Most HATED COMMERCIALS!!!!!!!!

Kinoko · Sun 25/04/2004 16:17:09

DG, you'll most likely know this one.

Those goddamn cheaply made ads about warehouse sales that are always narrated by a screaming maniac who never takes a breath. We get them every now and again in Brisbane advertising for a certain bunch of crap being sold cheaply at the convention centre (a very nice place really, not a warehouse at all). I just have to push mute when they come on, or change the channel until I'm -sure- it's over.

This is another one specific to Australia, but for months and months now, there's been an ad on tv advertising life insurance. It features this ugly house wife sitting down to a cup of coffee, talking about how her husband died and left them nothing. "Look, blah-de-blah was a good provider. He just didn't think about that sort of stuff."

THAT is the worst ad ever for me (that I can think of right now). I HATE it, HATE it, HATE it! I want to MURDER that woman and stuff her eyeballs in her coffee and tell her that she can't freaking act for shit and I bet her poor husband committed suicide after having to listen to her "Look,..."s and look at her freaking disgusting hair!

... Argh!

I also hate ads about raising awareness of STDs like the current "thrush" ads (I think it's thrush). They show all sorts of woman saying "I've had it", "I've had it too", "I got it ages ago", "I've got it right now!", "I'm getting it for my birthday!" (okay, the last couple are of my own creation). Then they reveal that lots of people have this particular STD. It's just stupid, and sick, and I hate the message. 'Lots of people have STDs so you shouldn't be ashamed about it. It's NORMAL!'

That's like saying getting secondary smoke induced lung cancer is okay. Sure, you don't have to feel like a freak because of it, but it's not something you say happily and proclaim loudly in a cafe! It's bad to have it! You're allowed to be sad about it and treat it silently, keeping some of your dignity. It should make you feel bad because you should be afraid of the consequences of unsafe sex!

Blah. SO many ads are awful. Lots are bad, but there are just those few that make you want to kill people.

DGMacphee · Sun 25/04/2004 18:25:05

Yeap, I know those warehouse ads very well -- I like how they say their sale ends on Sunday night, and then they extend it to Monday night (and then the extend it to Tuesday night, then to next week, etc, etc).

.. · Sun 25/04/2004 19:11:09

Bloody DFS...

it seems they are always having a 'Exlusive half price sale'

Or 'Christmas Sale' 'Easter Sale' 'Tuesday Sale' .. so maybe not like that .. but it really is becoming a parody.

Snake · Mon 26/04/2004 03:23:35

QuoteWhat am I missing? nothing. Call me arogant, But Television sucks. it breeds couch potatoes...

What's the internet doing? Anyway, I could also do without TV, the only shows I watch on it are on Nick@Nite: Cheers (my favorite), The Cosby Show, Coach...and that's all that's really worthwhile.

Yeah that stupid Quiznos commercial came on every commercial break... Can't get anymore annoying with piss poor production than that.

One commercial that pisses me off every time it comes on is that retarded Swiffer commercial where that woman is dancing and fraulicking(SP!!) around cleaning that other woman's house.
"You're cleaning my house again..."
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HARDILY HOODILY!3!!6!!1 sheit

--Snake

Gravity · Mon 26/04/2004 03:25:44

Well do you know the Geico commercials with the gecko as the mascot or whatever...yea...no wait...I like those commercials...

Timosity · Mon 26/04/2004 13:16:00

Quote from: Kinoko on Sun 25/04/2004 16:17:09
Those goddamn cheaply made ads about warehouse sales that are always narrated by a screaming maniac who never takes a breath. We get them every now and again in Brisbane advertising for a certain bunch of crap being sold cheaply at the convention centre (a very nice place really, not a warehouse at all). I just have to push mute when they come on, or change the channel until I'm -sure- it's over.

Yep, we get those same ones in Sydney, they have them in FOX studios, and as DG said they extend for about 3 weeks and get cheaper and cheaper. I've never been though. They have to be out cause the next thing starts there, but days later they're still open pleading you to come and take their usesless crap.

I guess they just move around the capital cities constantly with neverending stock.

MMMmmm wonder If I could get him to be the narrator for my next game?

DGMacphee · Mon 26/04/2004 13:31:22

If you do, I'll ban your game from the next AGS Awards.

Peter Thomas · Mon 26/04/2004 14:19:20

Ads for safe sex piss me off.

Sure, it's an important topic, but they present it in such a blase manner, it's like "LET'S ALL HAVE SEX COZ IT'S GREAT! (we will insert a brief, five second reminder that you might wanna use a condom, too) I LOVE SEX, AND BOY, AM I RANDY TONIGHT, HONEY!"

And Australia as some crappy doctor doing an ad about how the Australian Health Scheme is improving (by that, he means getting screwed up by turning into the american system) and he can't talk properly! He has the most annoying lisp in the world, and he calls the "Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme" the "Faaarmeshootical Benfit Skeeem".

Damn doctors with their big paychecks and minimal vocabularies...

DGMacphee · Mon 26/04/2004 15:01:03

Actually, it been a long time since I've seen any safe-sex ads on TV.

But, yeah, the doctor one pisses me off too.

Kinoko · Mon 26/04/2004 15:43:06

I always thought that doctor guy actually had some sort of medical problem. Not in a jeering sense - I really mean it. I don't know but it just seems like the way he moves... well, looks like some sort of involuntary movement problem. If not, then he's really strange.

I also hate any ad (and this seems to be a trend lately) that shows a bunch of stunt actors pretending to be rowdy youth doing something really, really stupid like surfing a wheelie bin down to the ocean or something. That shit doesn't look fun, it looks dangerous and ridiculous, and has absolutely ****-all to do with whatever sports drink of brand of clothing is being advertised.

