Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[TattleTeeny]

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It is way old yes, as a premise for a commercial. Even a step further, do people doing Zoom meetings even have to pretend that they are in a boardroom together? Do they really have to wear jacket, shirt and tie; as if they aren't really just at home on Zoom? 

Seems to me everyone should just wear a neat clean shirt. Everyone knows what's going on. And their sweatpants. If they are glimpsed, everyone can chuckle over it.

 

I'm late to the game on this one, but yesterday in a Zoom meeting, I had on an old Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt, haha! Clients don't take part in these meetings and I don't think anyone at my job cares one way or the other, thank goodness. 

[KLovestoShop]

I know this is an old commercial, but I despise it.  It’s for Honey Nut Cheerios with the not thin woman wearing the awful red dress.  Why do they film her in the worst possible angle with her stomach protruding and her swayback?  Then, she shovels a huge spoonful of Cheerios into her mouth.  Why?  Doesn’t make me want to buy Cheerios. 

[peacheslatour]

6 minutes ago, KLovestoShop said:

I know this is an old commercial, but I despise it.  It’s for Honey Nut Cheerios with the not thin woman wearing the awful red dress.  Why do they film her in the worst possible angle with her stomach protruding and her swayback?  Then, she shovels a huge spoonful of Cheerios into her mouth.  Why?  Doesn’t make me want to buy Cheerios. 

That is not a very flattering dress for her figure.

[proserpina65]

On 1/12/2022 at 4:09 PM, dleighg said:

There's this ad on the radio station that I listen to that has this ad on constantly. It's for a movie coming out soon called Redeeming Love. It just has a few snippets of dialog that have every cliche you can stuff into a 10 second time period.

woman: "I have too many demons. I don't know how to love."

man (with a full on southern drawl): "You can't choose the life you have, but you can choose the life you want."

That's it. Now that I've watched the whole trailer, I guess I understand a little more what the movie is about (I didn't even realize it was a "period piece"). I guess everyone on earth other than me has heard of this book? Anyway the tiny bit of dialog that is the sum total on the radio ad is what's above, and in the trailer around 1:30.

https://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/movies/trailer-redeeming-love-will-give-you-all-the-feels-1/

I've never heard of it either, but it's by one of those Christian Romance writers, so not something which interests me at all.  But yeah, that dialogue is the most cliched stuff I've heard in a long time.

[KLovestoShop]

Just saw a commercial for a company called Manscaped.  A woman hands her male significant other a box, and when he opens it up, it says “Your Balls Will Thank You”.  It’s calls itself the Lawnmower 4.0.  

[susannah]

21 minutes ago, KLovestoShop said:

Just saw a commercial for a company called Manscaped.  A woman hands her male significant other a box, and when he opens it up, it says “Your Balls Will Thank You”.  It’s calls itself the Lawnmower 4.0.  

I saw that yesterday, and tried to believe it wasn't about what apparently it is about, and it is beyond disgusting. Apparently there is no level too low to sink to in advertising.

[Yeah No]

On 1/6/2022 at 2:31 PM, proserpina65 said:

I don't mind those as much as I do the commercials for The Go-Big Show.  That absolutely is a sign of the Apocalypse right there.

As are the commercials for "Snowpiercer", which is literally and figuratively a sign of the Apocalypse.

I am still in shock and disgust over the Go-Big commercial with all the guys smashing each other in the nuts.  That was even worse than something I inadvertently saw on Tosh.0 once and cannot unsee.

[Kimboweena]

Anyone seen this one yet?  I'm not annoyed or enraged, but just a bit irritated. It's for a product called Focus Factor.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wfy6/focusfactor-get-your-einstein-on

[dleighg]

3 minutes ago, Kimboweena said:

It's for a product called Focus Factor.

I find it somewhat terrifying!

[Welshman in Ca]

10 hours ago, KLovestoShop said:

Just saw a commercial for a company called Manscaped.  A woman hands her male significant other a box, and when he opens it up, it says “Your Balls Will Thank You”.  It’s calls itself the Lawnmower 4.0.  

Not everyone likes a 70s porn movie bush, or it could be for his tennis balls, they can get a bit furry with constant use. 🤣

[Welshman in Ca]

10 hours ago, susannah said:

I saw that yesterday, and tried to believe it wasn't about what apparently it is about, and it is beyond disgusting. Apparently there is no level too low to sink to in advertising.

 

Beyond disgusting is a bit much, maybe not for you but some would find it useful.

[Mrs. Hanson]

On 1/10/2022 at 10:13 PM, andromeda331 said:

So do I. It reminds me of the Kraft commericals too and also the one where the Mom pats herself on the back because she got her kids to eat pizza for dinner. Its not hard to get kids to eat waffles and pizza.   The kid's a brat and the Mom annoyed that she won't wear pants but surprised he will eat waffles.

