Most annoying TV ads

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The Kay jeweler commercials. Dear GOD they are hokey.

The most irritating commercials I have seen lately are these truly nauseating KY Intense and KY His and Hers commercials. Considering the application of this particular product, they have chosen an uncommonly unsexy means to advertise. I tried to cut them some slack, considering the alternative... a fairly unsuitable commercial for television. And if your sex life is already thriving, I suppose you wouldn't see a need for the product. So you might relate to the baggy couple in the baggy jammies. Well, I'm one of just such a couple and I can't see buying a product recommended by them and using it the way they suggest. Crap, it'd be like having the couple next door loan you a... well, you get the point. Seeing these people in their Hanes in a brightly lit bedroom talking about needing an ointment to have a good time usually causes me to lose interest in the mentioned activity. I wonder whether the campaign has helped KY at all.

Here's an example:

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I also hate the Dannon crush cups commercial because they got those homely twins from the Disney channel to promote them and they love to zoom in on their soggy teenage mouths as they slurp the contents of their sloppy snacks. Similarly, I have always hated commercials where they try to entice you with sound effects, y'know, exaggerated ones like the sound of a drink pouring and someone drinking it. Ugh. Vomit. I don't listen to the radio much (they kind have to overdo the sound there).

Animal cruelty PSA commercials. I'm as against senselessly abusing animals as anybody, but I cannot stand any advertisement that wastes 45 seconds flashing slideshows of puppies and kitties at you before any "announcement" is made. To make it even more irritating, they're all set to one of those "One Woman Wail" tracks, and they're almost always tuned to the "drill-in-the-skull" volume level, making them literally painful to sit through for me.

Making me want to kill kittens does not make me one to empathize with them.

Most annoying commercial ever!

shamwow.
this ad is on every TV ad break nearly.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJEKqI1e714[/youtube]

he says "a regular towel doesn't work wet. this works wet or dry".
but it is not wet. a saturated chamois will not absorb any more water.
and he adds "or dry" well it is obvious it will work if it is dry, but he fails to mention that the paper towel will also work dry.

"it holds 20 times it's weight in liquid" he says. chamois's are very light when they are bone dry so it is not surprising.
a regular towel is much lighter than a bone dry chamois, and holds more than 20 times it's dry weight in liquid.

he says "deosn't drip..". that is true of any other absorbent material if it is not at saturation, and the shamwow he is holding is clearly not saturated.

he said "without even applying any pressure..." and at 25 seconds he is clearly applying pressure even though he claims he is not.
the carpet square he demonstrates with is on a table, but real carpet is laid on an underlay which means it is twice as thick as the carpet square he is demonstrating with, and also the liquid is absorbed laterally on a larger piece of carpet on an underlay.

"you following me camera guy?" .....well the camera only has to pan about 3 degrees to capture what he is doing so i do not know why this was included in the script.

then he says "the other 50%...." which implies that the shamwow soaks up 100% of the spill which is impossible due to diminishing returns.
he says "the color starts to come up" which is only potentially true if the color is not due to particulates like what is found in coffee.

he says you get 4 shamwows for $19.95, but "if you call now i'll give you a second set absolutely free".
this implies that you must call immediately to get the second set free, yet the ad has been on for more than a year claiming the same thing.

"comes with a 10 year warrantee" he says.
chamoises stay wet for a very long time, and therefore can harbor bacteria more succesfully than an ordinary sponge that dries out within a day. bacteria can not survive in a completely dry medium, and chamoises stay wet for many days after use.
yuk. i am rambling now i guess.

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i do not know about european or american ads, and most people on this site would not know about australian ads, but this mcdonalds ad for the beijing olypmics campaign was extremely irksome to me.
it is all about families and "mateship", and it has kids in almost every scene (to increase the "feel good" factor).
to me, it is sickeningly contrived to appeal to the most common denominator.
everyone has "mates", and everyone loves sport in their demographic. i especially am irked by the fellow who goes back to the barbecue outside on the verandah (he has about 30 friends with kids inside the house) and sees his sausage burning and seems to think it is OK anyway because they just won a medal. then it is off to mcdonalds with the kids.
everyone in the ad is a wholesome healthy person chosen because of their general public appeal. errghh. at least it is not playing anymore, but it was on in every commercial break then.
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i hate the skinny crawler in this ad for insurance. of course they use old fat ugly men as the villains, and a young man as the "hero". i see him as a spineless backside licker.

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also this next ad drives me crazy because it is on all the time. i will admit is is well choreographed, but after seeing it 413,767,909,213 times it drives one mad. (that number is an exaggeration that matches the amount of times i feel that i have seen it)
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The "He went to Jared's!" commercials.

Seconded! What a shallow bunch of Darwinian waste products. He thought enough of you to buy you a gift, but it only has value if he bought it at a place with a reputable name?

I also hate commercials with people doing utterly ridiculous things for the want of the product, out of lust for the product , after getting the product, to prove the value of the product, etc. A man dips his kid's sock-clad feet into plaster to make the socks stay up. People gush, cheer, do spirited arm-whoop motions because they have high-speed internet, or steal the neighbor's computer in an effort to gain same. Grown women stand outside stores for hours chanting, "Open! Open! Open!" A married couple races for their really cool shower, tossing clothes off as they go, so as to be the first to get a turn (though personally, if the shower's that great, I'd think the couple might just want to share, wink wink).

And because I've been finding commercials irritating for so long, yet another category... Kid's toy commercials that have one established tune for the jingle so that every new product in that line uses the same tune no matter how many words they are forced to cram into each line of music in order to describe the product. Dora the Explorer and Barbie are two noteworthy examples.

That E4 advert just before and after each part of a tv program that has the dark guy singing in the most crap singing voice ever

Any DFS sale advert.

'We only have 2 sales a year'

Whatever.
Each last 6 months, and they change every week.

OLIVE GARDEN

Commercials have always been seriously annoying but lately its just beyond. Like all the ads telling you to ask your Dr. about some drug for stuff like bladder weakness or depression or arthritis or COPD and they show the drug-taker enjoying life to the fullest while they list all the scary and horrible side-effects and reactions you could get that sound way worse than the disease itself!! I also hate ads for cold/flu/bronchial-tube-shutdown medication where some idiot is whining about their sniffles and looking like death but then they take the stupid pill and suddenly they're out mountain climbing or skiing. I also hate AXE, Lysol, those ads where you turn gold into cash, ads from lawyers with stupid jingles and talking dogs, ads where they order you to get off the couch and go to some stupid school, ads for cosmetics where they show the phrase in teeny tiny letters "results not identical to surgical procedures", diet ads, EHarmony, and that ad for "American" Kraft cheese. What's the difference between American and cheddar cheese anyway?? Whew...well that's the end of my rant. For now.

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there are very few ads today that aren't annoying. i notice that a lot of the commericials and ads online have a sort of inhuman quality about them. what makes a commercial good is how an entire people can relate to it and a lot of commercials these days tend to target shallow people and just generalize what people like.
tivo is a wonderful thing.

I hate that commercial for net flicks with the family that is way too happy for some reason they piss me off!