Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[wovenloaf]

Clearly they don't get along because in the original, the call center one says "How do I sound?"  The calling sister responsds "Strangely professional" like she is surprised her sister could act that way.

I just took that to mean she's used to talking to her sister in a casual way, rather than hearing her talk at work. Before my Mom's phone at her work had caller ID, she would always answer it in her professional way and it would sound kinda weird to me if I called her there. Not because I don't think my Mom can be professional, but just because she sounds different when talking to clients and I'm not used to it. 

 

The dusty corpse of the White Diamonds commercial has been dragged out and propped up in the corner again for the holidays. Surely someone can remake it without using the entire tub of Vaseline on the lens? Lindsay Lohan's not very busy these days, and could reprise her Lifetime movie role.

Hahaha! 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Second, why does it take until the woman says "Awesome sauce" to realize she knows the person on the other end? I assume they are sisters, they look alike. You don't know someone you are that close to by the sound of their voice. NEITHER of them recognize the voice of the other person until then? And seriously the ONLY person you know who says "awesome sauce"??? MANY people say that now.

 

And more than that, they look just alike, so they're either twins or clones. How does the rep not know that the other woman says "Awesomesauce!"? and why does she have to shriek "Julee?!" when she realizes who she's talking to? Annoying.

[Bastet]

but usually when you call a credit card company, the automated system makes you enter in your card number.

 

Yeah, and then when you finally enter enough information to reach a human being, they ask you for all the same info you entered.

 

But, yeah, I find it hard to believe it takes "Awesome Sauce" to spark recognition among twins who know each other well enough to know such idiocy is one sister's signature phrase. 

[Crisopera]

Now that Elizabeth Taylor has passed on, I'm surprised that whoever owns White Diamonds hasn't put together an ad with clips of Liz at the height of her unearthly beauty.  Maybe one of those almost unbelievable close-ups from A Place in the Sun, or anything else from the early 50s.

[Neurochick]

That ad (I think it's for Ikea?) where the Dad is trying to shave makes me stabby.  He's trying to shave in peace in his own bathroom and the wife keeps yelling through the door and banging on it demanding he get out.  Go away!

 

It's worse than that.  The dad is in a house full of women, daughters and wife, the products in the bathroom aren't just the wife's but the daughter's too.  I guess the house only has one bathroom.

[redlaces]

The Hershey Kisses playing We Wish You A Merry Christmas as bells... I loathe that damn commercial. Only because every channel plays that commercial ad nauseam this time of year. Every.single.year. It seems like it has been around for 20 years now. I also can't stand the one with the little boy who comes in as a snowman and thaws out when he eats the soup for the same reason. Have yet to see that one this year though. 

[Moose135]

The Hershey Kisses playing We Wish You A Merry Christmas as bells...It seems like it has been around for 20 years now... 

 

Twenty-five...

 

http://blog.hersheyarchives.org/tag/tv-commercial/

 

I think it's sweet. :-)

[MaryPatShelby]

I had never seen the Glitter Pony DISH commercial that you all had referenced here, until last night when I saw it 4 times during one half of basketball.  OMG it's horrendous!!  It is the very last commercial that would make me switch to DISH.

[Aquarius]

I also can't stand the one with the little boy who comes in as a snowman and thaws out when he eats the soup for the same reason. Have yet to see that one this year though. 

 

This is one of my all-time hated commercials.  I hated it when it was new . . . that kid is creepy.

[Bruinsfan]

Maybe she's afraid he's shaving with her yogurt.  It might be soothing.  

If I were him, the opposite would be true - I'd be meticulously filling all those yogurt cartons with shaving cream on the sly.

 

The dusty corpse of the White Diamonds commercial has been dragged out and propped up in the corner again for the holidays. Surely someone can remake it without using the entire tub of Vaseline on the lens? Lindsay Lohan's not very busy these days, and could reprise her Lifetime movie role.

