Commercials you hate

[Amigone201]

Continuing from here.

I really, really hate the Steve Lonegan ads. Lonegan is a Republican who ran in the primary against Chris Christie for governor of New Jersey. Lonegan lost with 42% of the vote (to Christie's 55), so we won't have to hear from him for the next four years.

Lonegan's ads were some of the most obnoxious I've ever heard. He had a woman come on and purportedly ask Christie questions, then play a sound bite of his as a response. The woman's tone is smug, self-satisfied and holier-than-thou; she sounds like she's doing exactly what she is doing: asking faux questions on things she's already made up her mind about.

One question is "So, Mr. Christie, what's your plan to cut taxes?"
Christie (sound bite): Well, it's a comprehensive, four-year plan.
"So you're not going to cut taxes for four years?"

THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID! Gah, the tactic is obnoxious enough, but how bad of a human being do you have to be to like bold-faced like that?

[BamaRainbow]

It's not actually a commercial, but rather a political flyer that I've recently seen. On one side there's a picture of a little girl "saying" "Mommy, why doesn't ______ like me?" (with a politician's name in the blank--I'll also note the wording may be a bit different, but that's the crux). On the flip side, you see a picture of a pregnant woman with the vital information that the politician who paid for the flyer supports a Christian Coalition human life amendment (that life begins at conception) while his opponent doesn't.
What's the freakin' point? The little girl on the one side was (presumably) born and is among the living--someone well past the point that the anti-choice movement usually gives a rat's patoot about.
The picture of the little girl would be a good choice for a politician who's concerned about his opponent's wanting to cut school lunch programs or after-school programs for children of working parents or even programs designed to provide decent health insurance and health care, but for a "life begins at conception" farce? Please.

[MegansMom]

McDonald's McCafé radio ad for tongue vs tongué - "blah, blah, blah tongué a sensory organ in your mouth, blah blah all the while saying evocative sentence fragments like 'That is chill, dawg!'" I'm sorry, not only is that not evocative, it's not a fragment!

[Blacklight Holiday]

Those $?&*#@% Ignatieff attack ads that the Conservatives keep running over and over and over... Auuuugh!

1) Is this really the best they could come up with? "Ooh, he's turned into one of them furriners!"

2) Is there an election coming up that I didn't know about? Like, say, within the next year or two? Didn't we just have one?

3) Yes, we know you have money and the Liberals don't. So why, in the middle of an economic crisis, are you wasting that money by constantly running these ads in what must be the most expensive prime-time slots when you could be, oh, I don't know, trying to get rid of that $50 billion deficit that you promised us would never happen?

[Christie]

Originally Posted by Blacklight Holiday

Those $?&*#@% Ignatieff attack ads that the Conservatives keep running over and over and over... Auuuugh!

1) Is this really the best they could come up with? "Ooh, he's turned into one of them furriners!"

2) Is there an election coming up that I didn't know about? Like, say, within the next year or two? Didn't we just have one?

3) Yes, we know you have money and the Liberals don't. So why, in the middle of an economic crisis, are you wasting that money by constantly running these ads in what must be the most expensive prime-time slots when you could be, oh, I don't know, trying to get rid of that $50 billion deficit that you promised us would never happen?

I feel your pain. I hate those damn things. And really so Ignatieff is "a cosmopolitan" and he :gasp: taught at freaking Harvard - ooh clearly not qualified to lead our country. I mean we have a long history of not electing well to do university educated people. Oh wait, actually we have a long history of electing well to do university educated people. Oh well.

[Kitsune27]

I have absolute loathing for the new "job interview" Truth ads.
1) Lady is in what I presume is the HR office, where the man-type person is telling her about how, in some instances, she may have to reply to questions with "I plead the fifth." He starts with some fairly bland questions, which she give the appropriate fifth pleading response.
Then he whips out "Did you know that one tobacco executive pled the fifth 95 times."
2) Man is in office being asked if he has had to ever deliver bad new in a pleasant way before. He answers that he had, so HR guy asks him how he would tell someone that the product can kill ______number of people.
Poor guy is left fumbling to try and answer and asks "Isn't that _______% of the world's population?"
HR guy just shrugs.
Both end with "Do you have what it takes to be a tobacco executive?"
Yes, I get smoking is gross and bad, but really, does everything have to sound so smug ?

