what commercial currently gets on your nerves?

[Fleshdancer]

The Tyson chicken commercials bug me. Either the mom is at the stove or at the kitchen table and suddenly the kid(s) stand up on a chair and announces how much they appreciate the chicken she cooks for them. Usually the dad is in the background not helping or he confesses that he makes frozen waffles when the mom is away.

The incompetent father/husband and over-stressed mom theme annoys the hell out of me.

[AspenRose]

1. The Jeep commercial with the singing animals

and the wolf that eats the bird, then spits it back out. It was cute the first time; now it just annoys me.

[Fox Mulder]

16. I absolutely hate that one.

:puke:

[MrScorpio]

23. I vote that puppy for suck ass commercial of a generation

God, I hate that thing

[Blue_Tires]

40. agreed

i also hate the cockney insurance gekko

[mentalsolstice]

52. But the guy is soooo cute! nt

[nadine_mn]

54. awww I love that one

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I have DVR - I don't watch commercials.

:P

[Fleshdancer]

3. consider yourself lucky for not seeing the Kia commercial then

I forgot about the Kia commercial when I wrote the OP.

The salesman dances, jumps, leaps, and gyrates to the music from flashdance. I'm embarrassed for him every time I see it. :(

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Everyone associated with Flashdance - including everyone who saw it willingly -

should be wiped from the face of the earth. And, by proxy - just to be safe - everyone associated with or who saw Dirty Dancing - should also be wiped from earth. And all their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

[MotorCityMan]

68. "Go back to your playpen, Baby..."

Actually, I liked 'Dirty Dancing' and have seen it about a billion times on cable.

HATED 'Flashdance', though. I originally saw it in the theater, only because 'The Hunger' was sold out (didn't care for that one, when I finally saw it; it was like a lesbian vampire perfume commercial).

I never understood how 'Flashdance' became so popular. And that car commercial, with the saleman dancing to Maniac just makes me cringe.

[Skittles]

20. surely they could have found a better looking guy

not that the commercial still wouldn't suck

[Fleshdancer]

28. his pelvic thrusts are exceptionally gross

:puke:

[catmandu57]

81. That damn bumper humping son of a bitch

I loathe that commercial with every fiber of my being.

[Mugu]

9. You posted what I was going to say. So n/t

[Connonym]

60. that alone is worth the price of the Tivo

sometimes when I debate with myself and think maybe I should cut costs with that I think of how for every 1 hour of TV I save 15 minutes and suddenly the 15 bucks a month doesn't seem like that big a deal.

[Steven_S]

4. Free Credit Report Dot Com....

The singing dork makes me do this:

[Ekirh]

10. Should've gone to FREEEEE CREDIT REPORT.COM

"YEE HAW!"

I should've seen this coming at me like an atom bomb
They monitor your credit and send you email alerts!!!
:P

[CreekDog]

33. yes hallelujah

:puke:

[China_cat]

79. The second one of that series makes me want

to throw something.

If he'd gone and checked her credit report he'd still be a bachelor? Even though she's his 'dream girl'? What a jerk.

[deucemagnet]

5. Cheerios -- "The box says, 'Shut up, Steve.'"

I don't know if I'm more annoyed by the inane banter or the fact that dialog is so obviously dubbed.

[Steven_S]

26. The box says, 'Lose some weight you bloody cow'

The box says, 'Get the fcuk off my back'

Oh that one's a beaut.

[woo me with science]

36. agree nt

[meegbear]

37. Next time it's on, close your eyes, listen and think "Jerry Seinfeld" ...

that's what they're trying to emulate.

[DarkTirade]

7. Since I moved and don't have a TV anymore... none of 'em. :)

[KitchenWitch]

8. The IKEA "Start the Car" ad!

:banghead:

[Clintonista2]

24. o...m...g I despise that one

[stuntcat]

11. Vonage

:puke:

[SacredCow]

12. Head on- Apply directly to your forehead...

etc...

[Ekirh]

13. These starburst are really juicy . .

Good thing we're wearing these wet suits . . .

Enough said.

I don't even know why it annoys me . . . it just does

[Fleshdancer]

15. I agree

How do advertisers pitch crap like that with a straight face?

[Ptah]

14. The loud one.

[GigiMommy]

17. Any thing with Billy Mays/OXI Clean

I dive for the remote.

