Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Madding crowd]

I'm affectionate with my son and he is 19. Just because kids are older it doesn't mean they don't ever want a hug. Why make something dirty out of it? I agree with dislkng Amy Shumer; can't stand her whole "I'm over everything " shtick. 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

11 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

She was very good on Knights of Prosperity playing an intelligent and well-spoken character who did not have the accent dialed up to 11, but I'm sure directors are asking her to do that now.  Shame about that.

As much as you can point the finger at directors, though, I remember when Modern Family first started, and Vergara didn't talk then the way she does now, with all the over-exaggeration.

[riley702]

Re: Sofia and those Head & Shoulders commercials. The first, she's ragging on the son about scratching his head, and she kind of lunges at him and yells, "I know!" Never made a lick of sense to me until I happened to see it on CC and realized she was saying, "Ay! No!" 

[ennui]

On 12/5/2016 at 10:25 AM, Ubiquitous said:

I'm tired of Sofia Viagra's "Charo routine". Surely she doesn't normally speak like that!

Typo or intentional?

I like her, especially knowing that she's 44. I don't think there's anything weird about her relationship with her son, either. She embraces her age, and embraces having an adult son. 

I did hear she's being sued by her frozen embryos though, so there's that.

[riley702]

39 minutes ago, ennui said:

I did hear she's being sued by her frozen embryos though, so there's that.

What? Surely not.

[peacheslatour]

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I did hear she's being sued by her frozen embryos though, so there's that.

Wow, I didn't know Frozen Americans could get legal representation.

[theatremouse]

3 hours ago, riley702 said:

What? Surely not.

She froze them with a guy in a previous committed but not married relationship. They split. She wants them destroyed because they'll never be used. He doesn't want them destroyed. Plus she's now married to someone else. Lawsuits galore.

[riley702]

Yikes. Mess-y.

[proserpina65]

On ‎12‎/‎05‎/‎2016 at 9:22 PM, ivygirl said:

Speaking of celebrities who are everywhere...

I was enjoying the new Target holiday ad, which begins a dress rehearsal of the "show" all the toys are putting on. I was literally thinking "I really like this. It's nice to enjoy these commercials this year." So then, the director kid stops the show and says, "This is missing something... a star!"

Then John Legend pokes his head in, and I know what's coming. Yippee, the next commercial will feature (surprise!) Chrissy Tiegen! Yay! 

And by "Yay!", I mean groooooooooooaaaaaaaannnnn.

She wasn't even *in* this ad, and I'm preemptively tired of the next commercial already.

You nailed it.  Just saw the next ad, and there she is.  UGH.

[Jaded]

I ended up watching a couple of old episodes of Castle this morning on TNT. To my horror the full annoying lady with the pointed finger version of that Phoenix U "If I Only Had A Brain" commercial came on twice. It was the first time I had seen it again in months. I'm hoping it's not going to return in full force and will stay on TNT which is a channel I don't watch much of anymore since they got rid of all their original shows I watched.

[mmecorday]

Yeah, I thought the University of Phoenix ads had been dispatched and their brooms delivered to the Wizard, but I saw it the other night. Grrr.

[Ohwell]

22 hours ago, ennui said:

I like her, especially knowing that she's 44. I don't think there's anything weird about her relationship with her son, either. She embraces her age, and embraces having an adult son. 

If I were a young woman dating her son and saw how they interacted with each other, I'd run.

[GaT]

23 hours ago, ennui said:

I like her, especially knowing that she's 44. I don't think there's anything weird about her relationship with her son, either. She embraces her age, and embraces having an adult son. 

 

26 minutes ago, Ohwell said:

If I were a young woman dating her son and saw how they interacted with each other, I'd run.

Have you seen how Stephanie Seymour is with her sons? THAT will give you a big case of the skeeves.

[Ohwell]

Yeah that's sad too.

Back to Vergara, I think it's worse that she dresses so sexy with the tight dress in the commercials.  It might look a bit better (just a bit) if she wore a blouse and jeans, or something else casual.  But nooooooo.  She just has to look sexy. 

[peacheslatour]

What's wrong with being sexy?

[random chance]

Sexy is part of her brand, and you never mess with your brand.

[Ohwell]

There's nothing wrong with being sexy, but no need to get your sons horny like Stephanie Seymour and Sophia Vergara. 

[Moose135]

23 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Wow, I didn't know Frozen Americans could get legal representation.

