OT: Most annoying commercials?
depending on the network (ESPN), commercials can get overplayed and cause people to hate them and turn on them really quickly.
Prime example is the Pitbull commercial during the 2011 football season that ESPN played non-stop. Don't even remember what the hell it was for. All I remember from every commercial break was "LET'S......HAVE A REAL GOOD TIME, LET'S HAVE A REAL GOOD TIME".
post the commercials you love to hate. i'm guessing i'll see many mentions of that annoying broad from progressive.
DISCUSS
That is because of FDA requirements for those warnings. At first it seems ridiculous, but then when you find out the US and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct to consumer drug ads it kind of makes sense.
The upside for us is we get to watch happy people running through fields of rainbows to the tune of "Zasfibia may cause your heart to explode. Some patients get the shits. Talk to your doctor if you experience raging boners for longer than usual."
The last round of Viagra comercials. The woman at the beach house is dreamy if you are old.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:41 PM ^
who knows what she is actually saying. The way they have her looking into the camera and talking all breathlessly, she's basically saying "c'mon big boy, you know you want to take a Viagra and f*** my brains out. Well at least in 10 minutes or however long it takes to kick in."
Yeah, iIt isn't difficult to see the dots they're trying to connect: Take our product and you'll have a leggy hot woman walking barefoot around your expensive beach house, dreaming of all the red-hot monkey lovin' she'll be giving you later.
But at least that Viagra commercial has an actual woman in it. The previous ads showed one guy working on machinery in a warehouse, and another guy hitching horses up to his truck to pull it out of the mud. If you didn't know what the "little blue pills" were for, you might think they gave you the ability to handle machine repair or large animals.
Probably not the message Viagra was shooting for.
At least three of those commercials belong on the shit list.
- The hitch up horses one: if Viagra Guy is at an age where he knows how to get shit done, surely he's old enough to have the common sense to drive around the damn mud hole.
- The one where Viagra Guy is driving through the desert and his car overheats, and pouring a bottle of water in the radiator is all it takes to fix it? Bullshit. Most of that water will evaporate before he even turns the ignition key again. A commercial about a smart car guy written by someone who knows fuck-all about cars.
- When Viagra Guy is on a sailboat, the frickin sail is on the wrong frickin side of the boat, and backwinded. Clearly the guy's solution is not to retie his knot, but to find a powerboat to tow him through the water and hope nobody notices. A commercial about a smart sailboat guy written by someone who knows even less than fuck-all about sailboats.
The woman at the beach house is dreamy if you are old.
Pretty sure that woman is Cersei Lannister. Which gives the commercial a certain je ne sais quoi for GoT fans.
April 29th, 2015 at 10:14 AM ^
Ruggedly handsome 50-ish guy in the backyard, fires a perfect spiral through the hanging tire, then is embraced by his hot 30-ish wife. Bullseye!
Way better than those side-by-side clawfoot tubs that Cialis used for so long. Doing it in one tub is impractical but at least possible...what possible action can happen when the people are in separate tubs?
...that's why I come to MGoBlog
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April 28th, 2015 at 10:53 PM ^
Every time I see those pitiful abused and neglected animals or hear her singing, I mute the tv.
Hello, I am Sarah McLachlan, and I am here to make you flood your house with tears. Ugh.
J G wentworth structured settlement commercials and the Care.com lady drives me nuts for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6GLHTdcVo
What's up with the office redhead.. is that Jimmy Fallon in a wig?
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I hate all commercials.
I don't really like any of the Flo ones, but none of them have actually truly pissed me off until the recent one, where the whole Flo family or whatever the fuck they are called are having dinner. That one was offensive to all five senses.
This one too:
Fuck you budweiser
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April 29th, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^
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April 29th, 2015 at 11:33 AM ^
They're worse than regular campaign ads, and that's saying something.
The local candidate ones where the budget is clearly about fifty bucks are sometimes not so terrible.
If I wasn't so principled on trying to educate myself about voting, I'd vote NO on the Roads Proposal soley because of its stupid fucking scare tactic commericials:
VOTE YES ON PROP 1 OR CONCRETE WILL FALL ON YOUR CAR AND YOUR KIDS WILL DIE
April 28th, 2015 at 11:49 PM ^
I would love to see that commercial.
April 29th, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^
That Pitbull one was rancid but easily the worst commercials on TV are the Papa John's ads with the narcissistic, plastic surgery faced, douche bag CEO smearing his mug all over the screen throwing fake touchdowns and raining fakes 3's like he's some kind of sports hero. Any asshole CEO who thinks everything in the world around him is so incompetent that he himself has to be the face of his brand is the kind of guy I'd take to the wood shed without thinking twice.
Never eat Papa John's just because of those ads.
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Dude, learn to read between the lines.
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Uhh...
On the other hand the best commercial ever was one from back in the 70's and early 80's for a local car dealership that had a cartoon and a guy on a banjo singin
"HEY DOG! C'MON DOG! ME & DOG WANT YOU TO COME TO TELEGRAPH ROAD! RIGHT NOW! GET A GOOD DEAL!"
Such a damn catchy jingle I still sing it 35 years later.
Speaking of catchy Detroit-area commercials, I have hand-me-down tables from this place, whose main warehouse is now the Gibraltar Trade Center in Taylor.
How about, "Mel Farr, super star, for a far better deal!"
April 29th, 2015 at 12:35 PM ^
That ad was fantastic. I'll never forget that jingle. I think its run extended into the '90s.
The Mel Farr Superstar ad campaign was well done also.