For me, it's the AT&T "that was so 17 seconds ago" commercial. I understand the point they are trying to make but it's just silly to think someone's highest priority is to keep up with social media updates.
ED drug commercials, because I hate having to be constantly vigilant to their presence during sporting events when my daughters (ages 6 and 4) are in the same room with me.
I get it; your junk doesn't work, but you still want to bang your lady. Do what the rest of us do and imagine Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift wrestling nude in an inflatable pool full of butterscotch pudding, but for the love of all that's holy in the universe, STOP TALKING ABOUT IT ON TV!
ED drug commercials, because I hate having to be constantly vigilant to their presence during sporting events when my daughters (ages 6 and 4) are in the same room with me.
I get it; your junk doesn't work, but you still want to bang your lady. Do what the rest of us do and imagine Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift wrestling nude in an inflatable pool full of butterscotch pudding, but for the love of all that's holy in the universe, STOP TALKING ABOUT IT ON TV!
Honestly I'm pretty desensitized to that kind of commercial now.
The vibrator commercials do make me uncomfortable, though. I always found it funny how there're often commercials for both of those on kids networks.
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There's a Jack in the Box commercial promoting some new dollar menu promotion thing.
The one where man, girl, and Jack are in a parking lot and the girl can't add 1+1.
I believe her final line is "How much for the two things again?"
So stupid.
There's a Jack in the Box commercial promoting some new dollar menu promotion thing.
The one where man, girl, and Jack are in a parking lot and the girl can't add 1+1.
I believe her final line is "How much for the two things again?"
So stupid.
Sounds pretty bad, I haven't seen it. I usually really like jack in the box commercials, though.
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I think the most annoying commercials are the Subway ones, where they make bad puns off of month names and sing that stupid song over and over again.
I find State Farm and Geico to be annoying too. They both keep trying to milk the same ad campaigns well after they have been milked, and they just get stupider and more annoying as they make more commercials.
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I find State Farm and Geico to be annoying too. They both keep trying to milk the same ad campaigns well after they have been milked, and they just get stupider and more annoying as they make more commercials.
I don't think either of those are as bad as the Safe Auto commercials. I think they're trying to be funny, but... they're so bad I'm not really sure. There's one featuring a black woman who yells to "pick up the phone" and the camera sorta moves around to show how loud she's yelling. There's another one with two workers at a call center and one guy hides the other guy's cell phone. I just don't understand that one. And there's another with the same two guys, and I think the guy who stole the phone and hid it siphons gas from the other guy's car?? What is safe auto trying to say, there's kleptos working at their call centers?
The other ad campaign that I have literally facepalmed to for multiple recent commercials is McDonalds, which is surprising considering how big the company is. I figured they'd have a better advertising department. There was one with a guy listening to his gf/wife talk and she says something like "...and then he told her that sunday was just for watching football. Can you believe him?" And the guy starts panicking about how to respond to that. Then it cuts to him imagining getting thrown out of the house over his response to someone else saying sunday is just for watching football! Then he has a bite of his McDonalds burger, and the perfect way out of this tricky situation comes to him! "He's a jerk." the guy says. The gf/wife smiles and he lives to fight another day! W. T. F. Seriously? He's going to get thrown out of the house over his response to that?? If that's the state of his relationship, methinks he needs to find a new woman. Again, I don't even know if that was supposed to be funny. And there have been other stupid McDonalds ones recently, but I don't really remember them.
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I've noticed more and more commercials recently being less of a jingle and more a collection of attention-grabbing sounds. "Look at the TV, quick!" these commercials cry. The Kit-Kat ad campaign has been the worst offender, if only because of its consistency. Every Kit-Kat commercial in the past few years has featured random locations in which every single person is eating a Kit-Kat. These people aren't content to simply eat a Kit-Kat; no, they feel the need to make loud crunching noises with every sickening bite. I've been told this cacophony of chomping and crunching somehow forms a 'tune' similar to the successful "Give me a Break" campaign from many moons past; I can't know for sure, since I fly into a murderous rampage after the first volley of caustic crunching.
If I could have my way, I'd like to round up everyone involved in the creation of this ad campaign, tie them down and remove their fingers. Then I'd eat the fingers, one by one, crunching the bones in my teeth to the tune of "Give me a Break." The helpless ad execs would struggle in futility as their sanity grinds away, having no choice but to listen to the glorious music that is my triumph. Then I'd turn to the camera and say,
Me it the Geico Pig commercials. Can someone please put that damn pig down. I'm sick of these on so many levels. Geico just stick to the Gecko and drop this one now.
My neices and nephews have been brainwashed by the JG Wentworth 1-877-cash now opera comercials. They sing it ALL DAY LONG, "I have a structured settlement, but I need cash now! Call JG Wentworth!"
It sucks not having Sonic, Jack-in-the-box et al yet seeing all the delicious ads for them.
Oh, and every Canadian commercial I see every other day of the year during the super bowl. CTV has all of the advertising rights for it and it sucks not being able to see all of the awesome commercials every year.
