Irritating commercials

I really want to shoot the TV when the J.G.Wentworth ads come on. Fingernails on the blackboard irritating. What other ads drive you nuts?

Mr. Whipple squeezing that Charmin made me realize that I had no business watching TV (dating myself here) so I effin' quit. Seriously. Except for live sports. So, now, it's anything with Danica.

"If you dont have an iPhone, you dont have an iPhone"

smug overload

I'M A PC
I'M A MAC
I'M A PC
I'M A MAC
I'M A PC
I'M A MAC
I'M A PC
I'M A MAC

Haven't watched any in about a year (Netflix) other than when I was waiting in a dealers waiting room for a ECU flash and Regis and Jill or whoever was on. After catching a few seconds of that in between vomiting, I now fear for mankind.

Those friggin' ASPCA commercials with Sara McLaughlin singing. It's a beautiful song, but when I hear it while they show injured animals it just makes me sad and frustrated. Also, any commercial using a crying baby.

that insurance one where the two kids are outside, sing, agent shows up and Bill Lumberg from Office Space is there, then they get casual wednesdays and he yells 'WHAT!' in Bill's face with such an attitude i want to club him like a baby seal.

if the jg wentworth ads are the opera ones then yes, i mute the sound every single time i hear the beginning.

The ASPCA commercials, sad critters bug me. Also, the damn Charmin bears. I don't want to know why a cartoon bear has TP "pieces" stuck all over its ass, k?

I DVR everything now just so i can fastforward commericals... I miss my old tivo that just got rid of commercials.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote:

mndsm wrote: Also, the damn Charmin bears. I don't want to know why a cartoon bear has TP "pieces" stuck all over its ass, k?

This, and in general ALL tp commercials. Except for the one where the guy gets a roll tossed at him and it shaves his scalp or explodes in his face.

Butt, I just go green and buy store brand recycled paper tp, so what do I know?

Every morning we have an ad that runs three times while I am getting ready to leave for work. Its for a burial insurance policy. I want to throw something at the TV.

Feminine hygiene products...

Klayfish wrote: Feminine hygiene products...

this one was pretty good...

O'Reilly's Auto Parts radio commercial.

"O, O, O, O'Reilly's......" FUUUuuuuuuuuuu! smashes button for a different station.

Toyota Highlander commercial with that douche bag kid. I never wanted the newer Highlander and now I don't want anything new that is even remotely connected to Toyota (yeah their model line up didn't excite me anyway, but that was the nail in the coffin). Way to go guys.

I'd say almost every commercial on tv. They've gone from being something somewhat informative to either making fun of someone, or simply irritating. There are very few really, really good commericals these days, many I have no idea what they are actually promoting. Back in my TV days, I've written more than I can even remember, and I would never even begin to pitch to a customer what I see now. It's like they take they take the most useless kid just coming out of school and say here, write us something for our product. What you end up with is tastless garbage that can only be appreciated by a 15yo teenage kid.

Some of the ones I hate are any Doritos commercial, all Burger King (they've been horrible for at least 30 years, we even used them is school back in the '80's as examples of horrible advertising), the aforementioned JG Wentworth, the Castrol stuff where the sludge falls, any commercial where they have to make someone look stupid to promote their product (you alienate someone everytime you do that...poor, poor advertising practice), and on and on.

Have we as a society fallen that far? Of course a good friend of mine that is still in the business says, "anything that makes you remember is a good commercial." The JG Wentworth he thinks is great. You hate it, but you remember. I just hate it and would go to someone not him if I ever needed that kind of service. These days, I DVR everything and skip them.

Vonage.

discovery, science and hd theater self promos - relentless barrage of the same ads for mostly re-runs.

And yeah the toyota highlander kid - so we're going to let the children pick our cars for their fragile self-esteem? Berkeley that. Seems like a good reason to not buy a highlander and show the brat where the bus stop is.

I like the Guitar that sounds like Dolphins and the Rock and Roll Falcon DQ commercials. All of the rest are irritants.

failboat wrote: "If you dont have an iPhone, you dont have an iPhone"

+Ones

About the only commercials that don't annoy the crap out of me are "The Most Interesting Man in the World" and the Geiko ones with the guy in the suit spouting absurd cliches.

racerdave600 wrote: I'd say almost every commercial on tv. They've gone from being something somewhat informative to either making fun of someone, or simply irritating. There are very few really, really good commericals these days, many I have no idea what they are actually promoting. Back in my TV days, I've written more than I can even remember, and I would never even begin to pitch to a customer what I see now. It's like they take they take the most useless kid just coming out of school and say here, write us something for our product. What you end up with is tastless garbage that can only be appreciated by a 15yo teenage kid. Some of the ones I hate are any Doritos commercial, all Burger King (they've been horrible for at least 30 years, we even used them is school back in the '80's as examples of horrible advertising), the aforementioned JG Wentworth, the Castrol stuff where the sludge falls, any commercial where they have to make someone look stupid to promote their product (you alienate someone everytime you do that...poor, poor advertising practice), and on and on. Have we as a society fallen that far? Of course a good friend of mine that is still in the business says, "anything that makes you remember is a good commercial." The JG Wentworth he thinks is great. You hate it, but you remember. I just hate it and would go to someone not him if I ever needed that kind of service. These days, I DVR everything and skip them.

Thank you for so eloquently putting my thoughts into words!

turboswede wrote: O'Reilly's Auto Parts radio commercial. "O, O, O, O'Reilly's......" FUUUuuuuuuuuuu! smashes button for a different station.

AAAaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
That's actually one of the reasons I won't shop there.

HEAD ON!

Head ON motherberkeleyer! APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR MOTHERberkeleying FOREHEAD!