Annoying Commercials..Which ones is your least favorite?

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Ok.. Being christmas and such, there are some annoying commercials out there that have really gotten on my nerves...

Ones that use little kids singing, screaming or using them to hawk cars, jewlery, carpet, etc...Little kids are great and wonderful little people..I have a god daughter and i love her to death, but i would hate it if she where trying to hawk Toyotas on TV at 3 years old..

That damn cell phone (cingular i think) commercial that
has "Rock the Cat box" baised on Rock the Casbah song... Ughh..

NC Lottery Commercials- Thats it give people lottery tickets who have a gambling problem a scratch off game card as a gift.. Plus the song is annoying.... Who is ever that friggin happy... The whole thing just sucks
 
Dish Network's Starz commercials with, of course, the mandatory bungling white husband who nearly kills himself trying to build his own Hollywood studio and comedy club while being ridiculed by his cool and intelligent wife and her even more cool and probably smarter black female friend.

And just as offensive: the ONLY TV commercials in which the husband is caring, intelligent, thoughtful and good looking are the ones where he's buying diamond jewelry for his wife.

Aren't you glad TV is working so hard to end stereotypes?
 
Wal-Mart commercials. They're just plain stupid. I mean who on Earth would stay frozen because they saved a couple of bucks at the local-economy ender?
 
Those Head On Commercials Awful

Here's a link to a much funnier commercial, not sure where from, but you'll quickly get the idea...Something we'd all liek to do at work

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www.funny-games.biz
 
Worst TV commercial: Geico with the southern lady, and the one with the guy that goes into the car showroom and all the SUVs are misbehaving (the brand escapes me)....

Worst radio commercial: the Ovaltine children.

Worst talk radio commercial: any commercial or promo featuring Curtis Sliwa or Danny Bonaduce.

Worst vintage New Yawk commercial:

tie between "Crazy Eddie-His Prices Are--INSANE!"...

"Hansel and Gretel" brand cold cuts...

"PUPPY CITY of Ocean Avenue...FREE Housebreaking 'WEE-WEE' Pads With Every Purchase"....
 
OHMIGOD!!! Crazy Eddy is still around? I thought he would've had an anurism or stroked out by now! I remember him from my childhood...

I remember the other 2 also. What about Leo and his wife ??? for ??? driving school...The jingle "You start to live when you learn to drive..." I still sing when I encounter a bad driver on the roads. And as wife ??? drives away in the car after learning to drive, Leo cries out in frustration, "??? driving school, did you have to be THAT GOOD!"
 
The guy on the commercial actually did pass away a couple of years ago....

The store's been out of business for ages...owner embezzled it blind and fled the country....

Wow, I'd forgotten the driving school commercial...I'll be trying to remember the driving school's name!

Don't forget "Apex Technical School" and your "FREE set of tools"...my stepbrudder the washer tech actually did go there!
 
My least favorite TV Commercials: any commercial pushing a product that absorbs bodily fluids. After I get finished watching them, I just don't feel as fresh as I'd like.
 
yes lawrence. in my not-so-humble-opinion TV is called the boob-tube for a reason. tv, and in many ways the advertising industry, are some of the worst things to happen to humanity in recent centuries. i hate commercials that portray men as needing to buy womens acceptance with jewels and cars. and commercials that pander to women by portraying men as incompetent fools.

ps, i like the caveman commercials!
 
I'm old enough to remember the classic annoying commercials of the 50's/60's: The Anacin commercial that featured a grating voice and a crude b&w animation of a hammer hitting an anvil.

It was a first, as I understand it, a commercial meant from the outset to be annoying. The idea was that it would prompt people to get headaches and reach for the Anacin.

But underneath it all was research that showed that people tend to remember an annoying commercial more than a pleasant, innocuous one. Subsequently more and more commercial became strident and vexing. Most commercials today seem to adoopt some form of that strategy. They work on our fears, doubts, sensibilities, etc. all in an attempt to break through our well developed tendency to ignore the bleatings of Madison Avenue.

As I recall at one point the FCC came along and ordered the TV networks and stations to stop jacking up the volume on the broadcasts for commercials.

These days it's a rare commercial that isn't annoying in some way.
 
I hate the Burger King Commercials

The Stupid "Drag King " looks more like a some kind of monster and is freaky!
 
The worst commercials are all the ones about any pharmacutical products.There is deffinately a cure that would heal all diseases in the world today but due to the fact that if it was released,it would put the F.D.A.,phamacists,and physicians out of business.Just count all the ones you see on T.V.as aposed to other products.They outnumber them 10 to 1.From electric wheelchairs(Huv A Round)to Erectal penis enhansers (Viagra)the money that's spent to endorse and promote these is unbelivable.Where do they get it?Out of your pocket everytime you buy a prescribed medication.It's almost the same if not worse than the drug culture from the early to mid 60's.The difference being that our government had the ability to pass laws against drug abuse in the 60's.Now,there are so many legeslaters in office on drugs that there is no chance of them ever being put under any kind of control.
 
Chuck, I actually love the side effect warnings. "This drug may cause headaches, upset stomach, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, viral infections and incontinence. Rare side effects may include impotence,seizures, stroke, heart attack, coma, and death. But otherwise, nothing too serious."

PS: "Call your doctor if you get an erection lasting more than 2 hours." They've GOT to be kidding! If I get an erection lasting more than 2 hours, I'm goin' downtown!
 

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