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Are there any commercials that make you want to start beating your TV with a bat for showing you such stupidity? Here are the ones that do it for me:

Anything that starts "I'm George Bush and I approve this ad." I don't want to make this a political topic, but I can't stand how dumb these commercials are. Especially the one about Kerry and taxing gas. Does he think we're not smart enough that he's looking out for all his oil company buddies?

Any cell phone commercial with the Sprint guy, the "Can-you-hear-me-now?" guy, or Joan Cusack. (Catherine Zeta-Jones can stay.)

Any fast food commercial with some guy that walks around trying to tell everyone to eat at their favorite restaraunt for no good reason (Jared, the Wendy's guy, Taco Bell, etc.)

Those stupid McDonald's commercials which were apparently written by some of the worst emcees ever.

Any commercial with Thirst-the-sambo-Sprite-drinking-doll

Beer commercials that try to show you how easy it is to work off their beverage.

That's all I can think of, but I'm sure there'll be more in the near future. But if I see one more commercial that begins "I'm George Bush..." then doesn't mention George Bush again, something in my house is breaking.

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"Game Theory"
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I hear you on all of those, Gears. Or how about those stupid Enzyte commercials with "Smiling Bob"... there are too many of them. Can't these people think of anything else as far as advertising goes? Come on... and then the simple fact of all these dumbass drugs... we have Viagra, Enzyte, Cialis, and all these impatancy (sp?) curing drugs... yes, because THAT is SO much more important than curing aids or cancer [but i'm getting off topic...]

that's what gets me... i've missed some, but i'm sure that some more will be covered as people post

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

I can't really think of many since I don't watch TV much let alone commercials, but here goes:

1. Commercials that instruct you to run to your doctor and ask about a pill that you have no idea what it even does. They never explain it to you for some reason, they just expect you to know. What's the point?

2. The whole pain pill rivalry thing gets old after a few decades. "With this brand you only need to take 2 pills every so often instead of 8!" I mean come on, how many years have we heard that line? They all make the same claim making each one meaningless. In fact any commercial that uses the same format for decades is really annoying. How about being original for once eh? Stop the brainless repetition!

There are probably others but I can't remember.

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I hate all commercials that aren't funny or aren't advertising a game. This commercial really isn't a commercial, but it's funny. And it's based off of those old Metnos
commercials.
http://www.odinskeep.ca/flash/id.html
EDIT: Wrong link at first.

This post has been edited by Figaro on 9th April 2004 02:32

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

I can't stand most commercials, but the ones that really bother me are the predatory ads that work by creating or preying upon already existing insecurities. Enhancement pills, cosmetics, plastic surgeons peddling their pretend panaceas, pretty much anything that gets sold by people who profit from the emotional suffering of others bothers me.

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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain..."

Dude Fig...that aint a commercial...thats.......evil...Anyhow lets get down to brass tacks

I Hate:
Most McDonnalds Commercials (all except the one where they are playing poker for fries and only cuz I support gambling)
Hotwheels Blingz commercials
Hotwheels Hardnoze commercials
Any commercial that uses the terms Bling, Hardnoze or "Oh Snap!"
Any commercail starting with "how many times has this happend to you" while showing something that could never possibly happen to me
The Tampon commercial where the girl usus it to plug a hole in a boat (NOTHING is that absorbent)
Anything invovling cross-dressing
The Geico commercial where the guy (I think they call him Mr. Jiggy-Fly *shudder*) raps (altho I think he is goin places)
Boxer-shorts commercails
Dentien Ice commercials without the Dentein Ice song
Commercials for movies I dont want to see
Coin-selling commercials
Laxative commercials
Medicanal commercials in genneral
Birth controle commercials

I like the Montos commercials tho!

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There is a time and a place for everything, and I am niether

Oh, what a thread. Let me get started:


The Quizno Commercials with the dancing hamster things singing subliminal like messages. Oh Man. WOW. I seriously want to punch the crap out of me TV every time I hear those little hellspawns take a breath in preperation of a no doubt worthless sing song. COME ON! What happened to those ones with the people choosing either the Quizno's toasted or regular sub with extra "lettuce" etc. Those were hilarious.