I agree 110%.  Don't pat yourself on the back for feeding a FROZEN pizza to your kids and being grateful they consumed it.

On 1/10/2022 at 12:49 PM, CrazyInAlabama said:

The kid has a good reason, because she's a dinosaur. (joking, but that's what she says).    I dislike this one, the ones where you add a ton of shredded cheese to any food and the kids eat, and the Kraft Mac and Cheese one where if the kids refuse to eat, they get a big bowl of this.      I guess in the commercial world, the kids are in charge, and the parents do what ever they demand.  

Now those hideously ridiculous Yoplait ads are back, the ones that celebrate little kids doing ordinary things, and the mother celebrating like they just were awarded a Nobel Prize.  

To contradict my response above, I WILL pat myself on the back:  I was in charge, lol, and my kids thank me.  I am a sped teacher and deal with kids who run the home and parents who want to be hip, cool, and friends with their kids.  It is not pleasant, lol.

I may/will get pushback, and that is fine, but I really need, not want, to meet a male, who has a female in the house, who does laundry other than his own.  I get it.  Diversity, dads are so great (cause good ones are) but you don't care about Tide pods free and clear.

Edited January 15, 2022 by Mrs. Hanson

[susannah]

1 hour ago, Welshman in Ca said:

 

Beyond disgusting is a bit much, maybe not for you but some would find it useful.

It's not a "bit much" for me. People may find the product useful but graphic ads are disgusting.

[millennium]

7 hours ago, Kimboweena said:

Anyone seen this one yet?  I'm not annoyed or enraged, but just a bit irritated. It's for a product called Focus Factor.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wfy6/focusfactor-get-your-einstein-on

Ha!  You beat me by 7 hours.    Just saw the spot on CNN and was reminded how much I hate it.   If I were chatting with my friend and she suddenly morphed into a female yeti vaguely resembling Albert Einstein I would probably reach for a weapon.

[Browncoat]

An ad that is irritating me at the minute is for some car or the other.  The couple in the car is deciding what to have for lunch.  He suggests sushi, she says she had sushi yesterday. He vetoes Indian and then suggests seafood.  She says, "You know I don't like seafood."  It irritates me because I always think of sushi as fish/seafood -- how does she eat sushi and not seafood?  I mean, I know, not all sushi involves fish, shrimp, eel, etc., but all the sushi I eat does!

[EtheltoTillie]

UO:  I actually thought the Focus Factor commercial was funny, but it’s probably selling a quack product, which does peeve me. 

[Suzn]

8 hours ago, susannah said:

It's not a "bit much" for me. People may find the product useful but graphic ads are disgusting.

ITA.  Nothing against the existence of the product, if it is useful, knock yourself out, but I don't want to see or hear explicit details of its use.  We seem to be a hair breadth away from seeing things like this in action.

That leads me to one that is disgusting me currently.  The women suggesting Lume deodorant for her stinky crevasses, then throws her legs wide and sighs, gives the impression that she is breathing from her genitals.  I wouldn't want to be exercising next to her.  I would suggest she have a good shower for her stinkyness.

Edited January 16, 2022 by Suzn

[EtheltoTillie]

I’ve got a new one. I just saw an ad for a product that treats your bent carrot, that is, Peyronie’s disease, a penile curvature. They show a lot of bent carrots. Yikes.  

[chessiegal]

12 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:

I’ve got a new one. I just saw an ad for a product that treats your bent carrot, that is, Peyronie’s disease, a penile curvature. They show a lot of bent carrots. Yikes.  

That's been around for a while. But yes, yikes indeed.

[EtheltoTillie]

14 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

That's been around for a while. But yes, yikes indeed.

I guess I miss out by usually fast forwarding through commercials. I was actually fast forwarding through the carrot commercial today, but something about it made me pause and watch. 

[smittykins]

20 hours ago, Browncoat said:

An ad that is irritating me at the minute is for some car or the other.  The couple in the car is deciding what to have for lunch.  He suggests sushi, she says she had sushi yesterday. He vetoes Indian and then suggests seafood.  She says, "You know I don't like seafood."  It irritates me because I always think of sushi as fish/seafood -- how does she eat sushi and not seafood?  I mean, I know, not all sushi involves fish, shrimp, eel, etc., but all the sushi I eat does!

Not to mention that the reason they decide on seafood is that he crashes into a seafood truck.

[Shelbie]

11 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

I guess I miss out by usually fast forwarding through commercials. I was actually fast forwarding through the carrot commercial today, but something about it made me pause and watch. 

One of the best things about having voice commands on my cable system is saying fast forward three minutes on a recording and then I’m back to the show. I don’t have to even see the irritating commercials speeded up or not.

Three minutes is not perfect timing but I usually miss most commercials.