[geardaddy]

38. Agreed. That guy is annoying as hell! n/t

[XemaSab]

41. Word

n/t

[Akoto]

73. That guy is like the spoken version of caps lock. n/t

[woo me with science]

18. Hillshire Farms: GO MEAT!

I am about to tear the TV out of the wall.

[woo me with science]

19. Those "toxin releasing" foot pads, and all the other quackery

including Head On, as mentioned above.

[MotorCityMan]

67. I KNEW someone would post this one (Hillshire Farms)

Absolutely hate it, and it seems to be on all the time.

[Initech]

21. ALL OF THEM. But specifically the Maxoderm/Enzyte/whatever commercials.

The Maxoderm ones - first one shows a house shaking like crazy and a car consisting of two girls and two guys watch. The fire hydrant outside explodes. Now come on... who doesn't know what that is?

Then there's another Maxoderm one where customers give testimonials. One guy says "My girlfriend bought it for me and now I'm sold on it." Ya know... it seems to me that if your girlfriend is buying you a male enhancement product, you might want to think about ending that relationship.

[woo me with science]

22. Clorox! For two reasons.

1. The obnoxious ads pushing disinfectants with bleach, supposedly because your kids NEED them. Over a backdrop of children playing, Clorox claims that their product "kills the germs that make them sick. When their world is cleaner, their lives are healthier."

But the opposite may be true. Not only can overuse of these products help to create superbacteria like the horrible staph infections we are seeing now~~~~~Studies are now showing that kids who grow up in homes that are super-disinfected are more likely to become asthmatic, apparently because they don't get exposed to the bacteria that help them build a strong immune system. Most pediatricians recommend using regular soap and water for most cleaning purposes.

2. On top of this, Clorox is now marketing a new disinfecting product, with claims that it kills bacteria but is also mild enough for use with kids and pets. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this means they have added more water to the product to dilute it. So they are charging the same amount of money for a "new and improved" product which is just diluted, so they can sell less bleach for more money. Same concept as the extra-special "whipped" yogurt you see advertised for the same price as the stuff that isn't puffed up with air.

Slimy, slimy, slimy.

[madeline_con]

49. It's so dumbasses will buy it.

A person with some sense sees through it like you do.

[MotorCityMan]

69. On one of those Clorox commercials

I thought one of the kids was saying "I play with my poops in the toilet", and I was like, what the F*CK!?!?!?!

The kid actually says, "boats", not "poops"...

[Ekirh]

25. I want to add Strange Wilderness previews. .

The one with the neverending ending with the shark and annoying laughing soundbite looping over and over and over again.

[nadine_mn]

56. crap... I am so un-PC

that trailer made me laugh so hard I stopped breathin

[AwakeAtLast]

27. Is it wrong that I want to slap Bob's smiling face?

Do we really need to know why he's smiling? (Enzyte of course)

[Adsos Letter]

29. Di-Tech home loans...

...do I really have to give a reason?

[femmocrat]

44. OMG. I HATE those! Most annoying ever.

Especially the one about the ill-LOOOOZ-zhen-ist. :puke:

[Adsos Letter]

58. Ya' know...it's interesting...

prior to the sub-prime mortgage mess, real actors did their commercials; now, no human faces...I have no idea if it means anything...just somethin' I noticed.

:hi:

[Hatchling]

30. The guys with the stupid red braids sticking out.

I hate those.

[Fleshdancer]

31. those are creepy n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

32. Any prescription drug commercial especially the Cialis ones

I hate the idea of having ordinary people tell their doctors what meds they should be taking and why oh why does every Cialis commercial end with two old people sitting in separate bathtubs in a random outdoor location? Is there some sort of symbolism that I am missing here?

[BlueIris]

46. What, you mean watching Big Pharma play on the aging boomers' fears of impotency isn't HOT to you?

I mean, come on, two mid-fifties plutocrats at their vinyard hanging out in luxurious bathtubs with everything at their fingertips except an erection doesn't turn. you. on???

[Kucinich4America]

34. Pretty much every ad on the radio

The usual obnoxious Ovaltine ads, and some stop smoking drug that has the most ridiculous acting you ever heard

Jen, I have bad news. Dad has lung cancer - spoken with all the emotion of a Vulcan before his first cup of coffee.

And of course these goddamn radio ads are repeated every 15 minutes, so in a 3 hour show, you hear them 12 fucking times.

