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The worst commercials in TV history..

G_S_R said:
Natalie Palamides. She started appearing along with Flo (whose also annoying) in 2020. I can't stand her or Flo, nor Jamie.
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I can't stand the commercials, but I'm getting better coverage from Progressive at almost half the price compared to what I got from Farmers.
 
frankberry said:
Can't stand her but you DO remember her. That's the point.
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But I dislike her so much I would never, ever consider buying insurance from them.
 
I doubt if these exist anywhere on YouTube...but my original hometown market had a couple of doozies:

* In the 1960s, a guy in front of the camera on the Jefferson City CBS affiliate throwing play paper money up in the air and yelling, "Money! Money! Money! Go to Thrifty FI-nance for Money!"

* Just a little later, there was a restaurant along Interstate 70 in Columbia called the Interstate Pancake House. The two owners, Ken and Lonesome Del, brothers, had a series of spots, again, shot with one camera, with bad puns featuring, at the end, one of the brothers getting a pie in the face. Example:

One brother at a chalkboard: "Pi-R squared!"
The other: "No, pie are around"
First: "Pi-R squared"
Other: "Pi are messy" and a pie would go in the face of the first guy.

Columbia, Missouri being Columbia, Missouri, this actually became controversial. Not because it upset the Mathematical Sciences department at the University of Missouri, but because the University's TV station, an NBC affiliate, deemed the ads to be in bad taste. But the new UHF ABC affiliate in town said, "no problem! come on down!" and the spots aired there.
 
Claritin won't stop airing their annoying ad. Can't stand that annoying singing, the TV's going on mute the second I hear it.

Jardiance also won't give up on their annoying ad.

One positive note - the annoying HEB ad I mentioned a few weeks ago has stopped airing. Good riddance!
 
Those Meineke ads with the fake-German accented twit are so bad that the agency that came up with this drivel should be replaced immediately.
 
The Oak St. Health ads with Zion are worthy of mention, for sure. They know how he takes his coffee, and he seemingly never waits for anyone. The doctor and an aide are at his beck and call, instead of a nurse getting his info up front, then waiting a half hour for the doctor, which happens with most humans. The list goes on and on.
 
That Oak Street Health ad (apparently the guy in the ad is somebody famous?) is terrible! I'm sure they watched the final cut and thought, "Nailed it!" but that ad is just so cloying and over the top obnoxious.
Also, the "Pair" eyewear commercial with the model who is trying to look sexy in those stupid clunky glasses. She ends up doing anything but. Take a regular pair of glasses and make them look thick and cheap with a magnetic stick on front. No thanks.
Finally, the Lume deodorant ads. Terrible vertical video of unattractive women showing off where you should rub this stuff on your body. Ugh, I would never buy this stuff.
Trouble is, these three ads seem to be keeping the company I work for afloat.
 
Ozempic recently came back, and the jingle sounds even worse.

Burger King won't quit with their ads either, same with "Jardiance: The Musical" or Claritin.
 


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