Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[jcbrown]

I can't remember the name of the product but there is a commercial I've started seeing recently where a woman is in her bathroom moaning about her acne and the torso of a doctor emerges from her hand mirror and offers to make her a custom cream. And the acned fool plays along, instead of casting remove curse or conducting an exorcism or any more rational action one would take if a torso emerged from one's mirror and started talking.

[Tom Holmberg]

On 3/6/2023 at 12:15 PM, Tom Holmberg said:

My favorite is "for only three payments of $33.99"  I wonder how many people think the price is only $33.99, not $100, esp. seniors watching at 2:30 am.

I also wonder how many people think they're buying actual gold coins when they are really getting "gold-clad" coins.

[shapeshifter]

1 hour ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I also wonder how many people think they're buying actual gold coins when they are really getting "gold-clad" coins.

Ugh. Gold coins. Even if they were solid gold, more crap for your offspring to waste time trying to turn into useful funds.

[Tom Holmberg]

2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Ugh. Gold coins. Even if they were solid gold, more crap for your offspring to waste time trying to turn into useful funds.

My parents had a bunch of silver coins (and a little gold) and I had no problem converting them to cash.  The rest of their belongings, yeesh.  I don't know how many stories I've read about kids having to deal with their parents' library.  It's sad that its hard to find anyone who wants those books (and I can understand you don't want to toss them).

Gold-clad coins probably have the same value as Beanie Babies.

 

Edited March 15, 2023 by Tom Holmberg

[shlbycindyk]

This might be just a local commercial but it's driving me crazy.  I think the name of the company is We Buy Any Cars.  It starts with a bunch of men singing out "We Buy Any Cars" three times in a row.  Then they screech that out again and again.  It always seems a little louder than the other ones too and I can't reach for the mute button on my remote fast enough.  I get it.  You'll buy any car.  Now shut up!  Our local stations have it on during every commercial break too. 

[tres bien]

The most infuriating commercials are the ones advertising Viagra. (Hims, etc)

Isn't it great that men can go online and buy Viagra so easily and cheaply and never have to visit a doctor and have insurance cover the cost

 

Edited March 18, 2023 by tres bien

[Welshman in Ca]

3 hours ago, tres bien said:

The most infuriating commercials are the ones advertising Viagra. (Hims, etc)

Isn't it great that men can go online are buy Viagra so easily and cheaply and never have to visit a doctor and have insurance cover the cost

 

Most insurances won't cover it but I agree with the sentiment 100%.

[Tom Holmberg]

6 hours ago, tres bien said:

The most infuriating commercials are the ones advertising Viagra. (Hims, etc)

Isn't it great that men can go online are buy Viagra so easily and cheaply and never have to visit a doctor and have insurance cover the cost

 

They remind me a little bit of those ads complaining how impossible it is to get birth control pills.  Though some of the Viagra ads make me wonder if it really is the same ingredients as Viagra or just a blue sugar pill.  (Also annoying are all the prostate peeing ads.)

[Welshman in Ca]

1 hour ago, Tom Holmberg said:

They remind me a little bit of those ads complaining how impossible it is to get birth control pills.  Though some of the Viagra ads make me wonder if it really is the same ingredients as Viagra or just a blue sugar pill.  (Also annoying are all the prostate peeing ads.)

For the most part if not all of them are not blue & the generic name is Sildenafil & you can find them on GoodRx for less than $20 and the lowest I see is $6.83 for 30 at Vons instead of the usual $800 to $2000. Of course you would need a prescription first.

I did the research for you.

[DrSpaceman73]

Sonic commercials have gotten so bad I have to pause the TV even if it's live, wait and then fast forward. So annoying and dumb snd they seem to think they are subversive and funny when they clearly aren't. 

[scarletine]

Saw this one last night while the college b-ball games were on, and my only reaction was "Are you f*cking kidding me?" (Seriously, it's gross, so be warned.)

