The best/worst television commercials

[jessecuster3]

I really like the new iPhone Siri ad with Santa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qcmCUsw4EQ

[Crawford Crow]

Be More Empowered!
The best tv commercial of all time is the PBS promo about the beloved goldfish going up the waterfall.

[Alex]

I'm confused: where are you supposed to apply it?

DIRECTLY ON THE FOREHEAD!
They did another commercial later, where it starts with that, then a guy walks out, says it three more times, followed by
"I hate you commercial, but i love your product!"
If he hates it and that's the point, why do they make you watch it again?

[Conn Seanery]

One of my faves at the moment is Frank's RedHot ("I put that $#!+ on everything!"), makes me laugh every time.

One that makes me want to do physical harm to all my senses just to avoid it is Boston Pizza's Wing Critique by Carl

Honorable mention goes to Valerie Bertinelli shilling for Cindy Crawford shilling for Dr. Jean-Louis Sabagh's "Meaningful Beauty". This is made worse by the frequency that I see it, and that it's usually in the same rotation as the Boston Pizza ad I just mentioned.

[Walsh06]

Cadbury Gorilla

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[Holy Spirit]

Best commercials!
And I would do anything for love...... but I won't do that!

Like Mike.... if I could be like Mike!





As for worst..... well.... I tend not to remember those.

[dupersuper]

Like Mike.... if I could be like Mike!

I love that ditty (guess what my 1st name is).

[The Transient Guest]

Let me see.....most of the good horrible ones have been mentioned....the car insurance.....the cell phones.....


But we missed a good horrible one this Christmas season.

Women being total bags of douche towards Santa.

"Game on Santa" and all that stupid jazz.

WHAT THE FUCK DID SANTA DO TO YOU WOMEN? TRY TO MAKE THE WORLD A SLIGHTLY LESS SHITTY PLACE FOR A SINGLE DAY?

............Makes me wish one of the horror movie Santa's would show up.

[the_big_billbowski]

I can't stand the radio Netflix commercials that are like a game show. I can't stand those.

[Legato]

Let me see.....most of the good horrible ones have been mentioned....the car insurance.....the cell phones.....


But we missed a good horrible one this Christmas season.

Women being total bags of douche towards Santa.

"Game on Santa" and all that stupid jazz.

WHAT THE FUCK DID SANTA DO TO YOU WOMEN? TRY TO MAKE THE WORLD A SLIGHTLY LESS SHITTY PLACE FOR A SINGLE DAY?

............Makes me wish one of the horror movie Santa's would show up.

That woman is a prime example of a jerkass sue given that Santa never got any payback against her. One of the few moments where I wanted to root for Santa.

Starting to despise the Geico Commercials involving the Pig. Reminds me of one of those jokes that was funny the first time used but gets tiring after being used alot.

[Karl Cook]

U.K. anti-drink driving ad from the 1990's featuring Dennis Leary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5JClvSNOU0

I remember that this advert used to air between 2 and 6 a.m. (due to the swearing) but it was really popular.

[Legato]

I like the Allstate Commercials featuring that guy who used to be on Oz

[Thundermonkey]

I like the Allstate Commercials featuring that guy who used to be on Oz

JO-BO

[90'sCartoonMan]

I was talking to my g/f the other night about a new trend in TV ads. Several bloggers have pointed out the "Stupid Man" stereotype which has been going on in commercials for quite a few years. However, we seem to have a new contender for overused character type. I've notice a LOT of commercials now feature "Bitchy Woman" as the main character.

Sounds like they're following trends made popular by lowbrow sitcoms.

My current favorite is that cell phone commercial-- I think it's for Droid 4G, which probably tells you how effective the commercial is-- where the man and woman are sitting down talking about their relationship. She's all concerned that he never listens to her, and he's cheering "Yes!" because he's watching highlights on his phone. "What am I some kind of summoner who can pull these things out of the air?" Then he cheers again.

That's probably my favorite too. I love how they never show him react/move his eyes to the phone, you only hear his reaction.

The really annoy one is for one of the phones were you have a couple douchebags sitting around saying stuff like that was so 12 seconds ago. They have one with two women eating lunch and one with two dorks tailgating. You just wants to grab all there phones and smash them and watch those asshats cry.

I like some of the side characters, though, like the guy who violates company policy and the guy wondering how to post videos to Facebook.

DIRECTLY ON THE FOREHEAD!
They did another commercial later, where it starts with that, then a guy walks out, says it three more times, followed by
"I hate you commercial, but i love your product!"
If he hates it and that's the point, why do they make you watch it again?

I guess since they're aware so many people get annoyed with their commercials, they feel like they should use that (but they'd have to split the difference and still keep the repetitive phrase).

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=navy][size=3]One of my faves at the moment is Frank's RedHot ("I put that $#!+ on everything!"), makes me laugh every time.

I liked those at first, but then it got to be ridiculous and Ethel started putting Frank's RedHot on things that sound DISGUSTING.

[The Transient Guest]

PSYCHOLOGY LESSON BITCHES:

So, the reason why these companies make commercials with these "memorably annoying" characters is due to a condition where after a little while you only have the "memorable" part of the commercial in your head.

You start to forget what was so annoying about the product which in turn means you're only left with the product on your mind and what's on your mind leads to better impulse purchases.

So yeah, they make them annoying on purpose.