It's pretty strange, and apparently, separate from the legal wranglings between Vergara and Loeb, which looked to be all but settled.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/08/crazy-vergara-embryo-case-could-open-floodgates.html

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The petition, filed in Jefferson County Parish on Wednesday afternoon and reviewed by The Daily Beast, lists three plaintiffs: two embryos named Isabella and Emma, and James Charbonnet, a New Orleans resident with no clear ties to Vergara, Loeb, or the product of the pair’s IVF efforts other than as the trustee of a fund meant to provide for their health, education, maintenance, and support.

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There is no request for financial award, because, the petition states, “there is no adequate amount of money that could remedy the loss of life of Emma and Isabella, two unique human beings.” Instead representatives for the embryos—which remain frozen in California—are asking the court order their immediate transfer to a uterus so that they can develop and be born. This can be accomplished, the suit argues, if a court will declare the California fertility contract signed by Loeb and Vergara void, since it didn’t include a provision concerning the fate of the embryos should the couple break up. Further they’re asking the court to terminate Vergara’s parental rights and reclassify her as an egg donor. Citing child neglect laws, the complaint claims “By leaving Emma and Isabella in a tank in a medical clinic for more than three years and refusing to consent to their development or care, Vegara has effectively abandoned and chronically neglected and Emma and Isabella.”

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The very beginning of Louisiana's civil code designates two types of persons: natural persons and juridical persons. “A natural person is a human being,” Wallace explained. “A juridical person is an entity to which the law attributes personality, such as a partnership or corporation, or in this case, in vitro fertilized human ovums.”

Passed in 1986, the Louisiana law conferring personhood on embryos was the first and remains the only law of its kind. As part of their special status, the state grants embryos the explicit right to sue and be sued, prohibits their ownership or destruction, and requires any dispute to their futures be resolved in their “best interests.”

One possible stumbling block in the case is the fact that there is no connection to Louisiana - none of the parties live there, and the embryos were not created or stored in the state.  As I said, it's pretty strange.

Edited December 8, 2016 by Moose135

[blackwing]

Gah.  I posted in the past about how much I hate Horseface Julia Roberts and that perfume she is shilling.  Now I see that she's back with a new commercial, and instead of snapping her mystical light chains of disempowerment, now she is using her magical fists of power that have held an Oscar to break down the walls of limitation and encroachment.  I hate everything about it.  From that "WTF, am I the only one in this room that isn't stupid" look she gives to her dazzling display of 1000 huge teeth.  Aargh.  

[Brattinella]

1 hour ago, Moose135 said:

One possible stumbling block in the case is the fact that there is no connection to Louisiana - none of the parties live there, and the embryos were not created or stored in the state.  As I said, it's pretty strange.

I just have no words for how awful this situation is.  The embryos have NAMES??  And how do they qualify to sue in Louisiana, when none of them live there?  This is a BS lawsuit that cannot stand!

[theatremouse]

2 hours ago, Ohwell said:

Back to Vergara, I think it's worse that she dresses so sexy with the tight dress in the commercials.  It might look a bit better (just a bit) if she wore a blouse and jeans, or something else casual.  But nooooooo.  She just has to look sexy. 

The people producing the ad determine the wardrobe. I mean, I suppose it's possible she had some say as part of her deal, but more likely, she showed up to set, what to wear was on a rack in the dressing room, she put it on it and shot the ad. It's (probably) not whatever she decided to wear.

[peacheslatour]

17 hours ago, Ohwell said:

There's nothing wrong with being sexy, but no need to get your sons horny like Stephanie Seymour and Sophia Vergara. 

Sorry, it was a quote from Spinal Tap.

[ennui]

20 hours ago, Moose135 said:

The petition, filed in Jefferson County Parish on Wednesday afternoon and reviewed by The Daily Beast, lists three plaintiffs: two embryos named Isabella and Emma, and James Charbonnet, a New Orleans resident with no clear ties to Vergara, Loeb, or the product of the pair’s IVF efforts other than as the trustee of a fund meant to provide for their health, education, maintenance, and support.

They have names and a trust fund. Just when you think the world's gone mad, you find out it has.

This probably belongs in Small Talk.

Edited December 9, 2016 by ennui

[SoSueMe]

Hate to derail from Sofia, but what is up with the Volvo commercials? First it was the creepy wedding (funeral?) ride along, now I see some guy waxing poetic in his Volvo. Until he sits and an absolutely terrified-looking small animal (fox?) looks at him, trembling. Why? 

Sure doesn't make me crave a Volvo.

[CarpeDiem54]

A commercial I've come to despise is one for Graco car seats with kids of different ages flailing around like drunken monkeys in the back seat.  Hold the hell still!  Who knew you had to ride in a car seat until you were practically voting age.  I grew up in the days before seat belts.  Yes, I'm old.  And, get off my lawn!

[theatremouse]

The recommendations these days are based on height rather than age for the most part.

