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Donathan
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Posted: 12 Mar 2012 at 2:00am |
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Inanimate food begging to be eaten. Or allowing their friends and family members to be eaten.
Women acting like idiots over food and shoes. Most women do not act like that! |
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Donathan
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Also, children dessing up as adults and doing adult jobs. Looks slightly creepy.
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DirtyD79
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People swiping other people's food. With the way people in food commercials act you'd swear Ponderosa should just replace The Grand Buffet with a giant trough.
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Mind on My Money, Money on My Beer
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Starship Koyote
Commercial Hater Joined: 24 Feb 2012 Location: Huntington Status: Offline Points: 30 |
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The yogurt orgasm face has to go. For the love of joy and innocence, we must stop the yogurt orgasm face. No one likes yogurt that much.
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Don't be a hater. Be an appreciator.
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Pervis
Junior Executive Joined: 19 Feb 2012 Location: Unistat Status: Offline Points: 209 |
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Indie music sung by females with cutesy sounding voices.
I'm so sick of it at this point.
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Cathode_Ray
Junior Executive Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Location: Digital Tier Status: Offline Points: 220 |
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OMG, YES!!!! I hit the mute button when they come on.
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"Some things are unexplained, until they are." - Dr. Walter Bishop
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Tiz
Revolutionary I donated! Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 15588 |
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Holding hands in separate bathtubs. You just used the pill....... one tub will do.
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Dear
Junior Executive Joined: 24 Feb 2011 Status: Offline Points: 221 |
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Portraying that your food product is SO delicious that your actors/actresses must wear half of the meal and/or chew loudly with a whole lotta lip smackin' and don't forget to keep your mouth open so the audience can see what you're eating.
I made myself feel ill...
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Please, stop saying "Awesome" in commercials! Your actors are not awe-inspiring and neither is your product.
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Obie
Junior Executive Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Status: Offline Points: 293 |
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Women wearing fedoras. It's not 'hip', it's not 'sexy', it just looks dorky. The statement it makes is not 'I am sensual and self-confident', it's 'I'm having a bad hair day, but now I can get away with it because some asshole thought fedoras look good on women.'Or, for that matter, men wearing fedoras post-1970(Abe Vigoda can wear one if he wants to.)
The only channel where fedoras should be considered 'normal' is Turner Classic Movies.
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PaWolf
Revolutionary Hoary Ol' Chestnut... doncha know.... Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: GreatWhiteNorth Status: Offline Points: 40769 |
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MissyDWolf just today pointed out one that should end. Ads that show a person getting 'beat up and slapped around' by some condition that an over-the-counter medical product can put down. |
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"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
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Original Cyn
Commercial Hater Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Location: Kobol Status: Offline Points: 54 |
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Oh good lord yes. Those commercials are Mute Button All-Stars in the House of Cyn. Unfortunately, the quantity and/or frequency of these ads seems to be increasing exponentially . On more than one occasion, I've wondered how/why TIIC (the idiots in charge) of Marketing for these various products could conceive that a commercial featuring the shrieky caterwauling of some nasally hippie-chick *deliberately misspelled ***** A couple of fads that need to FOADIAF ( off and die in a fire) are the - catch-phrases made famous by comedians or celebrities (or celebutards like Paris Hilton), - well-known sayings or phrases from pop culture, and/or - the re-enacting of famous scenes from movies or TV shows, all of which are re-written or customized to some extent, of course, in the hopes of selling some POS product or service. This seems to happen more with local or regional low-budget commercials rather than national ad campaigns, and the end product of these ads (if the channel wasn't immediately changed) is excruciatingly painful to watch. In the (small) town where I live, there's an independently owned used-car dealership that is a repeat offender of this fad. Their ads always "star" the dealership's owner, a shlub of a man who is middle-aged, chubby, and balding. For reasons unknown, every commercial they've done for the past 5 years (possibly longer, as we moved here in 2007) has featured The Shlub doing a painfully atrocious impersonation of Larry the Cable Guy, each ad always ending with the cringeworthy "Git 'Er Dunnnnn!!" Yeeech. |
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"Well-behaved women rarely make history." ~~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Thor
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Those bad local commercials have existed forever. The difference is that they used to have a sort of hokey low-budget charm. But in the past number of years, they seemed to have turned into a contest to see who can have the craziest one out there. So, no longer are they natural. Now, they seem forced. This mostly applies to car dealership commercials.
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Cathode_Ray
Junior Executive Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Location: Digital Tier Status: Offline Points: 220 |
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We have a local dealer who often appears as "Kia Kong" and "Dodgezilla", stomping over the competition and breathing fire. All of his dealerships bear his name, and he's in every commercial. What an ego.
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"Some things are unexplained, until they are." - Dr. Walter Bishop
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The Mad Gasser
Junior Executive Joined: 03 Jun 2008 Location: Mattoon Status: Offline Points: 115 |
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Auto-tuning, Period.
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NJtoTX
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On ESPN and sports broadcasts, the frantic pit-crew parody. They keep throwing these into all sorts of ads. And the always-turning-left NASCAR parody.
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Dreamstalker
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I'd add ANY food-orgasm face to that list. |
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msmadz
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Children in ads that can't - or aren't old enough yet - to articulate and you have no friggin' idea what they're saying. Especially if they're forced to use big words that have NO PLACE in a kid's vocabulary.
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The artist formerly known as Madawee
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Thor
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Women dancing some wimpy little dance over yogurt or over some "cute" outfit they got at TJ Maxx or some such place. |
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Oldiesmann
Junior Executive Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Location: Cincinnati, OH Status: Offline Points: 213 |
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Volvo has jumped on that bandwagon now... |
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Obie
Junior Executive Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Status: Offline Points: 293 |
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And especially when they're struggling to read some script for some PSA or election ad, telling us about how if we don't donate to the charity, or vote against the evil bastard politician of the opposite party, or just do whatever the ad tells us, 'I won't have a future'.
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Snesgamer
Junior Executive Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Location: Aptos, CA Status: Offline Points: 3166 |
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People judging other people based on their social networking profiles (ie Facebook/Twitter/etc.).
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Thor
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Now, there's an example in which the original song would've done just fine. In fact, it'd make Volvo sound a little more daring. But no---they have to go with the cutesy female singer. Maybe they needed to take the sex outta the song. I dunno why, though---considering how everything is "sexy" these days.
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