I actually like the beer commercials with the toe treadmill etc. because it exposes just how assinine those other beer commercials are capitalizing on the "Carb Craze" that's hit our country. "Hey, our beer has much less carbs then them!" , when if you get up and walk to the fridge, you've already burned off those extra carbs. Don't get me started on how utterly stupid our country's becoming all because of this carb crap. True story, on the news the other day, they seriously said "And a new study shows that you can actually lose weight and STILL eat carbs." Wow. Ignorance.

Which brings me to my next point, ANY commercial that's talking about how low in carbs it is.

Pill commercials are tiring.
Car commercials with REALLY annoying songs that they play every commercial break.


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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

What the hell is that matter with you, Figaro!? Trying to steal credit for the commercial I showed you!

I liked those singing mice

I agree with Gears about the political ads, but that's for everyone. I don't think any candidate should bother with those, not just the guy I oppose.
I hate the commercials that play off of the Atkins fad.
"Can you hear me now?"
"It's OK. I had Subway."

I just have to note this one: I love the truck commercial where the guy is singing that Shania Twain song.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

The Geico commercials are a bit much for me. Also, the "Smiling Bob" guy in the Enzyte commercials absolutely freaks me out.

PB78

Quote (Gears @ 8th April 2004 19:58)

Any cell phone commercial with the Sprint guy, the "Can-you-hear-me-now?" guy, or Joan Cusack. (Catherine Zeta-Jones can stay.)

Catherine Zeta-Jones can definitely stay.

I saw part of a flash animation on Newgrounds. Someone was walking around in the god-forsaken desert, and said into his cell phone, "Can you kill me now?" and a lightning bolt blasts him dead.

I just thought you would appreciate that.

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Little miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet,
Eating her curds and...
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

That damn Office Max or whatever commercial with the over the top stereotypical black guy giving everyone office supplies. It makes me want to give myself eye surgery with a pitchfork.

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How About Commercials that aren't advertising Video games. there you go. The rest suck. Espescially (For Any OF you that live in the buffalo Area) The Fucillo chevrolet commercials. We got an irritating fat gay that at the end of every commercial screams "ITS HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGE" i wish to repetedly stab him with broken glass.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

The UK's McDonalds ads seem to think the stores an aeroplane?!
ITS NOT A [expeltive here] AEROPLANE ITS A [antoher expletive] FAST [blimey!] FOOD RESTERAUNT!

Cos if it was, i'd shoot it down, free salmonella with every meal aint cool...
Im hatin' it...

Pratically any ad not done in the UK or an english speaking country annoys me when they do the dubbing badly.: You dont even LOOK like its your voice, for gods sake! you cheap shmucks, why the hell did you use the Danish ad? how much would it cost to film another one with English-Speakign actors?

Cant think of any more right now...

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Fuccillo's a big chain, with branches as far out as Las Vegas, so I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who hate those HUUUUUUUGE morons as much as me and MM.

Anything that mentions the "in" diet. Whether it be no-carb, no-protein, no-food, or no-sense.

Pills for bigger units. Seriously, what benefit does a person get out of that? OMG MY JONHSON IS 1/2 INCH BIGER!!1! A clear waste of money.

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My soul is bound to the Mistress of the Afterlife, and my fealty is to her always. So let's just hope she doesn't use it as one of her ten daily meals.

I think the McDonalds adverts can be pretty catchy sometimes, heh.

I hate the friggin Cat in the Hat advert, mainly because I hate the film. "The Cat in the Hat is having a blast, and you can join in too down at Burger King!" There's like 3 different adverts advertising it, and JUST TO PUNISH ME, they showed ALL THREE OF THEM IN A ROW!!!!!

Anyway I'm an Englander so I've probably never seen most of your adverts. I hate the Butlins advert. "Nah nah nah nah, nah nah...come to liiife." <--- annoying.

Finally, I hate adverts with children actors. When will people get into their heads that 1/100 children are good actors? Most of them speak in bloody monotone.

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"Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad." - Rincewind

You can be as self-assertive as you like, just so long as you do what you’re told.” - Granny Weatherwax

"When Mr. Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend" - Sam Vimes to Detritus

I think it may be only a local commercial.... for now..... BUT..... The worst commercial is, by far, the USD TV (some new TV company, 19.95 a month for same channels as cable)

"Why do you want to pay 1 million dollers for 5 trillion channels, when all you want is your basic TV?"


