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The worst commercials in TV history..
- Thread starter mleach
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Worst Olympics ad: Target's back to school ad featuring a wise-ass kid babbling about how he now prefers sharks, after previously being obsessed with 'dinos'.
Watching a price is right million dollar spectacular on YouTube from Christmas 2003 and there is a holiday commercial for SBC unlimited long distance where people are talking on the phone while their families are seated to eat holiday dinners yet they are not at the table they keep yapping on the phone while neglecting their families. smh
I'd never heard of her until these ads. I'd like to never hear of her again. She redefines the word "awful" -- in the same category as Pauly Shore, Tom Green, and Rob Schneider: Not funny and completely obnoxious.
1962ish the Snickers candy bar commercial with kids riding on the back of a cow singing about how they love Snickers. This was before a lot of "special effects". I still wondered how the kids stayed on the cow when it was walking?
Am I the only one annoyed and puzzled over Nissan's current series of Rogue commercials? They all start someone asking if the car they see is the guy's new Rogue. "Yes, crazy story" is the response. And then the guy goes on to describe being sold a Rogue, with the deal clincher coming when the sales person on the test drive tells him that Consumer Reports rates the car highly and that "They're going fast!" As if ANYONE would take that at face value coming from a sales weasel at a dealership.
One that just started airing recently takes the absurdity to a new level. In this one, the salesperson is a woman, and she interrupts the test drive by asking the guy "Don't we need to be somewhere?" So they head for some sort of stadium and are seen out of the car and seated OUTSIDE the stadium, enjoying ballpark food and high-fiving each other for no apparent reason. "We're having a blast," the guy informs us. So the test drive has turned into a first date? Wow! Is that common at dealerships these days. Anyway they head back to the dealership for a firm handshake (not a kiss?) to seal the deal as the guy said "I just HAD to have that Rogue."
Absurd, fascinating and annoying all at once. I really want to know about this apparent dating that goes on during test drives. More interesting than the car, for sure.
One that just started airing recently takes the absurdity to a new level. In this one, the salesperson is a woman, and she interrupts the test drive by asking the guy "Don't we need to be somewhere?" So they head for some sort of stadium and are seen out of the car and seated OUTSIDE the stadium, enjoying ballpark food and high-fiving each other for no apparent reason. "We're having a blast," the guy informs us. So the test drive has turned into a first date? Wow! Is that common at dealerships these days. Anyway they head back to the dealership for a firm handshake (not a kiss?) to seal the deal as the guy said "I just HAD to have that Rogue."
Absurd, fascinating and annoying all at once. I really want to know about this apparent dating that goes on during test drives. More interesting than the car, for sure.
And I don't blame you-- I never liked the original.
Just saw during the conclusion of Illinois-Wisconsin March Madness game on CBS the latest Wendy's tournament-related ad with the basic premise, "Frozen, not Fresh." With frozen images of an AI version of Charles Barkley on the CBS desk and a couple eating their burgers. Hard pass on this ad.
Speaking of which, I just came across an article analyzing all the March Madness-related ads which are premiering during the tourney. Some of these ads are almost Super Bowl-esque but basketball oriented:
March Madness 2025 Ads: The Complete List of Commercials
A brand fan's updating guide to who's in the bracket
www.adweek.com
Actually, their later commercials have been a bit more sedate. That first one was apparently to get everyone's attention as in "what was that all about?".
Kind of like the 21st-century version of the Jacko Energizer commercials:
If you're from the east coast you'll remember the "Crazy Eddie" commercials from around 1980 or so. Eddie Antar ended up in jail.
Burger King " I'm not Herb"
Verizon "Can you hear me now?"
Wendy's "Where's the beef?"
A McDonald's commercial where the employees look like this: (yeah right!)
Burger King " I'm not Herb"
Verizon "Can you hear me now?"
Wendy's "Where's the beef?"
A McDonald's commercial where the employees look like this: (yeah right!)
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They still run that original commercial, but in The All-New, Super Gross :15 length. I'll explain in a bit.
But so, sooooo many questions arise about this lady. Like how often does she shower? What soap does she use? What's her diet like? Is she in a really humid area? Has she seen a doctor? etc.
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She could be an undead zombie for all any of us knows these days. And the CDC would be none the wiser because they're doing exactly what they should be doing during an epic avian flu and measles outbreak; Getting To The Bottom of Those Cancer Causing Obama Deep State 5G Windmill Things.
And when she lists out all the body parts, it's like you begin to seriously wonder what her home life is like. What Christmas must look like with all that going on before she found this goop. ("Yes kids. But we did promise your Aunt Shannon we would bring her these nice jugs of concentrated industrial odor remover. Now put on your military grade gas masks....Oh, and could you help me move the skeletons of those carolers over here, please?.....")
I thought they changed it because it grosses out everybody who sees it. And for a few weeks, it was safe. Not sure if it's the same lady, but the plastic surgery, makeup and sudden lack of trailer park accent was a vast improvement.
But then they returned with that damned :15 edit. Which, instead of reducing the grossness of the full length original commercial down to a tolerable, Not So Fresh Feeling level, actually doubled down the grossness of the original by playing only the grossest possible parts of it. (And why do they still insist on running it at times when people are EATING? Ugh.)
I mean seriously, there must have been a lot of money they gave her if she agreed to something like being known forever as Our Lady of The Ferociously Dank B.O., strangers pointing and talking, scooching away every time she walks by in public, etc.
