Commercials you're hating in 2019

The DNA test commercial (Ancestry.com?) where the lady screams, “I thought I married an Italian!” Her and her husband seem ashamed when they find out through the DNA test that he’s really Eastern European. That commercial creeps me out so bad.

FIVE NINETY NINE, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?

r1, My biggest problem with that commercial is near the end when the husband picks up the picture of his ancestor and says "yes, he looks a little like me." NO idiot! He came first, you look like him, not the other way around.

Damn Millennials are dumb.

The one where the hag in the grocery store invades the personal space of a younger female shopper in the produce department to the point of inhaling her hair and telling her she smells like her dead husband. Step off, bitch!

I started off hating it, but the commercial with Progressive's Flo attending a big party at her co-worker Jamie's house is making me laugh. It is so outrageous to have him living in a huge McMansion with a gorgeous wife and several blond happy kids and he can sing like Gomer Pyle as he strums his guitar.

"She is so tiny, like a little child."

"Flo" is showing up as one of the wife's friends on "The Goldberg's."

I’ve been hating these TD Ameritrade commercials since 2018, that feature this smarmy, over the hill, bearded hipster douche.

I hate the Rexulti commercial where the "Good Works Kitchen" volunteers have their long hair hanging down while they're handling food. "They're getting a free lunch. Fuck 'em if they can't take a little hair."

Also, the main frau has one of those weird flat faces with vast expanses of lifeless skin, giving the appearance of an artist's rendition of what an unidentified murder victim looked like in life.

"On an island called Paradishe at a plashe callt AT-LANT-ish!"

Local for NYers -- the WCBS ads that feature an annoying Country-Western sounding jingle that demand viewers to "listen to Lonnie" for the weather. Then it shows weatherman Lonnie Quinn staring at screens, scribbling on pads, talking to underlings like a busy bee and we better "listen" to his forecast or else. I hate how they conflate the importance of the weatherman, who all he does is get his info from the National Weather Service and relays it to viewers, but they make it sound like Lonnie is the only man who gets the right info. And he never looks humble.

Is he at least cute and gay r9?

That Asian woman in that Discovery Card Cash Back commercial annoys the FUCK out of me. "I'm getting my moneeey!" Somebody smack her!

The new Dior ad with Natalie Portman. Terrible in every way, and it uses that horrific Sia song "Chandelier" which makes me want to throw something through the TV.

Judge for yourself R10

That Duke's Mayonnaise commercial with that PBS bitch, Vivian-something-or-other.

I cringe whenever it comes on and can't change the channel fast enough.

I just watched the WCBS weatherman ad linked by R13 and I fuckin' LOVE it! If that catchy song were released as a single, I'd buy it.

"I'm 65 and take medications." Congratufuckinlations. Are you taking something for that freakish alien head?

Poshmark with the grimacing ugly long hair blonde saying she made bank

The Match.com commercial with the girl named Courtney. The vocal fry and hipster porkpie hat annoy me no end. "I like nice guys - come fiiiiiiiiiiiiiind meeeeeeeeee". Needy much?

The sound of this kid's voice makes me want to kick a puppy. I hate this commercial. A lot.

God yes R11, that one. I want to kick her in the crotch.

I hated those Shriner's hospital ones, but thanks to a thread here about them they make me laugh. Every time I see the little blond wheelchair kid I think of Eve Harrington. The new cute cripple kid on the block.

Oh, I hate those douchey TD Ameritrade commercials. When the revolution comes and we eat the rich, those guys are first on the list.

Maddie and her mom in the hershey’s Miniatures ad.

r13, well he has a little girl but I didn't see a frau anywhere around, however, he does wear a wedding ring.

Maybe he's gay married? I have no clue.

He is cute though, especially for a 55 year old.

The Luke Wilson toothpaste commercial is beyond annoying and he’s not that good looking to have all those extreme close-ups.

Any commercial for a Rebel Wilson movie that involves a scene with her tripping and falling. Unfortunately, she has a movie coming out soon and we are being bombarded with the TV ads with just this scene. The heavy person stumbling and falling has never been that funny but they keep throwing it in movies.

The ones with bi-racial couples laughing in slow-motion during breakfast.

On the "love" side, I have major hots for the guy in glasses with the full Jewish mouth who does the "Nope" to all things traffic as he drives backwards and gets a Lyft. Hot guy, good actor.

R25,. I must say I love the choices the delivery guy makes at the end when Luke tells him there's no such thing as too close. "Yes, there is..." and then that little sighed "Okaaay..." He could get a sitcom out of this ad like Jim Parsons did.

I think it's a paper towel commercial (Bounty) where someone spills or drops food in slow motion with a long "nooooooooo." OMFG I have to mute the fucking thing, it annoys me the fuck out.

R30 I just can't stand that pirate demon child. I like to back hand that little cunt if she'd stab me in the ass. Can't change the channel fast enough

There's a current one for Activia which shows close-ups of women's bellies, with the implication that if you eat the product, you get will get nice abs. I noticed that in a lot of yogurt commercials - eat their stuff and you become slim and athletic. Even Activia, whose real selling point is that it will keep you regular but they put emphasis on outward physical appearance, not your doody schedule. Even these foreign Activia ads follow the "get thin!" story line.

This belongs in the Shriners thread but I hate the insidious sliding-in of Kaleb while Alec became a mere dot on the horizon in our rearview mirrors. I was old enough and aware enough to know that I was being groomed by dark forces, but what could I do?

By the time they dropped the bomb and audaciously exposed what they had done to us by showing Alec rolling up to Kaleb and grunting, "hey kid, come with me and help me look for my lost puppy.....I'll give you $5 and a pack of Camels" while winking at Kaleb's mother, my will to resist had been broken.

It's official: the kind is dead, long live the king!

All the Nulasta commercials ....they all have the dog, the nice back yard, nice patio furniture, caring spouse, long gaze at trees....

Those stupid AT&T ones with the voiceover going “JUST OKRRR IS NOT OKAAYYY”

ugh

That and that chase commercial with that terrible Havana song. I’d rather hear Mambo #5 on an infinite loops forever than that fucking song again

R30 hasn’t had a tv for 30 years.

Pepsi is not OKrrrrrrrr!

The snack chip one with the Backstreet Boys and some rapper with no personality. I saw it during SNL and thought it was one of their parodies. Are they so hard up for money they need to shill chips?

I want to stab Cardi B in the eyes, rip of her wig, and stuff it up her twat.

This is a radio ad, but really unparalleled in its 2002 faux-ghetto horribleness.

This Dish Network ad with the horrible southern frau and her mascot bulldog

Juvederm w Big Freedia's "Karaoke".

Absolutely vile.

The Truvada commercial that throws in a black woman along with the gay and transgender spokesmodels just because black women have high HIV rates, even though you know black women IRL aren't taking it!!!!

The antivaping commercials with puppets, especially the fog horn one.

That Chick Fil A one where that frau-cunt (Jenna or something) declares that her favorite part of the chicken club sandwich is the TOASTED BUN. Really? The bun? And something about how if you bite slowly, you can LITERALLY taste every layer of the sandwich. HATE. IT.

If I see that little fag Alex from Shriners I'm on my screen one more time! Hes gonna be in the hospital!

The one with the kid who asks, 'What does the dishwasher do?' after she says her mom prewashes the dishes.

She annoys the crap out of me.

The Progressive commercial that shows an adult acting like a baby and then says “Grow up! Get your own damn insurance!” Way to be condescending and talk down to your audience!

Eva Longoria pronouncing "Hy a la ron ic Acid" in the L'Oreal commercial.

There's a Geoffrey Fieger Law commercial that plays around the clock in the Detroit area. "Not Giving Innnnnn...." is the song that is played and it's annoying AF. Fieger looks creepy and the commercials are a hot mess.

That 7-Up commercial with Geoffrey Holder.

The Indeed job site background music makes me want to stick a knife in my ears.

I can't stand the kid asking "what does the dishwasher do" either.

Ha, R42, I used to hate that commercial, too. Then a few months ago, my sister's dog died, and that cat-hating person started bonding with my cat. Now, whenever she comes out here from Houston for a visit, the first thing she does is look for my cat, and they do this dance together to that Juvederm/Big Freedia song: "MinkaMinkaMinkaMinka Minka cat/MinkaMinkaMinkaMinka Minka cat." Over and over. It's kind of cute, actually. So that commercial has grown on me!

It's a radio ad (don't know if it's on TV too), but the goddamn Jennifer Garner Capital One ad. "Hello, Ms. Garner, this is your wake up call." "Oh, thank you...but while I have you on the phone," Bitch, no!! I'm not staying on the fucking phone to hear you talk about the benefits of Capital One. I have a REAL job and other guests. She seems like the type to actually do that. She grates on me to no end.

Aw r54, I had a Minka puss too!

On my internet cable provider there are commercials for the show Black-ish that are sponsored by milk. Which seems so wrong, the whitest substance promoting a show called Black-ish, coffee I can imagine, but milk?

The new Geico spot with the pig in the car squealing "Whee, wee, WHEEE!" all the way home is so annoying I have to mute that shit. I'm talking Kars 4 Kids annoying!

r58, sadly there's nothing new about that commercial.

But you're right about it being super annoying.

EVERY goddam Liberty Mutual commercial all shot in front of a phony Statue of Liberty backdrop especially the witness protection ones..."Hi Mr Landry!" Fuck you Mr. Landry.

R47 I tease my partner with that commercial because he does the something too. I want to make that a ringtone for him

Minka is gorgeous, R54.

Ok, the Stella Artrois commercials with Carrie and the Dude forgoing their usual alcoholic drinks for the beer are annoying.

Crocodiles crawling around outside the "real" people (not actors) in the Chevy commercial is maybe the stupidest thing I have ever seen on TV.

"What does the dishwasher do?"

Well, sweetie, let's see, can you fit inside it? Let's take the drawer out...now try....

[quote]Crocodiles crawling around outside the "real" people (not actors) in the Chevy commercial is maybe the stupidest thing I have ever seen on TV.

Oh dear God, yes!

The Bernie for President ads have already begun...

That stupid Pizza Hut that uses, "Baby Got Back". I hate it all- the bulgy eyes, the Oh Ma Ga, the crossed eyes and the hip flick. ARGH.

Not sure which crap restaurant it is, but the one with the original Dion recording of "Runaround Sue" - what does a song by a lovelorn guy warning other guys about a slut who can’t be trusted have to do with takeout food?

Big fat Mimi and her milquetoast brother, in that JUUL commercial that looks like it was filmed in a cheap motel. Mimi: "I'm a pain! I'm a 'little sister!'" Mimi also inflicts her vocal fry and dismissive tone upon her viewers who, despite what she assumes, don't find her cute or delightful.

ALL of the Farmer's Only commercials. All of them. Trumpkins in love. Shoot them now.

Those seriously stupid dumbasses on every goddamn SONIC commercial. I used to like their food but would never patronize them again.

The crocodiles are "real' too. they should eat the people who make the fucking commercial.

PURPLE BRICK. ‘Nuff said.

Exactly WHY do the Discover card commercials feature "twins" talking to each other on the phone? It's so annoyingly nonsensical.

That annoying woman who shows off her pee absorbing underwear.

Bad enough I have to endure being "attaqued" by Shaq in almost every other commercial, but now they have added his Shakespearean prowess to a "General Insurance" commercial and he can't even get the quote right.

Is there anyone in the civilized world who can't quote: "To be or not to be, that is the question."

Why, yes there is and it is on full display as Shaq acts out the quote. Unfortunately, he says:

"To be or not to be.......THEREFORE..." Before they cut him off.

The one where the computer generated fuzzy things go "Hi-eeeeee" then go "Bye-eeeeeee".

This one for Classico pasta sauce, airing here in Canada, I think it's a couple of years old but it's been in heavy rotation lately. Hip-hop grannies - how original!!

Liberty Mutual--the fucking theme song, all of it. And those car insurance commercials featuring Oscar winner and money whore what's-his-name, who also showed his ass on OZ.

The singing insurance thing at the piano. And btw, now that Geico is too cheap to make new commercials, are all those actors now getting residuals again? They'd fucking better be.

I hate Marie Osmond in Nutri System!

The cottage cheese commercial from Daisy.

Wells Fargo "My New Favorite Thing I Think I'm in Love" Propel card commercial with the pizza delivery to the pool that cuts to the dancing couple in headphones that knock over a lamp and fear they've awakened their infant.

That fucking Venus commercial for women's shavers where they have a bunch of really ugly deformed and tatooed women shaving their pits and their arms. Freedom to be you! I need to avert my eyes before the one with the spotted skin starts shaving her pits.

