Commercials you hate

[Brad from Georgia]

Originally Posted by vanilla

OMG. The screaming JC Penney ads need to end now. RIGHT now. If I have to hear another person scream "NO!" before 2.02.12 my head will explode.

I more than hate that commercial. I loathe and despise it. I abhor it. I detest it. I abominate it. Its sheer odiousness beggars description; it revolts and disgusts me. And I don't like it at all.

[DrRocket]

The stupid "Kars For Kids" kommercials are back.

Only, this time, they're "rocking out." I swear, it's worse than the original one, if that's possible.

[DawnStorm]

Originally Posted by DrRocket

The stupid "Kars For Kids" kommercials are back.

Only, this time, they're "rocking out." I swear, it's worse than the original one, if that's possible.

Yes, it's possible. Thank god they've disappeared from the local airwaves (for now)!


From the I Don't Really Hate It, But It Sure Is Annoying! File:

A Baltimore area hospital has a radio ad that is sung roughly to the Gilligan's Island tune: It starts out with: If you were a kid when Gilligan was marooned on the desert isle; it's time for a colonoscopy, it only takes a while.....

The ad works in that it is annoyingly memorable. I should probably put it in the Earworm Adoption Thread.

[Chloe]

Originally Posted by Sunglass_diva

The State farm renters insurance commercial. found here Yeah it's way funny to call your wife a liar. ha ha ha.

I agree. That's a nasty little dig, right there.

[Lainie]

And when she asks for an apology, the agent says "that's not how it works." WTH not?

[rockland6674]

Originally Posted by DawnStorm

A Baltimore area hospital has a radio ad that is sung roughly to the Gilligan's Island tune: It starts out with: If you were a kid when Gilligan was marooned on the desert isle; it's time for a colonoscopy, it only takes a while.....

Oh, DOYC.

[GenYus234]

In State Farm genre, the one where the boyfriend backed their vehicle into another. She wishes for a new boyfriend (hotter and shirtless). So he wiishes for a new girlfriend (hotter and more scantily dressed). She gets on his case for wishing her different after she just did the exact same thing to him.

[ButterscotchCat]

They have been playing on the radio a commercial for Joan Rivers playing at a local casino. She goes on as how she "hates old people" my DYOC she is 78 where does she come up with this crap.

[rockland6674]

The smug, condescending AT&T "That's so X seconds ago" a-holes need to get run over by an Xfinity truck.

[Cervus]

Disney World is running some local radio ads promoting current discount deals on admission for Florida residents. One of the ads features an interview with "the ape from the Jungle Cruise Ride."

The ape has an Australian accent that is never explained. There are no primates in Australia or New Zealand. It's as incongruous as the Geico gecko speaking in a British accent. Drives me crazy.

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Cervus

There are no primates in Australia or New Zealand.

Sure there are. They just aren't indigenous to the area:

http://taronga.org.au/animals-conser...nzee-sanctuary

[A Turtle Named Mack]

The GEICO ad (may be just radio) about saving money, where the father related that to save money, he required all 5 of his daughters to get married in a joint ceremony, one of them waiting 10 years to marry so he could save those $. The theme of 'doing stupid things to save money' is okay, but the burden of daughters' weddings meme, and the notion that they would put such a major aspect of their lives on hold like that just annoys me.

[Avril]

Geico has gone to a disturbing place. Have you seen the ad with the parents who eat their daughter's pet fish because sushi is so expensive, and suggest she look "everywhere, even under the desk," while they eat them? Shudder.

[Lainie]

The Kellogg's ad where adults make up stupid rationalizations for eating cereal at night. You're adults. You can eat cereal whenever you want.

[missy_pooh_1997]

Originally Posted by Lainie

The Kellogg's ad where adults make up stupid rationalizations for eating cereal at night. You're adults. You can eat cereal whenever you want.

Yes like the lady in the chinese dragon costume. Really?!?!

[Amigone201]

Originally Posted by Chloe

I agree. That's a nasty little dig, right there.

Originally Posted by Lainie

And when she asks for an apology, the agent says "that's not how it works." WTH not?

I'm not excusing the husband, but the wife seems to have an annoying habit as well: not stopping what she's doing to have a normal, adult conversation. My brother did this all the time to me while we were growing up and it made every conversation twice as long unnecessarily. Yes, his "thing" was singing too. We couldn't talk because I had to wait for him to work whatever his answers to me were into his nonsense song.

[Lainie]

That is an annoying habit; they're hardly a charming couple. But she's not lying, and he doesn't even try to check the facts before calling her that, or for that matter before accusing her of having neglected their baby's needs to buy herself a karaoke machine.

[JoeBentley]

http://youtu.be/hlwOVHP7ngM

[Richard W]

Originally Posted by diddy

I don’t know the current price of gold, but for a coin that size, you probably have a couple of dollars max worth of gold.

You're off a bit. It says the gold "cladding" weighs a huge 14mg. According to this site, gold is (at the moment of posting) $56.98 per gram.

($56.98 / 1000) * 14 = $0.79772, or about 80 cents.

[Notebook]

There's an ad for some cellphone/tablet thing that involves some guy talking about it while wrestling an alligator. The alligator itself is never actually mentioned at all, not even by the guy himself.

Maybe this guy is some star of a new reality show that I never heard of or something, but gyah. Even so, if you're gonna have someone wrestling alligators at least give some sort of explanation or something.