[Browncoat]

17 minutes ago, smittykins said:

Not to mention that the reason they decide on seafood is that he crashes into a seafood truck.

The version I saw had them almost crashing into a taco truck, and they decide on tacos in the end.

Edited January 16, 2022 by Browncoat

[susannah]

18 minutes ago, Shelbie said:

One of the best things about having voice commands on my cable system is saying fast forward three minutes on a recording and then I’m back to the show. I don’t have to even see the irritating commercials speeded up or not.

Three minutes is not perfect timing but I usually miss most commercials.

I'm going to try that! Thanks!

[smittykins]

35 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

The version I saw had them almost crashing into a taco truck, and they decide on tacos in the end.

You’re right, I misremembered. 

[janie jones]

On 1/13/2022 at 7:31 PM, mmecorday said:

That Silk Almond Milk ad with the children of the damned choir chanting about making almond milk needs to go. "That's what it is. Silk Almond Milk. Milk of the laaaaaaaaand."

Aw, I like that one!

[Mrs. Hanson]

I thought I asked this, but maybe I didon't hit submit.  It is for a diamond company.  "Some things look different these days" then show a same gender couple asking if they want kids, etc.  But the opening shot is Man cooking and Woman enters and asks what is for dinner?  Is a man cooking that unusual?

[peacheslatour]

20 minutes ago, Mrs. Hanson said:

I thought I asked this, but maybe I didon't hit submit.  It is for a diamond company.  "Some things look different these days" then show a same gender couple asking if they want kids, etc.  But the opening shot is Man cooking and Woman enters and asks what is for dinner?  Is a man cooking that unusual?

Not at my house.

[Mrs. Hanson]

2 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Not at my house.

Me either!  My husband can COOK, my son makes pizza and makes the dough, he is reading a thick book on vinegars.  Vinegars and oils. 

[peacheslatour]

1 minute ago, Mrs. Hanson said:

Me either!  My husband can COOK, my son makes pizza and makes the dough, he is reading a thick book on vinegars.  Vinegars and oils. 

My husband makes the best omelettes! My son, like yours, is on a whole nother level.

[Mrs. Hanson]

35 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

My husband makes the best omelettes! My son, like yours, is on a whole nother level.

My other son....not ss mucho, lol.  But he is living here until he launches and a condition is that he cooks twice a week.  I will be teaching him.  Again.

[peacheslatour]

Soups and stews are a good place to start. And bread, there is something so satisfying about baking bread.

Speaking of irritating commercials, there is (I think) a financial planning company that has these ads that drives me crazy. They first started with a lady who sells lavender stuff because lavender soothed her son. Now there is one where the guy is talking about moving his mother in with him and his wife (who I'm sure is thrilled). Anyway and I know I'll get hate for this but they play this song that starts out "There was a dream..." It makes me irrationally pissed. I don't know why.

[Bastet]

4 hours ago, Mrs. Hanson said:

I thought I asked this, but maybe I didon't hit submit.

You posted it in another thread (the "Say What?" one for commercials that don't make sense).

[Haleth]

13 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Anyway and I know I'll get hate for this but they play this song that starts out "There was a dream..." It makes me irrationally pissed. I don't know why.

It annoys me too since that is all you hear of the song.  One line.

[Maverick]

 Please make this talentless, caterwauling twit singing karaoke in the yogurt commercial go away.  WTF is she even attempting to sing?  Is that supposed to be Wicked Game?  If so, Chris Isaak needs to sue

[Browncoat]

5 hours ago, Maverick said:

 Please make this talentless, caterwauling twit singing karaoke in the yogurt commercial go away.  WTF is she even attempting to sing?  Is that supposed to be Wicked Game?  If so, Chris Isaak needs to sue

I just saw this one for the first time!  Do the yogurt people think that horrible screeching will make me want to buy their yogurt?

[proserpina65]

On 1/15/2022 at 11:58 AM, susannah said:

It's not a "bit much" for me. People may find the product useful but graphic ads are disgusting.

Eh, I find those commercials amusing.

On 1/15/2022 at 1:50 PM, Browncoat said:

An ad that is irritating me at the minute is for some car or the other.  The couple in the car is deciding what to have for lunch.  He suggests sushi, she says she had sushi yesterday. He vetoes Indian and then suggests seafood.  She says, "You know I don't like seafood."  It irritates me because I always think of sushi as fish/seafood -- how does she eat sushi and not seafood?  I mean, I know, not all sushi involves fish, shrimp, eel, etc., but all the sushi I eat does!

I have this exact same reaction.  Probably because I hate seafood, so I avoid sushi although I do know there is some vegetable-based sushi.

8 hours ago, Maverick said:

Is that supposed to be Wicked Game?  If so, Chris Isaak needs to sue

He's probably making money from the royalties.

