re: Time for a commercials that are pissing us off thread?

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The NCAA one where the "student-athletes" basically call me a racist/islamaphobe/homophobe, etc: "Label me, you know you want to........"

And the one where the boy can't freaking change a tire.

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No lie, a couple of weeks ago I saw that one run back-to-back with a "Black People Meet" ad.


"Label me,you know you want to, as someone who cannot go on Black People Meet"


and I have said it before but I still cannot stand the original "great for guys.........who don't like to COOK!" from the diet program ad

The Wounded Warrior commercials.

I have nothing at all against wounded vets and think it’s a noble cause but the truth is, our shitty arse government should be giving these brave individuals all the care they could possibly need. After all, it was the shitty government that sent them into (mostly) useless wars that got them injured.

It’s really pathetic how the government treats our former military.

Any big Pharma commercial.

It's like a Terrance Malik film for the first half - to the Wonder...dancing couple in the lillies or on the beach hugging and laughing about whatever and then the voice-over warnings come on:

While X drug may solve your problem of getting Charlie Horses in the morning there are known side-effects, including:

Sore throat
Headaches
Inability to feel your fingers
Chest Paints
Inability to feel your toes
Moderate to Uncontrollable Diarrhea
Inability to see
Bleeding from the rectum
Inability to hear
Cancer
AIDS
Occasional Coma

And often Death.

Please consult your doctor if you are experiencing any of these symptoms.

Milky Way and Twix commercials are pure garbage. It’s like they let their Marketing interns design ads they were too inexperienced to realize are dumb and unfunny but the companies decided to throw money at it anyway. They’re not clever, they’re not funny. They’d honestly do a better job if they just ran an ad that says “hey this exists and it has caramel inside chocolate and it costs slightly less than a dollar at the grocery store counter and it doesn’t have nuts like a snickers if you aren’t in the mood for peanuts”

Liberty Mutual

I see or listen to a commercial on my Pandora about some woman scratching herself with eczema.

A few that bother me:

I don't know why, but I hate that fricking eggo waffle commercial where the kid says I don't see your name on it and then the girl points to her name on the waffle and says "bah-bam".

Eveyone who sings the Nationwide jingle is dead to me. Those commercials are for shitty car insurance and they have the demeanor and arrogance of someone who is advertising a cure for cancer or something.

Also pretty much every single mobile game commercial on YouTube. BUILD YOUR EMPIRE. DEFEND YOUR CITY. CONQUOR THE WORLD. FORGE OF EMPIRES.

Lastly, I was going to say that discover card cash back match commercial where the two Asians are talking to the each other on the phone and yell cash back match to the public, but I want to frick the hipster Asian cardholder, so.... I'll give it a pass.

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After hearing the "May cause... disclaimers at the end of them, why would anyone take those risks?

End of ad on Youtube End of Abilify ad on Youtube

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It's actually interesting if you take the time to study the psychology behind commercials.

Things like why all fast-food uses red orange and yellow, why all side effects are spoken in a different softer tone broken from the rest of the commercial with calming music, why the actual drug of the commercial isn't said until the middle, etc....

Clinical Psychologists and the Ad agencies have been working for years to perfectly brainwash people with advertising in this country. One thing that sets America apart from the rest of the world is our blatant and unbridled commercialism pervasive in all things.

The new HIV/AIDS commercial...

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Please consult your doctor if you are experiencing any of these symptoms

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If you die, stop taking this medication.