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I don't know if it's from being a bad ad or overexposure, but this iPad mini ad is driving me batshit lately. With Christmas ads it's hard to tell but probably both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUgfZ1S8aA
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Gonz posted:The Rock It Grill is basically what I envision purgatory to be. The first singer they showed on the karoke mic looked like he was on the verge of tears. They show a bartender doing a trick and spilling booze everywhere. The fact they paid money to make themselves look bad baffles me.
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May 11, 2013 04:14
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mearn posted:GE using a song about how lovely being a coal miner is to promote their coal energy technology might be the worst offender. Next up is someone drinking themselves to death to the tune of "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"!
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May 26, 2013 07:02
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I hate any commercial with that goddamn Icona Pop song in it. The "I Love It" one. That song annoys me at the best of times, but every time I hear it on a commercial it gets stuck in my head. It plays in there over, and over, and over. I do not love it. Not one bit. Worst part is that it seems to be everywhere for some reason.
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Aug 23, 2013 02:17
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Paradox Personified posted:Better than thelightsthelightstthelightsthatlightsthelightstheli The worst part is, I was thinking about that while I was typing up my post bitching about Icona Pop. "poo poo," I thought to myself. "Black Friday commercials are only a few months away!". Whoever wrote that song must have known it would be jammed into holiday season commercials. They must have known. That rat bastard.
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Aug 23, 2013 06:55
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dijon du jour posted:Well you may well have to describe it because the video is set to private. They just did that a minute ago. It was a samsung ad for a Solid State hard drive with some of the most embarassing acting I've seen. Had to turn it off like a minute and a half in.
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Aug 23, 2013 07:16
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There's an ad that keeps airing for some kind of Party Warehouse store using the tune of that loving awful Mambo No 5 Lou Bega song from over a goddamn decade ago, with reworked lyrics. I hate it. I hate it so much. Why would you use that song? Why? It's so old and not really well-liked at all. God dammit. I hear it coming from the living room now. Make it stop. Please, please make it stop.
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Aug 24, 2013 06:00
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reagan posted:I have an iPhone 5 and I hardly use the stupid thing. I'm turning into a luddite. I have a smartphone and it only gets used for the internet, texting, and email. I actually went back to my 2 year old phone because it had better battery life! I think I must be some kind of freak.
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Sep 2, 2013 02:39
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Paradox Personified posted:Don't tell me whatever you do, that you miss THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS I went into this thread to see if the terrible black friday ads are up yet. God, I hope that one doesn't come back.
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Nov 2, 2013 15:30
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I hate commercial breaks this time of year, because I know any day now one will roll around and I'll be exposed to this years version of those lovely Pomplamoose Hyundai ads, or KMart's "Thelightsthelightsthelightsthe  ". I almost want to start a betting pool for which company will have that ad.
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Nov 11, 2013 18:36
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beejay posted:
It's like that Stephen King short story about the guy that's being attacked by a finger coming out of his drain, but instead it's trying to sell you poo poo from KMart.
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Nov 11, 2013 19:49
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Cobalt Chloride posted:What, you don't like lovely html templates and auto-playing tracks loaded with My Chemical Romance? Don't forget people alternating capital letters LiKe ThIs. For pages and pages and pages.
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Nov 12, 2013 16:28
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Mokinokaro posted:Radio ads tend to be terrible in general. Even worse than TV ones for some reason. Lower budget, and they only have one way to get your attention while you're focusing on other things. Whoever decided that radio ads should have siren noises in them should be shot.
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Jan 10, 2014 17:53
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Sash! posted:Except bottled water doesn't taste like a swimming pool, like my tap water does. Yeah, you can filter that out. My ex's place had water that was basically what you would find in a pool but after a trip through a brita it's pretty drat good. I saw the worst ad last night for a sushi place with the most rehearsed as hell customer interviews and airs every 20 goddamn seconds in Rockland county but I can't find it. "Sakura Sushi" is apparently a pretty common search term on youtube. It's terrible in the way only local TV commercials can be, though.
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Oct 19, 2014 19:14
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Andorra posted:At least this year there's no THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS THE LIGHTS I still can't decide if that's worse than the loving Pomplamoose Hyundai ads.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:24
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It aired twice in nearly every commercial break for a month, too. 
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Nov 24, 2014 19:07
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Mahoning posted:I remember seeing everyone complain about this commercial last year, but I've literally never seen it until now. Weird. That might be because it's a campaign from 2012. It was just so bad it still haunts us. It made watching football hell for the holiday season. If I was doing a top-10 worst ever holiday ad list, it'd definitely hit the top five. That and the Pomplamoose Hyundai ads.
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Nov 25, 2014 07:26
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Do Spotify ads count? I had to look up a product today because I would have sworn the tag line was "it's like group therapy for deaf teens!" Which is... Weirdly specific, but okay. Turns out it's "Dev Teams", because something aimed at management for software companies is something that'll benefit from a non-targeted ad campaign.
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Apr 15, 2016 05:18
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cyberia posted:Pandora consistently has the worst loving ads. A while ago there was one for some sort of ice cream or candy that ended with someone taking a big, wet chomping bite right in my loving headphones. Then there was a string of ads for deodorant with the most bizarre premises I've ever heard: "trying to study but those big sweat patches under your arms are distracting you? want to impress the boss in that big meeting today but you've literally disintegrated your shirt with the acid bile your body secretes? On the way to a date and want to make a good impression but you sweat so much that your car is filling up with water? sweaty sweat sweat sweat". Who the hell sweats that much? Who thinks about sweating that much? If you're sweating so much it is distracting you from studying then you should probably see a doctor. Problems of that magnitude cannot be solved with off-the-shelf products. At least those are things that a wide variety of people might concievably buy. Spotify ads are always for the kind of things that would work best as targeted ad campaigns, but they play them for everyone. So I keep getting ads for software development management software, or unlimited calling to landlines in the Dominican Republic, but only from New York. It's really weird. At least there's no more Trojan ads with the fake sex noise. I couldn't use Spotify at work for months because of those things.
