Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Sandman87]

So... Coke is using a song about nuclear holocaust to advertise their product? Okay....

Nuka-Cola!

[peeayebee]

Sorry... I figured very few people would get that.  I'm a nerd about sci-fi movies, and I also watch Food Network.  It's a reference to Looper, which is a movie that involves time travel.  I don't want to spoil anything for people who haven't seen it.  It's a great film, though.

Ah. Looper. I saw that. It is a great film. Sorry I didn't get your reference.

[MrsEVH]

The Time Warner cable commercial with all the mooching neighbors coming over to use the guy's internet.

[Rick Kitchen]

Blake Griffin doing Kia ads is as bad an actor as Kate Upton in her online game commercials.

 

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

[theatremouse]

Ad advertising I don't even know what includes the phrase "enter to win tickets to this year's MLB World Series".

No.

No, I say.

If you're talking about Major League Baseball and the World Series, that's the frigging World Series. It does not need to be qualified. That other competitions have taken to calling themselves "World Series of..." whatever requires references to those competitions be qualified as "World Series of" whatever so they are not confused with the real World Series which is fucking baseball.

Edited April 12, 2015 by theatremouse

[Brattinella]

Amen, theatremouse!  World Series IS BASEBALL.

[Sandman87]

That reminds me of an ad I once read about where a car dealer described their non-Cadillac autos as "The Cadillac of Cars!"

[Moose135]

Blake Griffin doing Kia ads is as bad an actor as Kate Upton in her online game commercials.

 

The difference is, I don't mind watching Kate Upton acting poorly.

[90PercentGravity]

I call those women yogurt zealots, because they remind me of these religious men who think women need to be covered from head to toe because they can't be bothered to control their own urges.

[erikdepressant]

I call those women yogurt zealots, because they remind me of these religious men who think women need to be covered from head to toe because they can't be bothered to control their own urges.

Someone should start selling brown paper lunch bags labeled as "snack burqas."

[sofaslug]

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

And now I want a Zero candy bar.

This made me laugh (which, in turn, scared my dog).

I love white chocolate. That being said, as another poster noted, (can't do multiple quotes on the phone) I'm not having a chocogasm whenever I bite into it.

A N D, I feel really cheated! I had a Rolo the other day and...NO slow motion anything happened, nobody wanted to cater to me and, no cheesy 70's porn music could be heard in the background. Bastards. ;-p

[janie jones]

I didn't think I could dislike Jan from Toyota more until they had her doing readings from the brochures.  She's just so terrible at it.  I'm actually kind of embarrassed for her.

Edited April 13, 2015 by janie jones

[SmithW6079]

I don't care for the AT&T girl, but I felt sorry for her in the latest one -- where the dad is buying a new iPhone for his oldest daughter and the youngest gets the hand-me-down, especially when the little brat mouths off to her about admitting to liking bedazzling. Not that bedazzling isn't ripe for mocking, but not from an ill-mannered little rug rat, especially since AT&T girl was excited when she thought someone else liked doing it too.

Edited April 12, 2015 by SmithW6079

[Prevailing Wind]

Do most people catch the fact the little one's name is Emily & she's wear Beth's hand-me-down Beadazzled shirt?  I missed it the first two times I saw the commercial.

[Sandman87]

Bedazzling is the macaroni art of the textile world.

[xaxat]

Ad advertising I don't even know what includes the phrase "enter to win tickets to this year's MLB World Series".

No.

No, I say.

If you're talking about Major League Baseball and the World Series, that's the frigging World Series. It does not need to be qualified. That other competitions have taken to calling themselves "World Series of..." whatever requires references to those competitions be qualified as "World Series of" whatever so they are not confused with the real World Series which is fucking baseball.

 

Whoever is running that ad paid a lot to become the official partner of MLB and The World Series and by God, they are determined to get their money's worth for both phrases!

[Ubiquitous]

Saw our favorite yogurt commercial tonight -- you know, where the women point their magic spoons at unhealthy snacks and shrink them. Mom said it made her sad to see the donut get shrunk. I said that's gonna be my comment to anyone who looks sad: "Aww, did someone shrink your donut?" My sister laughed so hard she nearly stopped breathing. I can't let her read everyone's posts here -- I'd have to call 911.

I noticed a new ad with TWO yogurt bitches making everyone around them miserable and revelling in it!

[6 MeowMeowBeenz]

Coke is using a song about nuclear holocaust to advertise their product? Okay....

 

EVERYBODY sing:

I'd like to teach the world to duck and cover when bombs fall.

Apocalypses come and go but Coke will still enthrall

[BatmanBeatles]

I can't put my finger on it, but this Dove commercial bothers me.

 

[CoderLady]

I don't care for the AT&T girl, but I felt sorry for her in the latest one -- where the dad is buying a new iPhone for his oldest daughter and the youngest gets the hand-me-down, especially when the little brat mouths off to her about admitting to liking bedazzling. Not that bedazzling isn't ripe for mocking, but not from an ill-mannered little rug rat, especially since AT&T girl was excited when she thought someone else liked doing it too.

 

Yeah, she should be able to just own it. Especially since when she turns around you see that she's Bedazzled the company logo on the back of her shirt.

[NYGirl]

I absolutely hate hate hate the Wayfair commercial with everybody dancing.  Why is that idiot blonde dancing at the end?  If I was her husband I'd turn the hose on her.

 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I can't put my finger on it, but this Dove commercial bothers me.

 

 

Beside the fact that its too long (three minutes? really?) it never states what product its supposed to be selling, and it basically says that most women feel average when A) there's nothing wrong with how they look and B) its unnecessarily divisive. When the two friends are sitting on the couch and the woman on the right says she <i>thinks</i> she could go through the door that says Beautiful, it makes me annoyed, as if buying Dove products (I guess) will make her more confident and certain that she can walk through that door. I don't know how advertising that advertising had made these women feel so bad about themselves that they can't even walk through a damn door without coercion even makes sense.

[Brattinella]

And why is the one guy dancing like he wants to kill someone?

 

 

Crap.  Waited too long to post without a quote.

Edited April 13, 2015 by Brattinella

[Rick Kitchen]

I can't put my finger on it, but this Dove commercial bothers me.

 

 

What a horrible commercial.  There are far too many questions to ask here, but I'll start with, "Why did people think the signs above the door were addressing THEM and weren't just some sort of advertising signs?  This makes no sense.

[InDueTime]

I don't care for the AT&T girl, but I felt sorry for her in the latest one -- where the dad is buying a new iPhone for his oldest daughter and the youngest gets the hand-me-down, especially when the little brat mouths off to her about admitting to liking bedazzling. Not that bedazzling isn't ripe for mocking, but not from an ill-mannered little rug rat, especially since AT&T girl was excited when she thought someone else liked doing it too.

I was especially annoyed at the dad (and to a certain extent the older sister) for just standing there, and not telling the brat to apologize for being rude.

[bilgistic]

Beside the fact that its too long (three minutes? really?) it never states what product its supposed to be selling, and it basically says that most women feel average when A) there's nothing wrong with how they look and B) its unnecessarily divisive. When the two friends are sitting on the couch and the woman on the right says she <i>thinks</i> she could go through the door that says Beautiful, it makes me annoyed, as if buying Dove products (I guess) will make her more confident and certain that she can walk through that door. I don't know how advertising that advertising had made these women feel so bad about themselves that they can't even walk through a damn door without coercion even makes sense.

 

What a horrible commercial.  There are far too many questions to ask here, but I'll start with, "Why did people think the signs above the door were addressing THEM and weren't just some sort of advertising signs?  This makes no sense.

I hate Dove and refuse to use their products because of their advertising (and because they test on animals). Their ads pander to women, and they talk out of both sides of their corporate mouth. They want me to tell myself I'm beautiful on one hand, but on the other, I need their special deodorant because I have ugly armpits with dark spots or something. No one's looking at my armpits, I can assure you, Dove. I always wear sleeves. I guess I just don't think I'm beautiful enough to go sleeveless. Get a life.

[LoneHaranguer]

 

I absolutely hate hate hate the Wayfair commercial with everybody dancing.

Having a little kid on a bed is one thing, but how about getting that woman down off the chair?

[Rick Kitchen]

Apparently a Buzzfeed editor published an article criticizing the Dove commercial, and Buzzfeed killed the article because they get lots of money from Unilever.  The editor has since resigned.

 

http://tktk.gawker.com/buzzfeed-deletes-post-critical-of-dove-a-buzzfeed-adve-1696852834

[BatmanBeatles]

I get the feeling that if I had chosen "Beautiful" (and I would too), that I would be accused of conceit.

