Least Favorite Commercials

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What are your least favorite commercials?

Like, the ones you will change the channel to avoid if they come on, the ones that will cause you to shut the window even if it means you don't get to read the article just so you don't have to hear it?

A few of mine:

Geico- all the talking picture commercials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WPQRrp0mI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU7rlHyA24c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx1GKqD_pEg

Aflac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h41QgPleRGQ

Bandaid- stuck on the band-aid brand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vthwoa6QX5k

Musinex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rB77SWQjPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SCnFDiTkXw

Haagen Daaz Gelato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUMYU-Ghb0

Autism awareness, and all of the other ones.

Political ads.

Horrible! They make me not want to vote for any of them.

This commercial is on permanent ricochet in my head.

almost Any Geico ad.
but especially..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBhP0EQ1lA&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]

Agreed. I also hate the ads where they just shout at you (eg Bargain warehouse ads and this bet 365 ad where SJ Jackson just yells about why you are not gambling with them?)

Ads that track my internet purchases. I do not buy from them because I have seen one of their ads. Why do their ads follow me once I am a customer. It makes me not want to give them any more money

Y'know, this commercial was just so anti-PC that I can't help but to laugh at it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkxvxV-S4wM[/youtube]

I've had to endure six years of these. This is just one example:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-6clXHMEw[/youtube]

This one makes me want to rip my hair out every time:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIMMmqwe6Q[/youtube]

I cringe every time adverts from this company come on:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjY0mbh8fxU[/youtube]

EDIT: I thought of a couple more.

This one makes me want to rip my hair out even more. The worst part is that it's painfully long too:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQXfbACDVQM[/youtube]

I'd never wanted to strangle a meerkat until I saw this advert:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mXUC0cUPg[/youtube]

I made a few posts about a number of obnoxious ads I've seen the past couple of years. This past year I've seen a bunch of really stupid Walmart ads that I think have been only aired in Canada, They are about the supposed types of moms that shop at Walmart and they had different ones at different times of the year -back to school, Christmas, and Easter. There will probably be more, unfortunately. The "moms" all have one thing in common, they are all very fake, stupid, squealy-voiced tramps, and if I ever ran into one while shopping at Walmart I'd never go back there again.

Seriously, why make ads for something just about everyone knows about already. What can you possibly tell me about that hideous Geico insurance company I haven't heard about one trillion times already? They even have people now who are doing things like working out at the gym or a dad and his son just staring at their tablets and saying "Huh, says that whatever can save up to fifteen stupid on your crap insurance." No one has conversations like that in real life!

And now there's that stereotypically offensive German kid with the worst accent ever in the Toaster Strudel ads, which look like they were on some serious reefer high when they made them. There's even one kid who ironically seems to be really hungover and moans "Worst. Morning. EVER." and then that Strudel kid shows up and everything is perfect.

And there's some other ad, I'm not even sure what it's for, but it has a talking hamster and Disney-style cartoon birds fluttering around a human family... it's like they were, "Who cares if it doesn't make sense as long as it gets people's attention".

On the other hand awful ads are nothing new. I've been looking at pictures of old ads online that go as far back as the 1930's and some of them make the stuff they have today almost tolerable. For example there's an ad disguised as a comic strip for Ex-Lax about a boy who's doing poorly in school because he isn't feeling well, because his mom made him take this really harsh, foul-tasting laxative the night before and he's both literally and mentally wiped out. The comic-ad has three little cartoon imps called The Laxies(?!). The first one is a mean tough-guy who is chuckling at the boy's misery, and the very next evening he tries to get the mother to give the boy some more of the bowel-cleanser- What? After just giving it to him the night before and it left him feeling bad? Then a second Laxie named Meeky, who speaks like Elmer Fudd with a lisp, tries to get the boy to take some really mild laxative but the boy and his mom refuse because it doen't work at all and tastes as bad as the strong stuff. Finally a third Laxie shows up and gives the boy Ex-Lax, which tastes like chocolate and isn't to strong or too weak, the boy turns into a model student the next day, and they all lived poopily ever after.

I think back when this ad was made constipation was a big concern, possibly from a lack of high-fiber products during war shortages or something. Funny, you never see laxatives given to kids in commercials now, you think they never needed it, even if they live on junk food.

Dear God, yes. And it gets worse every year, so much that I just shut the TV off altogether.

Any TV commercials for local car dealerships. The big national car ad campaigns are usually beautifully produced; the commercials for local dealerships usually are just a lot of yelling.

Kerri the Sparkle Fairy

The Haribo adverts in which you have children voicing over the adults. Mostly because my mother keeps telling us how much she loves them and it's getting annoying.

most of the commercials on Fox News (why am I watching Fox News, you ponder? because I enjoy laughing) are the worst in general of all TV stations.