There have always been irritating commercials. Usually I can ignore the TV when they happen. But this Head On commercial is just insane!
For those of you that have the luck to have never seen this commercial:
A woman is applying Head On to the forehead, as stated. Meanwhile, a voice says "Head On, apply directly to the forehead!" and is repeated 3 times.
What's most irritating? It's not like the voice changes pitch or anything. It's the same sentence taken, and copy/pasted so it sounds the same all 3 times. Repetitiveness has always irritated me, and this is about as bad as it gets.
Well the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men takes the cake for cake for most annoying. But I'm not sure if that is a real commercial, or just in the Family Guy movie.
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^^ Gah! We have the same advert in the UK under the brandname "4head". *Now I'm not normally a violent person (for what do I keep retainers after all?) but that advert brings me out in a nigh-psychotic, tv-ranting rage.
"Why do you try to annoy me so? Why do you make poor puns? Do you think this will make me buy your goods?" >:(
Annoying ads. Didn't this have a thread recently?
I'm still enraged by adds with kiddy choirs as the soundtrack.
Oh, and by the Toyota advert with the "Man from La Mancha" soundtrack.
And Honda's adverts are getting lame after 1 stroke of genius (the Heath Robinson contraption + "Isn't it nice when things just work").
The recent Jaguar "gorgeous" ad for their latest Aston Martin DB9 knock-off.
That Seat car ad that uses the Marilyn Manson "Sweet Dreams are Made of This" to sell a £9k hatchback.
Audi - clever-clever arty adverts =/= good cars
Anything that uses 70s costumes, music or imagery to sell something modern. All Kellogg's Crunchy Nut adverts.
Any advert that mentions the word berries in connection with a foodstuff that was perfectly fine without them.
Marks and Spenser's recent food-pr0n adverts.
Anything with Kerry Katona or Jade Goody's fat, thumpable, talent-free faces.
Anything with a voiceover by someone who should know better (Steven Fry, Sean Bean, etc.).
Tesco and their attempt to hide the fact they're the British Wal-Mart behind a veneer of cozy pseudo-mateyness.
Anything that tries to cash in on the world cup despite the fact their products have *nothing* to do with football (Dixons, Asda, Mars, etc. ad nauseum)
Anything that uses androgynous metropolitan metrosexual types in uber-stylish urban settings to schill some crappy piece of plastic.
Any advert that is too in love with its own cleverness so you can't tell what it's advertising.
Any and all perfume/aftershave adverts - but that's too easy a target.
Three little words used in combo: "I'm...loving...it"
Smiley kill television!!! *>:(
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Really, I think I can count the number of times I've watched a commercial driven network on one hand over the past 6 months.
I guess old school would have to be Trix. I mean, that rabbit has been after the same stale, "fruit" cereal for more years than me (1959). They let him have the bowl once, ONCE in all the years I've been watching TV (It was live action mixed with animation). That comercial was good . . . the rest, well, the rest constitute an advertising milestone.
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Ironically, I was just talking about that commercial elsewhere on these boards just yesterday. I hate it so very much...
Currently though, my ire is most roused by the Subway Dinner Theater commercials. Erg...
edit: regarding the Trix Rabbit, there was a massive ad-campagin... was it 15 years ago? Anyway, America was asked to vote as to whether or not he should actually get the cereal. It's pretty obvious how that went.
edit2: does anyone know what Head-On actually... you know, does?
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Any commercial played only once is not annoying (with one or two exceptions). Beyond that, they're all that annoying. With the exception of the one where the guy is forced to milk a cow if the customer is unsatisfied. "But this is a bull!"
I couldn't stand one second of that, even though it was a little modified, it gives the same effect when you have to watch it once every break, right? :(
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Okay, the top of the list seems to be that huggies commercial with the baby with the voiceover of what the baby is saying by some surfer idiot... I have never wanted to punt a baby before this, I swear...
A woman is applying Head On to the forehead, as stated. *Meanwhile, a voice says "Head On, apply directly to the forehead!" and is repeated 3 times.
I know exactly the one you're talkin' about, and I agree 110%. *Except that even worse than the repetitiveness is the fact that they never tell you what the hell the stuff does! *Is it for headaches? *Acne? *Carpet burn? *WHAT?? ?!?
Gotta be the least *successful commercial ever, in that it both makes me irrationally HATE the product while telling me nothing about it (except where to put it, and I have my own ideas about that, if I ever meet the guy who signed off on that commercial), and simultaneously makes me want to set the product on fire if I DO ever see it.
Small world, it seems - I just saw the commercial in the OP for the first (and second and third and fourth >:() time(s) today.
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I couldn't stand one second of that, even though it was a little modified, it gives the same effect when you have to watch it once every break, right? :(
Sometimes twice a break. Argh.
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The ad I hate, and I thought it was what your post would be about, is the series of Jetta commercials featuring unexpected head on collisions.
The ad opens with 10 seconds of so of two people in a car talking about something. It's enough to draw you into their conversation and wonder what this is an ad for. Then WHAM! A loud, violent, crash occurs to these people. Then it cuts to the the people outside the car at an accident scene. I guess the idea is that the Jetta saved them.
