Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

*resisting urge to post pictures....*

 

You hush your mouth!

 

Auto insurance is a hefty bill once or twice a year, and nobody likes going through the process, so I'd rather have a company use commercials to offer real information instead of getting cute by throwing us a talking lizard and a talking pig.

 

Or a dead boy.

Nationwide CMO Departs in Wake of 'Dead Boy' Super Bowl Ad | CMO Strategy - Advertising Age

 

The new KFC spots with Darrell Hammond have to be the most disrespectful thing I've seen in a while. They turned the colonel into a cartoon character why exactly?

 

At my Marketing Department meeting last week, we went over the new website and the three spots from KFC...and no one in the room -- from age 22 to 61 -- could understand WTF Kentucky Fried Chicken was trying to accomplish.

Odd and ineffective were the two words most used to describe what we were watching.

 

Hell, have Hammond pose as his son or something...but yeah really bad. If you remember the Col. it offends you and if you don't remember him you wouldn't really think someone who came across the way he did in that ad is trustworthy.
But you know, I figure most ads now are created by people younger than me. Different generations have different sensibilities.

 

The Colonel comes off as quite a douche in the new ad series.

A late uncle of mine did some corporate law for KFC, Inc. in the 60s and 70s. During this period he met the original Col. Sanders several times as his involvement with the company went from celebrity spokesman with some residual decision making authority, to ceremonial figurehead ultimately to disgruntled ex-owner.

Unc reported his dealings with the Colonel, he started out as an amusingly grouchy old man, became essentially an aggravating pain in the ass. Oh, and a flaming racist too.

Unc was not exactly the most enlightened guy in racial matters himself, but he said the Colonel basically carried on a momstop monologue of the n-word.

 

A racist AND stomps moms? What a bastard.

 

Yeah, I have read that the Col was a bit of an a-hole. Cured like a sailor and treated workers like crap. This was a pretty decent read.

KFC Col. Sanders' revival 'tarnishes' the icon

 

No such thing as bad publicity.

Tons of KFC customers hate the new TV ad - Business Insider

"So far the response has been about 80% positive, 20% hate it," Creed said at a conference in New York on Wednesday, according to industry journal Food Business News. "And I am actually quite happy that 20% hate it, because now they at least have an opinion. They’re actually talking about KFC, and you can market to love and hate; you cannot market to indifference."

 

McDonalds must really be suffering among millennials if they are putting out such a POS campaign with that damn burger.