Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Bastet]

Oh, I saw a different one (the one with a bunch of people, including Richard Sherman).  In that one you linked, she does do a really bad job enunciating, especially the second time she says "pizza emoji" -- that one has no discernible e sound in emoji.

Edited September 3, 2015 by Bastet

[Brattinella]

Okay, I am sure the Taco Bell breakfasts are delicious, who doesn't like biscuits and eggs and bacon?  But, Taco Bell, ENOUGH with

the "I'm A Breakfast Defector".  Don't any of these people KNOW what that word refers to and MEANS?  It's a bad word, you do not boast

about being a DEFECTOR!

[photo fox]

Let's take the in-depth conversation about emoji and it's origins to the Small Talk thread.

Also, let's dial back the snippy-ness.

I'm going back to delete a few things.

[Milburn Stone]

Even now in the 21st century, the prevailing belief at ad agencies is that women do the shopping and/or make the purchasing decisions in a family.

 

Ad agencies (good ones) don't work off of "prevailing beliefs." They work off of data. And my educated guess is that--by and large--the data still show that women do the shopping and/or make the purchasing decisions in a family, as concerns the items found in a supermarket. (No matter how much we may wish the data said something different.)

 

Are there millions and millions of exceptions? Of course there are. But if it remains generally true that women are the market, advertisers will spend their finite advertising dollars where they will do the most good.

Edited September 3, 2015 by Milburn Stone

[Muffyn]

It's so dumb because I do most of the shopping in my house, and if my husband were a stupid, lazy moron, I wouldn't be married to him.  Why do they act like women would want to be married to stupid, lazy morons?

 

Is this commercial saying that Asian people are smarter than white people?

 

Clearly the Random Asian Kid is smarter than the white people in the commercial.  They seem to not comprehend that a microwavable eggo breakfast sandwich that was in their freezer can be microwaved even of the toaster is broken.  I now want random Asian kid to show up in other commercials, showing clueless people how to do things.  Think of all of the clueless husbands he could help.  

Okay, I am sure the Taco Bell breakfasts are delicious, who doesn't like biscuits and eggs and bacon?  But, Taco Bell, ENOUGH with

the "I'm A Breakfast Defector".  Don't any of these people KNOW what that word refers to and MEANS?  It's a bad word, you do not boast

about being a DEFECTOR!

I have mentally changed this to breakfast defectives.  I cannot stand how the one woman says taco -  Taaaah-Ko.  She makes me stabby.  And her too damn hip outfit makes her body look out of proportion.  

[Moose135]

I have mentally changed this to breakfast defectives.

 

Still working on my first cup of coffee this morning, and I read this as "breakfast detectives" and thought that would make a cool idea for a reality show - solving crimes and eating croissants.

[TattleTeeny]

Still working on my first cup of coffee this morning, and I read this as "breakfast detectives" and thought that would make a cool idea for a reality show - solving crimes and eating croissants.

 

Me too on the coffee, which might explain why I just legitimately laughed out loud at "breakfast detectives."

 

Okay, I am sure the Taco Bell breakfasts are delicious, who doesn't like biscuits and eggs and bacon?

 

I might be a weirdo but anytime I see some kind of egg-wrapped-in-something business, I can feel my stomach cringe up. Fuckin' "breakfast burritos," man. And don't even talk to me about the pictures of Western omelettes you see on placemats or menus at IHOP. Ugh, feel gaggy just thinking about it. 

Edited September 3, 2015 by TattleTeeny

[Brattinella]

Me too on the coffee, which might explain why I just legitimately laughed out loud at "breakfast detectives."

 

I might be a weirdo but anytime I see some kind of egg-wrapped-in-something business, I can feel my stomach cringe up. Fuckin' "breakfast burritos," man. And don't even talk to me about the pictures of Western omelettes you see on placemats or menus at IHOP. Ugh, feel gaggy just thinking about it. 

