Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[peacheslatour]

Comcast Business ad. Goddamit, Pete. Don't you have enough money? You're gonna sell Baba O'Rily?

[Kimboweena]

Binge-watching shows on Hulu.  Keep seeing an ad for GrubHub.  The music is so annoying, and I can't stand the way the characters look!

[madmax]

15 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Comcast Business ad. Goddamit, Pete. Don't you have enough money? You're gonna sell Baba O'Rily?

And Comcast wireless uses Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac.  I hate their commercial where the girl is comparing changing phone plans to breaking up with her boyfriend.  She tells him it's over by text.  Really?

Unfortunately, with all these artists selling their catalogs off for big bucks, we're going to see a lot more of these classic songs in commercials.  😒

[bankerchick]

On 5/20/2021 at 6:00 PM, Yeah No said:

I guess I'm becoming that cranky old "Karen" or whatever, LOL.  🙄

No apologies required if it gets you free potato chips.  They are starting to know me at the local Wendys because if I spend $11 on a combo and specifically say, 'no mayo on the sandwich' and get home to find mayo has ruined my sandwich, they are going to hear about it.  Every time.

 

4 hours ago, madmax said:

Unfortunately, with all these artists selling their catalogs off for big bucks, we're going to see a lot more of these classic songs in commercials.  😒

None more depressing that hearing Rocket Man being sung as 'Rakuten.'

[peacheslatour]

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No apologies required if it gets you free potato chips.  They are starting to know me at the local Wendys because if I spend $11 on a combo and specifically say, 'no mayo on the sandwich' and get home to find mayo has ruined my sandwich, they are going to hear about it.  Every time.

Fuckin' A. I have had more ruined sandwiches and tacos that I care to count. That's one good thing about being a regular at a place, they get to know your preferences although usually just when they get it, they hire a bunch of noobs who have to be trained all over again.

[CrazyInAlabama]

On 5/21/2021 at 9:11 AM, susannah said:

There must be more than one similar ad. The one I'm referring to has a black man and a black haired woman and she is hiding from him while eating Cheetos.

Both commercials I saw had Mila and Ashton, but also Shaggy (I hope that name's right), and in one version he has a more prominent role.  

[Bastet]

2 minutes ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Both commercials I saw had Mila and Ashton, but also Shaggy (I hope that name's right),

Yep, you got it right - he's the one who performed the funny "It Wasn't Me" song the commercials are riffing on.

[Bruinsfan]

Forget the kitchen chair, he was squirming on the upholstered sofa—that thing's going to be like the couch in a frat house rec room!

[Prevailing Wind]

Similar to the lack of strawberries in Special K (the cereal, not a Kardashian)... TWO SCOOPS of raisins in a box of Kellogg's Raisin Bran!!  I always wondered if they use proportional scoops for the different size boxes or does a small box come packed with raisins and a large box sparsely populated with them, but they each add up to two scoops. WHAT SIZE are the scoops?

[susannah]

On 5/20/2021 at 3:00 PM, Yeah No said:

I guess I'm becoming that cranky old "Karen" or whatever, LOL.  🙄

What exactly is this "Karen" thing? I have seen it often but not sure what it means. I know it's not complimentary, and I do feel for those who are named Karen!

2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Similar to the lack of strawberries in Special K (the cereal, not a Kardashian)... TWO SCOOPS of raisins in a box of Kellogg's Raisin Bran!!  I always wondered if they use proportional scoops for the different size boxes or does a small box come packed with raisins and a large box sparsely populated with them, but they each add up to two scoops. WHAT SIZE are the scoops?

Teaspoon size? Keebler elf size?

[dleighg]

46 minutes ago, susannah said:

What exactly is this "Karen" thing? I have seen it often but not sure what it means. I know it's not complimentary, and I do feel for those who are named Karen!

(Yeah a lot of Karen's are my age roughly, so I feel for them). It's an annoying woman who always wants to "complain to the manager" about some perceived error on the part of some poor hapless employee. Basically an entitled woman. I don't know why men aren't "Karens" as well.

[Yeah No]

45 minutes ago, susannah said:

What exactly is this "Karen" thing? I have seen it often but not sure what it means. I know it's not complimentary, and I do feel for those who are named Karen!

