Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[friendperidot]

 

That song is All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor, and yes, I can't imagine what Honest Diapers' ad agency was thinking. It's a cute enough song, but I'm pretty sure they've never actually listened to the lyrics.

 

I'm sorry, but I'm old so I've never heard the lyrics and all I hear in the commercial is "I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass. I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass." So could you please explain what about the lyrics? Sincerely, not  snarking, I really don't know.

Edited April 1, 2015 by friendperidot

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I'm sorry, but I'm old so I've never heard the lyrics and all I hear in the commercial is "I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass. I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass." So could you please explain what about the lyrics? Sincerely, not  snarking, I really don't know.

 

 

 

You're welcome. :-P

Where are these women???

 

 

They are hanging out at your local cougar den trolling for college boys.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Bort]

Viagra insists this ad campaign is aimed at women. They're so clueless about what male gaze is, they can't even avoid it when they try.

They can tell me the Viagra commercial is aimed at women until they're blue in the face (or balls), I don't buy it.

Edited April 1, 2015 by kariyaki

[slensam]

Heck with the bass, all about the Treble!

[Ubiquitous]

There's at least two different Viagra ads running now where women are pushing the product, which makes about as much sense as ads where men promote tampons. Furthermore, would it have killed them to make sure to get an actress who can pronounce her "r"s? "Ask youw doctow if Viagwa is wight fow you."

Baba Wawa?

[90PercentGravity]

All about not having your music permiate through my house every time you drive by.

[DeLurker]

 Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Cougars have no time for an ED problem.

[Jamoche]

Another thing about the Viagra ads that make me wonder why they think they aimed it at women - in the "books are nice but men are better" ad she says "I think women would rather..." in a way that sounds like "I'm explaining women to non-women". If she were talking to women, I'd expect some sort of cozy "I think we'd rather...". Or even "us girls". Some sort of in-group indicators.

[Brattinella]

That ad with the busty blonde (You fold sweaters for a living, honey) creeps me out!  Does any other older woman here think that guy, referred to as "Young guys like YOU!", do you think he looks about 12 years old?  I would never even think about someone that young! *shudder*

[bilgistic]

As a woman, the women in the Viagra commercials scare me. They look predatory, like they bite off their partner's head after mating. Maybe that's what men of a certain age are looking for, though. I certainly don't know, at 40 and very, very single.

[GaT]

I am sick to death of "Brad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxd49IRu02E

[slensam]

As a woman, the women in the Viagra commercials scare me. They look predatory, like they bite off their partner's head after mating. Maybe that's what men of a certain age are looking for, though. I certainly don't know, at 40 and very, very single.

I think the men they are going for in these ads are more aggressive. I've seen the men advertised in other Viagra ads and they seemed like assertive personalities. So, you get these men and these women, with I guess Viagra, then you get a scene out of the remake of "Cat People".

[Janet Snakehole]

I don't know. I don't like it, but Viagra is not the first product to use the male gaze in an attempt to draw in straight female customers. Look at Victoria's Secret. Or most women's magazines. The cover of Cosmo could easily be the cover of GQ or Maxim. I think marketers think that women would rather aspire to be objects of lust rather than actively lust, because we are supposedly not visual creatures or some bs.

Edited April 1, 2015 by Janet Snakehole

[erikdepressant]

As a woman, the women in the Viagra commercials scare me. They look predatory, like they bite off their partner's head after mating.

The decapitating bite isn't always predatory.  How can she trust him not to eat their offspring if he won't even leave her yogurt supply alone?

[janie jones]

Oh that reminds me.  In the Yoplait commercial with the Kinks song, the family has an entire shelf in their refrigerator that has nothing but yogurt and one carton of milk in the back that apparently never gets used because it's always in the back.  No one does that.

[InDueTime]

Here's another Rent-A-Center ad of entitled dipshitery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nHhPmossms

Hey morons, here's an idea: Being careful and not fucking overloading the washer and dryer.  Since they "know" they'll break them, maybe they should just have everything dry cleaned.

 

I don't see this ad very often, but when I do, it always bugs me:

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7ZxY/reddi-wip-supermarket

The store lady is being paid to say that pitch to people. You, however, have the option of walking away, and eating your precious pie elsewhere if you don't want to hear it.  What a brat.