Awww, thanks, R62. She's a shameless flirt, never met a stranger. I'm happy to have her in my life.

Jesus Lord, that horrific commercial for some eczema prescription drug, where all the random objects in life suddenly sprout itchy worms, maggots, and I don't know what all else because I change the channel the second it comes on.

I get the creepy crawlies just thinking about it.

Some of you list commercials you’ve either made up or haven’t seen in years. Dumb bastards.

I hate cable commercials. Now that you pay each station to get it thru your cable they rarely play "commercials", they run promos for their own shows. Try watching a show on Logo and you get the same god damn RuPaul DragRace promo every six minutes

R89 the rupaul commercial where the one queen says “go back to party city where you belong”. And then some gargantuan black queen says “get your nuts out of my face!”.

I'm old enough to remember cable being sold as commercial-free, since you paid for it every month.

PAN PAN PAN PAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!

The pizza commercial where the man and woman slam their faces down on the table to see the thin crust of the pizza.

Eww.

Oh my god, that new Pepsi commercial with that tarted up chick (no idea who the fuck it is, I'm old) saying "OKRRRRRRRRRRR" instead of "okay".

UGH, so fucking annoying I just want to smack the shit out of her.

All car commercials.

The one where the women are all having panic attacks depicted as huge metal plates coming out of their bodies. Seriously? Showing the woman sobbing in her car? Gawd. Grow up. We don't need to have all your issues shoved in our faces. I'm eating.

Has the word dignity become a hate crime?

The Depends commercial with the guy that looks way too much like Jerry Sandusky to me. Also, he is such a large guy I picture him just filling that ugly grey diaper up with a gallon of piss while he is out hiking with his family. There is also a spot they are showing for Ari Melber's show with Donnie Deustch laughing hysterically at Ari quoting some rap lyric. Ridiculous.

That couple in the Geico gecko yard sale ad. "If it's in the yard--it's for sale."

Like that's even a thing? Get the fuck off my property!

The kitty litter "stink face" spot. Makes me want to drown the woman with the face AND the cat.

Who's the fat lady in the booth in the new Pepsi commercial with Cardi B.?

Can't stand that dignity health where they are doing a football game and having some small kid running down the field . I'm like "tackle that stupid kid".

Just saw a commercial for something called Hempvana Hands which are finger-less compression gloves "infused with cannabis sativa hemp", that are supposed to help people with hand issues like arthritis and carpal tunnel. Really?

Nailed it!! The ad for go-gurt where the fat frau mom congratulates herself by sticking a frozen stick of yogurt in her spawn's lunch. Nailed It!! I would like to take a nail gun to her head.

I really really really want to punch the Arby's guy in the face. And then punch him some more.

The Real Real ad with a model who manages to be both fug and smug. You are not the second coming of Evangelista, bitch.

The Joe Namath home health aides.

The Ford commercial where the mob is carrying the back lift gates with a pop song in the background.

The Arbys guy! He's the voice of Archer and Bobs Burgers. Even thought he looks terrible in real life, I still love his voice

On the "love" side, I adore that Seth Rogan clone in the AT&T commercials, especially the one where he says, "Oh, that's not awesome at all." I say that all the time now.

OKRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

That fucking pepsi commercial makes me want to fucking punch that cunt out.

Oookie

That one where the one girl is telling the other how she rented all these different hotel rooms, and her friend is wondering how she did it, and the first one, hereafter referred to as Smug Bitch, practically rolls her eyes and answers like a valley girl, instead of just telling her friend about the app she used. I hope she is flying on one of those tainted Boeings on her trip.

LOL that's actress Anna Kendrick r110, she's fairly well known outside of commercials.

She had the same effect on me when we went INTO THE WOODS.

Those horrible, pretentious car ads with Matthew McConaghey . The worst.

That plaque psoriasis medication commercial where the woman gets out of bed and brushes a pile of flaked skin from her blue bottom sheet. Gag!

I feel for those plagued with this skin disease and others, but do we have to see that shit?

I agree R114 -- but how else would we have learned that Cyndy Lauper suffered from the heartbreak of psoriasis? I don't know her well enough, do you?

R78 that yellow fur ball with the hiiiii! hiiiiii! byyyyeeeee!s is my most hated commercial too! It's for Cricket wireless. I messaged them saying that I would not even consider purchasing their services for at least five years after they cease and desist running those ads and strongly recommended firing the advertising team that came up with it.

The one Matthew McConaughey ad r113 they are running now where he is holding court at a dinner party with the blond extra nervously saying "whattttttt?" and then everyone watching him play pool by himself from their position in the hallway,as if they are in the presence of greatness to him walking to the car with a haunted/doped-up look on his face is especially annoying and down right bizarre. Normally I wouldn't scrutinize an ad to the extent I have this one but they seem to show it every ten minutes on MSNBC which is about the only channel I watch anymore.

I also hate the commercial for some drug were they have the actors sitting on toilets having trouble taking a shit. grosses me out.

Are these guys lovers? Anyway the skinny guy is hawt. These are showing repeatedly in NYC area.

The singing Progressive box "Live From The Star-Lite Lounge" ad. It is fucking shit.

Am I the only person in the world who doesn't think that Matthew McConaughey is handsome? His face looks kind of flat, as if it's been squashed. He reminds me of someone who's had plastic surgery after his face was disfigured, but it hasn't quite worked.

He’s ugly

The commercial with the little black girl rapping. Her voice is annoying and I don't understand a word she is saying

The commercial with the silly women singing and dancing in the street about birth control with no hormones.

I can’t stand him.

R120: He was very handsome in his prime (A Time to Kill era). He has not aged well and yes, his face does look lopsided and car commercials are lame.

Very local ad for a psychic reader. Vanessa is advertising on News12 Brooklyn channel. She looks like Monica Lewinsky with a face full of makeup, gaudy rings and long garish nails. She's shown sitting on an ornate, gold trimmed chair while examining her clients palm with a magnifying glass. First, she must be making a good amount if she can advertise on TV, but I resent her gypping fools.

That awful webiyanycar.com commercial with dancers in business suits.

R113, R117 I hate that Matthew McConaughey commercial for Lincoln. He is too cool for school. That shtick is boring, immature, and he is so unworthy of being cool. My question is who would buy a Lincoln because of seeing him acting aloof in a commercial. I have never met a man who liked him or a women who got wet from him.

He'a also the RUDEST man to ever hold a dinner party! Who leaves their guests talking at the table like that to go off and shoot pool in the garage or basement or wherever that is? Who then gets in his car and leaves his house entirely leaving his poor put upon wife to entertain the guest while he is absent, off on his own psychedelic trip or what not?

Simply atrocious manners.

Drug commercials with fat people. Mainly diabetes drugs. The message is obviously take our drug and you can keep stuffing your face.

Another vote for the real real. Is ezra miller in a dress supposed to make women want to buy it?

R127, Barbara Walters was swooning about Matthew McConaughey on "The View" several years ago. Not sure how far her dementia had progressed by then.

The weird thing about the McConaughey dinner party ad, besides his doped up look, is that there are no other cars at the party!

The tooth implant ads, featuring people who are "ashamed" about their missing teeth, "afraid" to smile, and generally too distraught to live. My favorite is the obstetrician who can't beam at the new babies he delivers and their ecstatic parents because he has to hide his imperfect smile behind his mask! Try as I might, it's impossible to summon too much sympathy for these shallow vain people who suffer this "disability" -- there are people who can't walk, you big crybabies!

They are all hostages.If the camera were to pull back a bit you would see the men with the guns. That is why the woman so nervously says 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵? and they all cower in the hallway to watch him play pool.....they are forced to. It's actually a David Lynch nightmare.

The PSA one with the little kid who asks his dad "Do we have a gun?" Airs endlessly, sometimes multiple times in a row, when watching various channels via SlingTV.

Cottonelle and its "Care Down There" ad is all kinds of gross. The voice-over spins the story of a couple going on vacation and the woman getting a bikini wax for the occasion, then turns it into her picking the right kind of TP that will make sure she's squeaky clean. While this audio is going, it shows a peach in a tiny beach chair - a hand holding some TP wipes the peach and shows all of the "sand" that came off on the TP.

R132 excellent observation !

Nah, not so great, R137.

Any real host of a dinner party would have their guests’ cars valeted away from theirs. Need we show you the proper DL etiquette for a dinner party again??

During Project Runway, they were advertising some app called Earnin, where you can get advances to your paycheck, as I understand. Each person was shown being down to empty pockets (not managing their money properly?) and 99% of the people shown to be using the app were POC. It makes me feel a ways...

Any Nationwide commercial with Peyton Manning and Brad Paisley. They're painfully unfunny.

The online casino one where the "real customers" all look like ex felons living in a trailer park. Which they probably are. The shot in a box and send it in the mail one, Coloshart or something. Poor mailman.

shit^ R141

This should cheer you up, R141. (BTW, I really like "Coloshart.")

The Charmin commercial where the mom and dad bears refuse to pick up their son's underwear even though none of them wear clothes.

That adult diapers commercial was shown only in Japan! And I was in full Kabuki makeup the whole time.

May be local - a dental place advertising they specialize in implants. They show the happy dentists talking in the office and patients signing in for appointments, then they drop the news that procedures start at only... $16,000! This ad is set up like those meds where they list the serious side effects with some peppy music playing in the background - ignore the bad stuff and just listen to the happy music. Sure, everyone has that kind of $ just laying around for teeth, and a lot of insurance plans don't cover implants. You can get a car for a lot less than $16K.

Full mouth restoration at that place is $40, 000.00

I like Jeff bridges and SJP but hate the commercial for Stella Atttwa. The production is terrible and a blind man can see they are not even in the same room.

Another late night ad for "California Psychics", usually runs on MeTV. It features a black dude in some park who says, "I've always had a passion for fitness - and she saw me owning my own yoga studio!" This ad has been running for at least three years, if not longer, and every time I see it I want to scream, "Is that YOGA STUDIO open yet??!!"

That car commercial that shows a woman in a meeting talking to her cunt of a daughter on the phone and her boss is asking what's wrong and she said her little bitch left her cello in the car. Boss should of said "fucked that, we already paid for this room, that little cunt got to wait" who in the fuck will forget their cello for school?

This commercial makes me want to kill someone.

Hate: any commercial now using "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey goodbye!" in the ad.

Love: The use of Jerry Reed's "East Bound and Down." Whatta great truckin' song. Surprised it took this long to use it.

That “here we come” jaguar commercial almost never airs once. The exact same commercial is played right after the first one finishes. Tonight, there were 3 of the same jaguar commercials in a row

[quote] I like Jeff bridges and SJP but hate the commercial for Stella Atttwa

Oh, dear. It's Stella Artois

[quote]Oh, dear. It's Stella Artois

No shit. It's how Bridges' character pronounces it.

I hate the anti vaping commercials with the puppets, especially the one with the air horn.

Close talker Luke Wilson now has a new ad where he is crunching ice in a theatre. Apparently, Luke (or the ad agent who created this shit) lives in a world full of nasty assholes because now, in addition to the scowly women and ugly Asian boss in his office ad, he now has a nasty black guy scowling at him in the theatre. It's a hostile world in the eyes of Colgate.

"My mom washes the dishes BEFORE she puts them in the...." ****BANG!!!****

Hopefully the gunshot was to the future Frau and not you, R158.

Those anti vape commercials with the puppets! Immediately change channel.

R160, you’re the second person that’s mentioned that. Does anyone have a link? I don’t think I’ve ever seen them. Now I HAVE to so I can see what this is all about.

Funny, R159 - but definitely to her and not me! That fucker comes on about TWO HUNDRED TIMES a fucking DAY!

R158 my partner does exactly that. I even try set it up as a ringtone on his phone lol

[quote] I even try set it up as a ringtone on his phone lol

R163, please come sit by me.

I’d like to jam that brat INSIDE the dishwasher and hit run. Triple hot scalding rinse cycle, please. No air dry.

Anything with Flo, that Progressive Insurance harpy, and anything with Jan, that Toyota harpy.

i hate the progressive insurance ads. flo and that red headed guy who tries to sing. it is mind numbing and awful.

I had to look up the puppet ads that have been mentioned. Not as awful as I was expecting. I don't love them but they don't bug me that much either.

Thank you, R168.

I must’ve tuned them out, because I have seen them but they didn’t make much of an impact.

This is a truly horrible ad.

The new ones with Flo as the faux sitcom maid -- "I'm not the maid!" -- are really funny, I must admit. But I'm still leaving Progressive.

