I feel like griping today. Probably my most hated series of commercials are the ones for Sonic. I can't make up my mind which couple is worse: the two buddies (whom I think of as Loser and Spaz) or the clueless moron with his sarcastic, castrating wife. If I were in a car with any one of these people I'd bail out--even if we were going 75 on the Interstate!
Nicole frigging Kidman in that Chanel advert. I was subjected to the full length version (with credits!!!) before CR; I have never cringed so much in my life. Nicole trying to be wild and enthusiastic - she's a beautiful, talented actress, but she's too cold to run around in men's shirts giggling "I'm a dancer!" (and, by the way, her accent swings from the UK to Australia to America throughout). It's agonizingly pretentious, ridiculously over the top, and makes me want to boycott Chanel forever.
Awful. Just over-the-top, gawdy rubbish.
Any and all adverts for 3. They're obviously all designed to be too clever for us normo non-advertising types to understand, but they just give me the creeps. Weird, horrific looking people in mind-bending situations. Clearly constructed at the advertising agency's Christmas night out, when they were all high on coke and LSD.
And maybe it's just me, but does anyone want to club in for my "Take out a hit on Barry Scott" whip round? Cillit <bang>.
(Oh, and just to showcase my current favourite ad, it's a parochial one for Irn-Bru. I don't even think it's shown UK-wide, but it's a nice Scottish rip-off of The Snowman) http://irn-bru.co.uk/snowman/)
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We can't get any work done here because we're all watching this commercial. Staying faithful with the title of this thread, it is getting up some of the co-workers noses from constantly playing it over and over but we're sick like that :
I really don't get it, but to each his (or her) own!
Anyway, I'm currently annoyed by the spate of commercials featuring aging Baby Boomers trying to maintain their "coolness" despite being a step or two away from adult diapers. We've got Dennis Hopper talking about retirement as another way of living out the dreams that "changed the world" in the 1960s (easy to say when your Social Security is being paid by those of us who'll have nothing in the till when WE reach 65!); and then there's Sally Field hawking an osteoperosis pill that doesn't inhibit her active lifestyle. What I especially love is how she talks about her "girlfriend" who has to take time out of her busy schedule once a week to pop an osteoperosis pill, while Sally has to take Boniva only once a month! Geeze, Sally, there are people years younger than you who have to check their blood sugar multiple times per day, and somehow they manage to have lives. Cry me a river, why don'tcha?
Grrrrr. . . X-(
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I really don't get it, but to each his (or her) own!(
There is really nothing to get, H.B. The genius to that commercial is that it's so random. Starburst just took an inadvertant approach to their advertising...
I think that it's weird but hilarious at the same time- just like that singing rabbit in the Skittles' ads. That's also another one that cracks me up. )
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Can't stand the commercials for Mentos or Orbit gum:
The Arial/Febreeze advert doing the rounds at the moment doesn't so much get up my nose, as seriously disturb me. A teenage boy gets extreme pleasure from sniffing cushions, while thrusting his buttocks in the air - then, he takes a pair of boxer shorts from the wash basket and puts them over his head so he can enjoy the smell in his own private place.
The director of that should be on some sort of register at his local police station.
Does anyone have any commercials on television that really get on your nerves? Personally, I can't stand watching the Gillette advert because it reminds me of "Gladiators" (don't ask why). We've got plenty of crappy adverts on the tele so which one get's damn annoying and which do you like?
The Geico lizard and caveman. Worn out their welcome years ago, and have ensured that I will never use their product in my lifetime.
Not the commercials, but one of the channel 4 continuity announcers. Need subtitles to understand his accent and he often goes on about "filums" - if they can't speak English in an understandable accent they should be shown the door.
Just about every time I watch cable news I have to listen to two minutes of Vince pitching Sham Wow. The obnoxious demeanor, the nails-on-a-chalkboard voice. . .would you buy a used car from this guy?
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Just about every time I watch cable news I have to listen to two minutes of Vince pitching Sham Wow. The obnoxious demeanor, the nails-on-a-chalkboard voice. . .would you buy a used car from this guy?
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O Lord. . .this morning I saw a new "Vince" commercial: he's now hawking some kind of mini food dicer. In a low for even this type of commercial, while he's demonstrating all the different foods this miracle gizmo can chop up, Vince says, "You'll love my nuts!"
Really, I'll be happy when Xmas is over so I'll be spared the long, long commercials for crap like the Snuggie (the blanket with sleeves!) and Cristy Lane gospel CDs. I never thought ads for the Chia Pet and the Clapper could ever look so subtle!
I know it's customary to whinge about Christmas adverts, but the one that's really starting to annoy me is the Churchill advert where they're sat in the garden having a barbeque.
The really annoying thing about this ad is that the actress (Sybilla Budd formerly of The Secret Life of Us) starring in the ad is bloody Australian. How hard is it to get to Australia if you already live there?
