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Commercials You Sorta Hate (For Strange Reasons)

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DarthWoo

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So the occasional thread about most hated commercials comes along, but here's a slightly different twist. What commercials do you sorta hate, but not completely, but just have some strange reason for sort of hating it?

Here are my examples:

-Skittles - a bunch of kids sitting on a rainbow, one kid starts asking questions about the existance of the rainbow, and it falls out from under him. His "friends" sure seem rather unconcerned about the fact that he's going to bloody fall to his DEATH (unless he's as lucky as that Army guy from over the weekend.

-Car - dunno which car it was, since these commercials usually don't do a good job of making the viewer remember which car it is advertising. Some lady arrives at work, but before she enters, she aims a security camera at her car. She then proceeds to waste time while on the clock, repeatedly going to the water cooler so she can stare at her car in awe, also wasting water and little paper cups along the way, and eventually filling an entire wastebasket with the cups. Gee, can you be any more wasteful and lazy woman! I bet your new car is just as wasteful!
 
I hate Orbitz commercials, I feel the reason is self-evident. In fact I hate all the faux-70's nostalgia bullshit ads they have.
 
Qwest ads I always want to tear out my hair and gouge my eyes out. They are the most rediculously stupid ads ever.

-Scene Old People at the Dinner table, phone rings, "Oh Joy Its Qwest"

Fuck you qwest I hate you.
 
DarthWoo said:
-Skittles - a bunch of kids sitting on a rainbow, one kid starts asking questions about the existance of the rainbow, and it falls out from under him. His "friends" sure seem rather unconcerned about the fact that he's going to bloody fall to his DEATH (unless he's as lucky as that Army guy from over the weekend.
I thought that one was funny as shit and it's one of my recent favorites.
 
I hate those commercials for the cell phones. "Where you at?"

I hate the commercials where the idiots scream. There's one commercial where the dorky kid puts whatever acid on his face and screams. That's real appealing. Nothing endears me to a product more than a series of ear-rending shrieks.
 
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"You boys are Whoppa heads ain't ya?" Corniest Burger King commercial I've ever seen.

I also hate those dumbass ITT Tech commercials, the latest ones with the people telling their life stories are so damn repetitive and annoying. I'm gonna blow my goddamn brains out if I see the one with the girl in the pool who says "there's alotta opportunity out dere and iss about time we women starr taking a part uh-fit".

Another one that tortures me to death mainly on BBCA is that zero gravity bar commercial, I hate that song, I hate those people, hate the bar.

.......oh yeah, "and we can roll and day, and we can ride all night" *yanks out hair*
 
Lately, I am currently hating on ALL McDonald's commercials, I am not loving it, please stop trying to be urban and hip or whatever, Christ.

I also hate that damn post office commercial, the one with the "I'm gonna mail myself", could they pick a more annoying song? Everytime I hear that song, I want to bang my head on the table.
 
I really hate those McDonald's ones too.

I don't know if you all have these elsewhere, but in NYC there are commercials for the home security system Slomin's Shield. They are so goofy as to be self-parodic, like an SNL skit. The announcer talks to a family about the Slomin's Shield and they answer in the dumbest manner and at the end, they all sing the jingle. It's awful.

The thing that always gets me about bad commercials is that not only did a group of people at an agency come up with them and thought they were good, but a group of executives at the company said, "Great, go with it!" and paid them for it.
 
Just saw another one that annoys me. An add for the Laser Straight leveler opens by straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa. I know it's just a metaphor, but I think it's a stupid one. So your product will magically allow me to measure the density of the bedrock under my new building so that I don't have to worry about it sinking under pressure over the next few years? Yay!
 
Those commercials with the caveman that advertise patenting your own inventions...

"The General" Car insurance ads....
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If anyone can find an animated gif of that "dancing" character, I'd love to see it.
 
I don't remember what the commercial is for exactly, but it's the one where the woman walks in on the man who's ordering hotel tickets with a view of the bay for their anniversary. The beginning of the commercial doesn't even make any sense in terms of what that woman's saying.
 
I hate every single one of those Chicken Selects commercials.

I'd be like, "You crazy, wired bitch! Don't nobody wont none'a'yo fuckin food! Pra'bly got drugs in it or sum shit."
 
1. Nintendo of Canada's current marketing campaign for their products based around a theme of personal loss. Really stupid.

2. McDonald's hip-hop themed commercials - particularly the one with the white kid who's able to afford a shitbox of a car because he's been eating McDeals. Also stupid, but I think they've stopped running them, at least here in Canada (though I haven't watched BET in a while, so I can't be sure).

To flip it around, I really like ING Direct commercials, particularly those with that Dutch actor in 'em. Something about his face, manner of dress and accent make me think "This is a guy who knows his stuff". He rocks!
 