Call JG Wentworth....

R161, that fucking anti-vape commercial came on just moments before I typed this. Ugh. Hate it so much.

R173, do NOT look at r168!

You may break something.

Actually, they BOTH came on back-to-back... that one linked above, and the air-horn one.

877_cars-for -kids

Here's the air horn (actually boat horn) commercial. Very annoying.

Progressive's ads are funnier than almost every other continuing campaign.

R167, you poor thing, it's not his voice.

Agreed on Progressive and they are getting better. The "You're not my dad!" teen kid is great (and cute as a bonus). Bet he'll go on to some bigger stuff.

I have found Flo and crew amusing for years. The one with her "sister" blasting her quads on the exercise bike is a favorite. The non-Flo lounge-singing policy is a flop however.

I know that whenever I get a square inch of dark chocolate, I am always careful to bite off just the smallest edge and then sit back with my eyes closed and savor that little pinch of heaven in my mouth. I then put away the rest of the wafer for later use. (I never swallow it whole like I was taught to engulf the Communion wafer from my childhood Catholic days..."Swallow it, don't chew on it!" the priest would order with authority and I would.)

The "unlikely" friendship between Martha Stewart and Snoop (Doggy) Dog is just the cutest, most twee thing in the world. Now they have added Celine singing "Titanic" to the mix and it sends a warm sensation rushing throughout my body and stops just short of projectile vomit issuing from my mouth. Gag me....blindfold me too while you're at it!

Big shout out to the "PIE!!!" waitress. Makes me laugh everytime she sends that kitchen worker scrambling. ("That's what it takes, baby.")

[quote] I was taught to engulf the Communion wafer from my childhood Catholic days..."Swallow it, don't chew on it!" the priest would order with authority and I would.)

He wasn’t talking about the wafer.

What are you talking about, r181?

Liberty, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty Liberty. All of them.

That one with Tom Selleck about reverse mortgages. He used to be so hot back in the '80's.

Now he wants to steal your water

I hate the carvana advert that tells me I can "relax in my puffy pants." What the hell are puffy pants?

The Jergens commercials with Leslie Mann and her daughter are borderline creepy. There, I said it.

When the Marie Osmond commercial comes on my boyfriend always talks along with it. I LOST FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT POUNDS WITH MARIE OSMOND. And so on.

I'm always down for miss Marie giving me the 411 about that stubborn belly fat! 😁

That one with the Smothers Brothers talking about constipation. Hate it. Not funny.

Aamco commercial where people making sounds to describe the problem of their car. So annoying

Idk, r192, I seem to remember the mechanic being good looking in that.

There is one now for a law firm wanting to know if you have gotten Gangrene of the Genitals after you have taken some drug so they can sue the drug maker. That just sends shivers up my spine.

The endless series of Papa Murphy's Pizza commercials, starring that stupid, loopy, unfunny couple. The man is a non-entity, and the woman has the most annoying baby voice I've ever heard.

The frontier commercial with that guitar singer. Annoying

R60, r80, r184, Liberty Mutual has heavily played its commercials touting “accident forgiveness” in the greater Los Angeles market for the past few months. But the small print at the ends of these commercials says that “accident forgiveness” is not available in California. What the fuck!!! It should be illegal for them to pull these shenanigans. It’s false advertising or something. Where’s the state Insurance Commissioner when you need him?!

The ubiquitous Shen Yun ads, with the ridiculous over-the-top testimonials.

[quote]I'm always down for miss Marie giving me the 411 about that stubborn belly fat! 😁

This reminded me of Narda the Lipozene Lady, THE shitty-diet-product pitchwoman circa 2008.

That "My Pillow" guy is making me start to believe that homicide may not be such a bad thing.

Any Geico commercial that has ever aired, with the exceptions of the talking pothole and "Hump Day".

I'm sometimes home during the day and it seems like whenever I have the television on, this one commercial ALWAYS airs at some point. Not sure what is worse - the actual jingle itself, the singing or the entire concept (no pun intended).

ChoiceHotels' "Badda Book, Badda Boom!"

Patrick Warburton for National Car Rental - especially the ones where he and a Muppet attached to his luggage laugh uproariously for no reason at all.

Coventry Direct - "We sold our policy."

The Mazda "Feel Alive" with that goddamned song by M83 nearly killed me.

"Now and forever - I'm your king!" [italic]Ugh.[/italic]

The guy in the Trivago commercials is tres creepy.

Speaking of commercial songs that become mindworms, there was that 2011 Visa commercial with Morgan Freeman and 'Tuesday Afternoon' by the Moody Blues.

I heard that son-of-a-bitch even in my sleep - I couldn't get it out of my head.

R170, at first I hated it too. But then it grew on me, perhaps with the dawning realization that Karlos Klaumannsmoller is family. The way he dances is funny.

R204, I love that song. I heard it first as the opening theme of the show "Versailles" and it grabbed me. I downloaded it and looked up the lyrics. Whenever it comes on, I sing that part... "now and forever, I'm your Kiiiiiinnning". You have to hear the whole thing - it's majestic. When you hear it while looking at the palace of Versailles, it fits.

R208, it rubs my anti-monarchistic predisposition the wrong way. [italic]Nobody[/italic] is my king.

I'm normally not particularly fond of the Progressive "Flo" commercials (they need to come up with a new mascot at this point), the new one done as a mock sitcom opening, where they keep mistaking her for the maid cracks me up, I think because it annoys her so much: "I'm not the maid!". It always makes me chuckle.

The McDonald's commercial with the middle aged AA woman walking down the street with a bag of burgers and a self-satisfied smirk on her face. People who pass her see the McD bag and suddenly are inspired to get their own bag full of burgers. The voice-over hints that she's bringing the food back for her boss and boy, will he be appreciative. This is grounds for a raise or a promotion!

If you ever wonder why people are such shitty drivers, the answer is in the fucking car commercials.

I hate Jamie in the progressive commercials

The Levi’s commercial with the diverse group of *cool* people hanging out in some...pop-up high school dance?? with the music that sounds like, “Pa Wep Pa Pa, Pa Wep Pa Pa”...and two old people start dancing in the center of this multi-culti fakeness...it is on ALL THE TIME and it makes me want to hurl.

The flaming hot Doritos commercial with Chance The Rapper "rapping" in a grating monotone that makes me want to claw my ears out, but then he's fronting Backstreet boys? Whuh? He tries to mimic their dance moves, only proving that even now, the Backstreet Boys have ten times the talent this doofus has. Ugh.

[quote]Liberty Mutual--the fucking theme song, all of it. And those car insurance commercials featuring Oscar winner and money whore what's-his-name, who also showed his ass on OZ.

Huh? Chris Meloni? From OZ and L&O: SVU? He's NEVER won an Oscar let alone an EMMY.

I've been seeing the guy who played Puddy on 'Seinfeld' in some recent car oriented commercials, he's never won an Oscar either.

What are some of you smoking? Especially listing old commercials, the ones with the talking pig squealing in the car, is not a new TV commercial, it's been running for years.

[quote]Especially listing old commercials, the ones with the talking pig squealing in the car, is not a new TV commercial, it's been running for years.

It ran years ago. It hasn’t been running for years. Geico recently brought it back as part of their “best of” series, so it’s been re-airing all over the place.

[quote]It ran years ago. It hasn’t been running for years. Geico recently brought it back as part of their “best of” series, so it’s been re-airing all over the place.

Wrong, it ran years ago, for about two years.I realize Geico recently brought it back, as well as the caveman ad. A friend works for the ad agency which created some of the Geico ads.

WTF is wrong with some of the DL posters, you're all so fucking ANAL. What a bunch of control freak prisspots!

[quote]Wrong, it ran years ago, for about two years.I realize Geico recently brought it back,

So what was “wrong” twat? That was exactly what was said.

You may need to up the dosage on your meds or do what the doctor said and take all three pills. You’re a little too invested in a thread about annoying commercials.

Len the Plumber

R216 I think he's referring to J. K. Simmons on the Farmer's commercials.

The motherfucker @R219 who is arguing about the squealing pig commercial and telling a poster they're way too invested in this thread, has already posted 12-13 times.

[quote]The motherfucker @R219 who is arguing about the squealing pig commercial and telling a poster they're way too invested in this thread, has already posted 12-13 times.

Yup. That’s called being in a discussion. That’s what a discussion board is for. Here’s something that your tiny brain may be able to get around: without people posting, the discussion stops. What I didn’t do is wig out and post this:

[quote]WTF is wrong with some of the DL posters, you're all so fucking ANAL. What a bunch of control freak prisspots!

You did.

Kit Kat ad - with Reverse song by Missy Elliott. What is that trying to tell me? I can eat the damned candy any way I want? I could always and still can eat anything the way I want.

Liberty, Liberty, Liberty - shoot me, shoot me, shoot me.

My Pillow - the my pillow guy is shady as fuck. Thought so before I knew he was so far up Cheeto's ass.

Progressive - Flo and Jamie can both die in a grease fire.

Whatever dishwashing detergent has the annoying child saying 'what does the dishwasher do?'. Honey, we rarely used the dishwasher when I was a kid, as mom thought it used too much water. Yeah, dad got it for her as a Christmas present, had it installed and she hardly used it. I washed the dishes every day. So rinsing off dishes and putting in a dishwasher is not a big fucking deal, you annoying little girl .

Just shove that little brat into the dishwasher, high heat, and she’ll have her answer.

[quote]My Pillow - the my pillow guy is shady as fuck. Thought so before I knew he was so far up Cheeto's ass.

That pillow creep's voice sounds like he's swallowed a bucket of Agent Orange's shit! What a fucking annoying voice!

R224, fun fact, dishwashers use a lot less water than hand-washing dishes.

No one else hates that Chance-The-Rapper Doritos ad with his obnoxious caterwauling followed by the mysterious inclusion of the backstreet boys?

What's that horrible ad with women dancing on the street singing about a hormone free birth control method? Can that ad be any more excruciating.

For the men, there's an equally moronic TV ad about getting surgery for their Peyronie's bent dick disorder. Now that ad is being shown in the afternoon. I saw it yesterday during the L&O: SVU marathon on ION.

Just need to share my pain with everyone else... Chance The Rapper's voice is worse than nails on a black board:

[quote] What's that horrible ad with women dancing on the street singing about a hormone free birth control method? Can that ad be any more excruciating. [/quote]

R229, see R202

The recent ad for the Stanley Steemer cleaning service - it shows a boy about 6 peeing in the toilet and leaving a puddle on the floor. He steps in the puddle and tracks pee onto a carpet. Everyone pees, but it's kind of pervy to show a child handling his genitals on TV. Then it's nasty, showing his sneaker splashing into a pool of yellow liquid.

I have a weird crush on Mike McGlone, the guy in the Geico Rhetorical Questions ad campaign. I got excited when I saw him back on TV and then realized it was just that awful pig commercial making the rounds again.

The dog in the Seresto commercial grosses me out. It's the one with the boxer dog that brings various items (plunger, flowers, bikini top) to it owners home, making her anxious and upset. That dogs large, loose hanging lower lip/gum is black and nasty.

I just saw a commercial for some kind of home decorating app with Kathy Lee singing all the way through it. The cringe was so strong it hurt.

Terry Bradshaw making a fool of himself shilling for those step-in tubs for seniors. He dances around and talks with a mush-mouth voice, like he got too many hits to the head during his footballing days.

That fucking jaguar commercial.

No, you’re not dreaming, bitch. It’s a fucking car. Just. A. Car

Any car commercial featuring distracted drivers saved by the tech of their cars, usually with taglines like "Designed to protect YOU", "Watching out for YOU", etc. Don't these ads just promote ideas for people to drive dangerously. The worst of them feature younger drivers, again with taglines seeming to say most teens are bad drivers, when every accident or near-accident I've had involved adults who were busy doing something else besides paying attention to the road/traffic.

[quote]The recent ad for the Stanley Steemer cleaning service - it shows a boy about 6 peeing in the toilet and leaving a puddle on the floor. He steps in the puddle and tracks pee onto a carpet. Everyone pees, but it's kind of pervy to show a child handling his genitals on TV. Then it's nasty, showing his sneaker splashing into a pool of yellow liquid.

Pervy? Are you serious? Triggered much? The boys genitals are, of course, not show, nor is the 'pee' on the floor shown as being yellow! Did you see a different version of this commercial?

This commercial is no more 'gross' than tons of other dumb TV ads, like those stupid cartoon bears worried about leaving their fecal matter stuck to their assholes if they don't use Charmin to wipe their bear assholes. As if fucking bears use toilet tissue!

