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The worst commercials in TV history..
- Thread starter mleach
- Start date
Whoever came up with that idea (let alone made it an unskippable YouTube ad) ought to be fired and fined!
Geico ad with Idina Menzel singing about 'Tara'.
Also, the current Google ads with Fred Armisen and his ugly wig collection.
Also, the current Google ads with Fred Armisen and his ugly wig collection.
It's interesting that insurance spots are often so polarizing.
I so dislike Flo on one of the company's themed spots, I either turn down the volume or instant hit "forward" if I am using a recorded show.
I find the lizard device on Progressive spots rather fun... the first couple of times. And their alternate series that started with the caveman one is, similarly cute for the first couple of viewings.
The Allstate ones tend to be neither terribly engaging nor repulsive. Same with Farmers. And I am tiring quickly of of the ostrich-like critter and its moronic companion. Who would buy insurance from a bird and dumbbell?
I can't think of any other product category with such an interesting assortment of creative approaches. Of course, insurance is like cemetery plots: you buy them but hope never to use them. So the insurance companies try to sell something you'd rather not have to buy with humor or bizarreness so they don't actually have to talk about getting injured in a car wreck!
That's GEICO, not Progressive. The gecko was a far better character years ago when Kelsey Grammer did the voice. It's been too much of a wimp for a long time. The cavemen was funny at first, but got old fast.
Mr. Mayhem wore out his welcome on my TV many years ago. I've been with Farmers for over 40 years, but their commercials are so-so. Besides, back in 1976, Farmers would take me at age 21, when Allstate wouldn't even take my application. Screw 'em.
There are too many morons on the road for just Progressive. Liberty Mutual takes the overflow.
And my confusion certainly shows how hard it is to brand something as theoretical as insurance.
Nobody can figure out 'Mayhem'. It seems to be seasonal(college football), but whenever people think he's gone, there he is.
The Dennis Haysbert ads have been reduced to him listening to babbling idiots ('SAFE DRIVERS SAVE 40 PERCENT!')
The Dennis Haysbert ads have been reduced to him listening to babbling idiots ('SAFE DRIVERS SAVE 40 PERCENT!')
Ha! I agree! They also should allow ads to be skipped on the YouTube room channel! And they put **** like full episodes of Zoe's Extraordinary playlist and how-to videos before it too! They also do music videos disguised as ads! Also, they put ads in the middle of what you are watching too! That is bullshit!
Youtube ads are the worst!
I can't go directly to a video without having to press the refresh button to skip an ad. Even worse is when ads interrupt a video that's in progress. And the worst of them are the ones that follow the end of a video! If Limu Emu and that idiot Doug do such an ad for YouTube, I'm gonna sue their butts.
I can't go directly to a video without having to press the refresh button to skip an ad. Even worse is when ads interrupt a video that's in progress. And the worst of them are the ones that follow the end of a video! If Limu Emu and that idiot Doug do such an ad for YouTube, I'm gonna sue their butts.
I can tolerate ads at the beginning or end of You Tube videos but I get tired of the ones that interrupt during the videos. And if you pause a video they will run more ads when you start back.
Every time one of those CashNet USA ads comes on with that annoying superhero I just want to throw something at the TV and scream.
And that obnoxious young superhero in the ad is so extremely annoying (to put it nicely), that I hope he does something to get himself talked about on our "Sexual Misconduct in Broadcasting" board here. The ad and that guy are that annoying to that point.
And that obnoxious young superhero in the ad is so extremely annoying (to put it nicely), that I hope he does something to get himself talked about on our "Sexual Misconduct in Broadcasting" board here. The ad and that guy are that annoying to that point.
"You pay and pay and pay ... at CashNet USA."
The new Uber Eats ad (with the elves doing gymnastics and "Everybody Dance Now" playing) also has just entered my "worst of all time" list. It just aired during Fox Bears-Vikings NFL coverage a short time ago.
I thought gay stereotypes were a no-no these days. See also: The Dr. Pepper commercial with the guy who looks like the love child of Prince and Little Richard. I haven't seen that one in awhile.
Yeah that one creeps me out. I can't imagine the meeting where that idea was pitched.
Just got to thinking of an ad. Remember the Directv ad from the 2000s where a guy catches his son riding his bike without a helmet and scolds him and admonishes him to promise that he would wear a helmet and sends him up a latter to get the sattelite dish! Here you are lecturing your son about safety yet you are having him go up the latter to get the sattelite dish! Hypocrisy!
Speaking of Uber Eats, why in the world is Elton John doing those commercials? It's not like he needs the money, and he comes across as pathetic. Totally beneath him.