The trailer for the Will Smith film, Seven Pounds or whatever it's called. It says "God created the world in seven days...." No, He didn't. Six days - and on the seventh day He rested.
I just find it patronising, to the Welsh more than anyone else! Of course they've got world class produce and Michelin star chefs, of course they've got artists and someone local who'll knock together a bed, they're not stone age!!!
Before I get slammed from any proud Welshmen, the advert for VisitScotland seems to be squarely aimed at stag do's and hen parties, so we're not much better, but if this Welsh bloke really didn't think that Wales was capable of anything in that advert, hunt him down and exile him to England. Seriously.
Why do they show stuff like this in Scotland? 8-) This is just awful. Terry Venables giving it laldy with an orchestra and a choir in aid of England's World Cup campaign.
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Any and all adverts for 3. They're obviously all designed to be too clever for us normo non-advertising types to understand, but they just give me the creeps. Weird, horrific looking people in mind-bending situations. Clearly constructed at the advertising agency's Christmas night out, when they were all high on coke and LSD.
And maybe it's just me, but does anyone want to club in for my "Take out a hit on Barry Scott" whip round? Cillit <bang>.
(Oh, and just to showcase my current favourite ad, it's a parochial one for Irn-Bru. I don't even think it's shown UK-wide, but it's a nice Scottish rip-off of The Snowman)
http://irn-bru.co.uk/snowman/)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hsPFyoEpGVA
I had never seen this commercial before this weekend; now I'm in tears of laughter from watching it.
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Anyway, I'm currently annoyed by the spate of commercials featuring aging Baby Boomers trying to maintain their "coolness" despite being a step or two away from adult diapers. We've got Dennis Hopper talking about retirement as another way of living out the dreams that "changed the world" in the 1960s (easy to say when your Social Security is being paid by those of us who'll have nothing in the till when WE reach 65!); and then there's Sally Field hawking an osteoperosis pill that doesn't inhibit her active lifestyle. What I especially love is how she talks about her "girlfriend" who has to take time out of her busy schedule once a week to pop an osteoperosis pill, while Sally has to take Boniva only once a month! Geeze, Sally, there are people years younger than you who have to check their blood sugar multiple times per day, and somehow they manage to have lives. Cry me a river, why don'tcha?
Grrrrr. . . X-(
There is really nothing to get, H.B. The genius to that commercial is that it's so random. Starburst just took an inadvertant approach to their advertising...
I think that it's weird but hilarious at the same time- just like that singing rabbit in the Skittles' ads. That's also another one that cracks me up.
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My kid loves that commercial.
However, another silly one
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7HEF49nMsM8
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EDIT: Actually, the Cavemen from GEICO are pretty quirky and humorous, especially the one in the airport.
The director of that should be on some sort of register at his local police station.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKOymeTyEY
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This was funny the first few times it aired, now it's getting annoying:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up880afV_qs
It's one commercial out of a whole series of commercials featuring the cows.
Chanel No.5 and f*****g Nicole Kidman!!!! X-( It's Christmas again, and out they wheel this bl00dy annoyance!!!!
The Geico lizard and caveman. Worn out their welcome years ago, and have ensured that I will never use their product in my lifetime.
She really gets up my nose...
Kerry Katona... Up my nose... too many possibly libelous references...
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argh!
Drives me mental, that one. And no - it doesn't have to go far
As for Kerry Katona - puts me right off Iceland, she does. Makes me think, if that's the kind of customer it attracts, I'm best off out of it.
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Really, I'll be happy when Xmas is over so I'll be spared the long, long commercials for crap like the Snuggie (the blanket with sleeves!) and Cristy Lane gospel CDs. I never thought ads for the Chia Pet and the Clapper could ever look so subtle!
It's December, fer crying out loud!
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Nintendo DS "Imagine" range of games...
"Holly would LOVE this. Oh, Holly would have LOVED to have been an interior designer. Horses, Holly LOVES horses"
WHO THE **** CARES WHAT HOLLY LOVES?????
X-(
It makes me want to reach into the TV set and choke her.
(Christmas joy can now return)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b2f6T2d6vWA
The really annoying thing about this ad is that the actress (Sybilla Budd formerly of The Secret Life of Us) starring in the ad is bloody Australian. How hard is it to get to Australia if you already live there?
Grrrrrrr........
Sincerely, the deepest of respects to my Welsh cousins, but really, this guy just does my head in...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xrOgtIHivQ4
I just find it patronising, to the Welsh more than anyone else! Of course they've got world class produce and Michelin star chefs, of course they've got artists and someone local who'll knock together a bed, they're not stone age!!!
Before I get slammed from any proud Welshmen, the advert for VisitScotland seems to be squarely aimed at stag do's and hen parties, so we're not much better, but if this Welsh bloke really didn't think that Wales was capable of anything in that advert, hunt him down and exile him to England. Seriously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjOvTArUqmQ
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