swept away by a flood, are told in an oddly jaunty manner that make getting your pelvis crushed or climbing a giant tree to escape floodwaters sound like quite the lark.

They do tell the stories in a pretty strange manner.  The thing I wondered, the one guy who was out in the woods and fell out of a tree or something and was badly injured - why did he call his wife? Why didn't he call 911?  If she calls 911 for him, they won't be able to use her signal to trace back to him.  I thought it was a pretty stupid thing to do in that situation.

[mmecorday]

Quote

In Chicago we get ads like this all winter for warm destinations, but its late Spring (except here in Chicago, where Sprinter's just ending) and if you live in Florida , do you need to go to Myrtle Beach?

I haven't been to Myrtle Beach in years, but when I did go -- and this was 30 years ago -- on every block there were beach shops called Giants, Eagles and Wings. We always used to joke that they needed to consolidate their businesses into one location called Giant Eagle Wings. They all sold the same cheap crapola.

[friendperidot]

Back to complain about the stupid Charmin Bears again. But in a way, this one isn't as stupid as the others. The blue bears this time, the whole family wigging out, loving on the Charmin, rubbing it all over themselves, and some sort of love song background music, when the music screeches like they've dragged a needle across the vinyl (yes, I am old) and the mother says, "this is getting weird!" Lady, that ship done sailed, there's no "getting weird" it is weird!

[LoneHaranguer]

23 hours ago, Moose135 said:

The thing I wondered, the one guy who was out in the woods and fell out of a tree or something and was badly injured - why did he call his wife? Why didn't he call 911?  If she calls 911 for him, they won't be able to use her signal to trace back to him. 

It happened in 2017, before a phone would pass along its GPS information. Instead, the system would work out the location by triangulating with 3 towers, but out in the woods, it's doubtful his phone could reach that many. His wife probably knew where he was and could tell 911 even if he passed out quickly.