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Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

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TattleTeeny

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Re: the noseblind Febreeze commercials: I kind of get all the other smells represented, but the one about the cat smell on the couch irks me. Indoor cats do NOT smell bad. They smell clean. That is all.

 

Although they have been known to make a few smells that, while temporary, are earth-shattering. Especially kittens!

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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that this is the wrong 470 page forum thread for you.  lol

Eliot
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Speaking of "awful and cruel" ads, the one for that home healthcare company, Brightstar I think it's called, makes me want to scream and throw things at the TV. It's narrated by a woman whose mother i

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Muffyn

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There is a commercial for the Listerine family of products (not kidding), that shows a boy eating corn.  He already is chewing a mouthful of corn when they show a closeup of him going in for another bite.  GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!   I do NOT want to see half-chewed corn about to fall out of his gob.  I don't care how minty fresh his breath is.  Just disgusting.

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friendperidot

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back to the EHarmony hate train, there's a new ad where a young man talks about how his mother is going to get a billboard to advertise for a wife for him if he doesn't hurry and settle down. Why doesn't he just tell her to back off, he's looking for a husband? She'll either get over it or not. Just joking here, I know family issues are bigger than that.

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GaT

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Even dumber if they are suddenly running a "restaurant" in their living room and not charging people.

And the fact that they apparently have enough chips & salsa in their apartment to run a restaurant.

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RealityGal

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back to the EHarmony hate train, there's a new ad where a young man talks about how his mother is going to get a billboard to advertise for a wife for him if he doesn't hurry and settle down. Why doesn't he just tell her to back off, he's looking for a husband? She'll either get over it or not. Just joking here, I know family issues are bigger than that.

If his mother is that involved in his love life it may leave room for no other woman.  I know I would run as far and as fast from a man who had a mother with that level of involvement.

 

ETA: LMAO at the bolded section.  Truer words...truer words....

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wovenloaf

wovenloaf

I have never liked John Corbett (especially on Sex and the City) and I get particularly annoyed at his smarmy voice telling me that Walgreen's is at the corner of happy and healthy. Ugh.

 Ugh yes! That guy sucks. I hadn't ever realized it was him and had, for the most part, just tuned out those commercials. But just recently Mr. Wovenloaf informed me that the stupid voice was Aidan's, and now I'm just like "UGH" every time they are on. 

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Rick Kitchen

Rick Kitchen

Girl is sitting at the kitchen table doing her homework and a cell phone rings.

 

"Mom, your cell phone is ringing!  Mom, your cell phone is ringing!"

 

Mom: "Hello.  Wait, what?"

 

Announcer: "Go online to see what happens next."

 

Fuck that.  Tell me what you want to tell me, don't ask me to go looking for your non-informative crap.

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RealityGal

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Girl is sitting at the kitchen table doing her homework and a cell phone rings.

 

"Mom, your cell phone is ringing!  Mom, your cell phone is ringing!"

 

Mom: "Hello.  Wait, what?"

 

Announcer: "Go online to see what happens next."

 

Fuck that.  Tell me what you want to tell me, don't ask me to go looking for your non-informative crap.

 

That kind of reminds me of that coffee company in the 80's that had those soap opera like commercials...was it Tasters Choice?  Except, that was the 80's, watching TV for the next Tasters Choice episode was all you could do.

 

Whoever that company is, they can just suck it, because of all the things I can look up on the internet, the end of your ad?  No thanks, I would rather google if the dodo bird could ever make a comeback from extinction or whats going on with the members of C&C music factory, or if the safety dance is really a thing, or if i can just keep doing a modified version of the robot everytime that song comes on.

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ari333

ari333

Holy shit. I can't believe what I just saw. Some women were shopping in a clothing store and the clerk asks to measure them. The measuring tape is in "radiant" "strong"  -- all adjectives - no numbers. Just go away. If you're supposed to feel ok with your body, ... oh ....I don't even know why I'm pissed off.

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AntiBeeSpray

AntiBeeSpray

The match.com guy is starting to seem invasive and smug to me.

Yea he is. Matched with the eharmony guy. That guy gets on my nerves... especially this commercial. I'm surprised that this one isn't banned. O_O I'm no prude, but I think it kind of crosses the line a bit.

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Stella MD

Stella MD

I find the whole concept anachronistic and sexist. So a woman can only say 'I don't want to marry you' if there's another candidate waiting to step in as an alternate? If that doesn't happen before the wedding there's seriously no sooner moment to call it off than waiting until all the guests are assembled?

