Commercials you're currently hating, Winter 2021-2022

Meta Fuckers.

The age demographic of the average Facebook user is trending toward Meta-mucil.

r2 Not quite. Maybe it's the case in the US, although not necessarily among Hispanics and definitely not the case in many other countries that have the majority of Facebook users now, like India and elsewhere. That's why that commercial has all the ethnic teens (and no white teens) because they are trying to appeal to that demographic.

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Be careful what you say. Since all of the commercials now feature black people, if you say you hate them, you will be labeled a racist.

I don't hate them, it's the obvious pandering that I find inane. Like every ad and promotion has to have the full color range. Spread that shit out a bit. Not every commercial has to be a Benetton ad.

That fucking Volvo ad with the volume turned way up. I'm streaming a movie on the Roku channel which has commercial breaks. Every time that stupid Volvo ad comes on I dive for the remote to hit mute. WTF?

Those high volume ads are the worst. I dive for the mute when the Facebook/Meta ad comes on too, so I don't have to hear the tiger say "Welcome to the world of imagination." Although at least the volume isn't cranked up.

Don’t most people stream now. So they don’t have to watch the damn commercials. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a commercial. It’s been quite a few years.

R9 yes, my complaints are all about the commercials shown by streaming, on the streaming networks that have cheaper tiers with ads, such as Hulu and the Paramount app and also the "free" streaming services, such as news apps and IMDb, etc.

Streaming does not equal commercial-free, unless you only use Netflix or something like HBO Go.

I don't hate this one, but it's overplayed.

That commercial is disturbing!

This Old Navy commercial is obnoxious and very frequent!

I have something for you…….

All the pandering ! I make a mental note NOT to buy from the companies.

One good thing about Xmas being over is that I never have to see that stupid r13 commercial again.

Those fucking Verizon commercials with Kate McKinnon walking around hunched over like Quasimoto. What the fuck was that all about? She couldn't just walk like a normal fucking person? She's annoying enough all on her own then she has to hover like a hunchback weirdo?

This one, r17?

Yes, and she does the same walk and schtick in all the different variations of the fucking commercial. It's annoying as fuck.

R17 I agree. 😝

The Meta commercial, and the idea of Meta, just disturb me so much. I don’t want the whole world to go digital, I prefer my “dumb” objects.

I'm glad the money dance spots are dying off. Damn those were brutally insufferable.

What happened to Carl from the Caesar gambling ads?

This is a stupid commercial but I didn't realize Gronk was so hot. Also, he sounds foreign, brain damage?

[quote] but I didn't realize Gronk was so hot.

Have you been under a rock?

Good gravy!

I've seen still photos of him but not him talking in a tight sweater next to a normal-sized human. Hot!

…or any other stinky crevice…

R27 I haven't been, there's no room with you there!

In fairness though, with r27 the Grand Canyon is tight with him there.

The big black woman telling her daughter not to worry about paying for her final expenses from her hospital bed.

If you've been a longtime reader of this thread, you know that the Shriners Hospital ads get ragged on quite a lot and discussed the kids who show up in them.

Today I saw a new Shriners Hospital commercial with Alec and I think we should all be ready for him to be phased out as their spokesperson in 2022. There was Alec, with a man-voice, telling us all that he has a drivers license, and even showed him actually driving. He also bragged that he's in college. He's entirely too grown up to be offering the adorable teddy bear blanket as thanks for contributions. Get ready for little nugget Kaleb to step up.

Yes, the Shriners commercials are grating but so are the St. Jude ones with the irritating Lachaka,

ATT girl with the large foam hands…hate it

I think the primary infuriating thing about insurance commercials is that they seem to have endless advertising budgets and show them ALL THE TIME, EVERYWHERE. Clearly the industry is too profitable and needs harsh regulations.

The Carfax family in the evergreen trees who hide their shame. USE YOUR FUCKING GARAGE!

Carfax seems so desperate.

Earn. Your. Meat!

Anyone else find the BJs Wholesale ads moronic?

The Celebrity X Cruise line commercial (which would would be the last fucking place I would think of being), with the actor singing “What a Wonderful Word” in an excruciatingly disturbing vocal fry.

I want to punch his face, repeatedly.

I'm going to miss the car commercial with Santa searching through his trunkful of toys for Sally's corgi puppy as the little girl watches sadly from the window. Meanwhile, Mrs. Santa is on her way with the forgotten puppy.

The Epson ink tank commercials with that ex football player (I'm assuming) are bizarre.

Some guy's really mad that his printer is out of ink!

It seems like a cool product which is why it's so odd to have a sports type shilling them. Like, the product seems cool enough without the paid endorsement and bad acting. Let it stand on its own!

