TV Commercials You HATE

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Ruckersvillian

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Nothing like tone-deaf suits producing horrible commercials that we all grow to loathe. What are some commercials you hate?

I'll begin:
1. Infiniti: "Santa Karma"
This commercial pisses me off because the guy's motivation is greed. He's not helping Santa because it's the right thing to do; he just wants a new car. Christmas is commercial enough without celebrating greed like this.

2. Most McDonald's commercials of the past six or so years
Sometime around 2000, McDonald's executives apparently decided that they had the children' fast food market all but in the bag. Thus, they decided to move into the 18-30 demographic market. The resulting desperate efforts on the part of McDonald's to get youths to eat their shitty hamburgers has been akin to a middle-aged parent trying to be cool by awkwardly slipping slang into conversation with their teen.

The only way McDonald's could be more obvious with their pandering is if their commercials consisted entirely of an old white man in a suit wearing a sign that said 'Look how hip we are, 'dudes'. PLEASE buy our hamburgers!'

3. Miracle Whip
This is a somewhat obvious one, but I mention it anyway. I know there's a lot of internet-fueled "ironic" humor floating around nowadays - which I hate, because a little bit of irony goes a long way, and you can barely tell when people are being serious anymore. Nevertheless, I don't find ads like this funny. Rather, they seem desperate and pathetic. If you're trying to rebrand mayonnaise (by any other name) by trying to "sex it up", there's something wrong with you.

4. Vonage commercials
I don't really have a problem with Vonage; I just despise that idiotic song that plays in every one of their commercials! Seriously...someone got paid money to "write" a song that consists entirely of 'Woo hoo' over and over? Chris could write a better song than that!

5. "Exodus: Gods and Kings" commercial trailer
Again: I don't have a problem with the movie itself, though I do find Hollywood's sudden obsession with Biblical stories to be odd. No, it's the voiceover artist who made me blind with rage every time I hear his pathetic growling attempts at "gravitas" in every. other. movie trailer.

HOW does this guy continue getting work when he uses the same growl for every single trailer he does? It's one of the great mysteries of the universe - as well as how long I can continue standing to hear his voice before I drive to Hollywood and shove Mr. Voiceover's microphone a place where the sun don't shine....
 
Agreed on the McDonald's commercials, though I think they've been sucking for a lot longer than six years. They actually came out with one earlier this month advertising their different seasonal specialty coffees that was really cute, and I was surprised that a McDonald's commercial existed that wasn't eye-rollingly dumb.

I hate that paper towel commercial with the kid making a mess all over the table blowing bubbles in his milk (while his Generic Adorable Toddler (TM) sibling grunts "AGAIN AGAIN!") and their mom just smiles indulgently and wipes up after them. Don't let your kids get away with that shit, man, at least make 'em clean up their own goddamned messes!

Commercials are VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS
 
Also, this commercial:

Why did Pur go from hocking their water filters in straightforward commercials to this idiocy? I'm really getting sick of the advertising trend towards "quirky" characters selling products. Just tell us why water from your filter is better than plain old faucet water, Pur!

Agreed on the McDonald's commercials, though I think they've been sucking for a lot longer than six years
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Agreed. I actually miss the commercials from the 1980s and 1990s, when McDonald's tried to pull your heartstrings. Nowadays, all they do is pander, pander, pander.
 
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Food/Drink commercials with ironic depictions of rich families happier and more functional than they actually are.

McDonald's and their wannabe dipshit 'Pop Star' personalities.

Any commercial pandering to 'Human Rights and Equality' for their products that cost 30$+ versus rivals, just because they give off this illusion that multi billion dollar industries care about human rights.
 

Head On... Apply Directly to the forehead. Head On... Apply Directly to the forehead. Head On... Apply Directly to the forehead. Head On... Apply Directly to the forehead.
 
I really hate all of those commercials recently where it's almost as if a group of executives sat down with their artistic director, opened a dictionary to the word 'quirky', and said "This. Make it this."
 
Not exactly TV commercials, but I hated those "X10 spy camera" pop up ads that were ubiquitous about 15 years ago. It and other really annoying internet advertising from then (which also included ads that played voice clips*, and sites that would crash the computer by continuously opening popups) is what finally pushed me to move over to Netscape/Mozilla from IE.

As far as TV commercials go - I haven't really watched broadcast TV since the DTV transition years ago, so I (thankfully) don't really know what local commercials I'm "missing". But back when I would watch TV more frequently, I adopted the regular practice of just turning mute on for an entire commercial break. It's nice to have a moment of quiet now and then.

*(crap like, "Attention [something] customers! [blah blah blah]!" It had the potential to scare the crap out of you if you had the sound turned up)
 
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The Sprint Framily Plan ads, with the french girl and the hamster dad. God, those were cringeworthy.

Luckily, since they pulled the plan, they pulled the ads too.
 
I don't know if it's just a southern California thing, but I hate those "Random acts of helpfulness" Honda commercials where they buy stuff for upper-middle class people who are likely to purchase a Honda in the future, instead of helping someone who actually needs help.

I mean I'm sure these are fake as shit, and I'm equally sure that Honda's charitable giving record reflects well upon them. I just don't want to see this BS anymore. I mean look at this fucking neighborhood. This lady doesn't need Honda to step in and help her. She's doing great.

 
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