Subject: Commercials you haaaaate... Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:25 pm
Stupid, boring, pointless, obnoxious, annoying, you name it, what TV commercials are you sick to death of seeing?
One I hate is the yogurt commercials, oooooh 20 calories less, if you eat 600 cups a day which these big fat slobs slurping it out of the cup and giggling must do, that might make a difference, otherwise, nope.
I hate the oatmeal commercials where the family has to take their bowls and eat it in the mini-van on the way to school. Are they too lazy to wake up 10 minutes earlier and eat oatmeal at the table and leave the dirty dishes in the sink instead of on the car floor?
I also hate the Geico commercials, especially the Cavemen ones, makes NO sense and has outlived its punch line.
The Tide stain remover commercial, 'so I'm in love with a brand new pair of jeans, ONLY $100'. Ta loca, only $100, if it's only $100 she can buy them herself.
I hate the commercials that imply everybody's too stupid to bake in their own kitchen without completely ruining everything. The one where the woman's baking cupcakes for the birthday party and they all tear, uh HELLO? We have these nifty, cheap and effective little inventions called CUPCAKE PAPERS, no mess, no stick, no tear. Or the oven cleaner one, cherry pie's boiling over and pouring onto the oven floor. That's why you put the pie pan on a flat cookie sheet and line it with foil.
And is it me or is everybody else sick of the commercials that ANY time you leave a man in charge of cooking dinner, you get home, nothing's cooked, everything's still raw and there's a mess all over the kitchen and he's just got this clueless look on his face? Yeah we like seeing men being the butt of jokes but it's old, some men DO know how to cook.
I agree with the 20 calorie different yogurt ones, the car insurance competition also gets old.
One I really HATE is the Basket Robins(I think) where the crazy character repeatedly shouts "Ice cream and cake do the ice cream and cake!" OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I cannot stand that commercial.
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There are so many where do you begin. I hate all the drug commercials that tell you this drug is good for..... then they give you all the horrifying side effects that are possible if you take them.
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Subject: Re: Commercials you haaaaate... Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:23 am
Tony Marino wrote:
There are so many where do you begin. I hate all the drug commercials that tell you this drug is good for..... then they give you all the horrifying side effects that are possible if you take them.
Subject: Re: Commercials you haaaaate... Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:49 am
Supernova wrote:
...And is it me or is everybody else sick of the commercials that ANY time you leave a man in charge of cooking dinner, you get home, nothing's cooked, everything's still raw and there's a mess all over the kitchen and he's just got this clueless look on his face? Yeah we like seeing men being the butt of jokes but it's old, some men DO know how to cook.
How about everybody else?
Being an iconoclast to most of the U.S. mainstream culture, I don't care for many of its commercials which use common stereotypes of that culture, like the man who is lost in the kitchen. I lived on my own for two decades before marrying and when I did hook up with a woman I took over the kitchen and did all the cooking and clean up. But, I had an uncle in Mississippi who was just like those idiots on the commercials - couldn't boil water without burning it. When his wife was in hospital all the women in the community brot him food. Jeez!
I also don't like the commercials where the idiot man would die if his wife didn't provide basic medical care or give him the proper OTC medicine. Again, how did I survive those two decades without a wife? And my wife (the RN) knew to just let me lay down and heal myself when sick.
Of course I don't like deodorant commercials, but that's because I love the smell of natural armpits.
I actually will watch those TV specials showing nothing but commercials - most of the best from Europe, South America & Asia.
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Subject: Re: Commercials you haaaaate... Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:59 pm
There are so many out there that I started muting years ago. The Dairy Queen ones routinely leaving me wanting to go anywhere BUT DQ. Several years ago, they ran a series of commercials with very obvious sexual connotations. To this day, I have no desire to try a waffle bowl due to the association with sex that this commercial so firmly planted in my mind. In fact, DQ ia the last place I'd choose for a fast food restaraunt due to all of the stupid commercials they keep doing.