Commercials you Hate (or infomercials)

Someone started a thread on Rotten Tomatoes the other day complaining about this, though I haven't seen this commercial yet (the Applebee's one).

The commercials I currently hate the most are those Folger's Crystals ones where a bunch of jackasses are singing "Our House", but are working in the song how great Folger's Crystals are.

As for infomercials, I rabidly hate any one (so this happens to be just about all of them) that sell some product like this one thing will make you happy and transform your life. Anyone who believes that a single product or pill will make themselves whole is sick. I truly hate those lifestyle packagers in these infomercials who try and sell basically a guarantee of an empty life trying to conform yourself to whatever lifestyle they're trying to sell.

The worst offenders of these are most sex infomercials that sell pills to increase your penis size. They get a bunch of creeps and perverts on the show who are all too afraid to mention the word "penis" during the entire course of an infomercial, and talk about how this one pill is going to cure your life's problems by making you more confident, thus you'll pick up more women, have more meaningless sex, and your life will be totally fixed.

They're a bunch of contemptible creeps who are in these shows. Same goes for Kevin Trudeau and all the other jackasses who sell whatever health secrets "they" don't want you to know.

There's one infomercial that I like lately that is largely free of these pretenses. It's kind of funny. It's hosted by some creepy looking guy who looks like John Waters who sells some kind of medicine to clean out your colon. For once I can watch that and see an infomercial that has decent people in it. And it's funny watching this guy describe how caked up fecal matter on your intestinal walls is bad for your health. But true.

Really not a fan of the Sierra Mist/Airport screener commercial with Kathy Griffen.

I am about sick of the new Wendy's commercials for their salads. That woman is so cheesy it hurts. And all that excitement over salad? I do like a good salad, but I don't think i have ever had one that made me shit my pants with excitement.

Also the commercial for some cell phone company with a girl named Brenda. She thinks she is hip because she bedazzles her name on everything in her dorm room and calls it "brendalized" she then calls her coffee "brendalicious". Brenda pretty much makes me want to break my own cell phone each time i see that commercial. Another problem with that commercial is that Brenda looks like she is in her early to mid 30s. And still living in a dorm. Give up the dream honey, college life just aint for you anymore.

Anything with James fucking Nesbitt.

Any TV commercial that has an alarm clock going off. It produces a Pavlovian spasm in me that can ruin any good mood I might be in.

And: Why isn't there a law prohibiting radio commercials with a) police/ambulance siren sound effects and/or b) car/truck horn honking sound effects? What are the advertisers thinking?

How loud are you listening to your radio?

I understand the ambulance sirens though.

Radio commercials are a million times worse than TV. They all, without fail, go for the 'annoy you into remembering' approach. I hate hate HATE the fake talk show spots NBC runs trying to promote their shows. Like anyone is going to be fooled by a bunch of half-rate actors pretending to be a talk-radio group who just happens to be hyping the new NBC comedy lineup. It is so transparently contrived and false sounding that it just comes off as insulting.

Radio also has uniformly the worst voice actors in commercials ever. They all sound like they are junior high drama students in a first read though of the copy.

How can anybody dislike the Applebee's Gilligan's Island spots? If you do, I challenge you to sit through it again and then look for a nice little visual innuendo in the last few frames.

Makes watching it at every TV timeout worth it.

Those Denny's ones, or whatever they are, with the douchebag bald guy husband in a car with his wife and they talk about how much he loves some breakfast sandwich more than his wife especially annoys me.

Any and all Sonic Drive Thru Commercials. If your ideal commercial is the glorification of the fat fuck mentality of eating in your car after immediately leaving the drive thru window, you should be gut shot.

But seriously folks; the commercials aren't funny at all, and are fairly abrasive - all of the people in them are idiots.

Those Budweiser commercials with the baby clydesdale annoy me to no end.

I've been getting creeped out by the VW commercials with Peter Stormare acting like a German X-zibit.

I'm not sure that these commercials are on air anymore, but the Domino's one with the creepy ass father who only lets his kids use the light for a few seconds at a time. That makes me want to call the FBI more than get a pizza.

And I agree with the poster above me about the Peter Stormare/VW commercials being incredible disturbing. Still, I find myself cracking up every single time I see them.

"Vat time is it?" "I dunno" "Time to pimp da auto"

I've always thought that those were pretty funny. I mean its VW; when people think of german cars, they usually think of BMW's. Now they'll think of Peter Stromare "representing Deutchland" while flashing a yuppie gang sign.

UN-PIMP ze auto.

Damn, can't believe I missed that. Time to un-pimp the part of my brain that forgot about that.

Beep Beep! Beep Beep!

I dont know if any of you get this crappy Ford/Chevy sometype of CAR commercial or if its just a local spot...

but there is this band playing this damn song that goes Beep Beep! something something.. muthafugga Beep! Beep!

They show this commercial NONSTOP on FOXSPorts South.

and once it gets in your head you cant get it out.

I guess I'm not the only one who hates this commercial...

http://www.awfulcommercials.com/arch.../20/beep-beep/

I would've said those marijuana commercials but this one for Trimspa is somewhat gross.