Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

Just had one Monday. You don’t want to speak that into existence.

 

Maybe they work, but I'd love to stick a trident in every ad exec who somehow thinks he or she has come up with the unique idea of writing rhyming ad copy to a familiar Christmas tune is going to sell more shit during the holidays. It's a tired, lazy-ass pitch that's more than worn out its welcome.

You're neither Dr. Seuss nor Clement Clarke Moore. Or even worthy of the scorn of William McGonagall.

I don't need what you think is the 1,000th clever play on words to Jingle Bells, the 12 Days of Christmas, Deck the Halls, Joy to the World, or Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. If you just have to do it, run it exclusively on the Hallmark Channel because I'll never, ever see it unless I'm at a doctor's office (like yesterday).

Just stick to the surprised look of the family when they see the massive bow on a fancy luxury car that magically appears on their driveway. We all appreciate honest and real slices of middle-class life like that.

 

Forget about the caboose!

 

To paraphrase Lewis Grizzard, the accent on the woman in this year’s Jared ad is the most effective form of birth control.

 

Facebook changing its name to Meta is dumb but call your company whatever you want. But that commercial? I want to patronize a company because four 20 somethings go down an acid trip with a painting of a tiger killing a wildebeest? I want to throat punch whoever greenlit that commercial.

 

A little thing that annoys the shit outta me: In the All-State ads that have a marching band following a car, or musicians in the back seat of a car… the “musicians” never change their fingering, so they aren’t playing shit!

 

So they’ve moved beyond that one and apparently there’s a whole series of ads revolving around associating jewelry with dead or gravelly ill relatives. How uplifting.

 

Peacock does that too.

 

And how many people are they advertising to? Military folks all pretty much know about it. Nonmilitary people can't have it.

 

The Domino’s commercial where they’re giving gift cards to the local restaurants. It has these restaurant owners crying about the 30% cut DoorDash and the others take off the top.

Those orders, even at 70%, are orders they’re not going to get otherwise.

 

I'm guessing those USAA ads are like those Lockheed ads and others who do business with the government - you are only advertising to a half-dozen people who matter.

 

Does anyone here have that insurance, I've heard that it's actually a pretty predatory company.