Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

There's one running here for a Creosote Sweeping Log, which burns in your fireplace and wipes away the dangerous Creosote deposits.

 

The current Mayhem commercial...the one where he destroys the house and the car by driving over gravel with a lawnmower...may actually be based on my first experience of mowing the lawn. Parents left a few pieces of info out of what to do when mowing the lawn. :/

 

When I was younger, I had a rock shoot out from my mower and break the first pane of a double-paned sliding glass door. It was the first week I was getting paid for mowing lawns over the summer. My pay was docked until I paid for the door. That doesn't even begin to count the number of sprinklers I broke.

 

I always think of you when they show that ad. And they always show it at least twice in a row for some reason.

 

That and the one with the bungee cord failing to hold the tailgate equipment in the back of the truck are my favorite Mayhem commercials. I've had rocks shoot out of the mower many times, but never actually broke anything. I have broken many a sprinkler head though.

 

I really like the Santa Claus works at a Chevrolet dealership commercials, but I wish he'd take his trip to Akron, already.

That and the Farmers Only commercial. It wouldn't bother me so much if it didn't look like it was shot on a Sony 8mm camcorder from 1985. That, and one of the cows has a male's voice.

 

And the fact that the only thing I would even consider taking home from that commercial is the dog.

 

Anybody in Canuckistan watching TSN's coverage of the World Juniors is fed up with the handful of ads they run incessantly during the games: that awful Telus ad with the idiot parents sending out the picture of their Christmas turkey, (Hashtag: FuckThisAd), the Q-Ray bracelet (not loving it), the McDonald's ad flogging the low calorie count in the Egg McMuffin ("WHAT????"), Crosby flogging Gatorade and the endless parade pf jingoistic ads about how great Canada is at hockey.

I have seen enough of Thomas, the young English goalie, but will give him a pass because if he was female and 30 years older his accent would be identical to my cousin's.

 

Is an accent age- and gender-specific? I ask honestly.

 

No, not at all, just everytime I hear him talk it reminds me of her.

 

The Taco Bell commercial with the kid running away from the house after "her parents came home early." Presumably, he's there to get a little bouncy bouncy, and he just happens to have a stuft nacho on hand to nosh on when trying to run away from her Dad? Maybe he was going to use the stuft nacho in foreplay.

 

Like George Costanza with pastrami sandwiches.