 

[peacheslatour]

Okay first of all, who the fuck eats in a public restroom? Or any restroom for that matter? And Second, EEEW!

[Bastet]

Wow.  Usually when someone says a commercial is gross, I wind up shrugging, but -- yikes!

[Gramto6]

That was beyond gross!! YUK!!

[Gharlane]

11 hours ago, scarletine said:

Saw this one last night while the college b-ball games were on, and my only reaction was "Are you f*cking kidding me?" (Seriously, it's gross, so be warned.)

 

I saw that one last night and wondered if Big Foot were peeing or ejaculating. Apparently, there's a new campaign featuring Bigfoot sprouting from people's backs for weird gross shenanigans.

[Cryonix]

The one that drives me crazy is the Davis Law Firm the 444 guy, it's on all the time, add to that the idiot 444 guy looks like England's Prince Andrew.

[cynicat]

21 hours ago, Bastet said:

Wow.  Usually when someone says a commercial is gross, I wind up shrugging, but -- yikes!

Yeah, but worse than Little Baby's ice cream?

 

[Bastet]

1 minute ago, cynicat said:

Yeah, but worse than Little Baby's ice cream?

To me, that's weird as all get out, but not gross.

[Gramto6]

16 minutes ago, Bastet said:

To me, that's weird as all get out, but not gross.

Yeah, I'll second that, weird as all get out, but not gross!

[Blergh]

On 3/13/2023 at 8:12 PM, Maverick said:

 Vulgar.  

When I came to this last page and saw this post (which originally included the previous post listing other terms of revulsion), believe it or not, I immediately thought to myself that this HAD to refer to Lume shill- and scrolling the previous page, I sure turned out to be right!

Even among a sea of tasteless and tacky shills, she stands out! She reminds me of past middle-school educators and middle-management folks I've encountered over the decades who considered everything they said/did to be clever and adorable to the point of rubbing everyone else's respective faces in their tudes while refusing to consider anyone else's POV and belittled any pleas for decorum and tact!

And on an admittedly shallow note, it wouldn't surprise me if said shill is using these ads to overcompensate folks having told  the shill 'keep your blouse, pants and shoes ON! Raquel Welch isn't crying in her sangria because you've come on the scene!'

Edited March 20, 2023 by Blergh

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

Everyone involved in the commercials where people who can't sing "sing" variations on the Burger King jingle needs to be abandoned on a desert island until they apologize. 

And then left there anyway. 

[littlebennysmom]

On 3/19/2023 at 6:59 PM, Blergh said:

When I came to this last page and saw this post (which originally included the previous post listing other terms of revulsion), believe it or not, I immediately thought to myself that this HAD to refer to Lume shill- and scrolling the previous page, I sure turned out to be right!

Even among a sea of tasteless and tacky shills, she stands out! She reminds me of past middle-school educators and middle-management folks I've encountered over the decades who considered everything they said/did to be clever and adorable to the point of rubbing everyone else's respective faces in their tudes while refusing to consider anyone else's POV and belittled any pleas for decorum and tact!

And on an admittedly shallow note, it wouldn't surprise me if said shill is using these ads to overcompensate folks having told  the shill 'keep your blouse, pants and shoes ON! Raquel Welch isn't crying in her sangria because you've come on the scene!'

Ànd the incessant leaning into the camera for close ups -- it's not giving convivial, it's giving sweaty weird lady.

I wouldn't use that product EVER thanks to her unpleasant presentation.

[andromeda331]

The Xfinity 10g commercials can just stop. They are on all the time and they aren't that good. Kids' waxing poetry about how much better it's going to be for their younger siblings because of 10g. One tells his sister he couldn't stream a movie when the power went out. Ah, yes you could have. I did and I didn't have 10g.  The last kid says what a time to be a live. I guess he's not wrong but that's not how I'd put the last few years.  

[KWalkerInc]

And the Xfinity commercials are very similar to some ads several years back, where kids were lecturing younger kids about how they couldn't start to watch a recording in one room and then continue in another one, with the same sort of thing about how it's different from "their day."  I don't know if that was also Comcast or if they ripped it off from someone else.