This from Wikipedia:

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Karen is a pejorative term for a woman seeming to be entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal. The term also refers to memes depicting White women who use their privilege to demand their own way.[1][2] Depictions also may include demanding to "speak to the manager", being racist or sporting a particular bob cut hairstyle.[3] The term has been criticized for being sexist, ageist, misogynistic, or seeking to control female behavior.[3] As of 2020, the term was increasingly being used in media and on social media as a general-purpose term for middle class White women, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.[1] The term has also been applied to male behavior.[3][4] The Guardian called 2020 "the year of Karen".[5]

Don't even get me started on how angry it makes me.  I have never been a "Karen" in my life for all sorts of reasons (not the least of which was growing up and living in the Bronx for half my life, the height of anti-entitlement), but now of course I will probably be called one.

3 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Similar to the lack of strawberries in Special K (the cereal, not a Kardashian)... TWO SCOOPS of raisins in a box of Kellogg's Raisin Bran!!  I always wondered if they use proportional scoops for the different size boxes or does a small box come packed with raisins and a large box sparsely populated with them, but they each add up to two scoops. WHAT SIZE are the scoops?

LOL, I know!  I've seen some pretty small scoops, too!

14 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

The last thing I want to see is a bear's bare ass cheeks rubbing on a chair seat. If the bear's bare ass isn't clean, rubbing those dirty ass cheeks on a kitchen chair seat is about as disgusting as it gets.🐻

 

I can't even begin to express how disgusted those bear commercials make me.  They're cartoons, but still....

[KLovestoShop]

OK, I didn’t think a commercial could get any worse, but now we have the Gold Bond powder.  A kid is tossed a basketball and says “these balls are moist”.  Then comes an older man who says “or is that the damp weight of self awareness you now hold in your hand?”   Next “Keep your downstairs dry with Gold Bond”, all while the kid is looking down at his crotch.  

[peacheslatour]

39 minutes ago, KLovestoShop said:

OK, I didn’t think a commercial could get any worse, but now we have the Gold Bond powder.  A kid is tossed a basketball and says “these balls are moist”.  Then comes an older man who says “or is that the damp weight of self awareness you now hold in your hand?”   Next “Keep your downstairs dry with Gold Bond”, all while the kid is looking down at his crotch.  

As long as we're talking about it. I guess that's all they care about.

[eel21788]

7 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Similar to the lack of strawberries in Special K (the cereal, not a Kardashian)... TWO SCOOPS of raisins in a box of Kellogg's Raisin Bran!!  I always wondered if they use proportional scoops for the different size boxes or does a small box come packed with raisins and a large box sparsely populated with them, but they each add up to two scoops. WHAT SIZE are the scoops?

They used to advertise that you got at least one raisin in every spoonful. My sister and I kept careful track as we were eating them. If you started out allotting one raisin in each spoonful, you still ran out of raisins before you got to the bottom of the bowl. This was a scientific study replicated many times over of period of several months.

[peacheslatour]

50 minutes ago, eel21788 said:

They used to advertise that you got at least one raisin in every spoonful. My sister and I kept careful track as we were eating them. If you started out allotting one raisin in each spoonful, you still ran out of raisins before you got to the bottom of the bowl. This was a scientific study replicated many times over of period of several months.

My DH and I did a similar study. We came to the conclusion that Post Raisin Bran has the most raisins. We just buy Sun Maids in those little boxes and dump 'em into the cereal.

Edited May 23, 2021 by peacheslatour

[eel21788]

11 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

 We just buy Sun Maids in those little boxes and dump 'em into the cereal.

That's what my grandmother kept threatening to do when my sister and I sat at the breakfast table every morning counting our raisins. We somehow couldn't get her to understand we were doing scientific research, and she would invalidate our study if she introduced additional variables.

We also didn't want the added raisins because they hadn't been bathed in granulated sugar the way the ones that came with the cereal were.

[Bastet]

9 minutes ago, eel21788 said:

That's what my grandmother kept threatening to do when my sister and I sat at the breakfast table every morning counting our raisins. We somehow couldn't get her to understand we were doing scientific research, and she would invalidate our study if she introduced additional variables.

