What commercials do you hate??
 

i can't stand the ones on the radio where there is excessive food noises. you know, eating with your mouth full, slurping etc... another one is one that has this dude whispering pretending to be the flu, some advertisement for some flu medication, i never sat (errr drove) through the entire commercial so i couldn't tell ya what product they are trying to advertise. these commercials that get on my nerves? yeah. i go out of my way if i have to to NOT buy their product. what's your take?

Car horns or sirens on the radio commercials. On a morning commute, either can be disconcerting. Those should be banned!

I hate kissy smacky noises. Slurp, slurp, snort, slurp. Really, like the smell of your own farts, unless it's your own noise it sounds pretty gross. But I guess that's not commercials so much as television. Still, it's worth mentioning. ;)

so why is it that you can appreciate your own farts and not someone else's? i mean really, you're sitting there in your cube chair or where ever and you let one go. then you smell it. you're like "HIGH FIVE ME! i did that? REALLY?" but you get sniped by someone elses fart and you gag. why is that?

I hate pretty much any commercial anywhere that is advertising anything.

That effin screaming pig.

Oh yeah, that is pretty annoying.

WEEEEEEEE ! WEEE WEEEEEE WEEEEE!!!!
Ya That makes me Mute the tv

awhile ago their used to be a commercial that had the sound of a flattening tire, about the time i was on my way to work.

i stopped listening to that channel.

This.

I especially dislike adverts where actors pretend to be real people.
I know that's what acting is, effectively, but these are shot to suggest this is reality.

Example toothpaste ads where people are stopped in a shopping centre or busy concourse and are free to stop and talk about their teeth and take a test. Well of course they are free to do so - well made up, young and conventionally attractive; they could only be out of work actors at that time of day.

Okay there's jealousy there. I've been interviewed a couple of times and have always got a great response. I speak in full sentences, include the question in my answer, speak concisely and clearly and don't look at the camera. ""Oh great, thanks!" and "Yup, got that one - perfect" are the responses I am used to. But no-one has ever stopped me to ask me about whether I have sensitive teeth.

Still hate the adverts anyway.

Adverts should have songs in them and feature a wide range of the general public. Including fat, old, unattractive.
And if they have to have children in them, make sure they speak properly! I can understand every word of the little boy in the Patak's advert, despite his accent. What a nice change from lisps and adenoidal problems. And gross over-acting.

The ones I really hate...? There are several. There're a few recent airline ads thathave really pissed me off bigstyle.

Here we are in 20 fucking 12, and they're still promoting the image of male pilots, and female support staff. Really ticks me off.

This one, I'd quite like if it wasn;t for the gender politics. It's tongue in cheek and playing on that whole Madmen, PanAm retro chic. But it fits so well with the way these ads usually work, that it just adds to the noise. Any little girl growing up seeing these ads would think that flying a plane is a Man's Job. And the girls are there to offer comfort and beauty to tired male passengers.



This one pisses me off even more.



Because yeah....it's only the men who ploughed that furrow right? Only the male aviators aye? It was never just the men. From very early on t he history of aviation there were women too. Not many, granted but they were there. But as far as this advert is concerned, the whole deal was a male only enterprise. And now, in the modern era.....and fuck all has changed.

That's me, too.

We have 20 public sector TV programs, only 2 of which run commercials. They're paid for through fees, which everybody has to pay. I also listen exclusively to radio channels without commercials.
In the rare case when I watch a TV channel with commercials, I switch as soon as they come up, switch back when I estimate the content is on again.

Dana I often rage at the inherent sexism and gender assumption in adverts.
Sometimes it's just because of who they are pitching the ad at. For example there are very rarely men in adverts for supermarket clothes lines - because their customers are mothers not fathers - the familial idyll with no men in sight still jars me.

Sometimes I try reversing the genders in adverts to see if they still work - very often it makes them ridiculous. Many of them present men in roles that we'd never accept for women - apprearing clueless and bumbling and enjoying being patronised.
The Renault advert is an exception; the man escorts a beautiful woman home just because he loves driving his new car so much, not because he wants to put the moves on her. It's gender specific without being sexist imo.

Advertising paints with a broad brush. And (in this country at least) tends to bleach to white as well. You can easily tell dubbed adverts from the States (another of my bugbears) because there is more variation in skintone.

I think we're on an upwards curve though.
Watch some of the adverts from our childhood and see how we still developed our own opinions. Girls and boys today will do the same.

I also hate this one for entirely different reasons. I think because it makes me want to punch the guy repeatedly in the face at the end.

be unexpected, stamp your individuality onto the world, by buying this mass produced bottle of smell.

Tivo is my friend. I actually like the Allstate Mayhem commercials but can't seem to through any others. There is one horrible mini maxi van commercial that is particularly annoying.

Huggies commercials. They've always been annoying (squealy kid is NOT cute) and they often portray the kid as a kind of small adult (to counter the squealing maybe) so they border on really creepy.

And that family singing Crazy Train. Gawd-awful and don't quit your day jobs, happy van family.

There's this reverse sexism thing going on where commercials targeted at women always have a stupid helpless husband.

I think you're right on when you say it's all about who they are pitching the ad at.

