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Prounreal :: View topic - Stupid, stupid advertising on TV
Ok, I realize that commercials are part of TV broadcasting, its what pays the bills.
But recently it seems most all the stations have just a few advertisers, regardless of time slots.
These commercials are the most aggravating, in no order of importance:
1) Mesothelioma ambulance chasing attorneys - enough already - do you really need to advertise at every commercial break?
2) Anything being sold by the guy with the fucked up eyes such as the chop-n-slice, Sham-Wow's etc.
I dont know which eye to look at.
3) Anything being sold by the group who advertises the Miracle hearing devices, you know the one that you can hear a pin drop from across the room?
Mmmk. They also sell these Snuggie wraps/robes you wear that look like something Spock wore in several seasons of Star Trek.
Vulcans unite. Ever notice this group uses the same 'actors' in all their commercials?
4) Ever notice most of the junk trinkets sold on TV have a Pacoima California mailing address?
5) Avoid any product on a commercial that has tinkling, twinkling wand waving sounds as products are presented.
6) Any commercial that the announcer exclaims..
"But wait.. there's more!".
7) That hippie cheese dick singing FRRRREEE CREDIT REPORT DOT COM....
Makes me want to suck tailpipe.
8.) That green Geico Lizard.
Would somebody just step on him please?
9) G.
Gordon Liddy advocating purchasing Gold "in these tough times".
Yea, Ok, invest in something far worse than the dollar.
10) Scottrade.com online brokerage house.
Why can't his helicopter just crash already?
Im so glad that I have had a DVR for the past year.
The sad part is that even though I record most anything I watch ahead of time you STILL get bombarded with these stupid commercials.
I cant imagine watching anything anymore thats 'live'.
Most of the time I start watching things 30 mins after the start - that way I can rewind and FF thru the commercials and in most cases I almost catch up to the original time step of the program by the time its over.
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Well I think the Geico Lizard is all done after that dude fell backwards onto him.
Nothing about the cavemen?
I'm so damn sick of them holy crap.
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Cool thread, bman.
I agree on all of those.
I will join in the fun too.
13) Those weird drug commercials where you really have no idea what the drugs they are peddling are actually for.
14) The Cialis (I think) commercials with Bob and the damn whistling song.
I can never get that crappy tune out of my head.
15) Any crappy local business commercial where the owners put themselves in it and try to act.
Seriously, if you can't afford professional TV advertising, don't half ass it, just use the paper or radio.
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No, the whistling song with Bob is for Enzyte..
Which isnt even a drug, its just a placebo - notice the 'not evaluated by the FDA' disclaimer in those commercials.
There's no drug, so no reason to be evaluated by the FDA.
I agree though, very very painful to endure those commercials.
Cavemen - havent seen them advertised in quite a while, Im glad.
Was getting old quickly.
Subway, I dont recall even seeing a subway commercial on stuff I Fast Forward thru.
EDIT: Another one I just thought of has to do with these 'make money for free' commercials usually involving a catch phrase something like 'crazy like a fox' or something like that and contains some animated fox telling you how you can make 300k/yr from home.
The web addresses are always different is usually something like 42makemoney.com or 56madmoney.com or something stupid like that.
Anything with URL's like that should be avoided like the plague.
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This is why I canceled TV (you should too) and get my video entertainment from various sources on the internet or through my blockbuster.com membership - stripped of ads, watchable on my schedule, pause/rewind, free for downloads and very cheap for full DVD's from blockbuster w/ no compression and all the extras.
All of that plus the multitude of Youtube sites = virtually no more advertising in my life.
If you hate advertising and don't want it cluttering your mind and poisoning your family's minds, there's only one thing to do.
Cable TV/satellite etc.
Are all absolute bullshit - you PAY for ADVERTISING.
They should PAY YOU to watch that shit.
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That Bob Enzyte commercial, ugh.
I remember seeing that awhile back and thinking "pedophiles" for some reason.
Just creepy sh1t.
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The worst for me are truck commercials from pretty much every brand, but especially Dodge.
OMG LOOK HOW POWERFUL AND MANLY THIS TRUCK WILL MAKE YOU, RAWWR!!
HEMI OMG!! Actually you can safely generalize this to almost every car and truck ad - they never tell you anything useful, and most of the time they're incredibly absurd (like the toyota truck pulling up the sun, or some stupid ass car jumping over traffic).
