Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[millennium]

8 hours ago, Haleth said:

I see Kathi Lee Gifford is shilling for Balance of Nature now.  Sheesh, is the company that successful they can have a dozen different commercials running simultaneously?

This is the very commercial I came to complain about.

"Everybody's talking about how hard it is getting older," says the woman sitting in the immaculate parlor of her multimillion dollar home, or reclining by the glistening pool in her multimillion dollar home, or pretending to water the garden of her multimillion dollar home (I'm guessing they had to show her how to use a hose).

I am reminded of another commercial, for which product I can't remember, but one in which some wealthy old coot happily preaches about how easily he can stay in his own home as long as he has someone to come in to cut his hair, shave him, and provide a bevy of other personal services probably including, but not limited to, wiping his ass for him.

The shameless shilling by and for the wealthy is very annoying.

Oh, and Eva Longoria's egotistical commercials for "Dice Dreams" are nauseating, particularly because she thrusts her own children into the public eye to aggrandize herself and fill her coffers for something as cheesy as a phone game.

On 1/6/2024 at 7:28 AM, Haleth said:

I can't be the only one who snickers over the comment the lady makes about a tiny little prick being so powerful.

It's especially hilarious when it comes on while watching cable news.

Edited January 11 by millennium

[proserpina65]

20 hours ago, millennium said:

Oh, and Eva Longoria's egotistical commercials for "Dice Dreams" are nauseating, particularly because she thrusts her own children into the public eye to aggrandize herself and fill her coffers for something as cheesy as a phone game.

Are those her actual kids?

[proserpina65]

From a discussion on Favorite Commercials:

  

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  On 1/5/2024 at 6:45 AM, Haleth said:

Dr Rick is back with a commercial about teaching his patients to throw away things like scraps of wood and butter containers.

I hate to tell Dr. Rick, but if you don't have the money to buy lots of storage containers, butter containers work perfectly well.  And my dad saved things like scraps of wood when he was building his amazing train models from scratch.  I do realize, however, that not everyone builds models.

Let's just say that the amusement value of the Dr. Rick commercials has decreased greatly since the first several, imo.

[Ohiopirate02]

2 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

  

I hate to tell Dr. Rick, but if you don't have the money to buy lots of storage containers, butter containers work perfectly well. 

And if you entertain, you always have a need for containers you can give your guests.  You can't be using your good containers for leftovers that leave your home unless you can afford to replace them.  

[Bastet]

3 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

And my dad saved things like scraps of wood when he was building his amazing train models from scratch. 

I keep one bucket of wood scraps of various types, as I do go out and grab something probably two or three times a year for various reasons, but I make sure not to hold onto every scrap left over from any project (I offer excess on Freecycle and such so as not to just toss them).  I think they tried to make it work a little better by having it specifically be all a bunch of crown molding in short pieces he was holding onto, but in general that commercial was one of a few Dr. Rick offerings that didn't really land for me.

[millennium]

5 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Are those her actual kids?

I assumed they were.   They said she was their mother.

[kathyk2]

7 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

From a discussion on Favorite Commercials:

  

I hate to tell Dr. Rick, but if you don't have the money to buy lots of storage containers, butter containers work perfectly well.  And my dad saved things like scraps of wood when he was building his amazing train models from scratch.  I do realize, however, that not everyone builds models.

Let's just say that the amusement value of the Dr. Rick commercials has decreased greatly since the first several, imo.

I agree there are things that Dr. Rick mocks like being nice to grocery store employees or not buying expensive airport snacks are common sense.

[Bastet]

4 hours ago, kathyk2 said:

I agree there are things that Dr. Rick mocks like being nice to grocery store employees or not buying expensive airport snacks are common sense.