All of the Medicare and Social Security commercials with pre-deceased former celebrities urging you to "get everything you are entitled to". Dy-No-Mite!

Throw in the Reverse Mortgage & horde gold cryptkeepers and Previgen creepy people and you have a night of horrors!

There is this recent trend of online-only commercials that are just disgusting and vulgar.

I'm not a prude, and I love a good fart or poop joke as much as the next guy, but a lot of these ads I see nowadays are just going too far.

There's this one for some soap or something that tells the viewer to lather up their buttcrack and then smell the suds, and if the suds smell like their buttcrack, then their butt stinks!

And this other one for some crotch deodorant I saw yesterday. They're trying to be so hilarious, but it just seems desperately unfunny and gross to me.

This Chime commercial, which is pure capitalist propaganda.

All these new bank/app/lifestyle ads where there's a "new way of banking". Six months ago it was the chick in that other Chime commercial declaring "I got paid two days early!" Six months from now it'll be some other ding dong idea. "Introducing a totally new way of doing something that already had too many features and a confusing interface!"

Liberty, liberty, liberty!!!! All the Liberty Insurance commercial whether it's the kids that grow old playing jump rope of the sassy Asian DJ putting on something "old school" to dance to. Mind numbingly annoying.

I got bills...I gotta pay Chase commercial can get tiresome.

Money dance SoFi dancing chick or dude on the Subway are not people I would want to be around at a party.

The Amazon Prime commercial with the Medusa girl who has to buy sunglasses so she won't accidentally turn people she looks at to stone.

She goes to a bar to join her friends and a really hot gladiator looks at her and smiles and winks. She doesn't like it, so she takes off her sunglasses and turns him to stone, then the bottom part of his mouth crumbles and falls off. Then the narrator says, "Well, he deserved it."

A really mean-spirited and nasty commercial.

Consumer Cellular seems to only find the mist remarkably stupid people they can. First there is the stupid cunt who says it's in their name so it must be good then looks all smug about it. Next the no spring chicken guy who needs coverage up north and probably sucking dick at each rest stop along the way. The fucking idiots who call themselves empty nesters both of whom look as dumb as dry paint. The warbuling corpulent walrus on about getting four scoops of ice cream and finally the Queenie male Karen who claims they are saving hundreds of dollars a month. No one's fuvking cell phone bill is hundreds a month stupid fucking liar.

Wow! Ah-huh!

The commercial for the Just Egg egg substitute - I hate the way the mother takes a chunk of scrambled egg with her fingers and puts it in her sons mouth. I understand that he's a toddler who can't use utensils yet, but it still looks gross the way she pull off some egg and stuffs it in - she could have picked up a spoon and fed the kid the first bite from that.

I saw the product offered on the Amazon Fresh website and read some reviews and they skew to this stuff being pretty vile AND expensive. One reviewer says the texture is "cardboard boxes pureed with canola oil, tapioca, and preservatives. Flavor: somewhere between cardboard and a dish cloth". Yummy!

[quote]A really mean-spirited and nasty commercial.

I agree, R45, and there are several other antisocial ads running. It makes me wonder about the mental state of both the "creatives" at today's ad agencies and their clients.

Apathy rules.

On Hulu, some ad for "This is what a baby breastfeeding sounds like". It's the anti- AMSR- it almost makes me queasy hearing it.

There is some for Chad or Brian the home buying guy and he looks like some inbred incel who I imagine places ads for homes for sale as a way to lure women to empty houses so he can rape them.

I noticed they stopped calling Chime “banking”.

Although this is a national thread, is there a local ambulance chaser whose ads piss you off, too?

R53 Yes. In San Francisco, personal injury attorney Ann Phoong (pronounced Fong).

I think all the actors in her commercials are members of her family, and every spot ends with her stepping into the scene and saying, "Something wrong? Call Ann Phoong."

Ugh.

Thanks, R54. In SW Florida it's Bruce L. Scheiner. A couple of ads feature a satisfied client who sounds about 10 years old saying "I didn't know how to deal with the accident..." No doubt she didn't.

This is annoying from beginning to end. And 0:38 has to be a man.

I hate the lispy Liza sounding black lady and fucking crazy eyes right after her looks like she murders children and bakes them in pies.

JARED! God, i hate those fucking commercials!

"He bought me this ring and I got out of my wheelchair and walked for the first time in 10 years!!!"

"He was dismantling an IED in a war with filthy brown people and he bought me this bracelet when he came back!!!"

R58 Ugh! I hate those, too!

"Jared - jewelry that makes up for unspeakable tragedies."