I think they should show that spoof commercial from Saturday Night Live with Sally Field and Phil Hartman.

[Aquarius]

If I were him, the opposite would be true - I'd be meticulously filling all those yogurt cartons with shaving cream on the sly.

 

My money says she'd never even know the difference.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

If I were him, the opposite would be true - I'd be meticulously filling all those yogurt cartons with shaving cream on the sly.

 

 

My money says she'd never even know the difference.

 

Not true. Shaving cream would probably actually taste like something.

[friendperidot]

once this year, saw a White Diamonds ad that referenced that Liz is no longer with us.

 

Now the KMart Joe Boxer guys beating their bellies has been replace by pregnant women dancing - don't know how I feel about that except we're going to hell in a handbasket. The fat guys don't really bother me, probably because I'm old and have a less than perfect body myself.

[Jamoche]

You'd really think that two women talking about yogurt, with 2-3 lines each, could manage to pass the Bechdel test.

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7WG_/yoplait-light-now-aspartame-free

 

Nope.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Revisiting the online dating ads from upthread, the ones for Christian Mingle irritate me -- not only are they telling me (as a Christian single woman) that I have to meet "God's match" for me, but they go so far as to speak for God? I'm thinking that doesn't please Him too much.

 

 

 

Where am I going, and why am I in this hand-basket?

[Rick Kitchen]

I really, really, really hate this ad.

 

[Prevailing Wind]

Ooma...Oprah.  Oprah...Ooma.

 

Aw, it's got a puppy. People will LOVE it.  Not.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Dude. Put the puppy down and you don't have to get hurt.

[SoSueMe]

I'm pretty much live and let live but there are a couple of commercials for high end items that drive me crazy. One for Jaguar has pretty much been replaced with the Nicholas Hoult / evil genius one and that's okay. But before that there was the voice over guy who pronounced it jag-eee-wa. I swear if I could afford a Jaguar that would keep me from buying one.

 

Lately there has been one for Cartier watches and that voice over guy sounds like he has a hairball when he says "Cartier". 

 

I guess the demographic for these things relate to the commercials. Oh well......

[portia7]

The Brits do pronounce Jaguar like Jag you are. Heh.

Don't believe I've seen the Cartier one. Is it pronounce Cart ee a (long a sound)? If so, that's correct.

[Bastet]

The Brits do pronounce Jaguar like Jag you are.

 

So do I.  Webster's lists that middle schwa as an either/or thing (it's in parentheses for the first listed pronunciation), and although I usually hear it pronounced jag-wär - or, in the case of far too many sports journalists, jag-wire - I've always used the middle syllable. 

[SoSueMe]

Here is the Cartier commercial. It is visually beautiful, I like everything about it except the voice over pronunciation at the very end. It still sounds like he has a hairball to me, lol.

 

 

I still have to find the Jaguar commercial, it's been out of rotation for a while, since the evil genius ones came out.

[Rick Kitchen]

Kate Upton can't act her way out of a paper bag, but at least they're showing a woman in position of authority.  I have to worry about how much chafing her thighs are going to get, though.

 

[90PercentGravity]

The Joe Boxer pregnant women commercial bugs me so much. It's totally creepy... like Santa knocked up all those women. Also, don't women have enough impossible standards to try to meet, now pregnant women have to worry about looking like skinny models too?

[kirinan]

I have decided I detest the Kohl's "Strange Magic" commercial where the little boy ignores his father in the car and then gets all giddy when he sees the reindeer. I don't know why I hate it so much, but I find myself wishing that the dad would have just walked off into the woods and left the snotty little S.O.B. to be trampled or eaten by the reindeer. 

[Moose135]

It's totally creepy...like Santa knocked up all those women.

 

I haven't seen it yet, but now, if I do, that's all I'll think about.

[slensam]

Kate Upton can't act her way out of a paper bag, but at least they're showing a woman in position of authority.  I have to worry about how much chafing her thighs are going to get, though.