Grow up.

R228 meet R215!

All ATT commercials, but especially the one they played over and over at the NCAA tournament. Also for the tournament, Barkley, Spike Lee, and Samuel L Jackson Capital One. I never want to see any of those guys again.

Joe Namath reading a cue card, which we see, badly.

The panda express commercial is starting to annoy me of them playing the Chinese version of Ring of fire

There is a Safelite ad with a teacher that talks to her students in such a cloyingly sappy 80's feel good way that I feel sick when I see it.

A company called Teeth Tomorrow which does implants. The patient they use as a spokesperson in their commercial has the most obnoxious, despicable fake looking teeth. They look like horse dentures.

^^^ and I throw up a little in my mouth every time they show her rotten “before teeth.”

The guy with rotten teeth says it was caused by medication—yeah, like years of meth use.

When the giant Olive Garden meatball is dropped onto the spaghetti, I make a little scream of horror. The sauce flies all over the place, and I'm sure it is still undercooked or maybe even a little frozen in the middle.

Commercials you're hating in 2019

Y'all will never believe this, but I've discovered this thing called a "DVR"! It records, fast-forwards, reverses, and deletes whatever I tell it to, all with a push of a tiny button! OMG!

[quote] There is a Safelite ad with a teacher that talks to her students in such a cloyingly sappy 80's feel good way that I feel sick when I see it.

And then she sounds condescending with the "you must be Pascal".

Comcast security with that horrible droning Alela Diane "Oh My Mama " song

R249, are you from the future?!

Couldn’t be, this machine you speak of. Tell us more.

That god awful commercial for birth control device with that ugly woman and her pals dancing in a supermarket and out in the street..Prevar or something like that

Carvana commercials, the smug bitch simplifies the car buying process glossing over all the problematic issues of buying a new car.

Carvana aren't new cars, they're used.

[quote]That god awful commercial for birth control device with that ugly woman and her pals dancing in a supermarket and out in the street..Prevar or something like that

Paragard, posted at R202

There are two or three versions of ads targeting senior citizens to buy a life insurance policy to cover their "final expenses." The worst one features a black mother and daughter; the daughter says something like, "Mom, how are you doing?" and the old lady says she fine now but she's ready for her "homecoming" and then says, "Oh, by the way, I made plans so that you and your brother won't have to pay my final expenses." To which the daughter replies, "Oh Mom, I didn't know you had saved money to cover your final expenses!" Then the mother says, "I didn't - but with just one call I got a $30,000 policy that will cover all my final expenses."

They say fucking "final expenses" about fifteen times, but that's the gist of it.

The ad for the internet/cable provider Altice has a table of people at a futuristic dinner party, talking about the "antiquated" form of cooking called flambe. They have a robot butler and a hologram chef. The point of the ad seems to be that Altice is so up-to-date on cable and internet technology, that it's futuristic. The characters in the commercial are all so snobby and superficial sounding, it makes the ad annoying.

R257, It's a cliche* that all black people insist on an elaborate funeral even though they're usually poor in American society -- like the maid in "Imitation Of Life". So their "final expenses" will require a $30,000 life insurance policy because a huge, flashy, vulgar display costs a bundle (but is necessary or poor simple, uneducated Mammy can't get into Heaven). The Neptune Society should run ads pointing out that you can buy a cremation plan for a couple of thousand dollars payable over time & relieve your survivors of having to make a big showy fuss.

* imagine an accent aigu over the final e

[quote]* imagine an accent aigu over the final e

No need to imagine—here it is: cliché

You're welcome!

Thank, R260! How'd you do that?

I have Windows 10, and you go into Windows Accessories and open Character Map. From there, you choose from individual letters, depending on what accent you need. You type the word and when you get to the letter you need the accent on, click in from the character map choices and it'll insert into the word. Hope that's clear R261.

On my phone, r261, I hold the letter and options come up.

For instance, if I hold the “e,” I get the following:

eèéêēė

Well, you get the idea.

[quote]Y'all will never believe this, but I've discovered this thing called a "DVR"! It records, fast-forwards, reverses, and deletes whatever I tell it to, all with a push of a tiny button! OMG!

Way to ruin a thread, you fucking imbecile.

This is DL, new here? If you don't like all the complaining.....which is normal for DL.....GET THE FUCK OUT!

R262, I have Windows 7 & am fairly computer illiterate -- but Googling your terms "accessories" & "character map", I've managed to pin the "character map" button to my task bar & am now using that to copy lowercase "e" with accent aigu here: é . Comme ça?

Voilà!

On a Mac, type "option key" "e" and then type "e" and there it is. To do accent grave, type "option key" " ` " (the very first top left key) and then type "e".

It’s really simple in iOS for iPhone and iPad users—just hold the letter key and up pops accented choices.

I feel so bilingual! Gracias, DL!

R265, Windows 7 is out of support. You need to upgrade (or get a new computer/laptop).

Also on Windows 10, you can use the touch-keyboard (even with a mouse and no touch-screen). If you right-click an empty area of the taskbar you can select "Show Touch Keyboard Button" so it's always there in the system tray on the lower right. You can then easily just click the button to bring up the on-screen keyboard, and click-and-hold (or touch-and-hold if you have a touch-screen) the "E" key, and do just like on iOS … select which "e" you want. It's even more convenient and easy to use than the Character Map app.

I hate any commercial that has a doorbell ring in the ad because my bulldog barks and it makes her nervous.

The medical equipment commercial with Joe Namath I can’t stand his voice.

R272, did you know Joe in his prime (on TV, not in real life)? It's sad to see & hear what's happened to him, just from growing old (& drinking, but maybe no more than lots of celebrities). He used to be physically powerful but now looks & sounds frail -- only to be expected of anyone who's close to 80, yet still sad & the contrast is jarring.

The Hampton Inn ad with the woman that just dragged herself out of bed and is saved by a Mrs.Beasley looking woman from being seen by her new boss. The Hampton Inn woman looks like one of Cinderellas stepsisters.

In NY , the Optimum commercials with the "Can You Hear Me Now" guy and the fucking robots

R275, I thought he did commercials for Sprint? He’s doing Optimum ones now?

I don't care about Rob Lowe's choice of low carb snack. He can shove those Atkins bars up his ass.

[quote] Y'all will never believe this, but I've discovered this thing called a "DVR"! It records, fast-forwards, reverses, and deletes whatever I tell it to, all with a push of a tiny button! OMG!

OMG! I can’t fucking be bothered!

Not to mention that some people watch tv with an antenna because they mostly stream from a pay service and can’t be bothered paying for a cable TV Service

[quote]I don't care about Rob Lowe's choice of low carb snack. He can shove those Atkins bars up his ass.

Doesn't this belong in the "What To Do With A Hambone" thread?

Wouldn't be the first thing up Rob's ass.

Windows has had the alternate character map since Windows 3.0.

Two words: Mattress Mattress.

Also hating on the Bon Voy ads too for Marriott.

This ad for a card called Netspend, that advertises that you can get your paycheck "2 days earlier". They have people crowing that they can now get paid on Wednesday instead of Friday like their coworkers, and thus they can "manage my money better". None of this gibberish makes sense - if you get paid 2 days before everyone else, what difference does that make and if 2 days matters so much in your whole money situation, there's no way that it's going to improve how you manage your finances.

This is another way to prey on people living paycheck to paycheck, thinking this is some kind of benefit. There is half a screen of fine print which no one except Superman could read, where they hide how this scam works.

That annoying Repuke My Pillow guy's voice, it's excruciating. He sounds like he's swallowed of bucket of Trump's rancid old man cum!

....

Since they all have a right thumb extended, any idea where his might be?

The Subaru commercial with the young couple being guided by the old blind man. "If you listen carefully, you can hear the whales."

Shut up!

I hate that this commercial airs with the "middle school principal" actually saying, "The teachers are really dedicated *towards* our students."

I hate that, if those were his own words, someone didn't yell, "Cut!"

I hate that, if he was reading copy written for him, someone at the agency didn't fix it and fire the writer for being an imbecile AND that "middle school principal" didn't know to correct it himself.

Also, I agree with the posters above who expressed their hatred of Shen Yun and "Pan, Pan, Pan, P-a-a-a-n!" I can't mute them fast enough.

Choice Hotels and the "Badda Book, Badda Boom" guy. I struggle to grab the remote and mute it before he can say it.

Taltz psoriasis treament used to run a series of commercials which kept showing peoples' feet in close proximity to droopy puppies, which looked to me like they wanted to say, "somebody fucking kill me!" Feet for puppies and puppies for feet. Gross.

The one with Ted Danson for a vodka.

He sidles up to a bar and gets two tiny martinis. There’s a guy next to him who looks like a hippie or a biker or I don’t know what they were trying to do.

Ted offers him one of the martinis and this guy, with an offensive gay stereotype says:

“Oh, I’m still nursing this one, Booby.”

It’s fucking cringeworthy.

This over the hill, smarmy, bearded hipster douche in the TD Ameritrade commercials.

Mother and daughter running around the woods dressed as pirates, sword-fighting and "arrrrghing" at one another. It think it's for some drug company. It's shown a dozen times a day.

The "Like you do sometimes, grandpa?" COPD series of commercials. How many fucking times can a commercial be made?

Pascal from Safelite - that's really his name, I know the guy. Safelite uses actual employees(the ones who've won company competitions). Pascal won for his region like 8 years ago though lol. I think they get paid like $5k for each new commercial.

I love the SNL Safelite commercial - but apparently Safelite did not.

Banned Safelite SNL sketch

I'm sorry, but I cannot BEAR the Shriners Hospital commercial where Alex meets Caleb and decides to show him around the place. And then hawks the "adowable" blanket you can get for your contribution. The whole thing sets my teeth on edge.

R287 they cut the ending when the old guy hacks them to death and steals their Subaru

R293 they fail to mention running around and being a pirate is one of the side effects

R239 same here. I thought it was bad luck to have retarded people in your home/motel

The latest State Farm commercial with the frau who goes around warning people, "DON'T MESS WITH MY DISCOUNT!" I want to see a cement truck t-bone her on the driver's side while she's driving. If you need an example of a frau, that's it.

The Bon-Ton and Radio Shack commercials are aaf. Anything with that Progressive cunt Flo should be banned from the air.

Radio Shack?

Radio shack has been gone for several years. I think you've been watching a vhs tape

[quote]Y'all will never believe this, but I've discovered this thing called a "DVR"! It records, fast-forwards, reverses, and deletes whatever I tell it to, all with a push of a tiny button! OMG!

Who the fuck uses DVRs anymore, gramps? 👴🏻 People stream everything these days.

[quote]People stream everything these days.

Hold on just a minute there, young ‘un. What the hell does the river got to do with how we watch the pictures on the television box?!

Those depressing commercials about the impoverished holocaust survivors. And now there's a tag at the end of the commercials eulogizing the rabbi that did the commercials in the first place! So the founder of the organization ended up dying before they did! Did they eat him or what?!

Volvo with the shrieking singer in the red dress.

I could not hate this awful couple any more than I already do

The Home Chef commercials get the ugliest people. There’s one with this blonde girl with the nasal, slowest vocal fry ever. “It was soooooo easy to maaaaake aaaaaaannnnnnd deeeeeeeliiiiiciiiooouss, riiiiiiight, hooooooneeeey?”

R302 doesn’t have tv. Probably hadn’t had one for over 20 years.

The one with the extremely pretentious family cooking together, competing and taking pictures for social media. "Honey, your rump roast broke the internet."

I just want a next generation of the Manson family or a group of Satanists looking for human sacrifices to break into their house and slaughter them all so badly.

It's kinda old, I know. But I couldn't find the other thread. Search engine for DL sucks.

Rob Lowe for Atkins sounds so odd. Gay voice overlaid with extra phlegm? I can't figure it out. I've never heard anything quite like it.

The way Trace Adkins pronounces project as "projict" in the Wounded Warriors Project ads makes me want to scream.

All the gruff voiced manly types like Gerald McRaney and Trace Adkins shilling for these organizations make me fantasize the same ads done by Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly or Rip Taylor.

Paul Lynde would redeem a lot of these commercials. Just imagining his delivery of "Like you, grandpa?" or "what does the dishwasher do?" gives me a laugh.

1) Any commercial that exploits little sick kids to drum up donations or for that matter shows images of tortured animals to drum up donations

2) Getting sick of the constant gecko and progressive commercials

3) those old E*TRADE commercials with that annoying talking baby

The "what does the dishwasher do?" commercial is annoying af. I see it and keep wishing that Patsy Ramsey was alive and that she and Casey Anthony would get together to teach that dumb little bitch a lesson.

