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The worst commercials in TV history..

Add to the list the bizarre Kia ads (primarily the shuffling rodents) :mad:

and the current Geico add with that damn weeeing pig (baconate him!) :mad:

and the new Esurance adds complaining about "talking animal characters"...this is the same company that used the cartoon "secret agent" character!
 
Esurance recently became a subsidiary of Allstate. Apparently, they're trying a slighty more 'grown-up' approach to their advertising-ironically, this is while the parent company overdoes the 'Mayhem' ads, and now has some random stoner mouthing dialogue spoken by Dennis Haysbert. However, it appears that Esurance is moving on from cartoon secret agent adventures...and if those dorks working in the office are also gone, then good riddance!
 
desertv said:
and the current Geico add with that damn weeeing pig (baconate him!) :mad:
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Count me in as another one who hates that ad...

-crainbebo
 
searadiofreak said:
Almost all commercials that run during "The Price Is Right" are about elderly problems. Scooter-stores, medicare, medicaid, good lord. If this show is committed to dying, then they are on the right track. Perhaps there are some younger viewers watching, and there are certainly younger folks trying to be contestants, but if I hear that one old guy yelling about how he is a prisoner in his own home one more time, I will permanently turn to The View. And that will be the end of me, without the scooter.
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I haven't found it on YouTube, but during TPIR yesterday there was another Hoveround commercial with the name of the scooter being sung at the start and end of the ad. Has anyone else seen that?

And do you remember this Hoveround ad circa 2009 with a parody of the Beach Boys' "I Get Around"? Worthy of this list, and I wonder if it might have aired during TPIR :D :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLQuPh0uC4&feature=related

Also, speaking of "The View" what are their typical commercial breaks like--do any Scooter-Store, Depends, etc. ads also make an appearance on ABC during the 11/10AM slot or is this just on CBS/TPIR?

And speaking of Depends--do any of you remember their circa mid/late 80s ads where the slogan "Get Back to Life . . . With Depend" was being sung? Ugh.
 
I don't remember that I Get Around Hoveround commercial. I have seen that ad for the Scooter Store (Your powerchair will be paid in FULL!) for probably a decade, maybe more now. I don't see a lot of Scooter Store ads on The View, nor on Let's Make a Deal either. It seems to only be centered on TPiR (probably because when Bob Barker left he was about 83 or 84, and before the 90s powerchair ads were extremely rare during that hour). I sometimes see powerchair ads on shows like Maury, for crying out loud, along with the usual law office/CarHop/JG Wentworth/research study ads.

-crainbebo
 
Tim from Springfield said:
searadiofreak said:
Almost all commercials that run during "The Price Is Right" are about elderly problems. Scooter-stores, medicare, medicaid, good lord. If this show is committed to dying, then they are on the right track. Perhaps there are some younger viewers watching, and there are certainly younger folks trying to be contestants, but if I hear that one old guy yelling about how he is a prisoner in his own home one more time, I will permanently turn to The View. And that will be the end of me, without the scooter.
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I haven't found it on YouTube, but during TPIR yesterday there was another Hoveround commercial with the name of the scooter being sung at the start and end of the ad. Has anyone else seen that?

And do you remember this Hoveround ad circa 2009 with a parody of the Beach Boys' "I Get Around"? Worthy of this list, and I wonder if it might have aired during TPIR :D :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLQuPh0uC4&feature=related

Also, speaking of "The View" what are their typical commercial breaks like--do any Scooter-Store, Depends, etc. ads also make an appearance on ABC during the 11/10AM slot or is this just on CBS/TPIR?

And speaking of Depends--do any of you remember their circa mid/late 80s ads where the slogan "Get Back to Life . . . With Depend" was being sung? Ugh.
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Look, us over-40 folks have needs too you know, and... uh, oh--- sorry, gotta go!... Hey, who stole the key from my sooter?!...
 
Since I assume public service ads can also count for this thread, I nominate the Ad Council "That's Not Cool" campaign ad with the guys dressed up as UGLY cell phones to illustrate texting harassment. Apparently this ad has been around since at least 2009--but I saw it again this evening on the Big Ten Network. The question asked was "When does Caring become Controlling?" Obviously an IMPORTANT issue raised in the ad, but the guys dressed in cell phones and how AWFUL those costumes look has put this spot on the Worst Commercial list. YouTube link below for this ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2gIEqW-lL8
 
I think my new least-favorite is the Vonage ad where the new mother is telling
the new dad they need to "get rid of this bundle", and the dad thinks she is
talking about their baby. Followed immediately by that awful Vonage "hooo-oooo,
ooo-ooo-ooo" theme. AAAAAAAARGHHHHHH! I HATE IT!!!!
 
