Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Tom Holmberg]

On ‎6‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 2:00 PM, Colleenna said:

I hate hate hate, with an irrational hatred, the Subaru ad with the heavily pregnant woman who takes her unborn child to the ocean and the forest

It's supposed to be heart-warming. For heart-warming, I prefer an Italian beef with plenty of giardiniera.

[Uncle JUICE]

1 hour ago, Tom Holmberg said:

It's supposed to be heart-warming. For heart-warming, I prefer an Italian beef with plenty of giardiniera.

I've been telling my wife this is how I'd like her to describe me, but she never goes for it. Which is why I introduce her to people as my first wife.

[Prevailing Wind]

2 hours ago, Uncle JUICE said:

commercials all feature a gaggle of adults laughing and smiling like literal fucking maniacs. No one has ever had that much fun doing anything.

Have you not seen "The Hartford" ad with Matt McCoy riding along with some senior dude, laughing like loons because "The Hartford" will never drop you, even if you have an accident?  I'm baffled every time I see that commercial - I don't see what's so freakin' funny. There must be some "in" joke I'm not in on.

[Brattinella]

5 hours ago, Uncle JUICE said:

Similar vein to this terrible sounding Bar Louie place, I have Dave and Buster's commercials (and establishments, but YMMV, to me they're just a cleaner more expensive Chuck E. Cheese). Whatever they're advertising, whatever specials they have on this month, the commercials all feature a gaggle of adults laughing and smiling like literal fucking maniacs. No one has ever had that much fun doing anything. I like to imagine the voiceover and music removed, and some scary music laid in over their genuine laughter, that commercial would be fucking terrifying. 

Speaking of Chuck E. Cheese; the latest commercials I've seen are advertising (and singing about) "Chuck E. Cheese's".  My entire life we had one a couple miles from my home, and changing the name just grates!  It is CHUCK E CHEESE!  I'm half expecting one of the animatronics to get a halo.

[Uncle JUICE]

5 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

Speaking of Chuck E. Cheese; the latest commercials I've seen are advertising (and singing about) "Chuck E. Cheese's".  My entire life we had one a couple miles from my home, and changing the name just grates!  It is CHUCK E CHEESE!  I'm half expecting one of the animatronics to get a halo.

When I read that, it sounds like it should be preceded with "Show some respect to one Mr. Charles Ephraim Cheese, you fucking philistine!" 🙂

I'm really glad my kids are old enough to not get invited to those things anymore. The whole place smells like the crotches of unwashed sweatpants, and you KNOW none of those 16 year old workers are getting up to the ceiling and scrubbing those kid-sized hamster tubes out more than annually. The strains of bacteria that are being cultured up there, and within striking distance of the food...if that place wanted to make real money they'd charge you four tokens to use their johns like six minutes after ingesting whatever hellspawned bioweapons are sprinkling down into your drink from up there. Anyone who invites you to one of those parties isn't really your friend, kids. 

Edited July 1, 2019 by Uncle JUICE

[Bort]

22 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

Speaking of Chuck E. Cheese; the latest commercials I've seen are advertising (and singing about) "Chuck E. Cheese's".  My entire life we had one a couple miles from my home, and changing the name just grates!  It is CHUCK E CHEESE!  I'm half expecting one of the animatronics to get a halo.

But... they didn't change the name. It always had the apostrophe S.

[shapeshifter]

6 minutes ago, kariyaki said:

29 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

Speaking of Chuck E. Cheese; the latest commercials I've seen are advertising (and singing about) "Chuck E. Cheese's".  My entire life we had one a couple miles from my home, and changing the name just grates!  It is CHUCK E CHEESE!  I'm half expecting one of the animatronics to get a halo.

But... they didn't change the name. It always had the apostrophe S.

Okay, putting on both my reference librarian hat and my mom-of-3 hat (picture them stacked):
It's both. 
The chain's name is with the apostrophe-s.
The logo and the web address are without the possessive.

[Bort]

12 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

Okay, putting on both my reference librarian hat and my mom-of-3 hat (picture them stacked):
It's both. 
The chain's name is with the apostrophe-s.
The logo and the web address are without the possessive.

The mouse is Chuck E. Cheese. The establishment is Chuck E. Cheese's, as in his place. And it's always been that way.

[Bastet]

"Chuck E. Cheese's, where a kid can be a kid."

Thanks a lot, folks; now that jingle from the old commercials is in my head.

