Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

Ilovemylabs · October 4, 2015

There's a new car commercial which repeats over and over and over, faster and faster and faster, the word 'jealous', while a car winds around some curvy roads. I heard it twice last night and hated it at once. I think it might be for Audi...not sure. First I thought they were chanting 'janice, janice, janice" but the entire thing is annoying as anything. UGH!

smittykins · October 4, 2015

Shut up, Alyssa Milano. Extra ten pounds? Where, in those flowing locks of yours? Shut up.

It's like those ads for tooth whiteners featuring women with already blindingly-white teeth.

peacheslatour · October 4, 2015

can't believe you went there! :)

Wail 'til we start eating ice cream out of our skulls!

Brattinella · October 4, 2015

Wail 'til we start eating ice cream out of our skulls!

YAAAHHHH!!

Muffyn · October 4, 2015

Woman in pain reliever commercial: "With less pain, I feel better."

Me: "Really, lady? Well, aren't you a keen observer of detail."

Having pretty much lost it at the doctor on Friday regarding an on-going extreme pain issue, this really made my day.

On a separate thought, does anyone remember when McDonald's came out with the McDouble and they ran those damn commercials with Douchey McDouble who said everything twice? I was on the road about 100 mikes from home when I went to a McDonald. The woman very snottily told me she had never heard of such a thing; it didn't exist, and I needed to order something from the actual menu. I noticed they called it a double cheeseburger so I ordered that. Then I pointed out to her that those hideous commercials were playing approximately every 3 minutes and were now my new definition of hell, so maybe if she watched TV she'd know all about the incredible invention of putting two burger patties with cheese on one bun or, you know, a double cheeseburger.

I believe I have just proven that I desperately need a life.

Cobalt Stargazer · October 4, 2015

It's like those ads for tooth whiteners featuring women with already blindingly-white teeth.

I know, right? My hatred for Lyssie knows no bounds regardless, but that she's shilling for a product she clearly has no use for? GTFO with that.

Having pretty much lost it at the doctor on Friday regarding an on-going extreme pain issue, this really made my day.

On a separate thought, does anyone remember when McDonald's came out with the McDouble and they ran those damn commercials with Douchey McDouble who said everything twice? I was on the road about 100 mikes from home when I went to a McDonald. The woman very snottily told me she had never heard of such a thing; it didn't exist, and I needed to order something from the actual menu. I noticed they called it a double cheeseburger so I ordered that. Then I pointed out to her that those hideous commercials were playing approximately every 3 minutes and were now my new definition of hell, so maybe if she watched TV she'd know all about the incredible invention of putting two burger patties with cheese on one bun or, you know, a double cheeseburger.

Feel better, Muffyn! :-)

And are those the ads with the black hamburger buns? Because I'm not sure how that's supposed to make the food look appealing.

Edited October 4, 2015 by Cobalt Stargazer

peacheslatour · October 4, 2015

^^^^Black hamburger buns! Those just look terrible. Who are they supposed to appeal to, eight year old boys? Really?

Douchey McDouble

Speaking of douchey, remember the McDonalds Coffee Douche? The guy who hadn't had his morning coffee so he was just a dick to everyone who said hello to him? Talk about a punchable face.

Ohwell · October 4, 2015

And are those the ads with the black hamburger buns? Because I'm not sure how that's supposed to make the food look appealing.

No, those are for Burger King whoppers.

Rick Kitchen · October 4, 2015

Black hamburger buns! Those just look terrible. Who are they supposed to appeal to, eight year old boys?

Goths?

Flnurse · October 4, 2015

RE Alissa Milano commercial...

WOW....just WOW. And I just now saw another of her commercials as the "Ambassador to Unicef" asking to PUUULLEAASE end world hunger with a donation" (while promoting a weight loss program to lose her 10 pds...GAG)

Maybe I am off but doesn't seem right at all.

On another note...her TV mom and former soap star Judith Light is promoting the 'special' FLu Vaccine for those over 65yrs old per a blurb on people magazine. Painting herself as a voluntary advocate for that cause to promote awareness.