I think raisins are a crime against grapes, but this had me laughing out loud.  It's science, Grandma!

[Darlabutterfly]

3 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

That's just nuts.🐿️

I see what you did there.

[Spunkygal]

I’ve been watching the PGA Championship this weekend and am troubled by an AIG commercial they keep showing:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/OGBc/aig-direct-bedtime-story

I sure hope the guy is the little girl’s dad and not the financial advisor! The smug way he says “the finest financial advisor in the land” creeped me out and then he puts the advisor’s (his?) card in the book. The first few times when I saw this, it also creeped me out how the girl keeps her eyes closed all the time (except at the end) but kind of smiles while he’s telling the story. I kept saying, “scream, little girl, scream! let someone know he’s in your room!”  Just me? 

 

[chessiegal]

7 minutes ago, Spunkygal said:

I’ve been watching the PGA Championship this weekend and am troubled by an AIG commercial they keep showing:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/OGBc/aig-direct-bedtime-story

I sure hope the guy is the little girl’s dad and not the financial advisor! The smug way he says “the finest financial advisor in the land” creeped me out and then he puts the advisor’s (his?) card in the book. The first few times when I saw this, it also creeped me out how the girl keeps her eyes closed all the time (except at the end) but kind of smiles while he’s telling the story. I kept saying, “scream, little girl, scream! let someone know he’s in your room!”  Just me? 

 

Just saw it for the first time. Seemed clear to me the guy was her father.

[Spunkygal]

28 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

Just saw it for the first time. Seemed clear to me the guy was her father.

Maybe I am jaded since I hate all of AIG’s commercials!

[Gramto6]

I've finally had the "pleasure🤮" of seeing the 2 Kim Kardashian underwear commercials. OMG they totally gross me out and are so close to porn I don't know how they get away with it!! 🤢🤮

[AnnA]

I'm watching L&O reruns on the WE channel. In the past 15 minutes I saw 1) the disgusting Kim Kardashian underwear commercial and a few minutes later 2) the new men's underwear "lift, separate and support" commercial.  I think it was Hanes. All I can say is WTF is happening?

Edited May 23, 2021 by AnnA

[AnnA]

2 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

 

It is a legal series, I would expect to see briefs.

 

LOL You aced the landing with that comment!  

[GeorgiaRai]

2 hours ago, AnnA said:

... the new men's underwear "lift, separate and support" commercial.  I think it was Hanes. All I can say is WTF is happening?

I'd never seen this one - only heard of it from here - but last night, it came on during a Hallmark movie.  My 6 year old granddaughter was here and it caught her attention.  She said "Mimi! What are you watching?!" I told her it was just a gross commercial, and she responded "Well, it's not for children."  

Take my word for it - it's not for Mimis, either.  🤢

[AnnA]

1 minute ago, GeorgiaRai said:

I'd never seen this one - only heard of it from here - but last night, it came on during a Hallmark movie.  My 6 year old granddaughter was here and it caught her attention.  She said "Mimi! What are you watching?!" I told her it was just a gross commercial, and she responded "Well, it's not for children."  

Take my word for it - it's not for Mimis, either.  🤢

Good for your granddaughter!  She's smarter than the ad agency and company execs who approved that gross commercial.

[susannah]

7 hours ago, Bastet said:

I think raisins are a crime against grapes, but this had me laughing out loud.  It's science, Grandma!

So do I, but love the dedication to scientific process!

8 hours ago, eel21788 said:

They used to advertise that you got at least one raisin in every spoonful. My sister and I kept careful track as we were eating them. If you started out allotting one raisin in each spoonful, you still ran out of raisins before you got to the bottom of the bowl. This was a scientific study replicated many times over of period of several months.

I gather your scientific conclusion was that Kellogg's is a bald faced liar?

[KLovestoShop]

On that underwear commercial, do you notice that when the guy is riding the bronco machine, he’s holding onto something on the saddle, and the way it’s shot, it looks like he’s holding his little junior?  