[random chance]

1 hour ago, CarpeDiem54 said:

A commercial I've come to despise is one for Graco car seats with kids of different ages flailing around like drunken monkeys in the back seat.  Hold the hell still!  Who knew you had to ride in a car seat until you were practically voting age.  I grew up in the days before seat belts.  Yes, I'm old.  And, get off my lawn!

We used to ride the back of the neighbor's pickup truck on the highway. Ah the good old days of incredibly stupid but generally approved risk-taking!

[habenero]

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[Brattinella]

4 minutes ago, habenero said:

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What?  Is this related to a commercial?

[AuntiePam]

2 hours ago, habenero said:

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A free call!!!! Oh boy!

That's almost as bad as the mesothelioma (attorney) and health insurance companies that will send you an information booklet -- free of charge! 

[chessiegal]

7 hours ago, CarpeDiem54 said:

A commercial I've come to despise is one for Graco car seats with kids of different ages flailing around like drunken monkeys in the back seat.  Hold the hell still!  Who knew you had to ride in a car seat until you were practically voting age.  I grew up in the days before seat belts.  Yes, I'm old.  And, get off my lawn!

I grew up before car seats too, and survived. But the car seat recommendations are based on real safety concerns. Recently I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a kid sitting in the front passenger seat without a car seat who was clearly too small to be there. I also witnessed a kid getting in a car with his father who told him to skip the car seat and just get in the front passenger seat. Did they survive? I'm sure they did, but I see so many people on their cell phones and texting and driving, I wouldn't chance it if they were my children and grandchildren. A child can be killed by an airbag in the front seat.

[smittykins]

In many states, it's illegal for children under a certain age to ride in the front, car seat or not.

[Brattinella]

On a very sad note, Brian Loncar "The Strongman" has died, a week after his 16 yr old daughter committed suicide.  (Accident attorney)

[millennium]

On 12/6/2016 at 8:41 PM, Maverick said:

 Shut the fuck up, Amy Schumer.

THANK YOU for saving me the trouble.

[Jaded]

The Lays Mrs & Mr Potato Head commercial where he catches her eating chips in their pantry. I hadn't seen it before so I didn't realize how old it was until I looked it up on YouTube. I don't want to think of Potato Heads as cannibals.
 

[spaceytraci1208]

On 12/10/2016 at 11:36 AM, CarpeDiem54 said:

A commercial I've come to despise is one for Graco car seats with kids of different ages flailing around like drunken monkeys in the back seat.  Hold the hell still!  Who knew you had to ride in a car seat until you were practically voting age.  I grew up in the days before seat belts.  Yes, I'm old.  And, get off my lawn!

That last kid does look about 12 years old lol. Those  seats look hella comfortable, though...

Edited December 11, 2016 by spaceytraci1208

[Bastet]

2 hours ago, spaceytraci1208 said:

That last kid does look about 12 years old lol.

I know!  I get that the days when we were in car seats as babies and then progressed to being held on someone's lap as toddlers were not safe, but I do think the requirements (until X age or Y size) in some states are insane for how long kids are kept in car seats.  So when kids who look like puberty is on the horizon are in a car seat, it sticks out to me, and that one kid looks way too old to be in one.

[Brattinella]

Imagine how embarrassing for a 12-yr old!

[CarpeDiem54]

42 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I know!  I get that the days when we were in car seats as babies and then progressed to being held on someone's lap as toddlers were not safe, but I do think the requirements (until X age or Y size) in some states are insane for how long kids are kept in car seats.  So when kids who look like puberty is on the horizon are in a car seat, it sticks out to me, and that one kid looks way too old to be in one.

The days of toddlers in laps were before air bags that will kill you.  Here, you have to be 4'9" (I had to look that up) to not sit in a car seat.  I have a friend who's only 4'8".  I haven't seen her in years.  I wonder if she has to use a booster seat to drive?  I know the cops used to stop her because they thought she was a kid.

[millennium]

That Christmas commercial -- Target?  Walmart? (shows you how effective it is) -- with the idiot on the pogo stick explaining ad nauseum where/how he got it.    It's played almost as frequently as the Amy Schumer Old Navy commercial and the Lexus commercials (you know, where scheming rich asshole adults coax their spoiled entitled kids into asking Santa for a puppy AND a Lexus?)

Edited December 11, 2016 by millennium

[Moose135]

All of those singing Southwest Airlines folks? Put them all on a plane and fly them to the Bermuda Triangle.

[chessiegal]

1 hour ago, Moose135 said:

All of those singing Southwest Airlines folks? Put them all on a plane and fly them to the Bermuda Triangle.

