Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

The fact that your name is Suburbanite only makes this post funnier.

 

The thing that drives me crazy is that it's actually a decent idea but it's just executed so terribly. They gathered the randomest group of guys, none of whom are exceedingly likeable, and just picked the dumbest topics. It just seems like there's a wealth of things to choose from here and they just completely miss the mark.

The same goes for the Coors Light press conference ones. Decent idea, but the guys are all losers and they either should be real answers from real coaches, with the questions worded in a way to make them go together funny, or just have the ex-coaches and make it funnier. It's caught in the middle with these coaches using the typical cliches, except that it's not from an actual press conference. I just don't understand why they went that route.

 

Actually, those are real coach takes from coaches conferences. If you don't recognize the Mora "Playoffs!?" rant, then I don't know what to tell you.

 

That one's real. But you're telling me the Ditka and Walsh ones are? When's the last time one of them held a press conference? They certainly don't look like they're from 20 years ago in the commercial.

Even if they are somehow real they didn't do a good enough job matching the questions with what the coaches said to make them funny. Either way they're terrible and not funny at all.

 

The commercials with the 10-year-old girl going on 30 with the elephant. For HDTV, I believe. "It's the mirrors."

And of course, Man Laws.

 

Does anyone else hate that Maxwell House commercial where they are singing that song, "Our House?"

 

Can't remember the company or product, but it's a spot that starts with a fingernails-on-the-chalkboard voice saying, "I'm thinking of a number..."

 

^Sounds like one of those pyramid schemes credit score commercials that they show for no reason.

 

New contender: the Brinks Home Security ad.

Well, more laughable than irritating. See, there's this white guy jogging through a white neighborhood, and he stops to tie his shoe in front of the house of some hot blonde whose husband is pulling out of the driveway. As soon as the husband leaves, this genius jogger/break-in guy runs to the door and kicks it open, setting off the Brinks Home Security Noisemaker and sending him running out as quickly as he ran in. Then the Brinks Home Security Phone Stalker call to make sure the hot blonde is okay and does she want him to come over and do a little late morning bop while the hubby's in DilbertLand and ... this commercial sucks so bad that I'm writing better script for it off the cuff instead of telling you how it ends (they probably buy an improved security system that makes even more noise).

The logic flaws are beauts: For starters, what was this fake jogger's motive? If he was robbing the house, he didn't bring anything to carry his ill-gotten booty.

If he was going to rape said blonde, is attacking her not 30 seconds after the husband leaves really the best course of action? What if he forgot his big business proposal or his breathmints and has to come back? Unless this guy's BYH, he's SOL.

If he planned his attack so well, how could he not know his target had a security system?

Did he really think pulling the hood of his jacket over his head was going to do a damn bit of good to hide his identity after it was off when the husband stopped to look at him, getting a full view of the perp's face? Or that he was jogging in an affluent neighborhood with the hood down and in broad daylight?

And if you have the money to shell out for a security system, shouldn't you have also spent the money to fortify the door enough so that it could withstand more than one running kick from a pussy jogger without bursting open like a glass piñata?

Find a new way to scare people into buying your product, Brinks.

 

"I'm t-h-i-nking of a number"....

Fucker should be wiped out, and his 720 credit score should be mud...

 

bumping this back up because I think it deserves a mention.

THE GOD DAMNED AWFUL DIET PEPSI MAX YAWNING COMMERCIAL!!!!!

Worse than anything Mellancamp has ever or ever will do!

 

To which I reply, "I'm thinking of bashing your brains in."