Anger-Inducing Commercials

[kah]

I don't know if anyone has seen the Smart-Start cereal commercial, or if it is just shown locally, but every time I see it I want to strangle the woman in it. This woman is sitting at the kitchen table eating cereal next to her teenage daughter. Her daughter asks her what she's eating, and the mother proceeds to tell her WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FOOD. Then, she finishes that bite, shoves another one in her face hole and proceeds to tell her daughter that "I want to be around forever," all while trying to keep the cereal from flying out of her mouth.

Like I don't have enough people who talk with their mouth full in my every day life to make me naseous, now I have to deal with it on tv? :romy: Where the hell have the manners gone? No wonder kids are such brats. They're just following the examples given them. :angry

[Trazalca]

Oh yeah?
How about commercials trying to sell me insurance in the
middle of episodes of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius?
The last thing I care to see when I'm sitting with my
family watching mindless television is to be reminded
of my adulthood.
Or how about those awful commercials for music CDs
of kids singing adult top 40 hits?
Do I really need to hear a choir of 6th graders
all singing "Let's Get It Started" by the BlackEyedPeas?
I tell you I wanna choke myself to death everytime
I walk into a Toy-R-Us with that crappy kid-singing
cover music. Elementary school kids were not meant
to sing songs by Ludacris, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,
Guns N Roses, John Mayer, Metallica or Radiohead.
Give em freakin' Barney-Rufi-Strawberry Shortcake tunes.
Let 'em belt those out for once. And leave my record
collection alone! I do NOT want to hear kids happily
singing any song lifted from the Purple Rain soundtrack.
It's not right I tell you. It's just not right.
The ONLY commercials that belong on television for
all cartoon fare should be for toys that my kids will
continue to beg for, but because of how pricey they are,
or how many tiny pieces it will take to assemble it,
I will more than likely ignore their pitiful doe-eyed
imploring and NOT buy it for them.
Give me commercials rich with sugar filled cereals
that would make a candy bar burn with envy.
Give me commercials for toys that I want to buy,
like an XBOX 360, PS3 or the next 2007 2-door Mustang GT
with black leather interior, wood paneling, and HD Radio
enabled.
Give me commercials reminding me how fun my childhood
used to be, and can be again, after purchasing a new set
of rockem-sockem robots, a complete set of Micronaut toys,
GI action figures complete with scuba gear, fins, mask,
and tanks, and a mini-sub that works underwater.
I don't want to be reminded about insurance.
I don't want to be told how to do my lawn better.
I don't want to be introduced to how I can pay off bills by getting this loan or signing up with that bank.
If you got a toy that shoots out grape roll-ups that stick
to the walls and you can eat later, you might get my attention.
I use my brain at work, then it gets pummelled during 90 minutes of mind-numbing traffic, which by the time I get to
my front door, I'm ready to enjoy my kids as they're
running about the house like bumper cars against the furniture.
Mindless entertainment is the order of the day,
right up there with wrestling shows (only after the kids are
tucked away to sleep), and Big Brother reality TV eps.
And PLEASE spare me the commercial about the art classes
I can take that would teach me how to draw sketches of a pirate's
profile on the back of a book of matches.
I do not and can not expect any human being to develop
an exciting new career in the world of art after learning
how to draw the head of a turtle with a number 2 pencil.
AND, from 9PM to 6AM, there will be a FULLY ENFORCED CURFEW
on ALL commercials targeting anyone under the age of 12.
I DO NOT want to be reminded at 2 in the morning about a cool
set of Barbie dolls due to fly out of the Mattel assembly line
while I'm watching a Hammer Horror marathon.
And if I want to be reminded about the next Batman/Superman/Spiderman/TMNT/HULK/LOTR/STAR WARS
RADIO CONTROLLED motorbike with 17 buttons that deliver
sounds enough to annoy looneys at BelleVue out of their insanity,
and disturb the dead back to unholy life,
I'll wait till AFTER my kids wake up on Saturday morning and drag me kicking and screaming out of my bed and into my kitchen
demanding I serve them breakfast, and not ONE MINUTE before,
thank you very much. :romy:

[omicron]

Yikes, a TRAZ rant! BTW, I love Jimmy Neutron, Fairly Odd Parents, Catscratch, and Spongebob. Unfortunately, unlike you, I don't have kids so people always look at me funny when I tell them, as a 35yr old single guy, I watch cartoons. :lol:

My personal anger-inducing commericals is the latest Apple commercials. The one where the 'pc' gets a virus and the mac guys acts all smug. Hey asstard, the reason no-one writes viruses for you is because you own 3% of the world computer market. It's not that you're neccessarily better or more secure, you're ignored and unimportant!