The Southwest folks can sing all they want as far as I'm concerned. We are flying on Southwest this month, and they sent me 4 free drink coupons. ;-)

[backformore]

The Xfinity ad drives me crazy every time I see it. The grandma is reading the kids comments on Twitter!!!!  If grandma can get on Twitter, those kids are not "off the grid".  I have relatives, younger than those grandparents in the ad, who don't have smartphones, don't text,  and use email only when there's something important.  So the grandparents in the ad are pretty savvy in comparison.  

And at our family gatherings, kids are not glued to their phones. They use their phones to show photos to their cousins, or to look up something we are all talking about.  They know better than to isolate themselves at a social gathering.

Back to the grandparents in the ad, no don't spend money to cater to kids every wish. Kids need to learn to tolerate frustration.  (My kids still groan when I break into "you can't always get what you want" which was my approach to whining)

[chessiegal]

9 minutes ago, backformore said:

The Xfinity ad drives me crazy every time I see it. The grandma is reading the kids comments on Twitter!!!!  If grandma can get on Twitter, those kids are not "off the grid".  I have relatives, younger than those grandparents in the ad, who don't have smartphones, don't text,  and use email only when there's something important.  So the grandparents in the ad are pretty savvy in comparison.  

And at our family gatherings, kids are not glued to their phones. They use their phones to show photos to their cousins, or to look up something we are all talking about.  They know better than to isolate themselves at a social gathering.

Back to the grandparents in the ad, no don't spend money to cater to kids every wish. Kids need to learn to tolerate frustration.  (My kids still groan when I break into "you can't always get what you want" which was my approach to whining)

The Xfinity ad exemplifies every thing that is wrong with the company. I was so happy to get rid of them when we moved. Horrible customer service, can't even hire a decent ad agency,.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

On 12/6/2016 at 6:41 PM, Maverick said:

 Shut the fuck up, Amy Schumer.

 

23 hours ago, millennium said:

THANK YOU for saving me the trouble.

Well, it really needs to be said early and often, so.

23 hours ago, Jaded said:

The Lays Mrs & Mr Potato Head commercial where he catches her eating chips in their pantry. I hadn't seen it before so I didn't realize how old it was until I looked it up on YouTube. I don't want to think of Potato Heads as cannibals.
 

 

Animatronic cannibals, no less.

[Ubiquitous]

On ‎12‎/‎6‎/‎2016 at 8:41 PM, Maverick said:

 Shut the fuck up, Amy Schumer.

Shouldn't she be packing her things for the move to Canada?

[bad things are bad]

She's on the plane with Rush Limbaugh, who promised to leave the US if Obamacare was passed. 

[proserpina65]

On ‎12‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 1:15 AM, Jaded said:

The Lays Mrs & Mr Potato Head commercial where he catches her eating chips in their pantry. I hadn't seen it before so I didn't realize how old it was until I looked it up on YouTube. I don't want to think of Potato Heads as cannibals.
 

 

Maybe it helps to think of them as plastic potatoes, so eating Lay's doesn't really make them cannibals?  (FTR, I find these ads creepy, too.)

20 hours ago, millennium said:

That Christmas commercial -- Target?  Walmart? (shows you how effective it is) -- with the idiot on the pogo stick explaining ad nauseum where/how he got it.    It's played almost as frequently as the Amy Schumer Old Navy commercial and the Lexus commercials (you know, where scheming rich asshole adults coax their spoiled entitled kids into asking Santa for a puppy AND a Lexus?)

I've never actually seen the pogo stick commercial.  I must be lucky,

[Drogo]

The Amazon commercial where Dad buys the kid a Superman costume.

What is the message here?  Kids' friendship can be purchased?  You want the kid to have friends?  Get him a non-Mary-Lou-Retton haircut.   Also the teacher's dress is 4 sizes too small.

The door is completely see-through when they get to school, but when Dad's creeping around outside there's just a clear panel on the top of a solid door.  Who changed the door?  Dad, it can't be said enough, stop creeping around outside the preschool.  Go to to fucking work.

[TattleTeeny]

On 12/5/2016 at 1:25 PM, Ubiquitous said:

I'm tired of Sofia Viagra's "Charo routine". Surely she doesn't normally speak like that!

Years and years ago (possibly pre-Modern Family), she was on Howard Stern and sounded about the same, accent-wise, but maybe with a bit less comedic loudness/misunderstanding of English. 

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but no need to get your sons horny like Stephanie Seymour and Sophia Vergara. 

Honestly, I'd be way more likely to side-eye the holder of this kind sentiment than I would her for her effusive behavior.

Edited December 17, 2016 by TattleTeeny