Any commercial hawking Chip and Joanna Gaines. I scream "Eww, eww, eww" whenever I see one (usually when I'm getting my iD cheesy murder show fix). I'm also not fond of the Progressive "becoming your parents" series, although for some reason, I find Dr Rick kind of hot.

Shriners feels like some orthodox Jewish money scam.

The one where the husband "got his (dancing) moves back" thanks to some pain reliever or something. It even makes me yell at the television "FAG!" "You're married to a fucking faggot!" I never thought I had such hostile internalized homophobia until this horrible ad, Afterward I feel such shame, like I participated in a hate crime. I don't even remember what they're selling...

R62: the original version, featuring an eldergay, wasn't half bad since that gentleman actually performed several smooth dance moves. But I agree that this most recent ad and its dorky, rhythmless excuse for a "dancer" is cringe worthy.

A third vote for the Medicare commercial featuring Jimmie Walker…the voice alone would be reason enough to have him put down. I think they recently remastered his voice to make it more grating: “ Do it n-o-o-o-w! “ OMFG. I must mute it, it is so obnoxious. Even the trans exotic beauty couldn’t save this dreadful commercial.

Crazy fucking eyes!

For you, R24.

I HATE that wireless phone commercial with Demi Moore and Mila Kunis. First of all, it's just stupid to think either one of them would go to a high school rewards dinner. Secondly, you can tell their parts were filmed separately and then spliced together. The quality of the ad is so cheesy and obvious.

R67 The same wireless company (the commercials are so bad I don't even remember the name of the company they're advertising) with the spot featuring that obnoxious Shark Tank cunt Barbara Corcoran and her face that looks like it's well on its way to mummification.

And they have to throw in the prissy looking male assistant behind her holding her cup of coffee so we know SHE'S REALLY IMPORTANT!

Skyrizi and it's annoying "Nothing is Everything" song that they seem determined to release in as many genres of music as possible.

Speaking of annoying songs, there's some commercial for teeth whitener and in the background there's this screechy, chipmunk sounding girl singing, "How d'ya like me now?" It makes my ears bleed.

The promos for the show "Atlanta." The European-themed music gets stuck in my head.

"Two loads of snot-covered laundry..." Seriously, Lysol, snot-covered laundry??? I hate the way commercials gross you out just to get your attention.

R67 Are Mila and Demi really all that chummy? It seemed to me Demi was crushed over the end of that marriage.

80s hottie Douglas Barr is in some hearing aid commercial. He's still hot. But there is a woman with an accent. I'm certain I've seen her in something. Any ideas?

R73 No, and that's why you can tell they filmed their parts separately.

The Tom Selleck commercials are just vile. "If you're like me you love your home"..........I refuse to post it so I will instead post the adorable Grammarly guy....How he isn't on a soap I just don't understand.

Very sick of the people with fucked up skin wearing camouflaged clothes and then baring their fucked up skin.

Those fucking Frank Thomas/Doug Flutie erection pill commercials.

R78 "And by the way, she'll like, too (wink wink)..."

Every fucking time, R79. Don't these motherfuckers have enough money?

And Shaq with the General Insurance commercials.

"With every broken bone, I swear I lived"

Celebrity Cruises, whose passengers are one broken hip away from pneumonia and death, thought this was a good idea?

It used to be with a smaller selection of broadcast and cable channels you got greater variety in the commercials because of broader audiences. Now with so many channels/streams targeting specific audiences, you get a smaller selection of commercials on each repeated endlessly. Hard to find any I'm not sick of. On streaming services like Pluto TV it's even worse, where you'll get one single commercial repeated 5-6 times in a row.

There's a series of commercials for (I think) Volkswagen showing different people driving around singing some annoying made up sing-song nonsense about how great their car is. I can't reach for the mute button fast enough

Oh god why me?!

They don’t even mention the car, r83. It’s just sing-song nonsense about nothing.

It’s pretty windy out

Look at her hair

Jump into a grease fire

Then call your mom

Bitching on Datalounge

While my veal aspic sets

Go brush and floss

Because it’s time

Wake up tomorrow

It’s called Thursday

That’s when this song will start over again…

There's this awful commercial on my local foxLA news with a giant panda bear; it starts off coming down one of those stairlifts, then it seems to be playing some sort of virtual reality game on a couch.

Next, it's sitting in front a bunch of monitors, then ends with it on a bicycle, going really slow.

There isn't really any speaking, it's all music, and I swear it's MK Ultra or something since I sometimes get suckered in; I'm hypnotized by how terrible it is.

And I don't even know what the damn thing is about.