[BamaRainbow]

Originally Posted by MegansMom

McDonald's McCafé radio ad for tongue vs tongué - "blah, blah, blah tongué a sensory organ in your mouth, blah blah all the while saying evocative sentence fragments like 'That is chill, dawg!'" I'm sorry, not only is that not evocative, it's not a fragment!

What's funny is I have to wonder if McDonald's might not have "borrowed" the idea from the South Park episode, "Margaritaville".
Stan tries to return his dad's expensive "Margaritaville" margarita mixer machine to the store it came from. The store is called "Sur La Table" and everytime the clerk uses a word ending in -able, he gives it a "French-style" pronunciation--sort of like "ah-bluh". (It's pretty cute the first couple of times, but it gets very old very quickly.)

[Tootsie Plunkette]

Originally Posted by FrogFeathers

The female announcer/voice-over goes on to say it is so amazing that its offered in gift bags at "international film festivals!"

Originally Posted by Amigone201

That used to say "last year's Sundance International Film Festival!" But since "last year" is now "two years ago," and apparently their nasty face scuzz wasn't picked up for the gift bags in 08, they have to change it to something more general. So now I always shout "Oh yeah? "International film festivals," huh? Well, there's the 2007 Sundance festival, what else?"

It's my understanding that most companies have to pay to have their stuff included in those gift bags, so they could just as easily say, "our ads have been shown on the Sundance Channel!" and it would be just as meaningful.

[Mateus]

I tried a search of this thread and didn't get a result, so:

I HATE HATE HATE the new Miracle Whip commercials. Ooh, look at us, we're edgy! We have a bunch of scruffy, hip youth and girls with short hair holding our product!

No matter how hard you try, Miracle Whip, you will never be edgy. Ever. You are mayonnaise's cousin who shops at Hot Topic writes bad myspace poetry at best. Your product neither makes me want to party until an inappropriate hour, nor fight the power. Your feeble attempts to portray yourselves as the disaffected alternative to mayonnaise has put me back on dijon mustard as my default spread.

[musicgeek]

Originally Posted by Mateus

I tried a search of this thread and didn't get a result, so:

I HATE HATE HATE the new Miracle Whip commercials. Ooh, look at us, we're edgy! We have a bunch of scruffy, hip youth and girls with short hair holding our product!

No matter how hard you try, Miracle Whip, you will never be edgy. Ever. You are mayonnaise's cousin who shops at Hot Topic writes bad myspace poetry at best. Your product neither makes me want to party until an inappropriate hour, nor fight the power. Your feeble attempts to portray yourselves as the disaffected alternative to mayonnaise has put me back on dijon mustard as my default spread.

A few months ago I was at Six Flags New England, and the park was plastered with Miracle Whip ads. Very strange - spending a day riding coasters doesn't exactly leave one craving sandwich dressing, and you're right - the "extreme alternative to mayonnaise" angle was just weird.

[kitap]

Originally Posted by Mateus

I tried a search of this thread and didn't get a result, so:

I HATE HATE HATE the new Miracle Whip commercials. Ooh, look at us, we're edgy! We have a bunch of scruffy, hip youth and girls with short hair holding our product!

No matter how hard you try, Miracle Whip, you will never be edgy. Ever. You are mayonnaise's cousin who shops at Hot Topic writes bad myspace poetry at best. Your product neither makes me want to party until an inappropriate hour, nor fight the power. Your feeble attempts to portray yourselves as the disaffected alternative to mayonnaise has put me back on dijon mustard as my default spread.

Is Miracle Whip that "what if everyone used real food?" commercial? Because I hate that one.

[Squishy0405]

I'm really over the commercial where the girl is being used as a puppet after getting high. pah-leeze. there's another with a "montage" of stuff that "happens" when you get high...some stuff is plausible but again the drawing on the face thing. You also run over kids at the drive through.

Gah!

[Kitsune27]

Originally Posted by Mateus

I tried a search of this thread and didn't get a result, so:

I HATE HATE HATE the new Miracle Whip commercials. Ooh, look at us, we're edgy! We have a bunch of scruffy, hip youth and girls with short hair holding our product!

No matter how hard you try, Miracle Whip, you will never be edgy. Ever. You are mayonnaise's cousin who shops at Hot Topic writes bad myspace poetry at best. Your product neither makes me want to party until an inappropriate hour, nor fight the power. Your feeble attempts to portray yourselves as the disaffected alternative to mayonnaise has put me back on dijon mustard as my default spread.