[KLovestoShop]

Oops

Edited May 27, 2021 by KLovestoShop

[KWalkerInc]

There is an ad for the Zebra, which I guess compares car insurance rates, that has a woman riding around in an invisible car (she is seen just floating around a few feet off the ground in a sitting position with her hands out like she's holding an invisible steering wheel) because she "likes transparency."  It has a disclaimer at the bottom that says, "Invisible cars do not exist.  But your seatbelt does."  They could have just put a seatbelt on the woman instead of including the disclaimer, but I guess they were worried that that might have looked too stupid!

Also, there is a commercial for a local furniture store advertising its Memorial Day sale where they say that they put the "more" in "memorial."  That seems rather tacky.

[Kawaiiko]

2 hours ago, KWalkerInc said:

Also, there is a commercial for a local furniture store advertising its Memorial Day sale where they say that they put the "more" in "memorial."  That seems rather tacky.

Never mind that the word "more" isn't even in the word "memorial". But I do see what they're going for.

I hate how department stores and the like have made holidays like President's Day and MLK Day into opportunities to have sales on "SpEcIaL fUrNiTuRe!!"

[andromeda331]

2 minutes ago, Kawaiiko said:

Never mind that the word "more" isn't even in the word "memorial". But I do see what they're going for.

I hate how department stores and the like have made holidays like President's Day and MLK Day into opportunities to have sales on "SpEcIaL fUrNiTuRe!!"

Same here. I'm also confused on how they skipped right over Valentine and Easter commericals straight for MLK and President's Day sales. It would be annoying for Valentine and Easter but at least those are holidays gifts are given. 

[AnnA]

58 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:

Same here. I'm also confused on how they skipped right over Valentine and Easter commericals straight for MLK and President's Day sales. It would be annoying for Valentine and Easter but at least those are holidays gifts are given. 

MLK and Presidents' Day occur before Valentines Day and Easter. so they couldn't have been skipped over. 

Edited May 24, 2021 by AnnA

[bankerchick]

10 hours ago, KLovestoShop said:

On that underwear commercial, do you notice that when the guy is riding the bronco machine, he’s holding onto something on the saddle, and the way it’s shot, it looks like he’s holding his little junior?  

Yikes.  Yesterday while watching golf I saw a commercial for the Tommy John Hammock Pouch. 2 golf balls in a little v-shaped pouch, some pretty graphic description of how the underwear works so 'no swing, no cling, no chafing' and a happy (hot) guy swinging in a hammock.  I guess his balls are double-hammocked.

[andromeda331]

1 hour ago, AnnA said:

MLK and Presidents' Day occur before Valentines Day and Easter. so they couldn't have been skipped over. 

I don't know if its just my area or others but we barely got any Valentines Day or Easter commercials but we did get a lot of MLK and President Day furniture and other shopping commercials. I don't know why they were focusing so much on two holidays that have nothing to do with giving gifts while ignoring two that do.

[AnnA]

12 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:

I don't know if its just my area or others but we barely got any Valentines Day or Easter commercials but we did get a lot of MLK and President Day furniture and other shopping commercials. I don't know why they were focusing so much on two holidays that have nothing to do with giving gifts while ignoring two that do.

I don't think MLK and Presidents Day sales are geared toward gift giving.  They're more about retail outlets having sales to move merchandise..  February sales include laptops and appliances while January is known for furniture and carpets.

Edited May 24, 2021 by AnnA

[dleighg]

12 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:

I don't know if its just my area or others but we barely got any Valentines Day or Easter commercials but we did get a lot of MLK and President Day furniture and other shopping commercials. I don't know why they were focusing so much on two holidays that have nothing to do with giving gifts while ignoring two that do

and you must realize that the only gifts that are given on Valentines' Day are perfume and jewelry! 

[AnnA]

1 minute ago, dleighg said:

and you must realize that the only gifts that are given on Valentines' Day are perfume and jewelry! 

and chocolate.  

Easter isn't a gift giving holiday except candy for children.

[andromeda331]

41 minutes ago, dleighg said:

and you must realize that the only gifts that are given on Valentines' Day are perfume and jewelry! 

