commercials you would love to smack the crap out of..

[kopfhorer1]

So I marreid my dream girl, I married my dream girl, but she didn't tell me her credit was bad, so now instead of living in a pleasant suburb wee're living in a basement at her mom and dad's
Because we can't get a loan for a respectable home, because she defaulted on some old credit cards, had I ever known this I'd have not married her, and I'd be a happy bachelor with a dog and a yard!

...And then there was that "financial collapse" thing from a few weeks ago...

What I'm getting irked about is the commercials that are using the music we grew up with during 60's and 70's. Of course, they are coming to us 'baby boomers' for sales. They think we have money to spend. Ha! Not after you screwed with our 401(k)'s and sucked us almost dry with over-hyped gas prices. Glad I never bought into Enron.

Horus

As a baby-boomer, I so hate being pandered to by advertisers and radio programmers who think that the ONLY music we want to listen to is a handful of top-40 hits from 1963-70. If those guys really want to mine those years, why don't they hit up the ESP Disk catalogue (hey, they just put out an expanded edition of the Charles Manson album!)? What about the Velvet Underground? Frank Zappa? British freakbeat bands?

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

I love those free credit report .com commercials.

Now onto commercials I hate. Those 'Our Country' Silverado commercials, every damn football game there is about 20 of them.

I agree totally on the Wendie's hair commercials. I hated those.

I hate the commercials with the people drawn out in mosaic fashion talking about their investment portfolios. I want to throw a hammer through the TV when they come on.

Any commercial which assumes a stereotype like a hyperactive idiot teenager or a moronic imbecile husband.

So many to hate, so little time. The art of advertising really is in the crapper. There are a few decent ones here and there. Most are just lame or outright insulting.

 

[kopfhorer1]

...The art of advertising really is in the crapper. There are a few decent ones here and there. Most are just lame or outright insulting.

Is it me, or is our culture as a whole many orders of magnitude more dumbed down now than in the past?

In the 1970's, there were a lot of TV shows not worth watching, popular songs not worth the vinyl they were pressed on, and offensively bad commercials. But I got the idea that some of the popular media were into taking creative risks (could Saturday Night Live have ever gone on the air for the very first time in the present day and age?). And even some of the bad commercials from that period were so bad they were good (remember the Meow Mix ads? Bet the voiceover casting calls for those were interesting! And there was a Vaseline commercial with a brief foot-tickling scene!).

 

[tallbuckeye]

I'm with Kopfhorer on the baby-boomer music ads, and I am one (technically, if not in spirit). We've heard the same damn tunes for the last 40 years, don't need to hear em again. XM radio recently replaced their punk/ska/misc. station (ch. 53) with a 24-hour AC/DC channel, and I am still livid about it.

On the Wendy's ads: since I live in Dublin, where Wendy's is based, I must comment. The company, not just the ads, has stagnated for years while other food franchises have passed it up. Dave Thomas passed away, and the remaining people didn't know how to run a business. So now they've been bought by the people who run Arby's, who run dopey ads with cowboy hats floating over people's heads. I don't think their ads are getting better anytime soon.

But I still love those big greasy burgers...

 

[melanie2]

i love my radio station... http://www.x1063.com/main.html

plays what i love to hear..hard rock..it's the commercials though..grr and five minutes of them..ack..

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

Talking babies... can't stand them creepy things either.

 

[kopfhorer1]

I'm with Kopfhorer on the baby-boomer music ads, and I am one (technically, if not in spirit). We've heard the same damn tunes for the last 40 years, don't need to hear em again. XM radio recently replaced their punk/ska/misc. station (ch. 53) with a 24-hour AC/DC channel, and I am still livid about it.

I admit I don't know very much about AC/DC. But I suspect there's not enough official releases by that band to fill up an entire week. Unless they air unreleased concert footage, the amount of sheer repetition is going to be downright Clear-Channelish!

But yeah, if they're going to follow the traditional commercial radio format model of playing to the lowest common denominator, concentrating on superstar acts and repeating the same handful of "top-rated" (by whom?) songs ad infinitum, I can see no reason to shell out for satellite radio. I'll just download shows from WFMU, WFUV, KEXP or another free-form radio station and play them in my car.

i love my radio station... http://www.x1063.com/main.html

plays what i love to hear..hard rock..it's the commercials though..grr and five minutes of them..ack..

Hey, someone's got to pay for the softcore porn (the "Babe" pages)! 😀

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

Is it me, or is our culture as a whole many orders of magnitude more dumbed down now than in the past?

In the 1970's, there were a lot of TV shows not worth watching, popular songs not worth the vinyl they were pressed on, and offensively bad commercials. But I got the idea that some of the popular media were into taking creative risks (could Saturday Night Live have ever gone on the air for the very first time in the present day and age?). And even some of the bad commercials from that period were so bad they were good (remember the Meow Mix ads? Bet the voiceover casting calls for those were interesting! And there was a Vaseline commercial with a brief foot-tickling scene!).

I think that the trouble with todays advertising is that it tries too much to be unique... too much to be different. They very quickly sail off into yahooland (speaking of the Gulliver's Travels yahoos). They live in their own world of what they think the world is like then they take that vision and ram it down our throats. Back in the 70's, yes, advertising was conventional. maybe a little boring, but at least we all lived in the same world.

 

[melanie2]

hey i just saw a commercial i actually giggled at...these guys come down out in the country in a hot air balloon..and there is the new Honda Pilot driving up and the driver asks if they need a ride..and the guys in the hot air balloon say yes but we are nudists...the next scene shows all of them in the Pilot..the driver starts to look around to back up, changes his mind and uses the screen thingie in front of him to back the vehicle up with...and the expression on his and his son's faces made me giggle..

