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Ohio8
07-01-2004, 01:14 PM
Here are several nationwide ads I cannot stand: 1)Safe Auto car insurance. 2)Ovaltine (they can't act!) 3)Daisy sour cream. 4)

Chain Gang Member
07-01-2004, 01:19 PM
Viagra(people celebrating while We Are The Champions is played)

Sterling Holobyte
07-01-2004, 01:21 PM
Commercials I HATE: Any commercial that has people dancing around(Especially when they are eating, or having/or about to have digestive problems).

*Bela Lugosi*
07-01-2004, 01:33 PM
All those stupid car commercials, commercials about lawyers, & commercials about getting a degree.

EmoJoe
07-01-2004, 01:44 PM
1. Geico
2. ANY car commercial
3. Ovaltine
4. Any commercial where the people are half-naked (Victoria's Secret, ect)
5. Ebay

spunkygirl
07-01-2004, 02:08 PM
Originally posted by Ohio8
Here are several nationwide ads I cannot stand: 1)Safe Auto car insurance. 2)Ovaltine (they can't act!) 3)Daisy sour cream. 4)

Those safe auto commercials are the stupidest most idiotic thing ever created :rolleyes:

When I lived in California, we had commericals from this guy who called himself the "Diamond Man" He owned a jewelry store, those were stupid everyone at my school always made fun of those commercials.

Also where I live Ricart Ford car commercials are kinda stupid.

Crimson and Clover
07-01-2004, 02:25 PM
the herpies commercial

Brian
07-01-2004, 02:42 PM
Originally posted by Rurry007

3. Ovaltine



Thank you. I hate those ads with a passion!

Chelsea
07-01-2004, 02:50 PM
1-800-SAFE AUTO! Pick up the Phone, the Call is Freeeeee!

Seriously, though, those Ovaltine ads are so annoying, that I can't even come up with a lame joke about it.

Now, if you wanna see a good ad, hunt down those ads for Six Flags with the dancing older man. Now THAT'S a good ad (At least, IMO)

-*Forever*-
07-01-2004, 03:15 PM
These are CNY commercials, but the Billy Fuccillo "HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE" ones get on my nerves.

But let's see... I hate that one where the woman and the random guy are dancing in the CD store and she gets diareah.

dlemond
07-01-2004, 03:18 PM
Originally posted by Sterling Holobyte
Commercials I HATE: Any commercial that has people dancing around(Especially when they are eating, or having/or about to have digestive problems).

That Pepto-Bismol dancing one is terrible.

I feel bad for the lady who had to play diarrhea.

david&maddie4ever
07-01-2004, 03:25 PM
Originally posted by Rurry007
1. Geico
5. Ebay

:eek2: I love those! :o

James"Thunder"Early
07-01-2004, 03:31 PM
Originally posted by dlemond
That Pepto-Bismol dancing one is terrible.

I feel bad for the lady who had to play diarrhea. I love that pepto bismol one! nausea, heartburn, indegestion, upset stomach, diarrhea yay pepto bismol!

RustyShackleford
07-01-2004, 03:35 PM
In Texas we have this Six Flags commercail where this old man with huge glasses and a walker gets off a bus and then some techno music starts playing and he starts dancing around and its just really weird and the music is catchy, find your self humming it later

david&maddie4ever
07-01-2004, 03:41 PM
Originally posted by RustyShackleford
In Texas we have this Six Flags commercail where this old man with huge glasses and a walker gets off a bus and then some techno music starts playing and he starts dancing around and its just really weird and the music is catchy, find your self humming it later

Yeah, I think that's played everywhere. I :heart: it.

Kazza
07-01-2004, 03:53 PM
Originally posted by RustyShackleford
In Texas we have this Six Flags commercail where this old man with huge glasses and a walker gets off a bus and then some techno music starts playing and he starts dancing around and its just really weird and the music is catchy, find your self humming it later

I Love that one!! My kids like it too:D I don't think that guy is that 'old' to move that way. LOL

I don't like Jessica Simpson Pizza Hut and Icebreakers one:rolleyes:

Sargent Stewie
07-01-2004, 03:53 PM
That stupid car insurance company that always ends their commercial "Just kiss my bubba! Just kiss it!" That's gay.