[Dirtybubble]

"The early bird gets the best paint!"  UGH dofus!  He is way too excited about paint.  And FYI the dude is totally ugly =(  BARF

https://ispot.tv/a/oqeP

[peacheslatour]

30 minutes ago, Dirtybubble said:

"The early bird gets the best paint!"  UGH dofus!  He is way too excited about paint.  And FYI the dude is totally ugly =(  BARF

https://ispot.tv/a/oqeP

Lol. He looks like a Toucan.

[Tom Holmberg]

2 hours ago, Bastet said:

Chuck E. Cheese's, where a kid can be a kid

Funny, Shriner's Hospital says the same thing.  Maybe you can go to the hospital after eating at Chuck E. Cheese.

[Norwindian]

What the hell is "not sorry, Reese's" supposed to mean?  It drives me nuts because it makes no sense to me. 

I'm not crazy about the guy who narrates the commercial either (can't think of his name), he seems like he would be an asshole in "real" life. 

[BigBingerBro]

2 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

Funny, Shriner's Hospital says the same thing.  Maybe you can go to the hospital after eating at Chuck E. Cheese.

Well technically, at Shriner's they say "Where kids get to be KIDS".  You say tomato, I say tomato.

[Brookside]

6 hours ago, Brattinella said:

Speaking of Chuck E. Cheese; the latest commercials I've seen are advertising (and singing about) "Chuck E. Cheese's".  My entire life we had one a couple miles from my home, and changing the name just grates!  It is CHUCK E CHEESE!  I'm half expecting one of the animatronics to get a halo.

On ‎6‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 4:46 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

I don’t know how long this commercial has been on, but I saw it for the first time last night and my eyes 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 so HARD. It’s called the...Fluidity Bar I think, and it’s a miracle! Helps women lose weight so FAST!!! Thing looks like a stupid bar you just hold onto and you lift your legs. Like any sane person can’t do the same thing against a wall or chair!

Any restaurant with the word "chuck" in it is not getting my patronage.

"Fluidity Bar" sounds like a weight loss product that keeps you near the bathroom..

Edited July 2, 2019 by Brookside
Clarity

[LoneHaranguer]

38 minutes ago, Brookside said:

Any restaurant with the word "chuck" in it is not getting my patronage.

Having a rodent as its symbol isn't enough?

[xaxat]

On 6/30/2019 at 7:09 AM, Prevailing Wind said:

For a while now, I've been reading here about Cheryl and her She Shed and had no idea what y'all were talking about. All of a sudden, she's on my TV non-stop, talking to Zachary at State Farm. NOW I see why everybody hated her and her freakin' ChiChi-er She Shed. 

Including her husband. Who probably set the fire. The thing that annoys me about that ad is how casual they are. Because that is a BIG fire.

Right now the "ad" that annoys me the most isn't actually an ad. I have Youtube TV and for some reason there are breaks when ESPN doesn't run the commercials they air on cable/broadcast. They run this annoying placeholder instead.

Although not for ten hours straight.

[andromeda331]

I hate Chuck E Cheese's we used to have pretty cool place in town similar with carnival and other games and while you were eating performing shows for kids but it was actually better. It was a real fun place. Chuck E. Cheese's swooped in and bought them out insisting it would be just the same or even better. Of course that didn't happen. It was crap. It went downhill getting worse and worse before closing down. All their commercials do is remind me how they ruined a really great place. Thanks Chuck E Cheese's. 

[AntiBeeSpray]

4 hours ago, Brookside said:

Any restaurant with the word "chuck" in it is not getting my patronage.

"Fluidity Bar" sounds like a weight loss product that keeps you near the bathroom..

Or it sounds like a strange name for a bar or some strange new version of limbo.

[catlover79]

2 hours ago, AntiBeeSpray said:

Or it sounds like a strange name for a bar or some strange new version of limbo.

This sounds like something from an episode of Mama's Family. 😂

[Tom Holmberg]

12 hours ago, BigBingerBro said:

You say tomato, I say tomato.

Let's call the whole thing off...

[Ubiquitous]

On ‎6‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 3:00 PM, Colleenna said:

I hate hate hate, with an irrational hatred, the Subaru ad with the heavily pregnant woman who takes her unborn child to the ocean and the forest. "This is the ocean..." The baby can't see or smell the surf, and it's extremely unlikely that it can hear it, either. Forest: "Just listen." Duh. 

I guess this means people still do that "talking to your baby in utero" thing that started in the 1980's? It always reminds of me something I a photo I saw in National Lampoon of a parents using a uterus speaker type device captioned "This is your father speaking -- now go clean your womb!". *rimshot*

On ‎6‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 7:46 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

I don’t know how long this commercial has been on, but I saw it for the first time last night and my eyes 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 so HARD. It’s called the...Fluidity Bar I think, and it’s a miracle! Helps women lose weight so FAST!!! Thing looks like a stupid bar you just hold onto and you lift your legs. Like any sane person can’t do the same thing against a wall or chair!