[Mrs. Hanson]

On 1/16/2022 at 8:02 PM, Bastet said:

You posted it in another thread (the "Say What?" one for commercials that don't make sense).

Thank you!

[mmecorday]

All the Copper Fit commercials bug, but now that infamous snake oil salesperson Gwyneth Paltrow is appearing in their commercials, I have a new reason to wish somebody would invent a device that allows the TV viewer to punch people on TV.

[susannah]

4 hours ago, mmecorday said:

All the Copper Fit commercials bug, but now that infamous snake oil salesperson Gwyneth Paltrow is appearing in their commercials, I have a new reason to wish somebody would invent a device that allows the TV viewer to punch people on TV.

What's Copper Fit?

[Tom Holmberg]

5 minutes ago, susannah said:

What's Copper Fit?

"Copper-infused" clothes.  Supposedly copper has magic powers to ease pain.

[Bastet]

10 minutes ago, susannah said:

What's Copper Fit?

It's a company that sells copper-infused compression sleeves, and runs a bunch of annoying commercials for them making all sorts of claims.  They recently announced they were partnering with fellow pseudo-science peddler Gwyneth Paltrow - whose line will come in her "favorite feminine colors, Serenity Blue and Powder Pink" 🙄 - so now she's in one of the commercials.

Edited January 18, 2022 by Bastet

[peacheslatour]

That "get your ducks in a row" song in the new Zoc Doc commercial is stupid but it's a hell of an improvement over their other commercial.

[CrystalBlue]

58 minutes ago, Bastet said:

It's a company that sells copper-infused compression sleeves, and runs a bunch of annoying commercials for them making all sorts of claims.  They recently announced they were partnering with fellow pseudo-science peddler Gwyneth Paltrow - whose line will come in her "favorite feminine colors, Serenity Blue and Powder Pink" 🙄 - so now she's in one of the commercials.

Debunking the Claims of Copper Compression Garments from "Consumer Reports" magazine

Maybe Gwyneth should just go back to steaming her vagina.

[madmax]

The Kayak commercial where the daughter tells her boyfriend not to mention Kayak because apparently her mother is a Kayak conspiracy theorist or something.

REALLY hate that one, because conspiracy theorists are nothing to laugh at, especially now.

[EtheltoTillie]

7 hours ago, Bastet said:

It's a company that sells copper-infused compression sleeves, and runs a bunch of annoying commercials for them making all sorts of claims.  They recently announced they were partnering with fellow pseudo-science peddler Gwyneth Paltrow - whose line will come in her "favorite feminine colors, Serenity Blue and Powder Pink" 🙄 - so now she's in one of the commercials.

That Gwyneth Paltrow will leave no quack product unturned.  She is exceeded only by Dr. Oz.

[Gharlane]

That hybrid car commercial with the car owner and the gas station owner acting like dicks about the squeegee at the gas pump annoys me to no end. 😠

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

It's a company that sells copper-infused compression sleeves, and runs a bunch of annoying commercials for them making all sorts of claims.  They recently announced they were partnering with fellow pseudo-science peddler Gwyneth Paltrow - whose line will come in her "favorite feminine colors, Serenity Blue and Powder Pink" 🙄 - so now she's in one of the commercials.

Will they smell like her vagina? 😲

[Haleth]

On 1/18/2022 at 1:54 AM, Maverick said:

 Please make this talentless, caterwauling twit singing karaoke in the yogurt commercial go away.  WTF is she even attempting to sing?  Is that supposed to be Wicked Game?  If so, Chris Isaak needs to sue

I haven't seen this yet but it's fair to say no one should try to sing this song except Chris Isaak.

On 1/15/2022 at 1:50 PM, Browncoat said:

She says, "You know I don't like seafood."  It irritates me because I always think of sushi as fish/seafood -- how does she eat sushi and not seafood?

IKR?  This makes no sense at all and really annoys me.

[iMonrey]

It makes me sad that Craig Robinson has to resort to doing Gain commercials, even if the idea of a Flashdance parody is sort of amusing. But what's worse is the opening lyric, "I'm a Gainiac, Gainiac, check my drawers," and then he sniffs his boxer shorts. Oh, Craig. How far you have fallen.

Also, I hope never to hear "Extravavestasaveathon" again, Progressive!

Edited January 19, 2022 by iMonrey

[susannah]

14 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

It makes me sad that Craig Robinson has to resort to doing Gain commercials, even if the idea of a Flashdance parody is sort of amusing. But what's worse is the opening lyric, "I'm a Gainiac, Gainiac, check my drawers," and then he sniffs his boxer shorts. Oh, Chris. How far you have fallen.

Also, I hope never to hear "Extravavestasaveathon" again, Progressive!

That is one of the most disgusting ads.