Ads that make you go "ARGH!"

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As I mentioned in my Notes from the Road thread, I’m blown away by the amount of advertising we North Americans are exposed to on a daily basis. For the most part, I can tune it out but there are some ads that really stick in my craw.

One of the ones I despise the most was a TV commercial for an SUV that came out several years ago. The scene:

A mom and young son are standing in front of a fruit vendor cart on the sidewalk, holding hands. The boy watches a flashy SUV pull up. A mom-type woman steps our of the SUV and walks over to the stall, standing beside the little boy. He looks at the SUV, then up at the woman, then lets go of his mother’s hand and grabs the hand of the SUV driving mom.

The message in this spot - “If you want your kids to love you, you’d better have nice stuff” – is dangerous, in my opinion. I hate, hate, hate that ad.

On a lighter note, though no less annoying, is the current tag line being used by a brand of tampons, (I think it’s Tampex): “Have a happy period.”

Every time I hear that I want to track down the person who wrote it and punch them in the head.

“Have an enjoyable cardiac arrest!” would be equally inane.

So, please feel free to share any ads that drive you bonkers!

(Brought to you by Mutual Life, because you could die tomorrow!):D
 
The ads for GoCompare (some poxy insurance comparing website thing) irritate me and everybody else I know who's seen them - they feature an opera singer who is just intensely annoying. And loud. And loud. And annoying. And loud.
 
The ads for GoCompare (some poxy insurance comparing website thing) irritate me and everybody else I know who's seen them - they feature an opera singer who is just intensely annoying. And loud. And loud. And annoying. And loud.

Oh yeah. And that reminded me of this very annoying one.
 
Progressive car commercials and freecreditreport.com commercials.

They're nearly enough to make me boycott what little TV I do watch.
 
The ads for GoCompare (some poxy insurance comparing website thing) irritate me and everybody else I know who's seen them - they feature an opera singer who is just intensely annoying. And loud. And loud. And annoying. And loud.

YES THIS.

God I want to throttle that man.
 
YES THIS.

God I want to throttle that man.

You know something? Hell is a chorus of him singing at you. Forever. Just the company's name.

GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE

And I stop there because that's making me lose my mind.
 
I don't watch TV, but I do listen to the radio. There's one that particularly annoys me, a car title loan service that has an old school jingle, standard advertising schlock. 'Take CHARGE of your life!'

Very annoying, being as how such services are borderline scams at best that take advantage of desperation to drive people further into the hole.
 
Since I use TV as a DVD watcher [and for Bill Moyers] I never really see any commercials.

What really POs me are the banner ads at the top of Internet pages that are so large that the minute you accidentally "mouse over" they open to about 8x10" size. More and more I see them on the NYT, But they are really bad on Salon and a couple of other sites. It seems that a lot of them are for Bank of America, AMEX, and HSBC and, recently Coke.

But really annoying are the "pop-ups" on YouTube that try to sell you with the line: "Make yourself into a cartoon." They never have an "x" for a "kill-it."
 
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The go compare on is horrible. One thing I can say though is we are lucky that we don't have anywhere near as many commercial breaks in the uk as they do in America. I remember a holiday to florida once when i was watching a film with my family and there were 5 ad breaks in the last 30 mins of the film
 
all the ads for the various medicines...as a society we must apparently be a sexually dysfuntional; overweight; high cholestoral bunch who need to be pumped full of possibly useless medications...
 
the christmas commercial about pap smears:

"want to do something special for your woman? schedule her a pap smear. the gift even santa can't deliver."

eeeewwwww!!!
 
all the ads for the various medicines...as a society we must apparently be a sexually dysfuntional; overweight; high cholestoral bunch who need to be pumped full of possibly useless medications...

nation of hypochondriacs. But thats what they want...

Doc, I fart too much...

We got a pill for that...
 
A few years ago there was a car commercial for Hummers.
It showed a suburban mom who's child got pushed around in the play ground. So instead of telling her child to stand up for itself or speaking with the pusher's mom, she drives her minivan to a Hummer dealership and trades it in on a 4x4 monster that she'll never fully utilize. Because her kid is a wuss... and the Hummer will fix it?


The "Head On" commercials were bad too.
 
There is an ad about stolen identity. It has this high pitched voice whiney ass sounding woman in it. I want to just KILL her when I hear that damn voice. I can do a funny impression. Well, my son thinks it's funny anyway.

:rose:
 
Toilet paper commercials. Especially the ones for some (unknown) brand of quilted toilet paper that promises you "a pleasant experience".
 
How about that one where the mother bear inspects the little bear and he has toilet paper sticking to his butt.

:eek:
 
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