Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Brattinella]

1 hour ago, Duke2801 said:

7 hours ago, HighMaintenance said:

She was also known as "Herkel" back in the old TWOP days.

Ahh i don’t remember that. Why did

she get that nickname?

Urkel.  HERkel.

[AuntiePam]

The GMC ad where the woman plops down two toy trucks on the kitchen counter and tells her husband she got a Black Friday deal, and the husband says "I got one too" and takes her outside to show her two GMC trucks, one red and one black.  She runs to the black one and says "I love it" and he says "I love that you love it" and she again shares her love for the black truck and the husband says "I like red".

But hey, I bet I didn't have to type all that -- I could have stopped after "toy trucks" -- because that ad is on all the freakin' time!  Trying to watch the Rams/Chiefs and that ad has played at every commercial break, sometimes twice in the same break.

Everyone hates the holiday ads where people are giving each other cars -- it just makes it worse when the ads are so over-played.  Gah!  If I was in the market for a truck, I'd go to a GMC dealer, show them my money, and leave.

[Ubiquitous]

20 hours ago, Mrs. Hanson said:

I agree - it is refreshing to see someone proud of their work but I agree she can get on some people's nerves.  Speaking of nerves, the couple who put their heads flat on the table to see how thin or thick the crust is......just stop.

What bugs me about that ad is they're doing it all wrong. If you want to see thre crust on the bottem, look at it from the edge of the table, not with your head laying on it!

[Bort]

5 minutes ago, Ubiquitous said:

What bugs me about that ad is they're doing it all wrong. If you want to see thre crust on the bottem, look at it from the edge of the table, not with your head laying on it!

Or just pick the damn thing up and look underneath.

[Prairie Fire]

21 hours ago, AuntiePam said:

The GMC ad where the woman plops down two toy trucks on the kitchen counter and tells her husband she got a Black Friday deal, and the husband says "I got one too" and takes her outside to show her two GMC trucks, one red and one black.  She runs to the black one and says "I love it" and he says "I love that you love it" and she again shares her love for the black truck and the husband says "I like red".

I was going to chime in to say that ad is just so awful and NOT bc it's overplayed....it's because the people in it should be loaded into a rocket and shot into the sun. Here it is in all its offensive glory.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/d0cU/2019-gmc-acadia-2018-holidays-one-for-you-one-for-me-t2

Edited November 20, 2018 by Prairie Fire

[mojoween]

That stupid Little Caesar’s ad was just on and I noticed that the pizza IS ON THE TABLE.  The box is on the end of the table.

So wouldn’t they have noticed the freaking crust when they took it out?!?

[Jamoche]

On 11/19/2018 at 10:38 AM, Mrs. Hanson said:

I agree - it is refreshing to see someone proud of their work but I agree she can get on some people's nerves.  Speaking of nerves, the couple who put their heads flat on the table to see how thin or thick the crust is......just stop.

Substitute dialog: 

"Is that a pizza? There's no crust on it. Do you see a crust?"

"Nope, no crust. Weird. We should call and get a refund."

[Tom Holmberg]

On ‎11‎/‎19‎/‎2018 at 12:38 PM, Mrs. Hanson said:

Speaking of nerves, the couple who put their heads flat on the table to see how thin or thick the crust is......just stop.

If you have to do this, the crust is too thin.  Then again I'm a Chicago Deep Dish or Detroit-style pizza guy.

[Browncoat]

Who puts a pizza directly on the table anyway?

[xls]

1 hour ago, Tom Holmberg said:

If you have to do this, the crust is too thin.  Then again I'm a Chicago Deep Dish or Detroit-style pizza guy.

Me too I like the crust hot, tear it off, dip it in butter or marinara sauce!

[olivia1]

The opera singer on the Volvo ad hurts my ears! This does not make me want a Volvo or to sit through an opera. 

[xls]

Every time I see Jennifer Aniston on Avenio commercial, all I can think about is how expensive its gotten since she started appearing on their ads

[QuinnInND]

On 11/19/2018 at 11:38 AM, Mrs. Hanson said:

 Speaking of nerves, the couple who put their heads flat on the table to see how thin or thick the crust is......just stop.