[Stevie Nicks]

The ad for some dog  meds featuring a dog on an agility course made up of fleas, ticks and a huge tapeworm or something that's supposed to be one of the tunnels on an agility course. Disturbing to say the least. Who green lighted that? 

[Stevie Nicks]

This is an ad on a podcast. It's for Toyota. A man calls and and a lady from Toyota answers and he says he hears it's a good time to buy a Toyota, and the rep says yes it is, and "Imagine you're out driving a new tundra.." and then a little girls voice continues with "where you drive to the hardware store and buy the stuff to build the tree house you've promised your daughter he'd build" The dad says "Janie is that you? When did you join the call?" and seems amused. The little girl says "Mom said you were taking too long on the phone".. Wtaf. The ad is all of 30 seconds. How did the child join the call? Is dad on a land-line? And mom needs to get a grip. Dad wasn't on the phone for long. And it would be a cold day in hell before that child got anything resembling a tree house. And I've paraphrased the dialogue and the child's name. My brain is like Swiss cheese with names. 

[Prevailing Wind]

5 hours ago, Stevie Nicks said:

The ad for some dog  meds featuring a dog on an agility course made up of fleas, ticks and a huge tapeworm or something that's supposed to be one of the tunnels on an agility course. Disturbing to say the least. Who green lighted that? 

I saw that, too, and was SO grossed out by the worm swallowing the dog. And then the camera pulls back to show all these dead piles of worms decorating the lawn. OMG. I thought I was gonna barf.  It's bad enough that my vet has a preserved heart riddled with heartworms in a jar on the checkout counter; I don't need to see CGI worms on my TV.

[Gharlane]

On 3/21/2023 at 5:57 AM, KWalkerInc said:

And the Xfinity commercials are very similar to some ads several years back, where kids were lecturing younger kids about how they couldn't start to watch a recording in one room and then continue in another one, with the same sort of thing about how it's different from "their day."  I don't know if that was also Comcast or if they ripped it off from someone else.

Oh, so that's why I had a strange sense of deja vu about it! 

[crazycatlady58]

7 hours ago, Stevie Nicks said:

The ad for some dog  meds featuring a dog on an agility course made up of fleas, ticks and a huge tapeworm or something that's supposed to be one of the tunnels on an agility course. Disturbing to say the least. Who green lighted that? 

I don't know but it bothers me also. I do wonder what they were on the they had the idea to make this commercial. 

[chessiegal]

5 minutes ago, crazycatlady58 said:

I don't know but it bothers me also. I do wonder what they were on the they had the idea to make this commercial. 

I think they were looking for something that would grab your attention, which it obviously did.

[CrystalBlue]

Grossing people out seems to be the latest ad trend.  First the Bigfoot taking a mammoth piss and now heartworms crawling all over and swallowing a dog.  🤢

[peacheslatour]

4 minutes ago, CrystalBlue said:

Grossing people out seems to be the latest ad trend.  First the Bigfoot taking a mammoth piss and now heartworms crawling all over and swallowing a dog.  🤢

 😖

[KWalkerInc]

I keep seeing certain annoying ads over and over during sporting events (though I mute them now, but seeing them still bugs me).  There is one for Avelara tax software where a guy in his office finishes his taxes and goes "Avelaraaaaaaaaaah!" and just keeps doing the "aaaah" part proudly even after people hear him and start staring at him.  He's lucky he doesn't work in the same office as the woman in the WWE commercial who (in her mind) loses it over a guy repeatedly clicking his pen. 

There is also some website called Smart Asset where you're supposed to take a quiz to be matched with a financial advisor, and their ad compares people who pick advisors in some other fashion to this moron who is wheeled out of his house on a stretcher because he tried to remove his own appendix.  At least it isn't gross--he's just holding an ice pack--but it still makes me think too much about it and cringe in horror.