Ugh, the scene telling the store manager that Brian in produce was very helpful is my least favorite mocked scenario by far -- Dr. Rick's client didn't go track the manager down, give his feedback, and then tie him up with continued, needless blather while other people/tasks required his attention, he rounded a corner, happened upon the manager, took a whopping few seconds to commend good customer service, and carried on with his shopping.  We should encourage that, and we sure as shit shouldn't mock it.  Customers are far more likely to report negative experiences than positive ones; people doing a job that involves way too many instances of shitty customers, managers, pay, and benefits (so many are held at part time to avoid giving them any) deserve more instances like this, especially where so little effort is necessary to do it.

There are some others I think miss the mark (like the airport snacks one you mentioned; it could have easily worked had she gone overboard and pulled a smorgasbord out of her purse), but that's the one that truly bothers me.

[Gharlane]

On 1/12/2024 at 1:34 PM, proserpina65 said:

I hate to tell Dr. Rick, but if you don't have the money to buy lots of storage containers, butter containers work perfectly well.  And my dad saved things like scraps of wood when he was building his amazing train models from scratch.  I do realize, however, that not everyone builds models.

Let's just say that the amusement value of the Dr. Rick commercials has decreased greatly since the first several, imo.

I've been getting tired of those commercials but I like that one and the salad bar restaurant,  particularly the "Oh, I'monly paying for my own!" Line.

 

Those damn Charmin bears, tho... 

[dleighg]

Yesterday we saw the Charmin bears waxing rhapsodic about the wavy tear-off perforation. My husband said "Just think, someone with a PhD came up with that innovation. What does that person say at parties when someone asks what they do for a living?"

[chessiegal]

4 hours ago, dleighg said:

Yesterday we saw the Charmin bears waxing rhapsodic about the wavy tear-off perforation. My husband said "Just think, someone with a PhD came up with that innovation. What does that person say at parties when someone asks what they do for a living?"

I SMH at that ad. Seems like a solution to something that wasn't a problem. I don't use Charmin, so maybe it was with their brand?

[Prevailing Wind]

How the hell are hotel maids supposed to fold the TP into a point with those wavy edges?

[2soon2tell]

22 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

I SMH at that ad. Seems like a solution to something that wasn't a problem. I don't use Charmin, so maybe it was with their brand?

I read an article that claimed that users of their high end product (I guess ultra plush cushiony tp) were upset by the way their tp looked if it didn’t tear cleanly at the perforation and this eliminates the problem. Talk about the problems of the one percent.

[chessiegal]

19 minutes ago, 2soon2tell said:

I read an article that claimed that users of their high end product (I guess ultra plush cushiony tp) were upset by the way their tp looked if it didn’t tear cleanly at the perforation and this eliminates the problem. Talk about the problems of the one percent.

Huh. That's interesting but still SMH that 1) users cared enough to complain to the manufacturer and 2) the manufacturer listened. 

[2soon2tell]

9 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

Huh. That's interesting but still SMH that 1) users cared enough to complain to the manufacturer and 2) the manufacturer listened. 

Yes, I found it very odd.

[Shrek]

2 hours ago, 2soon2tell said:

I read an article that claimed that users of their high end product (I guess ultra plush cushiony tp) were upset by the way their tp looked if it didn’t tear cleanly at the perforation and this eliminates the problem. Talk about the problems of the one percent.

Except it doesn't eliminate the problem & I have the evidence in my bathroom. Not that I care one way or the other but maybe we've reached peak softness & they've run out of things to say how softer their newest is, apparently they've gone the other way as they now have Charmin basic as well.

On 1/12/2024 at 1:54 PM, Bastet said:

  I think they tried to make it work a little better by having it specifically be all a bunch of crown molding in short pieces he was holding onto, but in general that commercial was one of a few Dr. Rick offerings that didn't really land for me.

A bit too close to home? I know a few have been for me as Fiona always looks at me & laughs (at me) when the "Oh no, I'm only paying for my own salad" comes on the tv.

Edited January 14 by Shrek

[andromeda331]

On 1/12/2024 at 1:41 PM, Ohiopirate02 said:

And if you entertain, you always have a need for containers you can give your guests.  You can't be using your good containers for leftovers that leave your home unless you can afford to replace them.  