The charity commercial for destitute Holocaust survivors living in Russia seems fishy. Yes, of course there are plenty of elderly people suffering in poverty over there. Yes, I'm aware of Russia's long history of Anti-Semitism. But can there really be that many of them still alive? World War II ended over 75 years ago.. The commercial makes it seem like there are hundreds of survivors that need the world's help. Using repulsive Mike Huckabee to ask for donations further reduces credibility.

I'm bemused by the flood of commercials I'm seeing now about how wonderful it is to work for Amazon. Amazon must have a hideous rep for them to have to spend all this money trying to convince people to work for them.

R87, I don't give a shit about foreign elderly when American children are living in poverty.

R89 has only a limited amount of compassion to offer.

I've had the (dis)pleasure of seeing Sharon Stone in two commercials in the last 2 days. One was for some online gaming site and they have her face on the body of a cartoon crab or something, like she is one of the characters in some casino game. They only flash her face for about 5 seconds of the whole ad. If she had to stoop to this, she must really be needy.

The other ad is for an eyeglass place - Sharon is show standing in front of a rack of glasses and is trying on frames to choose. She has a line or two, but I didn't pay attention to what she says.

R91, John Goodman has also done one of those garish online casino gaming ads. He must be hard up too.

I've been recognizing some actor's voices on commercials even when they don't show their faces. I guess they think it doesn't count if they don't have to show their face when they're shilling for some product.

I don't watch TV, but I watch a lot of YouTube and I am fucking sick of Grammarly guy and the VRBO ads that sound like Kermit the Frog singing. I think they are trying to torture me into paying for YouTube premium.

Infiniti with the children's band doing an excruciating rendition of the 2001 theme.

The Fischer Investments bitch

JG Wentworth. How many people have a structured settlement?

JG Wentworth. How many people have a structured settlement?

Get ready, boys and girls, shit's on. I saw a military recruitment commercial for the first time in years today.

That dance like a dad commercial with that race day mix song. Wtf are they even doing? Is that supposed to be dancing? What kind of dance music is that supposed to be?

[quote]JG Wentworth. How many people have a structured settlement?

Normally I agree but I really want to see this dorky basement dweller and young republican call center operator have a structured sword fight

What's a commercial?

Remember not so long ago the ad world was full of blond soccor moms spreading margarine and other crap for their blond families?

How quickly it's all changed!

Where did all they all go? Were they rounded up at midnight at gunpoint and bussed out, while the checkbox diversity casts were bussed in?

Heavens! I hope they're safe in some preservation compound.

R101 it’s called live TV. Most zoomers know what live TV is. You must be a dumbass zoomer.

I get the weirdest commercials on YouTube and so many of them are cheaply made and just scams.......Example...Cute (but creepy) Asian guy telling me how to grow my dick by inches!!...Screenshot...

R104 What better spokesperson for penis enlargement than an Asian dude?

The man the Sharon Stone eyeglasses commercial is stunningly beautiful.

Duck Duck Go, because they play it on every commercial break sometimes more than once on both CNN and MSNBC. They have annoyed me so much that I will NEVER use Duck Duck Go. Not ever.

I'm really glad that Cruise commercial with Madonna's "Like a Virgin" is not played much now. The song is fine in itself but it's the singer in that ad who's singing it with that lazy monotonous cadence that I so fucking hate. Now, it's another "Aaaah aaah aaaah I did it all" song that's getting on my nerves.

That commercial with the annoying woman whose kid has autism so she started a lavender bath business.

"There wuuuuz a dream..."

Aaaargh! Stab my eardrums!

I hate that stupid Alaskan Airlines commercial that's trying so hard to be cute, with Tan France* from Queer Eye, a Care Bear, Mother Nature, and other silly characters. It feels like something a bunch self-satisfied high schoolers would create. Madison Avenue is run by hacks.

(*not his real name)

^ a bunch OF self-satisfied high schoolers

Dave Grohn shouting lasagna.

The Iowa tourism commercials. "This is IA. We just haven't been properly introduced."

Bitch, I don't want to meet you!

It’s fucking spring!

I had to unearth this antediluvian thread in order to spew about AT&T's chirpy, bubbly, "relatable" Lily. I'll take 30 annoying Flos over this irksome, charmless, unfunny twit whom they are trying to turn into a "thing." Go away! It's not working. Okay. I can carry on with my day now.

I was watching Hulu today and saw 2 Progressive ads with Flo and Jon Hamm. Jon was looking weirdly wax, swollen and... different. Not sure if it's aging or he had some bad surgery/fillers but whatever it is he has hit the wall hard.

It's Spring/Summer, you fat whore/R116