Oh, My, you have never eaten at a Whataburger then!  They have out of this world breakfast taquitos, and (my personal favorite) an egg with sausage and cheese biscuit!  Everything they have is FRESH, the biscuits are perfect, the egg is just slightly broken then fried so its not a scrambled egg.  Oh dear I'm getting starving now!  Try Whataburger if you're ever out their way.

[TattleTeeny]

I should have added that I hate eggs! I am always tempted to try a deviled egg because they look nice but that has never ended well. I used to actually do it every so often to see if anything had changed; last time I did that, my ex yelled, "noooooooo!" from across the room and came running over with a napkin for me to spit it into. He knew what was up.

[mmecorday]

 

I cannot stand how the one woman says taco -  Taaaah-Ko.  She makes me stabby.  And her too damn hip outfit makes her body look out of proportion.

It's like she's saying the word taco for the very first time. Doesn't she also say she's from the South and she knows what a biscuit is supposed to taste like? Or is that one of the other annoying breakfast defectives?

[DeLurker]

Is this commercial saying that Asian people are smarter than white people?

Shh!  I've been telling my parents it is their fault I am not better in math because I'm only half!

[mojoween]

Wait a minute. Are you telling me that Mrs. Kaufman does not have ONE step stool in that big house? She has to try to stand on cushy or rickety chairs? And why isn't Morty helping?

I do think THEY are cute, though.

[Maizie131]

You guys who use the term "makes me stabby" absolutely cracks me up every time I see it!  Too frickin' funny! Thanks for the laughs!  Sincerely, Maizie131.  :)

 

(Hey...I'm 64 y.o. -- I'm easily entertained.)

Edited September 3, 2015 by Maizie131

[Muffyn]

It's like she's saying the word taco for the very first time. Doesn't she also say she's from the South and she knows what a biscuit is supposed to taste like? Or is that one of the other annoying breakfast defectives?

She is from the south and knows biscuits.  I am originally from the northeast and have lived in the Midwest and most of my life in the west.  Miraculously I also know biscuits, although not in the biblical sense.  I have made biscuits.  I have eaten many a biscuit.  I have been in the south and had biscuits there.  I just don't see biscuit knowledge as such a unique or regional skill set that I should bow down to her great understanding of biscuits, especially after seeing that Taco Bell biscuit taco.  Folding a biscuit like product into a taco shape does not make it a taco.  From the looks of that thing, I don't think it qualifies as a biscuit either. So, it is a frankenfood and not a good one like a croughnut.  It is an abomination!  

 

I think her special pronunciation of taco is meant to further the idea that she is so damn southern that Mexican food is unknown to her.  After all, all she ever eats is biscuits. 

[Maharincess]

I find them annoyingly cutesy.

And pizza commercial bitch? You have a phone, call and order a pizza. It probably takes half the time of playing with your stupid emojis. And yes, get off my lawn.

The commercial with the actress from Modern Family where she says "emoji sent, pizza ordered" annoys the crap out of me.

Are people so damn lazy these days that they can't pick up a phone, dial a few numbers and order a friggin pizza?! Besides that, if you just send an emoji, how do they know what kind of pizza you want?

Edited September 3, 2015 by Maharincess

[Bastet]

I assume you have to create an account/profile, so that what you want is on file, and then when you text your pizza emoji to them, that's what you get.  So it only works if you order the same thing every time.

 

Okay, I looked it up, and yeah.  On the Domino's website, first you create a "Pizza Profile" with all your personal information.  Then you create an "Easy Order" with what you want.  After that, you can text the pizza emoji (or "Easy Order") to Dominos and they send what's in your easy order to the location in your profile.

 

I have no idea how long this would take, but calling and saying, "I'd like a medium pepperoni pizza at 123 Main Street" must be faster.

Edited September 3, 2015 by Bastet

[Maharincess]

Seems lazy as hell to me but what do I know? I still prefer to make my home made pizza and the rare times I do order a pizza, Dominos is at the very bottom of my favorite pizza list.