Everyone already knows the major players in the vehicle industry, and I doubt very few (if anyone) is swayed towards a specific brand by their commercials - people do their homework these days.
So please automakers, continue to insult our intelligence by implying that your cars will be able to climb mountains, jump over traffic jams, pull trains and fucking turn water to wine.
Also, especially on the American stations, I find myself disturbed by the number of commercials for what are either shady businesses or downright scams.
Things like cash for gold (send us your gold IN THE MAIL, we'll send you money...
Yea this couldn't possibly go wrong), or the one for seniors to 'unlock' the value in their home by remortgaging or whatever.
And it's already been mentioned, but drug commercials are stupid, although I love that they will do their best to talk it up, then are forced to reel off a usually horrendous list of side effects like sudden heart failure, kidney failure, miscarriages, diarrhea, vomiting, etc etc.
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I agree that the freecreditreport commercials are getting old.
FUCKING swiffer commercials.
"Baby Come Back" SHUT THE FUCK UP
Geico commercials O_O The money you could be saving with Geico.
Please die.
LifeAlert (surprised this one wasn't mentioned).
Seriously, MAKE a NEW commercial!
I'd wager that well over half of the people in it are dead.
I hate that commercial.
Melon Baller >
Eye Socket
News commercials where they're like "Horrible car wreck on I-64.
Was anyone you know involved?
Find out, tonight at 11." WTF is that shit?
The assault of ads trying to get people to buy coins or plates or whatthefuckever else with Obama's face on it.
I like Obama, and worked on his campaign, but seriously people, I'm not spending thirty dollars on a COIN.
/end rage
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They do not support them (Israel) militarily (by means of direct assistance by American forces), they do not support them (Israel) financially.
-sidefx
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Quote: :
How about...
"Billy Mays here"
ohhh stfu moron.
Guy should be shot.
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9) G. Gordon Liddy advocating purchasing Gold "in these tough times".
Yea, Ok, invest in something far worse than the dollar.
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Quote: :
Quote: :
How about...
"Billy Mays here"
ohhh stfu moron.
Guy should be shot.
More like
HI THERE BILLY MAYS HERE
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ACCC . You've all come up with more people that I remembered I wanted to stab in the face...
Billy Mays and his amazing putty shit that pulls trucks, yes, yes, go die in a fire Billy.
The JG wentworth guy, another idiot who needs to crawl under a rock.
The Swiffer commercials, omg.
Makes me want to sleep on railroad tracks.
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Has anyone seen the commercials that this old guy, who happens to DEFINITELY star in some HBO/cinemax softcore porn, being used as a paid actor to pretend to be a lawyer for one of those shitty law firms?
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What about the guy that wears ridiculously flaming glasses with a suit full of ?'s talking about govt money.
Those own.
but seriously, these new pregnancy test commercials are so bad.
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Cashforgold.com
Thats hilarious, yeah take all your gold, stick it in an envelope, throw a stamp on it and hope for the best.
Sounds like a plan.
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Makes me want to sleep on railroad tracks.
Without these annoying commercials, there would be less entertaining parody.
Apply that directly to your forehead.
Boosh.
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No, the whistling song with Bob is for Enzyte..
Which isnt even a drug, its just a placebo - notice the 'not evaluated by the FDA' disclaimer in those commercials.
There's no drug, so no reason to be evaluated by the FDA.
I agree though, very very painful to endure those commercials.
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The commercials the attempt to describe what happens when you smoke pot, hate those damn things.
A person standing in the middle of a big intersection looking around being confused.
"Pot will leave you behind"
WHAT?
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I an say with a great deal of confidence that Mr.
J.G. Wentworth failed history based on that opera/musical commercial.
Unlike bman, I can tolerate this stuff because I typically DVR FF>>
Through it all, but as the networks wise up and realize this they commercial overlay us with that crap at the bottom of the screen.
I just want to watch LOTR Marathon in HD because I'm too cheap to buy BluRay..
Can I not experience this without that guy from Leverage repelling down Frodo's face?
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AARP Medicare Insurance Card commercial.
The lady with the accent makes me want to destroy everything in sight.
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AARP Medicare Insurance Card commercial.
The lady with the accent makes me want to destroy everything in sight.
That old lady in the Bluetooth-look-alike-hearing-amplifier commercial is just mean.
She gets out of bed and screams CAN YOU TURN THAT TV DOWN like right in her husbands ear.
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