how did Brian Unger go from being the best correspondent on the Daily Show to randomly doing voice overs and commercials?
Anyway, the worst ads right now are the Coors Light ads with the standup comic that are on TBS.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 18 September 2009 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Glad to see there's already a coupla Axe commercials up in here. Absolute fucking worst ads for some years now. I will NEVER buy one of their products! (If I did, I'd be tempted to spray it in my eyes every time another of their commercials aired.)
― Random trolling, brutal snubs, darted zings & decisive bans (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 18 September 2009 09:02 (fifteen years ago) link
re that brian unger ad, there's one brief moment in that ad when they do a close-up on his face and he looks absolutely horrifying! i froze the frame and snapped a picture recently. will post to frighten everyone soon.
― andrew m., Friday, 18 September 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
that one Allstate ad where the president from 24 does the whole sales pitch and some random guy at a mailbox goes "no way" and then 24 guy goes "way" and smiles, my wife thinks i'm insane the way i rant and rave about this commercial, but i mean...that's it? that's all they've got?
― itsybitsyspiderMk2 (some dude), Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but i bet keanu reeves bought it
― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf @ that 'go meat' advert.
― fyi vagina (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
double pits to chesty
it hurt to type that
― andrew m., Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else noticed there's a lot of red-haired people - children and adults - in TV adverts these days?
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
YES! but why is this in the "worst" thread? it makes me very happy
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Redsploitation
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
bright'something or other'
two northern lassies on about paying for tv rental or something. the annoying part is at the beginning where the black haired woman makes some fucking stupid facial expressions when she says "mandy loves her weekly spa treatment"
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"webuyanycar anyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyany"FUCK OFF!!!
― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Brighthouse are evil, basically loan sharks.
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
webuyanycar is also one of a growing number of commercials where the advertising executives used the fact that it's a World Cup year to shoehorn in a football reference - in webuyanycar's case, the fake newsreader starts playing keepy-up for no reason, and is then joined by loads of other people doing the same.
― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Saturday, 29 May 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a sneaking fondness for an old Ocean Finance one (not the new ones with the people with light bulbs strapped to their heads, which I find vaguely disturbing); it was a vox-pop one where a woman said, 'I like Ocean Finance, they don't try and babble you with science.'
I assume these were genuine vox pops on this occasion, as the thought of a scriptwriter coming up with that is almost as disturbing as the light bulbs.
― GamalielRatsey, Saturday, 29 May 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
confused.com - "The Internet is the most important invention of the 21st century."FUCK. OFF.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
T Mobile, seriously get 2 fook
― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone else notice how that car commercial where the kid is getting chased home by bullies is now about a kid being challenged to race home? of course he still leaps into the safety of the minivan and all the other kids were also racing to his house for some reason. an effort to be sensitive to the whole bullying issue thing.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 10 November 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i've noticed an increasing number of commercials which are shot in reality show style, complete with sit-down interviews of some random person who owns a toyota or w/e, mixed in with shots of them in their car, and they're actually copying the shitty audio edits heard in reality shows (frankenbiting.) considering the budget companies have for such national ads, it has to be intentional.
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
can we talk about these state farm commercials?
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ugggh the miller lite "man up" ads are so awful in just about every respect
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
THE FUCKING TACO BELL TWO SHRIMP CRASHING DUDES. FUCKING DIE.
― Zero pumps, massive boner (thebingo), Monday, 4 April 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno, tbell's always had really stupid commercials
― frogbs, Monday, 4 April 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
ha kind of like this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWeOhezlwM
― tremendoid, Monday, 4 April 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6bT8_ji2k&feature=related
― tremendoid, Monday, 4 April 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
that one drives me nuts too.