[Watcher0363]

I assume you have to create an account/profile, so that what you want is on file, and then when you text your pizza emoji to them, that's what you get.  So it only works if you order the same thing every time.

 

Okay, I looked it up, and yeah.  On the Domino's website, first you create a "Pizza Profile" with all your personal information.  Then you create an "Easy Order" with what you want.  After that, you can text the pizza emoji (or "Easy Order") to Dominos and they send what's in your easy order to the location in your profile.

 

I have no idea how long this would take, but calling and saying, "I'd like a medium pepperoni pizza at 123 Main Street" must be faster.

Not in this modern world. First you have to dial, then listen to the, "this call is monitored." Then you order, which brings on the corporate mantra of up sale, up sale, up sale. "Would you like two pizzas for x dollars, would you like cheesey bread, would you like wings." Oh and don't think you can escape it. Corporate policy, two up sale attempts per call or else.  

[Bastet]

Okay, that's outside my realm of experience; I'm calling a local Italian restaurant, not a chain, when I order pizza delivery.  They ask what I'd like, I tell them, they tell me approximately how long it will be.  Done. 

 

If that's what calling Domino's is like, I can see why one would rather order electronically.  I still think the commercials are annoying, though.  Especially since at least one of the ordering options they're touting as being so fast only work if you order the same thing every time.

[sofaslug]

Or is that one of the other annoying breakfast defectives?

Did you mean to use "defectives"? Either way, I believe it more accurately describes them. ;-)

[LoneHaranguer]

 

Okay, I looked it up, and yeah.  On the Domino's website, first you create a "Pizza Profile" with all your personal information.  Then you create an "Easy Order" with what you want.  After that, you can text the pizza emoji (or "Easy Order") to Dominos and they send what's in your easy order to the location in your profile.

Does that mean this woman is in the habit of eating pizza at that store, or is there going to be a cold slab of dough sitting on her doorstep when she eventually gets home?

[pandora spocks]

I think her special pronunciation of taco is meant to further the idea that she is so damn southern that Mexican food is unknown to her.  After all, all she ever eats is biscuits.

 

Yet Taco Bells are present in the south. Shhh!  Don't tell anybody!  Whether it's real Mexican food is open to debate.  Does the breakfast detector/ defective/ defector know that she can have pseudo-Mexican food for lunch or would that blow her l'il ole biscuit-eatin' mind?

[ennui]

I have no idea how long this would take, but calling and saying, "I'd like a medium pepperoni pizza at 123 Main Street" must be faster.

My telephone number is one digit different from the local pizza place. So first, you have to call me, and we chuckle over the wrong number, and then you have to dial the correct number. I think I vote for the emoji (even though I, myself, just stop by the pizza place, order, and wait for it).

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I am originally from the northeast and have lived in the Midwest and most of my life in the west.  Miraculously I also know biscuits, although not in the biblical sense.

 

Somehow that does not surprise me at all, Muffyn. XD

[janie jones]

I assume you have to create an account/profile, so that what you want is on file, and then when you text your pizza emoji to them, that's what you get.  So it only works if you order the same thing every time.

 

Okay, I looked it up, and yeah.  On the Domino's website, first you create a "Pizza Profile" with all your personal information.  Then you create an "Easy Order" with what you want.  After that, you can text the pizza emoji (or "Easy Order") to Dominos and they send what's in your easy order to the location in your profile.

 

I have no idea how long this would take, but calling and saying, "I'd like a medium pepperoni pizza at 123 Main Street" must be faster.

The first time, yeah, but it would be way faster after.  And there are people who only ever get one kind of pizza.  NOT THAT I DON'T THINK IT'S STUPID.

 

Ad agencies (good ones) don't work off of "prevailing beliefs." They work off of data. And my educated guess is that--by and large--the data still show that women do the shopping and/or make the purchasing decisions in a family, as concerns the items found in a supermarket. (No matter how much we may wish the data said something different.)