So if you listen to three radio shows a day, that's 36 times a day. 180 times a week. More if I listen to Ring of Fire or Sam Seder on the weekends.

in the words of Dr. Dean: YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

[Aristus]

35. Anything with Billy Mays selling it.

Sometimes I just want to stuff a sock in that fat mouth of his.

[AllegroRondo]

72. AMEN!

Does he really think shouting at me is going to make me change my mind?

[RubyDuby in GA]

39. Am I the first to put up NutriSystem for your consideration

Look at me - I'm a size 2.

I can't be the only one who wants to smack that heifer!!!!!!!!!

[LibDemAlways]

66. I hate those ads. If those morons are for real, the

product obviously shrinks the brain, too.

[youthere]

42. The Tanqueray commercials. I want to bitch slap Tony Sinclair.

[RevCheesehead]

76. Me, too.

Who the fuck IS he, anyways???

[Bake]

43. VIVA VIAGRA!

Those are just gawdawful. The song, the guys sitting around playing music, the old guy with the candles in the pool ... they're just f'n awful.

Bake

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

55. Good God - that's the one I was going to list

I play guitar and I just cannot stomach the idea of a bunch of old assholes sitting around jamming and pretending that they're grooving to something as offensive and ridiculous as that Viva Viagra music. I rush for the remote clicker every time the first second of that commercial comes on. I can't stand more than a second or two of it.

[AwakeAtLast]

45. This is a comb. A what? A comb!

This is a migraine! x(

[madeline_con]

47. Anything applied directly to what ails you.

:puke:

[Redstone]

48. The Kia commercial with the sales dweeb humping the air to the song "Maniac."

Redstone

[BlueIris]

50. Virtually all "look younger with this new cosmetic" ads. Especially for Oil of Olay shite.

Known around my house as "Evil Shit Tested On Animals Made for Pathetically Insecure Women."

[Yukari Yakumo]

51. Every "Life Take Visa" ad

It makes me want to sock the cashier and whoever is next in line.

[Chovexani]

53. Those damn car commercials with "Baby It's Cold Outside"

First of all, I'm in Arizona, IT'S NOT. Second of all that song is ANNOYING, especially sung by the boring people who sing it. They are not jazzy and cool, they're douches. And it's an earworm! In fact, it's in my head right now!

And then they don't even properly finish it! :argh:

[nadine_mn]

57. anything w/ monkeys or chimps or orangutans

[Catsbrains]

59. How about the car rental commercial with the slaes lady and customer mouthing the words to Twisted

Sister's "I Wanna Rock" .....I hate hate hate that commercial!!

[Mythsaje]

61. I'd actually prefer a thread about the most entertaining commercial currently.

I rely on my DVR, so I watch so few of them these days. :shrug: I don't know if there are any funny ones out there.

[spinbaby]

62. The one with the football player and the house

I'm not sure if it's a local commercial or not, but there's this former Steeler showing off his house made of Visa cards and the pile of consumer crap he was able to buy by tying his Visa card to his home mortgage.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

63. The one with the ostrich, the dirigible, the picnickers, the imps, and the pickle barrel.

Not even sure what it's for, but it's on my nerves!

[gbate]

64. The one with the idiot and his father in Norway.

We found out we were really Swedish, so we're off to Sweden! Barf.

[RadiationTherapy]

65. The ones that are always in my bittorrents like LOST when...

Oh, wait, there are no commercials in my bittorrents BWWWWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAAH!

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

70. Anything with Peyton Manning

and the one in the hotel where the woman's voice is doing the countdown is th worst.

The last thing I want to see when watching my Patriots is a Peyton Manning commercial!

:puke:

[underpants]

75. I have to admit that the "Pep talk" ones are funny

other than that I agree. The "Shining" take off is not only weird but really old.

[Auggie]

71. Ovaltine and Egg Land

These are bigger budget branding spots that are just hokey beyond belief.

[Arkansas Granny]

74. Any commercial that has Billy Mays yelling about the product.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

77. tweety's self promotion

[PVnRT]

78. Enzyte

I want Smilin' Bob dead. Now. I have $1000 in savings just sitting there, for anyone who wants to do it.

[MotorCityMan]

80. Any of the Visa check card commercials

Where everything stops because someone doesn't have a damn check card. Pure, unmitigated greed and over-consumption.

Same thing with the Visa "Downtown" commercial. Sad? Depressed? Go and buy something!

My partner just couldn't get past the belt the woman wears "after" her makeover. He hated it.

I couldn't stand the dancing grandma at the end. She just bugged me.