EmoJoe
07-01-2004, 03:54 PM
Originally posted by david&maddie4ever
:eek2: I love those! :o

I hate them. Theyre retarted, IMO.

-*Forever*-
07-01-2004, 04:32 PM
Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
I don't like Jessica Simpson Pizza Hut and Icebreakers one:rolleyes:

C'mon! Flap 'em again!!

:rolleyes:

Lucylover22
07-01-2004, 04:35 PM
Originally posted by Ohio8
2)Ovaltine (they can't act!)

Yeah. If I would bring home a whole neighborhood of kids, my mom would say "Do you know how much milk costs? Does this look like a restaurant? Get out of here. Your parents can make some of this crap because I'm not." not "Oh, I guess I'll make some more.":rolleyes:

spunkygirl
07-01-2004, 04:38 PM
Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
I don't like Jessica Simpson Pizza Hut and Icebreakers one:rolleyes:

Me too, does she have to taint everything good? :rolleyes: :lol:

david&maddie4ever
07-01-2004, 06:49 PM
Originally posted by Lucylover22
If I would bring home a whole neighborhood of kids, my mom would say "Do you know how much milk costs? Does this look like a restaurant? Get out of here. Your parents can make some of this crap because I'm not."

:lol:

MandieR1980
07-01-2004, 08:25 PM
Those stupid Viagra commercials always come on when I'm watching tv with dad it makes me so embarrassed LOL

robyrob
07-01-2004, 10:04 PM
Originally posted by Rurry007

1. Geico
5. Ebay

Originally posted by david&maddie4ever
:eek2: I love those! :o

mee too !!

i remember an ad in Seattle they had for a local car dealership:

"Its Cal Worthington and his Dog Spot!!"

which would be followed by clips of some old car salesman getting poop thrown on him by monkeys, trampled by zebras or mauled by bears - it was GREATNESS !

spunkygirl
07-01-2004, 10:07 PM
OMG there's a commercial where I live for a car dealership, it's the stupidest freaking commercial on the face of this earth.

They do this commercial with something called a "trunk monkey". They had one where this lady got pulled over for speeding or something, she pushes this button her trunk pops open and this monkey gets out and tries to bribe the cop :eek:

Freaking stupid, they've done several trunk monkey commercials since omg:

david&maddie4ever
07-01-2004, 10:36 PM
Originally posted by robyrob
mee too !!

i remember an ad in Seattle they had for a local car dealership:

"Its Cal Worthington and his Dog Spot!!"

which would be followed by clips of some old car salesman getting poop thrown on him by monkeys, trampled by zebras or mauled by bears - it was GREATNESS !

:lol:

robyrob
07-01-2004, 10:56 PM
Originally posted by Topanga
They do this commercial with something called a "trunk monkey". They had one where this lady got pulled over for speeding or something, she pushes this button her trunk pops open and this monkey gets out and tries to bribe the cop :eek:
i just hope they arent pulling the old bait-and-switch, you better actually GET a trunk-monkey !!! :cuss:

Janice
07-01-2004, 11:13 PM
MORE OVALTIME PLEASE!

Can't stand that one.

I think the Geico ads are funny, especially the one with the guy in prison whose lawyers tells him he has good news....he just saved 15% on his car insurance.

Another funny ad campaign is Vehix.com, where the guy is dressed as a computer monitor and checking out car information for people who treat him like dirt. Cracks me up.

AKA
07-01-2004, 11:15 PM
I absolutely hate the commercials for overactive bowel syndrome medication or whatever where women lift up their shirts to reveal writing on their bellies. It just creeps me out for some reason.

Maybe it's the abundance of bellybuttons.

Hollow
07-01-2004, 11:22 PM
- The club cracker commercials. I saw it once and heard the theme song.. since then i've violently dashed to the TV and turned it off whenever it comes on.