My kids love that one. They laugh like crazy. My 8 year old especially. 

[mojoween]

This ad is super cute, so normally I would say it’s a favorite commercial, but Christ almighty the cover of the song is so godawful horrendous it makes me hate it.  I should probably just watch with the sound off.

[friendperidot]

It helps when you're unfamiliar with the song. I don't listen to anything more recent than about 1980.

[mojoween]

Heh. “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” is from 1965.  

And the ad is stalking me, because it came on AGAIN as I was typing this.

[friendperidot]

Mojoween: you're kidding me! I guess I better give it another listen. Wasn't that Marvin Gaye? OMG! It's unrecognizable. I had the volume low the first time I watched. 

Edited November 23, 2018 by friendperidot

[Browncoat]

That really is a horrendous cover!  I almost didn’t recognize it, either, until I listened to the lyrics.  I think the version I’m most familiar with is James Taylor’s.

[Haleth]

Nvm

Edited November 23, 2018 by Haleth

[mojoween]

6 hours ago, friendperidot said:

Mojoween: you're kidding me! I guess I better give it another listen. Wasn't that Marvin Gaye? OMG! It's unrecognizable. I had the volume low the first time I watched. 

Yep Marvin Gaye was the original artist but like Browncoat I’m more familiar with James Taylor.

What that girl does to it is a crime against both men.

[peacheslatour]

6 hours ago, mojoween said:

Yep Marvin Gaye was the original artist but like Browncoat I’m more familiar with James Taylor.

What that girl does to it is a crime against both men.

Oh god, what a horrific cover of a nice song. And the whole commercial is just depressing. Poor kitty.

[brickthru the tv]

On 10/29/2018 at 3:15 PM, Bastet said:

No, the brand of her food line (for people) is Rachael Ray, and includes "EVOO," balsamic vinegar, and some seasonings.  I'm not sure if it's in production anymore, but at any rate it came out well after the show started, and the show is where she began the EVOO crap (where she'd say "E-V-O-O," and then every time immediately follow that up with the explanation that she means extra virgin olive oil).

Charmin.  Toyota uses "Let's Go Places."

Yeah I want Toyota to go to ONE PLACE...kinda warm...

On 10/29/2018 at 3:15 PM, Bastet said:

[Neurochick]

57 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Oh god, what a horrific cover of a nice song. And the whole commercial is just depressing. Poor kitty.

Why is it depressing?  He’s a bodega cat, lots of them in NYC.  Most of them live in the stores, and keep the places free from vermin.  This one not only had a name, but a collar.

[configdotsys]

3 minutes ago, Neurochick said:

Why is it depressing?  He’s a bodega cat, lots of them in NYC.  Most of them live in the stores, and keep the places free from vermin.  This one not only had a name, but a collar.

And what looks to be a very caring owner!

[peacheslatour]

5 minutes ago, configdotsys said:

And what looks to be a very caring owner!

Who should be taking the cat home with him at the close of business. The cat looked like he felt abandoned.

[friendperidot]

I was thinking that if it's a bodega cat, he has a job and that is to keep the mice and other rodents out of the store and it's food. Those rodents are mostly (I don't know much about them, I've worked hard all of my life to keep my ignorance) nocturnal and don't come out much when there are people around, so they come out after the place is closed and that's when the cat's real job begins. Unrelated to the commercial, I did see a mouse running between shelves in Dollar Tree in broad daylight - I wouldn't go back in for quite a while and I don't buy foodstuffs there. And, I am from the midwest, but lived the 70s and early 80s in the WDC area, but I never heard the word "bodega" until I watched Law & Order regularly. Took me a couple of times to understand what they were saying and understand what it was.

[peacheslatour]

I know the cat is there for pest control but you'd think, at this festive time of year, Mr. Bodega guy could make an exception and take puss home for some Christmas cheer.

