Stupid advertising annoys me!

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I've been annoyed by a few recent commercials, they're so stupid!

Let's take a look

Right Guard Power Stripe Deoderant:

http://www.adweek.com/aw/creative/best_spots_02/020624_15.jsp (Not the commercial, just a overview)

They're all raving about how great the "Power stripe is" because it repels odors. Isn't that the point of deoderant? I keep on thinking, did they just make a marketing campaign based on the fact that only a portion of their deodorant is effective? It makes me angry!

Clorox bleach:

The bottle of Clorox insults the bottle of Generic bleach because it doesn't have a garentee to kill germs.

IT'S FREAKING BLEACH! Bleach kills germs wether or not it's garenteed to!

Mickey Dees: It's this one where a bunch of strange people check out this guy eating McDonalds.

So basically it says, "If you enjoy eating McDonalds, then you are the biggest freak on earth"

The U.S. Mint: This guy is doing all kinds of "Hip-hop" moves with his new twenty.

I'm sorry but I don't need my tax dollars to be used to make me think my money is "cool" by having an idiot wave it around! I hope Andrew Jackson is spinning in his grave!




So, what stupid commercials make you cringe?
 
Those Subway ads with that idiot that lost weight by walking to the store and eating subs.........pssssst you lost weight cause walked to the store. And those other subway adds with that moron that tells us it's healthier then other stuff...........What's the point? We know it isn't healthy for us to eat big greasy burgers, doesn't mean we're going to put it down and pick up something healthy. I don't know a single man that even cares about his own weight, I know plenty of women though but they don't seem to do anything about it either.



There's a LOT of ads that annoy me, to many to post about
 
I like stupid ads, like the Miller Lite commercials, ("Great taste. Less filling...") and those snickers commercials about the effects of hunger, oh yea and those 7up commercials.

But there are some commercials that made no sense, like the girl who was on her period, but went to a party wearing white. She dropped her tampon out the window and somehow was able retreive it by stringing a whole row of "lesser brand" tampons to pick it up.

Viagra commercials are among the worst. The guy walks into the office, and people gave him compliment like, "Hey Bob, looking good." "Did youget a hair cut?" "Are those new shoes you're wearing" etc. But no one asked "Hey Bob, did you get laid?" "Finally got it up huh, Bob?"
 
I hate all "life is such a wonderful thing with a family, villa, car.... when you use our product"-commercials. Especially those that are dubbed, hate them. Riesen, Toffiffee, Ajax comes to mind. I actually boycott Riesen (I will never try it) because of their horrible commercial. The whole point of a commercial break on at least TV, or any other place, should be that the commercials are funny, so that one could endure the commercial break. Otherwise people will switch, or go to toilet out of boredom.
 
I hate almost every single commercial I ever see...what do they really think we're this stupid? They treat us like children.

A Good Commerical:

1. The product name and its use(s) should be clearly stated. There have been times (just me?) that I don't even know what is being advertised.

2. They should tell us how their product works.

3. They should tell us what makes this product better than others.

4. They should tell us about any other interesting FACTS, including where this product may be obtained.
 
I hate all commercials, most are stupid, boring and not funny, and even if they're funny sometimes, you get bombarded with them so many times they begin to annoy you automaticcaly. And on top of this most commerials are about products like woman hair or skin treatment salve or whatever...
What even more annoys me is people who go and imitate commerials, thinking that it's funny.

And then to thinkg they're also not at all useful to me - I've never bought a product because I saw a commercial for it, more on the contrary actually. Commercials are really a waste of time and money.
 
You know what really pisses me off!? That SUV commercial that keeps playing that Led Zeppelin song "Rock and Roll". You know "Been a long time Been a long time been a long lonely lonely lonely time". First of all, I hate led Zeppelin. Second, that is their worst song besides that one that goes "You need coolin' and baybe I ain't foolin'" Robert Plant is a horrible singer and lyricist. Also anyone who uses the words "rock and roll" in a song or in a title should be shot. They play that commercial very often and have a few different versions. I think it sells SUVs for Caddilac. And the fact that it is used to sell cars, let alone SUVs adds insult to injury.
 
all the tampon/pad adds where they portray men as being so stupid they don't know what these items are used for. Message to the ladies: we know, we just don't want to know!
 
All commercials are stupid (in my opinion), there is no such thing as a "good commercial".
 
There is a commercial here about this thing that makes their hair grow back, there's this man on it and dances like an idiot. What a buffoon.
 
I have a deep seated hatred for advertising in general (although some break out of the corporate straightjacket and are genuinely funny).

Anything that patronises or misrepresents deserves a solid 1/2 hour kicking. The new AOL ads in the UK make me want to spit. For those who haven't seen, people see the AOL logo on a box or in the paper, and when they touch it it goes all 3D hologram style, and their faces light up and they've got broadband internet - direct from the newspaper, or a cardboard box! Yay! Rot in hell, scumsuckers! Or the Curry's ads with Linda Barker (who? exactly!) and the subtly disturbing Sapphic undertones.

My father-in-law was big (capital B) in advertising. Many Brits know all about the Smash (mashed potato) robots. They were his idea. Also the Honey Monster's catchphrase "Tell 'em about the honey, mummy" was his invention. So occasionally I have to curb my spleen in his presence. Top bloke, introduced me to cryptic crosswords :) .
 
i generaly dont mind commercials. watching them is just as big a waste of time as watching whatever it was that they are a "break" from.

i do hate commercials that you cant tell what they're about.
stupid stuff like: a room of people having a party or something, and then at the end the "Intel Inside" logo. or stuff like that.
or some rapper music video with an S at the end. still dont know what that one was about.

the ones that repeat EVERY 5 mins, those get prety annoying. (especialy the car ones).
 
polymath - for the smash robots your father gets absolution!

The rest of them are (to mis-quote the best person to ever live, Bill Hicks) sucking satans 'big one'...
 
I liked the anti-commercials of Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Do they still do those?
 
Respect to Polymath's dad. Two of the greatest ads ever seen on British TV.

And a cryptic crossword fan too. More respect.
 
How about: I love commercials because they give better TV-shows and cheaper internet surfing? Someone is actually willing to pay for me to visit this site...:) Spam-mail doesn't have any benefits for me though, which is why it should be illegal.

Everybody also say that commercials don't work on them, but they've got to, or else companies wouldn't pay for it. Maybe you won't go buy their product immediately, but at least you'll be aware of their existence somewhere deep down, and can bring it out once you're in need of one their products.
 
Originally posted by funxus
..... Riesen, Toffiffee.....
Click to expand...

If i see one of those commercials again (sepeccialy that one where that ugly german woman bribes children to come home to them and the neighbors to stay and talk crap with toffifee) i'm going to file a complaint to their office in Norway..

Oh and BTW riesen isnt soft at all
 
funxus,

Have you ever considered that maybe advertising on TV should be made ileagal?

Does no-one else get angry at the fact they are paying twice? Once to the cable company and once to the advertisers.

When they invented TV we paid a license fee to the BBC and had no adverts. When ITV came around we got a free channel, but the downside was that we had to watch adverts. Now (through the invention of satellite/cable tv) we have to not only pay a subscription fee but also have adverts, and they pack them in to prime time so 25% of what we see are adverts!

If there is a better definition of satan at work I would like to know!!
 
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