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[AngC]

I hate the Geico pig. I hate the Progressive lady ... to the point I cancelled our insurance and (made a mistake) ended up paying a little more. oh well, I still hate seeing Flo ten billion times a day.

I hate the shiny green, phlegm character advertising some sort of cold remedy, or whatever. ..about as much as I hated the animated toenail rot cartoon-thing.

I really, really, hate the cartoon bladder. I wish the lady with the bladder problem would take a sledge hammer to her cartoon and then cop a squat on the curbside. Who in the heck designs these things and thinks we want to look at this crap?

...or maybe it's just me.

 

[Sonya]

TV commercials don't tend to get on my nerves as much as radio ones...those stupid jingles get stuck in my head all day! "1 877 cars for kids" is one that bugs the crap out of me, not sure if it's just a local radio commercial or if it's played elsewhere. Now it will be in my head all day!

I guess they are doing their job because we are talking about them.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

That's one reason we don't have pay TV. When we watch the news, have you noticed how loud the commercials get? And it's always Truck Month somewhere! The mute button is pretty handy.

A pet peeve is when I get my hair cut, the beautician always has the soaps on, or one of those horrible afternoon shows. I've tried to hint that I find it annoying but she won't turn it off.

Good for you, AngC, for sticking to your principles. There are quite a few products I refuse to buy because of their sick advertisements.

 

[vickie gee]

The only tv watching we get is off he Roku so I don't have to deal with commercials there anymore. When I am at a public business with tv going I am always reminded of how much time is spent on commercials and just how annoying some of those commercials are. The feminine hygiene products ones airing in the lounge of a public car wash make me stick my head in a newspaper and not come out until my auto is ready! I remember years ago how Madge the dish detergent lady would get on my nerves. Today I would welcome and embrace old Madge.

My talk radio station has recently been yanked and replaced by Beyoncé and Usher type music. I quickly replaced the channel with a country music one. . While I miss listening to Alex Jones, Mark Levin, and others I must say back when I had the station I spent more time punching buttons to change stations for a few minutes to skip the annoying ads. Shaun Hannity was the worst to lead normal talk into an ad for one of his sponsors. Sherry's Berries, home security system, blinds and window treatments, ....etc. It sucked so bad I finally quit listening to his program altogether. Annoyance with that station's morning drive to work for me being bombarded with one after the other ad for whatever the latest Viagra like male enhancement ad was driving me crazy! Top that off with call 1 800, call 1 800 for debt relief companies, free trial prescriptions, best auto insurance, 1800 yadda yadda yadda. call within the next 10 minutes, urghhhhh. Even before the station got yanked I had switched mornings to listening to American Family Radio and now everyday it is a sermon from David Jeremiah. I arrive at work in a much better state of mind at least. And honestly the ads where tires are screeching and horns are honking should be highly illegal. They always make me hit my brakes and look around to see whose auto is endangering me. Tricks me every time. It is downright dangerous! The very worst local radio ad for me is a pastor welcoming folks to his church. Don't know him and he probably is a nice guy but between the background music and his voice it sounds like a pedophile at haunted house/funeral home. Creeps me out.

 

[Sonya]

I just remembered this one: (haven't seen it in a while, thankfully)

 

[lkblazin]

Ugghgh there are some that really just go too far or are not nessassary. Like the conttonell go commando commercial. Everyone has there own thing but it does not mean that it should be that you go commando if you use cottonell. Brands really have odd expectations, in terms of how they want to be viewed.

 

[Performancemini]

Yep-hate most commercials nowadays! When there's a really good one it's worth it's weight...

Also totally hate all the prescription commercials!!! Let the Dr.s tell us about them-they have to prescribe them anyway! Who wants to sit trying to relax and hear all about diseases and how the drug has all these side effects and on and on and on!!! Really tics me off!

And the darn 'if you've had/or someone you know/ has had ...from ..... Call this law firm ......Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

And the news and weather casters! All doom and gloom! OMG! we might get 1-2 inches of snow and it's -12 below! Give me a break!!! After 8, 10, 12 inches and -30 below---you got to be kidding! lighten up will ya'-winter's long enough as it is!!!

OK-I've vented- your turn!

 

[AngC]

If I want to irritate the husband, I load up that Prius commercial (something like... hum, hum, a Prius for everyone.)

I've been thinking of "cutting the cable" and getting rid of Dish network. ...getting an antenna for some local stations (gotta' have my local news "fix") and then perhaps something like Roku or?