― Zero pumps, massive boner (thebingo), Monday, 4 April 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a whole 'behind the scenes' with 'buddy mignon' the singer on youtube, not crossing that line. glad that dudes getting work though, he's a tv commercial trouper from way back
― tremendoid, Monday, 4 April 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I swear this commercial is like 3 minutes long.. some guy who thinks he's hilarious pretending he's a Billy Mays dude and it says nothing about the product until the last 15 seconds.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
aaaaargh these state farm "like a good neighbor" commercials
"I have blah blah insurance so person come help" I want to shoot these people and leave their bodies rotting by their cars
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
this one is kinda tone deaf in the same vein as that "life is good" honda ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNvgT93GATo
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
The anti-smoking ones with the lady ("Terry") who was dying of some vicious form of cancer talking with her tracheotomy tube in place. Jesus Christ.
― Assholes on Boats: A Billy Zane Retrospective (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 April 2014 09:43 (ten years ago) link
New iPhone ad (GIGAANTIC! GIGAANTIC! A BIG BIG LOVE!) is annoying and ubiquitous as hell, but at least a return to "LOOK AT ALL THE FUN YOU COULD HAVE BUT WON'T!" as opposed to the horrible "profound" streak Apple ads were on.
― Slumdog Baseballionaire (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 2 May 2014 08:20 (ten years ago) link
iPhone "I'm living the life of dreams" ad. Horrible song, horrible "you can't raise your kids without Apple" message.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:46 (ten years ago) link
well yeah apple is terrible
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link
u.s. tv ads have gotten slightly funnier in the last month or so. there was a wave of over the top wtf misogynism for a while there that seems to have ebbed
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:53 (ten years ago) link
The ones with the giant marionettes interacting with people.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
mummy, what's neu-ter-ing?
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
The new "I've fallen and I can't get up" ad with a woman at the bottom of her basement stairs crying and yelling "HEEEELPPPP!" is just a little too realistic and horrifying.
― il balletto da bronx, yo (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:46 (ten years ago) link
There's one about Chicken wrappers where the dad starts rapping that I find really wearing. I think there are another couple that I tend to hit the remote over but I can't think what they are right now.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 August 2014 09:35 (ten years ago) link
this creepy miller lite commercial where they claim the invention of lite beer led to your, the viewer's, conception
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 31 August 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
SIX CALLERS AHEAD OF US, JIMMY
― andrew m., Wednesday, 3 September 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Some of these commercials these days make me miss the good ole days of Go Meat!
For instance, those Geico ones: "Everybody knows that ... yeah but did you know that ... " Ugh.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 3 September 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
The new Blu e-cig ad with the soul song in it is terrible - Stephen Dorf livin' it up in various C-list ways, the line "TAKE BACK YOUR FREEDOM" apparently designed to appeal to angry white guys - but that song is fucking hilariously bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVYMP1skvk
It's apparently by a band called T-Bird and the Breaks, which... yeah. Perfect.
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
Recent terrible songs in commercials:
Some fake Fred Cole sounding guy singing too fast to be deciphered over modern garage pop, required catchy "WHOOO HOOO OOOOH OOOH" chorus inserted as predictably as computer code. Car commercial. Garage-indie-pop bands really need to stop selling songs to commercials.
Think this other one is for a clothing store or something, pseudo-mod-soul vibe with a woman singing what sounds like "You and me we could be BAEH-FOOT-AHN, perception to get AROUND, WHAHH-OHH WHAHH-OHH."
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 July 2015 07:37 (nine years ago) link
I just last night saw a nauseating commercial for an IBS medication with this thing as the mascot:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSMxKqmUcAAHByg.jpg
And yes, it is indeed an anthropomorphic pile of intestines. At one point, this horrific thing sits down for a meal and tucks its napkin between the ropes of intestine. It was to barf.
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Good god.
― si monvmentvm reqvires, pvmpkin spice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 29 October 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
I think I contracted IBS from that commercial.
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
all of them
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
"I'm in the Buick.""BUHHHH I DON'T SEE ANY BUICK!!!!!!!!!!"
Essentially they're saying "yeah, our cars are shit but now they don't look like shit. As much."
― we salute you, our half-inflated dark lord (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 February 2016 08:36 (eight years ago) link