[bilgistic]

I'm pretty sure Satan himself came up with Buzzfeed, along with Reddit and 4chan.

[Prevailing Wind]

 

I get the feeling that if I had chosen "Beautiful" (and I would too), that I would be accused of conceit.

I think that's probably the issue with everyone who chose "Average" - we're too polite and not nearly assertive enough and who the hell cares who may think I'm conceited?  Dammit, I'm goin' through that beautiful door because (gasp!) I use Dove soap.  However, it's the MenCare+ soap that I use.  It smells SO good & un-girly.  Just clean.

 

But I have noticed something odd about it.  A freshly opened bar will lather wonderfully.  When it gets about half-way down, there's not so much foamy lather anymore.  I wonder why that is. Do they know that?  Is that some sort of plan to get you to ditch the half-bar and open another new bar?  I remember Andy Rooney saying he'd like to be rich enough to use a bar of soap until the letters wore off and then break out a new bar.  I think of that often when I'm showering with this MenCare+ stuff.

[Bort]

I have noticed something odd about it.  A freshly opened bar will lather wonderfully.  When it gets about half-way down, there's not so much foamy lather anymore.  I wonder why that is. Do they know that?  Is that some sort of plan to get you to ditch the half-bar and open another new bar?  I remember Andy Rooney saying he'd like to be rich enough to use a bar of soap until the letters wore off and then break out a new bar.  I think of that often when I'm showering with this MenCare+ stuff.

That's not just Dove, it's true of most bar soap. It has to do with there being more surface area on a new bar vs. old and needing more friction as the bar gets smaller.

[Jamoche]

I'm the sort who'd choose "average" and then tell the nosy film crew it's because I understand statistics.

 

But then I quit my one-day job as annoying mall survey taker (the person in the back room who does the actual survey) when I had to show a shampoo ad to a minimum wage high-school dropout and ask her if she thought a shampoo that cost 2x minimum wage would make her "beautiful", and would she buy it, and she said yes. I could not be a part, no matter how tiny, in that sort of exploitation.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Jamoche

[Lola16]

I'd go through the door with the shortest line.  And almost never an end door.  

[riley702]

The Dove ad bugs because it's a contrived dilemma AND "solution". It's just a fucking door! Beside another fucking door! That enter the same damned lobby side by side! Who gives a shit?

[peeayebee]

I don't see what's so confusing about that Dove commercial. I think the two doors thing is actually an interesting experiment. How do women see themselves? Why not see yourself as beautiful? Yes, it doesn't really matter which door they go thru, but psychologically many people would be affected by the idea of having to choose which door they go thru. BTW, it looked like it was the same building, but it was in different countries. That confused me. I also wondered what the building was. A department store? Why weren't there any men? I assume that was just edited out.

[erikdepressant]

Dove should have given them a third door marked "ugly."

 

I remember a dating site registration that asked you to rate your looks.  Your choices were "very good looking," "good looking," or "average."  I guess the invisible fourth choice was "not dateable."

 

Dove is short-sighted in its campaign to cleanse the earth of average-feeling women.  It will never end.  Their next door choices will be "beautiful" or "stunning."  And when the beautiful women have all been rehabilitated, the doors will be "stunning" or "star in creepy Viagra ad."

[kassa]

The commercial where the little girl and her family get into a cab and drive away at dawn, or dusk.  The dog watches from the house.

 

The girl is out and about, wistful, while Disney vacation ad-type music plays.  I'm waiting for the family to go to Disney world.  And then all of a sudden I'm watching the dog running across country, narrowly averting death on the highway.  The wistful music continues.  Okay - maybe they moved?  And they're going to be reunited?  I hate manipulation, but okay.  The girl is in a pool, still wistful, still listening to Disney vacation music, but apparently her parents aren't taking her there, and good thing, too, because the dog would never be able to find her there.  And lo and behold, the dog crashes through the hedge, and they are reunited!  Yay!  

 

And then the graphics tell you it's about buying a vacation home or something.  So is the message that if you take a vacation with these people, your dog will run away?

[LoneHaranguer]

 

Why weren't there any men? I assume that was just edited out.

As I'm sure were any women who went to the other door. How many women were paying any attention to the words, rather than just automatically picking the door on the right?