Or leftovers from Thanksgiving and Christmas. We're always dividing up food to different families. We prefered to use those containers that way we didn't have to worry about trying to get it back. They could just throw it out when they were done. 

[Browncoat]

I HAAATE the Liberty commercial with the baby.  My hate is compounded by it playing during every single commercial break, no matter what channel I'm watching.  

[Milburn Stone]

All Liberty commercials are the devil's spawn.

[proserpina65]

On 1/12/2024 at 7:18 PM, millennium said:

I assumed they were.   They said she was their mother.

I assumed they were child actors playing her children.

On 1/14/2024 at 9:26 AM, 2soon2tell said:

I read an article that claimed that users of their high end product (I guess ultra plush cushiony tp) were upset by the way their tp looked if it didn’t tear cleanly at the perforation and this eliminates the problem. Talk about the problems of the one percent.

Speaking as someone who definitely prefers the Charmin Ultra Soft to all other toilet paper (tp is one of the few things on which I don't not skimp), this was not nor has ever been enough of a problem to merit a product redesign.  I don't care one way or the other about how it tears as long as it does.  I do hate those damned bears, though.

On 1/14/2024 at 11:31 AM, Shrek said:

Except it doesn't eliminate the problem & I have the evidence in my bathroom. Not that I care one way or the other but maybe we've reached peak softness & they've run out of things to say how softer their newest is, apparently they've gone the other way as they now have Charmin basic as well.

This seems far more likely.

2 hours ago, Milburn Stone said:

All Liberty commercials are the devil's spawn.

I do like the ones with Mr. Liberty Biberty, but otherwise, yeah.

[Gharlane]

On 1/14/2024 at 9:26 AM, 2soon2tell said:

I read an article that claimed that users of their high-end product (I guess ultra plush cushiony tp) were upset by the way their tp looked if it didn’t tear cleanly at the perforation and this eliminates the problem. Talk about the problems of the one percent.

I am always reminded of this:

 

On 1/14/2024 at 11:31 AM, Shrek said:

A bit too close to home? I know a few have been for me as Fiona always looks at me & laughs (at me) when the "Oh no, I'm only paying for my own salad" comes on the tv.

I want to use that line SOOOOO much but fear I'll be the last person in a long line of people who were doing it all day. 

[millennium]

6 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I assumed they were child actors playing her children.

I couldn't find a definitive answer within 5 minutes and refused to devote any more of my life to the question.   The kid in one of the commercials is addressed as Santiago and her actual son's name is Santiago.  

[CrystalBlue]

25 minutes ago, millennium said:

I couldn't find a definitive answer within 5 minutes and refused to devote any more of my life to the question.   The kid in one of the commercials is addressed as Santiago and her actual son's name is Santiago.  

So it was Take Your Child to Work Day!

[TattleTeeny]

“I didn’t think I needed Swiffer until I saw how easily it picked up my hair every time I dried it.”

But she must have thought she needed it at least a little bit if she bought it? But I can forgive that — maybe it was a gift! Mostly what makes it weird to me is that she didn’t think she needed it until after she repeatedly used it often enough for the words “every time” to be used. Maybe she has a certain number of times that a product has to work before deciding it’s needed?

I’m OK with Dr. Rick but was a little confused about the tissue box covers. I don’t use them but I can see why someone might want something that is in keeping with their decor style or even that keeps the box from moving around.

Edited January 17 by TattleTeeny

[Glitches]

On 1/14/2024 at 7:17 AM, Prevailing Wind said:

How the hell are hotel maids supposed to fold the TP into a point with those wavy edges?

I am grossed out by the thought of someone else’s hands touching my toilet paper. If the wavy edge eliminates the need for anyone to touch my toilet paper, then I’m in.

[TheWalkinDude]

Misophonia alert-Club crackers and Pringles have ads with A LOT of loud crunching 😡

[TattleTeeny]

I think the Club one also has the MESSIEST spreading of jelly onto a cracker! Fucking stickiness! Then, the rubbing of socks on a carpet, which just no, I can't.