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An old rum commercial:
Young (as in, early to mid teens) girl passes by.
Group of middle-aged, affluent-looking men drinking rum leering. One of them comments "have you ever tasted a 15 year old?" The other men laugh. Girl looks back and smiles at them.
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The opening question seems kind of pointless. If you watch TV, watching at least some commercials is inevitable, even with a DVR, and there are just so many commercials, finding an annoying one is guaranteed through sheer statistics, unless of course you somehow have the patience of someone from MST3K. A better question would be "What do you find particularly annoying?"
As to the topic:
Anything that plays on blip.tv. Most videos I watch these days are hosted there, and they have such a small sample of commercials you'll wind up watching the exact same ones again and again to the point you will never, EVER buy the product out of sheer disgust wrought by hype backlash. I never would have thought I would be bored and/or irritated by Lego stop-motion, but somehow those stupid Philly's cheesesteak commercials did so. And now, I never want to fly Virgin America.
"Arby's! It's Good Mood Food!" ...this just irks me.
"Dr. Pepper: It's Not for Women", this being the tagline for a commercial clearly appealing to the lowest common denominator of adult males that of course, do nothing but watch American football, work on projects in the toolshed and drink beer. ...die stereotype. Die.
ANYTHING THAT USES...(gods, I can't believe I'm typing it...)"Sexy and I Know It". (ugh)
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I've felt the exact same way about Kit-Kat's recent ad campaigns. The cobbling together of various scenes of eating/crunching/"mmming" ect. is trying to appear serendipitous, but it's not. This is faux chance music. Real chance music happens by chance, not by clever editing.
And as far as "anything that repeats itself 3x over" goes, it is one of the three major devices used to lure consumers in an advertisement:
Bandwagon: The idea that using a product and/or service is socially acceptable and makes you more aligned with the "in-crowd". (ex: "I use Crest Toothpaste and so does all of my friends.")
Repetition: Pretty self-explanatory. The name of a product/service or a catchphrase pertaining to said product/service is recited ad-nauseum so it creates an imprint in the viewer or listener's mind . (Ex: "Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! My apologies for making you revisit that awful ad campaign :embarrass:.)
"Expert" Opinion: The testimony of a qualified individual or group of individuals used to assure the consumer that the product/service is reliable or enjoyable. (Ex: "4 out of 5 dentists prefer Colgate Total to the other leading brand."; pretty much any celebrity endorsement)
And no, I'm not in the advertisement industry (Believe it or not, I was actually taught this in third grade :D.)
For me, one of the most annoying commercials is the crying parent-child Droid Razr Maxx Verizon Wireless ad. That ad is so awkward.
It really is. I really do feel uncomfortable when watching it. The subtitles only make it worse.
and like Psuedofate said, the Flo commercials are really horrible. Like, really bad. It's insane how that woman is so iconic now from such stupid commercials.
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Every Cable commercial.
Every jewelry commercial.
Every commercial about a law firm trying to get you to sue a medical company due to drug side effects (We don't care about you, we just want the money).
Every car commercial around Christmas.
Not exactly a commercial, but every advertisement on ABC Family (or the like) that starts with "A new kind of..."
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For me, it's the AT&T "that was so 17 seconds ago" commercial. I understand the point they are trying to make but it's just silly to think someone's highest priority is to keep up with social media updates.
Also, I despise "every kiss begins with Kay". It makes me want to vomit.
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I get it; your junk doesn't work, but you still want to bang your lady. Do what the rest of us do and imagine Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift wrestling nude in an inflatable pool full of butterscotch pudding, but for the love of all that's holy in the universe, STOP TALKING ABOUT IT ON TV!
The vibrator commercials do make me uncomfortable, though. I always found it funny how there're often commercials for both of those on kids networks.
The one where man, girl, and Jack are in a parking lot and the girl can't add 1+1.
I believe her final line is "How much for the two things again?"
So stupid.
I find State Farm and Geico to be annoying too. They both keep trying to milk the same ad campaigns well after they have been milked, and they just get stupider and more annoying as they make more commercials.
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I don't think either of those are as bad as the Safe Auto commercials. I think they're trying to be funny, but... they're so bad I'm not really sure. There's one featuring a black woman who yells to "pick up the phone" and the camera sorta moves around to show how loud she's yelling. There's another one with two workers at a call center and one guy hides the other guy's cell phone. I just don't understand that one. And there's another with the same two guys, and I think the guy who stole the phone and hid it siphons gas from the other guy's car?? What is safe auto trying to say, there's kleptos working at their call centers?