How little they know. My family has given each other gifts other the perfume or jewelry. I always gave my mother perfume for Christmas as one of her gifts and she never wanted jewelry. I always gave her other stuff. Along side chocolate of course. Even in the Middle season 6 Sue was hoping her boyfriend would get her the sweater she wanted at the mall. 

38 minutes ago, AnnA said:

and chocolate.  

Easter isn't a gift giving holiday except candy for children.

It cracks me up that they think you can't give anything but candy and those gross eggs for Easter. But for Presidents Day you buy sofas and chairs. In my family we always gave gifts (as the Easter bunny) in addition to candy. Gift cards, stuff they wanted like a grill that my brother wanted. 

[peacheslatour]

1 hour ago, dleighg said:

and you must realize that the only gifts that are given on Valentines' Day are perfume and jewelry! 

This florist would like a word....

[AnnA]

15 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:

It cracks me up that they think you can't give anything but candy and those gross eggs for Easter. But for Presidents Day you buy sofas and chairs. In my family we always gave gifts (as the Easter bunny) in addition to candy. Gift cards, stuff they wanted like a grill that my brother wanted. 

OK - My family didn't do gifts for Easter.   The focus was more on Easter as a religious holiday and the Easter bunny candy/easter eggs were just for the children.

ETA:  Oops!  I forgot about the plants.  I bought and received plants on easter.

Edited May 24, 2021 by AnnA

[SoMuchTV]

I never thought the stores advertising big sales for Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, etc. were promoting gift-giving for those holidays.  I thought it was more like "Hey, a lot of people have a 3-day weekend!  Let's get them to spend some money that they otherwise wouldn't have!"  

[Blergh]

4 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

I never thought the stores advertising big sales for Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, etc. were promoting gift-giving for those holidays.  I thought it was more like "Hey, a lot of people have a 3-day weekend!  Let's get them to spend some money that they otherwise wouldn't have!"  

Yes, oddly enough, I don't recall too many floral or wreath ads during Memorial Day (not even from FTD). But I guess it's just as well that we aren't inundated with funeral home ads during this time! 

[Cowgirl]

I absoultey hate the Buick, "That's so you" commercials.  They just are stupid and make no sense and don't work.  I kind of become enraged whenever they come on my television. 😝

[PrincessPurrsALot]

7 hours ago, KWalkerInc said:

Also, there is a commercial for a local furniture store advertising its Memorial Day sale where they say that they put the "more" in "memorial."  That seems rather tacky.

The "more" in "memorial" makes it sound like they kill people so that there are more people to mourn.  Do they have any idea of what Memorial Day is about?  Are they planning to start a war to up the body count?  OK, I've taken this down a very dark path. 😬

[chenoa333]

On 5/22/2021 at 7:24 PM, Bruinsfan said:

Forget the kitchen chair, he was squirming on the upholstered sofa—that thing's going to be like the couch in a frat house rec room!

The bear needs his anal glands emptied. 

[proserpina65]

On 5/21/2021 at 10:11 AM, susannah said:

There must be more than one similar ad. The one I'm referring to has a black man and a black haired woman and she is hiding from him while eating Cheetos.

Nope that's the same commercial, although there is a longer version.  Mila Kunis is saying "It wasn't me" when Ashton Kutcher accuses her of eating his Cheetos, and Shaggy (the rapper responsible for a song in which "It wasn't me" was the chorus) is telling her to say that.  When she blames Shaggy for eating the Cheetos, he says "It was her." to Ashton Kutcher.

[TattleTeeny]

You guys, there is a very annoying commercial for Coke that is driving me bonkers. The narrator is a slow-talking, over-enunciating woman with a breathy voice that also somehow sounds like she has a mouthful of food. And the music in the commercial almost overpowers her, but not enough that I can’t hear it. 

[susannah]

6 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Nope that's the same commercial, although there is a longer version.  Mila Kunis is saying "It wasn't me" when Ashton Kutcher accuses her of eating his Cheetos, and Shaggy (the rapper responsible for a song in which "It wasn't me" was the chorus) is telling her to say that.  When she blames Shaggy for eating the Cheetos, he says "It was her." to Ashton Kutcher.

Thanks for the info! That's it all right.