Edited January 17 by TattleTeeny

[proserpina65]

21 hours ago, millennium said:

I couldn't find a definitive answer within 5 minutes and refused to devote any more of my life to the question.   The kid in one of the commercials is addressed as Santiago and her actual son's name is Santiago.  

I'm kind of ashamed I've devoted even this much to it, lol.

[partofme]

On 1/16/2024 at 12:30 PM, proserpina65 said:

Speaking as someone who definitely prefers the Charmin Ultra Soft to all other toilet paper (tp is one of the few things on which I don't not skimp), this was not nor has ever been enough of a problem to merit a product redesign.

This is me too, Charmin Ultra Soft is the only tp I will ever buy.  I don't like the new wavy edge, the old way was better.

[millennium]

Like I need one more reason to dislike her.

 

[TattleTeeny]

Ugh, kind of commercial related, I guess, but targeted ads for online games and casinos! WTF? I have never, ever once in my life searched or shopped or paid attention to anything that would lead anyone to believe I was a potential consumer for these things -- not Candy Crush, not way back in the days of Farmville, and I maybe did Wordle 3 times when it was new. But they are relentless. And also aesthetically displeasing. So ugly.

Edited January 18 by TattleTeeny

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, TattleTeeny said:

And also aesthetically displeasing. So ugly.

And so childish. I don't understand making games for adults look like they were drawn for pre-K kids.

[callmebetty]

Those BMW ads with the brothers and dad and mom started last Christmas.  It was just the one brother arriving at the parents house and as he gets out a gust of wind blows a big bow off the house onto the car just as the Dad comes out amd he gleefully thinks it's for him. Instead of correcting him, dude takes a ride with Dad ( Dad driving) amd Dad exclaims "Can't wait to see what you got your Mom". So these ads have always been annoying. They have just been keeping up the series of them.

[annzeepark914]

I just saw an ad for condoms while waiting for Deadline: White House to start. A woman gave a present to a man in a restaurant. He opened it. They immediately got up and left. The waiter stood there with a surprised look on his face. I was only partially paying attention, but geez laweze. Anything goes today in the ad world (& TV).

[tres bien]

My favorite commercials to hate are for cheap generic Viagra, etc. It seems so degrading to women.

[annzeepark914]

When I use the Fire icon...I mean mad a$$ fire!

[mmecorday]

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My favorite commercials to hate are for cheap generic Viagra, etc. It seems so degrading to women.

Are you talking about the one with the scenes of women in bikinis that looks like a commercial for Girls Gone Wild? Hate that one. 

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

My reaction to the obnoxious Burger King non-singer has gone beyond humorous irritation to actual anger. I only watch tv for about 2 hours a day, during lunch and to clear my mind before bed, and I am STILL subjected to this fucking thing several times per day. I flick away from it as soon as it comes on but then sometimes just run into it on the next channel. It's abrasive to the ear and there's no getting away from it. 

[chessiegal]

Idaho Potatoes. When grandpa hears the potatoes are from her back yard and not Idaho, he takes out his dentures and drops them the kid's mashed potatoes. Gross!

[KWalkerInc]

15 hours ago, Ghost of TWOP Past said:

My reaction to the obnoxious Burger King non-singer has gone beyond humorous irritation to actual anger. I only watch tv for about 2 hours a day, during lunch and to clear my mind before bed, and I am STILL subjected to this fucking thing several times per day. I flick away from it as soon as it comes on but then sometimes just run into it on the next channel. It's abrasive to the ear and there's no getting away from it. 

I saw a Burger King ad that just played an instrumental version of the song and thought that perhaps they'd realized how horrible the "singing" was.  But of course it quickly returned in another ad about a week later.

[marceline]

On 1/12/2024 at 1:34 PM, proserpina65 said:

Let's just say that the amusement value of the Dr. Rick commercials has decreased greatly since the first several, imo.

I decided a long time ago that the writers of those commercials are working out their issues with their own parents and upbringing. Somebody probably had to do therapy because their mom used butter containers or their dad spent too much time in his woodshop. The money they make from producing these ads should be spent on therapy.