- Car commercials. Blah, blah, blah, 0% APR, 10 year warrently, 100,000 mile gas mileage.. it's always the SAME CRAP. Except i <3 that one where some people try to push someone's car off a cliff to piss them off and it lands perfectly without any damage and they're like noooooo. THAT is the only good one. I'm proud of that company for thinking outside the box and making an appealing car commercial.

- Goldberg and osbourne commercials.. they're some stupid lawyers, i think they're just local though. seems to me they TRY to bore the crap out of everyone with their commercials.

- The new pepto bismal commercial. rip off of ebay commercials.

- That GOD DAMN "FEED THE CHILDREN" COMMERCIAL. RRRRRRRR. They seriously try to brainwash you into making that damn phone call and feeding the damn children. "You don't call because you're busy, and you're not busy now, so go call now." When they film it they obviously set up a scene that looks all poor and torn up and they give the kids sloppy costumes to wear and tell them to make sad faces.

- Debt free commercials. Pardon but isn't there a bill you have to pay for watching TV? And if you're in debt why the hell would you be watching saturday night live and spending more money?

- Ovaltine commercials. They talk **** about nesquik and say it has no vitamins when it does. They're also the most conceited and arrogant people in the universe. They get the lamest most horrible actors ever and make them say **** like "Is that nestle quik?" "Get real! It's rich chocolate ovaltine?"

- That new stupid dr. pepper commercial with lee ann rimes singing that obnoxious song. god damn annoying lady.

- Any weight loss (minus michael thurmon's) commercial. They ALL say the SAME DAMN CRAP. "I lost 38 lbs, i lost 28 lbs, i lost 57 lbs, blah blah blah." There is NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANY OF THEM. EXCEPT for Michael Thurmon's 6-week body makeover. I, being an infomercial whore, see it alot, i've seen how it works and it really is impossible to fail.

- The bareminerals infomercial. Even before i learned about advertising strategies in school, it was so easy to see the ways they tried to mislead and brainwash you into buying their goddamn makeup. It's foundation and they had before/after pictures of the ladies that used it. in the before pictures they made them look all ugly, and in the after pictures, they not only added the foundation, but they also put on lipstick, blush, eyeshadow etc, they made sure their faces were clear, and they made their hair look better. They also talk about liquid foundatio like it's just the most disgusting thing everrrrr! They said one of the ladies on the set was a "brave, brave girl" for putting some one. i want to call them an obscene name but that's so pathetic i can't even think of one..

- The infomercial about ony little's gazelle secret ****. WHY DOES HE HAVE TO ****ING SCREAM THE WHOLE TIME! Not only does he talk like we're 289 miles away but he says the most annoying things. So does his stupid assistant. "AFFORDABLE.. PORTABLE.. AND TOTALLY... SOTRABLE!" the world would be such a better place if he would shut his damn mouth.

- Any commercial with billy mayes. Like his long-lost brother tony little, he feels the need to SCREAM at us like we're going deaf and the building's on fire.

- The enzyte commercials. They use Bob to kind of catch attention and amuse the people watching.. but they're just boring. And they always play them twice in a row. Annoying.

- Any commercial the TV guide channel makes about themself. WAY WAY WAY OVERPLAYED AND ANNOYING. If i see that one that features kelly clarkson messing up during the interview i'm gonna punch my fist through the TV. Plus they're just a bunch of conceited bastards who think they are the channel of america. Everything is all about them.

- Any commercial that just tries to mislead you/brainwash you/persuade you to buy it too much. Kill. DESTROY!

Yeah ok, that's all i can think of. And one last thing:

EBAY, GEICO AND LOCAL COMMERCIALS OWN ALL.

spunkygirl
07-01-2004, 11:23 PM
Originally posted by Janice
MORE OVALTIME PLEASE!

Can't stand that one.

I think the Geico ads are funny, especially the one with the guy in prison whose lawyers tells him he has good news....he just saved 15% on his car insurance.