This is so abrupt - and violent - that my wife and both HATE it. My wife and I have been in a couple moderately serious accidents in the past year, both from bad drivers who very unexpectedly slammed into us. (Red = stop, except to these people). (We were lucky to avoid any injury worse than a severe concussion, but both times the car was totaled). So it's almost painful to watch these things; the crash is so unexpected (even on multiple viewins) and it's definitely jarring. My wife and I both kind of flich away from the TV when the crash happens, although after the first few times we change the channel, but they keep releasing new ones with different people!
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Latest version, ya London art-house 'brand message envisioners' can't leave a classic formula alone, they have to put their own 'stamp' in it. So it's all slo-mo, bright sunshine, white cotton sheets, pristine showhouse, laughing photogenic couple, and then a puppy with Rick Mayall's voice.
Yes, Rick Mayall of "Young Ones", "Filthy Rich and Catflap" and "Bottom" infamy is now doing cutesy puppy voiceovers. I don't know whether to weep or destroy something...or both. >:( :'( >:( :'(
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I can't even remember the name of the product, but it's a prescription medication for toenail fungal infections, or something--the one with Digger the Dermatophyte who climbs under your toenail. I cannot watch this commercial--it's disgusting!
As for the HeadOn commericals, the last time I remember seeing one, they weren't even telling you what it was for--it was just 30 seconds or so of people saying--I got it in the pharmacy section--Maybe I should get HeadOn--What's HeadOn--etc etc etc...so annoying.
I haven't seen it lately, but Mountain Dew had a commercial with two guys, presumably buds, drinking MD and heading to the car of one of the guys. Guy 1 clicks his key box, and his car changes. Another click, and the car changes again. Guy 1 points his clicker at Guy 2 and presses it. Guy 2 grows breasts, looks nervous, and says,"Not cool!". Guy 1 clicks again. Guy 2 is now Hot Girl. One more click, and the cap on Hot Girl's MD pops off."Thanks," she says seductively. Guy 1 and Hot Girl climb into the magical cool new ride.
Heh? All you guys out there--do any of you EVER think about turning your best male bud into some hot chick so that you can get it on with her? If, through some strange twist of fate, he were to all of a sudden--and apparently against his will--transform into some smokin hot babe, would you hit on him? *So weird!
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^^ Gah! We have the same advert in the UK under the brandname "4head". *Now I'm not normally a violent person (for what do I keep retainers after all?) but that advert brings me out in a nigh-psychotic, tv-ranting rage.
"Why do you try to annoy me so? Why do you make poor puns? Do you think this will make me buy your goods?" >:(
Annoying ads. Didn't this have a thread recently?
I'm still enraged by adds with kiddy choirs as the soundtrack.
Oh, and by the Toyota advert with the "Man from La Mancha" soundtrack.
And Honda's adverts are getting lame after 1 stroke of genius (the Heath Robinson contraption + "Isn't it nice when things just work").
The recent Jaguar "gorgeous" ad for their latest Aston Martin DB9 knock-off.
That Seat car ad that uses the Marilyn Manson "Sweet Dreams are Made of This" to sell a £9k hatchback.
Audi - clever-clever arty adverts =/= good cars
Anything that uses 70s costumes, music or imagery to sell something modern. All Kellogg's Crunchy Nut adverts.
Any advert that mentions the word berries in connection with a foodstuff that was perfectly fine without them.
Marks and Spenser's recent food-pr0n adverts.
Anything with Kerry Katona or Jade Goody's fat, thumpable, talent-free faces.
Anything with a voiceover by someone who should know better (Steven Fry, Sean Bean, etc.).
Tesco and their attempt to hide the fact they're the British Wal-Mart behind a veneer of cozy pseudo-mateyness.
Anything that tries to cash in on the world cup despite the fact their products have *nothing* to do with football (Dixons, Asda, Mars, etc. ad nauseum)
Anything that uses androgynous metropolitan metrosexual types in uber-stylish urban settings to schill some crappy piece of plastic.
Any advert that is too in love with its own cleverness so you can't tell what it's advertising.
Any and all perfume/aftershave adverts - but that's too easy a target.
Three little words used in combo: "I'm...loving...it"
Smiley kill television!!! *>:(
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V...viagra commertials... they... are just not right... dont ask me why...
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Latest version, ya London art-house 'brand message envisioners' can't leave a classic formula alone, they have to put their own 'stamp' in it...
Ah, the 'Hoxton ****' as they're known... some of them are nice people. Most are every bit as shallow and self-absorbed as you'd think. I could rant for days on the incestuous and unreal world of advertising design, but I think I'll get back on topic instead...
On the subject of ads I hate:
Seconded on the M&S food pr0n. Everybody hates those.
I also loathe the DVLA ad where the motobike crashes into the car. If you look carefully, you'll notice that the motorbike isn't in the first shot. There's no way in hell to see him coming, because he's not there. Grr. >:(
I hate TV Licensing adverts, too, because they're ALL LIES. Seriously. I checked.
