Annoying TV Ads in Your Region?

Twinkle · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:14 pm

The terribly dubbed Clearasil adverts. It makes you wonder if their product is as cheap as their advertising team.

The one for Nestle's Oats and More. "Do you enjoy the blah bla blah" "Mmmmmmmmm" JUST STOP CRUNCHING AND ANSWER HIM!

Byakuya San · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:11 pm

Moongewl wrote:

I watch Fox before 8 PM, you see, and that's when you get all the lawyer commercials.

That reminds me of a commercial I saw last week where they tried putting two lawyers' names into a jingle. It wasn't pretty.

Arka · **Posts:** 609 **Joined:** Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:18 pm

I had the tv on for a good while yesterday and I was taken aback by some ads that ran all day. They were supposedly some kind of game that you would call in and answer the question and you'd win $15000. The questions were real hard- such as what color is an orange a. purple b. blue. c. orange. The questions were obviously made so that anyone could answer them.

If you watched closely enough there was fine print that flashed across the screen underneath the questions. It went too fast for me to read the whole thing, but I did catch that the caller would be charged $5 a minute. I wonder how many kids or naive grown ups would be caught by this. "Oh boy! I know that answer! I'll call in and get $15000!" Obviously the rest of the fine print that I couldn't read since it flashed on the screen too fast disclaimed that callers would for sure win the money. So not only would a caller not win, they'd be charged for a call that would likely last for well more than a minute.

This should be illegal as a deceptive practice.

Igg · **Posts:** 6288 **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:47 pm

Twinkle wrote:

The terribly dubbed Clearasil adverts. It makes you wonder if their product is as cheap as their advertising team.

How can you call them annoying? BEST ADVERT EVAR.

jellyoflight · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:18 pm

Hastings Direct.

Why the singing? Just why...?

Cassi · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:36 pm

Twinkle wrote:

The terribly dubbed Clearasil adverts. It makes you wonder if their product is as cheap as their advertising team.

They're just getting worse and worse, too...

How about that one for the air freshener thing, with the kid on the toilet...can't even remember what it's for.

Fortunately, we have sky+, and I don't watch much that's not recorded, so I don't have to suffer too much...

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:15 pm

halfbakedbliss wrote:

IDK, my BFF Jill?

*stabs HBB*
I'd kill that girl just for using chatspeak.

Any of the commercials featuring the chick from McKinney Dodge (who's also in the commercials for Rug and Home) drive me to the brink of insanity.

I'd kill to live in Montgomery, Alabama. I wanna see commercials for Flea Market Montgomery.
Because everyone knows Sammy Stephens is made of genius.

Skynetmain · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:47 pm

Definitely not a regional ad, unless you count all of the US as one region, but according to about 5 min of ad viewing: ED is the leading cause of death in men, and you should take take a dumptruck full of pills daily or else you will die! I'm just glad I am still young and virile. I don't want to die from something as silly as that. Those are about... 90% of the ads I see.

I guess the top annoying local ads have to be the bail bonds ones starring the Fish Masters. (I think that is what they are called). One is the husband of a famous, local news anchorwoman, and he used her fame to create a really annoying character for local TV. He is everywhere...

MarchingDuck · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:03 am

Skynetmain wrote:

Definitely not a regional ad, unless you count all of the US as one region, but according to about 5 min of ad viewing: ED is the leading cause of death in men, and you should take take a dumptruck full of pills daily or else you will die! I'm just glad I am still young and virile. I don't want to die from something as silly as that. Those are about... 90% of the ads I see.

haha one of my favorite law and order episodes is the one w. Julia Roberts where the guy dies of a heart attack after someone slips him viagra.

CWisgood · **Posts:** 1540 **Joined:** Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:39 pm

Arka wrote:

I had the tv on for a good while yesterday and I was taken aback by some ads that ran all day. They were supposedly some kind of game that you would call in and answer the question and you'd win $15000. The questions were real hard- such as what color is an orange a. purple b. blue. c. orange. The questions were obviously made so that anyone could answer them.

If you watched closely enough there was fine print that flashed across the screen underneath the questions. It went too fast for me to read the whole thing, but I did catch that the caller would be charged $5 a minute. I wonder how many kids or naive grown ups would be caught by this. "Oh boy! I know that answer! I'll call in and get $15000!" Obviously the rest of the fine print that I couldn't read since it flashed on the screen too fast disclaimed that callers would for sure win the money. So not only would a caller not win, they'd be charged for a call that would likely last for well more than a minute.

This should be illegal as a deceptive practice.

Wow. I totally agree; isn't there a law or something that states that all underlying notes or whatever must be easily visible on ads? That's just so... scammish.

It's just like:

FREE NEOPOINTS!! FREE BABY PBS FOR ALL!!!! NEOMAIL 4 INFO
Applicants will be charged 500K per Neomail. You are not guaranteed to win the prize.

Except more commercial. :/

Byakuya San · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:44 am

DM was on fire! wrote:

halfbakedbliss wrote:

IDK, my BFF Jill?

*stabs HBB*
I'd kill that girl just for using chatspeak.

Have you seen the new one?
"Mom, what are you doing?"
"IDK, txting my BFF Rose?"
(The 'mom' is a grandmother, by the way)

Igg · **Posts:** 6288 **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:47 pm

Cassi wrote:

Twinkle wrote:

The terribly dubbed Clearasil adverts. It makes you wonder if their product is as cheap as their advertising team.

They're just getting worse and worse, too...

How about that one for the air freshener thing, with the kid on the toilet...can't even remember what it's for.

Airwick innit?

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:43 am

Byakuya San wrote:

DM was on fire! wrote:

halfbakedbliss wrote:

IDK, my BFF Jill?

*stabs HBB*
I'd kill that girl just for using chatspeak.

Have you seen the new one?
"Mom, what are you doing?"
"IDK, txting my BFF Rose?"
(The 'mom' is a grandmother, by the way)

D:
NO. *shoots self*

XD

Cassi - I think Febreeze AirFX...

Skynetmain wrote:

Definitely not a regional ad, unless you count all of the US as one region, but according to about 5 min of ad viewing: ED is the leading cause of death in men, and you should take take a dumptruck full of pills daily or else you will die! I'm just glad I am still young and virile. I don't want to die from something as silly as that. Those are about... 90% of the ads I see.

What's more annoying is the adverts for Pepto-Bismol and laxatives while eating dinner. XD

Raz · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:45 pm

Igg wrote:

Cassi wrote:

Twinkle wrote:

The terribly dubbed Clearasil adverts. It makes you wonder if their product is as cheap as their advertising team.

They're just getting worse and worse, too...

How about that one for the air freshener thing, with the kid on the toilet...can't even remember what it's for.

Airwick innit?

And the one with the kid who counts all the "puffs" from the air freshener thing...

"One puff... Six puffs... Three hundred and ninety three puffs..."

3lla · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:39 am

Raz wrote:

Igg wrote:

And the one with the kid who counts all the "puffs" from the air freshener thing...

"One puff... Six puffs... Three hundred and ninety three puffs..."

Wow. its really almost like suggesting that people smell glue or something.

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