Another funny ad campaign is Vehix.com, where the guy is dressed as a computer monitor and checking out car information for people who treat him like dirt. Cracks me up.

OMG those Geico commercials rule!!!!! I love the one where they are in the car, and they are singing along to the radio, suddenly we hear "He was Kung Fu fighting" the Geico was singing :rofl:

Brent88
07-01-2004, 11:24 PM
I hate the Levitra commericals :cuss:

I hate most commericals. Period. They are a waste of valuable time.

We have this dumb local commerical here where these senior citizen's are at a pool and this guy comes in dressed as a yellow jacket and says "Be Smart, Be Brave, What I'm really trying to say, someone needs to take a peek at a part of which we rarely speak" <points to butt>

It's supposed to be for colon cancer awareness. The commerical is so stupid. :rolleyes:

I like the Geico commericals, especially the ones where the guy says "but I have some good news, I just saved a load of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico" LOL

Kristina
07-01-2004, 11:25 PM
those stupid ass priceline commercials. i don't get those old mens inside jokes. something about their faces makes me want to repeatedly punch them.

spunkygirl
07-01-2004, 11:25 PM
Originally posted by robyrob
i just hope they arent pulling the old bait-and-switch, you better actually GET a trunk-monkey !!! :cuss:

:cuss: No unfortunately it's false advertising :cuss:

I so want my own trunk monkey :crying: Why can't I have a trunk monkey? :( :lol:

Kristina
07-01-2004, 11:28 PM
oh god priceline is on right now. god that is so annoying. tv land airs them like crazy.

Brent88
07-01-2004, 11:31 PM
Originally posted by Kristina
oh god priceline is on right now. god that is so annoying. tv land airs them like crazy.

I hate those too. :censored:

Blair85
07-01-2004, 11:34 PM
I'm so sick of Bob and his Enzyte!!!!!! That commercial comes on every two seconds, and I just don't care if he has a big weiner. :rolleyes: I also hate that commercial where those people are shaving themselves with that little razer, and it shows that woman's bikini area puke:

Oh yeah, I can't leave out, "When is a diet pill worth one- hundred and fifty-three dollars?" Please just shut up!!!!!!

Brent88
07-01-2004, 11:36 PM
Originally posted by Blair85
I'm so sick of Bob and his Enzyte!!!!!! That commercial comes on every two seconds, and I just don't care if he has a big weiner. :rolleyes:

:eek2:

I don't think I've seen that one. :rotflmao:

musicradio77
07-01-2004, 11:48 PM
I don't like these newer commercials because I like the old vintage commercials from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. I love these old commercials from McDonald's, Pepsi, Coca-Cola (with the classic "I Like to Teach the World to Sing" jingle), Hershey's (I love the late 70's jingle with the slogan which is very patriotic "The Great American Chocolate Bar"), Wendy's and a whole bunch of older commercials along with a bunch of old time radio commercials from the 30's, 40's and 50's like for example Jell-O, Maxwell House, Blue Coal Gasoline (a sponsor for "The Shadow"), Ovaltine (used for a number of premiums from "Little Orphan Annie") and lots more. I still love old commercials.

spunkygirl
07-01-2004, 11:55 PM
Originally posted by BrooklynGuy78
I don't like these newer commercials because I like the old vintage commercials from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. I love these old commercials from McDonald's, Pepsi, Coca-Cola (with the classic "I Like to Teach the World to Sing" jingle), Hershey's (I love the late 70's jingle with the slogan which is very patriotic "The Great American Chocolate Bar"), Wendy's and a whole bunch of older commercials along with a bunch of old time radio commercials from the 30's, 40's and 50's like for example Jell-O, Maxwell House, Blue Coal Gasoline (a sponsor for "The Shadow"), Ovaltine (used for a number of premiums from "Little Orphan Annie") and lots more. I still love old commercials.