Thames Water ads - "Let's beat the drought together!" - fill me with inchoate rage.
Any advertisement for a bank.
Any advertisement for a mobile phone.
Any advertisement aimed at children. Not just because they're aimed at children, but because they're hugely irritating.
I'm sure there are other ads which inspire me to yell "LIES!" at the screen, but I can't remember which ones.
Oh! And the 'don't buy pirate DVDs' ad that you get in cinemas. Also LIES, which annoys the hell out of me because at heart they have a good point.
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Oh, I just remembered another one: There is a furniture company called Bob's Discount Furniture... Each and evey commercail is done with extremely crappy effects... And jokes that make you hate humanity... Whats worst off, this is the most famous guy to graduate from my highschool...
I'm really starting to get pissed off by these Future shop commercials. Here's how they all go. . .
Customer: Hey! You guys got some great prices today, at the **INSERT ANNOYING VOICE SAYING THE NAME OF THE SALE** sale.
Employee: Yeah, that's what it's like at the **INSERT ANNOYING VOICE SAYING THE NAME OF THE SALE** sale.
Customer: Wow! But how do you get such great prices, at the **INSERT ANNOYING VOICE SAYING THE NAME OF THE SALE** sale.
Employee: Oh, well, you see, we film only one commercial and then replay it over and over again, like for this, the **INSERT ANNOYING VOICE SAYING THE NAME OF THE SALE** sale.
Customer: Oh.
They've so far done this for the Big Computer, Father's Day, Appliance, and one other sale. It's been running for way way too long, and the voice keeps getting more and more annoying as it goes along.
IT PISSES ME OFF!
P.S. I really don't watch that much T.V., but they play this particular commercial during the breaks in football games. That is why I have managed to memorize it. . .
We in washington (state) have these 'Mor: funinture for less' ads that drive me crazy. They keep saying about how there's no payment until (insert year 2 years in the future). This is esspeicaly anonnying due to my Personal Mangagement merit badge (boy scout stuff) which points out the idocy of such deals, at least for the buyer.
We in washington (state) have these 'Mor: funinture for less' ads that drive me crazy. They keep saying about how there's no payment until (insert year 2 years in the future). This is esspeicaly anonnying due to my Personal Mangagement merit badge (boy scout stuff) which points out the idocy of such deals, at least for the buyer.
We get those same commercials down here in Arizona too. Actually, all furniture and car commercials in general tend to drive me up the wall.
Those "Order of the Serpentine" adverts for some bodywash stuff marketed to men. *It's supposed to "wash away the shame of questionable hookups". *Howzabout this, asshats - don't fragging get drunk. *That seems to work just fine for *preventing* questionable hookups.
Oh, and any ad for furniture stores that says "Don't pay until... [insert date sometime in the hazy future here]." *First of all, they tend to be loud, obnoxious, and repetitive. *Second, they prey on most people's ignorance of basic accounting concepts to make them think they're getting a good deal, which invariably they aren't.
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Those "Order of the Serpentine" adverts for some bodywash stuff marketed to men. *It's supposed to "wash away the shame of questionable hookups". *Howzabout this, asshats - don't fragging get drunk. *That seems to work just fine for *preventing* questionable hookups.
Oh, and any ad for furniture stores that says "Don't pay until... [insert date sometime in the hazy future here]." *First of all, they tend to be loud, obnoxious, and repetitive. *Second, they prey on most people's ignorance of basic accounting concepts to make them think they're getting a good deal, which invariably they aren't.
ARGH, I'd forgotten about those stupid Serpentine ads. They're not actually on UK TV, but when I watch video clips via MSN, before every single clip they play the same darn ad, and for a while, it was that serpentine one.
It's because of that that I really feel for you guys in the USA - I think you have a higher ratio of annoying ads than we do. Then again, while at uni, I didn't really have access to a TV so, while relying on the 'net as my main source of entertainment, I came across a whole lot more US ads than UK ones.
I am so bored of the M&S ones. I mean, I love M&S, but I hate the ads. However, there is nothing, in my opinion, nothing more annoying than ringtone ads.
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The commercials that the swedish retirement fund company AMF pension does.
They have the theme "if you could visit yourself in the future". They are so silly and bad and annoying. And they don't stop doing them. There are new ones all the time, and they are bad.
Edit: I also hate all commercials that are dubbed from French. And they exist in abundance. Especially the detergent commercials. They are always bad in 2 ways: the video, and the sound. Always. I have yet to see a detergent commercial that isn't dubbed from French
I don't watch TV, and I barely if ever listen to the radio. I can't stand ads, in any form. Anywhere.
My least favorite has to be any ad that talks about feminin hygiene products. Yes, we know what they do. Yes, we know that they are useful for women. No, I don't need you to whip out the blue liquid whilst I'm eating. And I certainly don't need you to start talking about what to do when you are having problems controlling your bladder in old age.
The same thing goes for toilet paper, nappies, and medical treatments.
There are some things that you advertise, and some things you don't.
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