BS!!!!---wanna see the disclosure on that on that drug company does not pay her!! I have inside info on how there things work (i.e. drug expiration dates validity (FDA wont define how they come up w it, ect)

Stepping down before my BP elevates further. :)

Edited October 5, 2015 by Flnurse

Bastet · October 4, 2015

Judith Light can do no wrong in my book, but Alyssa Milano has bugged me ever since her line of NFL clothing for women and, especially, her pronunciation of "quarter" as "kore-ter" in one of those "please donate money" pitches. (Yes, I know she's not the only one. No, that does not lessen my annoyance.)

theatremouse · October 4, 2015

Chobani: what the fuck kind of (college? minor league? something?) baseball player would eat greek yogurt, or any dairy product in the dugout? Seriously. I do not know what their point is.

Is this an old wives tale/I am crazy/it has been debunked or is it not common knowledge that carbs right before/during exercise=helpful. Dairy? Notsomuch. That's just gross. Baseball players are very much a culture of habit. Even if some random dude did decide he wanted to eat frickin yogurt when he's in the hole, he would get so much shit, people would be throwing sunflower seeds into his freakin' flipped yogurt-whatever-concoction. It would not continue. A player who looks that deliriously in his own world during a game in the dugout would get slammed for not being focused. Every beat of that ad reads odd to me. It's not just the events themselves but the demeanor of all the characters in it.

RCharter · October 5, 2015

Chobani: what the fuck kind of (college? minor league? something?) baseball player would eat greek yogurt, or any dairy product in the dugout? Seriously. I do not know what their point is.

Is this an old wives tale/I am crazy/it has been debunked or is it not common knowledge that carbs right before/during exercise=helpful. Dairy? Notsomuch. That's just gross. Baseball players are very much a culture of habit. Even if some random dude did decide he wanted to eat frickin yogurt when he's in the hole, he would get so much shit, people would be throwing sunflower seeds into his freakin' flipped yogurt-whatever-concoction. It would not continue. A player who looks that deliriously in his own world during a game in the dugout would get slammed for not being focused. Every beat of that ad reads odd to me. It's not just the events themselves but the demeanor of all the characters in it.

I saw that commercial and immediately changed the channel because it looked like someone was about to break into song.

Having said that Chobani is my favorite yogurt, and they once sent me coupons for like 40 free yogurts so I didn't want to have to snark on them too hard.

I know, right? My hatred for Lyssie knows no bounds regardless, but that she's shilling for a product she clearly has no use for? GTFO with that.

Feel better, Muffyn! :-)

And are those the ads with the black hamburger buns? Because I'm not sure how that's supposed to make the food look appealing.

I guess its supposed to be spooky? Do people still find black bunz scary? I have it on good authority that most men want to touch a set of black bunz at least once.

Sorry if I offended anyone, but I just couldn't help myself from going there.

BW Manilowe · October 5, 2015

I know, right? My hatred for Lyssie knows no bounds regardless, but that she's shilling for a product she clearly has no use for? GTFO with that.

Feel better, Muffyn! :-)

And are those the ads with the black hamburger buns? Because I'm not sure how that's supposed to make the food look appealing.

The black burgers/burger buns are copying a sandwich Burger King sells in their Japanese restaurants which is apparently very popular there. Only there the black coloring for the buns comes from squid ink (I read about it, awhile back, in 1 of those photo galleries People magazine posts on their website--it was about "unusual"/different menu items at the overseas stores of American restaurant chains).

crowswork · October 5, 2015

It's like those ads for tooth whiteners featuring women with already blindingly-white teeth.

or the preserve your youth, smooth those ugly wrinkles, face creams creams promoted by girls who were playing teenagers a couple years ago on TV shows. Strange how you never see Dawson or Pacey pushing Viagra or prostate pills.

How soon will the daughters on Modern Family be selling wrinkle cream.

yourmomiseasy · October 5, 2015

Just saw a new Liberty Mutual ad with a football guy who basically gives the same spiel as the other lady who bitches about only getting 3/4 of the car covered. The disclaimer at the bottom said that the coverage is only for new cars less than one year old with less that 15,000 miles on it.

Are there that many people out there who are totaling brand new cars left and right?

I didn't realize until today how restrictive their coverage is but then I realized almost every person says that they damaged their "brand new cars." Except poor dead Brad.