Edited January 20 by marceline

[DrSpaceman73]

I can't find a picture or the video but there is one for a truck where at the end they drive it and park it on the edge of a cliff. No road out there 

So first how did the truck get to that spot?  And how f***** dangerous is that?  The cliff could collapse under it.  You could drive over the edge on accident. I'm wondering if it's chi or a real shot because seems dangerous to do even for a commercial. 

[chessiegal]

13 minutes ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I can't find a picture or the video but there is one for a truck where at the end they drive it and park it on the edge of a cliff. No road out there 

So first how did the truck get to that spot?  And how f***** dangerous is that?  The cliff could collapse under it.  You could drive over the edge on accident. I'm wondering if it's chi or a real shot because seems dangerous to do even for a commercial. 

I have a fear of heights and that ad makes me cringe. I think it's for Jeep and they are showing how it can traverse rugged terrain, no road needed. I think it's real, not cgi. I can't see a cliff that substantial collapsing from the weight of a car.

[CrazyInAlabama]

Why is Kris Jenner (or whatever her name is this week) advertising for Oreos?   Or that photo company that makes ornaments?   Seeing her advertise for either company makes me want to avoid that brand, not buy the product. 

Another poster kindly informed me that this is an ad for her show on Hulu, not specifically Oreos.   However, that makes me glad I didn't subscribe to Hulu. 

 

Edited January 22 by CrazyInAlabama

[Bastet]

I hate absolutely everything about this commercial -- the repetitive whooshing sound, the line delivery of the actor playing the existing customer, the fact it airs during every other goddamn ad break on Hulu, and especially that I hear "Better hurry" as "Butter hurry".

 

[Blergh]

Anyone else tired of seeing that Alka Seltzer ad with that dude who decides to take the product instead of just staying in bed to rest to fight off the cold but decides to go plop-plop fizz-fizz JUST so he  walk out in his florescent ski outfit so to have his cronies play it like an air guitar instead of I dunno . ..hike or go skiing?! He could have just put on the outfit and had the cronies play it in the warm lodge room!

[GHScorpiosRule]

I hate the Subaru commercial that has the mom talking about how after a crash, it’s assumed everyone will walk away alive, as apparently her husband and daughter did.

What?! Like they would be walking around amidst it all without being looked at by the EMTs?!  Or that the wife/mom would be allowed to go looking?

Another one that I detest is the one with Safelite. The one where the woman is in…Arizona? As if Safelite would show up like Triple AAA or something, when you need to make an appointment for them to come out. And since COVID- at least in my area, they are so back logged, they couldn’t arse themselves to return my messages or emails when my car was vandalized a few years ago and my driver side window had been demolished. Ended up using another company via my insurance, but that’s another story that I already talked about when it happened. MISLEADING to say the least.

[Shrek]

23 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I can't find a picture or the video but there is one for a truck where at the end they drive it and park it on the edge of a cliff. No road out there 

So first how did the truck get to that spot?  And how f***** dangerous is that?  The cliff could collapse under it.  You could drive over the edge on accident. I'm wondering if it's chi or a real shot because seems dangerous to do even for a commercial. 

It's not real, the trucks or whatever are models.

There's a guy on the tickety tock that shows how he made the Hyundai commercial in the snow & none of it is real so I would presume this one is the same. It takes away the magic of thinking it's real so be careful what you look for. I can't remember his name or I would put up a link & will do if I come across him again.

[Kemper]

Has anyone else seen the new Jardiance commercial?  There is a new actress/singer leading it! And better dressed!  This one is easier to take; but they still have the singing and dancing. 

[callie lee 29]

21 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

What?! Like they would be walking around amidst it all without being looked at by the EMTs?!  Or that the wife/mom would be allowed to go looking

In my personal experience, yes and yes. You can refuse medical attention as long as your conscious and coherent, they just have you sign a form. And as long as the site isn't dangerous, and I'm sure she explained that it was her husband and child, and you have a reason for being there, then yeah.