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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:16 PM
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Most annoying commercials?
Right now, I have to say Subway commercials have the market cornered on "Horribly annoying stupid shit commercials that make me yell at my TV and want to stab out my eyes."

CocaCola commercials are usually pretty bad too. And though they do them less now, those McDonald's commercials specifically aimed at blacks are pretty god damn lame too. "Yo, let's go to MickeyD's and eat shitty food, yo! Yo!"

So which commercials make you pray for thermonuclear war?
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:18 PM
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1. Anything with audible chewing swallowing slurping sucking
Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 06:19 PM by kaitykaity
sounds.


:grr::grr::grr::grr:
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:21 PM
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4. I think you're confusing commercials with pornography
Though I can see where you'd get confused, one is about sacrificing art and style in favor of hollow sexual voyeurism in order to seperate you from your money. The other is pornography.
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:25 PM
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5. Gee, I wish that were true.

I'm talking about hamburger commercials.
Soft-drink commercials.

Any commercial where you can hear those bodily
noises.

Hell, I've gotten to the point to where I won't
watch live TV. I tape damn near everything
I want to see.

D
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:30 PM
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10. one of the worst is the one for steak sauce
the man with the dog sitting on the floor next to him eating. The camera shows the dog lapping loudly. the dog stops eating and the sound continues. Camera cuts to the man and he is licking the plate.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:33 PM
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13. carls jr
the slopping eating sounds makes me want to hurl
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:19 PM
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2. Yes! Yes! Yes!
Clairol Herbal Essesces
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mcaverly Donating Member (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:28 PM
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7. I agree
They are embarassing AND Annoying!
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:20 PM
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3. Feminine hygiene products
I mean, really. GACK.........................
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:26 PM
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6. Old Navy commercials
I won't shop there JUST because of the commercials.
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:29 PM
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8. At least they don't have Willie Nelson and Ryan Adams like the GAP
But yeah, I hate all those fucking mall clothing stores that are turning America's youth into a generation of walking billboards. Why the fuck would you spend twenty bucks on a shirt that says "Abercrombie And Fitch" on it? Oh, because you're a shallow retard? Oh, ok, my mistake.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:31 PM
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11. No, but they have Morgan Fairchild and that annoying fashion woman...
and a bunch of WAY-too-excited early-twenties people.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:20 PM
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29. the annoying fashion woman died
some time last year
just so you know
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:19 PM
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38. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad...
I hate being conflicted...
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:29 PM
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9. Hummer & Chevy "Like a rock"
commercials suck donkey dicks.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:32 PM
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12. Most of them, but a special award goes to the "fire grilled" people
They've created about 500,000 new commercials finding a new way to exploit the phrase "fire grilled", which must have cost them a pretty penny to the contractor who thought it up in the first place!

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progressivejazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:33 PM
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14. The latest few from Dial Soap.
Swimming through some kid's pee stream in a pool--ugh. Drying off your clean body with a towel somebody else has just used to wipe off sweat--disgusting.

Also the ads from some internet ticket service that shows "their kind of people". A guy getting extra peanuts in a plane and then stealing the peanuts of the person next to him. A guy throwing his young son out of the way into a pool so the guy can dive for a quarter. I guess their kind of people are thoughtless, selfish, and greedy. That is to say, Republicans.

And I can't omit the grossest of all: Little toenail fungus creatures lifting the nail and crawling in, only to be cured by whatever product is being pushed.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:36 PM
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15. I had forgotten
about the "their kind of people" ads. Those are really disgusting.
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:48 PM
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16. Walmart Walmart Walmart
All those folksy women finding bargains in the Walmart stores and the girls finding all their trendy clothes...too bad they don't fit after two washings. I don't believe these are not actors.
But my second choice for :puke: :puke: :puke: are those Carl's Juniors ads that are supposed to be so sexy.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:22 PM
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30. always wanted to animate a parody
of that walmart commercial where the wal-mart smiley face bounces through the store, magically lowering the price of everything he passes.
i wanted to make a version where he bounces down main street, closing small town businesses and boarding up the windows of every store he passes
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:07 PM
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36. WalMart: we pretend to care
gag me
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:48 PM
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17. The toenail fungus commercial
I have to look away. Ewwww, gross.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:50 PM
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18. At the moment, Applebees with Tim McGraw clone liking it, loving it, &
wanting more of it. Tie for 2d place goes to NYT/WSJ spots with people who REALLY REALLY need to read these papers everyday (They're national spots). However, the latest one from the WSJ leads off with a guy whose obsessive compulsion to read the Journal is so over the top that it's hysterical.

