Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

The DQ Blizzard/English soccer ad.
MAGESTERIAL soft-serve! BLISS FROM A BLENDAHHH!!!!
So bad and overplayed that it gets my automatic mute every time.

 

Walked by a beer cooler at a gas station this week and the damn display started blaring Christmas music. WTF?

 

Mazda now flogging the fuck out of the abovementioned Mia Hamm commercials, in which Mia Hamm does not appear on camera or utter one word.

It's annoying enough to see it the first time, but now it's running a dozen times or more per game on ESPN / ESPN2.

 

All of the Time Warner commercials are creepy - especially since they digitally made everyone's eyes bluer-than-blue to match their corporate logo - but the one with the wife coming home to a husband who bought more furniture than he was supposed to is particularly grating.

Wifey, whose nose inhabits about 90 percent of her head: "You were only supposed to buy one piece, what did yoooo dooooooo?"

Oh, STFU, you whining rhinoplasty poster.

 

She doesn't even get in the car! What does that say about Mazda... yeah, Mia Hamm wants you to buy a Mazda, but she won't even be seen with one, even though we're paying her.

 

She doesn't get in the car, she doesn't drive the car, she doesn't bounce a soccer ball off the hood of the car, she doesn't lean on the fender and say "zoom zoom," nothin.

There's no indication in the commercials she's ever been within 1,000 yards of a Mazda.

 

Leave the phone in the dumpster or the kid?

 

I'm going to count TV teasers as commercials, because whatelse are they but commercials for the next episode. (As a side note, for reasons of protecting my man card, will not specify which show it is)

So, ambiguous TV show, if your cliffhanger is a character saying a doctor wants to meet with everyone to discuss how emergency surgery went after a shooting where the victim was touch and go, you cannot spoil the suspense of how the victim is not 15 seconds later! "Next time on the Simpsons, Maggie must find a way to tell her mom Smithers didn't do it. If only she could talk!"

 

The current McDonald's commercial where the dumbfuck office drone gets up with the megaphone and starts foghorning how he has accepted this tremendous responsibility (for making the midday lunch run), etc etc.

Even his coworkers IN THE COMMERCIAL get pissed about it, replying sullenly, "Yeah yeah, we all responded to your email." Left unheard and unseen is the obvious follow-up line, "now shut the fuck up and go get our lunch, flunky boy, and be quick about it, and we better not smell french-fry grease on your fingers when you come walking back in the door."

Maybe the geniuses who wrote the fuckin' piece of shit should have had a revelation: "hey this is going to be EXACTLY the reaction of the entire viewing audience about the second or third time they see this commercial."

 

Oh, recent hot entrants in this category are ALL the new Wendy's commercials featuring "Red's" new prospective boyfriends, ALL utterly obnoxious douchebags just begging for a fist to the grill, and her previously-unseen parents, big-time dorks.

Most of the "Red" commercials had been pretty good, but these latest couple of series are starting to turn her into a stereotypical burger-commercial idiot. Wendy's better watch it before they screw up the brand.

 

Agreed. I enjoy the hipster parties and Red goofing around with coworkers, but the recent switch is cringe worthy. The Discount Double Check dude looks (and acts) like a royal tool.

 

As discussed above, I thought the music-video takeoff series batted .500 -- the "All By Myself" one was OK, the "Be With You" one jaw-grindingly awful.

I would suppose the music-video shots cost a hell of a lot more than one- or two- scene restaurant shots.

I still wanna see their takeoff on Cyndi Lauper's 'She-Bop' complete with the futuristic 'Burger Klone' sets.