There's a commercial which starts with a mother chasing a child around the kitchen and throughout the house then Enya singing (yes, Enya!) while cutting to a scene of the same child sitting happily at the dinner table, eating mac and cheese, and the announcer saying "Kraft for the win-win". It irritates for so many reasons - since when does any parent allow their child to act like that, since when does a child dictate to the parents what to have for dinner and whatever happened to the same parents saying "You're going to sit down and eat what I made you or else...". (I know, in this day and age, the child would probably call CPS.)

Lot of hate for that dishwasher commercial. Lol.

Just saw it again and made me think of this thread.

I've seen that dishwasher commercial hated on other sites, too -- so it's not just gay men who dislike it. Which makes me wonder whether ad agencies still use focus groups to get an idea of how any given approach might be received by hypothetical audiences (real people, not actors, of course)? Or is it now just a matter of "let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes"?

Just when I am rid of that older lady shadow boxing her way to a drugstore and back, along comes that old man "painting" his wall art with fists covered in paint.

On the other hand the guy who looks like a very young Gregory Peck selling me York Peppermint Patties can look into the camera all day long and I won't care. Whew!

"Why Blonch chose Verizon"

And then I looked up at the screen and there's Blonch doing the mug-cradlers' dance in a sea of white. In big black letters it said, "Why Blanche chose Verizon."

To add insult to injury, Blonch stopped dancing long enough to throw her arms up like a goalpost and slur, "un the' I heard I geh Ee-uh-pul Mee-you-zic. BEEEEEEWM!"

That depressed bitch who says “Is it just me”?

Those latoota commercials that have the overly pained and sympathetic bitches showing their various levels of depression. Take your entitled self and throw yourself off a bridge!! Maybe then you'll feel better!

"what does the dishwasher do?" is the new "what's a computer?"

Hatin' on the latest Honda shiller, James Hinchcliffe.

Bad case of "douchebro" on that guy.

I hate the gum commercials with that mewing singer "mmmm I can't help falling in love with you." It literally makes me nauseated. I can't mute fast enough!

Any commercial with that infantile woman’s singing voice. You know the one.

The insufferable Neil Patrick Harris.

Neil looks pretty bad in those spots. And it's not just his hair. Maybe David stopped feeding him?

I want to go back in time and live in the world depicted by Christmas “cheer” TV ads, “cheer” meaning alcohol. Everyone looked happy and sophisticated, even in the André champagne ads. All those ads - Gallo brothers, Martini & Rossi (on the rocks .....or their Asti Spumante), Cold Duck, Harvey’s Bristol Creme, Paul Masson (selling no wine before it’s time), Seagrams. The ladies wore elegant gowns (later, elegant, flowing one piece pantsuits) and choker necklaces and the men wore turtlenecks and jackets with leather elbow patches (and green plaid scarves), there were multicolored C9 lights on trees and windows, along with window corner frost. It was lightly snowing outside and everyone cane in the front door with big flakes on their jackets and were holding boxes that were gift wrapped — top and bottom separately — and they’d pull off the wrapped & bowed lid and showed what great alcohol they’d brought to the party.

There was no date rape or drunkenness in the ads. Everyone was well dressed and educated. Women had been to the beauty parlor earlier in the day, babysitters were watching their prefect children at home. In the early 70s, black couples finally showed up at the ad parties and we all toasted integration for the upper crust blacks & whites that we all hoped to be. Glasses plinked, conversation was low volume, punctuated by hearty-but-not-boisterous laughter. Someone would tap a martini glass with an appetizer fork to get everyone’s attention, wish us a Merry Christmas & a healthy and happy 1967; we’d all clap and someone might start off a stanza of Auld Lang Syne.

I remember those days, R330. I also remember the Viet Nam war and the draft, which is why pretty much all of my high school graduating class disappeared and never returned.

[quote]"what does the dishwasher do?" is the new "what's a computer?"

Did you also notice, the two young actresses on BOTH commercials resemble each other? Are they related? The "what's a computer?" actress is on the FX series "Better Things".

Those "you can quit" commercials from the CDC. A couple of them really freak me out. Particularly the one with the woman lying in the hospital bed two days before her death. God rest her soul. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life and after seeing those commercials, I can promise you that I never will.

R333 that is why those psa’s are shown.

Nobody in my high school graduating class died in Vietnam

[quote]Those "you can quit" commercials from the CDC. A couple of them really freak me out. Particularly the one with the woman lying in the hospital bed two days before her death. God rest her soul. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life and after seeing those commercials, I can promise you that I never will.

That one woman on the those commercials, who lost her jaw and part of her neck to smoking is still alive! I'm amazed ,that through all her cancer treatments, her thick hair returned. No, that's not a wig. The blond woman who died was shown putting on a wig.

Most women who go through chemo, radiation and years of cancer meds, their hair never returns to it's former state. `

Lucky you, R335, and your classmates.

The "I WANT IT ALL" ad. I think it's for a cruise line. Trying too hard to be stylish, and the pouty chanteuse and her message are why the rest of the world hates us!

The Sabra hummus jingle makes me lose my will to live.

"Your rates go up because you file a claim for a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen"

It is a Liberty Mutual Insurance commercial, but it is stupid. Why are you filing a claim on a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen, how fucking small is your deductible that you can file a claim for a scratch. I reluctantly accept we have to have commercials but they don't have to insult our intelligence. I will never buy insurance from Liberty Mutual, NEVER.

R340, I always took that to mean you damaged someone else’s car (a scratch so small...) and they went after your insurance. Not your own vehicle.

R340, my mother told me when I was quite young they intentionally dumb down the ads. Always have. Always will.

Not a commercial, but the flabby female on talk stoop....those thunder thighs bigger than an elephant leg!!! So gross

I think it's for Colgate - a young woman who actually says "My gums bleed when I brush. But I don't have to worry about that. Do I?" Then, to add to the stupidity, it cuts to a dentist/dental hygienist who says "Actually, yes you do" and then it segues into the product.

"My teeth are falling out and I have a mouthful of pus. But I don't have to worry, do I?"

WTF is with the emu in the Liberty Mutual ads? I sure don't need to see a fucking bird vomit on a desk.

^Limu Emu? Yeah, doesn't even make sense and certainly isn't funny. Just stop, already.

I know, r347, is lame.

The emu's partner is kinda hot with the sunglasses on, but not so hot with them off. Go figure!

I am assuming that Ryan Reynolds gets down on his knees every morning and thanks whatever powers that be for his so called career. His commercials for that toon game are some of the worst things I have seen. He isn't funny, he isn't that good looking and he sucks as an actor. The wrong guy went on to "stardom" after "3 men and a Pizza" (or whatever) went off the air.

R349 He's fat, when he runs away with the emu in one commercial you can see big rolls of fat on his waist.

This is weird, I suppose. I stopped watching over the air and cable TV, burned put on the nightmarish POTUS news cycle. I don't know of a single TeeVee commercial to hate.

The gawdawful spots TuneIn inserts into their MSNBC audio stream, that's the worst I got. (DirecTV won't ever get me back with their REALLY shitty ads!)

The Vorizon commercials with that obnoxious nerd and the Dior perfume commercials with Charlize or Jennifer. So ridiculous. Makes me despise them both more than I do.

[quote]Mother and daughter running around the woods dressed as pirates, sword-fighting and "arrrrghing" at one another. It think it's for some drug company. It's shown a dozen times a day.

Agree and why the hell doesn't that kid have a friend?

Why do I get enraged by seeing Zoe Kravitz sitting in a rain forest with her blouse falling off her shoulder, and tapping her fingers on a bottle of beer? Maybe because it's selling point is that it's organic beer, like a beer swiller really cares? Or that Zoe stooped to this?

R354 the side effect is being a pirate

These ridiculous Sandals resort commercials with one couple on a beautiful deserted beach. Gee, how much is that bill supporting a whole resort with only one couple at a time?

R301 I can't stand her either. I know she's an actress doing her job - but she's beyond annoying. State Farm must want to compete with Liberty Mutual for the worst possible ads.

The Liberty Mutual commercial with the out of shape guy with the huge calves. The ad manager for all the LM commercials should be fired, none of the commercial are funny or engaging.

ALL Liberty Mutual commercials are failures. Their ad agency should be run out of business.

I don't blame the agency that created the commercials it's the person in LM corporate marketing who approved them and pushed them on upper management.

Those Hertz "We Try Harder" commercials. Enough already.

The oldies cable channel in my area is constantly running the ads with sad animals and asking for help. Now they went to the next level with these ads for Operation Smile, which is a foundation to fix cleft palate deformities for kids overseas. OMG, it is brutal to see the split upper lips, gappy mouths with teeth poking out from every direction on the little children.

R359, R360, R361: how do companies learn which ads work and which don't? They must do surveys and find people who did or didn't buy their product as a result of seeing certain ads. Which means that a lot of people must say that they were persuaded by those horrendous ads to buy car insurance from Liberty Mutual. Hope to god I never have to meet those folks!

The car commercial with some people at a meeting. A women with a fake whispery voice (think Ivanka T) gets a phone call, she tells the South Asian man next to her that: "Alex left her cello in the car." Huh? WTF? What a stupid fucking commercial.

Then the group, drops off the whispery voiced woman's daughter's cello, they then proceed to have their meeting in the car. What the point? That the car is so fabulous you can have a meeting in it?

The woman's fake whispery voice is so damn annoying, I want to punch her in the mouth! I despise those whispery pseudo sophisticated voices. They hurt my ears.

All of those "real people" (not actors!) in those lousy Chevy commercials are getting on my very last nerve. They are the dream spokespeople that every company doing commercials could possibly hope to find. They gush and orgasm over every little feature of the shitty Chevy cars they are looking at in their "real people" speeches:

"Fantastic!"

"Breathtaking!"

"I want a Chevy now!"

Sure, they're all real people. They all turn at precisely the same moment, they don't talk over each other, and they move in sync. Fucking Chevy bullshit.

R367, ever hear of editing?

While I agree those commercials are annoying, they select the tidbits they like, adjust sound and they’re done.

The production is cheap, not paying the actors and it’s easy to put together. Not a bad marketing plan from a financial standpoint.

R363 I know what you mean! Those commercials almost make me want to put my cocktail down and write a check for those kids!

The woman saying hy-a-lu-ron-ic acid grates on my nerves.

[quote]The woman saying hy-a-lu-ron-ic acid grates on my nerves.

There are several actresses now doing that commercial. Eva Longoria and Busy Phillips have been doing those L'Oreal ads recently. Busy's long fake nails in the commercial are very distracting. If the company wants to sell their face cream, she needed to have a short manicure.

The latest heart drug commercial set at an interracial wedding makes me cringe every time. All the forced gaiety and phony set-up. Who knew medicine could be so fun?

I am really curious if black women feel about these ads the same way some of us gay men feel about trans stuff, the subtle erasure element. Celebrating (to sell product, granted) the black man getting a white woman instead. The scenario is so common in ads now, it feels oddly pointed. Curious what others think.

[quote]I am really curious if black women feel about these ads the same way some of us gay men feel about trans stuff, the subtle erasure element. Celebrating (to sell product, granted) the black man getting a white woman instead. The scenario is so common in ads now, it feels oddly pointed. Curious what others think.

No one is getting erased, quite the opposite. There are tons of current TV ads with a white man and a black woman. Just saw one for a mattress a few minutes ago, it featured a white man, a black woman and a little red haired boy who looked 100% white. Guess the son was the husband's kid from his first marriage. lol

The point is, ad agencies are featuring so many mixed couples, they are doing this to enrage the Republicans, the Religious Right and all the other Trumpster racists and xenophobes. One commercial even featured a drag queen to advertise Chips Ahoy!

You mean to tell me, you haven't noticed all the ads now featuring tons of non-white people and mixed couples? How about the ads featuring gay couples?

In addition to the mixed and gay couples and even mixed gay couples, I've been seeing more South Asians, East Asians and tons of black people in TV ads. I guess if you no longer watch TV, you aren't seeing these commercials.

That hideous Volvo ad with the soprano trilling out that piece of opera. I have flung myself across the room to grab the remote before she hits the first note.

The Chantix commercial with the anthropomorphized TURKEY who, while camping, pours a handful of chantix pills into his hand, takes one, cooks the rest in his soup pot and then eats the soup. Yes, that is what actually happens.

My SO pointed this out to me, I had seen only glimpses of it before - camping turkey, how cute..

