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What commercials do you hate so much that you refuse to buy the product?

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Originally posted by: nj
There's this Tylenol commercial that has the most *annoying* violins I've ever heard. It's like nails on chalkboard.
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HAHAHHA!! Finally someone thinks like me!

I saw that and was like WTF it's giving me a headache now I need some tylenol!!!

Oh yeah and old navy commericals suck and I think mcdonalds has to be the worst.

EDIT: Oh yeah sprite commericals are horrible to. Rap and a bunch of black people going apesh1t about sprite isn't going to get me to buy sprite.
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
Carl's Junior, with the burger goo falling all over the guy's shoes.
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Yup
"If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face"

Lamest fvcking slogan ever, topped by even lamer commercials.
 
i must spread the word...

BOOST MOBILE COMMERCIAL SUCKS. Trying to be funny by having elders talking like young black people isn't funny anymore. It started and ended with the granny rapping in the wedding singer. that was funny, but now it is now.

and MCD go to hell
 
Shane Co. Jewelers -- most annoying radio ads ever!
Tom Peterson's furniture -- long-time local ads, sorry Tom, but I don't want a free flattop haircut.

Expedia.com -- "How about surfing?" "Oh, I've ALWAYS wanted to do that?" He has a stupid fantasy in which he finds that he doesn't actually trust her. "How about horseback riding?" She forgets that she just said that she ALWAYS wanted to go surfing, says in her best bimbo voice, "Okay!" and then that annoying vacant-minded bimbo laugh! grrr... :|
 
Pepto is the nastiest stuff. When I am sick the smell alone induces me to vomit. It's like so pink radioactive goo.
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I agree. I bought a bottle of that stuff (actually Walgreen's surrogate imitation), used it one time and put it in the refrigerator. Maybe 3-4 months ago. Nasty stuff. I'd have to feel pretty sick to resort it. Didn't puke, but didn't like it one bit and I don't think it did anything for me.
 
Two automakers really piss me off. Dodge and Cadillac. "Hit it" "Hemi" "OOH YEAH OOO OOO YEAH" "SQUEELLLLLL"

I don't really care one way or another about the vehicles, but I damn well wouldn't buy one when they run crappy commercials like that. I actually feel my blood pressure rise when I hear those commercials.

And those Albertson's commercials piss me off too.
 
not exactly a product...

but those "truth" ads are the worst ever... makes me want to club baby seals while smoking 6 cigarettes at once
 
Originally posted by: TreyRandomAOL - if anyone fails to do their research before attaching their credit card number to an AOL account, they deserve what they get. On second thought... no one deserves that.
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snips

AOL really really blew it this week, eh? Was it 37,000,000 or 92,000,000 (?) usernames stolen and sold to spammers, probably everybody on AOL !!! :Q

They claim that associated CC numbers weren't compromised, but do you think they would say if they were? IOW, maybe they WERE!

In any case, I guess AOLers will be getting even more spam from now on.

My view of it is they should have had better security in place. The info was available when so and so signed onto his machine. This guy figured out how to sign onto that guy's machine and bingo! Or else, the guy walked away from his machine without locking it. Pretty weak security, indeed.
 
-Any telecommunications commercials>Verizon or mobile phone commercials

-Pro-Erection drugs. I'm not offended by what they do, it's just that they have to remind us EVERY 5 minutes "when a relaxing moment, turns into" SHUT THE F UP!!

-Wal-Mart. WTF is up with these Stepford wives, Stepford teenagers, Stepford seniors, that are in their commercials?? They are all soo creepy on the commercials, with the southern accent. And way to robotic, man they are more creepy than Mormons (well, almost).

And then the Wal-Mart commercial where they showcase the Wal-Mart store in South Central L.A. Theres a Black Wal-mart employee @ the end of the commercial tearing up, and she says "Wal-Mart made us believe in ourselves again." WHAT THE FVCK IS THAT!!!. So it takes a massive corporation, that cheats it's employees out of wages, union busting, and drives small business into the ground; that makes you believe in your self?? I was puking with disgust at perhaps the most patronizing and offensive commercial I have EVER SEEN!!
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On the flip side, the BEST commercials now, are the Budweiser 'Real Men of Hero' spots. I was SO ROTFLMAO when they had the one about the guy who puts WAY to much cologned on, "so he can tell you he's coming, from 4 blocks away." GOLD
 
Anything that blinks or flashes on the left margin of this forum. Now I keep a pad of stickey notes at the computer desk for visiting Anandtech. I cover the ad space.

Not only will I not buy it or try the service, I recommend against it when people ask.

PLEASE lose the blinking flashing stuff. Double the space if you must, but stop the blinking & flashing.

OR go back to letting us buy our way out of it.

I hate that stuff.

Scott
 
Just about any of those extended commercials featuring new prescriptive pharmaceutical products. They usually play some clip of a song over and over again, with their slogan repeatedly. Then they show some stupid people constantly smiling and jumping up and down. At the end, they read off the side effects and almost always constipation is one of them.
 
definitely the pepto commercial. the woman dancing and shaking her hands around her ass in reference to 'diarrhea' while smiling is a wee bit unsettling.
 
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
BOOST MOBILE COMMERCIAL SUCKS. Trying to be funny by having elders talking like young black people isn't funny anymore. It started and ended with the granny rapping in the wedding singer. that was funny, but now it is now.
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Yes, that BOOST MOBILE COMMERCIAL SUCKS!!! Every time I see that commercial I'm like, "WTF?!?" The worst part is at the end, and you hear the granny saying "Where you at?" I feel sorry for those actors, having to act like a bunch of retarded wannabe-black teens.
 
none...

the logic behind that is as retarded as someone buying a product based on how cool the commercial is. it's the lowest common denominator that the advertising agencies thrive on.
 
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