I don't know - I think it's the giant smile on the 'bride's' face that makes me grumpy. You just caused some major and completely unnecessary heartbreak honey - stop reveling in your own self-absorption.

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Cobalt Stargazer

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Yea he is. Matched with the eharmony guy. That guy gets on my nerves... especially this commercial. I'm surprised that this one isn't banned. O_O I'm no prude, but I think it kind of crosses the line a bit.

 

 

Yeah, I mean good for them and all but I don't need to see it. Neither do their party guests.

 

Seriously. That commercial is like the opening of a porno movie or something. When I'm feeling particularly perverse, I halfway expect the party guests to get so turned on they start having sex too.

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Jamoche

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Holy shit. I can't believe what I just saw. Some women were shopping in a clothing store and the clerk asks to measure them. The measuring tape is in "radiant" "strong"  -- all adjectives - no numbers. Just go away. If you're supposed to feel ok with your body, ... oh ....I don't even know why I'm pissed off.

That's a old one and yeah, it annoys. No, ad people, I am not frantically worrying about my weight when I find the size 12 dress doesn't fit - I'm just pissed that sizes are still just a suggestion, not an actual indication of dimensions, because I know that right next to that 12 is another 12 that fits fine. Why can't I do what my brothers do and get pants labelled with waist/length? OK, maybe we need waist/hip/length because, y'know, we kinda vary that way, and it takes some time to figure out that Levis are going to gap at the back but Lees don't, but really - inches and centimeters are a standard for a *reason*.

 

But hey. You want to change the arbitrary 12s to an arbitrary feel-good adjective, I'm down with that, so long as every single "radiant" is the *exact same size*.

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Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous

This commercial for contact lenses shows a woman ACTUALLY trying to retrieve her last contact from the toilet.  Please, no contact lens user would actually DO THIS, would they?

 

I feel for her after being in a similar situation, but luckily not involving a toilet.

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slensam

slensam

Seriously. That commercial is like the opening of a porno movie or something. When I'm feeling particularly perverse, I halfway expect the party guests to get so turned on they start having sex too.

That is the setup for many classic pornos. Not that I have seen that many....

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AntiBeeSpray

AntiBeeSpray

I just want to ask WHY are people SCREAMING AT ME in commercials lately?  The Water Filter Guy, the Beef Jerky Guy, JEEZ quit it already!  I won't ever buy your stuff if you continue to holler at me!

 

Yea it sucks when they do that. I thought they had a rule in place now to keep commercials from being loud. Guess they aren't paying it any attention -_-.

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RealityGal

RealityGal

Yea it sucks when they do that. I thought they had a rule in place now to keep commercials from being loud. Guess they aren't paying it any attention -_-.

I was watching TV the other day and was shocked at how loud the commercials were that were aimed at old people.  The AARP car insurance commercial almost blew my eardrums.

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Brattinella

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Why hasn't the Dart owner killed his neighbor yet?   Seriously, he might be a little intense about his silly little car, but his neighbor is OBSESSED with messing with it.

 

I was ROLLING when I read this!  Thanks!

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riley702

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Why hasn't the Dart owner killed his neighbor yet?   Seriously, he might be a little intense about his silly little car, but his neighbor is OBSESSED with messing with it.   

Eh. I think if you don't want people to push your buttons, don't make it SO obvious what those buttons are. I think the neighbor is just having fun poking at him. That's my take, anyway.

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RealityGal

RealityGal

Eh. I think if you don't want people to push your buttons, don't make it SO obvious what those buttons are. I think the neighbor is just having fun poking at him. That's my take, anyway.

Its all good fun until it turns into an Investigation Discovery show.  I could see this becoming an episode of "Nightmare Next Door", "Very Bad Men" or perhaps even a "Swamp Murder" depending on how Craig decides to get rid of the body...

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Watcher0363

Watcher0363

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I just saw the ad with Creepy Viagra Woman, at 10:30 on Sunday morning.  In the middle of a Law and Order SVU marathon.  Hmm.  Poor programming choice?

That commercial is not creepy or weird, that is if you are the targeted audience. The woman is over thirty, she is blonde and beautiful, her voice is British and she speaks in clinical terms about ED. It is for white collar men who go to work in air conditioned offices. If you were to strip the audio from that commercial and ask men of all ages to rate the sexiness of that woman, I am pretty sure she would make Maxims hot 100 real easy.

 

Some of us can do without the heavy machinery breaking down metaphors of most ED commercials. We are of a certain age, lets talk like adults. The penises don't always rise to the occasion and the vaginas are way to dry. So I have heard.

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Bastet

Bastet

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And she certainly does not belong on Sunday morning TV.  Children do not need to hear about "keeping an erection".

