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commercials I (we) hate

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oldtimeradio

Not too long ago there was a topic on commercials we hated on the radio. Since I listen to KNX quite a bit online (I don't live in L.A.) I am changing my tune.

The Kars for Kids jingle I am now listening all the way through. However, Progressive Insurance has come out with a number of commercials with Flo singing (that's debateable). Everytime she comes on I hit the volume control. This is the current worst offending commercial.

But then, there's also not having a large amount of internet commercials to cover the local ad breaks. In that case one commercial is repeated several times, or one company with several annoying commercials gets repeated until the news programming begins again.
 
"One-eight-seven-seven-Kars-For-Kids, One-eight-seven-seven-Kars-For-Kids" is one of the most-hated commercials in history. It ranks alongside Sit 'N Sleep: If they can't beat any advertised price, "your mattress is FRRrrreeeeee!" And does anyone really think a Sit 'N Sleep salesman would say, "Well, Mattress Discounters is charging $190 for that mattress but we don't want to sell the same mattress for $189 so we'll just give it to you"? As soon as I hear the beginning of a commercial for one of those two comapnies, I immediately change the station. I also change stations as soon as I hear a commercial that begins with a legal disclaimer spoken at 500 words per minute.

Mike, if you're now listening to the Kars For Kids commercials all the way through, I want you to know that help is available. I'm e-mailing you the link to a "Commercial Lovers Anonymous" site where trained counselors can help you to start hating the Kars For Kids commercial again.

As for KNX, are they ever going to get new sound effects and background music for their traffic reports?
 
"Eight-six-six, sixty-six FASTER" is another commercial I hate. Green Light Financial and Kars For Kids must get their "phone number singer" from the same agency. I don't need the number sung to me---just tell it to me! And don't say it five times in a row either!
 
LARadioRewind said:
"Eight-six-six, sixty-six FASTER" is another commercial I hate. Green Light Financial and Kars For Kids must get their "phone number singer" from the same agency. I don't need the number sung to me---just tell it to me! And don't say it five times in a row either!
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Singing the number is how they get you to remember it, silly. There's a reason why these commercials exploit the power of the earworm.
 
Ed Asner hawking solar panels on KRTH led us to change the office radio station to KPRI. Some of the over the air stuff can be as tedious as kars for kids.
As far as favorite commercials, Jerry Carroll doing the Crazy Eddie ads in NY are classics. In the middle of July- "the sun is shining, the streets are sweltering- its time for Crazy Eddie's Christmas sale".
 
The clean smelling plumber commercials are terrible. The probiotic lady commercials and her one hour commercial also deserve special mention. I am not an advertising pro but from a dollars spent - dollars earned perspective, how much return on investment can these commercials, and others like them, be achieving in this expensive market?
 
youngsag said:
The clean smelling plumber commercials are terrible. The probiotic lady commercials and her one hour commercial also deserve special mention. I am not an advertising pro but from a dollars spent - dollars earned perspective, how much return on investment can these commercials, and others like them, be achieving in this expensive market?
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Smell good, NO! But Adee Do.

How about Larry Miller screeching "FREEEEEEEE! Do they still do those? I'm in Iowa now where the two guys at J & K Market in Centerville are stacking the bargains high and watching them fly.
 
Mister nmoore, there is a website called "Michael's Blog", which, as near as I can figure, is a blog by someone named Michael, and it has a history of the Sit N' Sleep commercials. They first advertised on radio in 1991 on Howard Stern's program and sales immediately rose. A few years ago they changed the advertising and stopped the annoying screeching of "FRRrrreeeee!!!" and sales dropped. Go figure! They went back to the original advertising methods. And yes, those commercials still air on radio...and I still change the station as soon as I hear one begin.
 
I love the "FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" spots. It makes me feel "at home" when I'm back driving around the southland.

Anyone hear those "Glen Lerner" spots in Vegas? "Glen Lerner is the way to go, dial 877-15-oh-oh!" Drives me nuts.
 
I used to like the Sit n Sleep commercials when Irwin was going ballistic on Larry. But they dropped him lately.

What I am sick of is the same 5 TV commercials that air on U Verse. I swear I'm ready to blow up Taverna Tony, I don't care how hot their belly dancer is. A million restaurants in LA/OC and I have to see ads for that friggin place every 5 minutes.
 
AutoNation's latest commercials (that use the "Ghostbusters" theme) now made its rounds to radio. The last thing I need to hear on the radio is "When you need a car / Truck or van / Who you gonna call? / AUTONATION!"

I get it, some of the regional auto dealers (Bankston in Dallas/Fort Worth TX, Maroone in Florida, etc.) are now named AutoNation and they're trying to get the word out, but like some of the songs I loathe, they're overplayed! :mad:
 
henry said:
I love the "FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" spots. It makes me feel "at home" when I'm back driving around the southland.

Anyone hear those "Glen Lerner" spots in Vegas? "Glen Lerner is the way to go, dial 877-15-oh-oh!" Drives me nuts.
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AKA in Phoenix as "Lerner & Rowe - is the way to go"
 
Any commercial, whether on radio or television, that uses an old rock song or a parody of a rock song, I immediately turn off. Almost every song I've ever liked is eternally ruined for me as soon as I hear it being used to advertise shoes, clothes, Viagra, dust mops, diet pills, laxatives, pet food, restaurants or any other product. Barry Manilow got his start as a writer/composer of commercial jingles, including "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there," "I am stuck on Band-Aid 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me" and "You deserve a break today at McDonald's." That was more than 40 years ago.I can't remember the last time I heard an original jingle in a commercial!
 
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