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The worst commercials in TV history..

radiofan2023 said:
Do they add on a charge for using a debit card like Arco used to? I swore off Arco after I saw that on my receipt.
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A lot of stores and restaurants do that now to make up the fees that banks charge them for debit card sales. Another thing that happens is that some stores will have a minimum purchase for debit cards, usually $3 or $5 in my area.
landtuna said:
I'm beginning to see more and more of that recently, especially in mom and pop restaurants (except that it is sold as a discount for cash instead of an added charge).
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A local Mexican restaurant in my area does that as well.
 
valvashon said:
Any AM/PM ad with the repulsive mascot Toomgis. I would never stop there for their watered down gas anyway (unless I have to fill up a rental vehicle) but just the thought of that walking pile of gross snack food makes me avoid the inside of an AM/PM store. Thank goodness for pay at the pump.
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Dude, I went to a Braves game in 2008 with the group from my school and we were in the AM/PM section and their hot dogs were gross as hell
 
This commercial where a boss attacks a female employee for being late. You do not attack an employee when they are late! You give them warnings and if this keeps up you eventually fire them! Unacceptable!

 
The recent commercial where the woman talks about putting some lotion in your butt Crack and underboob and ur arms and face like anybody wants to hear that.

And then the Huggies commercial about putting a diaper on that bouncy butt, running butt, naked butt. I think people should know what to do with diapers.
 
anotherguyTN said:
A lot of stores and restaurants do that now to make up the fees that banks charge them for debit card sales. Another thing that happens is that some stores will have a minimum purchase for debit cards, usually $3 or $5 in my area.
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Very dangerous to use debit cards. I usually pay online bills with a credit card instead and it has saved my butt (financially) a few times. I see more and more restaurants giving discounts for cash instead of cc's.

I recently noticed that a T-Mobile internet subscription is shedding credit card payments. You now have to give them direct bank access (electronic cash) or they will drop your autopay discount ($5/month).
 
landtuna said:
Very dangerous to use debit cards. I usually pay online bills with a credit card instead and it has saved my butt (financially) a few times. I see more and more restaurants giving discounts for cash instead of cc's.

I recently noticed that a T-Mobile internet subscription is shedding credit card payments. You now have to give them direct bank access (electronic cash) or they will drop your autopay discount ($5/month).
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I try to avoid using any kind of card if possible when I buy from a brick and mortar store.
 
searadiofreak said:
Almost all commercials that run during "The Price Is Right" are about elderly problems. Scooter-stores, medicare, medicaid, good lord. If this show is committed to dying, then they are on the right track. Perhaps there are some younger viewers watching, and there are certainly younger folks trying to be contestants, but if I hear that one old guy yelling about how he is a prisoner in his own home one more time, I will permanently turn to The View. And that will be the end of me, without the scooter.
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azumanga said:
It's the one thing I don't get -- many of the contestants on TPIR are college students and young adults, but its commercial load slants very heavily toward elderly people who are either sick or invalid.

If the show is attracting young folks to Television City in Hollywood, why do the people buying ad time think that only seniors in nursing homes are watching the show. It makes as much sense as a 60 year old farmer in the middle of Nebraska watching Soul Train.
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Thought back to this nearly 12-year old discussion about TPIR commercials (why they are geared toward the elderly while the show mostly attracts youth) when I went back and watched SNL's 2017 Celebrity Price is Right skit. Alec Baldwin's Tony Bennett (RIP) knocked it out of the park in his "commercials" in that skit, which in addition to being a takeoff on celebrity game show editions seemed to me to be a satire about the elderly-oriented commercials on TPIR:

 
Annoying ads from the top of my brain:

Jardiance for being annoying and overplayed
Claritin for using a Christmas song all year long and overplaying it
Burger King for that whopper song being terribly sung.
Every Liberty Mutual ad. Someone needs to cook up that emu and fire Doug. They've ran their course.
Texas-branded HEB ad for annoying rapping being used.
T-Mobile for overplaying that one ad while I was on vacation. "I've Got Home Internet With T-Mobile". It wasn't funny and it was annoying.
 
As of today...August 22nd:

Liberty Mutual still overplaying their annoying ad and that annoying jingle. This ad is so embarrassing.

HEB still at it with rapping, plus overplaying it in the mornings on my local NBC and ABC station. Can't stand it.

Progressive's Mara....I can't stand her.

Plus the others I mentioned, including Burger King (yuck!)
 


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