Your Least Favorite Ad Campaigns

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Anything with Catherine Zeta-Jones or Joan Cusack.

Basically ALL cell phone ads.

That fucking Pepsi ad with the Blind Lemon song that was running constantly on Fox Sports for a while, but thankfully seems to have stopped.

And yes, that goddamn mastercard. They've been using that campaign for over a DECADE now! A DECADE!!!! Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick, GET A NEW AD CAMPAIGN YOU FUCKS.

Also I forgot on the cell phone tip - that ad with the emus!! Arrgghh! I'm waking up in the middle of the night with fucking emus ... what is that emus do? cooing? crowing?? Anyway: DESTROY.

OLD NAVY also

destroy the new verizon "in" ad campaign with the guy whose slacker housemates keep calling him at his office job.

i like the old navy ads. they're strangely calming. they make me feel centered.

Trying to work out the nadir of that genre is hard. I'd hazard a guess that the twat on the tightrope in the Norton Finance ad would be up the front, though.

Aaaaaah, help! Jody, are you being dry or should I be terrified of you?

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aaarggh

maybe you stride up and down your office, looking at your staff paternalistically. for you, business is a game to be fought, and won...

perhaps you have a wife who is going to leave you because you never show any attention, and 2 children who see more of "uncle steve" than they do of you. maybe you will get hit with a divorce and high alimony payments from you ridiculuosly high paying job, and then stress will cause you to have a midlife crisis, and hit the bottle

maybe you are a lower ranking manager who aspires to the above, but is laughed at by his colleagues for giving all to the company, when they dont even notice him

you probably value loyalty, and are yourself a company man, maybe you even think of the company as a family, and you are kind of the father. still, management can always be pruned right, efficiency means downsizing and your loyalty isnt worth much then is it? still, maybe uncle steve will let you see the kids, before they all move off to phoenix.

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go on, be an egotistical emotionally stunted powerhungry dickhead

Not too long after 9/11 there was one local NYC commercial that featured SUVs cruising, overrunning and finally climbing some of the buildings that used to fall under the shadow of the Twin Towers. It's not too difficult to connect the dots between America's fuel consumption and international terrorism, but here those connections played out as farce.

The guy who says "Guess how many cookies I have in my mouth" was the lead in my senior thesis.

1) The car commercial with the people singing along to the Barenaked Ladies.

2) Jared/Subway.

3) the truth.com when they were doing those awful Michael Moore documentaries

The Old Navy commercials creep the shit out of me, sorry. If it were just Sherman and Morgan, I could take that, but the scores of young, beautiful models smiling vapidly and saying things like "Back to you, Malibu!"...eerie.

made me want to start smoking.

Every single horrible Los Angeles Times ad that ran before the trailers at a movie.

the tendercrispbaconcheddarranch BK commerical is still fascinating me though. Have yet to try the sandwich.

awful, just awful.

PP i live in minnesota and we have much WATSON'S GIRL!! my ex used to yell at the tv "look at these fucking titties...AT WATSONS!" or "put your dick in my mouth...AT WATSONS!" whenever one of those ad came on. try it, it's fun!

(even the ILX threads about how awful their food can be)

Also the billboards for Il Primo smallgoods, with a weird-looking child and a sandwish with *way* too much ham.

Hear hear. Especially the new PSAs presenting scheming tobacco execs in the format of an over-laughtracked sitcom.

"Tigerwash! The car wash that thinks it's a handwash!"

First of all, it thinks it's washing my hands? Surely that's not going to give my car a thorough going over, is it?

And second of all, the car wash THAT THINKS? I expect Linda Hamilton to come round and kill it before it squishes me to death in my car.

Also I keep seeing "hand wash" as "hand job".

I spend too much time at the petrol station.

Here's a funny article at the Weekly Dig which mentions they blared the Vengaboys song as he was leaving the court and the odl guy apparently lost it. I can't tell if they are taking the piss or not.

seperated at birth!?

These really give me the creeps. I can't watch them at all, flesh crawling etc. Won't ever be able to even think about drinking Yop without vomiting ever again.

And the new "Oh Canada, this country's home to me" tourism campaign make me want to pound nails into my forehead.

(I like the 3 ads too, mostly)

there's also an ad i've only seen in the cinema, which makes me laugh at its crapness...it's for a laptop computer, and the main point of the ad is that the computer's high tech features: it plays CDs! you can play games on it! you can even watch MOVIES on it!

i wonder if there's anyone in the audience that thinks 'brilliant! why doesn't my computer do those amazing things. i'll rush right out and buy this!'

*Those Dodge commercials where the fat husband and frail blonde wife playing the role of Fat Husband and Frail Blonde Wife. GUYS LIKE STEAK AND POWERFUL CARS, WOMEN BE WANTING ROOM FOR THE KIDS.

Matter of fact, all Dodge commercials.

*Pepto Bismol, wherein sotre clerks do a dance indicating their digestive troubles. It's like the Macarena-meets-Down's Syndrome.

Ha ha ha. I was going to post about these very commercials here on this thread! Which tells you just how much I hate them, that I would still find myself repulsed by these ads even now. And now I know which car company foisted them upon the public -- Toyota. I swear to God, as all of you as my witness, I will never buy a Toyota ever in my entire life because of how much I am repulsed by those ads.

I'm annoyed by the latest scheme by U.S. car companies, who have sunk to bringing out the "employee discount" sale, where you get the same price the employees of the company do. I think Buick or GM started it, and I've quickly seen 3 or 4 copycat commercials from rival companies. Way to boost the moral of your employee there.

I don't think you're getting why they're doing this -- to bolster sales at GM, which would only help the employees out in the long run. I'm sure they would rather the public get the same discount they get than to end up pink-slipped and trying to bust their asses finding new employment. And so far, it's working; GM sales have skyrocketed 40% over those of last quarter, IIRC. And for someone such as myself, someone who is very much biased toward GM vehicles (I am my father's daughter in my loyalty toward the GM range), I applaud any advertising decision that would lead to a large increase in GM sales.

*Overstock.com's "All About the O" with the woman dressed in white in a tryina-be-all-sexual-but-failing hushed tone and then she's naked with a necklace and a gold "O" around her neck saying "And...it's all about the gold" and then and then I WANT TO DESTROY MY HOUSE.

THANK YOU! I hate those ads too.

Also the scary dancing transformer car is back. Except it's stretching out like it's injured itself dancing. Hah.

At least the Wkd ones were mildy amusing "There's a fella trapped in the lift"

Just don't ask me how I found this.

"Why do you hate me?"

Um, I do like pretty much every other ad currently playing on TV, though. Even the annoying kids in the PediaSure and Oscar Mayer (the one with the little boy with the headache-inducing yell-sing) commercials aren't really that bad comparatively.

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Georgia Lottery has used a fire-breathing goat named Kevin for six years now. At least Kevin doesn't shit steaming piles of money the way he used to.