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What are some of your picks for most asinine commercials you've seen this year?



They're shown damn near every commercial break on every freaking channel. It's completely obnoxious at this point. You can do that with some products that people can easily go buy, but not with a 50,000 dollar car. It's not easy to just up and buy one. To make it worse its constantly youngish people in those commercials. like they have that kind of money

Pretty much all I have to say is the first J-Lo Fiat commercial and everyone will know exactly what I'm talking about. I don't know whether it was truly that bad or the fact that I saw it about 14 times in one day towards the beginning of the season.

It's a hard choice, there are so many asinine commercials out there. The Lexus commercials are just annoying in the sheer amount of times you're subjected to them. Makes you want to go test drive the Lexus and tell the sales guy afterward you're going to buy a Mercedes because they didn't annoy you at Christmas.

The most asinine this past year I think is the Old Spice Sea Captain commercial.

Pretty sure they were aiming for So-bad-its-funny w that Old Spice commercial. But I always thought it fell flat.

Which auto insurance co. has Flo in their ads? She bothers me. And I have to hear her voice on sports radio every day too . . .

I hate the lexus comercials too.

I agree with the lexus and j-lo fiat. I think last night the dang hyundai commercials. They made me never want to even consider a hyundai.

I loathe the stupid "anti-Santa" cell phone commercials.

You just don't mess with Santa and walk away unscathed.

Agreed with the "anti-Santa" cell phone commercials.

I think the one that has to go, above all others, is the Target lady commercials they play around Black Friday. I hate that woman. Just seeing her makes me want to never go to Target again.

funny part is that the commercials that are WORST are the ones you remember....and that means they did their job...they pushed that product onto the public whether for good or bad....it's in your mind.

and the Arbys "Good Mood Food"

The Lexi commercials don't bother me as much as they do other posters, because I don't covet cars that I can't afford. I agree that they are completely contrived, and use starving young actors who will probably never be able to afford the products they hock, but I'm really only a 'mark' for companies who are selling products that already fall within my financial wheel-house.

I love me some cello on my job, but I don't envy guys like Yo-Yo Ma because they rock a Stradavarius. Yeah, it's worth 2.5 M ... but that stuff is so out of my range, it doesn't affect me in the slightest. I'm happy with my Vincenzo Sannino- a "Honda among collectible Italian intruments." Same with Lexis, Beemers, and the exotics when it comes to cars. The closest I came was back in the 90's when Acura put out the NSX. Ferarri-like performance for 64K... a fleeting fantasy for a guy like me- with "Battleship tastes- and a 'tug boat' wallet."

Back then, reason won out over that 1-month flight of fancy.... and it still does, to this day. Even now, I just want to grab an affordable Triumph TR-6, restore it, and drive it in my "Golden Years" like i drove my Spitfire 1500 back in my 'salad years'... a dream that can actually be realized.

Now, I just want to get from Point A to Point B with a minimum of hassle and expense... so luxury cars don't interest me in the slightest.

On to commercials that really torque me off.... Dyson vacuum cleaners. The so-called "Mercedes-Benz of household cleaning devices" positions every single one of their newest products right at the threshold of the average buyer's "discretionary purchase limit"... and designs their ads to appeal to those folks who can't afford 70K for a car, but CAN "afford" to blow 500 dollars on a device that sucks dirt better than a 150-dollar model. Really? 500 bux... to suck dirt from my carpet? Do I really need the Ferarri-like directionality of a "Dyson ball" to clean my carpets? Can't I just take a few extra strokes.... and save 350 dollars?

The commercials themselves aren't actually annoying (in the sense of the original thread-starter)... instead, they annoy me because they epitomise the essence of why so many Americans are so deep in debt these days. They sucker-in gullible 'Yuppie wanna-be's' who KNOW they can't afford a Beemer or Benzo, but still want to "feel like they've arived" by sucking their new burber weave better than their next-door neighbor can. 5 or 6 purchases like this in a year, and they're 'under water' for their monthly income. Cappuchino/Coffee-makers for 350 dollars. Glade plug-in air fresheners that burn not only one's grocery wallet, but utility bills, as well. Electric knives for $150. How much are ANY of these things enhancing the true quality of a person's life?

Look- it's not Mr. Dyson's fault. He just wants to make enough money to buy his next Mazeratti and villa in the south of France... I get that. but that doesn't keep me from seeing the adscam that's being perpetrated upon a big segment of the populace. Class envy/superiority is a strong motivator in a capatalist society... and folks will allow themselves to be duped into buying more than they need... for reasons that they might not even understand in themselves.

500 dollars to "suck a floor."
"Caveat emptor," to be sure....

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Clem, I'll say this about Dyson. My wife and I had 3 dogs (now 2 for the past couple years) who are shedding machines.

We went through just about every type of vacuum cleaner there was, from cheap to expensive, in an attempt to keep our house presentable. For the most part, they were awful, awful, awful.

Well, we bought a Dyson "animal." It's not the ball kind, but it was expensive nonetheless. I have to say that I will never buy another type of vacuum cleaner.

And it isn't just that I'd have to take a "couple" extra swipes with the Hoovers or the Orecks. It was that I'd have to do the ENTIRE floor over again. I'd have to vacuum three, sometimes four, times a week just to make it look like our carpets weren't made of dog hair.

With the Dyson, I vacuum once a week. When it goes over a section, I know that it's done.