Sounds like (chocolate) Ex-Lax in a candy bar form.

23 hours ago, Uncle JUICE said:

Similar vein to this terrible sounding Bar Louie place, I have Dave and Buster's commercials (and establishments, but YMMV, to me they're just a cleaner more expensive Chuck E. Cheese).

My Uncle took us out there once, and yeah, that's exactly what it was like, a Chuck E Cheese for adults. I wasn't thrilled by the selection of games, but the food was better than I expected. Oddly enough, I see commercials for it and we don't have one in town.

14 hours ago, Norwindian said:

What the hell is "not sorry, Reese's" supposed to mean?  It drives me nuts because it makes no sense to me. 

I thought it was based on #SorryNotSorry.

[funky-rat]

On 6/30/2019 at 7:09 AM, Prevailing Wind said:

For a while now, I've been reading here about Cheryl and her She Shed and had no idea what y'all were talking about. All of a sudden, she's on my TV non-stop, talking to Zachary at State Farm. NOW I see why everybody hated her and her freakin' ChiChi-er She Shed. Enough already.

I said a few months ago that I loathe the term "She Shed".  It sounds like something that would accompnay somone saying "When the women folk are on their monthly and all cantankerous, we send them down there to the She Shed.  They can come back when they're better."

I get that it was someone's answer to the "man cave", but there's just something so demeaning sounding about "She Shed".  I can't explain it - it just bugs.

On 7/1/2019 at 8:09 AM, Uncle JUICE said:

Similar vein to this terrible sounding Bar Louie place, I have Dave and Buster's commercials (and establishments, but YMMV, to me they're just a cleaner more expensive Chuck E. Cheese). Whatever they're advertising, whatever specials they have on this month, the commercials all feature a gaggle of adults laughing and smiling like literal fucking maniacs. No one has ever had that much fun doing anything. I like to imagine the voiceover and music removed, and some scary music laid in over their genuine laughter, that commercial would be fucking terrifying. 

I've been to Bar Louie once.  There is one in a casino about an hour from us.  It was OK.  Nothing special.  I did give them props for taking care of my husband meds - he left his pill box behind by accident.

I love me some Dave & Busters.  I used to be 3 hours from them in a few directions, but one opened up just an hour from me recently.  Mostly, you're going to find kids in there, unless you go later in the evening.  Their food is a bit pricey, but is actually pretty good, and once you get a card to play games, they send a lot of good coupons.  They're also really good about letting you use older coupons if you don't live nearby, and they were good about giving me some points on my old Powercard that would no longer read.  The only time I had a bad experience in one was when I was trying to earn points to win something in the gift shop that my husband wanted and I couldn't find anywhere else, and I was playing a game that was more for kids, and was easy tickets.  There was no one waiting in line behind me (I am cognizant of that and I do pay attention), but some mom came up to me with a little kid in two, griping that I had "hogged" the game long enough.  I apologized, but said she had not been waiting so I had no clue, and she proceded to breate me for hogging the game, and playing a kids game (which apparently I had no right to do).  She then proceeded to justify hogging the game for her kid.  I'd had enough of her mouth, I got a manager, and they quickly took care of it.

[Aryanna]

The new Chuck E Cheese commercials have this kid with this awful haircut. In fact it's so bad that it looks fake. It looks like a fake hair helmet.

[LoneHaranguer]

47 minutes ago, funky-rat said:

I get that it was someone's answer to the "man cave", but there's just something so demeaning sounding about "She Shed".  I can't explain it - it just bugs.

Perhaps "shed" brings to mind woodsheds and their association with punishment.

[funky-rat]

4 minutes ago, LoneHaranguer said:

Perhaps "shed" brings to mind woodsheds and their association with punishment.

Perhaps.  I think some of it is that to me, sheds are purely utilitarian, and not a place that I would want to spend extended time in, no matter how nice it was "fixed up".  Call it "Lady Land", or "Her Hangout", or "Girl Grotto".  "She Shed" just sounds like you're being banished someplace not nice (which does tie somewhat in to what you said).  You don't even need to put a gender qualifier in front of it, or give it some trendy name.  "Tranquility Space".  "Personal Time Pod".  I'm not offended -  I just think it could be better.

[chessiegal]

Sheryl's She Shed - never underestimate the power of alliteration. 

[AntiBeeSpray]

54 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

Sheryl's She Shed - never underestimate the power of alliteration. 