Or the one where they have the japanese camera girl, and they act like it works great on a mac but not on a pc. Really? I've had no problems plugging in my camera, windows finding the USB driver, and showing my camera as an external drive.

Omicron

[Jakester]

Kahlan, baby, you've got a lot of rage in you. I think it's because of the sexual tension that lingers between us. I think you should let me take care of that. I mean, it can't be healthy (take that as you will). My motives are purely selfless. I just want to help you.

[Scotia]

My personal anger-inducing commericals is the latest Apple commercials. The one where the 'pc' gets a virus and the mac guys acts all smug. Hey asstard, the reason no-one writes viruses for you is because you own 3% of the world computer market. It's not that you're neccessarily better or more secure, you're ignored and unimportant!

Or the one where they have the japanese camera girl, and they act like it works great on a mac but not on a pc. Really? I've had no problems plugging in my camera, windows finding the USB driver, and showing my camera as an external drive.
Omicron

That commercial came to mind the moment I read the title of this thread. I f*cking hate it. It's smug, inaccurate and just more of the same bullshit that Apple's been pimping for years. The whole "cool culture" strategy has finally worn thin. Actually, I think it happened years ago when the company hired Jeff Goldblum to whine about how "profusely" corded PC's are. Does it really take a special intellect to figure out that one end plugs in the back of the comp, the other into the wall.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/tekrelic/indextop20060501.jpg


I wonder what the Linux guy looks like?

[sickness]

The Linux guy would be a pimped-out, cool dude ready to take all the ladies home on a Saturday night because he's the only one with real stroke. The Mac guy thinks too far out of the box and the PC guy doesn't realize that he only inhabits a small corner of the box.

Any professionals here who use Linux know exactly what I'm talking about.

[Trazalca]

The Linux guy would be a pimped-out, cool dude ready to take all the ladies home on a Saturday night because he's the only one with real stroke. The Mac guy thinks too far out of the box and the PC guy doesn't realize that he only inhabits a small corner of the box.

Any professionals here who use Linux know exactly what I'm talking about.

You mean, like this dude?

http://www.pimpcostumes.com/images/products/SupaFlyPimpDarnellLg.jpg

[kah]

Kahlan, baby, you've got a lot of rage in you. I think it's because of the sexual tension that lingers between us. I think you should let me take care of that. I mean, it can't be healthy (take that as you will). My motives are purely selfless. I just want to help you.


I think it's really great that you would put yourself out just to help me. Or is it just "put out"?

[omicron]

http://www.pvponline.com/archive/2006/pvp20060516.gif

PVP rocks!

Omi

[sickness]

You mean, like this dude?

http://www.pimpcostumes.com/images/products/SupaFlyPimpDarnellLg.jpg
Exactly! And I'm glad I could inspire you to find pimp Halloween costumes. :D

[Metuzalem]

I don't know if anyone has seen the Smart-Start cereal commercial, or if it is just shown locally, but every time I see it I want to strangle the woman in it. This woman is sitting at the kitchen table eating cereal next to her teenage daughter. Her daughter asks her what she's eating, and the mother proceeds to tell her WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FOOD. Then, she finishes that bite, shoves another one in her face hole and proceeds to tell her daughter that "I want to be around forever," all while trying to keep the cereal from flying out of her mouth.

Like I don't have enough people who talk with their mouth full in my every day life to make me naseous, now I have to deal with it on tv? :romy: Where the hell have the manners gone? No wonder kids are such brats. They're just following the examples given them. :angry

Burger King did an advert like that over here, it featured poeple in a call centre singing and answering calls all while stuffing their faces with Whoppers. In today's PC-gone-mad society can you guess what happened? Yep, you guessed it, it became one of the most complained about adverts ever in this country. The reason why? The PC brigade thought it was poking fun at poeple with speech impediments! IDIOTS!!! :angry

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

There are SOOOO many commercials that tick me off. Ones that try to frighten us, ones that prey on our insecurities, ones that TRY to be cool but aren't, ones that promise we'll "save" something by BUYING their product, ones that are "mean" in spirit (the recent ones with people in cars, having normal conversations, and suddenly they are in a violent car accident). However, I reserve my all time disgust with the truth.com anti smoking commercials. They are just so hypocritical it makes me sick.

[kah]

Apparently we aren't the only ones hating....

Commercials I Hate (http://www.commercialsihate.com/index1.html)

[Trazalca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/traz/linux.jpg

:D

[sickness]

Rofl!

[KingVoyeur]

How about the new Doritos commercial that uses the Godzilla from AN 8 YEAR OLD MOVIE THAT WAS TOTAL CRAP?!?!? What is the point of that? Do they think that people will have forgotten about him by now and will think, hey, that's a cool monster, or are they just recycling a commercial from '98?