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Apr 28, 2016 18:51
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I got my seltzers for 2 bucks per 12 pack recently. Some had broken cans, though, since the sale only happened because a forklift operator knocked over most of their stock.
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Oct 14, 2017 16:15
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There's an old navy ad set to the 12 days of Christmas with some lady singing terribly, and it always plays twice in a row on Hulu. It's gotten to the point that it makes me viscerally angry whenever it plays.
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Nov 27, 2017 12:04
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exploded mummy posted:"They do exist" This came on some channel on the TV at work the other day. It was vertically letterboxed because it predates everyone having a widescreen.
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Dec 13, 2017 01:23
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I can still hear that the lights the lights the lights song in my head when I think about lovely Christmas commercials. It's been five years.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:23
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That70sHeidi posted:So Pentatonix (?) has replaced PurpleMoose (?) for twee annoying xmas ads. Ugh. Pomplamoose. God those ads were the loving worst.
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Dec 14, 2017 07:10
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raditts posted:Pentatonix is one of those things that nobody really likes but still gets exhumed every Christmas season to butcher some holiday classics, just like Michael Buble. I'm just happy no ad has dredged up their godawful Hallelujah cover.
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Dec 15, 2017 08:52
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Mooseontheloose posted:I think this is regional because its a Boston restaurant but the latest fish singing ad from legal sea foods just annoys me to no end. Their ads are one of the few things I do not miss about living in MA.
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Jan 19, 2018 18:19
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Peanut President posted:isn't it also side impact protection? smaller windows = more safe Smaller windows makes for a more difficult extrication, though. I was in the back of a two-door rental car where there was no way you could smash the windows and I don’t even want to know how long it would take to cut that pillar. E:i mean, also the idea of having less doors than rows of seats is just goddamn insane to me. gently caress two-doors.
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Jun 22, 2018 01:43
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That Apple commercial with that godawful “story of an artist” song is a scourge upon the earth, and I hate them for subjecting me to it.
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Jun 26, 2018 11:15
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Am I alone in thinking that the singer in that "Behind the Mac" ad sounds like someone who gets utterly humiliated when they audition for a talent show? Yeah, it’s really, really bad.
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Jul 2, 2018 21:19
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Beastie posted:Justin Long was the Mac. John Hodgeman was the not the problem with those ads and I appeal to your decency to give him another shot. Didn’t the popular response to Apple go against what they wanted for the ads? The PC guy seemed kind of boring but normal, and everyone wanted the Mac to go die in a fire.
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Jul 3, 2018 17:11
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Maxwell Lord posted:ISTR Mac sales rose a little bit during that period, though that may have had as much to do with Vista's troubled launch as anything else. Given how much those ads were on, I think they would have wanted more than a “little” rise. The budget for that poo poo was insane.
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Jul 3, 2018 23:25
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They’ll miss which part they were supposed to change and become Grand Wizard John’s.
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Jul 16, 2018 22:35
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SpacePig posted:You remember it, don't you? Seems like a pretty good ad in that case. It says less about the ads and more about the fact they played it constantly for twenty goddamn years.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:43
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DizzyBum posted:My #1 pet peeve with drug ads is when they state "Don't take Fancydrug if you are allergic to Fancydrug." Like... yeah, no poo poo? I wonder what legal battle happened that set this precedent. I’ve had to go to a 911 call where someone with a diagnosed severe apple allergy ate an apple. And I don’t mean, ate something with apples in it, I mean just bit into a big juicy apple because he took a Claritin that day and thought he’d be fine. People are stupid.
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Sep 14, 2018 19:06
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Is there a clear cut Worst Christmas Ad for this year on par with the Pomplamoose Hyundai ads or “thelightsthelightsthelights” yet?
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Nov 24, 2018 00:40
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DrBouvenstein posted:Man, Hulu really needs more ad variety. I think the worst one I see right now is their own ad for the Showtime original series' they have. It's mostly innocuous, Liev Schrieber saying he's Ray Donovan, some people laughing from Shameless, but then it's an ear-piercing 8 year old girl's scream. I’m just glad they’re not doing the Trojan commercials anymore, the actor they got for it really skeeved me out. Years ago they had a Spotify one that had a bunch of fake sex noises that really pissed me off because I couldn’t use Spotify at work on the chance my office would suddenly sound like a porno.
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Dec 14, 2018 19:28
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Davros1 posted:That CGI Apple commercial about the artist (?) who keeps putting away her work, until one day it all gets blown out the window, and it turns out everyone thinks her stuff is brilliant. It’s actually amazing how Apple manages to consistently make the worst goddamn commercials. I can’t think of an ad from them I didn’t hate.
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Dec 18, 2018 11:48
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DrBouvenstein posted:gently caress the Verizon drumline commercial...gently caress all drumline commercials, gently caress drumlines, why are they remotely even a thing? There’s loving movies about drumlines. I don’t get it at all.
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Dec 31, 2018 18:47
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I am very sick of the Truvada commercials. They’re about half of my Hulu commercials even though I’m not in the target market at all and it just reminds me of the 4 weeks I spent barfing everywhere after I had an HIV exposure at work and went on post exposure prophylaxis. Never go on post exposure prophylaxis if you can help it.
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Not really an ad I hate but Hulu has an ad for SMILF that has “Je Veux Te Voir” by Yelle playing through it and there is no way that song would ever be in an ad if it wasn’t in French. It’s kind of hilarious how obscene that song is.
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