Worst commercial of all is the one for Inventec (forgive spelling) with the idiots detailing all the money they would have made if they had just patented their ideas. Straight to the "so bad it's good" hall of fame.

Most annoying commercial is a one-million-way tie between every commercial for every cable network and its programming, with an occasional exception for Comedy Central. These suck to begin with and they just play them straight into the ground.

Oh, and how could I forget Bosley Medical. "Do you think my barber will recognize me?" I don't give a rip, Dumbo. I hope they aren't paying the monkeys who come up with this crap too much.
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bluedeminredstate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:51 PM
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19. Ditech.com
The guy is a total loser who can't close a loan and he whines about it in every version of the same damn commercial. Enough already!!
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:00 PM
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21. Agree Totally.
Very annoying. They seem to targeted at a 12 year old's mentality. What 12 year old has a mortgage?
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 06:55 PM
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20. that new hummer h2 commercial that uses 'happy jack'..
with the little punk-ass kid who builds a soapbox Hummer. He off-roads it straight down the hill, rather than legitimately race the other kids. The smug look on his grill pisses me off to no end. Really sums up the perceived "f*ck you.. I'm better than you" attitude of the typical H2 owner. Oh yeah.. I'm not real happy that The Who allowed them to use their work to shill that piece of krap. Friggin sell outs!!
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Porkrind_Power Donating Member (23 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:05 PM
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22. faucet commercial makes me crazy
some lady & her husband go to an architect...

architect: "what can i build for you today?"

snobby lady{as she plops down a fancy faucet on the guys desk): "build me a house.. around that."

then she stays looking at the guy with a smug, snotty look on her face
i'd like to shove that damn faucet down her throat
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:05 PM
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23. if i see any of that
damned orgasmic shampoo ads, i will svream. And i will never never ever get anything made by them they are so insulting.
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diplomats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:10 PM
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25. That car commercial
where they play the Journey song "Any way you want it, that's the way you need it." It's on CONSTANTLY.
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:06 PM
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24. Does anybody else get the "Ice Cream Man" commercial??
Arrrrgh!!!

He even LOOKS like Chester the Molester!
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:18 PM
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27. The one where
the people of the neighborhood chase him down the street?
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:01 PM
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34. YES!!!!
Is that OBNOXIOUS or what?!?!?!
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:13 PM
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26. Sorry but adding this . . I'm 40 and one of my absolute

favorite bands was Journey.

Now Ford is using "Any Way You Want It" to sell
their wares. That just Fricking Pisses Me Off.

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:19 PM
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28. matthew lesko, the 'question mark suit' guy
some people really deserve a serious beating and he's one of them.
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_NorCal_D_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:39 PM
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32. Yeah,
I'm supposed to buy a product from a kook wearing a question-mark suit? Yeah right. :eyes:
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:18 PM
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37. yes, advice from the Riddler...
you know the one where he's going into a cartoon home that's barely coordianted with his interactions with it? the woman in the tub with the inhuman screech? I can do that
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DealsGapRider Donating Member (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:23 PM
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31. You've got the green light.
The one where the woman sings "You've got the green light" drives me FUCKING CRAZY.
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Bombero1956 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:00 PM
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33. the 4 twenty somethings
in a Ford Focus, they're driving while drinking cups of hot coffee and all they can say is Dude.

There's a Raymour & Flanagan commercial where the daughter helps Dad who's totally computer illiterate get financing for new furniture online. When Dad asks who's paying for the furniture, she says Mom says that's your department.
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:05 PM
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35. Those god damn Dell interns
Annoy the crap out of me...they're so annoying I actually MISS the stoner dude.

At least they got rid of that weird chick with the bizarrely shaped head.
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