[omicron]

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[Natalie]

I have the Safe Auto commercials. It seems like i can't get away from them. Is there a place in the free world where you aren't required to have some sort of insurance coverage on your vehicle? Not to mention the morons they use to try to convince us that if we don't have insurance, these dummies are going to be proof positive.

There are the endless commercials of people getting stopped and asked for proof of insurance asking, "Proof of insurance officer?" Like, uh, what do you mean grass is green and the sky is blue? Are you kidding?!

Then the officer seems like he's ready to bust them out of the freaking car with a nightstick or something when he says, "You DO have proof of insurance, right?"

Dumbass in the car is like, "uh, yeah, I've got SafeAuto." ah-uh-uh-uh aw shucks-ish.

And then the dumb cop is like, "Oh, you're playin' it safe. Have a nice day." WHAT COP WOULD SAY THAT EVER?????

It's bad enough that I have the stupid commercial jingle stuck in my head from years of it coming on TV over and over when I'm in the early stages of waking up -- "1-800-Safe Auto - pick up the phone the call is free!!!!"

There was the stupid guy who drove into a cop car checking out a less that superhot chick on a sidewalk (prosititute).

The guy who actually did the two finger eyebrow fixer-upper move in the rear view while fiddling with the PUSH BUTTON 1979 radio presets in his dodge dart and SMILED AT HIMSELF before hitting a pole. (male whore)

The naked wierdo girl who sings the damn song in the shower with more shampoo on her head than is sold in 16 bottles (shampoo whore)

There are just too many and I can't stand it! :romy:

[rappites]

I hate commericals too. Mute them or walk away. Do what I do. . .rent your favorite tv shows on dvd if available or watch on demand.

[SlamShut]

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[kah]

I just saw this and it reminded me of this thread.

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[DaForce]

Yeah, don't get me started on that whole Mac vs. PC ad campaign. It's just plain retarded.


As is evidenced by Mac chosing Dr. Evil as a spokesperson.

:tongue:

[omicron]

I've got a radio commercial that piss me off.

The one is for Taco Cabana. They got 2 guys and a girl talking about the specials etc etc, generally making inane small talk. The part that sets my blood boiling is the girl. Every time she pronounces a spanish word, it sounds like she just got smuggled across the border from Mexico. All the other words, she sounds like a typical suburban teenager. Bad enough that her accent comes and goes, but she SO over-accents the spanish words.

Omi

[Nostromo]

This brewing company runs a series of commercials on radio in the province of Ontario. A guy comes on and lays it on thick about how special this beer is and how exceptional you are if you drink it.
Fact: Whether it's $6 for a six pack or $6 a bottle - it all ends up in a puddle behind a dumpster at 4 in the morning. N

http://www.steelbackbrewery.com/home.asp

[kah]

I've got a radio commercial that piss me off.

The one is for Taco Cabana. They got 2 guys and a girl talking about the specials etc etc, generally making inane small talk. The part that sets my blood boiling is the girl. Every time she pronounces a spanish word, it sounds like she just got smuggled across the border from Mexico. All the other words, she sounds like a typical suburban teenager. Bad enough that her accent comes and goes, but she SO over-accents the spanish words.

Omi

Not that I watch it (:o ), but the soap Passions does that. There is a Mexican family on there, and every time someone else says one of their names, it's in perfect Spanish.

[sickness]

Not that I watch it...


Yes, you do.

[Senormac]

This brewing company runs a series of commercials on radio in the province of Ontario. A guy comes on and lays it on thick about how special this beer is and how exceptional you are if you drink it.
Fact: Whether it's $6 for a six pack or $6 a bottle - it all ends up in a puddle behind a dumpster at 4 in the morning. N

http://www.steelbackbrewery.com/home.asp

Hmmmmm? Steelback.....Bob hasn't seen that one before....:D :D

[kah]

Yes, you do.

Hence the embarrassed smiley. :o :o :o

[Sgt. Awesome]

I find radio commericials get on my nerves a lot faster then TV ones.

a) I listen the radio more
b) I have a mute button for my TV (I have one for my radio as well... but I can't tell when whatever I'm listing too is back on...)

Here we've got ICBC (AAA for... BC) and they put out these drunk driving commercials which are just... so bad. Essentially it's this monotone man talking to people who've had horrible accidents. Like he's talking to this one guy, who's "pretty beat up" about his best friend and he's all, "Where is he now?" and the guy starts crying, "He's dead, he was killed by a drunk driver"

MONOTONE MAN IS AN INSENSITIVE BASTARD

but he wants to know more, "Did they ever find the guy who did it?"

"Yeah... it was me... can you stop recording now?"

Can you stop recording now? It's obvious that they are both Radio actors... unless the guy is about to let one rip I'm pretty sure the sound guy knows when to stop recording.