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The worst commercials in TV history..

OK, when you are watching tv and these "old people" commercials come on, does that make you feel old? Or does it make you feel you are watching the wrong channel? Or do you just ignore them? (That is my option!)

The Price Is Right is great for old people commercials, and there are countless other programs that throw them into the "old" pie. I guess a targeted audience is OK, but what about the the backlash. Younger viewers who feel they should not be watching...just wondering...
 
What's old anymore? Bob Dylan is 72. Mick Jagger just turned 70. For god's sake, Chuck Berry is 87 and still touring (as of this posting).

People take care of themselves better than they did when I was growing up, and 70 is no longer considered ancient.

Not that I'm looking forward to it.

Joe
 
searadiofreak said:
OK, when you are watching tv and these "old people" commercials come on, does that make you feel old? Or does it make you feel you are watching the wrong channel? Or do you just ignore them? (That is my option!)

The Price Is Right is great for old people commercials, and there are countless other programs that throw them into the "old" pie. I guess a targeted audience is OK, but what about the the backlash. Younger viewers who feel they should not be watching...just wondering...
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advertisers pay for who is likely to be watching live, at 11AM on a weekday morning on CBS that's likely to be old people, young people don't notice since they fast forward through commercials, the contests may be young on TPIR but Neilsen doesn't measure multi person households were young people are likely to reside like college dorms, does Neilsen measure nursing homes?
 
joeybabe25 said:
What's old anymore? Bob Dylan is 72. Mick Jagger just turned 70. For god's sake, Chuck Berry is 87 and still touring (as of this posting).

People take care of themselves better than they did when I was growing up, and 70 is no longer considered ancient.

Not that I'm looking forward to it.

Joe
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Me neither, and I'm getting closer than I want to admit. But given the only possible alternative (death), reaching 70 and higher is a good thing!
 
joeybabe25 said:
What's old anymore? Bob Dylan is 72. Mick Jagger just turned 70. For god's sake, Chuck Berry is 87 and still touring (as of this posting).

People take care of themselves better than they did when I was growing up, and 70 is no longer considered ancient.

Not that I'm looking forward to it.

Joe
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Alan Young (Wilbur Post) is in his 90's. Probably the only person still alive that was on the Mister Ed show.
He's 93.
 
What about all those rhetorical questions with the guy saying "Can switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?" Those ads sucked! And to quote one of those, "What? Do you live under a rock?" (I don't!)
 
One of the only rhetorical question Geico ads I liked was Charlie Daniels' fiddle going about 100 mph...

-crainbebo
 
The Randy Johnson snowball fight and the R. Lee Ermey ("Gunney") drill instructor therapist ads weren't bad either. :)
 
Has anyone seen the commercial for "balloon pants" for people over 750 pounds? I think it's horrible that they don't have pants for larger men and women. What about the 800 or 900 pounders.

They gotta eat too.

Joe
 
Ally bank where people are asked to talk to a blender in a dry cleaners. They say people don't want to talk to a machine. A machine like an ATM?

Also, Egyptians believed in pyramid power so the pyramids weren't supposed to be cubes. :p

Also all these drug ads with silly jingle instrumental music beds and nonsense visuals of people doing things that could be described as stock footage.

Rant over, for now. ;)
 
roadrunner said:
Any commercial about an incurable disease such as cancer (several close relatives of mine have had it and it's a nightmare), any prescription drug, ... Any commercial promising a new face (go away, Debby Boone, please! LOL), ones about depression or how adding this drug will to your current anti-depressant will show results and the fast talking "side effects" (may cause thoughts of _____) or other physical ailments that are too disgusting to mention here ......

Political commercials are not my favorite.

I would rather have the "meow meow meow meow" commercial all day long. And please, please take away Flo from Progressive! GO A-W-A-Y!

Hoping that law goes into effect soon about how they won't be allowed to have deliberately increased volume with certain commercials. I think the best thing to do is shut the stupid idiot box OFF.
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Maybe it's because I have a cat (although he doesn't have a Cat's Meow toy), or I just like animals, but the Cat's Meow commercial doesn't bother me. The most annoying to me right now is the Michael Buffer "Let's get ready to BUNDLLLLLLE!"
for Progressive. And I, too, wish Flo would just disappear.
 
joeybabe25 said:
Has anyone seen the commercial for "balloon pants" for people over 750 pounds? I think it's horrible that they don't have pants for larger men and women. What about the 800 or 900 pounders. They gotta eat too.
Joe
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Yea, just ask Kirstie Alley or Oprah Winfrey. Or Stan Laurel.
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
joeybabe25 said:
Has anyone seen the commercial for "balloon pants" for people over 750 pounds? I think it's horrible that they don't have pants for larger men and women. What about the 800 or 900 pounders. They gotta eat too.
Joe
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Yea, just ask Kirstie Alley or Oprah Winfrey. Or Stan Laurel.
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Laurel was the skinny one.
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
joeybabe25 said:
Has anyone seen the commercial for "balloon pants" for people over 750 pounds? I think it's horrible that they don't have pants for larger men and women. What about the 800 or 900 pounders. They gotta eat too.
Joe
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Yea, just ask Kirstie Alley or Oprah Winfrey. Or Stan Laurel.
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You mean Oliver Hardy. Of course, you can't ask him anyway since he died in 1957.
 
MCarney said:
There was one a few years ago for some sort of mental condition that had possible side effects of "increased gambling or sexual compulsion". Dropped my jaw when I heard that one.
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That sounds like Requip, the first restless legs syndrome drug.
 
joeybabe25 said:
What's old anymore? Bob Dylan is 72. Mick Jagger just turned 70. For god's sake, Chuck Berry is 87 and still touring (as of this posting).

People take care of themselves better than they did when I was growing up, and 70 is no longer considered ancient.

Not that I'm looking forward to it.

Joe
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Then you have ads for funeral expenses with the lunch ladies, waiting for God, who haven't seen their grandchildren in years (gee I wonder why ::) )
 


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