[bilgistic]

The commercial where the little girl and her family get into a cab and drive away at dawn, or dusk.  The dog watches from the house.

 

The girl is out and about, wistful, while Disney vacation ad-type music plays.  I'm waiting for the family to go to Disney world.  And then all of a sudden I'm watching the dog running across country, narrowly averting death on the highway.  The wistful music continues.  Okay - maybe they moved?  And they're going to be reunited?  I hate manipulation, but okay.  The girl is in a pool, still wistful, still listening to Disney vacation music, but apparently her parents aren't taking her there, and good thing, too, because the dog would never be able to find her there.  And lo and behold, the dog crashes through the hedge, and they are reunited!  Yay!  

 

And then the graphics tell you it's about buying a vacation home or something.  So is the message that if you take a vacation with these people, your dog will run away?

Why couldn't they take their dog with them? They couldn't choose a pet-friendly vacation house? What kind of horrible people are they? I'm scared for the dog the whole time! Whatever the message was supposed to be, it was missed on me.

[Aquarius]

Why weren't there any men?

 

Because it would never occur to anyone to ask men to stress over whether or not they feel worthy enough to walk through the "Beautiful" door.

 

Like yogurt, that's just for us women.

[xaxat]

Dove is short-sighted in its campaign to cleanse the earth of average-feeling women.  It will never end.  

 

For Unilever, the company producing Dove, that's a feature, not a bug.

[proserpina65]

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

I must be the worst chocolate whore ever, because as long as it's not that chocolate by-product they euphemistically call 'white chocolate', or filled with some nasty filling, I will eat it.  Although I'm not too keen on dark chocolate, but if I'm desperate, it'll do.

I just noticed on the Nationwide commercial with the kids dressed as adults, the first kid is pissy because she's waited in line at the DMV to be handed a number to wait in line for service.  1 - Why the hell don't they have a machine to hand out the numbers (like the butcher or deli counter has been doing since the dawn of time) and 2 - Why should I care if she has to wait in line since she did not make an online appointment that is generally available at all DMVs now?

My local DMV doesn't do appointments except for driving tests, and they don't have a machine to hand out the tickets, but they do have different tickets for different counters (licenses, titles, registrations, etc.) so even it isn't the seventh circle of hell that it used to be.

Edited April 14, 2015 by proserpina65

[proserpina65]

A N D, I feel really cheated! I had a Rolo the other day and...NO slow motion anything happened, nobody wanted to cater to me and, no cheesy 70's porn music could be heard in the background. Bastards. ;-p

 

And I was going to buy some Rolos just for that effect!  Oh well, thanks for saving me the money.  ;-)

[erikdepressant]

Why weren't there any men? I assume that was just edited out.

The men were on the other side of the building for the ExtenZe Male Enhancement Supplements commercial.

 

"We put signs on two doors: Average Penis and Huge Penis.  Let's see how the men feel about themselves when they choose a door."

[Aquarius]

The men were on the other side of the building for the ExtenZe Male Enhancement Supplements commercial.

 

"We put signs on two doors: Average Penis and Huge Penis.  Let's see how the men feel about themselves when they choose a door."

 

Hee!  Let's guess which one 100% of the men choose!

[sofaslug]

And I was going to buy some Rolos just for that effect! Oh well, thanks for saving me the money. ;-)

I'm just glad I could prevent even just one person from experiencing the disappointment that I endured....

[LoneHaranguer]

 

Hee!  Let's guess which one 100% of the men choose!

It won't be 100% if any are like the guy who needed Salt-N-Pepa to tell him to push a door marked "PUSH" in big letters and won't be reading the signs.

[Watcher0363]

The men were on the other side of the building for the ExtenZe Male Enhancement Supplements commercial.

 

"We put signs on two doors: Average Penis and Huge Penis.  Let's see how the men feel about themselves when they choose a door."

 

 

Hee!  Let's guess which one 100% of the men choose!

Well, I would take the average door. But when it comes to super tongue strength and stamina  versus normal tongue strength and stamina. I am going through the super tongue strength and stamina door.

[slensam]

Well, I would take the average door. But when it comes to super tongue strength and stamina  versus normal tongue strength and stamina. I am going through the super tongue strength and stamina door.

Uh, no comment....rock on dude.