[crazycatlady58]

13 hours ago, chessiegal said:

I think they were looking for something that would grab your attention, which it obviously did.

Yes but not in a good way.

[sempervivum]

On 3/22/2023 at 8:44 AM, Stevie Nicks said:

The ad for some dog  meds featuring a dog on an agility course made up of fleas, ticks and a huge tapeworm or something that's supposed to be one of the tunnels on an agility course. Disturbing to say the least

The worst part is that after the dog runs through the giant worm and out it's 'mouth', the worm spews out some vomit-like substance. Really, wasn't the whole thing gross enough already??

[SoMuchTV]

I’m pretty sure I’ve griped about this before, but now there’s yet another version of the Bounty commercial where people can’t figure out to move things out of the way when something’s about to spill on them. 

[janie jones]

I saw a new one recently in which the spilled liquid is about to flow onto the carpet. That one at least makes sense, since you can't pick up the floor and get it out of the way. I don't know how the brand you use is going to affect how quickly you can run to the kitchen and get a paper towel to catch the spill before it makes it off the table, though.

[chessiegal]

21 minutes ago, janie jones said:

I don't know how the brand you use is going to affect how quickly you can run to the kitchen and get a paper towel to catch the spill before it makes it off the table, though.

True. But the brand you use does affect how effectively it picks up a spill Bounty is my preferred brand. At the beginning of the pandemic the only paper towel I could find was a store brand. It was mostly useless. It fell apart when it got wet.

[andromeda331]

The new Bounty commercial I saw the husband just finished putting together a coffee table his wife (at least I think their married) asks about unused pieces and the idiot decides to put his drink down on the coffee table. Of course it falls and so does the drink. Maybe test it out with a book or something that doesn't have liquid? Or could break? That's what we always did even when we used up all the pieces. At the end their eating dinner on the coffeetable which is on the floor.

[TattleTeeny]

This commercial is so annoying. First, "it's the sheet" is the stupidest slogan or whatever. Is it a play on something being "the shit"? It's so dumb. Also, the way the woman says "it's the sheet" sounds almost maniacal to me, like she's so happy to be saying a stupid thing like that. I feel like I am being harsh and madder than I should be about this and I probably am! 

 

 

[OldStandard]

I know the Lume commercials have been reviled and thoroughly discussed previously.  And I agree that the founder of Lume and the advertising team have made a new art form out of making repulsive commercials.  Last night, after somehow being subjected to a string of them, it occurred to me to wonder - when did our skin become such a source of olfactory offense?  Listening to the verbiage about the plethora of skin sites which without Lume would smell so horrendous as to make us  cause any humans in scent-territory to run screaming off the scene.  I actually take offense at the suggestion that if I don’t use Lume I am committing some sort of anti-human, repulsive and purposeful disgusting behavior.  It makes me want to go out of my way to avoid all of this woman’s products!

[Tom Holmberg]

1 hour ago, TattleTeeny said:

This commercial is so annoying. First, "it's the sheet" is the stupidest slogan or whatever. Is it a play on something being "the shit"? It's so dumb. Also, the way the woman says "it's the sheet" sounds almost maniacal to me, like she's so happy to be saying a stupid thing like that. I feel like I am being harsh and madder than I should be about this and I probably am! 

 

 

They don't know sheet.

8 minutes ago, OldStandard said:

I know the Lume commercials have been reviled and thoroughly discussed previously.  And I agree that the founder of Lume and the advertising team have made a new art form out of making repulsive commercials.  Last night, after somehow being subjected to a string of them, it occurred to me to wonder - when did our skin become such a source of olfactory offense?  Listening to the verbiage about the plethora of skin sites which without Lume would smell so horrendous as to make us  cause any humans in scent-territory to run screaming off the scene.  I actually take offense at the suggestion that if I don’t use Lume I am committing some sort of anti-human, repulsive and purposeful disgusting behavior.  It makes me want to go out of my way to avoid all of this woman’s products!