Performancemini... I don't understand the prescription drug commercials either. Who in their right mind would take any of those after they list all the side effects?

The funny thing is that I really cannot remember what they're advertising with the commercials that annoy me. I've seen a commercial a couple times that amused me; beats me what it was for. It had some fishies or some whales or some sort of cartoon characters dancing across the screen, horizontally. I was thinking it would be a nice husband-annoyance replacement for the Prius ad. It's actually starting to bug me that I haven't seen it again.

 

[chandab]

Any I don't recall what it's for, but I think that ad is dancing Narwals. (sp?)

 

[Bess Kelly]

I'd like them to play the Budweiser commercials.......seems to be only Superbowl deal now.

 

[AngC]

oh thanks!! ...narwhals!!!

That was really bugging me. I saw the commercial tonight; beats me what that silly toon has to do with Sprint. Even odder is that I recollect seeing the narwhal cartoon a few years ago, around the time one of our young friends made us download Castle Crashers on the Xbox.

I love the Budweiser commercials. That guy looks just like my husband (well, ok, maybe not.) The horses are nice though.

 

[lucky seven]

We have a very annoying car dealer owner in the Albany area. Statewide he must own around 15 different car makes. He's also in Florida and his last is Fuccillo and his catch word is a very large and loud HUGE I cringe everytime I see him on tv.

 

[Sonya]

What about those Rob Lowe commercials for directv? Eww yuck, I can't stand them!

 

[secuono]

Any I don't recall what it's for, but I think that ad is dancing Narwals. (sp?)

Lol, Sprint.

Love the Narwhal song and video, but separate from the Sprint ad. Narwhals are awesome!

I do like their goat and donkey one, though! =D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhujEQhg764

I hate Flo, it's constant ads all the time!!

I pay for tv, I shouldn't have to watch the ads!!

I pay for XM radio, I have no ads. Why is TV different when it costs so much?? Total bull.

 

[Performancemini]

And why is it the commercials almost all seem to be twice as loud as the tv show itself?

 

[amysue]

Good topic! I have recently come to the conclusion that the content on out televisions nowadays speaks volumes about American greed. We pay for tv service, advertisers pay the tv provider to blast us with advertising and we the viewers are the ones getting duped, twice. I get radio ads, I buy a radio, (one time investment) then listen for free. So naturally paid advertising finances the radio. I don't get it with tv, I mean analog public tv yeah because it's free, but Dish and directv are NOT cheap, it seems my Dish bill goes up every month and there is NOTHING of substance on anymore. It seems there are more commercials than shows and the commercials are not only annoying, but convoluted and drawn out, like mini tv shows. Often, I don't even know what they're trying to sell me. It just screams GREED to me when the tv provider charges an arm and leg for service and bombards the viewer (paying customer) with advertisement all the while pocketing huge profits. The millions of dollars spent by advertisers for 30 seconds sums it up for me as greed, and nothing else. As I type this the commercial for some toe fungus is playing on tv. I could have gone the rest of my life not seeing an infected toenail boxing with a fungus. Eeeew, gross.

 

[bevann]

Saw the 1 for toenail fungus.I have to laugh since my podiatrist gave me a sample of that stuff. Really worked great.At the pharmacy I was told it was $500 per bottle which might last for 2 months.Podiatrist gave me a coupon for 1 free bottle-catch is you must agree to buy 3 more bottles at $500 each to get free bottle.They should take off their dumb commercial and drop the price of the meds.I will just live with funky looking toes.

 

[AngC]

I don't know why that silly narwhal thing amuses me. ...usually something like that would annoy me. Instead I've been chasing the husband around with the Ipad with the sound cranked up. It does annoy him.

Our Dish bill is ridiculous. And I realize they don't control the programming, but we have ten billion channels, and there's never anything on that I want to watch. I've been researching and I think I want to buy an antenna and then get some sort of something for movies.

Our neighbors are going to sell their house. They have one of those windmill thingies (looks similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windpump. --at top right.) I was thinking it might be just the thing upon which to mount an antenna. I don't know though, because we would have to get a crane to move it over here.

Speaking of annoying advertisements... Our junk mail is relatively "under control." But today I received junk mail for a crematorium. Come on really? (I know I'm getting a little old.) But?

 

[REO]

My mute button is worn to the nub!!!!!!