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The worst commercials in TV history..

BRNout said:
Is it Viagra or Levitra where as soon as "the mood" strikes, all of the walls and furniture flip over - revealing some *romantic* paradise where the guy is supposed to do his old lady? Those ads are sooooooo bad! Just laughable.

Why, oh why, hasn't someone at SNL just ripped on those?
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Especially those Cialis bathtubs. Must be some sado-masochist who did those commercials. The mood strikes and they head out to bug infested allergy fields and into separate bathtubs.
 
It's now nearly 15 minutes into ABC's Saturday night college football coverage (here I'm getting ND-USC) and already twice I've had to endure the Nissan Quest ads (with the "Gonna Have a Baby" blues song in the background). That ad, sadly, is starting to wear thin on me--and I'm sure it will be aired ad nauseum tomorrow during the NFL.
 
I would have also posted this earlier, but I saw a couple more bad ads on Thanksgiving Day:

--The Swanson Chicken Broth ad with the "running turkey" in the supermarket reared its ugly head again this year (apparently it had first aired last year):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ermeaUMJBLQ

And when seeing the ad Thursday night, I can't remember whether it was a separate spot or was edited into the end of the commercial, but I cringed at that "stuffing challenge" spot at the end where two women were preparing to duel over whomever had the best stuffing (with Swanson's gravy).

--I also couldn't stand the Gas-X Prevention ad where a guy is at his wealthy girlfriend's parents' house and her father asks him, "How did you like our cabbage recipe?" Then he bloats. (this ad isn't on Youtube yet).
 
I know someone has already nominated any and all Geico commercials in this "worst commercials" list, but I especially want to nominate the recent Geico ad (which as usual is played ad nauseum during NFL and college football) with the client visiting a psychiatrist (I think that's what it is), with the latter telling him to go to "Namby-Pamby Land." If I hear that phrase again I might scream. UGH.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
I know someone has already nominated any and all Geico commercials in this "worst commercials" list, but I especially want to nominate the recent Geico ad (which as usual is played ad nauseum during NFL and college football) with the client visiting a psychiatrist (I think that's what it is), with the latter telling him to go to "Namby-Pamby Land." If I hear that phrase again I might scream. UGH.
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Awww, come on! I love that ad, frankly because half of the men in America have been feminized to the point that they need the likes of an R. Lee Ermey throwing a box of Kleenex at them and telling them to man up! That ad has my wife and I giggling each time. :D

Actually, Geico manages to have several of the most entertaining ads out there.
 
I'm not too crazy about the Bojangles ads where somebody
(a coach, a sportscaster) has a sudden, very audible, rumbling
in the stomach and announces, "It's Bo-Time!".
 
Tim from Springfield said:
--Any and all of the Carl's Jr./Hardee's commercials since 1997 (when Carl's Jr. purchased the Hardee's chain and introduced the Midwest to "Star Burgers" and gross commercials)--including the early ones with ketchup shown dripping from burgers (including one from about '98 or so I remember where a guy was eating a Carl's Jr. Thickburger from the window of a multi-story building, and a drip of ketchup ends up on a woman's solid white dress shirt). But this one for the Six Dollar Burger is creepy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwa06LSxCI4&feature=related
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Just when we've critiqued both Hardee's/Carl's Jr. and particularly Burger King ads on this thread--earlier in today's CBS broadcast of Bengals-Steelers McDonald's had their own gross ad (but I can't find it on YouTube): three guys eating McDonald's burgers in a car and some of the secret sauce from a Big Mac drips out of the sandwich. Gross.
 
27 pages of this thread and there is no mention of the shrill, grating "He Went To Jared, he went to Jared, He went to BLEEPING Jared" Some other superb ads which get my nod, J. G. Wentworth's opera singer "I've Got A Structured Settlement And I Need Cash Now, Call J. G. Wentworth". Hardee's and Burger King, I agree with you folks on. HH Gregg I also agree with. We can also lose the drug ads. Take the lawyer ads with them.
 
If a waitress ever hung around and dogged me the way that diner waitress on the Reddi Whip commercial does that customer I might have to order oil and cream both, dump them on her head and ask, "Why do diners want everything dessert drowned in whipped cream?".
 
I am getting sick of hearing the latest Honda ad campaign for the holiday season with the annoying song (and singer) that goes: "Holidays, oh Holidays, the best time of the year." I can't even watch any local newscast without having to see that stupid ad.
 
Even though I had started this thread sometime ago..I may have a new one for my "list"..The Freedom Fighters. Tonight on local Denver Comcast TV ( On USA Network to be exact ) I had seen an ad for this group reminding me that Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church are coming to the Denver area soon and that if I would say as much as anything to them ( if I had wanted to anyway ) while they protest then I can be sued by Westboro which would lead to me to losing my job, house, credit, etc....

..now this IS a bit much.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
I am getting sick of hearing the latest Honda ad campaign for the holiday season with the annoying song (and singer) that goes: "Holidays, oh Holidays, the best time of the year." I can't even watch any local newscast without having to see that stupid ad.
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I hear ya man. Glad somebody posted about that played-to-death commercial. High five to ya.

That commercial makes me glad the holidays are over, OTOH I *do* miss that cute chick who sang Up On The Housetop in the other ad.
 
The spot for the hand held device to make your dog stop barking. Also brings to mind the one for the electrified fence to keep your dog in the yard. 1. If the dog is barking, he/she wants/needs food, attention, or to go out. 2. If the dog wants to escape your yard it's probably because you're abusing it with electric shock. ::)
 
Tim from Springfield said:
I know someone has already nominated any and all Geico commercials in this "worst commercials" list, but I especially want to nominate the recent Geico ad (which as usual is played ad nauseum during NFL and college football) with the client visiting a psychiatrist (I think that's what it is), with the latter telling him to go to "Namby-Pamby Land." If I hear that phrase again I might scream. UGH.
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Someone PLEASE destroy the master copy of that AWFUL Geico ad with the pig going "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" I now have an itchy remote finger as soon as I hear the words "Could switching to Geico".
 
Burger King strikes again at least during tonight's Jets-Steelers AFC championship on CBS--but thankfully no King this time. Not necessarily a bad commercial--but one potentially for the most disgusting-looking burger in history. The "Stuffed Steakhouse" burger with the jalapeno and cheese put right into the burger patty. Gross.
 


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