*shivers*


Oh, also our local Fox News commercial.... *shudder*

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"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped” -Sir Bedevere the Wise

Truth.com commercials. We don't want people to smoke, so let's get our message across by harrassing everyone. And the government helps fund this!!!!

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

I very much agree with the The Ancient's stance on truth.com commercials. I can't stand the way they carry their messages. It's like the people are not to blame whatsoever for smoking the cigarettes that they KNOW are cancerous and hazardous to their health. But it's too easy to blame the tobacco companies, which, unscrupulous though they may be, do not throw cigarettes in our faces and force us to smoke them.

Also, being in Oswego, I live only a few hours from Buffalo, so I too am subject to the tragic bombardments of "IT'S HUUUUUUGE" car commercials from Fucillo. I hate these commercials more than any commercial in the history of commercials.

I hate comercials about the news.

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Money is no good unspent.
There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

I don't even know where to start in listing all the bad commercials out there.

+Campaign commercials: how about killing all of Bush II's lying TV ads? then how about killing all the other lame campaign TV ads out there? Please also kill all political ads using 9/11 as advertising material (You aren't qualified to hold high national office if you defile something so sacred as 9/11 in order to get yourself (re)elected.)
+car commercials: VERY RARELY have I been impressed with a car sold by a car commercial. Low financing, stylish interior, uber-count horsepower, etc. etc. etc. are all lost $$$ on my eyes and ears. Go waste your money, car companies. (Well, I'm weird in that I'm a teenage boy who has neither interest nor taste in cars. In my opinion, station wagon >> sports car >> Hummer.)
+AOL commercials: how about stopping your uber-lame commercials and using all that wasted money on actually developing a better product? It's not that hard! And just think of how much more respect you would have if some knowledgable people praising your program, as opposed to most people dissing it (correctly and justifiably). This also applies to all those beautiful CD boxes you send out.
+WB Kids shows commercials: These are also uber-lame, and seriously damaged the positive image of shows like Pokemon.
+Pill commercials, prescription: Ask your doctor about [insert pill name here], even though you have NO SCRICKING CLUE what it does. We just want you to buy our pills, and that's all. Shut up.
+Pill commercials, non-prescription: Only once has this convinced me to buy a product, and that was Neosporin. All the other ones, while not lame, are just WAY overdone and overproduced--there're too many of them out there!
+Also kill all bigoted ads out there.
+Sprint commercials, and other lame wireless commercials. But especilly because of that @#$%@^&$%^$%@#$%# Sprint guy.

I actually find Lipitor and Geico commercials to be rather creative and amusing. Although I don't buy either product, so they fail there too. Truth.com commercials, however, do get their point across very well--I praise them.

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Quote (The Ancient @ 9th April 2004 12:08)

Truth.com commercials. We don't want people to smoke, so let's get our message across by harrassing everyone. And the government helps fund this!!!!

I love those commercials. And what they're doing is exposing Big Tobacco companies. People being ignorant doesn't take away from the facts that Big Tobacco companies deny and try to cover up. They're displaying these chilling facts so as to eliminate this ignorance people have about the harmful effects of cigarretes. It's one thing to know that "hey, these cigs will prolly give me cancer one day". But it's a completely different story when details and "truth" is displayed. It's a realization factor. What's more chilling, life-like, and discouraging to smoking: thousands of body bags lining a once-crowded beach, or "Surgeon General says, 'Cigarrettes give U cancer!!11!" ?


Ooh, let me agree that i hate most commercials with kid's trying to sell things based on the "cute" factor. Much worse however, is commercials with "karate/rapper/super" Granny. Oh man, old ladies are NOT funny.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

Anyone else see the Medicine commercial where it was like _"Side Effects were the same as placebo" WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT. I know what a placebo is but WTF?

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

well I basically hate pretty much all commercials now days because they never have anything to do with the product...I swear it's like a guy walks into the street gets shot to death and he's bleeding everywhere.........."got milk ?!!"

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 11th April 2004 06:06

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

I hate commercial TV partly because I hate all commercials, so I don't need to get into specifics. I haven't watched a minute of TV in months, just some anime on DVD once in a while.

Oh, by the way Tidu-who, do you remember the old "Where's the beef" commercial?

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Remember these?