I remember this issue coming up in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when TV ads really became a force.  It was brought up about all the new things people were supposed to be worried about brought on by TV ads.  So things don't change that much. 

I've kind of grown sorry for that Lume founder, she's going to have live with those ads for the rest of her life.

[Gramto6]

The Progressive ad with "TV dad" is wearing on my last nerve. In particular the one where the son says to his real dad that things are so expensive (or whatever) and dad says maybe switch to Progressive and save $$. Then TV dad interrups and says the same thing and son goes off and hugs him for the great advice. TV dad says to dad it is something he'll know (or some such thing) when he is a dad. Dad says "I am his dad!" TV dad says "It isn't a competition" and grins foolishly. Canned laughter in the background just really makes me hate that commercial. (The others in the same vein aren't much better!)

[OldStandard]

I really dislike the tv dad line of commercials.  Reginald VelJohnson was the dad on Family Matters (long ago tv comedy) which was a favorite of my son’s.  It’s a shame to see him playing such a bumbling and clueless character now - and I still find the whole series of commercials irritating!

[proserpina65]

I've been seeing an Amazon commercial where a girl with a noticeable mustache decides that, because Eddie Murphy, Frida Kahla and Freddie Mercury all rocked mustaches, she can too if she just buys a cool (in actuality very ugly) jacket and pair of boots on Amazon.  All I can think while watching is "oh honey, none of those people are teenage girls going to high school where they're going to be teased mercilessly for that mustache no matter what jacket they're wearing, just shave the mustache".  I mean, I wish high school students were as accepting as those in that commercial, but they're not.

Plus, she's no Freddie Mercury.

[mmecorday]

Quote

Plus, she's no Freddie Mercury.

Sadly, no one is. There was only one Freddie. 😢

[CrystalBlue]

4 hours ago, mmecorday said:

Sadly, no one is. There was only one Freddie. 😢

Ain't that the truth!  Just pretending to be Freddie is an insult to the commercial-viewing public.

[Gharlane]

6 hours ago, Gramto6 said:

The Progressive ad with "TV dad" is wearing on my last nerve. In particular the one where the son says to his real dad that things are so expensive (or whatever) and dad says maybe switch to Progressive and save $$. Then TV dad interrups and says the same thing and son goes off and hugs him for the great advice. TV dad says to dad it is something he'll know (or some such thing) when he is a dad. Dad says "I am his dad!" TV dad says "It isn't a competition" and grins foolishly. Canned laughter in the background just really makes me hate that commercial. (The others in the same vein aren't much better!)

I have never seen the son hug TV Dad in that commercial. 🤔

4 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I've been seeing an Amazon commercial where a girl with a noticeable mustache decides that, because Eddie Murphy, Frida Kahla and Freddie Mercury all rocked mustaches, she can too if she just buys a cool (in actuality very ugly) jacket and pair of boots on Amazon.  All I can think while watching is "oh honey, none of those people are teenage girls going to high school where they're going to be teased mercilessly for that mustache no matter what jacket they're wearing, just shave the mustache".  I mean, I wish high school students were as accepting as those in that commercial, but they're not.

Plus, she's no Freddie Mercury.

I'm not sure why the yellow jacket is supposed to make me think of Freddy Mercury.  It reminds me of Michael Jackson.  BTW, the version I see ends with her dancing like a lunatic in her class. 🤷‍♂️

[Gramto6]

4 minutes ago, Gharlane said:

I have never seen the son hug TV Dad in that commercial. 🤔

 

OK, so maybe I mixed up a couple of the equally awful "TV dad" commercials, be that as it may, they are all grating and unenjoyable! Sorry for any confusion...

[CrazyInAlabama]

TV dad gets a hug in the longer version of the commercial.    They must be shortening some of the commercials.   The hug one has the son wearing a red and blue checked or plaid shirt (not sure which the pattern is called), it's not included in the shorter version of the ad. 

Edited March 26, 2023 by CrazyInAlabama