Thank you for understanding the evils of Miracle Whip.
I have not, nor will I ever like Miracle Whip. It tastes like chemical death.

Right now I am wanting to toss heavy objects at my TV whenever the new Baskin and Robbins ice cream cake commercial comes on (for those who have not had the searing ear-worm pleasure, it's a bunch of toy cake toppers dancing to "ice cream and cakey-cakey," for a few lines, then "do the ice cream and cake," repeated several times, to a tune so similar the "peanut-butter jelly time" song that I'd not be surprised to learn it was the same people).
It was amusing the first time, but when it is shown literally every commercial break, on literally every channel I watch...yeah.

[RivkahChaya]

Dairy Queen has a commercial for their Girl Scout Tagalong cookie blizzards, where a kid has drawn her family, and given herself and her mother the Tagalong blizzards, but not her father, because he's a boy. He gets mad, and draws himself a blizzard on a post-it, and sticks it to the picture. His wife tells him he's being childish, and takes it off. He grabs it away from her, and eats it-- yes, eats to post-it. The very first time I saw it, I thought it was pretty funny, but each time I see it, I am more and more annoyed at it, and I am close to switching channels when it comes on now. I hope its run will be over soon.

[Enchanting_eyes]

Oh I know this one has been mentioned before but its is just so horrible that it deserves to be mentionted again.

The Six Flag commercials with the creepy old guy. He weirds me out, he is creepy and I have no desire to visit Six Flags for the fear he would pop out from nowhere.

Six Flags + Creepy old guy = No flags of fun.


E*E

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Squishy0405

I'm really over the commercial where the girl is being used as a puppet after getting high. pah-leeze. there's another with a "montage" of stuff that "happens" when you get high...some stuff is plausible but again the drawing on the face thing.

And honestly, if that's the worst thing that happens to you when you get drunk/high at a party (and I knew people it happened to), is that really such a good cautionary tale?

As I said, I knew people it happened to, and the worst they suffered was some embarrassment -- especially the guy who met up with a girl he thought was cute and talked to her for about 10 minutes before he went home and found the words on his forehead. Even he was laughing about it by the next day.

ETA: You know what would be worse? If your dog suddenly started talking to you! That would be creepy and scary.

[musicgeek]

Originally Posted by Enchanting_eyes

The Six Flag commercials with the creepy old guy. He weirds me out, he is creepy and I have no desire to visit Six Flags for the fear he would pop out from nowhere.

You want to know something scary? He does. I pity the poor S.O.B. who has to wear the latex makeup (it's really well-done, not just a pullover mask) in the sweltering heat. The last few times I've been there, it appeared to be a strapped-back female in the getup, which had to be even more uncomfortable.

On the bright side, the character does not shriek "More flags, more fun!"

On the down side, the mute performance is even creepier.

[Jay Temple]

Originally Posted by Enchanting_eyes

Oh I know this one has been mentioned before but its is just so horrible that it deserves to be mentionted again.

The Six Flag commercials with the creepy old guy. He weirds me out, he is creepy and I have no desire to visit Six Flags for the fear he would pop out from nowhere.

Six Flags + Creepy old guy = No flags of fun.


E*E

I'm no fan of COG, but at least he's not downright offensive. When had the young Asian guy said, "More flags—more fun," I said, "Geez, bring back the Dancing Old Guy."

[Banrion]

Originally Posted by Kitsune27

Right now I am wanting to toss heavy objects at my TV whenever the new Baskin and Robbins ice cream cake commercial comes on (for those who have not had the searing ear-worm pleasure, it's a bunch of toy cake toppers dancing to "ice cream and cakey-cakey," for a few lines, then "do the ice cream and cake," repeated several times, to a tune so similar the "peanut-butter jelly time" song that I'd not be surprised to learn it was the same people).
It was amusing the first time, but when it is shown literally every commercial break, on literally every channel I watch...yeah.

I just started seeing that commercial this weekend, and really it does make one violent. My fiance has now vowed to never ever again combine ice-cream and cake, which has led to a rather hilarious discussion in which we decided brownies are cake, but doughnuts are not. So next time he has a brownie sundae craving he is going to plop ice cream on a chocolate doughnut. This is just one example of the lunacy caused by this commercial .

ETA: It was the same people as Peanut Butter Jelly Time

[Obesie]

If I EVER have to sit through the "We Buy Any Car (dot com)" advert again I may have to rip my ears out.

That horrific repetitive tune is deafening.

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O"So do you buy any car?"besie.