 

 

IDK, I think it's hilarious when she says "I didn't turn your daughter into a rooster, she just looks like that."

I can only imagine the auditions where TPTB were asking for an actress who has "the face of a rooster."

[erikdepressant]

Here's another Rent-A-Center ad of entitled dipshitery:

 

Hey morons, here's an idea: Being careful and not fucking overloading the washer and dryer.  Since they "know" they'll break them, maybe they should just have everything dry cleaned.

That's as bad as the Liberty Mutual commercials.  They're telling potential customers, "You're going to pay extra because of assholes like these."

[LoneHaranguer]

 

Hey morons, here's an idea: Being careful and not fucking overloading the washer and dryer.  Since they "know" they'll break them, maybe they should just have everything dry cleaned.

Where did they find an appliance salesman that can't offer an extended warranty?

[riley702]

I don't see this ad very often, but when I do, it always bugs me:

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7ZxY/reddi-wip-supermarket

The store lady is being paid to say that pitch to people. You, however, have the option of walking away, and eating your precious pie elsewhere if you don't want to hear it.  What a brat.

It's not because she doesn't want to hear it, it's because she doesn't want other people eating the pie. She wants it all for herself.

[mojoween]

Tell me this - why, if you have spawned the most ill-behaved hellbeasts known to mankind, do you then reward them with a meal at Jimmy John's?

[smittykins]

Probably the same reason another mom bribed her children to the car from the playground with a McDonald's bag.

[janie jones]

This is more like distracting, but there's an H&M ad where there's a woman walking down the street without anything under it, and all it makes me think of is Sue Ellen Mischke, the braless wonder.

[Jamoche]

Where did they find an appliance salesman that can't offer an extended warranty?

Hell, where did they find one that didn't practically shove one down their throat?

[Ubiquitous]

Here's another Rent-A-Center ad of entitled dipshitery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nHhPmossms

Hey morons, here's an idea: Being careful and not fucking overloading the washer and dryer.  Since they "know" they'll break them, maybe they should just have everything dry cleaned.

Those assholes DESERVE the reaming they'll get from RaC.

[erikdepressant]

Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli botched closing her loop, and now her future self is starring in the annoying and overplayed Aleve "Sunday Dinners" commercial.  What the hell did they do with the retirement gold bars?

 

I hate the way she says, "You're waiting for my lasagna, aren't you?"  I hate her "To family" toast.  I hate the stereotypical kiss-the-fingertips celebration of her food's deliciousness.

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7F09/aleve-sunday-dinners

[ABay]

I hate that she makes a one syllable word into two.

[Prevailing Wind]

I just plain hate her. And her stupid Aleve.

[TattleTeeny]

You guys, this local commercial is the bane of my existence (I just had to get that out before I catch up on the last few weeks' worth of this thread. And sorry for the click-through; the video wasn't on YouTube that I could find but the blue button works).

https://vimeo.com/91531486

Edited April 3, 2015 by TattleTeeny

[TattleTeeny]

It might not making it any less annoying, but they are actually calling them "pips".

Grossest chocolate in the world is made even worse by naming pieces "pips." OK, I realize that "pip" may in fact be a candy term that has existed forever and I just didn't know, but it's pissing me off--especially when "taught" to me by that condescending nasal voice!

[CoderLady]

Grossest chocolate in the world...

 

Totally with you on that. It's hard, grainy, doesn't want to melt and somehow I get the fleeting impression that I'm sucking on a dirty sock when I eat it.

 

Once my co-workers gave me a box of Hershey Bars as an informal reward for making a hard deadline on a project since during the 12-hour days I worked during the run-up to the deadline I'd wander the halls muttering "Chocolate... Chocolate...". I was touched that they cared but dismayed at the actual reward. I handed out the entire box to everyone within sight, thanking for them for caring. Whew.

[MrsEVH]

I am sick to death of "Brad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxd49IRu02E

 

I  know it's not her but she makes think of the actress who played Janet on Beverly Hills 90120 (original series).

