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The worst commercials in TV history..

Although it's more of a plug than a commercial, is it just me or does the post-Final Jeopardy "Prizes for our second and third place contestants provided by Aleve" announcement--while the audience and contestants are smiling and clapping (with the Aleve logo on the video screens at the losing contestants' podiums)--seem a little weird and creepy to you?

I've found one video of this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaN1X39AikE
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Although it's more of a plug than a commercial, is it just me or does the post-Final Jeopardy "Prizes for our second and third place contestants provided by Aleve" announcement--while the audience and contestants are smiling and clapping (with the Aleve logo on the video screens at the losing contestants' podiums)--seem a little weird and creepy to you?

I've found one video of this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaN1X39AikE
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Why would that be creepy? Maybe after the stress and tension of being on Jeopardy, and the disappointment of losing, you'd have low pack pain or a headache. Better than; "Prizes for our second and third place contestants provided by the Philips Heart-Start Defibrillator. When you're having a heart attack, think Heart-Start."
 
How about "Prizes for our second and third place contestants provided by Colonial Penn Life Insurance. Alex Trebek recommends it!" I just wonder what the average Jeopardy! viewer's age is now. 60?

-crainbebo
 
Or the predatory commercial that uses "Walk of Life" to sell yet another modern day drug with all manner of ill effects.
 
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I believe Charter Spectrum Triple Play (844-455-2999, or in the case of the Youtube video, 844-644-2999) is the worst cable service commercial in television history. This commercial airs 15-25 times a day on our local Yakima stations and it premiered more than 6 months ago. In total, I've seen it probably 1500 times or more. About ready to call Charter and tell them how HORRIBLE this commercial is. And it's not just WA that deals with it, it's about 20 other states. Any state that has Charter service, they see this horrible ad. People that like the horrible rap dancing singing top 40 crap in this commercial should be ashamed of themselves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6GLHTdcVo

Charter also has a couple of other gems - one where a kid has a gaming headset on, locked in his game; his mother is talking to her mother on an iPad via Skype, and the stupid father is doing some odd exercises.
Another shows a boy who seems to dig a gigantic 15 foot hole and digs dinosaur bones out of it - from his backyard! How could he do that? Annoying as hell.

And how many of you (I suppose Tim in Springfield, IL is one of them) have to deal with "Yo reeeal money!" Titlemax? She's so horrible it's not even funny. I don't have to but any state where Titlemax locations are have this horrible abomination to deal with.

I hate Aspen Dental ads with a passion now as well. One being shown on our local stations has the annoying twit office lady spinning a "wheel" which decides how much a guy's dentures cost. Are you serious?

US Cellular also has this "gem" - get away from that boar as fast as you can guys! You should have used your phone BEFORE HAND.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtTaxSejBUw

-crainbebo
 
Hate Farxiga. What does "Walk of Life" have to do with a pill with 19 side effects, "in rare cases, coma or death may occur"?

I hate the snotty idiots in that Breyer's ad - Gelato "not for kids." Just let the boy have a taste you idiot parents!

"HEAR YE HEAR YE!!" Ford's 4th of July ad. Shut up you idiot! George Washington is rolling in his grave at how stupid this commercial is.

I'm getting sick of inanimate objects singing "Happy Together" in that Plenti commercial. Pineapples, iPads, purses, generic versions of women's deodorant, watermelons?! Didn't mind it the first 3 times, but the next 985 times - no!

I also HATE Progressive's latest trash: "Bad Bundle Joke Box." Seriously. They were made by a stupid 10-year-old. Not funny, and horribly annoying. Instant mute.
Wish Flo would be fired from the advertising department, the talking box goes to a landfill, and all the rate suckers are killed off. THEN Progressive's ads will be tolerable.

-crainbebo
 
The crassness, disrespect and insult to the intelligence of the talking soccer trophy in a big box bank trading and investments commercial. "Whatever, Janet!". Maybe the millennials have lots to invest and are willing; nobody else tolerates that manner of conduct and disrespect, even if it IS part of the current culture.
 
I just saw the latest Samsung Pay ad with the atrocious (IMO) rendition of "My Favorite Things" in the background for the umpteenth time this weekend. IMO it's the 2015 equivalent of the 2008 Toyota "Saved By Zero" ad campaign that aired ad nauseum every Sunday during NFL games. It was just on again during a recent NBC Sunday Night Football (Cowboys-Saints) commercial break. I can only wonder what the Christmas/holiday version of this ad campaign will be like starting around Thanksgiving--especially with "My Favorite Things" considered by many to be a Christmas song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmT0WGVjT4M
 
I nominate the Liberty Mutual commercial shot in front of the Statue of Liberty
with that young woman who named her car Brad (and apparently loved him more
than 2 boyfriends).
 
Lately Geico has been running their Dora the Explorer "It's What You Do" into the ground. Probably one of the worst Geico commercials I've EVER SEEN. It's a disgrace that Geico would even think of, let alone greenlight, those annoying cartoon characters for car insurance. Do they think 4-year-olds buy car insurance? Disgusting, horrible commercial.
 
Lately an ad that was once only a radio ad has surfaced on TV. Maybe the advertiser figured the callers who called the next day thinking it was today just weren't smart enough to figure it out on the radio, so they took to the TV airwaves?

Monday - "Last names beginning with the letters A-M you may call today; letters N-Z call tomorrow."
Tuesday - "Last names beginning with the letters A-M you may call today; letters N-Z call tomorrow."
Wednesday - "Last names beginning with the letters A-M you may call today; letters N-Z call tomorrow."
Thursday - "Last names beginning with the letters A-M you may call today; letters N-Z call tomorrow."
Friday - "Last names beginning with the letters A-M you may call today; letters N-Z call tomorrow."
Saturday - "Last names beginning with the letters A-M you may call today; letters N-Z call tomorrow."
Sunday - "Last names beginning with the letters A-M you may call today; letters N-Z call tomorrow."
 
Are there other markets--or is it just here in Springfield--where Jerry Springer himself does local commercial promos (either for businesses sponsoring the local telecast of his sleaze-a-thon, or promos for the show itself)? The last 2-3 years Springer has done a commercial for a local used-car dealer here in Springfield (Ideal Auto Sales) on our local Fox affiliate which carries his show (WRSP-55.1). Not good IMO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-lbOFACI6E
 


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