Holy crap I was going to post nearly the exact same thing Takuan! :lol :lol

The only difference would be...

I also used to absolutely hate those ING Direct ads, with that one German looking guy, until I saw a French version and he was speaking fluent (to my ears) French! At that moment my opinion of the ads took a 180.
 
OH GEE GOLLY IF YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT TOUCHING MY DELICIOUS CHICKEN SELECTS I'M GONNA PUT A KNOT ON YOUR HEAD YOU'D BETTER STEP BACK THERE BUDDY YAH
 
Old Navy commercials. I hate them so much I've never stepped inside an Old Navy store. I don't even carry other people's Old Navy bags. They're like some horrid bastardization of the clothing commercial scene from Singing In The Rain.


On a side note, the Maaco commercials are so cheese I can't help but love Burt Reynolds goofy ass whoring himself out.
 
All of the above

Any commercial that has "authentic" consumer testimonials

ANY AND ALL TAMPON COMMERCIALS PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE

Any vague commercial where the first 25 of the 30 seconds are completely unrelated to the product and/or service.

Any commercial that has a forced "ha-ha" at the end(you know, after the flash screen about the product or whatever comes up, then they go back to whatever dipshit actors were in the commercial, and one of them says something like "Hey are you going to finish that?" *chomp*).

Oh, and these retarded DSL/Cable pissing contest commercials are getting on my nerves too.
 
Oh yes, and one specific Levitra commercial. Although I hate them all, there's one with some lady whose voice just irritates the hell out of me. I'm not sure how to explain it, but it's just some sort of tone she makes whenever she comes upon a vowel in a word. It's the one where she says "My man takes Levitra" somewhere in the beginning.
 
OmniGamer said:
All of the above

Any commercial that has "authentic" consumer testimonials

That commercial with that old ass muscular guy.

ANY AND ALL TAMPON COMMERCIALS PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE

Teacher: "Do you have enough to share with the rest of the class?"
Female student: "For the girls." :p

Any vague commercial where the first 25 of the 30 seconds are completely unrelated to the product and/or service.

Case in point: That commercial with Tommy Davidson and Carmelo Anthony.

Are they fucking selling shoes or bad wigs?!

Any commercial that has a forced "ha-ha" at the end(you know, after the flash screen about the product or whatever comes up, then they go back to whatever dipshit actors were in the commercial, and one of them says something like "Hey are you going to finish that?" *chomp*).

:lol

(can't think of any, though :))
 
- The one with the people dancing in the subway so they can put condoms on their fingers and brush with them.

- Net Zero ads.
 
That weltches or whatever its called grapefruit drink. I seriously hate that commerical and that little girl that appears on it. It's the most annoying commercial.

edit: And i just remembered those gusher candies. Where the kids eat one and their head changes to some fruit. I wouldn't mind bashing a kids head when he turns into a fruit. Annoyng brats. How can a person approve of such garbage to be aired as their commercial!
 
Firest0rm said:
That weltches or whatever its called grapefruit drink. I seriously hate that commerical and that little girl that appears on it. It's the most annoying commercial.

Then you probably also hate that baking soda commercial with the little kid.

"Yuck."

"YUUUUUUUUUUMMMMM!!!" :lol
 
the fucking hardees commercial with a room full of guys not talking but eating their six dollar burgers sooooo loud. i hate the sound of people eating, this commercial really gets me upset.
 
DaveH said:
- The one with the people dancing in the subway so they can put condoms on their fingers and brush with them.

Damn, forgot about those too... RIP! SLIP! BRUSH! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!1
 
Those Virgin Mobile ChrimahanakwaFUCKYOUVIRGINMOBILE.
Those Saturn commercials a while back with that "And what's the catch. uh-huh, and now the catch. the catch" CATCH MY FUCKING FOOT IN YOUR FACE.
I hate those commercials for the on-demand movies. "OH MY GOD I USED TO HAVE TO GO TO THE RENTAL STORE AND LOOK AT MOVIES WAIT IN LINE." Jesus Christ, people aren't this fucking lazy, are they?
And the cable/satellite shit is going on far too long. YOU BOTH SUCK AND I PAY TOO MUCH FOR IT ALL.

I know this goes against the topic, but FUCK I hate those commercials.
 
The AOL for Broadband commercial where the woman jumps on the conference table. I wanted to stab my eyes out.

I agree with the drug commercial and rip, zip, brush hate also.
 
That Diet Coke commercial with Adrien Brody trying to look like a pimp(?) is laughably bad. Fortunately, the OTHER DC commercial makes up for it in spades.
 
Drensch said:
WTF is Gellin' Like Magellan?

Makes me want to aluminum bat some people.
I totally forgot about this one. I think I hate this more than any other commercial.

"I'm like MAgellan, I'm sooooooo gellin'." DIE
 
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