"I got a 14 inch penis, so when I found out I had genital herpies I was crushed. Then I found Valtrex, so I can continue mountain climbing and mountain biking!
(The valtrex pill with not stop the virus and cannot cure any STD, take 2 to 4 weeks to notice improvement. Do not take if you have heart problems, nervous disorders, bulemia, anorexia, a tapeworm, 2 or 3rd degree burns, epilepsy, a history of blood related disorders, liver or kidney problems, are or currently or dying or dead, or have a name that ends with the letter Q)"

"I have a 14 inch penis, so when I found out it wouldn't get hard anymore was crushed. Now I have (insert herbal mix of penis enhancers here)!"



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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Quote (MogMaster @ 11th April 2004 00:13)

Anyone else see the Medicine commercial where it was like _"Side Effects were the same as placebo" WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT. I know what a placebo is but WTF?

If a side effect occurs with the placebo, then it wasn't the drug that caused it. It's a way of saying the drug had no side effects.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

Response to AnarchistDream's post: Absolutely YUCK commercials.

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I'm generally a non-violent sort of guy, but I'd too like to give Billy Fucillo a "HUUUGGGE" punch in the stomach some time. One of the Metro buses in Buffalo has him painted on it even. Ugh.

Those McDonald's "I'm Loving it" commericals annoy me as well.

I do like that Geico "Mr Jiggy-Fly" commercial though. It makes me chuckle to myself when I see it.

This post has been edited by SSJ_Cloud on 12th April 2004 14:26

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Quebec commercials:

La Glucosamine d'Adrien Gagnon - cause they never say what this shit does. All they do it's saying : «Since I took it, I live a better live, I can do things that I never did before like skiing, biking, swimming, passing through solids, telepathysing, underwater breathing...»

Children's songs and other stuff ad made by some big companies who wants to make money

Bad dubbed ads - The voice doesn't fit with the face and that makes me mad

Telus ads - Cause the white background, wellknown songs sang in another language and the animals that don't do anything doesn't attract me

Mc Donald's «C'est ça que j'aime» ads - they are just similar to the Americans «I'm loving it» thing.

Compilation of bad 80's music made in a CD that isn't sold in stores - WTF

There is a thing that all women know and it arrives once in a month. It's not a party, but in the ads all women are happy to live this moment. Usually, it's bad dubbed<_<

Shampoo, Mascara, lipstick ads in which someone sings and said that thier product is the best, bad dubbed too!

Tim Hortons' ads. I don't care about the couple that their live turn around Tim Hortons

Subway's ads - bad dubbed and dull anyway

This-year-Hyundai's ads - ARRRRRRRRGH! Dulliest ever!

Flex-o-flex «Hé oui! Là où ça fait mal!»

GOUVERNMENT ADS, dull, filled with political messages, no fun at all. Two thumbs down!

And the last one : Star Académie show and ads - Surely if you live in U.S.A or English Canada you don't know what it is. It's a reality show like American (or Canadian) Idol. Each week day, they show what the «Académiciens» did today. Sunday night, there is a 1h30 show in which we have to eliminate one of them. ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH! All the week, we have ads that incite us to buy gossips (is it the right term for 60 pages of bulls*** about actors, singers...?) that are related to Star Académie. You know, Shit Académie is made by Québécor, company that own newspapers, Illico, many magasines and stuff related and they aren't shy to blitz us with ads about the worst reality show ever. But the worstiest (sic) thing, it is that half of the population of Quebec listen this!!!

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Level up! Yah!

This post has been edited by Goonies on 12th April 2004 18:10

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«À l'aventure compagnons, je suis parti vers l'horizon! J'aurais mieux fait de rester au lit, ce donjon, il est pourri!» - Pen of Chaos

Any commercial with old people making out.

IT'S WRONG!!!!! On every and any level imaginable, it's disgusting, putrid and all footage featuring it should be acid washed and then burned in a holy fire.

Gah! Other commercials are endeering and clever, or perhaps simple and condesending. They make ya chuckle or piss you off as an insult to your intelligence. But the commercial concept of geriatrics getting in on simply transends the simple meanings of good and bad and reach a whole 'nother level of pure, unconcentrated, impotent evil. Stop this affront to God on the television! For chrissake, CHILDREN are watching! They don't need to see gran'pa making it to third base! WTF is WRONG with TV people!?

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