Commercials that just irritate you.... - Page 19

Ah, dude, I thought I was the only one.  Years ago, I was in Blockbuster and they played an audio ad of someone pouring a Coke.  I almost had to leave.  My family has never understood.

LOL, I couldn't even begin to tell you why it drives me up a wall but it just does, I guess it works along the same lines and affects the same part of the brain as someone dragging their nails across a chalkboard.

 

And it's only just the audio of it, I can watch beer commercials and if I can see the beer being poured the sound doesn't bother me.

 

Go figure.

 

I have a similar reaction to any commercial that shows words appearing on the screen accompanied by audible key clicks as if someone is typing. I hate that.

 

For me, it's amplified eating sounds.  I loathe those Carl's Jr. commercials.

I hate that new Volkswagen commercial that sticks the faces of Gene Kelly and Donald O'conner onto fake dancing legs.

All of the above. eating/drinking sound effects are obnoxious, and beer pouring and keyboard clicking sound effects annoy me too.

 

Keyboard clicking in radio ads, especially, since they always have the guy speaking what he's typing, slowly, one word at a time.

The current McDonald's commercial where the couple starts doing the synchronized table thumping thing with their hands/arms.

I don't like that one either. What are they doing anyway?
Are the ballet dancers or ice skaters?

 This might be my most hated comercial, I just think it's stupid.  Even fast forwarding through it makes me irritated because I can still see it.

 

"To the clouds" comercial with the mom changing all her families head shots is right there too, especially when she says "to the clouds" and has that look on her face.  Uhg I hate it.

The other one with the couple at the airport isn't bad. Her "Yay cloud!" is cute. It's also cute how the teacher with all the popcorn says "Whaat?" and "Popcorn!".

The GE commercial with everyone doing that hillbilly line dancing thing.

The one where the kid on the playground crosses his legs and tells his mom he has to go to the bathroom, and instead of doing something about it, they all launch into the "Potty Dance." The guy's voice is very annoying. And then, "Go to our website for all the Potty Dance fun!" No!

This.

 

While that one is beautifully shot I freakin' hate commercials that refuse to divulge what the hell it's trying to sell me until the end, as if it's keeping me in suspense or something.

 

I hate that new laptop commercial where the couple comes home to find they've been robbed, the place is trashed, all of their belongings are gone and their only concern is that the old PC wasn't worth stealing (that's right, folks, the burglers left the old PC!!) and they have to buy a new one...um...what?

A new hated commercial, the new iPhone commercial with the tagline "If you don't have an iPhone, well, you don't have an iPhone."

 

Uh huh. Why doesn't he just come out and say what he really means..."If you don't have an iPhone, well, your a worthless fucking low life who's existence should be reversed."

Hey, at least now that AT&T is buying T-Mobile, the girl of my dreams is no longer making fun of my phone.

 

I rather like that commercial, since it validates my existence as a superior being

The Nivea commercials with all the old hags claiming that they don't look their age because they use the product.

The current NYS ad telling you that a lotto ticket is a great mothers' day present. 

Aaaaack!  I haven't seen a TV version.

 

But there's a :60 radio version (which seems like an hour) of a young girl whining a million different child's phrases that drive a parent crazy.  I honestly thought it was going to be a "Latter Day Saints" commercial about the need to give a kid some love. 

 

Nope.  The tag line was about buying Mom a lottery ticket. 

 

The NYS Lottery usually has some pretty clever spots.  But this one was completely annoying and incomprehensible. 

 

That's what I'm thinking of: the radio version.

The Chase Bank commercial.

 

Specifically the one with the race car driver.

 

Specifically the woman at the end who looks down at the tread marks as if they were the most disgusting thing she's ever seen and makes a ridiculously wide step over one with the most ridiculous shoes I've ever seen (that aren't worn by Lady Gaga).

 

There are three or four of these commercials but this is the one I see over and over and over...

The Greenlight Financial Commercial, am I the only one who noticed that the jingle and the Phone No. don't match?? The jingle gives an extra 6. Man, after declaring it a "2 billion dollar jingle" it scares me to think that they are that unconscious with numbers .......Doing any financial business with them, frightens the hell out of me.

Which commercial doesn't irritate me?

Commercials that they could make a million of are Victoria Secret commercials, I stop whatever it is I'm doing when they come on lol.

Y-you don't mess with Carly. You just don't. Trying to contain my rage face NO IT'S OUT.

Though, FauxCarly is kind of cute. In a way.

I've been negligent in posting this.

 

But I cannot stand/understand those Jackie Chan V-8 commercials with the cheap "kung fu"-type sound effects.  I am still trying to determine the connection between any of the elements of the commercial!

 

It's been awhile since a commercial has filled me with so much searing rage that I want to put my fist through a plate glass window but the new NIKE ad where the annoyingly peppy girl is jogging across the country singing "I love you so much that I will run to you." while her boyfriend is in the hospital makes me want to beat the hell out of both of them, mainly the girl, though lol.

Here it is, ugh...


Edited by Inspector Hammer! - 4/23/12 at 4:58am

Looks like I'm alone on that.

On another note, if anyone in my waking life ever says the following words to me... "Sooo 29 seconds ago!" I'm going to hit them very very hard in the face.

Has media sharing gotten so fast that something that just happened 29 seconds ago is no longer news to some of these pretentious douche bags?? Ugh!

  That complaint is sooo 45 seconds ago, John...

 

In the meantime, I'll bet this commercial looked like a sure-fire winner on paper.  But the fact that you've got to use subtitles should've been a clue that it would just annoy the crap out of people: