Odious holiday ads

That Amazon one pisses me off. That conglomerate monopoly that is ruining everyone’s life trying to act like they’re some benevolent and nostalgic entity is disgusting.

Lighten up, OP, you miserable scold.

So the only reason the old gals didn’t go sledding before the Amazon pillows was because of their hemorrhoids? Not because their bones break like over baked cheese sticks?

I have only seen a truncated version of this ad - have not seen the old gal placing her order on her phone, and later the people in the crowd standing back respectfully and watching them slide down (alone!) and the flashbacks to them as young girls sledding.

I guess amazon doesn't want to pay for ONE FULL MINUTE of TV time, if they can trim it to THIRTY SECONDS.

I saw the "old ladies Christmas ad" on TV Thursday night, it's sweet& really cute.

No nasty and negative comments about Christmas ads until after the Thanksgiving weekend Food blowout!!

Now, if the Elders want to comment on the "Dulcolax women's poop commercials" and why women are having a problem shitting, I can't stop them on that one.

There should be an ad showing the emergency room, with the three old women on stretchers. Joe Namath enters, saying, "Hi everybody! It's a good thing this lady had a Medicare Advantage plan, because a broken hip isn't cheap!" Then Tom Selleck enters and says, "Thankfully this dear old grandma had a reverse mortgage, which will give her the cash she needs to pay these bills when they start piling up!" And finally Jonathan enters and says, "Sadly, this lady didn't make it...but fortunately she had our $19.95 a month plan, which will help pay for her final expenses!"

—Anonymous

I hate the old ladies one cause I hate Amazon and I hate bastardizing the Beatles.

The idiotic car companies slapping a huge red bow on their cars and thinking people give each other cars at Christmas.

R8 that's not unheard of. Though more often it's birthdays.

Does that black person of questionable gender on the Medicare Advantage commercials count? (S)he's been used for several years and I'm more annoyed by their presence than the commercials themselves. (S)he's on at 0:37.

R8 types poor

I am, r11. I also have an android and shop at the mall.

OMG; I am watching the Georgia/Tennessee game, and they just played the old lady ad (the short version)!

I loved the 50's Christmas commercials. They were either toy commercials or household items which always featured Santa. no pharmaceutical ads. When the Christmas commercials came out you knew we were getting close to Christmas and they never seemed overwhelming.

The one raisin plops a box twice as big as her on the lap of the 2nd raisin. She is overwhelmed by a huge box. Then suddenly the box is opened and the 3 raisins are CGIng down a slope while squealing.

This stupid shit is shown during every break ad nauseam

I cannot think of the actress. She is unique in every way (ugly). Odd-shaped body, with nearly no neck. She shills for Old Navy.

Anything with blended families. There's an etsy one where the gay white uncle buys his niece some bit of handmade crap. He and POC partner look on fondly as niece unpacks the handmade piece of etsy crap.

Handmade etsy crap ad

Why are the white partners always significantly less attractive than POC partners? Is it a case of "oooh whitey has done well for themselves here".

Any of those automobile commercials that treat the car/crossover as a Christmas gift. Lexus is the worst offender…

Holiday 1999 at Gap was incredible!

Every Gift, Only GAP!

Such a great era, especially compared to now.

Every Gift, Only GAP!

Who still watches commercial tv?

I was thinking the same thing, OP about your second point. (

R22 they’re everywhere. Don’t you stream live TV?

R22 people who have income and can afford it.

"I hate the old ladies one cause I hate Amazon and I hate bastardizing the Beatles".

When the Beatles can do it themselves so much.....better?

Yes thank you r25 I’m so envious of those captains of industry who sit and watch commercials for laundry detergent interspersing their entertainment.

No r24 I certainly do not. Network tv is trash. I watch everything on streaming services and pay extra to avoid commercials on services like Hulu and Peacock. I’ll also watch things on YouTube but I’m YT Red so no commercials for me.

Commercial tv is for the poor and easily entertained.

I like the sentiment behind the old ladies sledding ad, if not the ethics of the company behind it.

The Amazon commercial is beyond irritating. How does one old broad go from a drooling and nearly catatonic dope and then a stupid pillow gives her the dexterity to sit in a sled and just let it rip? It’s so cloying and saccharine. If this was real life, the commercial would end with an ambulance.

This is the forever gold standard. This brother and sister FUCKED.

The GOLD STANDARD is this one, featuring DL fave PETER!

R29, see R6,

The BMW family ski-trip commercial with the goofy father -- "I don't WANNA wear the new ski suit!" & "Who's ready to shred some pow?!!" -- is beyond fucking annoying!!

And I can't escape it! I'm a die-hard Lakers fan; watch every game. During Lakers games on Spectrum Sports Net LA, it airs 2-3 times -- sometimes back-to-back -- during EVERY commercial break. I am not exaggerating. WTF, Spectrum Ad Sales??! You don't have any advertisers other than BMW & Jack-in-the-Box? It's feels like they're *trying* to drive me nuts.

Verizon Christmas carolers commercial.

The old ladies made me chuckle. It's sweet.

John Travolta as Saturday Night Fever Disco Santa Claus looks seedy, especially in the shortened version on the ad. The longer version makes a little more sense, but the short version just looks weirdly cheap. I had no idea it was him and was thinking “Why do they have such a scary looking, greasy Santa in this commercial and how is Stayin Alive ia Christmas song?

i really hope we get a christmas version of the jardiance commercial

Not a Christmas ad, but a movie. I really hate Elf. I’ve never liked Will Ferrell because there’s a barbaric aspect to his comedy that creeps me out. This movie is just so bad. The rich kid more science fiction than the human elf. Ed Asner is a crap Santa. This part of the movie was cut, but is typical of Ferrell’s brute force comedy