That is the basis for a lot of the "situation TV comedies", particularly in the 80's and 90's.
My wife and I call them the "dumb daddy". (e.g., Cosby Show)

Going the other way, Lifetime Movie Channel advertises itself as the "channel for women".
But most of the films that appear there are of women being stalked,
murdered, beaten, and anything else that can feed to a woman's fear.

Well... female-only support staff, yeah that's crap. It's a minority, of course, but there are certainly male flight attendants. But female pilots? Extremely rare, at least in the US. Extremely. My dad has taken 2-4 commercial flights per week for the last 35 years (he's a traveling sales guy) and says he has seen a female pilot exactly once. Part of the reason is that most commercial pilots are ex-military, and since women aren't allowed to fly combat missions, there aren't a lot coming out of that avenue.

Well, for the British Airways one it's very annoying, given they have somewhere in the region of 100 female pilots.

That's impressive! You guys are way ahead of us.

And that stupid candle lady who has nothing better to do than sit around loving her candles. Get a job, lady.

I have to agree with the slurping/smacking sounds. The worst was the one on a while back where the woman slurped up a cup of yogurt. Made me want to barf. I hate the sound of people eating.


Also, idiot husband/snarky wife commercials are insulting.

I know a cop who has that as his ringtone. Hilarious.

my brother!

All commercials suck, regardless of where you here them or see them.

I disagree.
Occasionally they are funny, even witty - although print ads are generally better at that.
And sometimes they are useful.

I'm glad we don't have them on the BBC (I don't listen to the World Service but I regret their inclusion there). But I won't condemn them all, indiscriminately, to Room 101.

In fact, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have a voiceover ad on at present.
It's appalling. Not their fault though - it's a pleasure to hear their voices. It's a shame someone in AdLand thought that was the best use of their talents, but they both have families and bills to pay.

I like commercials. The ones that suck, like the ones that make annoying noise are AWFUL, but I really like commercials. As you say, some are funny...and some are sad etc. It's creativity.

It's fun to watch old VHS taped from TV and see old commercials.

Plus, I'm in love with Mad Men. ;)

I hate that commercial.

I hate the ones that try to sell toothpaste as self-empowerment and people power.

I don't hate this commercial, and I really didn't feel like starting a thread called "Commercials You are Actually Pretty Indifferent About, but Made You Notice Something Funny About Them."

There is an advertising push on right now for the KFC Pot Pie. One of these commercials is 70s retro, with a couple of cool dudes getting some pot pies.

They are in a cool car.

The shot is through the front windshield. You can see that there is a chain with a pendant hanging off the rear view mirror.

If you look at it from the bottom up, it appears to read "pnis."

*Giggle*

stud ... ;)

lol...well, a stud should have a pnis.

I never would have noticed either, before.

I laughed and laughed at the original version of the Verizon commercial with the mother and daughter crying about the daughter moving away. My mom said she hated it.

Well, saw it the other night and the bastards cleaned up the audio and took away the subtitles. Dumbasses, that was what made it funny. Now I hate it too.

I saw that too! They had been running the funny one with the online Colbert Report episodes, and then just this morning I saw they changed it. Why in the world would they do that?

I want to believe it's some weird marketing gimmick, where the fact that they changed it subtly means we'll all notice, and talk about it with our friends. I mean, the shots and costuming and makeup were exactly the same, the two versions had to have been shot at the same time.

I heard people hated it. Talked to mom tonight about the commercial she hated. She hadn't noticed the subtitles (what? Then I remembered they usually have closed captioning turned on) But did notice you could make out what they're saying in the later version.

When I asked her last week what she didn't like about she said "the blubbering" hahaha! That's my mama.

The marketing ploy...love that take on it and it is so true. I discussed it with my mom and posted about it! :)

The 'scrunch'n'sniff' Always Dailies ad...






eww...

Hate this one. It's from a couple of years ago...


Talk about creating a problem in order to sell the solution:

I want to get into the business of writing radio commercials. They don't have to make sense, they don't have to be grammatically correct, and they don't need to include correct pronunciations.

"Did you know that some fruits are really vegetables, and some vegetables are really fruit?" Um, wrong. Maybe some foods we think of as vegetables are really fruit, and some foods we think of as fruit are really vegetables, but I assure you...fruits are really fruit and vegetables are really vegetables. Really. Totally.:guinea: (I can't find any fruit or veggie smiley so I'll just use that potato chip one.) :lol:

I have a couple more to add but I have to remember what they are.

Is this appro pro ? I'm curious about your sig-line:

"Wages" is plural, but "death" seems singular both in grammar and reality

I don't know. Ask Paula Poundstone. :eyebrow:

Do you have anything else to add to the conversation, or do you plan to stick to the plan: ignore her until we find things to criticize? :rolleyes:

I'm of the paranoid persuasion. Please to excuse me. :)

Anyway, another one I think I've mentioned before (radio commercial) is "You can save up to 3 to 8 hundred dollars!" Which is it? 300 dollars? 457 dollars? 800 dollars? What can you save 'up to'?

There's still one more that's been on recently...maybe I'll hear it today.

Radio commercials are the worst.

I rarely hear them these days as I only really listen to BBC radio 4

I've seen this commercial eleventy million times and still can't decipher it.

When Jake, from State Farm says, "khakis".
What does the wife say?

"She sounds hideous"

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Thank you. :notworthy

I hate ALL SPAM ADS!!!!


They all turn me off......

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