 

Somehow I don't envision her leading troops into battle.

[Rick Kitchen]

If Kate Upton was wearing that outfit, I'd follow her.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

If Kate Upton was wearing that outfit, I'd follow her.

 

Oh, does the line start here?

[slensam]

If Kate Upton was wearing that outfit, I'd follow her.

I'd follow her too. Probably to a certain death. I don't think my mind would be on the enemy.

[photo fox]

The Joe Boxer pregnant women commercial bugs me so much. It's totally creepy...

Yeah, I hate that one, too, although I can't really say why. It just skeeves me out for some reason. I mean, it's just some pregnant women dancing, and they're perfectly well covered, but it's just icky somehow.

[Jamoche]

I have decided I detest the Kohl's "Strange Magic" commercial where the little boy ignores his father in the car and then gets all giddy when he sees the reindeer. I don't know why I hate it so much, but I find myself wishing that the dad would have just walked off into the woods and left the snotty little S.O.B. to be trampled or eaten by the reindeer. 

Just imagine it being like the similar scene in The Walking Dead.

[ikmccall]

Christian Dior fragrance commercial using Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love". They're not even close to being one of my favorite bands but ..........really?

[Prevailing Wind]

 

Here is the Cartier commercial. It is visually beautiful, I like everything about it except the voice over pronunciation at the very end. It still sounds like he has a hairball to me, lol.

 

I still have to find the Jaguar commercial, it's been out of rotation for a while, since the evil genius ones came out.

But isn't it ironic that the Cartier commercial HAS a jaguar in it?  LOL.  No wonder the dude sounds like coughing up a hairball.

[heebiejeebie]

Yeah, I hate that one, too, although I can't really say why. It just skeeves me out for some reason. I mean, it's just some pregnant women dancing, and they're perfectly well covered, but it's just icky somehow.

 

For me it is the dancing. Yeah they are pregnant but they all and each seem to be trying to steal the scene.  It just seems off.  Plus I'd find non-pregnant women dancing like that just as stupid and trying way too hard. 

[ABay]

I have decided I detest the Kohl's "Strange Magic" commercial where the little boy ignores his father in the car and then gets all giddy when he sees the reindeer. I don't know why I hate it so much, but I find myself wishing that the dad would have just walked off into the woods and left the snotty little S.O.B. to be trampled or eaten by the reindeer.

For me, it's a depressed to the point of suicide dad. He seems like he's about to pull the car over and hang himself from the nearest branch. Get some perspective, man.

Edited December 15, 2014 by ABay

[heebiejeebie]

For me, it's a depressed to the point of suicide dad. He seems like he's about to pull the car over and hang himself from the nearest branch. Get some perspective, man.

 

To be fair did you notice the car he id driving?  The kid is wearing earbuds and poor ignored dad is driving a wagon that looks like even Mike and Carol Brady would say its time for some new wheels.  Sullen snot son and a station wagon that looks almost Depression era and I'd say the off ramp to the after life might be rather tempting.

 

I've already voiced my annoyance at the kid and this ad a few pages back.  But no thing I never mentioned was the oddness of the dad just starting to walk off before the deer has really "taken off".  How does he know another deer isn't going to break from his feeding to gore the kid?  Or the kid won't try to see what is behind that mystic fog? 

 

It's just an all together stupid ad.  Not as bad as the shrunken oranges and entitled sociopath tykes.  Go ahead and cut the head off your toy horse little twit.  Go to the store to buy you those tangerines?  Nope.  Instead as you turn off the light to go to bed you can't help notice the bright glow out the window. you look,  and there is daddy burning every. single, thing, you .hold dear.  How about that for some orange?  you want war kiddo?  Daddy is going to the mattresses.

[CarpeDiem54]

Holy crap! I just saw the skeevy K-Mart preggo gut commercial you've all been bitching about. It was on every.freaking.break during a show tonight. I'd rather see the guys playing drums on their guts or jingling their junk, thank you very much. Blech!

