What commercials grind your gears?

These two idiots who can't look at their old furniture without gagging.

 

There is a commercial being shown now where a couple try to reenact the Dirty Dancing movie. The woman leaps into the air and the guy tries to catch her - and fails. They fall and break the dining room table. I have no idea what the hell they are advertising. A really dumb ad.

 

1-877-Kars-4-Kids

 

NOT this one!

 

"Are you talking to websites again?"

 

I hate the History Channel's promos for Ancient Aliens, especially the new promo for the new season that is starting in a week. It plays some dramatic music and is zoomed in (microscopic view) on something and slowly zooms out and eventually you can tell it is a strand of hair. Then it zooms out even more and it is the guy with the weird hair and Greek sounding name....Giorgio Tsoukalos.

Stupid promo.

 

Car ads up here (Canada): Nissan and GM.

The Nissan ads have tons of CGI - suspension bridge cables snapping, being chased by weathered trees or snowmen. Nissan owners rescue drivers and passengers from other brands that fall prey to these menaces.

The GM ad that has two mock-up photos - exact same background and male model in front of a car and a GM truck. Viewers are then asked to project traits onto the male model - which vehicle makes him look more manly. Another GM ad has a focus group that is asked to rank brands in order of who has built-in 4G wireless first. Neither of these ads says anything about the relevant features or reliability of these vehicles.

I have noticed the local all-news channel has heavy rotation of ads for personal injury attorneys and gold jewelry buyers. Does this say something about the presumed audience for this channel?

Any ad that says up to X% better.

Same as ads that say anything about a fraction of the cost: 100/1 is a fraction of the cost, as is 1/2.

 

Any of those godawful Haverty's commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6suJJlkx2UVYrOYw91g08BuJedK1J5Gw

 

So is Xfinity better than Uverse? Anyone switched from one to the other? Hoping Google Fiber will reach us soon.

 

Arrrrrrrrrggggggggg!!!!!

 

Anything to do with Progressive and Flo...

 

These two guys.

If I were one of their wives, I would be worried.

 

And the "Game Of War" chick

 

Checkers/Rallys "Mr. Bag"

 

Wait - you're saying you don't like Kate Upton???

 

The Yoplait Yogurt commercial with The Kinks "All Day And All Of The Night" makes me smile every single time. More so if I'm not looking at the TV. I just like hearing the song.

 

She has a name???

 

Kate Upton is one of the most popular and famous models working today!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Upton

 

Well, she has a remarkably cool demeanor when bombs are raining outside, I'll give her that.

 

Wait...models work?

 

Why do people on commercials say "warrantEE" and "EEmEEdiately"?

 

New one I don't know if it's been mentioned but I absolutely hate the "Love -it's what makes a Subaru". I ****ing hate all their commercials.

 

My absolute worse. All car insurance commercials save for Allstate, have really awful commercials. State Farm really sucks too.

 

The Chevy commercials with 'real people' all excited about the features they pack in.

There is one woman who says something like "Well, that's the dream to have wifi in the car."

Really - wifi in the car? You should be *DRIVING* your car, not using wifi and endangering everyone around you.

but - that's just me....

 

Hate these stupid commercials almost enough to boycott Sonic. They weren't funny 10 years ago and they're definitely not funny now. Douches.