T.V. commercials that annoy you

Remove all ads!

I realize that being from different parts of the world with different T.V. stations we all may not be viewing the same T.V. commercials. I'd still like to hear about the commercials that you hate the most and why you hate them.

Usually I just change the channel when one comes on that really bothers me but occasionally I get a real lump of anger in my stomach at some of the stupidity in television advertizement.

I can't seem to remember all the ones that I hate at the moment. (Probably blocked them from my consciensness.) But one that I can think of off hand that is very annoying to me is the ad for K.F.C. that has a woman stop dead in her tracks and point at a leaf and scream in horror because fall in coming. Stupid...just stupid.

 

The new Vonnage ads with the caracatured people. Everybody looks like a bad Jay Leno.

 

Any and EVERY political ad.

 

There's that random Fanta ad that I've been seeing on Spike TV with the women in skimpy clothing singing "Wanna Fanta? Don't you wanna Fanta?"



Don't get me wrong, I had Fanta while I was in Greece and enjoyed it... but that ad just gets on my nerves.

 

Those Guiness adverts are full of cliché's - always a man with messy dark brown hair, crooked nose wearing a wooly jumper sipping a pint of Guiness with a sad expression on his face. Thank **** they stopped using old men with flat caps and pipes!

Harp in contrast is a very N.Irish advert with cringeworthy Belfast accents. "Pint a harp Miss-ster Barrrrrmannnnnn"

 

I scarcely ever enjoy any ad. Almost all of them suck beyond grief. I've been annoyed the most by those which include kissing scenes or skimpy clothes (and not talking about swimsuits or sports outfits that are sometimes warranted). People who aren't even friends shouldn't kiss, period. Sexual charms shouldn't be used in promoting merchandise, either.

Next kind that annoys me is the "Don't be lame/stupid/uncool, buy our product!" and other such that feed on the general sheepishness of the society.

Political ads annoy me, too. We have that conservative pro-family pro-justice etc law professor presidential candidate and his daughter (married) is wearing a big cleavage and picking the kid up from the floor or otherwise bending all the time.

 

You should see the Lynx adverts in the UK Chev

Their slogan is something like "Spray more, get more"

 

Well, I enjoy some of them, there are many that are very funny, BUT, these days, I really, really hate the Crazy Frog and any of those 'this tune on your mobile' kind of ads, and I don't know other countries but here, is a custom to have 25 minutes of ads (yes, all 25 minutes together) so it goes something like this: sms 5557 and get this song - some milk ad - sms to get this song (sometimes the same one that 10 seconds before) - the store at home! buy this machine to lose 30 kilos in 2 weeks! (is better than the other one that we advertised 15 seconds ago!) and so on... very boring.

 

Sex sells. That'll never change. And to be honest, they get me watching!

 

Any advert for loans, or insurance. Argh!

 

The ad that has a very poor version of "You're as cold as ice" as background music. I can't even remember what it's for, it switches my attention off the TV that much. Not that my attention is ever focussed on TV much, anyway. Why vegetate in front of Neighbours when you could start another game of BG?

@ Firey: too true, too true! Those are everywhere...

 

This is a hard question to answer because, thanks to the joyful wonder that is TiVo, I pretty much never have to be subjected to commercials at all. However, the Sprite "Obey Your Thirst" campaign with that stupid little doll comes immediately to mind.

 

Most ads these days. But I really can't stand ads where food talks. I'm rather opposed to eating something that is capable of talking.

 

I remember another one that makes me change channels fast. The one where a man and a woman are in the back of a cab and the man decides to chew too many sticks of minty gum which results in his head freezing and falling off. It is just creepy and stupid.

 

I despise those cheap commercials for small businesses and law firms, they bore the hell out of me.

But I hate those ads for medicines most of all, mainly the ones for headaches, they allways end up giving me an actually headache (maybe that's their goal?!).

 

Oh...and insurance commericals where elderly people discuss with each other how they are over 40 and still able to get life insurence without a medical exam. Those mostly poss me off because they are designed to take advantage of unaware elderly people.

Always read the small print even if you need a microscope to read it.

 

I don't know which bank it's for, but it's the advert where the guy changes the lyrics of a tune to explain the advantages of joining that bank. It was really good when it first came out, but I find it really boring and quite annoying when it comes on now.

 

I haven't seen any Vonnage ads in a week, but now all I get are those freakin' Motorola commercials - Hello, Moto. I keep telling myself what a crap piece of tech it is and the hassle people'll have calling up customer service.

On the web, Jason Lee has a new tv show - My Name is Earl - and damn, if I don't quit the program when I see that pop-up!