 

Well, it's not as if it aired during cartoons.  If kids are watching a Law & Order: SVU marathon, they're hearing about a lot worse things than erectile dysfunction.

 

For me, the biggest risk of that commercial is I'll sprain my eyeballs rolling them.   

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Cobalt Stargazer

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That commercial is not creepy or weird, that is if you are the targeted audience. The woman is over thirty, she is blonde and beautiful, her voice is

British and she speaks in clinical terms about ED. It is for white collar men who go to work in air conditioned offices. If you were to strip the audio from that commercial and ask men of all ages to rate the sexiness of that woman, I am pretty sure she would make Maxims hot 100 real easy.

 

The thing is, I can actually objectively agree that she's very attractive, But it's the suddenness of having this gigantic face taking up my whole TV screen (and I have a big TV) that's so startling. I think Helen Mirren is gorgeous, for instance, but if she suddenly appeared on my television looking as if she was twice her normal size, I would find that incredibly odd.

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Watcher0363

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The thing is, I can actually objectively agree that she's very attractive, But it's the suddenness of having this gigantic face taking up my whole TV screen (and I have a big TV) that's so startling. I think Helen Mirren is gorgeous, for instance, but if she suddenly appeared on my television looking as if she was twice her normal size, I would find that incredibly odd.

Okay you have got me there. During local news casts I am constantly thinking. Kill that close up, I have a large screen HDTV. That woman is clearly over 50 and her makeup is doing her no favors.

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janie jones

janie jones

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So I had to go look up that commercial.  Is this the one? 

 

While I don't think it/she is creepy, I don't really understand the setting.  According to everything that came up when I googled, this ad is supposed to be targeting women.  Why is she lounging in a cabana telling me this?  I don't know about everyone else, but when my friends and I want to have a serious woman-to-woman talk, we don't lounge and/or talk sexily.  I'm confused as to why, in an ad targeting women who have sex with men, this is what they've gone with.  Wouldn't they be better off with a man acting sexy?

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Muffyn

Muffyn

It always sounds to me like she is saying "If VD is stopping you from finishing what you started . . . "  All I can think is I hope you didn't even start until you finished the medicine for your VD.  Let's be safe out there.

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Watcher0363

Watcher0363

So I had to go look up that commercial.  Is this the one? 

 

While I don't think it/she is creepy, I don't really understand the setting.  According to everything that came up when I googled, this ad is supposed to be targeting women.  Why is she lounging in a cabana telling me this?  I don't know about everyone else, but when my friends and I want to have a serious woman-to-woman talk, we don't lounge and/or talk sexily.  I'm confused as to why, in an ad targeting women who have sex with men, this is what they've gone with.  Wouldn't they be better off with a man acting sexy?

If this ad is targeted at women it explains a lot. She speaks like a nurse at a doctors office doing a ED pre screening. She is blonde, blue eyes, fair skin. In short the prototypical perfect female(western standard). She is what most women aspire to be and man is she appealing to men. That line about finishing what you started. That is a female centric line, usually scathing in delivery, after some bitter disappointment for not the first time. That is one well psychology produce commercial.

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Bruinsfan

Bruinsfan

Yeah that one is stupid. I could see if they had done it about not smelling the litter box or something. But you're right, indoor cats don't make your furniture stink at all...Mine just smells like a poofy stuffed animal! =D

These are the same people who did the commercial about the woman who hadn't changed her cats' litter in a couple of weeks. Even if she had no sense of smell she'd have run across the presents her cats would be leaving for her  on the carpet and furniture after a few days. So I'm assuming the writers have never had housepets.

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Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous

Aren't hard (rigid gas permeable) lenses still out there? I think they are expensive and not quick to replace, so I could see someone fishing one out and then disinfecting it (glasses for you today!). That said, the woman in that ad is clearly checking her box for more lenses, so she wears disposables and should let it go. She should also put the toilet lid down when it's not in use!

I'm wondering why she's so close to the toilet in the first place! I don't think I've ever heard of a contact lens flying several feet away and into a toilet before.

 

The Tostitos commercials where people mistake an obvious apartment for a restaurant is back.   Why don't they just tell the idiots who don't know what a restaurant looks like that this a home not a place that sells food?   And really just becuase someone saw Tostitos in the place the whole neighborhood suddenly shows up to buy a meal?

I thought they were starting a restaurant in their apartment and were using Tostitos instead of making their own and no one noticed.

 

Worse, he says if he doesn't find a "good girl" soon.

Isn't it adopt-a-pet month?

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