TV Commercials You Hate?

[+ Avalon]

Although "The Amazing Race" is my favorite reality show I hate the Travelocity gnome. Thus I would rather watch the show the next day on CBS All Access without commercials rather than watch the show "live" and have to endure the Travelocity gnome commercials!

[+ Keith30309]

Any pharmaceutical commercial advertising a product which may result in death.

[+ azdr0710]

[+ sync]

[Kevin Slater]

I don't think I've seen a tv commercial in maybe a decade. What with streaming services, disks, torrenting, dvrs, etc. I simply don't watch live broadcast tv.

 

Kevin Slater

[bigvalboy]

The goal always is to hit mute before they start talking...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hk3R5YKcKs

 

Edited February 22, 2018 by bigvalboy

[+ poolboy48220]

Burger King. The statue-king was creepy, and when they photograph the food it always looks off.

[+ Cash4Trash]

7 posts already and nobody's mentioned Kars 4 Kids? Where's the hate when you need it?

[samandtham]

Are YouTube ads included?

 

Because both Purple mattress ads (the raw egg test and the sasquatch) make me grate my teeth. I can't click on the "Skip Ad" button fast enough.

[bostonman]

Sometimes it's the voices. Like that horrid scratchy-voiced Rachael Ray and her dumb-sounding "Nutrish" dog food.

 

Or that scratchy-voiced woman (or young girl? can't tell) who does the voice-overs for Panera Bread.

 

Or, any commercial where they think it's cute to get ordinary, tone-deaf folks to try to sing. (Subaru was a huge offender of that over Christmas with all those idiots trying to squeak out a few bars of "Put A Little Love In Your Heart.")

 

Speaking of Subaru - what the hell is their whole "love" thing all about? ("Love is what makes a Subaru a Subaru" and all that nonsense)

 

Recurring characters - is anyone sick of Flo and her twinky idiot sidekick Jamie? (And the fact that they've all but abandoned the actual product - Progressive Insurance - in favor of stupid ads about stupid Jamie...)

[+ Kman]

Nationwide commercials with the singing, KFC with Reba, that vitamin water commercial where the guy starts dancing on the treadmill, Arby's, and Sprint

[+ Hoover42]

Any pharmaceutical commercial advertising a product which may result in death.

 

I think that covers just about all of them, right? Maybe Claritin is exempt.

[+ Kman]

one more, the anti-smoking truth campaign ads.

[Nvr2Thick]

Burger King. The statue-king was creepy, and when they photograph the food it always looks off.

 

I always thought the King was kind of hot. Maybe it was the not-so-vague homoeroticism of the original "Wake Up with the King" commercials for that character.

 

 

 

 

[Boink]

I hate this commercial. It's from the 'perfect life' genre' and it's just so precious. An elderly couple who wisely saved for their retirement their whole lives can now afford to dig up a huge tree and deliver it to another town to plant in their own yard just because they carved their initials in it in their youth. So heartwarming. So idiotic.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fo8uRQXvgA

[+ azdr0710]

[BroadwayDave]

Any commercial with Samuel L. Jackson in it...

 

[bostonman]

Comcast seems to have a knack for making truly WTF ads. Like, what is the deal with this creepy-ass dude in this ad?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzbRNgmtVxA

[+ g56whiz]

The late Mr Whipple still traumatizes me from squeezing the Charmin decades ago.

[TruthBTold]

There is a recent Closet Works commercial which consists of a little girl complaining about how her life is so disorganized (particularly her shoe collection) that she is going crazy and that her parents need to buy her a closet system. Her voice pushes me to the brink.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_6bSVr8bP0

Edited July 8, 2018 by TruthBTold

[mike carey]

I don't think I've seen a tv commercial in maybe a decade. What with streaming services, disks, torrenting, dvrs, etc. I simply don't watch live broadcast tv.

Public broadcasters that do not carry advertisements are a blessing. Unfortunately not everything I want to watch is on the ABC.

[Becket]

The constant rotation of three or four commercials during the World Cup. By now I hate them all.

[img2ciya]

I can't stand the Trivago commercials. Mostly it's their spokesperson, but I also think it's annoying that they present themselves as something new when Kayak has been doing the same thing for years.

[thickornotatall]

any commercial touting an election candidate....

[Gadfly22]

OMG so many.

• Geico and Progressive have to be the worst if for no other reason the sheer volume of them, not to mention the fact that they have become totally inane.
  
• Any commercial that presents children as authoritative or all knowing. Thinking of the one with the little girl as a car salesman. Forgot which brand it was pushing - which is a lesson I suppose for the creators.
  
• That awful weepy facebook commercial where they say "we came to make friends and find people like ourselves and we got pop-ups and fake news". Boo-freakin-hoo. No mention that they stole your personal information and profited from it. (and still are, I don't believe anything they say)