I had a basically brand new car and was t-boned (I think I might have had 1500 miles on it). Even the cops on the scene were sad for me and shaking their heads at my poor mangled car. It was over $30k in damage and it spent almost 3 months in the shop, but it wasn't deemed a total loss. It was always kind of creaky after that. My car before that one had 5 miles on it when my friend tried to park it for me and scraped the side down a pole. I was certain it wouldn't fit in the parking space, she thought it would. I've never been so sad about being right. So I guess I'm kind of someone that crashes new cars left and right, but so far have only totaled old cars. It must also be noted that I'm a weirdo that does stupid things in my cars like pick them up directly from the factory and then immediately traverse the Swiss Alps at night during a storm when all the roads are washed out.

So, I remember a while -- it was en vogue in certain areas for girls who were in squabbles with other girls to hold a razor blade in their mouth and when the time came they would slash the other girls face. I honestly thought it was an urban myth until I saw a girl at Albertsons who had clearly been the victim. It was heartbreaking. She was only a teenager, but someone had clearly cut her face almost like a tic-tac-toe pattern. Being a teenage girl is hard enough, worrying about how you look and what not and to have to travel that bumpy road with a slashed face. To this day I can see her in my mind :(

I don't know how it is where anyone else lives, but where I am you can't just buy razor blades - they are locked up tight and you need an employee to get them for you. Because suicide? I guess? So while these commercials exaggerate the issue, I find them (at least the ones relating more to the security of the blades, rather than the price) hilarious.

The safety razor disposable shave head refills that are kept locked up wouldn't be very good for slicing your wrists or someone's face. You'd need a real razor blade for that. These are just locked up because they are expensive and the package is tiny, making them a good target for theft. (Anyone remember Empire Records and Robin Tunney's pathetic suicide attempt with a daisy razor?)

St. Claire · October 5, 2015

This one from McDonald's: Where's the damn coffee? And did he go home and back to bed after he brought her the egg mcmuffin?
http://www.ispot.tv/...-by-water-liars

It also looks to me as though the toll booth isn't all that close to the McD's (it's pitch dark when he buys the sandwich, but sun is up enough to not be showing any pinkness in the sky when he comes through the tool booth). So, he brings her a cold sandwich and no coffee as a gift for her going to work in the wee hours. Nice.

DeLurker · October 5, 2015

This commercial for Cinnamon Toast Crunch piles on the reasons for hating it. I'll only link it so as to not expose you to the visual terror that it is. The faces. The wildly inappropriate "dancing". The pouring of an entire box into your mouth.

Having adults cast to do these things seems to suggest they are trying to appeal to adults who want roofing tile cinnamon sugar cubes as their cereal. You have failed. Totally and completely.

janie jones · October 5, 2015

Someone posted about that Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercial before. I have to say, it's stupid and ridiculous, but I'm not mad at it.

LoneHaranguer · October 5, 2015

Black hamburger buns! Those just look terrible.

Better than orange ones would have looked. The season doesn't give them much choice.

So, he brings her a cold sandwich and no coffee as a gift for her going to work in the wee hours. Nice.

I don't know what changed, but the coffee has been terrible at the local McDonalds stores lately, so he may have been doing her a favor there.

BusyOctober · October 5, 2015

Not sure how long the Belsoma (??) sleep aid meds ad has been airing, but I saw it late last night ( while ironicaly dealing with another bout of insomnia). I hate the faux fur "Sleep" & "Awake" pets! I think they are creepy as hell. The "Awake" doesn't quite have an animal shape as much as the "Sleep". But I still hate both of them equally.

peacheslatour · October 5, 2015

^^^^Oh, the hells. I like those critters. The doggie one wags it's tail and the kitty one is so snuggly!

tanyak · October 5, 2015

Having pretty much lost it at the doctor on Friday regarding an on-going extreme pain issue, this really made my day.

On a separate thought, does anyone remember when McDonald's came out with the McDouble and they ran those damn commercials with Douchey McDouble who said everything twice? I was on the road about 100 mikes from home when I went to a McDonald. The woman very snottily told me she had never heard of such a thing; it didn't exist, and I needed to order something from the actual menu. I noticed they called it a double cheeseburger so I ordered that. Then I pointed out to her that those hideous commercials were playing approximately every 3 minutes and were now my new definition of hell, so maybe if she watched TV she'd know all about the incredible invention of putting two burger patties with cheese on one bun or, you know, a double cheeseburger.