[andromeda331]

1 hour ago, friendperidot said:

I was thinking that if it's a bodega cat, he has a job and that is to keep the mice and other rodents out of the store and it's food. Those rodents are mostly (I don't know much about them, I've worked hard all of my life to keep my ignorance) nocturnal and don't come out much when there are people around, so they come out after the place is closed and that's when the cat's real job begins. Unrelated to the commercial, I did see a mouse running between shelves in Dollar Tree in broad daylight - I wouldn't go back in for quite a while and I don't buy foodstuffs there. And, I am from the midwest, but lived the 70s and early 80s in the WDC area, but I never heard the word "bodega" until I watched Law & Order regularly. Took me a couple of times to understand what they were saying and understand what it was.

I never did either until I watched Law & Order. 

[Prevailing Wind]

Quote

Yep Marvin Gaye was the original artist but like Browncoat I’m more familiar with James Taylor.

What that girl does to it is a crime against both men.

Not to mention the songwriter.

Edited November 23, 2018 by Prevailing Wind

[Bort]

1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:

I know the cat is there for pest control but you'd think, at this festive time of year, Mr. Bodega guy could make an exception and take puss home for some Christmas cheer.

Except the store is the cat’s home — its territory. It wouldn’t like being moved. It would spend all of Xmas hiding under a bed somewhere. 

[Brattinella]

If I walked into Whole Foods and found someone zooming and dancing in the aisles, I wouldn't spend my money there.

[chessiegal]

I go to Whole Foods many days of the week because they have quality food I want. I've never seen anyone dancing done the aisles, but I have ignored screaming children.

[Maverick]

Whole Foods is part of this incomprehensible trend to potray a company's as morons. There's a series of ads for some VR helmet and everyone using acts like the dumb relative everyone wants to ban from the family.  Totally wants me to buy the product. 

[Ubiquitous]

4 hours ago, kariyaki said:

Except the store is the cat’s home — its territory. It wouldn’t like being moved. It would spend all of Xmas hiding under a bed somewhere. 

Mine wouldn't! LOL

 

3 minutes ago, Maverick said:

Whole Foods is part of this incomprehensible trend to potray a company's as morons. There's a series of ads for some VR helmet and everyone using acts like the dumb relative everyone wants to ban from the family.  Totally wants me to buy the product. 

Ugh. There's an ad for some quasi-VR device with some unsavory people:

• A filthy-looking "musician" seems way too interested in watching himself in concert to care about the party I assume he is hosting.
• A grody woman (I think) is getting off in a bathtub while watching The Shape of Water ("I may never leave my tub!").
• Two men who are not in the same room are watching a basketball game and discussing their body odor (Not sure whose).

I always hate how in these commercials for VR devices, they always show the user swaying and moving around as if they feel the action. I seriously doubt someone watching a roller-coaster with one would be waving their arms in their air over their heads.

[Silver Raven]

20 minutes ago, Maverick said:

Whole Foods is part of this incomprehensible trend to potray a company's as morons. There's a series of ads for some VR helmet and everyone using acts like the dumb relative everyone wants to ban from the family.  Totally wants me to buy the product. 

The kid with the VR helmet isn't the customer, his father is.  And I don't see anything moronic about him, anyway.

[Maverick]

The ones I've seen dont have a kid.  

[janie jones]

1 hour ago, Brattinella said:

If I walked into Whole Foods and found someone zooming and dancing in the aisles, I wouldn't spend my money there.

I thought this was talking about the bodega cat at first.  I was quite confused.

[Silver Raven]

Sorry, it's Progressive, not Geico.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dlz9/progressive-future-son

[friendperidot]

Quote

I always hate how in these commercials for VR devices, they always show the user swaying and moving around as if they feel the action. I seriously doubt someone watching a roller-coaster with one would be waving their arms in their air over their heads.

You haven't seen the ad for one of those complicated treadmill/cross training things that the guy talks about running along the beach in Greece waving to the people? I don't even think those are a VR device, I think they are more like a video screen attached to the exercise thingy. I've never used one. I have used treadmills, treadmills in front of the tv and I have never, ever, ever thought I was running anywhere but in my living room in front of the tv.