"Where's the Beef?" :rock: :D

Hollow
07-01-2004, 11:58 PM
Originally posted by Brent88
:eek2:

I don't think I've seen that one. :rotflmao:
Bob is the ****** with that stupid grin on his face the whole time. They always start out the commercial like "This.. is Bob!" We.. don't care.

phoebe7165
07-02-2004, 01:00 AM
OMG, has anybody seen the commercial for The Game Show Network(which I do not have) with William Hung? He starts out singing "We Are the Champions", and throughout the commercial, he's portraying Freddie Mercury from Queen from the We Are the Champions video, holding the micophone stand up in the air and wearing the uni-tard that Freddie wore in the video. I just saw the commercial today for the 1st time and thought OMG, NO!!, being a huge fan of Freddie. I know it's supposed to be funny, and I have nothing against William Hung but my sister saw the same commercial later and said to me 'How can they even think about comparing William Hung to Freddie Mercury?!' Maybe that was the whole point.

Oh, and I hate those Ovaltine commercials, too!! I remember trying Ovaltine when I was a kid and didn't like it.

Those commercials about the birth control patch, too. 'You can wear here, or here, or here. But does it really stay on?' Ugh!!

Thank God for the remote!! God bless the person who invented that!!

PZelda
07-02-2004, 01:25 AM
They used to show the freakin' TrimSpa ad with Anna Nicole Smith getting out of the Hummer limo alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the FREAKING TIME here, but they seem to ahve slowed down on that. It was REALLY pissing me off too...Anna gets out of the limo, walks down the red carpet, cameras start going off and the camera pans her body and focuses right on her chest...sheesh! She has the most pointy boobs I've ever seen. :eek: No...just no. Plus, that top looked like it didn't fit her. They'd show that one over and over and over and over and over and over again...Sometimes even back-to-back. :smash:

Add another Ovaltine hater...:wallbang I've never liked Ovaltine and never will.

There was this tampon ad that really pissed me off. It was the one where this girl was wearing all white and was at a party. She said "excuse me a moment" and went to the party host's bathroom upstairs. There was a window open, and she took out the tampon that was in her pocket and put it on the windowsill. The wind then proceeded to knock off the stupid girl's tampon, so the stupid girl decided she would use up all of the host's supply of pads to rescue her precious tampon from the bushes down below. God, I wanted to sock that girl in the face. :boxing:

And about the Geico ads - they 0wnz y00. I remember a really funny one they had around 1999/2000 where there was a 3-headed man with this lady in a fancy restaurant. One of the heads happened to be French Stewart. I don't remember exactly how it went, but at the end, all the heads started arguing and somebody in the ad blurted out, "I just saved 15% on my car insurance!" :lol:

TheGreatPretender
07-02-2004, 06:46 PM
Originally posted by Lucylover22
Yeah. If I would bring home a whole neighborhood of kids, my mom would say "Do you know how much milk costs? Does this look like a restaurant? Get out of here. Your parents can make some of this crap because I'm not." not "Oh, I guess I'll make some more.":rolleyes: :rotflmao:

Hollow
07-02-2004, 06:49 PM
Originally posted by Lucylover22
Yeah. If I would bring home a whole neighborhood of kids, my mom would say "Do you know how much milk costs? Does this look like a restaurant? Get out of here. Your parents can make some of this crap because I'm not." not "Oh, I guess I'll make some more.":rolleyes:
:rofl:

TheGreatPretender
07-02-2004, 07:11 PM
there is this really stupid commercial in my hometown for a christian center that shows a guy jumping off a cliff and an announcer says "Got Jesus?" aaaaaaaaaaagh it's so stupid :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

AllIWantIsYourClutch
07-02-2004, 07:51 PM
I HATE the one where the man and woman are in the boat and there's a leak, so the quick thinking woman sticks a tampon in the hole.

spunkygirl
07-02-2004, 07:53 PM
Originally posted by TradingMooses
I HATE the one where the man and woman are in the boat and there's a leak, so the quick thinking woman sticks a tampon in the hole.

:rotflmao:

OMG that one's so dumb. :rolleyes:

Mijada
07-02-2004, 09:33 PM
It's gotten to the point where I don't even pay attention to commercials anymore. After seeing the same ones over and over again it's like I don't even notice them now.