 

Are there millions and millions of exceptions? Of course there are. But if it remains generally true that women are the market, advertisers will spend their finite advertising dollars where they will do the most good.

But does the data say that said women like seeing husbands portrayed as stupid idiots?  If so, I'd like to meet the people they surveyed.

[Rick Kitchen]

I only ever order from Round Table Pizza, because I like it and it's close, and I use their website and have yet had to create an account.  Just click the picture of what you want to order, give them a name and a phone number, and you're good.

[Brattinella]

OH MAN!  I miss Round Table SO MUCH!  The piled-on Mushroom, sausage and olive!!!!   Seriously, they used to put about a half pound of fresh mushrooms on one pizza.

[CarpeDiem54]

OH MAN!  I miss Round Table SO MUCH!  The piled-on Mushroom, sausage and olive!!!!   Seriously, they used to put about a half pound of fresh mushrooms on one pizza.

Oh, Round Table! I'd totally forgotten about them. They had some good pies.

[Milburn Stone]

But does the data say that said women like seeing husbands portrayed as stupid idiots?  If so, I'd like to meet the people they surveyed.

 

Not in so many words, I'm sure, but lots of commercials are "focus-grouped" in unfinished form before being aired, and the ones we see on the air are the survivors.

 

As for your wanting to meet the people in the focus groups who gave the go-ahead--you may think you want to, but you don't!

[riley702]

My telephone number is one digit different from the local pizza place. So first, you have to call me, and we chuckle over the wrong number, and then you have to dial the correct number. I think I vote for the emoji (even though I, myself, just stop by the pizza place, order, and wait for it).

Eek! You win. Until 3 years ago, I had one digit off from a chain of funeral homes. Twenty five years of sobbing little old ladies, people pissy that I wasn't answering very professionally (and I'd have to explain this was a private home, so cut me some slack already), employees wanting to confirm which flight they were meeting to pick up the body, etc. Had a lovely chat with a pastor one night - seriously! I think we talked for about an hour after we chuckled over the misdial. Nice guy.

[Bort]

Eek! You win. Until 3 years ago, I had one digit off from a chain of funeral homes. Twenty five years of sobbing little old ladies, people pissy that I wasn't answering very professionally (and I'd have to explain this was a private home, so cut me some slack already), employees wanting to confirm which flight they were meeting to pick up the body, etc. Had a lovely chat with a pastor one night - seriously! I think we talked for about an hour after we chuckled over the misdial. Nice guy.

Oh, I'm going to hell, I cracked up laughing at that.

[erikdepressant]

I was reading through the pizza discussion, and the Little Caesars "Password Hint" commercial just came on.  I admit I chuckled out loud at it.

[CarpeDiem54]

I was reading through the pizza discussion, and the Little Caesars "Password Hint" commercial just came on.  I admit I chuckled out loud at it.

That's hilarious! I've never seen it before.

[slensam]

Saw the latest Viagra ad and two things kind of struck me. First off the "actress" is wearing a football jersey so I guess it's timed to the start of the football season. Are they going to release these with seasonal themes now? Guess can look forward to Christmas with the model wearing a sexy Santa outfit. And also it seems like the women are getting younger in these. The first few they were a little older looking and now they're just going for the idea of take the Viagra so you could keep with the young hot chicks. All subtlety shot. Geez, I'm thinking too much about this shit....

[janie jones]

As for your wanting to meet the people in the focus groups who gave the go-ahead--you may think you want to, but you don't!

That was the point.

[Milburn Stone]

That was the point.

 

When you said, "I'd like to meet the people they surveyed," I assumed you meant you'd like to meet the people they surveyed. Sorry I misinterpreted.

[KLovestoShop]

I can't stand the emoji commercial, maybe because I know the actress who does the commercial probably hasn't eaten a pizza for 10 years.  These overly skinny actresses don't eat pizza. 

 

I'm getting sick of seeing commercials being put back on air, year after year.  Now I see they started the insurance commercial with the baby and the man who puts his blue Mustang into a fire hydrant.  I know he treats his car like his child, but I'm so over the commercial.

 

The other one I wish they would flush is that idiotic woman who goes to her boss to say she's retiring in 15 years and then goes to pack her desk.  That commercial is TOTALLY stupid and insulting to anyone with a modicum of intelligence.  

[TattleTeeny]

I can't stand the emoji commercial, maybe because I know the actress who does the commercial probably hasn't eaten a pizza for 10 years.  These overly skinny actresses don't eat pizza.

 

Ugh, the world is full of skinny people who eat what they want, when they want. I'm one of them. We don't "know" what she eats (though I hope  that if it's pizza, it's better than Domino's) or that she doesn't have a superfast metabolism or work out enough that pizza doesn't matter. She doesn't look remotely "overly" anything to me. 

That said, any commercial or campaign about "real women" looking any specific way can suck a ball.

Edited September 4, 2015 by TattleTeeny

[erikdepressant]

I'm getting sick of seeing commercials being put back on air, year after year.

I still black out from rage whenever the Greenies commercial comes on, and it was uploaded to YouTube more than two years ago.

Who thought an adult audience would want to hear a child scream?  I think what bothers me most about the commercial is that it reminds me of the heyday of America's Funniest Home Videos.  Parents tried to win thousands of dollars by submitting videos of their prompted kids screaming in fake excitement over Christmas presents.  Hearing another child paid to scream, to sell dog treats, is too much for me.

[peacheslatour]

 

I'm getting sick of seeing commercials being put back on air, year after year.  Now I see they started the insurance commercial with the baby and the man who puts his blue Mustang into a fire hydrant.  I know he treats his car like his child, but I'm so over the commercial.

There is something about that giant baby that totally skeevs me out.  Ugh.

[TattleTeeny]

Me too. And then--here's my neuroses making an appearance--I feel guilty for it! It's a damn baby; what's my problem?

[Brattinella]

Ugh, the world is full of skinny people who eat what they want, when they want. I'm one of them. We don't "know" what she eats (though I hope  that if it's pizza, it's better than Domino's) or that she doesn't have a superfast metabolism or work out enough that pizza doesn't matter. She doesn't look remotely "overly" anything to me. 

That said, any commercial or campaign about "real women" looking any specific way can suck a ball.

*SNORT*  I'll remember that one!

[Ohwell]

Speaking of the Viagra commercials, there's one with the Asian-looking woman who looks so smug and walks like she just knows any man would take a Viagra pill to bang her.  When she's walking along like that, trying to look all barefoot and sexy, I just want her to step on a nail.

[riley702]

Or trip.

[ennui]

I can't stand the emoji commercial, maybe because I know the actress who does the commercial probably hasn't eaten a pizza for 10 years.  These overly skinny actresses don't eat pizza. 

 

I'm getting sick of seeing commercials being put back on air, year after year.  Now I see they started the insurance commercial with the baby and the man who puts his blue Mustang into a fire hydrant.  I know he treats his car like his child, but I'm so over the commercial.

 

The other one I wish they would flush is that idiotic woman who goes to her boss to say she's retiring in 15 years and then goes to pack her desk.  That commercial is TOTALLY stupid and insulting to anyone with a modicum of intelligence.  

I own a car that's "the baby," so I love that commercial. It's so true! You open the garage door and thrill.  Sorry.

[KLovestoShop]

Don't be sorry, ennui. We all have our likes and dislikes.

[Rick Kitchen]

Speaking of the Viagra commercials, there's one with the Asian-looking woman who looks so smug and walks like she just knows any man would take a Viagra pill to bang her.  When she's walking along like that, trying to look all barefoot and sexy, I just want her to step on a nail.

 

That's Kelly Hu.

[Ohwell]

Kelly who?

[riley702]

Oops, I thought it was Grace Park.

[Brattinella]

Jesus H Christ! How long IS the Invokana commercial??