Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

And the dialogue makes no sense in a new phone context. "I want to feel this feeling again and again." What?

 

God I hate that I know this, I’m well and truly sorry …

… the premise is he is pissed at Geico for tossing him aside for the Gecko. I think it was a Super Bowl commercial where he’s all excited for a documentary he thinks is about him but it’s really about the Gecko. So he’s not mad at fair calls, he’s mad it’s sponsored by Geico. And the password game the answer is the Gecko and everyone in the room knows it’s awkward.

Again, doesn’t help your enjoyment but that’s the context and I’m really, really sorry I know that.

 

The original GEICO caveman ads years ago were actually really smart and funny.

The revival has been horribly written and dumb.

 

If you (not you, Spartan, but the royal "you") have to explain the premise, it probably wasn't worth doing.

Geico is about 10 years past date on doing something new, including jettisoning all of their self-referential stuff. Please just put the gekko down for crissakes.

Progressive too, though those don't bother me as much for some reason.

I hate Liberty Mutual ads (noted here before), but I'm starting to think they're entering so-bad-it-good territory. They are so hyper-banal ... I think I'm kind of starting to respect it. They're the equivalent of the "Nancy" comic.

 

That entire insurance genre really bugs me, for some reason.

Having inane commercials is doing zero to make me want to explore buying my insurance from especially Geico and Liberty Mutual. Progressive's commercials don't bother me as much, but still not very much interested in them.

If your entire advertising objective is to try to be as clever and as quirky as possible, without giving me anything I can sink my teeth into as it pertains to buying your product and services, then I'll go elsewhere.

 

I will say? Better funny, than trying to exploit patriotism like USAA does.

 

I find the amount of USAA ads odd because they are marketing to a limited audience. I have USAA because my ex-wife's father is retired military but I'd be otherwise shut out.

It's like the pharmaceutical ads, some of those pills are for very specific ailments that I wouldn't think a lot of people have.

 

How dare you! I was born with wings, but psoriasis clipped them! Now? I HAVE GIVEN MYSELF BACK THE FREEDOM OF SHORTS!

That's actually probably a common ailment, but I get your drift.

 

I hate the “buy this because we support the troops” trope. I hate that the NFL does it. I hate the trotting old people in wheelchairs for a photo, I hate the “we didn’t change this a bit, but we added a flag!”

 

Commercials that have worn out their welcome:

Football players eating Haribo gummies
Liberty Mutual Emu
And any of the seemingly dozens of commercials with one or both of the Kelce brothers. The fuckers are everywhere.

 

It’s not the emu but Doug that’s annoying for me. They should have dropped the piano on him.

 

I have a little bit of sympathy for Jake From State Farm now that I’ve decided he has been damned for all eternity to listen to the most mundane details of strangers’ lives. But all of those strangers have permission to go die in a fire.