Edited to add, I have used a VR device, it was pretty primitive, about 10 years ago, it was a program to help psych staff understand what it was like to have Schizophrenia, it made me sick to my stomach and triggered a migraine. But it was fascinating.

Edited November 24, 2018 by friendperidot

[Haleth]

9 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

A filthy-looking "musician" seems way too interested in watching himself in concert to care about the party I assume he is hosting.

Wiz Khalifa.  (I admit I don't know his music since I'm older than dirt.)

9 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

A grody woman (I think) is getting off in a bathtub while watching The Shape of Water ("I may never leave my tub!").

Leslie Jones.  Grody?

9 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

Two men who are not in the same room are watching a basketball game and discussing their body odor (Not sure whose).

Adam Levine and Jonah Hill.

I wouldn't characterize any of these people as unsavory.

[Rinaldo]

On 11/21/2018 at 8:51 PM, olivia1 said:

The opera singer on the Volvo ad hurts my ears! This does not make me want a Volvo or to sit through an opera. 

The Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's Magic Flute hurts ears? This is what music (and opera) is all about for me.

[trudysmom]

There's Toyota commercial that is a crime against humanity.  Someone with a high-pitched voice does a horrific, slow cover of Dion's Wanderer.  Urk.  

[SoSueMe]

52 minutes ago, Rinaldo said:

The Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's Magic Flute hurts ears? This is what music (and opera) is all about for me.

If I was a fan and geared up to hear it, I might agree. But to spring it on me in a car commercial is audio assault, at least to me. I'm sure that others might feel the same about "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in the Peloton  commercial. Love the song, but I'm turned off by the whole Peloton thing. 

[Duke2801]

On 11/19/2018 at 8:57 PM, Brattinella said:

Urkel.  HERkel.

Ahhhh got it—thank you! 

23 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

I know the cat is there for pest control but you'd think, at this festive time of year, Mr. Bodega guy could make an exception and take puss home for some Christmas cheer.

 

Considering how many pets are homeless, abused, etc in this world, a bodega cat doesn’t rank super high on my Depressing Meter. This cat is warm, dry, fed and cares for. 

16 hours ago, chessiegal said:

I go to Whole Foods many days of the week because they have quality food I want. I've never seen anyone dancing done the aisles, but I have ignored screaming children.

Sadly that’s just about every store this day it seems. 

[mojoween]

3 hours ago, trudysmom said:

There's Toyota commercial that is a crime against humanity.  Someone with a high-pitched voice does a horrific, slow cover of Dion's Wanderer.  Urk.  

That ad is an abomination against music.

[xaxat]

4 hours ago, Rinaldo said:

The Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's Magic Flute hurts ears? This is what music (and opera) is all about for me.

My problem is that it is really electronically manipulated (reverb, autotune?). That kind of defeats the purpose of opera. 

[chenoa333]

Wow! I'm seriously traumatized by the sight of Joe Namath in some Medicare/Medical commercial. He looks like part wax figure and part zombie. 

[chessiegal]

41 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:

Wow! I'm seriously traumatized by the sight of Joe Namath in some Medicare/Medical commercial. He looks like part wax figure and part zombie. 

Haha! You and my husband - he said OMG!! Is that Joe Namath????

[chenoa333]

1 hour ago, chessiegal said:

Haha! You and my husband - he said OMG!! Is that Joe Namath????

Lol! They could have used ME for that commercial saying "hi I'm Joe Namath" and it would be no more OR less believable! 

[MaryPatShelby]

On 11/14/2018 at 11:34 AM, proserpina65 said:

The husband does say that it was struck by lightning, though.

Are there two versions?  'Cause I thought I saw one where he was sneaking in and using it.

I've only seen the one in which the husband uses the Peleton every times his wife leaves the house (pre-Christmas).

What's with the Peloton hate here?  Does it not do what it's supposed to do, poorly made, what?  I have a friend who has one and she loves it.