The other ad campaign that I have literally facepalmed to for multiple recent commercials is McDonalds, which is surprising considering how big the company is. I figured they'd have a better advertising department. There was one with a guy listening to his gf/wife talk and she says something like "...and then he told her that sunday was just for watching football. Can you believe him?" And the guy starts panicking about how to respond to that. Then it cuts to him imagining getting thrown out of the house over his response to someone else saying sunday is just for watching football! Then he has a bite of his McDonalds burger, and the perfect way out of this tricky situation comes to him! "He's a jerk." the guy says. The gf/wife smiles and he lives to fight another day! W. T. F. Seriously? He's going to get thrown out of the house over his response to that?? If that's the state of his relationship, methinks he needs to find a new woman. Again, I don't even know if that was supposed to be funny. And there have been other stupid McDonalds ones recently, but I don't really remember them.
I've noticed more and more commercials recently being less of a jingle and more a collection of attention-grabbing sounds. "Look at the TV, quick!" these commercials cry. The Kit-Kat ad campaign has been the worst offender, if only because of its consistency. Every Kit-Kat commercial in the past few years has featured random locations in which every single person is eating a Kit-Kat. These people aren't content to simply eat a Kit-Kat; no, they feel the need to make loud crunching noises with every sickening bite. I've been told this cacophony of chomping and crunching somehow forms a 'tune' similar to the successful "Give me a Break" campaign from many moons past; I can't know for sure, since I fly into a murderous rampage after the first volley of caustic crunching.
If I could have my way, I'd like to round up everyone involved in the creation of this ad campaign, tie them down and remove their fingers. Then I'd eat the fingers, one by one, crunching the bones in my teeth to the tune of "Give me a Break." The helpless ad execs would struggle in futility as their sanity grinds away, having no choice but to listen to the glorious music that is my triumph. Then I'd turn to the camera and say,
"Vengeance is sweet. Like a Kit-Kat."
*CRUNCH*
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It sucks not having Sonic, Jack-in-the-box et al yet seeing all the delicious ads for them.
Oh, and every Canadian commercial I see every other day of the year during the super bowl. CTV has all of the advertising rights for it and it sucks not being able to see all of the awesome commercials every year.
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Any commercial that repeats itself 3x over.
An old rum commercial:
Young (as in, early to mid teens) girl passes by.
Group of middle-aged, affluent-looking men drinking rum leering. One of them comments "have you ever tasted a 15 year old?" The other men laugh. Girl looks back and smiles at them.
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I agree with the Geico pig commercials, not only are they annoying but the zip-line one doesn't make an sense. That's not how physics works.
The DirecTV commercials that make radical assumptions are irritating and frankly I am sick of them.
More than anything though I am sick of all the dubstep in every commercial, that got old a long time ago.
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Yeah, in the 80's and then they killed it with all the ridiculous sequels.
As to the topic:
Anything that plays on blip.tv. Most videos I watch these days are hosted there, and they have such a small sample of commercials you'll wind up watching the exact same ones again and again to the point you will never, EVER buy the product out of sheer disgust wrought by hype backlash. I never would have thought I would be bored and/or irritated by Lego stop-motion, but somehow those stupid Philly's cheesesteak commercials did so. And now, I never want to fly Virgin America.
"Arby's! It's Good Mood Food!" ...this just irks me.
"Dr. Pepper: It's Not for Women", this being the tagline for a commercial clearly appealing to the lowest common denominator of adult males that of course, do nothing but watch American football, work on projects in the toolshed and drink beer. ...die stereotype. Die.
ANYTHING THAT USES...(gods, I can't believe I'm typing it...)"Sexy and I Know It". (ugh)
About any "subpar" mechanics or cards: Context is king.
If I make a templating or grammar error, let me know.
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Progressive commercials with Flo.
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I've felt the exact same way about Kit-Kat's recent ad campaigns. The cobbling together of various scenes of eating/crunching/"mmming" ect. is trying to appear serendipitous, but it's not. This is faux chance music. Real chance music happens by chance, not by clever editing.
And as far as "anything that repeats itself 3x over" goes, it is one of the three major devices used to lure consumers in an advertisement:
Bandwagon: The idea that using a product and/or service is socially acceptable and makes you more aligned with the "in-crowd". (ex: "I use Crest Toothpaste and so does all of my friends.")
Repetition: Pretty self-explanatory. The name of a product/service or a catchphrase pertaining to said product/service is recited ad-nauseum so it creates an imprint in the viewer or listener's mind . (Ex: "Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! My apologies for making you revisit that awful ad campaign :embarrass:.)
"Expert" Opinion: The testimony of a qualified individual or group of individuals used to assure the consumer that the product/service is reliable or enjoyable. (Ex: "4 out of 5 dentists prefer Colgate Total to the other leading brand."; pretty much any celebrity endorsement)
And no, I'm not in the advertisement industry (Believe it or not, I was actually taught this in third grade :D.)
and like Psuedofate said, the Flo commercials are really horrible. Like, really bad. It's insane how that woman is so iconic now from such stupid commercials.
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Every Cable commercial.
Every jewelry commercial.
Every commercial about a law firm trying to get you to sue a medical company due to drug side effects (We don't care about you, we just want the money).
Every car commercial around Christmas.
Not exactly a commercial, but every advertisement on ABC Family (or the like) that starts with "A new kind of..."