Does Jason Bateman need money so bad that he is willing to play an elevator operator in a car commercial? He looks old all of a sudden too.

R375, if I hadn’t seen that commercial with my own eyes, based on your description alone, I would’ve insisted you were on a bad acid trip.

Jamaica man milking Giraffe for Skittles. My god who ok this commercial to make their product look like it came from milking a animal? Guy look like he's on acid as he laughs and eating what he milked. Bad trip?

Thank you, R330. Those were indeed wonderful days, at least on commercials.

"This is my Sexy Mom car." Vomit.

Anything with Tampini Marchand - that "OOOH! I can do that!" Girl

What are the Reese's candy makers "not sorry" about?

The AT&T commercial with the fug woman muttering "that's cool" over her counterpart ironing his jeans

All the millennial self-affirming whimsical twee shit in commercials - overuse of the words "why", "because" and "you" for example. "Almond milk...why?,,,because you're worth it!". "Why?...because YOU!".

Any of those commercials with Captain Obvious.

In NY, I hate the ad for NY1..."you've never had a blooming onion?" I fucking hate that cunt's voice. so annoying! And she wears the ugliest shit on TV.

Those stupid Allstate "mayhem" commercials with that has-been from Oz.

Honey Bunches of Oats commercials with that funny looking factory worker.

Very annoying one for the NY lottery scratch off tickets - tickets where you uncover words to win. A group is socializing in a living room, and they have invited a wrestler(!?), dressed in his ring gear. The wrestler doesn't like the board game they're playing and swipes it onto the floor. Next shot is the same group but now they're all scratching at lottery tickets and yelling out the words as they uncover them.

The whole scene is so surreal with the wrestler, and the people just YELLING out random words. Annoying.

[quote]Honey Bunches of Oats commercials with that funny looking factory worker.

WTF, she's a DL icon! You are clueless.

Diana Hunter actually worked at the Post factory! Good for her. Let's see YOU in a famous TV ad.

Seabond denture adhesive has a commercial with people eating problematic foods in double speed. A man chows down on an ear of corn and the sound effect is like buzzsaw or something. Another one has a woman eating an crisp apple and it sounds like a horse chomping.

I can't mute the TV fast enough when that Infiniti ad comes on that that country-adjacent nightmare of a song

I like the honey bunches of oats lady. I will actually stop and watch her.

There’s a commercial for some island resort with the song that goes “yeah we’re all about a good time… Yeah we’re all about a good life…” I fucking hate it and it’s been going on for years and years with no end in sight. Some young singer must be making a hell of a payday.

The latest Chevy commercial with "real people, not actors" includes a pretty brunette who says "I'm going to go get a Chevy" and giggles for no apparent reason.

Another commercial for some bathroom renovation firm (maybe local) shows a pretty woman saying "I actually love our bathroom now" with a little giggle (and smirk and sideways glance up at her handsome straight-faced male partner).

Both of these women look like adults but their senseless giggles make them sound like 8-year-olds. Is this some new trend that's supposed to be charming?

Who plays Captain Morgan in those otherwise nutty ads? The guy has great sexiness.

Another vote for the beer commercial with the lady whispering into the microphone and pouring beer.

The whispering make me irrationally angry. I'm not sure why. What's the point of having her whisper? I don't get it.

Makes me want to punch her.

The lady pouring the beer is actress Zoe Kravitz.

The latest Chevy "real" people ad has these people marveling at a truck that you can plug a giant light into. The part that makes it really awful is they all keep giggling. What the hell are they giggling about?

the insurance ad about some stupid "shed" and the couple kept saying "she-shed" or some other foreign language sounding phase...

stupid!

There is an ad for a men's razor that really seems like something from a Todd Solondz movie. It features this big doughy firefighter whining about how sensitive his skin is and then ends with the most bizarre slow-mo close-up of him smiling with him sporting braces on his teeth. The metal type that you don't really see on adults anymore now that there is Invisaline and other types. It has a really sad,creepy feeling for a commercial.

Yeah, that's a weird one. It's played a lot, too.

There's a waterpark in the area called Aquatobia, and their new commercial gives me pedophile vibes. It starts with some preteen girls in swimsuits who stand around this woman who speaks to the camera. One of the girls is posing in an extremely seductive position and I swear, it looks like she was posed that way expressly to look alluring. Her bikini bottom is very small and revealing. Next they show two more preteen girls doing a backflip in the water, while the camera is focused on their crotches as they go under the surface. Then, they show a group of girls in an inflated ring on a water slide – all of the girls have their legs wide open in their 2-piece suits. Next, a few shots of really young girls running around in the park, and it ends with ANOTHER young teen girl belly-flopping onto a boogie board in the wave pool. The way the shot is framed seems to highlight her splayed out legs.

Every time this ad plays, it leaves me with an uneasy feeling - who is this place being peddled to? Before you all scream that I'm a perv who is making something innocent into something creepy, anyone who has seen this ad, please weigh in. *Unfortunately, I can't find the ad online, but folks in the NY/NJ/CT area have probably seen it.

Yeah boys can be seductive too

No girls please

I cringe whenever I see William Shatner trying to be sincere in the TV ads he does. He did one for a portable oxygen generator recently, trying to be portray compassion, as he explained that he had a friend who had to use one of those units. He just looked bloated and smarmy. His latest ad is for a device that cleans the hoses/masks that attach to CPAP machines. Bill is still looking the same.

Those two assholes shilling for Spectrum: the smug know-it-all in a sweater and the couch potato nerd. Their witless banter is annoying beyond belief. I mute my TV for the new one where couch potato talks about getting stretchy arms as a superpower so he could reach the refrigerator.

Oh, and another vote for the Liberty Mutual ad featuring the guy with the freakish calves. If I ever needed insurance I would go out of my way NOT to patronize Liberty based on their shitty commercials!

Doritos. Chance the Rapper & BSB. Irritating as f***.

Those freaking Leesa commercials - "I LOVE my Leesa!"..."You NEED this bed!"

Queen: I want it all! I want it all! DoorDash.

That Stanley Steamer commercial with the little kid peeing on the floor and then stepping in it. As the announcer aptly puts it, “That’s gross.”

A woman wants to know whether Discover has a travel card. Rather than doing some Googling and going to Discover's website to easily find the answer, she decides to call Discover -- while she's visiting an aquarium.

Princess Toast

Any Honey commercial. I don’t even have to watch the screen to know it’s a Honey commercial when I hear a millennial start whining about a millennial problem. “So hungry. Ugh!”

Starkist “It’s CHICKEN!”

For Trump people, the easier way to take your medications. They don't "have to remember" to take their pills anymore. Just rely on pillpack. What the fuck is in that huge pill bottle that renders the bag unclosable. Hey dipshit, how about a bigger bag? So damned insulting. (It's free, just pay a copay!)

R415 I've seen commercials for PillPack but never that specific one. How incredibly stupid do they make that woman out to be, carrying around entire jars of pills? I take several medications and I have them all lined up, day by day, in one of those weekly pill boxes. And if I know I'm going to be out for the day, I simply put all of that day's pills into a reused pill bottle.

Popeye's Hot Honey Crunch chicken... "It's hot AND sweet!"

I hate it because this cunt of a woman is only out on the date for the chicken, and tells the guy she's with he's not hot at all.

BUT IT TOTALLY IS. He's the definition of hot and sweet! I WANT HIM SO BAD!

DUDE! DUMP THAT CUNT AND COME LET ME LOVE YOU!

Those ambiguous Volvo commercials are back.

Lberator Medical colostomy bags, the lady approves of the product with an ear-piercing woohoo!

I HATE those LaToota commercials. That self-entitled bitch with depression - get over it! Who cares!

Here is the Popeye's commercial. Can you imagine the uproar if the roles were reversed? " Toxic masculinity!" " Male privilege!" "Exploitation of women!"

Plus, the guy is fucking HOT as well as CUTE and SWEET and SEXY and ADORABLE.

What the fuck is that cunt's problem?

Did Movado fucking buy MSNBC? I swear every other commercial is that annoying ....Ooou....ah...ah...ahhhh. And if it isn't that ad it is the Shelley Hack look-a-like rubbing her 5% discount and free WiFi in the Trivago guys face.

The commercial that matches people with housekeepers/babysitters, especially the fug little brat that goes, "Do you think I'm cute?" and then whines about how mom and dad are cleaning, "on a Saturday!" That brat's almost as much as the "what does the dishwasher do?" demon spawn.

Joining the "what's a computer?" and "what does a dishwasher do?" girls is a new never ending commercial featuring a flash dancing mini chubbette dancing her way into hearts and award winning ribbons. She sparkles, she lights up, she screams with joy up and down the halls of Holiday Inns located in the heartland. Mommy and Poppy are so proud.

If it was any other kid doing the ad, I wouldn't mind as much, but this kid is dancing on my last nerve. Totally obnoxious. Can they run the ad more frequently?

Love the hot dads in the Dr. Scholls commercials. The dad who goes to the amusement park, the one who leads a tour (Ryan Santiello who used to be on Y&R for a time) and the Dad with triplets.

R426 didn’t read the thread title.

Is it Mazda with that slowed down Cranberries song sung by some raspy voiced female songwriter. We get it. IT’S A MILLENNIAL COMMERCIAL!!!!!! My God it’s like you’d expect the lady in the commercial to bust out with a bowl of sriracha mac and cheese while wearing unicorn horns. Enough with the slowed down renditions of popular hits. That Mamas and Papas California Dreamin song alone has at least 5 slowed down versions including in that terrible San Andreas movie. It totally puts as bad a taste in my mouth as bad as sea salted caramel.

The one with the awful Emu

Hate this one. Take the damn sad dog for a car ride!

Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic!

Liberty Mutual has been hitting the LA market for months with its “accident forgiveness’’ ads. At the end of the ad the small print reads “accident forgiveness not available in California.” WTF! The state insurance commissioner or state consumer protection agency should fine these bastards.

For several years now, every other commercial has had whistling. It’s amazing when you start counting them.

I wonder if there is one boutique company that specializes in whistlers for TV commercials.

Liberty liberty liberty liberty

The douche bag who dances all of the way through the commercial for Trujeo (sp?)

R432, the story at the link says that Liberty was sued in 2016 by the District Attorneys of 3 southern Calif counties for this very infraction, and settled the lawsuit by agreeing to pay $925,000 (without admitting liability, as is typical in settlements). I have no idea why they're now running the ads again in 2019 -- I've seen them where I live in the SF Bay Area, but I assume the settlement forbids the ads throughout the state, since the coverage is not permitted under Calif law, period. The settlement addressed ads with the "not available in Calif" disclaimer, so it doesn't sound like anything has changed since 2016 (unless the disclaimer is now printed in larger type?). Odd....

The Lacoste commercial featuring a couple whose apartment is ripped in half by an earthquake or something as Edith Piaf yowls in the background, is being overplayed to fucking DEATH.

However…as I was looking for it on YouTube to post it here, I came across the "long" version (posted here), which completely changes my mind about it. It's three times the length of the ad that's being televised, and it's really pretty good. This doesn't negate the fact that the shorter version is still as grating as hell.

"Thank god for grammarly. If I actually had the English skills to perform basic tasks in the workplace I wouldn't be completely out of luck like I would be if this "app" (program) didn't exist. Thanks again grammarly, for providing me with the employment that I really don't deserve!"

Have to give it to Applebee's - the comfort food looks amazing, and the songs they've purchased are always super fun to hear.

I wonder if Melissa Manchester feels any shame having sold "Come To My Window." Or if she just figures, fuck it, money's good.

The hideous mom who, despite her migraines, is willing to play "Princess and Pirate" with her obnoxious daughter, then goes into an elaborate schizoid fantasy, then trundles the brat in a wheelbarrow pretending it's a plane, then chase each other around the yard wearing ridiculous cardboard box robot costumes.

I get a migraine just THINKING about doing something like that.

R440, lot of hate on this thread for that commercial. Didn’t really think it was that bad at first, but now I can’t stand it.

Any commercial depicting a wedding where the the bride's father (and in one case the mother!) starts busting a move on the dance floor, doing a cheesy choreographed routine. These are usually for some medication or another.

This commercial for a browser extension that shows a baby turning into a gay twink for some reason.

These Baskin-Robbins spots with the weird mouth effect are creepy in an annoying way.

Ozempic and Limu Emu commercials are probably on heavy rotation in the ninth circle of Hell.

[quote]And if it isn't that ad it is the Shelley Hack look-a-like rubbing her 5% discount and free WiFi in the Trivago guys face.

This sounds oddly disturbing.