EmoJoe
07-02-2004, 10:16 PM
Oh, and the one where the woman is taking a shower and her date is on the couch and shes using some shampoo, and than when she comes out her dates an old man

musicradio77
07-02-2004, 10:52 PM
If you want to hear these old commercials from the 70's, you can go to this site:
http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/adulttv/adulttv.html

Brent88
07-03-2004, 12:27 AM
Originally posted by Rurry007
Oh, and the one where the woman is taking a shower and her date is on the couch and shes using some shampoo, and than when she comes out her dates an old man

:rofl:

vze3t9q9
07-03-2004, 10:21 PM
In the Northeast we get those identity fraud commericals. I think a Citibank company. You see a big beefy guy sitting on a lawmower talking with a sissy sounded womans voice saying how he got such and such by using taking someone identity. The sound of the sissy voice turns me off. Another in the same vein is a grandma type with husky mans voice. Those commericals have to go.
The Geico ads don't like.
The upset stomach ones I can tolerate.. the women who show their stomachs with lettering all over them. . One thing about that one is, the stomachs look about what average stomach look like. Not too flabby or washboard thin

robyrob
07-03-2004, 10:29 PM
Originally posted by webwarrior762004
Just what do you have against feeding starving children?

Is there any commercial you do like? i'm not sarah (at least not yet anyways) but -

a) i think that it is the nagging, guilt-inducing way they do those commercials; they go for maximum shock value it seems

b) not really, i mean there are a couple that give me a chuckle, but none that i would be sorry to never see again

Brent88
07-03-2004, 10:53 PM
Originally posted by TradingMooses
I HATE the one where the man and woman are in the boat and there's a leak, so the quick thinking woman sticks a tampon in the hole.

OMG... I remember that one.

:rofl:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Bela Lugosi*
07-03-2004, 11:50 PM
Does anybody get those commercials for the guy with dark hair and the cell phone, and he constantly has to say "Can You Hear Me Now?" I mean JC, get a real job! I'd like to shout on the other end of the phone and say to him, "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?????" and see how he likes it!

phoebe7165
07-03-2004, 11:52 PM
Originally posted by vze3t9q9
In the Northeast we get those identity fraud commericals. I think a Citibank company. You see a big beefy guy sitting on a lawmower talking with a sissy sounded womans voice saying how he got such and such by using taking someone identity. The sound of the sissy voice turns me off. Another in the same vein is a grandma type with husky mans voice. Those commericals have to go.
The Geico ads don't like.
The upset stomach ones I can tolerate.. the women who show their stomachs with lettering all over them. . One thing about that one is, the stomachs look about what average stomach look like. Not too flabby or washboard thin

Oh, those Citibank commercials are shown down here in Fla, too, and I think they're hilarious!! But a little creepy. The guy sitting on the lawnmower, at one point he says, "I feel like the prettiest girl in the whole development"! And the asian-american dental hygienist doing the voice of 'Larry' and she has that breathy laugh at the end. Reminds me of Butthead from Beavis & Butthead!!

But hate the upset stomach ones, too, with the writing on their stomachs.

Sargent Stewie
07-04-2004, 11:59 AM
The pepto bismol commericial...so annoying

PZelda
07-04-2004, 02:08 PM
Originally posted by webwarrior762004
Originally posted by safety pin:

That GOD DAMN "FEED THE CHILDREN" COMMERCIAL. RRRRRRRR. They seriously try to brainwash you into making that damn phone call and feeding the damn children. "You don't call because you're busy, and you're not busy now, so go call now." When they film it they obviously set up a scene that looks all poor and torn up and they give the kids sloppy costumes to wear and tell them to make sad faces.


Just what do you have against feeding starving children?

Is there any commercial you do like?

Webwarrior....

SHUT UP.

Janice warned you ages ago to PLEASE LEAVE SARAH ALONE. I will see it that you leave her alone! You just love a grudge, don't you? :rolleyes: