Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[TeapotDiva]

 "I know, and thank you for that."  Condescending bitch.   I can't stand that woman and the way she talks.  I can't believe this commercial is back in rotation.  

 

 

 

 Exactly.  He was expecting a thanks or even fishing for one.  He was just trying to keep the nagging harpy off his back.   For him it was a toss up whether she was wanting to bust him over the trash or taking her nasty vat of chemicals masquerading as yogurt.  Poor guy never would have guessed insurance was the latest thing to be raked over the coals about.

 

Oh boy, I am *really* out of the majority on this one!  I *love* this commercial!  To me, they are so much a long-time couple who practically speak in shorthand.  When she says, "We have to talk" and he says, "I took out the trash," to me he's saying that "We have to talk" doesn't worry him ~ she's not going to bust his balls about something, or tell him she's leaving him.  When she says, "Yes, and thank you for that," it doesn't sound condescending; it sounds like a loving, inside-joke thing, you know, "Oh yes sweetie, you da man."  The two of them seem so comfortable together!  They've been together a long time, they enjoy spending their free time together, they enjoy doing active things together.  She kids him ~ "Did you do your pushups today?" ~ and he says, "Prepare to be amazed!"  They seem to have fun together!

Edited July 22, 2015 by TeapotDiva

[friendperidot]

I think it might be time for Jimmy Dean to retire Our Mister Sun. He's looking tired. I'm rather tired of him shoving food in everyone's face. Some of the first ads with the solar system revolving were cute.

[Flnurse]

Keep seeing this word here, figured it out through context use and finally had to officially look it up:

squick v. to disturb, unsettle, make uneasy; to cause disgust or revulsion; to gross (someone) out; to freak (someone) out. Also noun, something which causes disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness, or the disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness itself. Also squick (someone) out. Etymological Note: There is inconclusive evidence this term may have originated among practitioners of sexual bondage or sadomasochism.

Happy Thursday :)

[janie jones]

Here's the real life interview:

 

She says "kitten" twice in that video.  The first time with a glottal stop and a nonstandard vowel, and the second time like in the commercial.  This confirms what I had suspected which is that she was (consciously or unconsciously) bothered by her natural pronunciation of that word, so she over-enunciated the [t] for the commercial voiceover.  See, kids, a degree in linguistics is useful!

[Crisopera]

There's a recent ad for Dunkin Donuts biscuits that is just staggeringly bad, with three of the worst actors I've ever seen.  Granny is in the park with a young man and woman, and the guy says something about "Your biscuits are the best, granny," and she replies that  "Oh, these are from Dunkin!  I have a life too, you know," then the young woman says "Granny!"  Granny is gratingly cutesy, the guy is a stick, and the girl...well, she has ONE WORD to say, and says it in this annoying whinnying way - "Gr-a-a-a-anny!"  Its one of the few commercials that really makes me lunge for the remote.

[riley702]

You wouldn't BELIEVE the ideas Pizza Hut proposed in a market survey I recently did online.

 

Oh, c'mon! Spill!

Keep seeing this word here, figured it out through context use and finally had to officially look it up:

squick v. to disturb, unsettle, make uneasy; to cause disgust or revulsion; to gross (someone) out; to freak (someone) out. Also noun, something which causes disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness, or the disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness itself. Also squick (someone) out. Etymological Note: There is inconclusive evidence this term may have originated among practitioners of sexual bondage or sadomasochism.

Happy Thursday :)

 

Yep, that's what it means. I saw it a lot on TWoP.

[Flnurse]

 Yep, that's what it means. I saw it a lot on TWoP.

 

Going to Google that one now too cause I see it a lot here as well. ;) (teehee)

[GaT]

Every time I see this commercial (and it's way too much) & "Chersteen C." comes on & says "We've found the perfect person through them, & we've continued to find perfect people through them" while clapping her hands together, I want to stab someone in the eye. It's amazing how much you can hate someone in a commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAOE5V-zHY

[riley702]

 

Yep, that's what it means. I saw it a lot on TWoP.

 

Going to Google that one now too cause I see it a lot here as well. ;) (teehee)

 

Television Without Pity (TWoP) was founded by the founders of this board. They sold TWoP to Bravo (who, IMO, ran it into the ground and then closed it). Meanwhile PTV was up and running, so a lot of us came here.

 

ETA: Thanks, guys!

[Muffyn]

There is a pizza hut commercial for a pizza with cheesy bites on the end.  Okay, as a food product that is definitely better than the horror-inducing hot dog bite pizza.  However, people throw the cheese bites at people's faces for them to try to catch them in their mouths.  And most people miss.  They are being pelted by disgusting, greasy cheese bits wrapped in "flavored" crust abominations.  One of the crusts has barbecue sauce on it.  So someone is hit in the face by and barbecue sauce covered cheese and crust bullet.  Okay, I really hate the feel of food on my face.  Taking a salty, greasy cheesy bite to the eye would have me dunking my face in water, desperate to get all remnants of it off of me.  So thanks, Pizza Hut, for creating a horror-inducing commercial that leaves me nauseated and absolutely certain I will not be ordering pizza from you ever.  I have to go wash my face now.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Muffyn

[erikdepressant]

They are being pelted by disgusting, greasy cheese bits wrapped in "flavored" crust abominations.  One of the crusts has barbecue sauce on it.  So someone is hit in the face by and barbecue sauce covered cheese and crust bullet.  Okay, I really hate the feel of food on my face.

From a Wikipedia article:

Rule 34—"If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions"—is a prevalent meme that Internet pornography exists for every conceivable topic.

Edited July 23, 2015 by erikdepressant

[Muffyn]

 

From a Wikipedia article:

Rule 34—"If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions"—is a prevalent meme that Internet pornography exists for every conceivable topic.

 

 

 

I know people who do food porn, so yeah, there is porn of it.  Porn I will not be watching.

 

(I'm not anti-porn,  Just not turned on by people being pelted by food or smashing food with their feet or sitting on food or smearing it all over themselves or . . . . you get the picture.  I used to be a sex education lecturer.  Very little phases me in terms of what turns other people on.  With the food stuff I just have to make sure I do not imagine myself involved in it.  Ew.  Greasy food on my face.  Ew.)  Now if anyone wants stories about pie guy . . . . 

 

I've been watching too much day time TV.  I'm on nasty commercial overload.  

[Flnurse]

Lmao y'all are NAILING It!!!!

[potatoradio]

 

In addition to it not being safe for baby right near the stove, I probably would have tripped over the baby carrier and broke my nose when I faceplanted on the kitchen floor!

 

As someone who regularly trips over a very senile and food obsessed cat (not a kit-ten), I relate to this fear. I sometimes read about commercials here before I see them, so I look forward to seeing this advertised bit of WTF on my teevee soon.

 

 

There is a Comcast Xfinity ad (apparently it is called XFINITY X1 TV Spot, 'Sports App'). The guy is watching a game, and the girlfriend waltzes in and changes the channel to watch an old Channing Tatum movie. The Sports App allows the guy to keep track of the score. Uh, that's not the same as actually watching the end of the game. I think the GF is unbelievably rude. Let the guy finish the game, and then you can watch your stupid movie. Urgh.

 

I hate that one, too. If it's a movie it's On Demand, bitch. I'm a woman and I'd punch any asshole who did that to me in the throat while I was watching football.

 

 

I hate this commercial so much. She is such a whiny little pain in the arse. "Oh, this is happening." Oh, I'm sorry, your Highness, I thought we were in a partnership. And then her final "baaaaaayyyybeeeee" whine when she realizes he isn't watching her movie? Someone needs her tiara shoved in a not-so-sparkling-place.

 

[pandora spocks]

I think it might be time for Jimmy Dean to retire Our Mister Sun. He's looking tired. I'm rather tired of him shoving food in everyone's face. Some of the first ads with the solar system revolving were cute.

 

Mister Sun has turned into a real SUN-of-a-bitch, hasn't he?  If some bozo burst in my kitchen sticking one of his rubbery biscuits in my face, the biscuit would be inserted where the sun doesn't shine!

 

The woman singing in her car in the TENA commercial makes me stabby.  Maybe because I don't have a theme song for not pissing my pants. The  woman doing her "crazy" laugh in the theater makes me wonder about her sanity. She reminds me of Danny Glover in the ads for the PBA pills.

Edited July 24, 2015 by pandora spocks

[Cobalt Stargazer]

The woman singing in her car in the TENA commercial makes me stabby.  Maybe because I don't have a theme song for not pissing my pants. The  woman doing her "crazy" laugh in the theater makes me wonder about her sanity. She reminds me of Danny Glover in the ads for the PBA pills.

 

They've edited that one, actually, because both women were really screechy/cackling in the first version, but now they sound normal. Ish.

[SmithW6079]

I hate hate the "Messin' with Sasquatch" commercials. First, they're filled with d-bags who are mean to the sasquatch, but the implied consequence -- that the sasquatch kills them -- is just not funny.

[bigskygirl]

The Clearasil commercial with the mom screaming the kid's name makes me want to scream.

[Rick Kitchen]

I hate hate the "Messin' with Sasquatch" commercials. First, they're filled with d-bags who are mean to the sasquatch, but the implied consequence -- that the sasquatch kills them -- is just not funny.

 

But karma.

[crowswork]

The one with the guy and his little red roadster. He drives the car when he was single. Gets married and has a family but he NEEDS a new red roadster to remind him "Of when you were you." So he isn't HIM with his wife and kids?

[DeLurker]

The Mazda MC commercial - Mazda Midlife Crisis.

 

I hated the Sprint (?) commercials, but I miss Gor-dahn.

 

And unfortunately, the Nationwide Insurance commercial with the giant baby is playing again.  I hadn't seen it in a bit, so assumed it had gone to the commercial graveyard.

[CarpeDiem54]

I think Lisa (the awkward AT&T bedazzled chick) needs to get a life. Maybe she and Gor-dahn could go out on a date.

[brickthru the tv]

To the french:

 

Please come back and pick up the Statue of Liberty and then we wouldnt see anymore dumass adsfor that car ins company

 

And for those out there:  Did you know that 1-800-blah-blah blah is a FREE call?

[SmithW6079]

But karma.

Perhaps, but I still don't find murder funny, especially as an escalation of a practical joke, even by d-bags.

 

The one with the guy and his little red roadster. He drives the car when he was single. Gets married and has a family but he NEEDS a new red roadster to remind him "Of when you were you." So he isn't HIM with his wife and kids?

There's nothing wrong with wanting to remember a time when you were young and carefree. I don't think it negates who he is now to be reminded of who he was then.

[Prevailing Wind]

But the commercial implies he's not "you" now.  He's a poser and he needs to car to be able to be his true self.

[Ubiquitous]

Keep seeing this word here, figured it out through context use and finally had to officially look it up:

squick v. to disturb, unsettle, make uneasy; to cause disgust or revulsion; to gross (someone) out; to freak (someone) out. Also noun, something which causes disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness, or the disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness itself. Also squick (someone) out. Etymological Note: There is inconclusive evidence this term may have originated among practitioners of sexual bondage or sadomasochism.

Happy Thursday :)

That's not the original meaning when we created it... no, you probably don't want to know...

[riley702]

That's not the original meaning when we created it... no, you probably don't want to know...

Per Urban Dictionary: 

A term that originated around 1994 in the alt.tasteless newsgroup as a response to the question "What is the sound of a good skull fucking?"

Yeah, that definitely squicks me out. Yeesh. You'd think I'd learn not to go looking for some answers.

Edited July 24, 2015 by riley702

[ABay]

But it begs the question,

what's the sound of a bad skull fucking?

[riley702]

LOL, ABay!

[Rick Kitchen]

But it begs the question,

what's the sound of a bad skull fucking?

 

AFLAC!

[Cobalt Stargazer]

The one with the guy and his little red roadster. He drives the car when he was single. Gets married and has a family but he NEEDS a new red roadster to remind him "Of when you were you." So he isn't HIM with his wife and kids?