[slensam]

Holy crap! I just saw the skeevy K-Mart preggo gut commercial you've all been bitching about. It was on every.freaking.break during a show tonight. I'd rather see the guys playing drums on their guts or jingling their junk, thank you very much. Blech!

The thing that all these type of ads show to me is that the only important thing is to get people's attention by any means necessary. There was a commercial about some kind of cleaner where the kid tells the mother he used the toilet and the mother comes in to see for herself. Well apparently the kid went to the bathroom in the sink. Probably in about five years from now they'll actually show it. And like "torture porn" movies I really don't want to see this stuff. And I don't care how "old' I'm getting. Get off my lawn?

[Prevailing Wind]

I'm more like, "OK...go frolic on my lawn.  Just get the hell off my TV."

[Bruinsfan]

Kate Upton can't act her way out of a paper bag, but at least they're showing a woman in position of authority.  I have to worry about how much chafing her thighs are going to get, though.

If everyone else is wearing somewhat realistic Medieval armor, why is she wearing a tinfoil bustier and a white feather boa? If they'd dressed her in Xena fashion it might make a Boudica situation plausible, but it looks like Kate's leading her army to a Victoria's Secret sale rather than a battle.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKOK-DzrQQ8

 

Shut up, Jim Parsons. It's bad enough that Sheldon is as annoying as shit. Do you have to compete with your fictional alter ego? Shut up.

[peeayebee]

I like that commercial because I'm as impressed with the technology he's playing with as he is. Plus, here he's not quite Sheldon. Plus plus, I like Jim Parsons.

[iMonrey]

I'm somewhat amused by this ad http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7jVD/tyson-anytizers-jacks-appetite for Tyson Any'tizers, except that a.) they seem to have gone out of their way to cast a poor man's Will Ferrell as "Jack's appetite" (why would the appetite of a teen-aged boy be a fully grown man?) and b.) I don't get why Tyson's chicken nuggets satisfy his appetite any more than all the other junk he was eating. They might be (dubiously) more nutritious than the other junk food, but certainly no more filling.

[ethalfrida]

The thing that all these type of ads show to me is that the only important thing is to get people's attention by any means necessary. There was a commercial about some kind of cleaner where the kid tells the mother he used the toilet and the mother comes in to see for herself. Well apparently the kid went to the bathroom in the sink. Probably in about five years from now they'll actually show it. And like "torture porn" movies I really don't want to see this stuff. And I don't care how "old' I'm getting. Get off my lawn?

Thank you for that. Exactly what I was thinking. That ad annoys me to no end because his butt is too old not to know that was the wrong place. I hate the ads that make kids look stupid. And parents go for it!

[Brattinella]

I finally have seen the Kmart pregnant ad... YUCKO.  That's about the nastiest thing I've seen in a while.

[MrsEVH]

The Wal Mart commercials with Melissa Joan Hart and that guy (don't know his name). are annoying.

[bilgistic]

I'm glad I haven't seen the Kmart preggo ad (now I have doomed myself to see it on repeat in the next thing I watch) because pregnancy horrifies me. No personal offense meant to anyone here who is, was, or could be pregnant, and I'm fully aware of how I got here, but pregnancy squicks me out, and the less I see of it, the better. I made damn sure I'm never having kids, and I'm sure you all are glad.

[90PercentGravity]

@BILGISTIC I'm the same way. Pregnacy totally freaks me out. To the point that I think I might have an actual phobia. When I see a pregnant woman somewhere it actually causes a visceral reaction. I have nightmares about being pregnant. *shudder*

 

Babies freak me out too.

[Ubiquitous]

Kay Jewelers has an ad with a quasi-documentary about how penguins, as part of their mating ritual, involves giving the female a pebble, followed by a snooty penguin bitch rebuffing her overtures for one who offered a diamond. So much hate!