Any commercial where the parents go through hoops to find a food their spawn will eat. Let the little assholes starve!

That horrible "START THE CAR" cunt from Ikea is back. God, I hate that bitch!

[quote]I wonder if Melissa Manchester feels any shame having sold "Come To My Window." Or if she just figures, fuck it, money's good.

So ashamed that she changed her name to Etheridge

I want mother and daughter to both get stabbed by real pirate swords.

R449 Oh wow. I really did type that, huh?

I didn't realize Zoe Kravitz was the ASMR beer-pouring lady. I would still stab her in the head for that hateful commercial. How in the holy fuck can people find that ASMR shit relaxing?!

I keep thinking the mother and the daughter in the Emgality "Pirates" commercial are both on the autism spectrum.

Mrs. Lady Pants.

Someone loves Lady Pants.

That is the first time I ever saw the mother/daughter ad everyone here hates. It makes me think of a brilliant short film that aired on Adult Swim several years ago. That mother is one headache away from offing her spawn and then doing herself in.

DON’T MESS WITH MY DISCOUNT!

I think it’s the Extra bubblegum commercial with this guy doing a terrible Peter Gabriel impression. You could tell it’s inauthentic and he’s making his voice that way to appeal to millennials. Also does Snickers OWN the WWE? I swear I’d seen that Pete Sagarine Snickers commercial like 5 times in one single break alone.

There's a Firestone Tire ad with some woman with safety glasses talking directly to the camera, and I just can't get over how much she looks like a parrot fish and it drives me nuts and I can't take her or the commercial seriously because of it.

[quote]Joining the "what's a computer?" and "what does a dishwasher do?" girls

HEY NOW, don't forget the "...it's STEROID FREE!" smug little kid!

This realtor.com gay couple commercial

That cal fresh commercials where those stupid parents and kids take that stupid victory danc at the end. I expect that husband would of thrown that cup back at her face and demanded her to give him his fucking beer.

That migraine commercial forgot to mention that the main side effect was being a pirate or evil robot.

The Colace commercial with the constipated animals.

R464 - this one? I'd never seen it before but just from your description, I *had* to look it up.

Thanks for posting that. I think it's hilarious.

That fucking "She Sheer She Shed" commercial is back in heavy rotation. Ugh. I hate it so much. WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS A "SHE SHEER SHE SHED?!?"

It makes no fucking sense at all.

This company Hempvana is advertising their latest 'hemp infused' product - it's a pillow that raises your legs to help with swelling and circulation. The big selling point is that the cover of the pillow has hemp woven in it and this will help your legs even more. Sure, Jan. I think the manufacturer is hoping that the older folks buying this confuse the hemp they used to smoke back in the with CBD oil that all of their grandkids are talking about now. Whenever this ad runs, I just shake my head at the shiftyness of it -- hemp infused fabric as the cure for swollen legs.

Spam? In a Taco? PORK-FAVOR!!!!!

God I fucking hate that disgusting nauseating commercial.

R467, the term is "chi-chi": "Attempting stylish elegance but achieving only an overelaborate pretentiousness."

So through her State Farm claim, Cheryl is getting an upgrade to a new, chi-chier she-shed.

I actually would watch a sitcom with those three actors playing those same roles.

Thanks for finally explaining it, R470. But wow, that is NOT obvious from the commercial. They're saying "she-shear", not "chi-chi-er".

I even googled it, and tons of people seem to have no clue and are asking. NOBODY is getting it, and nobody explained it as simply as you just did.

No one has ever heard "chi chi" turned into "chi chi-er" so it's not immediately recognizable. If they wanted us to understand what they mean, they'd say "more chi chi" -- but then "tons of people" would not be discussing it on Google and this would be just another insurance ad.

The Discover Card ad where the girl is booking a diving vacation while standing in front of a glass aquarium where a big shark swims by in the background. She jokes around about not wanting to get eaten. With all the real shark attacks this year, it seems pretty insensitive.

Quite a few going around which I find irritating.

Subaru where dad is driving with mom in the passenger seat and young kids in back. Dad turns to look at the kids, narrowly avoids a head-on collision, complete with family flashbacks, and then a tagline which is something like "Subaru with computerized crash prevention, to keep you safe". Always makes me want to scream, "Or better yet, keep your fucking eyes on the fucking road!"

AAA with mom heading to a party with kids in the back seat holding a cake when the car breaks down. As AA arrives and repairs the car, we see the young girl trying to keep the cake away from her brother who winds up shoving his hand into the cake, removing a huge chunk and then eating it. Seriously stupid and gross.

Another car commercial (I forget the company) with the car parked in the middle of Main Street, USA as "real people, not actors" swarm up and start having verbal orgasms about how nice the car looks. Worst comment is when a woman is heard saying it "looks like a piece of candy".

Okay, this one is going back a couple of years, but it’s so fucking awful I have to still vent about it in 2019. The damn Panera Bread commercials with that broad who is trying to sound like she is eleven years old. Nails on a chalkboard. I wonder if her man makes her talk in that voice when he is fisting her hooch.

Hotels.com has a gross ad where their spokesperson accosts a couple in the bathroom. The woman is in the tub, covered in bubbles, while her husband is sitting on the toilet with his pants around his knees.

I'm _____ and I lost 50lbs. with NutriSystem!

Here's a whole thread devoted to that hotel toilet ad, r476.

Dia---rheeee---aahhhhh tilt head

I think the Pepto-Bismol diarrhea guy is cute as fuck. I'd like to fix HIS diarrhea by ramming my dick up his butt.

The Progressive commercial featuring Flo's "sister" out on a date. In fact, any commercial with Flo's family. Or with Flo.

"Jamie" is ten times worse than Flo!

The one where he's a potential stepdad is cringe inducing.

Animal Planet is running an ad that shows various unusual animals, birds, bugs in their natural habitats. Most of it is interesting but they show this freaky animal doing a handstand to scare off its predators, then a jungle floor full of big ants that just makes me itchy and a bunch of raccoons reaching for dog food through the slats of a deck floor - their hands are creepy. The worst is this seal that blows a gigantic purple balloon-like membrane out of its nose. Blergh and gross.

Peloton commercials all have the most frenetic music and way too much volume; each one seems to set me on edge faster than the last one. I agree with everyone here, the My Pillow man is such a creep! Everything about him from the poor dye job, the Quiana shirt, and the huge crucifix worn outside said shirt make me want to be sick.

R483 should stay indoors (and not watch Animal Planet).

Keep seeing this Old Spice commercial and I just don't get it.

Two commercials have music I actually enjoy: Humira and Comfort Inn.

All Geico and Progressive ads should be pulled IMMEDIATELY. Especially the one with the guy with the karaoke machine in the arctic. They must run this fucker two hundred times a day!!

Maybe we should set up a poll for which company has the most annoying commercials: Geico, Progressive or Liberty Mutual.

[quote] Maybe we should set up a poll for which company has the most annoying commercials: Geico, Progressive or Liberty Mutual.

Why are 90% of all commercials now for car insurance? (And the other 10% are all for prescription drugs.) People don't buy new car insurance policies every day. Why must the insurance companies advertise non-stop? I'm sure insurance rates would be much lower if the insurance companies didn't spend a trillion dollars on advertising.

Whenever I see that annoying "She Shed" commercial now, I think about that poster who said that when they first watched it, they thought the KKK had burned it down.

Any commercial by a law firm.

Jeremy Renner makes me want to sell my Jeep

The Macy's back to school ad with the annoying dancing children.

I like all the commercials with Flo!

The Match commercial with Rebel Wilson where she keeps making this god awful noise like she's going to vomit. Listening to her makes ME want to vomit. Am I the only one who can' stand that woman?

Ozempic... Or is it really Ozambic? The pronunciation in the re-tooled "It's Magic" music does Jive with the pronunciation of the voice over.

^^What?

^ meant does NOT

So you meant “does not jibe with....”

In other words, they’re out of sync.

Yes R500. You have not seen it then I take it? Big-Pharma BS ad campaign . They change the way the drug's trade name is pronounced to shamelessly rhyme with the lyrics (1974 song by Pilot.) They ruined a perfectly good song .

I don’t remember if I’ve seen it or not, truth be told.

It does sound familiar though. I will now keep my eyes peeled for it.

R500 Also no one gets/uses jibe here Stateside: here it is jive!

Just something about this commercial which really irritates me, but not sure exactly what. Maybe it's simply the over-use, as it seems like it airs every other commercial break. The cheesey/cutesy father-daughter dancing scenes as well as the other character interaction.

[quote] Also no one gets/uses jibe here Stateside: here it is jive!

Absolutely not! Jibe and jive are two different words that have different meanings.

I'll bet you also say "shimmy" when the correct word is "shinny."

There's an ad for a dental implant place which has an older AA lady and her daughter -- they speak to the camera about how incredible it is to have these teeth put in. The daughter is filmed with tears streaming down her face because of how happy she is for her mother. Then, the mother is show holding hands with the dentist and beaming as they walk through the halls of the office. Both of those scenes make me cringe - too much emotion about some teeth.

On top of that, the teeth they give her look really fake - too white and big and perfect for her age. Also, I know how much implants cost and all I can think is that this woman should have gotten some nice dentures instead of those expensive choppers.

The one where a father and daughter are shopping for school supplies at an Office Max, and the daughter says something about Shakespeare - and just like magic, some very fey clerk pops up from around the corner and says something like, "Methinks these pens would serve milady well" or some shit. (Like there would even BE a clerk in the aisle to begin with!)

I would give anything to see the big burly dad smash his fist into this asshole's face!

This Microsoft Surface Pro commercial. Though the guy's cute.

The Repatha commercial at r504 really is the worst. It seems oddly racist as well,even though it is trying to come off as the opposite. It's SO WHITE! That dumb-ass father is the kind of idiot that tries too hard to prove he isn't racist that he actually seems too aware of race. The whole idea of the ad screams "look at how progressive we are" fuck, it's 2019 not 2004.

"Methinks these pens would serve milady well" or some shit.

I hate that guy. I hate him.

R510 that guy most likely looks like Hugh Grant down and out. Having to take that job as long as they didnt know he 's a sex offender

Agree with R509. We get it - your white daughter is marrying a black dude and you're SO okay with it - dancing with grandma, clowning with the groom's dad, photobombing the happy couple, etc. SO modern and progressive!

He'll have his heart attack in a few years after the daughter has had three kids with Devonte, who is out of a job and has another baby mama on the side.

I freakin hate the noom commercials. “ I even cut out bread and pasta for like a day “ wow that’s like hard core willpower. I’m sorry and they play it on Hulu like 17 times an hour.

These new commercials are so obnoxious and vague “ I even cut out bread and pasta for a day” Wow that is some crazy will power the whole day? And they play at like 17 times an hour on Hulu .

They play this obnoxious Noom commercial like 17 times an hour on Hulu . Aside from being incredibly vague, the part where the lady says “ I even cut out bread and pasta for a day “ ( wow that is some crazy ass will power)... Makes me crazy every time I hear it.

John Legend sitting at the piano and singing about some product called Pitera... something in a bottle, some new water? I refuse to Google that shite.

R516 I always wonder how much money celebs get for doing these commercials. I mean, did that amount to a new property or luxury car for John Legend, or bling for his annoying wife? Is he nonchalant about the money? Like, a days' work that nets him six figures, meh?

That fucking, TEDIOUS CHANTIX 'SLOW TURKEY' BULLSHIT COMMERCIAL. JESUS PETE!!!!! I swear if I hear that chugging, boring guitar music any more I will shoot the fucking television.

That old boxer wearing geezer asking, "Has anybody seen my pants?"

I like the Chantix turkey R518, and it always makes me wonder what on earth happened in his life that made him take up smoking in the first place.

Kim Crawford Chardonnay commercials. Not only is the music annoying, the women and their facial expressions are insufferable.

The HurryCane commercial with the two old New York geezer Pacino and DeNiro wannabe's sitting on a park bench. DeNiro is telling Pacino his cane is old fashioned, and he needs to get out of the Stone Age. Then a "hot" old lady walks by, and DeNiro's able to jump up and catch her because his HurryCane's not from the Stone Age.

The one for GrubHub where the wild-eyed bipolar guy has an episode and orders everything from every restaurant on the app. Then he just sits and looks at his order.

The Dr. Pepper commercial. "It's good to treat you!" The guy looks like the son of Chris Elliot. Is Justin Guarini's run as Lil Sweet over?

