Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

Conan's was better because they actually typed the words being said. The FOD one still showed the clip from the commercial.

http://teamcoco.com/video/zooey-iphone-ad

 

Hey, Herb Tarlek would have loved that!

 

The new Honey Nut Cheerios is dumb.
The bee explains to the chick what HNCs are!

Really? We don't know what they are? They've been around for decades!

The new bee voice is annoying and she is looking in the wrong place from where the CGI is.

 

I hate all cereal ads.

First, they pour just enough milk in the bowl to get the top three flakes wet, then start chowing down on the dry cereal just so we can see that it's crunchy.

It's fucking cereal. It's supposed to be soggy wet. And nearly everybody eats it the same way, with one hand resting on their head, eyes barely open, cow-cud chewing while contemplating the insanity for having to end up so fucking early.

Run down the street singing its praises? Cereal? Really.

Second, much like potato chip commercials, are we really suppose to believe a box of cereal is that goddamned full?

When I open a box of cereal, there's a minimum of three inches of air. These morons reach into the top of the box and pull out some.

Whatever happened to truth in advertising?

 

I guess you also get mad at companies like Reese's, which blows up the size of their peanut butter cups in TV spots, then has the audacity to say "not actual size" in the ads ...

 

The Ziploc bag commercial where they're pouring chili out of a giant vat and testing the bag against some bodybuilder?

Yeah, it gets an automatic mute.

 

The anti smoking commercials with all the people who've had throat and other cancers are so disgusting I might just start smoking to piss them off.

 

All part of the scare/grossout tactics that the anti-smoking crusaders have decided is the ticket to stamp out smoking. Although I'm as staunch an anti-smoker as there is (being an ex-smoker and all), I believe such tactics are backfiring.

 

I change the channel whenever I hear that lady start talking.

 

The new wave of Toyota commercials with the Teri Hatcher knockoff. She is snarky, know it all and there are plenty of "smart female/idiot male" dynamic. Very Flo from Progressive-like.

 

The Oscar Mayer commercials with the mom who constantly shoots down anything her family is doing with a firm, "No!"
Want to plan a cool vacation to Vegas?
"No!"
Daughter trying to sneak out of the house?
Bitch is there on the roof with a 500-watt Mag Lite like a prison guard to shout, "No!"
You know this extends to other areas of their lives. The hubby tries to cuddle up for some sexy time?
"No!"
Son wants a few bucks to go hang out with his friends?
"No!"
I want to see the follow-up ad where this whore is chasing Xanax with a bottle of whiskey and the dad shows up to shout, "No!"

By herself, this bitch is annoying. But she's also part of a larger trend I'm calling "The Year of the C**t."
There have been WAY too many commercials this year featuring shrewy, bitchy housewives playing snarling den mother to their nebbish husbands and families, as if they're the only thing keeping the household from sliding into the abyss overnight.
It started with the bitch in the greenhouse in the cell phone ads, continued through a half dozen other campaigns, and now we're here. When did ad agencies decide that Shrewy McBitchalot is the paragon of virtue in everything Americans do?
Fuck you, ad agencies. Go get a few drinks and juggle a rusty chainsaw.

 

The smug douche bragging on his son "Stephen" in the prevailing Dodge 300 spots.

Oh, yes, we're soooo impressed.

What I'm afraid of is that these preening spots are scoring with their target audience, which leads us to The Great Fear: more of the same.

Preeners love to preen.