Oh yeah, and that ad on late at night with the large breasted woman in the small yellow bikini type underwear on the bed, trying to entice you to call her. It's not an ad that annoys me so much but... how could ANYONE be fooled into thinking the narrator of the ad is her? People that work in the phone sex industry are more often than not fat, ugly chicks that can talk dirty. Not saying that's bad, it may be your thing, but my point is just that you'd have to be pretty thick to think that the voices belong to sexy, busty women lying on an elegant bed at night, waiting... waiting for the phone to ring.

DGMacphee · Mon 26/04/2004 16:04:01

EH??? It's not the same girl??? :o

Rave · Mon 26/04/2004 22:26:55

There is this one commercial that used to play all the time around here. I havn't seen it lately, but I change the channel whenever I see it. It shows younge people swimming, running and rideing horses and then this one woman turns to the camera and says somthing like, "I'm not going to let genital herpes slow me down any more, because now I have _______".

Oh, and I also am annoyed by all those fricken Viagra commercials and that new "Viagra for women".

The LAST thing I want to think about when I sit down to watch TV is old people having sex.

Kinoko · Tue 27/04/2004 05:08:59

Seems like it's pretty clear that in general, the most hated ads are those for STDs and other sex-related ads.

Timosity · Tue 27/04/2004 10:28:29

Just on the topic of an ad on Genital Herpes, It's funny how they act all happy like it's cool to have it, but then they talk about still having sex with condoms to prevent it from spreading.

Sure it's good to be safe, but I still wouldn't like to trust condoms, eventually if you have enough sex (and I'm talking about the same partner) it becomes more likely to spread (that goes for other std's especially ones that cant be treated)

On another note, I always thinks it's pretty silly about an anti smoking ad that shows a "Healthy Lung" being cut up showing how pink and clean it is, then pouring tar over it showing how much tar a smoker will fill their lungs with.

My point being what was this "Healthy Lung" doing outside of the body on a chopping board?

? just shows that healthy people can die too, so you might as well smoke while you still can. (but it's best not to start)

Peter Thomas · Tue 27/04/2004 10:38:22

Another thing that jumped into my head: I hate ads that promote the TV channel you're already watching!

There's this program on (Australian) TV called "sunrise" (like "Good Morning America/Australia/Iraq/Other_country") and they put out this ad saying:

"Well, since we've become the most popular morning program in Australia, why don't you watch the evening news on the same channel? The hosts are 'our kind of people', and they really know what they're talking about. So make the right choice - watch channel seven news. And we'll see YOU bright and early tomorrow morning *cheesy smile*"

grrrr.

Kinoko · Tue 27/04/2004 14:22:57

Yep, yep, I agree with you there. I've just recently noticed those god-awful channel 7 Sunrise ads and they instantly annoyed me. So what if for one day or one week, your ratings just happened to beat Today on channel 9? You're still the most retarded channel of them all!

It doesn't help that Sunrise is my most hated morning news program as it is. Bah, I hate shows promoting themselves in that way too. Bloody Rove just won't shut up about his freaking gold logie! Who even gives a turd about the logies?

Raggit · Tue 27/04/2004 14:40:01

And isn't it annoying the way local broadcasters think they're movie stars? Not all of them do but I've seen some that try to be all entertaining and stuff.

auhsor · Tue 27/04/2004 15:05:33

Man, I really hate channel 7. Ever since they had the Olympics in 2000 (and probably before that too) theyve constantly had annoying shows (oh lets think up another reality show to compete with the other channels........ yeah thats what we all want), and their ads are just so annoying... especially Today Tonight with Naomi someone, who is the most annoying presenter ever. That show is one of the worst on TV. Its always just copying A Current Affair, or vice versa.

And now the most annoying ads ever... the ones for Cheap Doors... If you live near Woolongong in Autralia then you will knw what I'm taling about...
Like who cares about doors. No one is gonig to say, 'Hey, I need a new door' after seeing the ads... and the ads are just so bad, I have to mute or change the channel everytime.
Think... doors doors doors doors, doors doors doors doors, doors doors doors doors, doors doors doors doors... being repeated as an accending chant... and thats only one of them... Other ones force us to listen to other annoying songs, with more annoying voices... Arghh!!1!!1
Its like they deliberately make it bad. And I'm sure thats why they do it, just so the name Cheap Doors sticks in our head...

Well enough of my rant about tv.
btw, I've come to realise that most tv is just stupid. Now I only really watch Alias, and Monach of the Glen...

Queen Kara · Fri 30/04/2004 02:40:45

I haven't seen some of the mentioned ads and don't recognise all the names , I don't just watch stuff like "Proud Family" and "Farscape"...I also watch TV for channels like Animal Planet or what ever ...Discovery...Home and Garden ...ect.
Any way , those Gatorade commericials tick me off and so do health and hygene commercials , like when you're trying to eat , some how all that seems to be on that moment are health and hygene related commercials...yuck ...then when you're not hungry they have food commercials and all of a sudden you're hungry again! lol
But I mostly hate Gatorade and badly made commercials.
I mean , come on , what brainiac decided that people would get inspired to buy gatorade after showing them commercials about people sweating the drink? Eww.

DGMacphee · Fri 30/04/2004 02:55:36

Quote from: Kinoko on Tue 27/04/2004 14:22:57
Yep, yep, I agree with you there. I've just recently noticed those god-awful channel 7 Sunrise ads and they instantly annoyed me. So what if for one day or one week, your ratings just happened to beat Today on channel 9? You're still the most retarded channel of them all!

That and David Kosh looks like a walking circumcision.