Edited April 3, 2015 by MrsEVH

[bilgistic]

Once my co-workers gave me a box of Hershey Bars as an informal reward for making a hard deadline on a project since during the 12-hour days I worked during the run-up to the deadline I'd wander the halls muttering "Chocolate... Chocolate...". I was touched that they cared but dismayed at the actual reward. I handed out the entire box to everyone within sight, thanking for them for caring. Whew.

I first read this as you were given a box of Hershey's chocolate and wandered the halls trying to give it away, calling out "Chocolate" like vendors at a baseball game call out "Hotdogs!" or "Popcorn!"

Unless it's PMS time, I can usually turn down milk chocolate. Give me Trader Joe's organic 73% cocoa bar, please. Or money. But not Hershey's.

[CoderLady]

I first read this as you were given a box of Hershey's chocolate and wandered the halls trying to give it away, calling out "Chocolate" like vendors at a baseball game call out "Hotdogs!" or "Popcorn!"

 

Oh, I would have if the "sharing is caring" subterfuge hadn't worked.

Edited April 3, 2015 by CoderLady

[TattleTeeny]

Totally with you on that. It's hard, grainy, doesn't want to melt and somehow I get the fleeting impression that I'm sucking on a dirty sock when I eat it.

 

Once my co-workers gave me a box of Hershey Bars as an informal reward for making a hard deadline on a project since during the 12-hour days I worked during the run-up to the deadline I'd wander the halls muttering "Chocolate... Chocolate...". I was touched that they cared but dismayed at the actual reward. I handed out the entire box to everyone within sight, thanking for them for caring. Whew.

I feel like it tastes the way baby vomit smells...so consider yourself lucky, I guess? Haha! Also, you observed proper office etiquette by sharing! Admirable response!

[riley702]

Hi. I'm a chocolate whore and will gladly eat Hersheys. I prefer dark chocolate, but I'll happily eat any kind. Even white chocolate.

[90PercentGravity]

The only chocolate I can think of that I won't eat is Russel Stover or whatever that cheap boxed crap is called.

[Brattinella]

Wow I have really pedestrian tastes, I guess.  I WAY prefer Hershey's original chocolate bar over Ghirardelli's even.

[photo fox]

Thank goodness! I was afraid I was the only one who likes Hershey's. Lol

[AntiBeeSpray]

Only Hershey's chocolate I'll eat is Special Dark. I used to like their Milk Chocolate, but now it has a strange almost waxy, barf like taste to it (imo). *shrug*

[Bastet]

I'll eat white "chocolate" -- I just won't call it chocolate. 

 

But Hershey's?  Hell, yeah.  Yes, there is far better chocolate out there, and, yes, I prefer it.  But every once in a while a good ol' Hershey bar hits the spot.  Although it has been several years, so maybe it's different now.

[Rick Kitchen]

There are a lot of vlogs on YouTube where foreigners eat American snacks, and they almost universally hate Hershey's chocolate bars.  But they love white chocolate with cookie bits.

[bilgistic]

White "chocolate" is an abomination.

[ethalfrida]

I loved Hershey's until I came across info that said their productscwere GMO... plus it contains HFCS.

[90PercentGravity]

My chocolate of choice is Ritter Sport with hazelnuts or the Knusperkeks, but I'll take what I can get.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

White "chocolate" is an abomination.

 

[Dennis Haysbert]"Silence!"[/Dennis Haysbert] :-P

 

And now I want a Zero candy bar.

[bilgistic]

At any rate, I don't eat chocolate and make faces like I'm climaxing, much to the dismay of every chocolate manufacturer.

I loathe the commercial in which a woman is in a bookstore and lures a man into the Mystery section by having written MYSTERY in his not-yet-attempted newspaper crossword puzzle. (Which, rude!) He goes to find her sitting there, seductively (or what reads to me as scarily) eating chocolate-covered fruit of some kind. They then share it. Blergh.

Edited April 4, 2015 by bilgistic

[GaT]

No. No, no, no, NO. I do NOT need to know this much about anybody.

[AntiBeeSpray]

O_o My eyes. Neither do I.

[bilgistic]

Not another one! We really didn't need two commercials about that, Cottonelle!

[Bastet]

I think there are more than two, but maybe it just seems that way.