I went through most of my life using cheap stuff for everything. My parents were (and are) penny pinchers. Believe me, there's nothing wrong with that. But, I found that, often, when I'd buy a cheap whatever, I'd replace it within a year, maybe two.

I was buying cheap lawnmowers for a while. I literally was replacing them every year. To be honest, I didn't take the greatest care of them. So, that's on me.

I also went through a couple cheap snowblowers. Eventually, I got tired of having to go over each section 2 or 3 times. So, I went out and bought one of those ridiculously huge snowblowers from Sears. Cost a couple hundred bucks. I'll never ever get anything else.

In other words, for me at least, it's worth spending a little extra to avoid the hassle.

JMHO

The prize-winner for me this Christmas season were the Best Buy ads. They were awful. You don't diss Santa and get away with it.

Not that it made any difference, I'm sure, but Best Buy didn't get a dime out of me this year (and I bought a fair amount of electronic gadgetry for gifts).

I don't hate the Lexus commercials, but they annoy me because of how they try to portrait that everyone is buying someone a car for Christmas, and not just any car, but a 50k+ car. And it's not like this is a new campaign idea for them, either. This has been their concept for several years at the holidays.

I actually like the Best Buy ads, I found a couple of them funny, a couple weren't very good, but the lady buying the TV was a good one with the reaction when they see the lion attack the zebra on the tv.

As for bad commercials, the Old Spice were lame, as were the Dairy Queen commercials that have been playing lately.
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And someone mentioned the Hyundai ads. Not sure which one specifically, but the one with the girl playing a guitar and singing annoys me. Maybe that's what accounts for singing these days, but I think it sounds like crap.

I hate the Lexus commercials. Do they realize the economy is horrible and they're pimping these rich-ish people getting brand new Lexus' for Christmas? I think it's bad taste and really unnecessary.

The Best Buy ads are horrible too and not all that funny. Ooh man I'm one-upping Santa, the guy who your kids think bring you presents. What's next, you going to punch Jeebus in the stomach? I rarely go to Best Buy too, so that thing didn't work much for me.

I could write a book on horrible radio commercials too, just alone from 850 wknr, the public service commercial with the guy reading off the lottery numbers that aren't yours, then the guy goes on to tell you not to depend on the lottery for your life savings, and to save all of 3 dollars a week by brewing your coffee at home and not taking your car anywhere (this guy must live in a neighborhood with a lot Lexus cars around) then the guy sings that "feed the pig" thing. If I saw that guy, I'd fight him.

The beer commercials with the Browns fans all standing around, with that suspenseful music, and he jumps over the pile only to get rejected by some giant sign thing.... horrible. There was one equally as bad with some Tampa fans. How long did it take these marketing gurus to come up with these, 10 minutes? 15?

Then there's the NAPA commercials....

I absolutely despise the "That's so 23 seconds ago" cell phone commercials too.


It's weird that cell phones have the worst commercials of anyone.

For the most part, I cut out TV advertisements in my life. Usually the only time I see them is during football.

I watch all of my programming the next day, online, hooked up through my TV.

With that said, I did recall some very weird Old Navy ads this year that seemed almost Japanese.

You reminded me of the one that I absolutely hate.

It's the Heineken ad where the guy and the girl are going through the restaurant doing all kinds of crazy things, then at the end, there's crazy Asian music and they dance all wacky.

Makes me want to never buy Heineken again.

I didn't mind that to much, the song got in my head so much I had to add it to my iPod.

I don't know that I mind that commercial all that much. It doesn't offend me like those stupid "That was so 15 seconds ago" commercials.

I swear that if I met one of them in real life and they did that crap to me I might punch them in the head.

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It doesn't offend me like those stupid "That was so 15 seconds ago" commercials.

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Amen to that!

I was going to nominate those commercials till I read your post and you beat me to it. They speak volumes, and not in a good way, about the direction our society is taking. Well, at least in my opinion.

I was walking down the mall doing some Xmas shopping (which I will NEVER do again) and the number of people with their heads glued to their phones was amazing. The mall could catch on fire and they would be oblivious to it until someone tweets it.

I swear that the first time someone does anything like that "'that was so 20 seconds ago" I'm gonna deck them ..... then when they wake up I'll say "See your phone in pieces there ...... that was so 5 minutes ago" .........

No one mentioned this gem yet:



Seriously, who thought this commercial was a good idea? I can't be the only one who hears, "Walking in an orgy Wonderland," can I?

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It used to be called the "sitcom" world, where every thing was solved in 22 minutes. Or, the microwave society - where everything took 2 minutes.

Now, it's the "fastest cell phone" society. Give me speed, give me games, give me text, and give me instant access to anything I want.

And it's improved our society how? Oh, that's right - it hasn't improved jack. Sorry folks, for all you that think instant cell phone access, instant internet access, instant anything...........if you think that has improved society, you're sadly mistaken.

Life went on just fine before 4 g. Or 3 g. Or 2g. Even before the internet.

Ted? I didn't know they allowed internet access at ADX Florence?

To much darn Pink

jc

I really hate those Ford surprise press conference commercials.

I love everything about Ford - their cars, their trucks, hell I even like Ford Field - but I can't stand those commercials either and I can't take Mike Rowe (I think that's his name) anymore. Something about his attitude makes me change the channel instantly when I see him.

The BEST one has to be the little kid in the Darth Vader costume, trying to move the car ....... and then his dad uses the remote starter.

I laugh every time that kid jumps like someone stuck him with a pin.