Yep. Especially when chichier sounds like 'she sheer'.  🤣

[LoneHaranguer]

1 hour ago, funky-rat said:

I think some of it is that to me, sheds are purely utilitarian, and not a place that I would want to spend extended time in, no matter how nice it was "fixed up".

The most fitting term for what Sheryl had is probably "cabana", but since she wants to rebuild better, maybe she can have a chi chi she chalet.

[funky-rat]

2 minutes ago, LoneHaranguer said:

The most fitting term for what Sheryl had is probably "cabana", but since she wants to rebuild better, maybe she can have a chi chi she chalet.

Cabana is good - "Creative Cabana", or Cottage.  I like Chalet too.  You should be making the commercials!  😀

[margol29]

20 hours ago, Norwindian said:

What the hell is "not sorry, Reese's" supposed to mean?  It drives me nuts because it makes no sense to me. 

I'm not crazy about the guy who narrates the commercial either (can't think of his name), he seems like he would be an asshole in "real" life. 

I have to agree!

Also, why would anyone want a thinner Reese's cup? That makes no sense.

[GHScorpiosRule]

3 hours ago, chessiegal said:

Sheryl's She Shed - never underestimate the power of alliteration. 

Okay, now you've done it. Now I'm hearing Cindy Brady's "She sells seashells by the sea shore." 😜

[meep.meep]

5 hours ago, funky-rat said:

Perhaps.  I think some of it is that to me, sheds are purely utilitarian, and not a place that I would want to spend extended time in, no matter how nice it was "fixed up".  Call it "Lady Land", or "Her Hangout", or "Girl Grotto".  "She Shed" just sounds like you're being banished someplace not nice (which does tie somewhat in to what you said).  You don't even need to put a gender qualifier in front of it, or give it some trendy name.  "Tranquility Space".  "Personal Time Pod".  I'm not offended -  I just think it could be better.

I think the term was coined for the commercial - because it sounds so silly when Cheryl exclaims to her husband "I'm getting a chi chier she shed!"

I've never heard anyone else talk about a she shed.  And I think the commercial is hilarious.

[Annber03]

5 hours ago, funky-rat said:

Perhaps.  I think some of it is that to me, sheds are purely utilitarian, and not a place that I would want to spend extended time in, no matter how nice it was "fixed up".  Call it "Lady Land", or "Her Hangout", or "Girl Grotto".  "She Shed" just sounds like you're being banished someplace not nice (which does tie somewhat in to what you said).  You don't even need to put a gender qualifier in front of it, or give it some trendy name.  "Tranquility Space".  "Personal Time Pod".  I'm not offended -  I just think it could be better.

Agreed. I think the term "man cave" sounds dumb, too, 'cause it brings to mind, well...the image of cavemen. 

4 hours ago, AntiBeeSpray said:

Yep. Especially when chichier sounds like 'she sheer'.  🤣

I thought "she sheer" was what she was saying :p. I have never heard the term "chichier" before.

[AntiBeeSpray]

1 minute ago, Annber03 said:

Agreed. I think the term "man cave" sounds dumb, too, 'cause it brings to mind, well...the image of cavemen. 

I thought "she sheer" was what she was saying :p. I have never heard the term "chichier" before.

Same here. Only found out afterwards that she was saying the latter.

[Bastet]

6 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

I have never heard the term "chichier" before. 

I've heard "chichi" many times, but I think "chichier" is made up for the commercial.

[CrystalBlue]

On 6/29/2019 at 12:00 PM, Colleenna said:

I hate hate hate, with an irrational hatred, the Subaru ad with the heavily pregnant woman who takes her unborn child to the ocean and the forest. "This is the ocean..." The baby can't see or smell the surf, and it's extremely unlikely that it can hear it, either. Forest: "Just listen." Duh. 

I hate this one with the fire of 1000 nuns.

[Katy M]

27 minutes ago, CrystalBlue said:

I hate this one with the fire of 1000 nuns.

The fire of 1000 nuns?  I'm getting a whole burning at the stake vibe.

[Automne]

On 7/1/2019 at 5:07 PM, Tom Holmberg said:

Funny, Shriner's Hospital says the same thing.  Maybe you can go to the hospital after eating at Chuck E. Cheese.

On 7/1/2019 at 7:12 PM, BigBingerBro said:

Well technically, at Shriner's they say "Where kids get to be KIDS".  You say tomato, I say tomato.

As soon as I read these comments, the Shriner’s commercial started playing on my TV and I’m a little concerned.

[Ashforth]

On 6/27/2019 at 10:09 PM, elle said:

That song from the Infiniti ad has its own page.  I normally don't mind twangy music, but something about this one is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I think it's probably a song that people either love or hate. I don't love it. Especially when hearing it over and over and over again because this commercial is on my TV ALL THE TIME.