 

[tff69]

hey i just saw a commercial i actually giggled at...these guys come down out in the country in a hot air balloon..and there is the new Honda Pilot driving up and the driver asks if they need a ride..and the guys in the hot air balloon say yes but we are nudists...the next scene shows all of them in the Pilot..the driver starts to look around to back up, changes his mind and uses the screen thingie in front of him to back the vehicle up with...and the expression on his and his son's faces made me giggle..

I have seen that too! Very funny!

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

A couple of ads that I actually LIKE are the late, lamented Trunk Monkey ads for one of the car companies(was it Toyota?), and a recent one from Master Card, where the lady goes shopping for "hugs" and "laughs" and "smiles" in a little corner store. It's doofy, but cute.

 

[3xPIN]

You seen that axe body spray chocolate ad? with the guy made of chocolate? Scares the crap out of me! But its funny, too! 😱

 

[Tantrum]

ANYTHING to do with freecreditreport.com.

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! Slam an AX through the set when one comes on!

 

[Cbarton]

"he's an economic I-D-I-O-T...worshiping his FICO score baby..."

I can't stand the car ads with the money expert authors helping to sell cars
They need to be telling them to save their cash, buy used, and NOT GO INTO DEBT. We've seen where high debt has taken the nation this week already....

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

You seen that axe body spray chocolate ad? with the guy made of chocolate? Scares the crap out of me! But its funny, too! 😱

Ugh. That one's truly awful.

There's a long-running radio-ad for a cosmetic surgeon down here with the following tag-line: "We don't have to look like our grandparents anymore". I dunno. I think it's pretty tacky, personally.

 

[TKLVR181]

They say...

A man should always dress, for the job he wants.
So, why am I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant.
It's all because some hacker stole my identity,
Now, I'm in here every weekend serving chowder and iced tea.
Shoulda gone to free credit report dot com (Yehaw !)
I woulda seem this coming at me like an atom bomb,
They monitor your credit and send you email alerts.
So you don't wind up selling fish to tourist in tee shirts (Twang !).






J😛aw:

I hate this one so much I accidentially memorized it....>____<

~K

 

[Senshi1]

Not so much a hated advert as one that I just can't scrape out of my head every morning.

"Call J G WENTWORTH

877 cash NOOOOW!!

877 cash NOOOW!!

8-7-7 caaash NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!! >=0 "

 

[TKLVR181]

Not so much a hated advert as one that I just can't scrape out of my head every morning.

"Call J G WENTWORTH

877 cash NOOOOW!!

877 cash NOOOW!!

8-7-7 caaash NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!! >=0 "

OMG NO...NONONnono...I was SURE we had this one buried and gone....he drove my whole house stark raving mad with that song this summer...he was actually banned from doing it at the card/dinner table....>_________< 😀

~K

 

[Senshi1]

OMG NO...NONONnono...I was SURE we had this one buried and gone....he drove my whole house stark raving mad with that song this summer...he was actually banned from doing it at the card/dinner table....>_________< 😀

~K

Yeah well I can sing it here all I want. 😛

Sad thing is that I don't want to at all, but I'm still gonna.



Oh, whilst we're on the subject of adverts that annoy people, this might be an obscure one. It's a British advert, but it might also be exclusive to South Wales, but it's about this guy dressed as a Tudor and he's going around a blue screen shouting about windows.

"Ya BUY one ya get one FREE ah say ya BUUUY one ya GET ONE FREEE!!! So call 0800 ONE OH SIX ONE OH SEVEN ah say 0800 ONE OH SIX ONE OH SEVEN NOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Every single time that one comes on my mum goes nutzoid. But alas, her hatred of that advert is second only to her love of Coronation Street, so she puts up with it.

Oh, except now we've got Virgin Plus, so we can pause the guy and fast forward past him. 😛 Every cloud and all that.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I'm waiting for the Geico caveman character to eat the gekko. Or visa-versa.

 

[melanie2]

the damn vault ad with the annoying energized man..i would love to vault him somewhere...

 

[NMKamikaze1]

I've had it up to my chin with that damn Wendy's commercial about that Mushroom and Swiss burger... Those two ugly, non-singing motherfuckers annoy the shit out of me. Everytime I see that commercial, I wish I could jump through my TV screen and kick their asses.

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

I'm waiting for the Geico caveman character to eat the gekko. Or visa-versa.

I've had a similar thought on this subject. Or perhaps the scene would be the Gekko talking the Caveman down from a ledge.

As for the Pirate commercial I love that one. :tounge:

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I've had a similar thought on this subject. Or perhaps the scene would be the Gekko talking the Caveman down from a ledge.

As for the Pirate commercial I love that one. :tounge:

I could see that! The caveman seems to be terminally depressed in all of his skits, anyway.






I'm driving home tonight, listening to some radio, and they cut to commercials. All three of the first ads during the break featured little kid voices talking cutesy baby-talk. I didn't stick around to find out whether there'd be a fourth one. :beard:

 

[J.Apolo6541]

I've had it up to my chin with that damn Wendy's commercial about that Mushroom and Swiss burger... Those two ugly, non-singing motherfuckers annoy the shit out of me. Everytime I see that commercial, I wish I could jump through my TV screen and kick their asses.

Yeah Dude !,

I can just imagine, any self respecting guy who had to do that commercial,
after doing those spots, would have to cut his testes out and never call himself a real man ever again !

J

I'd be right there with you reminding those two of grade school and their fear of the boys room !