 

Years ago, our local radio station had a series of skit-type things called "Life of the Married Man", or something like that. The theme music went:

 

Married man, married man,

Drives around in a minivan,

Life for him has no zing,

The wife won't let him do anything...

 

That was the first thing I thought of when I saw that ad.

[SoSueMe]

Oh boy, I am *really* out of the majority on this one!  I *love* this commercial!  To me, they are so much a long-time couple who practically speak in shorthand.  When she says, "We have to talk" and he says, "I took out the trash," to me he's saying that "We have to talk" doesn't worry him ~ she's not going to bust his balls about something, or tell him she's leaving him.  When she says, "Yes, and thank you for that," it doesn't sound condescending; it sounds like a loving, inside-joke thing, you know, "Oh yes sweetie, you da man."  The two of them seem so comfortable together!  They've been together a long time, they enjoy spending their free time together, they enjoy doing active things together.  She kids him ~ "Did you do your pushups today?" ~ and he says, "Prepare to be amazed!"  They seem to have fun together!

I like it too, they have nice chemistry. And I like it infinitely better than the alternate AARP commercial with the strolling woman who is "only in her 60s with big plans". I honestly don't know why she irritates me so much.

Edited July 26, 2015 by SoSueMe

[arejay]

Years ago, our local radio station had a series of skit-type things called "Life of the Married Man", or something like that. The theme music went:

Married man, married man,

Drives around in a minivan,

Life for him has no zing,

The wife won't let him do anything...

That was the first thing I thought of when I saw that ad.

Oh, I do SO love a John Boy and Billy reference. Thank you!

[riley702]

I like it infinitely better than the alternate AARP commercial with the strolling woman who is "only in her 60s with big plans". I honestly don't know why she irritates me so much.

LOL - I pointed out months ago that this woman, with her "I have a nice, long life ahead" was actually on the downhill side of life, statistically, and there were howls of protest (full disclosure - I'm 54). I think I stepped on some toes. Heh.

[pandora spocks]

The reason that I find the AARP "nice long life and I have big plans" lady is her smug certainty that this will be true just because she wants it. She may very well have a "nice long life" but her "big plans" may include drinking prune juice and bingo night at the nursing home.

[OSM Mom]

The one with the guy and his little red roadster. He drives the car when he was single. Gets married and has a family but he NEEDS a new red roadster to remind him "Of when you were you." So he isn't HIM with his wife and kids?

See, watching with the sound off, my takeaway was that he divorced his wife, and is single again.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Oh, I do SO love a John Boy and Billy reference. Thank you!

 

John Boy and Billy were my jam back in the day, right behind Bob and the Showgram. Good times, yo.

[SmithW6079]

But it begs the question,

what's the sound of a bad skull fucking?

Gagging?

[P2C2E]

Alright, this one could go in the scratch your head thread, but it also irritates me so I'm putting it here. It's the new Samsung commercial where they are advocating a new way of charging so that you don't have to deal with those pesky wires. Only thing is, their charging pad very clearly has a wire on it! How exactly is this saving me from wires? I get it, it's a nicer way of charging, but how is it the wiring any more convenient? You still have to shove the wire for the charging pad up behind your bedside table. Or carry it in your purse/briefcase every day in order to charge it at work. Don't sell me on a benefit of your product that isn't actually more beneficial!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDOosa8PEo

[Rick Kitchen]

That was exactly my reaction when I saw that ad!

[bilgistic]

It reminds me of our old favorite "wireless" DirecTV DVRs that need one box in the house to be wired. And power cords don't count as "wires".

https://youtu.be/hLmP73eAHB8

P.S. I told y'all I'd get you back for Hannah and her horse.

[Haleth]

That is cruel, bilgistic.

[DeLurker]

No, just no Volkswagen Passat Commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXh0jcChj-U

My 14 YO immediately asked why older women sexually harrassing the guy was ok.  Plus, she noted that her older cousins (in their late 20s) would not be amused by such treatment so why was sales guy?