I hate that I actually know this, but they are two different sandwiches. The double cheeseburger has two patties and two slices of cheese. The McDouble is two patties but only one slice of cheese. And they can sell it cheaper for that one reason.

As for the BK black whopper, I'm slightly intrigued. The bun is made with A1, which I like to put on burgers. I could volunteer to be the the group guinea pig. lol

Edited October 5, 2015 by tanyak

Brattinella · October 5, 2015

I like the doggie and kitty Belsomra pets too, Peaches. And I LOVE your new avatar, such a beauty!

arejay · October 5, 2015

"Kore-ter" ....

My sister says that, too. Makes me stabbier than I am ordinarily.

Edited October 6, 2015 by arejay

Brattinella · October 5, 2015

"Kore-ter" ....

My sister says that, too. Makes me stabbed than I am ordinarily.

It is very sad what our educational system has become. :(

peacheslatour · October 5, 2015

I like the doggie and kitty Belsomra pets too, Peaches. And I LOVE your new avatar, such a beauty!

Thank you Brattinella! She will always be my fave.

90PercentGravity · October 5, 2015

^^^^Oh, the hells. I like those critters. The doggie one wags it's tail and the kitty one is so snuggly!

I love the critters, but I hate the way the woman is so mean to the wake.

peacheslatour · October 5, 2015

I agree. If Sleepy Kitty gets to sleep on the bed then Wakey Doggie should get to as well. Poor thing, it looks so sad when it is banished to the dog bed.

LoneHaranguer · October 5, 2015

The double cheeseburger has two patties and two slices of cheese. The McDouble is two patties but only one slice of cheese. And they can sell it cheaper for that one reason.

IIRC, they came up with the McDouble to replace the double cheeseburger on their dollar menu, back when everything on the dollar menu was a dollar. Anyone unwary enough to continue ordering the double cheeseburger got to pay an extra 20 or 30 cents for that little bit of cheese (depending on the store).

Brattinella · October 5, 2015

I agree, the woman is very mean to the wakey doggie. They all need to sleep on the bed!

CoderLady · October 5, 2015

I love the critters, but I hate the way the woman is so mean to the wake.

But she takes Wakey outdoors for a walk and to meet other peoples' Wakeys while leaving Sleepy at home on the front porch. It seems to balance out.

merylinkid · October 5, 2015

Finally saw the commercial with the morons speaking out loud in text speak. It is just so beyond awful. Who thought anyone wanted to hear that whining WHYYYYYYYYY? Besides you can have breakfast all day. Real breakfast, not cheap plastic tasting stuff kept warm under the heat lamps. Your own home. Amazing how that works.

Flnurse · October 5, 2015

<----doesn't get the reference? Please enlighten this innocent mind because normally I GO THERE...LOL

EDIT: QUOTE DIDNT POST BUT IN REFERENCE TO " LOTION ON THE SKIN" ????

Edited October 5, 2015 by Flnurse

Flnurse · October 5, 2015

Am I alone in thinking the Belsomra "pets" are both cats????

xaxat · October 5, 2015

Uh oh! Everybody's favorite advertisers screwed up. Fantasy Sports Employees Bet at Rival Sites Using Inside Information

ari333 · October 5, 2015

"NeeYOO-dle!"

That is all.:)

Amethyst · October 6, 2015

This commercial for Cinnamon Toast Crunch piles on the reasons for hating it. I'll only link it so as to not expose you to the visual terror that it is. The faces. The wildly inappropriate "dancing". The pouring of an entire box into your mouth.

Having adults cast to do these things seems to suggest they are trying to appeal to adults who want roofing tile cinnamon sugar cubes as their cereal. You have failed. Totally and completely.

Saw this one tonight, and just ugh. And I love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But the faces are so creepy and I hate seeing food on people's faces.

janie jones · October 6, 2015

I agree. If Sleepy Kitty gets to sleep on the bed then Wakey Doggie should get to as well. Poor thing, it looks so sad when it is banished to the dog bed.

I think it seems happy. And anyway, the sleep animal gets to hang out with the lady for like 8 hours a day and the wake animal the rest of the time, so it's already unbalanced. Not to mention that if the wake animal got in bed with her, that would destroy the whole metaphor.

