Let's Gripe About Commercials

[Dana]

I just saw a commercial for anti bacterial wipes where a father was struggling with a baby. they wife comes home and grabs a wipe instead of being a good mother/wife and helping the husband with their child.

 

[Guyzerr]

What did she do with the wipe she grabbed? That's kinda key right about now Dana.

 

[Springsteen]

A Tv advert hatred thread. Yus. Excellent work Dana.

The TV injury adverts get me. There's one where this guys says "I was driving slowly down the road past a group of Schoolkids at the bus stop and this van reversed out and hit me and I got £5,000"

Serves you right for being a paedophile then.

There's a Halifax one, a bank basically pretending to be a radio station. Nice one, if you make half as good a job there as you do in a bank you'll do fine. Or die of aids.

Speaking of dying of aids, I wish that on everyone who sings in adverts, so annoying.

 

[Peter Parka]

I'd love to do what Jimmy Carr did to that Go Compare cunt.:thumbup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euh9zWmASN4

 

[HK]

It's not fair on the adverts, but we watch a lot of TV shows back through youtube at the moment, which is fine, but they use the same damn adverts for every single episode - and every single ad break in that episode. So a perfectly nice advert about camping trips to Wales, now makes me want to hurt people. Starting with the welsh.

 

[Peter Parka]

It's not fair on the adverts, but we watch a lot of TV shows back through youtube at the moment, which is fine, but they use the same damn adverts for every single episode - and every single ad break in that episode. So a perfectly nice advert about camping trips to Wales, now makes me want to hurt people. Starting with the welsh.

Just be thankful you're not in the USA. You think our adverts are excessive but nowhere near as bad as there. Think it would drive me round the bend watching American TV! :willy_nilly:

 

[HK]

Just be thankful you're not in the USA. You think our adverts are excessive but nowhere near as bad as there. Think it would drive me round the bend watching American TV! :willy_nilly:

I know what you mean, I've been to Florida and New York and trying to watch the TV in the hotel room was a lesson in how to have an extremely short attention span. Literally - titles, advert break, six minutes, advert break, six minutes advert break etc etc. It's insane.

 

[hart]

Any used car commerical, especially local.....

 

[PoopaSwoof]

All I can say about commercials is a DVR is worth it's weight in gold.

 

[Minor Axis]

To balance the discussion, the Volkswagon 'Force' commercial at the Superbowl was brilliant and funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

 

[Xeno]

I hate the State Farm Insurance Commercials to be quite honest. The guy looks like an Eric Bischoff Clone...




...which is pretty damn scary.

 

[Dana]

kill it kill it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro96Au4eqVs

God this commercial has been up there on my shut the fuck up-o-meter

 

[Peter Parka]

Wonder why on earth anyone would think that John Prescott would make anyone want to buy their car insurance!:willy_nilly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpW_5X2EYE