On 6/28/2019 at 9:34 PM, fairffaxx said:

Unless we are police officers, who observe an individual exiting a vehicle. 

Ha! I believe the phrase in the report is that the officer "assisted the suspect in exiting the vehicle," aka pulled him out of the car and threw him to the ground.

[fairffaxx]

31 minutes ago, Ashforth said:

... Ha! I believe the phrase in the report is that the officer "assisted the suspect in exiting the vehicle," aka pulled him out of the car and threw him to the ground.

And then perhaps (as I heard a Police Dept spokesman say recently) "the gentleman's head collided with the pavement and he became deceased". 

[BigBingerBro]

7 hours ago, margol29 said:

Also, why would anyone want a thinner Reese's cup? That makes no sense.

I know right?  When I first saw that commercial I thought it was a joke and they would eventually show a jumbo-sized cup or something.  I guess the less-is-more and "healthy" mentality is demanding stuff like this.  The whole thing really seems off when it's mixed with the sarcastic dude-bro voiceover.

[Uncle JUICE]

I'll give a generic one: any retirement or investment service commercial where I'm supposed to believe the people reaping the benefits have some intimate relationship with the person administrating their account. Like they invite their retirement counselor to their kid's wedding. Get. The. Fuck. Out of here. AI and spreadsheets do most of the work, assholes, that dude is just collecting his commission. THe guy calling his customer out of nowhere and saying "I think I figured out how to get you into that home made airplane business you told me about so many years ago!" as if he were eating dinner with his family thinking about some client. Go fuck yourself. 

[ABay]

12 hours ago, CrystalBlue said:

I hate this one with the fire of 1000 nuns.

As long as one person remembers the nuns or strudy tube or fishcakes, TWoP will never die.

[Prevailing Wind]

You know how on those "cat tree" things there are various platform levels for the cats to sit/lay on and sometimes there's a "hidey hole" built in?  At the animal hospital where I work, we have two cat trees in the adoption area and both have hidey holes. We just happen to have a male cat and a female cat available for adoption. Each one uses the hidey hole to sleep - and it's the same one every time. So, of course, it's become, "Max is in his man cave; Cotton Balls is in her She Shed."  (She's a tabby with the floofiest white paws - they DO look like cotton balls at the end of her legs.)

[Ashforth]

38 minutes ago, ABay said:

As long as one person remembers the nuns or strudy tube or fishcakes, TWoP will never die.

Awww I haven't thought of "blah blah fishcakes" in the longest. Still miss TWoP.

Topic? Super Beta Prostate! LOL

[Tom Holmberg]

13 hours ago, Automne said:

As soon as I read these comments, the Shriner’s commercial started playing on my TV and I’m a little concerned

Coincidence, I think not!

[funky-rat]

16 hours ago, meep.meep said:

I think the term was coined for the commercial - because it sounds so silly when Cheryl exclaims to her husband "I'm getting a chi chier she shed!"

I've never heard anyone else talk about a she shed.  And I think the commercial is hilarious.

No, She Shed has been around for a bit now.  I first saw it in a magazine a few years ago (some frou frou magazine that I read in a doctor's office, like Martha Stewart or something similar), and it's slowly coming in to prominence.  I found a coffee table book about She Sheds that was published in 2017, so it's probably a year or two before that yet.

[elle]

On 7/2/2019 at 7:48 PM, BigBingerBro said:

On 7/2/2019 at 12:23 PM, margol29 said:

Also, why would anyone want a thinner Reese's cup? That makes no sense.

I know right?  When I first saw that commercial I thought it was a joke and they would eventually show a jumbo-sized cup or something.  I guess the less-is-more and "healthy" mentality is demanding stuff like this.  The whole thing really seems off when it's mixed with the sarcastic dude-bro voiceover.

As someone who regularly ate the edges of a Reese's cup, lots of chocolate a little peanut butter, those would appeal to me if I still ate them. But, that is another story.

On 7/2/2019 at 5:59 PM, Katy M said:

The fire of 1000 nuns?  I'm getting a whole burning at the stake vibe.

As noted, it was a saying from the Television without Pity, TWOP, site. It was supposed to have been a typo from someone writing "the fire of 10,000 suns." 

I need to work "blah, blah, fishcakes" into a conversation today.

Edited July 4, 2019 by elle

[LoneHaranguer]

2 hours ago, funky-rat said:

I found a coffee table book about She Sheds that was published in 2017, so it's probably a year or two before that yet.

I was able to google an article dated April 2015 that made it sound fairly new, so the two's about right.