Anyway the thing that bothers me about the commercial is that the actress clearly isn't picking anything up really. Couldn't they have given her something to pick up so it looked real?

Maharincess · October 6, 2015

Judith Light can do no wrong in my book, but Alyssa Milano has bugged me ever since her line of NFL clothing for women and, especially, her pronunciation of "quarter" as "kore-ter" in one of those "please donate money" pitches. (Yes, I know she's not the only one. No, that does not lessen my annoyance.)

She hosted a Project Runway season and she pronounced "forward" as "fuh word" and it bugged the shit out of me.

crowswork · October 6, 2015

Maybe the lady on the Belsombra commercial should go to the pound and get a dog and a cat and quit taking those pills. She needs to stop hallucinating the imaginary pets the pills cause.

My new favorite commercial is actually an animated intestinal tract little pink wormy looking coiled intestines. Creepafyin'...

ari333 · October 6, 2015

HATE.

Hate the commercial about one treatment for IBS-D (irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea.) The drug is Xifaxan in which the pink, twisted bowel with a face, arms, and legs, walks around making pained faces. The worst is when it puts its hands behind its back and runs off indicating urgent diarrhea like when a toddler has to go potty. And if I heard correctly one side effect of the drug is diarrhea. WHAT?

riley702 · October 6, 2015

Saw this one tonight, and just ugh. And I love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But the faces are so creepy and I hate seeing food on people's faces.

And I hate seeing people's faces on food.

Flnurse · October 6, 2015

Today, Mc Donalds launches thier new Breakfast All Day campaign and w/ new commercials. GENIOUS.

Well played, Mc Donalds. Well played.

http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/video/NrNWExeDrffCk8eoKgqMYyaqsm7vYg88?autoplay=1#ooid=NrNWExeDrffCk8eoKgqMYyaqsm7vYg88

Edited October 6, 2015 by Flnurse

Neurochick · October 6, 2015

This commercial makes me stabby. Why is it wrong for a father to play with his daughters?

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AL8x/papa-murphys-pizza-re-bold-your-man

It's not wrong. Watch the man's face, at first he's happy but his daughters went on and on and on and as I kept looking at his face, he was getting more and more annoyed. So his wife saved the day by putting a pizza in the oven before dad said something mean to his daughters. That's how I saw it.

RCharter · October 6, 2015

It's not wrong. Watch the man's face, at first he's happy but his daughters went on and on and on and as I kept looking at his face, he was getting more and more annoyed. So his wife saved the day by putting a pizza in the oven before dad said something mean to his daughters. That's how I saw it.

The message of the commercial seemed pretty clear: The man needs to be "re-bolded" with pizza because he was losing all his boldness by playing princess dress up with his little girls. I don't see how a person needs to be "re-bolded" to prevent them saying something mean to someone who is annoyed. That sounds like a situation that would require "un-bolding."

Neurochick · October 6, 2015

I thought he needed to be re-bolded because he was getting annoyed. That was the clear message to me, but YMMV.

proserpina65 · October 6, 2015

I don't know how it is where anyone else lives, but where I am you can't just buy razor blades - they are locked up tight and you need an employee to get them for you. Because suicide? I guess? So while these commercials exaggerate the issue, I find them (at least the ones relating more to the security of the blades, rather than the price) hilarious.

Same thing here, although I imagine it's because the packaging is small, easily stolen, and they're expensive as all get-out.

proserpina65 · October 6, 2015

This commercial for Cinnamon Toast Crunch piles on the reasons for hating it. I'll only link it so as to not expose you to the visual terror that it is. The faces. The wildly inappropriate "dancing". The pouring of an entire box into your mouth.

Having adults cast to do these things seems to suggest they are trying to appeal to adults who want roofing tile cinnamon sugar cubes as their cereal. You have failed. Totally and completely.

Having seen this commercial over the weekend, I can firmly avow that it did what I thought was impossible: it made me miss the little cannibal Cinnamon Toast squares.

"Kore-ter" ....

My sister says that, too. Makes me stabbier than I am ordinarily.

Ack! I think I might be guilty of this as well! Or at least, I'm not sure I say "quar-ter" every time.

xaxat · October 6, 2015

Don't blame us old timers! We got our shots!

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