What commercials grind your gears?

Sorry but these totally chap my ass. Just seeing her stupid face in the thread gets me angry all over again.

"Wait, so I'm trying to borrow $5,000, and to do so I have to pay you $40,872.72?

SEEMS LEGIT!"

 

Comes out to a paltry $40,872.72. Where do I sign up?

 

I'd rather sell a kidney. The recovery time would be way shorter than this protracted soul slaughter.

 

I will only father the children of women that use Crest, so it's pretty accurate.

 

How about that Viagra ad where the guy is in a '69 Camaro? It overheats, so he stops in at a store, buys a 20oz. bottle of water, takes a couple of swigs and pours the rest into the still steaming radiator. Voila! he drives off...yeah, a few ounces of water has always done the trick for me!

 

Yeah, that thing ain't going to last long. Wait, are we still talking about the car?

 

I find all commercials annoying. Even the ones where people I respect say, "now, that's a funny commercial!" I'm like, "um, yeah, right".

/curmedgeon

 

One of these days I'm going to call our local radio stations and ask them if they realize how many people they drive away from their shows when they air these commercials. I always change the station as soon as those first notes start so I don't have to hear that awful "singer"; and then I don't change back to that station. Nothing against the charity, but this has got to be the most annoying jingle in history. Blecch!

 

The Nicoderm ad where this guy is chatting it up with his buddies in a restaurant, and he can see this tiny band on the table playing "I Just Want To Celebrate"...
I guess you won't smoke, but you'll trip more than silly mushrooms and acid combined!

 

This one I actually watch - it's so over-the-top stupid and obviously phony that I crack up every time.

 

I think this could be a winner in the annoyance stakes:

 

I don't wanna get scalped!

 

Hey man, Suzanne Somers is the Thighmaster (or, more precisely put, the Thighmistress...)

 

True. They sometimes run two or three campaigns simultaneously (not all of which are good). I suspect that they employ more than one agency (or multiple/competing creative teams within a large agency)

 

As a female who obviously doesn't have to deal with this sort of issue, every time I see those commercials it makes me wonder.. Is ED as prevalent as the amount of commercials would have us believe? That is kind of a terrifying notion.

So too is the reality that commercials are generally chosen to appeal to the audience that is supposed to be watching the show. Daytime television ad spots tend to target the elderly and bored housewives who want easier ways to do the drudgery of cleaning up and taking care of the family. Home improvement ads run on the weekend and during DIY shows. When I'm watching tv and I get inundated suddenly with repeated ads for ED medication, preparation H, antidepressants, and STD medications I wonder exactly who the networks think that I am?

 

They think you're a an impotent, depressed man with hemorrhoids and VD!

 

I’d like to know what focus group fancies sitting outdoors, next to their lover, in their own bathtub.

 

I think many of the responses in this thread show that Americans still have hang-ups about sex, or discussing sex.

 

you'd get better rates from the Mafia. That said she is really hot!!

 

No it's not as prevalent. Viagra and others are used for recreational purposes. There are people in the pron industry taking them by the handful. I live close to the Mexican border and the local pharmacies sell tons of them next to the red light area.

 

We have murder and potato chips. We don’t need sex.

 

There's nothing wrong with talking about sex. We're just not supposed to talk about sex HERE.

 

Those Hail to the "V" ads.

 

There's a Cadillac commercial where a red cadillac is driving a winding road around what looks like the Grand Canyon. It wouldn't be a bad commercial except the whole thing is obvious and very badly done CG (Yes, I realize CG is everywhere but I expect better from a Cadillac commercial).

 

I can't stand any commercials for insurance companies like Geico, State Farm, and Progressive (the most annoying of all). Oh, and that Burger King commercial with Steven Tyler from last year irritates me as well