Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

Except when Duke is losing, then CBS calls as many time outs as they need to get back into it.

 

That's the best commercial I've seen in a long time. Watched it, paused the TV and called my wife in from the other room to watch it.

 

There are two commercials running during this tournament that I absolutely cannot stand: the Hoopers (don't even know, or care, what they're selling) and the Settlers ad for DirecTV. That one is so stupid it beggars belief.

 

The Burger King hot dog ad is worse.

 

What, you don't like fresh milk and salted meats? Are you a dirty, stinking commie? Or worse, a hippie?

 

I actually think the settlers commercials are fairly clever. And I love the Nationwide ads with the husband and wife absurdly making messes to avoid calling about insurance or retirement plans.

 

I know you don't care, but the Hoopers is a State Farm commercial. I bring that up only to mention State Farm has a radio ad with Jake from State Farm that is absolutely horrible. A married couple is in therapy because the wife is pissed that her husband is constantly calling Jake from State Farm about their insurance, including at weird hours like 2 or 3 a.m. The therapist is intrigued by the notion he can call at any time while the wife sounds exacerbated by the whole thing. We're supposed to think the wife is crazy and that she has nothing to worry about because they are saving so much on insurance. Sorry, State Farm, the wife is right. There is no fucking reason why anyone of sound mind should be missing sleep and jeopardizing a marriage to make the phone calls. That's classic addiction behavior.

 

I don't know the radio spot, but I love that TV spot.

 

The Progressive "box" commercials voiced by Chris Parnell are pretty damn annoying to me.

 

I do remember a Kentucky game some years ago, maybe when Pitino was still there, where they ended up with about three timeouts in 30 seconds.
The under 8 timeout came and went without a stoppage for a long time. I think Pitino took a timeout around the 4:30 mark, but that doesn't count as a deadball situation to get the media timeout. So they resumed play and it ran under 4 minutes before they finally got a stoppage -- which counted as the under-8 timeout. Then they got another one a few seconds later for the under-4 timeout.

 

Which is odd, because during the Carolina-Notre Dame game, there were a few instances of them taking the under-whatever timeout before the clock was under that time frame. They did it for the under-12 and under-8 timeouts in the second half, and there I don't remember a stoppage for the under-4.

 

St. Jude's commercial airing in heavy rotation here has annoying black woman who says "You're not only saving a family, you're saving a child." But, of course, because of ebonics, she ACTUALLY is saying that you'll save a "chow."

Keep waiting for Sarah McLaughlin to burst in and tell her she's in the wrong commercial.