 

This Graco commercial annoys the HECK out of me and is playing a lot. The baby's back and forth and mom's voice...UGH

To top it off, I'm appalled at this commercial....Who the hell would place a child on the kitchen floor while cooking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0a6tWGIQ8&feature=player_detailpage

In the last couple days the version of the commercial I see doesn't show her putting the baby on the kitchen floor (in front of the stove).  Hopefully that version is gone for good.

Edited July 25, 2015 by DeLurker

[janie jones]

Alright, this one could go in the scratch your head thread, but it also irritates me so I'm putting it here. It's the new Samsung commercial where they are advocating a new way of charging so that you don't have to deal with those pesky wires. Only thing is, their charging pad very clearly has a wire on it! How exactly is this saving me from wires? I get it, it's a nicer way of charging, but how is it the wiring any more convenient? You still have to shove the wire for the charging pad up behind your bedside table. Or carry it in your purse/briefcase every day in order to charge it at work. Don't sell me on a benefit of your product that isn't actually more beneficial!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDOosa8PEo

What bothers me is that you can't use your phone while it's charging, unless you want to lean over the charging thing on the table.

 

My 14 YO immediately asked why older women sexually harrassing the guy was ok.  Plus, she noted that her older cousins (in their late 20s) would not be amused by such treatment so why was sales guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXh0jcChj-U

The guy in this commercial isn't a sales guy; he's another customer.  I don't get the impression that either guy is amused by it, just being polite.  Though I agree that it isn't okay for these women to sexually harass these men, I'm inclined to like this one, because that line at the end reminds me of a family friend who has passed away.  She was a dirty old woman and I could totally see her saying that exact same thing to someone.  The other thing that bothers me about this one is, why's that guy spending so much time looking at the outside of the car?  I've never seen someone study the exterior of a car so much. 

[Prevailing Wind]

I've seen two "episodes" of the elderly twins car shopping - the "rear end sales" dude who is, indeed, a customer and the one with the salesman in the passenger's seat as "Terri" does the test drive with the other sister butting in the conversation.  Since they're twins, they want a two-for-one discount.

 

Yikes.  Makes us old women look like pervs.  Doesn't VW know we're crazy cat ladies?

[Aquarius]

But it begs the question,

what's the sound of a bad skull fucking?

 

I know, I know! 

The sound of someone eating Little Baby Ice Cream!

 

Oh, wait.  You probably mean something else altogether . . .

[butterbody]

A slightly older thorn in my side has made its way back into the rotation. The one where the freaking parents are playing their kids Mario Bros and eating fruit loops. Aside from the fact that these assholes could actually be playing WITH the kids, I want to bludgeon the mom each time she says 'yeah' like a frat boy. Please stop trying to be cool and just hang out with your kid!

[Prevailing Wind]

But then they'd have to share the Froot Loops.  She's probably the kind of really cool mom who doesn't let her kids eat sugary cereals & gives 'em Weetabix or some straw-tasting crap like that, so she & hubby have to sneak the Froot Loops after the kids are asleep.  When they're done with Mario, they'll go into the kitchen & have some Gelato they won't share with the kids, either.  Probably give the kids Yoplait.

[theatremouse]

A slightly older thorn in my side has made its way back into the rotation. The one where the freaking parents are playing their kids Mario Bros and eating fruit loops. Aside from the fact that these assholes could actually be playing WITH the kids, I want to bludgeon the mom each time she says 'yeah' like a frat boy. Please stop trying to be cool and just hang out with your kid!

I might be remembering wrong, but I don't think they're playing their kids' video games. They were playing the video games from their own youth, ie, 8-bit Super Mario Bros. I think they even had original square controllers, so I think the implication is that these Froot Loop eating folks still have an NES (I do) or have modern consoles but re-purchased the retro games. I'm not even sure if the ad was suggesting those two had kids. I thought it was more just a "relive your youth sometimes, eat your fave sugar cereals, it's fun" campaign. Not a "do what your children do without them" thing.

[erikdepressant]

I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial for any Kellogg's product that didn't annoy the shit out of me.  I hate that Froot Loops ad, and Eggo ads have me diving for the remote.  The other ones (Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, etc.) have those saccharin family scenes of kids bonding with their parents over cereal.  No, Kellogg's, I can not emotionally connect with your brand.