Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

[expendable]

I'm f-ing tired of the cell phone commercial -- can't remember which company (which proves just how great an ad this is) -- with the little girl giving her dad his briefcase as he leaves and having snuck her teddy bear into it. Then dad sends home cell phone picks of the bear in different places on his business trip.

It's not that there's really anything wrong with the ad other than the stupid song getting stuck in my head, it's just that I see it about 12 times a day, and I don't watch enough TV to see anything 12 times a day.

That one is played too often, but I think it's sweet.

Here's one thing that bugs me about that commercial (and proof, according to my wife, that I am a lunatic):

You know how in that commercial they have the stuff in the background symbolizing the escalating bars of your cell phone signal (telephone polls, trees, etc.)? In that one, one of the shots has loaves of french bread sticking out of a grocery bag.

We've established that the dad's out of town, and it's just the two of them -- what the fork do they need with five loaves of french bread?

Ummm, you did say Dad was out of town.

Maybe they were out of cucumbers.

 

[dixiehack]

I'm f-ing tired of the cell phone commercial -- can't remember which company (which proves just how great an ad this is) -- with the little girl giving her dad his briefcase as he leaves and having snuck her teddy bear into it. Then dad sends home cell phone picks of the bear in different places on his business trip.

It's not that there's really anything wrong with the ad other than the stupid song getting stuck in my head, it's just that I see it about 12 times a day, and I don't watch enough TV to see anything 12 times a day.

That one is played too often, but I think it's sweet.

Here's one thing that bugs me about that commercial (and proof, according to my wife, that I am a lunatic):

You know how in that commercial they have the stuff in the background symbolizing the escalating bars of your cell phone signal (telephone polls, trees, etc.)? In that one, one of the shots has loaves of french bread sticking out of a grocery bag.

We've established that the dad's out of town, and it's just the two of them -- what the fork do they need with five loaves of french bread?

YES! I'm not the only person to notice that!

Elsewhere on the dial, the hot dog salesman who doesn't sell buns needs to be brained with a shovel repeatedly.

 

[Bubbler]

How 'bout the assholes in the Bud Light drinkability campaign?

Take the art museum ad. Some dumbass bumps into a sculpture that sets in motion a Looney Tunes-like comedy of errors, that would be over-the-top in an actual Looney Tunes cartoon, that destroys the entire gallery.

Liability! The ad says in a serious tone.

The ad cuts to two doofuses and some chick and the two dudes do a little down-low toast. Drinkability! The ad says in a sunnier tone.

fork you, Anheuser-Busch, that's the dumbest shirt ever.

First of all, I've been to many art museums, including the Louvre. Maybe I just missed out on some subtle "thing", but last I checked, I didn't see a whole lot of art denizens wowing themselves to some mind-blowing Salvador Dali surrealist piece or ponder their life versus the stark minimalism of Georgia O'Keeffe while downing a cool, crisp Bud Light.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the tortured paintings of tortored soul Toulouse Lautrec are better appreciated while drinking a six-pack of a beer brand I can buy on sale for $5.99 at CVS. I've never really much favored Renaissance art, perhaps it's better with a 40 in a bottle bag.

And there's the assholes themselves. What pair of clowns would do a toast to someone destroying an art gallery? You might laugh about it later, perhaps as little as a minute later, but unless you're the most subhuman of frat-boyish asshole, there's no way your immediate reaction is, "Dude that was awesome! Let's clink Bud Light's to verify our manhood!"

Then again, only the most subhuman of frat-boyish assholes drink Bud Light anyhow, so maybe I'm just pissing in the demographic wind. Bud Light is forking swill, only Coors Light is below it in the seventh circle of beer heck.

 

[jlee]

Drinkability? You mean, um, it's liquid? Dumbest ad campaign since Miller Lite's "more taste."

 

[Wenders]

These aren't TV commercials...but during basketball season, I would have to listen to my team's games on the radio when they were on the road and I heard the SAME TWO COMMERCIALS. They were seriously played EVERY commercial break during both games....so yeah, THAT for three months will drive a person mad.

One was a Dodge commercial and went, "Hi, I'm Bill Miestky (I have no idea how to spell his name) and I have a 500-mile daily commute. I drive a truck for a living. And when I'm off the road, there's no place I'd rather be than in my cab of my new Dodge Ram pickup truck."

The other? A Coke commercial and some dude blathering about how we shouldn't give delivery food guys crap for forgetting part of our order. "He's not the Coke delivery guy! You'd be much more surprised if he remembered the Coke and forgot the fried rice."

It got to the point where I turned the volume all the way down on commercial breaks because I was so sick of those two commercials.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Wenders, our local radio station that broadcast high school games was like that. Annoying as fork.

 

[albert77]

Drinkability? You mean, um, it's liquid? Dumbest ad campaign since Miller Lite's "more taste."

The one that REALLY bothers me is the group sitting in a budget meeting drinking Bud Light and the young, obviously clueless guy suggests cutting out the Bud Light at every meeting, which gets him tossed out the window. The whole idea is offensive. There are few things in Corporate America these days that will get your ass fired (or at the very least sent to mandatory rehab) quicker than drinking beer on the job. Yet they portray it as an essential element of a business day. Un-freaking-real.

 

[SoCalDude]

I'm f-ing tired of the cell phone commercial -- can't remember which company (which proves just how great an ad this is) -- with the little girl giving her dad his briefcase as he leaves and having snuck her teddy bear into it. Then dad sends home cell phone picks of the bear in different places on his business trip.

It's not that there's really anything wrong with the ad other than the stupid song getting stuck in my head, it's just that I see it about 12 times a day, and I don't watch enough TV to see anything 12 times a day.

That one is played too often, but I think it's sweet.

Here's one thing that bugs me about that commercial (and proof, according to my wife, that I am a lunatic):

You know how in that commercial they have the stuff in the background symbolizing the escalating bars of your cell phone signal (telephone polls, trees, etc.)? In that one, one of the shots has loaves of french bread sticking out of a grocery bag.

We've established that the dad's out of town, and it's just the two of them -- what the fork do they need with five loaves of french bread?

Ummm, you did say Dad was out of town.

Maybe they were out of cucumbers.

I guess I'm not very observant. Seen this one a hundred times and never noticed the french bread.
It might because I think the Mom is mega-hot and I'm always hoping for longer look at her rather than the brief glimpses.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I'm getting tired of the "Lauren going shopping for a laptop," I'm a PC spots.

 

[imjustagirl]

I'm getting tired of the "Lauren going shopping for a laptop," I'm a PC spots.

MAC SNOB!

 

[GB-Hack]

Drinkability? You mean, um, it's liquid? Dumbest ad campaign since Miller Lite's "more taste."

The one that REALLY bothers me is the group sitting in a budget meeting drinking Bud Light and the young, obviously clueless guy suggests cutting out the Bud Light at every meeting, which gets him tossed out the window. The whole idea is offensive. There are few things in Corporate America these days that will get your ass fired (or at the very least sent to mandatory rehab) quicker than drinking beer on the job. Yet they portray it as an essential element of a business day. Un-freaking-real.

To be fair, drinking Bud Light on the job doesn't equal drinking on the job.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Holy shirt, just heard this, verbatim, in a national commercial: "Honda has the highest residual value of any other car company."

How in the name of Tebow does that happen? How many screenings, how many layers of people must there have been who recorded and edited that, who approved and scheduled the ads? Honda doesn't have one person -- not ONE -- who recognized that it was not a correct sentence?

Meanwhile, another thousand copy editors will apply tomorrow for jobs at car washes ...