1985 Apple 'Lemmings' ad that aired during the Super Bowl. Not only was it incredibly stupid, it insulted the very customer base they were trying to reach.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
I think my new least-favorite is the Vonage ad where the new mother is telling
the new dad they need to "get rid of this bundle", and the dad thinks she is
talking about their baby. Followed immediately by that awful Vonage "hooo-oooo,
ooo-ooo-ooo" theme. AAAAAAAARGHHHHHH! I HATE IT!!!!
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Who sings that horrible "hooo oooo..." song anyway?
 
there is a commercial from the mid-90s depends on which market you lived in (I lived in Orlando) it was a commercial for pizza hut and the older son in the family worked at Domino's and just as he leaves the family orders pizza from pizza hut and they finally get it and then the son shows up to pick up something he forgot and they are still eating Pizza Hut pizza! As my old english teacher says. BEWARE! Your sins will find you out!
 
New commercial I hate: the new JCPenney ad that mentions 2/1/12 (when sales will be phased out and prices slashed permentaly). Everyone yells "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at all the sale inserts and it's SUPER annoying. Ugh, hate it! Worst one in a long time...

-crainbebo
 
The Vonage song...Is...

"Woo Hoo" by The 5678s and is in the Kill Bill Soundtrack. The 5678's are an all-girl Japanese band. Kind of like Pink Lady, only more of them.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
The Vonage song...Is...

"Woo Hoo" by The 5678s and is in the Kill Bill Soundtrack. The 5678's are an all-girl Japanese band. Kind of like Pink Lady, only more of them.
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Where's Jeff? Sounds like just the sort of thing NBC can use in their lineup right now.
 
crainbebo said:
New commercial I hate: the new JCPenney ad that mentions 2/1/12 (when sales will be phased out and prices slashed permentaly). Everyone yells "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at all the sale inserts and it's SUPER annoying. Ugh, hate it! Worst one in a long time...

-crainbebo
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Then again the first thing I thought was ...

Oh, JC Penny is still in business. Good for them. :D ;)
 
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(yeah I know that's not exactly what the commercial said, but imagine "Simple Chronic Halitosis" flashing on your screen... Wonder what it tasted like...)

J
 
azumanga said:
searadiofreak said:
Almost all commercials that run during "The Price Is Right" are about elderly problems. Scooter-stores, medicare, medicaid, good lord. If this show is committed to dying, then they are on the right track.
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It's the one thing I don't get -- many of the contestants on TPIR are college students and young adults, but its commercial load slants very heavily toward elderly people who are either sick or invalid.

If the show is attracting young folks to Television City in Hollywood, why do the people buying ad time think that only seniors in nursing homes are watching the show. It makes as much sense as a 60 year old farmer in the middle of Nebraska watching Soul Train.
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But to put things into perspective: maybe these same elderly people--especially those who were once housewives and stay-at-home mothers back in the day--may have been part of the TPIR audience since Bob Barker's Day 1 (Sept. 4, 1972). Those who would been very young housewives/stay-at-home moms then (and whose kids would have grown up with TPIR during summers, holidays and sick days from school and would be among those college fans/contestants on the show 90s to present) would be approaching the senior years now--if not there already. And what about those who have watched the show ever since the Bill Cullen era. To me that might explain some of the reason why you see the "elderly problems" ads (Scooter Store, Depends, Medicare, Liberty Mutual, etc.) during TPIR.

And out of curiousity--in the final years of "Guiding Light" (1952-2009) and "As the World Turns" (1956-2010) were there a lot of similar older-oriented ads on those soaps like we see with TPIR nowadays? In other words, were GL and ATWT subject to their fair share of Scooter Store, Medicare, etc. ads themselves--considering their long runs and longtime faithful fans?
 
I usually only saw ads for food/grocery products/drugs during ATWT and GL...

-crainbebo
 
Enjoying the 6-part broadcast saluting HEE HAW on RFD TV. But they keep breaking away to an annoying commercial for something like "Nail It" (fingernail treatment). Three cute, but obnoxious college age girls keep repeating the same refrain. Terrible.
 
I now nominate the latest Axe Anarchy "Unleash the Chaos" ad featuring Elvis' "Can't Help Falling in Love with You." Stupid, stupid and it's already on YouTube--although I actually didn't see for the first time until yesterday (courtesy of CBS college basketball coverage). I'm surprised the ad hasn't been held for the Super Bowl later today--IMO about 10 or so years ago an ad of this caliber would probably be one of those Super Bowl ads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBaH3t5jss
 


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