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Annoying TV Commercials

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Icee Racer

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I am curious about what TV commercials do you find very annoying?
 
You were also curious about annoying radio commercials. If you want discussion, you need to start with something.

I really hate the free credit report singing group among others.
 
Most of the same commercials during The Price is Right.

That does confuse me. It looks as though TPIR is very popular with the college crowd. But Majority of the advertisers are geared towards the elderly.

I know, I know that CBS does have a higher than normal percentage of elderly viewers, but TPIR?
 
OK, Icee, I'll play...

One that comes to mind is that dumb ass eating the Carl's Jr. chili cheeseburger who looks like he sunk his face into a bowl of chili, and then can't even tell where on his face the chili is...it's no doubt supposed to be funny, but he just comes across to me as being a colossal moron.
 
Another irritating spot is the Lowe's commercial in which these two neighbors act like a couple of 12-year-olds in this game of one-upmanship they have going:

"My deck's bigger!"

"Yeah, but I have a gazebo!"

These two are actually in Lowe's getting the materials for their decks when they start spitting out deck measurements, each, of course, bigger than the other's.

I keep expecting the guy with the gazebo to say something mature like "Nyah, nyah!"

Jeez, guys...grow up.
 
My deck's bigger!"




Sound's like they were trying to rip off that old skit from the "Blue Collar Comedy Show" with Jeff Foxworthy.
It was a silly routine with several men discussing who had the biggest deck. One guy would brag about his deck and the other guy would say something about his wife loves his deck more than your deck, as a matter of fact she was on my deck last night. or something like that.
 
failsafe said:
You were also curious about annoying radio commercials. If you want discussion, you need to start with something.

I really hate the free credit report singing group among others.

I'm guessing the three commercials they have running aren't supposed to be the same three guys, otherwise ...

The guy complains his dream girl has bad credit and didn't know until after he married her (otherwise he would have dumped her). If his credit were so good as to have a dog and a yard why did he have to drive off the lot in a used subcompact? And does he still have the crap job selling fish to tourists in t-shirts? ???

(As you can see I've seen these ads many times). ;)
 
Bob the "Enzyte" guy. Thought the government shut them down but heeeees back!

Another blast from the past I saw again just the other day, "Crazy Gideon". Now he's smashing big screens. Wait till some little rugrat tries that on Dad's new 60" plasma HDTV, imitating what he just saw on it.
 
I'm fed up with that VONAGE commercial with that irritating guy and girl pitching the service. I don't remember the name of the original group, but the background music is the ' oo..oooo..oo.oooo... ' sung by the girl band in the Kill Bill 1 movie.
I actually lower the sound when it comes on.

Now Vince from Shamwow is pretty funny.
 
I'm not sure what's worse. Ads for "colon cleaners" or "genital warts". I don't care how much --- John Wayne had in his colon when he died. It's all a load of crap. Maybe Larry Parker can get me a million bucks because the Colon Cleaner gave me Genital Warts.
 
How about that recent Jack in The Box ad with the two adult guys being rolled around in that double stroller and then imitating crying infants? I wonder if they regret doing it now? Horrible.
 
No. Not from Jack. In fact -- Jack In the Box was behind the false internet messages claiming that "In-N-Out" would be selling Double-Doubles for only 50 cents on October 22. That Jack is a big clown.
 
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