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The worst commercials in TV history..

firepoint525 said:
I absolutely DETEST the McDonald's commercial in which the woman is whining that her sister's boyfriend thinks that Sunday afternoons are for football, and her own boyfriend is such a WUSS that he is afraid that she will throw him out for disagreeing with her! :mad:
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Maybe I'm sleeping in my Lazy Boy too much, but where is this McDonald's ad airing? Haven't seen it...
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
firepoint525 said:
I absolutely DETEST the McDonald's commercial in which the woman is whining that her sister's boyfriend thinks that Sunday afternoons are for football, and her own boyfriend is such a WUSS that he is afraid that she will throw him out for disagreeing with her! :mad:
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Maybe I'm sleeping in my Lazy Boy too much, but where is this McDonald's ad airing? Haven't seen it...
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It's been in HEAVY rotation here in Nashville for quite a while now. It seems like they "rested" it for a while, but have now brought it back. It promotes the dollar value menu. I believe the guy in the ad is eating a breakfast burritio or something when he fears that she might throw him out. (The sister and the sister's boyfriend do NOT appear in the ad.)
 
and I'm really not liking that one where the Clay Matthews Fathead comes to life
and chases some slacker in a Bears jersey around the apartment.
 
the ones with the cheesy Santa Claus who works at a Chevy dealership
are none too great either.
 
In 2-years this thread has grown to 41 pages, so I haven't checked every post. Does anyone remember that noxious "Dippity Do" commerical from the 1960's? A male voiceover repeated the product name a dozen times (or more) against a sickeningly simplistic rift on a bass fiddle.

Just thinking about it makes me... uh... WHOOOAA... Suddenly the room is spinning...
 
My mom used to put Dippity Do in her hair back in the 60's.
It had a consistency like super glue. I think she stopped buying it
after hearing Johnny Carson make a rude joke about it on The Tonight Show.

Or maybe she was just tired of having her hair look like a wet poodle.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
My mom used to put Dippity Do in her hair back in the 60's. It had a consistency like super glue. I think she stopped buying it after hearing Johnny Carson make a rude joke about it on The Tonight Show.
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There's a "There's Something About Mary" joke in there somewhere. ;D
 
My mom used to put Dippity Do in her hair back in the 60's.
It had a consistency like super glue. I think she stopped buying it
after hearing Johnny Carson make a rude joke about it on The Tonight Show.
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That was Carnac..."Dippity-Do"..."What forms on your dippity in the morning?"
 
Corky Marlowe said:
My mom used to put Dippity Do in her hair back in the 60's.
It had a consistency like super glue. I think she stopped buying it
after hearing Johnny Carson make a rude joke about it on The Tonight Show.
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That was Carnac..."Dippity-Do"..."What forms on your dippity in the morning?"
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Still makes me laugh, regardless of how "rude" it was. For Johnny Carson, even the most crassiest material can be classy stuff.
 
firepoint525 said:
Ever wonder if at least some of the writers of commercials are also writers on some of the lame TV shows that we see nowadays? Just a thought.
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Now that's an interesting thought-- I'm thinking "The Big Bang Theory","The World According to Jim", "The King of Queens"... You know, you may be on to something!
 
How about that auto parts spot-- the on-screen character answers his phone stuttering the 1st syllable-- A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-...

I can't recall the name of the product. Must be the worst TV commercial ever. Haven't seen it lately. Was it pulled? Euthanized?
 
LOL - I mentioned that one earlier in the thread. The next time it was on I learned it was FedEx. It still turns up from time to time.
 
Silkie said:
LOL - I mentioned that one earlier in the thread. The next time it was on I learned it was FedEx. It still turns up from time to time.
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Thanks. I got lazy; this successful thread is getting deep, 42-pages, so I missed your post. Thank God for remote controls and MUTE buttons...
 
and just when you think the worst of the worst commercials have been seen,
Bob from Enzyte pushing Natural Male Enhancement reappears for another cycle.
 
Has anyone seen the new Pizza Hut commercial with the curly-haired guy singing all the toppings? (a Burger King-esque takeoff of the legendary McDonald's Big Mac song, IMO). That aired early in today's AFC playoff game (Texans-Ravens) on CBS. I think that ad was worthy of this list.

And I am fed up with the entire "Southwest Makes the Call" ad campaign that has seemed like it's dominated every NFL season for at least the last year or so.
 
Most annoying Joseph A Banks Clothing...an over the top announcer and the frequency makes these commercials my candidate for most currently annoying.

Close behind...The Phillips Probiotics commercial with ath "Matron of Honor' doing a bridal toast(?) and praising the virtues of Phillips. If I was in the wedding party she would have been shoved into the nice body of water in the background.

There are a ton of commercials on the air that after I have watched them, mostly by accident, I wonder, "What the hell were they selling anyway." I have to wonder who the writers are aiming for in their quest to sell product. Did I ever write a bad commercial, YOU BET, but fortunately it was a long time ago and all traces are now hurtling through space to convince other life forms that there is no intelligent life on earth.
 
Kelly Watts said:
Most annoying Joseph A Banks Clothing...an over the top announcer and the frequency makes these commercials my candidate for most currently annoying.

Close behind...The Phillips Probiotics commercial with ath "Matron of Honor' doing a bridal toast(?) and praising the virtues of Phillips. If I was in the wedding party she would have been shoved into the nice body of water in the background.

There are a ton of commercials on the air that after I have watched them, mostly by accident, I wonder, "What the hell were they selling anyway." I have to wonder who the writers are aiming for in their quest to sell product. Did I ever write a bad commercial, YOU BET, but fortunately it was a long time ago and all traces are now hurtling through space to convince other life forms that there is no intelligent life on earth.
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How about the Phillips commercial with a woman resembling a flight attendant who hands out samples of their products to passengers with various digestive problems? And I agree about some of the more contemporary commercials; I can't always tell what the product is.

I'm not crazy about the "that's logistics" spot that uses reworked lyrics to "That's Amore." I don't even think the guy can sing.

And I may have said some variation on this before, but I will never, NEVER do business with Progressive until they remove that freaky-looking woman who's their spokeperson. OTOH, I love the ones (Travelers Insurance, I think) with the dog looking for a place to secure his bone; in the most recent one I've seen he gives it to the biggest dog in the neighborhood even though all the smaller dogs would love to have it.

And at least we're done with the Andy Williams singalike for Nissan for this year, at least, although I'm going to miss the woman who says, "Hurry in!".

Sort of off-topic, but is the voiceover for "Southwest Makes the Call" Keith Jackson?
 


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