The ad for a phone service (I think) where a girl is on a date in a secluded Lovers Lane type place and it becomes clear that her whole family is along for the ride. The dad looks just like Tracy Morgan and the girl they got to be the daughter has a big nose just like him. It ends with it being shown that even the grandparents are along, and the grandpa spits out the line "cut your hair, hippie!" at the girls date. So mean.

That street musician singing, "I paid the price....for loving you..." and then some talking owl shows up and tells him to get cheaper glasses.

I want to drop-kick that fucking owl into the next county. Has anyone noticed that the owl sounds just like Norm MacDonald?

The people in the dental implant commercials all look like poor white trash, so I wonder how they're paying for a mouth full of implanted teeth (which my dentist says cost thousands of dollars). Dental insurance isn't cheap and usually doesn't offer great benefits -- besides, these people look like the kind who often don't even have medical insurance, let alone dental insurance. I'll bet the implant company offers to provide the fake teeth for free if the patient will appear in these horrible commercials (that will run forever) without being paid. Where's Mike Wallace when we need him?!

The Plexaderm ads have got to feature the homeliest people on television.

The Keeps hair loss commercial with the guy with the fucked up nose. I don't care if you have hair or not, I can't look at your weird face.

Anyone else hate that resort commercial with this song: "Yeah, we're all about a good time.....yeah we're all about a good life......" etc etc.

I HAAAAAAATE IT. Which of course means it has been and will be on forever and ever. Who is that chick singer, and how much money is she making from that incessant commercial?

If I see that stupid blonde bitch beating on her counter yelling "Andy Andy Andy Andy Andy" one more time I am going to rip my ears off and gouge my eyes out. I don't even know what the commercial is for because I almost injure myself diving for the mute button. I can't imagine what company thinks that could possibly persuade anyone to buy their product.

The law firm of Morgan & Morgan

The frauiest frau of all fraus has got to be the daughter on the commercial for Watchman (what a name) implant. The minivan, the daughter named Emma , the whiniest of voices.

There’s one I see on Bravo with an old lesbian. I think it’s Downey. She sniffs her laundry then morphs into a DJ with a weird pose. Then walks the hallway of a high school grabbing the cheek of a girl as she walks by. The old lesbian has a square face. Very weird.

Any number of them where some Frau declares that she "nailed it" by feeding her family some frozen food, or shoving a yogurt into her kid's lunchbox.

The California Closets commercial where a couple declares that they downsized and needed storage, then they show their closet which is bigger than most NY apartments.

Oh my god, yes, heating up a Red Baron frozen pizza is "nailing it."

And the thought of her milk soaked sock makes me gag. Use a paper towel you lazy bitch!

Someone needs to slap that child in the Chase commercial. So much mugging and some really bad dancing. That little shit with fake glasses would never win a competition.

I'm sorry, but I dive for the remote to mute the commercial where Alex meets Caleb and takes him on a tour of Shriners Hospital.

That horrible series of Aamco ads in which harebrained frauen make noises like roosters when telling mechanics what's wrong with their cars.

Little Miss Sunshine and the "What's a computer?" girl need to meet in a grease fire.

This ambulance chaser ad, featuring the most mismatched couple I've ever seen, makes me laugh inappropriately. There's just so much to unwrap with this one: the "Final Destination"-esque car-from-nowhere trope. The earnest actress going for an Emmy. And the, um, "actor"(?) playing her much-smaller "boyfriend", looking like he doesn't understand a single word she's saying.

That is hilarious r543 a community college somewhere is missing an actress.

Don't be sorry, R540 -- nothing against sick kids, but this smacks of exploitation rather than compassion.

[quote]Little Miss Sunshine and the "What's a computer?" girl need to meet in a grease fire.

Save some room for the “what does the dishwasher do?” chick.

[quote]There's just so much to unwrap with this one

*eyeroll*

🎶 "Limu Emuuuuuuuu!" 🎶

God, it just hurts my ears.

Funny how the same commercials run forever and ever now. I feel like in the old days, they'd get changed up more frequently.

I want to fuck Limu Emu's partner Doug

Rather do limu instead

Man that tv is big as you

Whoever greenlit that horrible musical ad for Tide Pureclean needs to be shot

Imagine the pitch meeting for "Limu Emu" - blech.

The Busy Phillips Old Navy ad with that annoying face she makes. There's also something really smug about how she says "Made a whole career out of it, babe." What has she ever done in her career that warrants being called a weirdo? The only things I know her from are Dawson's Creek, Freaks and Geeks and the White Chicks movie. It's not like she's Aubrey Plaza or something.

Cooper, did you eat all your treats?

R555, Cooper is being accused of eating OLIVER'S treats -- he's ashamed and looks guilty because he knows it's true.

What bothers me in that ad is the millisecond gap between the time the frau says "your" and "treats." It comes out as "Cooper, did you eat all your…treats?" It's minor, to be sure, but once you realize that gap is there, you can never unheard it.

^^Or unhear it, even. ^^

R557, the woman is not saying "your treats", she's saying "Oliver's treats": "Cooper, did you eat Oliver's treats?". That's why Cooper is hiding his head in shame, because he wasn't supposed to eat Oliver's treats -- he wouldn't need to be ashamed of eating his own treats.

R559: You're wrong.

Was in Canada a week ago, saw those terrible Jon Hamm skip the dishes commercials. Wanted to throw a dish at his fat head.

[quote]Was in Canada a week ago, saw those terrible Jon Hamm skip the dishes commercials. Wanted to throw a dish at his fat head.

Which fat head?

I wish it was his lower fat head.

[Quote]the woman is not saying "your treats", she's saying "Oliver's treats": "Cooper, did you eat Oliver's treats?". That's why Cooper is hiding his head in shame, because he wasn't supposed to eat Oliver's treats -- he wouldn't need to be ashamed of eating his own treats.

I just saw that ad again. No WAY does she say "Oliver." She very distinctly pronounces the word "your." And that micro-hesitation between the words "your" and "treats" is as annoying as it ever was. I hope Cooper chews her fucking face off in her sleep.

[Quote]the woman is not saying "your treats", she's saying "Oliver's treats": "Cooper, did you eat Oliver's treats?". That's why Cooper is hiding his head in shame, because he wasn't supposed to eat Oliver's treats -- he wouldn't need to be ashamed of eating his own treats.

I just saw that ad again. No WAY does she say "Oliver." She very distinctly pronounces the word "your." And that micro-hesitation between the words "your" and "treats" is as annoying as it ever was. I hope Cooper chews her fucking face off in her sleep.

R60 they're now running the one called "Bad Job" with that person who some say looks like an upgrade of soap and Lifetime frau movie actor Robert Scott Wilson.

Those new McDonald's coffee commercials.

The new Geico ad with the two women in an apartment, with a witch as a third wheel. It's creepy when the witch turns one of the women into a cat. The CGI is freaky.

Another stupid-sounding millennial mumbling ecstatically about Panera's new 'Warm Grain Bowls', which she pronounces like 'graimbowl'. Ugh.

R568, the previous Panera announcerette must have finally grown up and no longer sounds like a wistful, breathy 13 year old -- so they've had to hire a new annoying girl to gush over their mediocre food.

The Amazon prime "Ave Maria" commercial. OK, I get that Dad is wearing noise cancelling headphones, but I really don't want to hear eight bars of "Ave Maria" THIRTY FUCKING TIMES A DAY!

[quote]Oliver's treats?".

Just one punctuation mark is enough.

Are you sure, R571? The full sentence states that the woman is saying "Cooper, did you eat Oliver's treats?". The question mark is needed to show that the woman is asking a question, and the period is needed to show the end of the sentence that describes what the woman is saying. I do think that it looks cluttered, but I don't think that it's incorrect.

R571, are you Cooper trying to deflect attention from your gluttony in eating poor Oliver's treats?

It is incorrect, r572.

that 5 minute plexaderm commercial. who in the fuck wants to see that for five minutes seeing those fugs poisoning themselves. first they said they tested on their dad, then its a friend.

Dennis Quaid looks incredibly sheepish in those commercials for whatever it is. So much so that they made his obvious embarrassment the joke of the commercial.

We get it Dennis, you're a movie star but the money was nice. No shame in it. Well, maybe a little bit of shame. But is it too hard to even pretend to believe in the product, just a little bit?

That male co-host in the infomercial for that product r574 has to be gay?

You could tell some gullible, young millennial who just got hired in those advertisements for the cruise commercials was one to pick White Rabbit of all songs to promote their cruise line. Probably heard their grandparents listening to it on their CD player when they were younger and noticed it was Alice in Wonderland related and asked about it and to keep it safe and pc they just shortened it....”well it’s about going on a trip.” They ended it on that note, didn’t say another word, so in a way they weren’t exactly lying but the kid took it literally and here we are watching it on a cruise commercial all because grandpa didn’t want them knowing what that song was really about. Oh well still beats a slowed down version with a raspy voiced female covering White Rabbit like......well like every other commercial out there.

The lone entertaining Limu Emu commercial is the "key to the city" spot. I get a kick out of Lady Emu (Limu in drag) seated in the audience dressed to the nines in a blonde wig, pearls, shades, and a yellow polka dot pussycat-bow blouse.

I hate the scene in the latest Wayfair ad in which the little bitch snatches the package, saying "I'll take that!"

Jesus R577, you over-think worse than I do!

WTF. is going on with Macy xmas commercial with that little girl who wanted to be Santa. Give me a break. Ooh we believe women should be able to be Santa so buy our shit

r559 What I hear is "Did you eat all of yours treats?" Oh, dear.

r572 No period. Don't need one.

Those fucking Medicare Advantage Plan commercials with a shriveled-up, turtle-y looking Joe Namath yammering on incredulously about home-delivered meals and transport to doctor appointments, etc. Really pathetic. This guy was very studly and successful back in the day. And now he's flogging this crap. It makes me want to rip my own head off so I don't have to listen to him.

That Chevrolet guy who stars in those disgusting "real people, not actors" ads is now appearing in a new commercial where he asks "Who talks to even more people than me?", than announces some survey that shows (surprise!) Chevy as the most popular car ever! So we can add the grammatical error (should be "more than I do", asshole!) to the sins of Chevrolet and its drippy spokesman. Will it ever end?!

The Yoplait ads with mothers yelling: She's becoming an independent child! Please, god, make it stop.

R561 R563 No one is throwing ANY dishes at Jon Hamm's fat head.

I watch shows on Animal Planet and HGTV and any time you watch anything on those channels, they run the promos for other shows to DEATH.

I have most of the Crikey It's The Irwins! ads memorized at this point.

This one

The Enterprise ads with Kristen Bell - I hate the husky voice she puts on when she says "sometimes Mama wants to drive like a mother" while looking into the camera.

The people (primarily women) who wax orgasmic all over the snow-covered front yard when presented with a new car under a giant bow on Xmas morning must be as shallow as they are tiresome -- and so loud, squealing shrilly outdoors when the neighbors are trying to sleep or celebrate with their own families.

Already sick of this commercial and Christmas is still a month away. Enough, Zachary Levi

The man who buys 2 new cars, 1 for him and 1 for her -- she runs to the car that he got for himself, gushing sweetly "I LOVE IT!!!", and he eventually lets her keep it for the sake of peace in the family. But first he says hesitantly "Actually..." and she senses that he wants her to take the other car, so she swiftly turns to face him, body stiffening with her back against the car and arms outstretched to shield it from him, eyes flashing, voice snarling "I-L O V E-IT!" -- she's turning into a ferocious she-wolf right there in front of him (and us), as if she were defending her cubs against a predator. All over a boxy looking car that's not even sporty, just another boring black SUV. Gotta hand it to the actress for such a convincing transformation, but what a disgusting couple -- she's a fire-breathing dragon and he's a pussy-whipped spineless puddle of goo. This is at least the second year I've seen this pathetic display and it's a sad commentary on American family life -- not cute, just depressing.

^^Isn't that just an affirmation of what most guys on here feel about women? You should love this one.

Oops: didn't mean to post that.

Just saw that they have recast the kids in the Kars for Kids ad with an even worse group of no neck little monsters.

the Jared ads are always unctuous, but the holiday ones with the singing trio are especially vomit-inducing.

The Hershey Kiss holiday handbell commercial from hell is back.

Will someone call the shriners whenever their commercial comes on and complain why they keep showing long commercials and torment us with that 40 yr old midget and his mini me kid. Here's. My call. "Yes I like to strangle that midget with that Adorable Blanket"

^and put him out of his misery

r594 Mendacity!

Oh god, r595, that one is AWFUL. "Even though we just started dating..." I'm going to give you an expensive piece of jewelry at Christmas and ask you to commit. Is that really supposed to be romantic? I want to tell that woman to run!