Commercials you hate

[snopes]

I just saw a commercial for America's Tire (showing people driving across the U.S.) that uses "America the Beautiful" as its soundtrack, but in the commercial the lyrics skip from "America! America!" to "From sea to shining sea!", thereby omitting the line beginning "God shed His grace on thee ..."

I wonder how long it will be until the outrage breaks over this denigration of our religious heritage.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Obviously they are true Democrats, as they also left out the parts about brotherhood and America's goodness.

[rockland6674]

GSN is running a promo for the Steve Harvey-hosted "Family Feud" that has a woman shrieking "We gonna PLAY, Steve!" at the top of her lungs every couple of seconds, on a continuous loop. I mute it immediately if I'm there, but I'm often listening from another room.

Yeah, hearing this woman shrieking the same line over and over and over gets... a wee bit grating.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

There is a Safe Auto insurance ad, maybe just on the radio, that announces "If you don't have insurance, a single accident could cause you to lose everything. Safe Auto sells minimum limits coverage so you are protected." If you cause an accident which could make you 'lose everything' (unless you have nothing to lose!), minimum limits coverage will not protect you sufficiently to make any realistic difference. You won't have to deal with criminal charges for lack of insurance, and the insurance company will hire an attorney to defend you (which is a huge benefit), but $25,000 liability coverage (minimum in Georgia, and many other states) will barely make a dent in a 6-figure judgment. If you have assets that makes 'losing everything' scary, you need much more than the minimum. As for the ad, I am annoyed that it is deceitful about what minimum limits will do for you.

OTOH, for the vast majority of accidents, $25K will cover the damages just fine.

[Lainie]

I'm pretty sure the ads aren't aimed at people who have a lot of assets to lose, but rather at people who are living paycheck to paycheck and fear losing their driver's license, and thus their job.

[Sue]

Originally Posted by Spud Sabre

2. Buying [product] for someone, and then hiding the fact that it was inexpensive. Strangely, I've seen this trope used by A&W and (I think) McDonald's as if there's anyone who'd be offended to learn that the fast food bought for them wasn't expensive.

Funny I was just coming to include the most recent A&W commercial in this thread. One woman buys lunch for the other and says the woman can pay her back by babysitting Friday night. The manager comes by and almost lets slip how much the sandwich cost (something like $2.00) and is stopped from letting the cat out of the bag. But the whole time the special deal is on a poster right on a wall behind the manager's head. How clueless is this woman who is being treated to lunch if she can't (a) see the poster, or at the very least (b) figure lunch at A&W is not exactly cordon bleu?

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Lainie

I'm pretty sure the ads aren't aimed at people who have a lot of assets to lose, but rather at people who are living paycheck to paycheck and fear losing their driver's license, and thus their job.

No doubt. But at least here, you would not lose your license if you bought insurance between the accident and the court hearing, so that would not really be an issue. I have heard of employers that would fire an employee if the employer was hit with a garnishment of the employee's wages, because the employer cannot or will not afford the extra accounting and legal fees of dealing with the garnishment; that would be a legitimate concern.

[Lainie]

Georgia's more generous than Ohio, then. See Violator Penalties on this page.