Anyone else despise the commercials on TV?

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I really can't stand commercials sometimes. It's pretty rare now to see one that makes a product look interesting or compelling; it's all too common to see marketers use stupid gimmicks or just pitch lazy ideas to the lowest common denominator. I don't know what they're teaching marketing students these days, but this $@#& ain't working.

For example, take the Geico commercials. (Please.) What are these people smoking? They come up with one dumb idea after another--the lizard, the caveman, and so on--to advertise a vague promise of saving us "15% or more on car insurance." How? When? What are the conditions? Never mind, they don't tell us. They'd rather insult our intelligence with bad jokes.

Geico aren't the only ones either. Those Jimmy John's commercials were nearly unwatchable for a few years because all they did was present violent or unpleasant situations and then have some guy show up with a sandwich. I guess it was supposed to be funny but it sure didn't make me laugh.

Let's see, what other commercials do I need to rant about? Um...Burger King hasn't made a good ad in like 10 years...I have about as much interest in fantasy football as I do in getting shingles, I just want to WATCH THE GAME...your network's new primetime shows can go die in a fire, I haven't watched that stuff regularly in ages...Miller and Bud Lite are both weak tasteless low-quality beers and any attempt to equate them with American manhood makes me laugh...whoever came up with the term "man-cave" should be punished by spending the rest of their life underground...and I don't want a cellular phone that can pick up Mongolian folk music and massage my dog, I just want something to call and text with! Arrgh!

These are the adverts that I hate:
- Haribo adverts
- Secret Escapes adverts
- Churchill adverts
- Go Compare adverts

I despise them. They drive me up the every time they come on.

Right now, the biggest annoying commercial on TV is the current Illinois Tourism campaign. I don't know what idiot in what ad agency in either Chicago, Springfield, Rockford, or East St. Louis thought this up, but it's enough to make me barf.

I don't want to see any more emotional/dramatic appliance commercials.

My most hate advert would have to be the Auckland Glass one in New Zealand. It's the sound of glass smashing. It really hurts my ears.

There are all sorts of ads that annoy me, to be honest. Household cleaner ads are quite annoying, especially when it involves an "idiotic" guy who makes a mess then his "brilliant" girlfriend/wife comes along and cleans it using the product. That just reeks of sexism, but somehow it's socially acceptable because it doesn't portray women in a negative light. I hate double standards.

Ads for mediocre food products annoy me too. No, I don't find "Oh Henry!" bars irresistable, they're just average candy bars that don't even have a real chocolate coating. "Chocolate bar" is the normal Canadianism for what Americans would call a "candy bar", but I don't think "Oh Henry!" bars deserve that title. Damn, now I'm sort of craving one. If they stepped things up, and maybe used real chocolate, then I might become a fan. In the meantime, I'll keep eating Kit Kats. The ads for Reese Peanut Butter Cups are f*****g lame too, and my god I don't even think those things have anything resembling real peanut butter in them.

When I was younger (and ironically a non-drinker), I really liked beer commercials because they often contained "edgy" humor and attractive women. Nowadays, I find them to be tame and boring. Not as annoying as other types of commercials, sure, but nothing special.

Fast food ads really get my goat, especially when I'm watching American channels and they're showing ads for some burger or restaurant you can't even find in Canada. I want to try that Hardee's burger with the fried jalapenos and brisket so bad, but I'll never find anything like it on a Canadian burger chain's menu. At least we have poutine, and McDonald's didn't manage to completely screw it up.

Ads for dating services drive me nuts too, especially the ones for Christian Mingle ("Find God's match for you?" I seriously doubt there's actually any divine intervention going on behind the scenes, and even if I believed it were possible, I doubt the Judeo-Christian God would be in favor of a dating site, especially one named after a prejorative term for his followers) and those telephone dating services. If I want to find "hot, local singles", I'm pretty sure I can do that on Facebook without being charged $10 a minute.

I don't really watch TV/Cable, but one of the reasons is because I can't stand how many commercials there are and many of them are annoying. The only ones I don't mind is those that make me laugh, but those are few and it only works the first time.

I use adverts as a break to scan for new, interesting posts on WP, or raid the fridge or anything else; very rare I watch the adverts and they largely go unnoticed. I did like a recent Apple advert, it features lots of different designs on the covers of an Apple laptop computer, one after another. Not that I'd ever buy anything made by Apple, just liked their advert. Why do they always show toilet cleaner adverts while I'm eating my lunch?

I don't like adverts that use celebrity spokespersons. Insult to my intelligence to think I am going to buy a product just because some famous person pitches or uses the product. I am less inclined to buy a product from a company doing this.

Commercials who try to lure me by using half naked humanoids. That makes me feel manipulated big time.

The ones here in the U.S. who use native Australian speakers, as if there is something about those voices that are somehow wiser or more trustworthy.

What disturbs me most is that there is collusion among networks to all run commercials at approximately the same moment, figuring you will be less likely to find something more interesting to watch on another channel when ads are running.

I have hated commercials for quite a while.

i have a playlist on my youtube channel.. motowncountry ... and it has a small collection of commercials that have made me laugh... i think some go back to the 80s and 90s... but i don't have much of anything current. LOL feel free to check it out and lemme know what you think!

Most commercials on TV today annoy me as well. I wish they would go into details about the product and show how it works, what it is made of, etc, dare I say, like infomercials except 30 seconds long. Every so often there are commercials I see that I really enjoy and still remember them to this day.

I have a bunch of old commercials and movie trailers on my youtube channel. People actually really enjoy watching this kind of stuff which has been lost to time. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_XkSD ... u5_N0yXahw

I find commercials disgusting. I don't like anything that tries to force it's own agenda through the use of me and/or others. I don't watch television as a result, as television is almost nothing but such... commercials for about 60% of airtime shamelessly trying to convince you of needing expensive garbage that they well know is garbage, news baiting only the negative emotions out in it's viewers to raise ratings/viewings, poor stereotypes/messages loaded into many shows that only encourage/reinforce such crap behavior/trends in many our neighbors(increasing a show's publicity through negative values and shock increases word of mouth and views regardless of whether the show is loved or loathed), etc...

I just get my news from word of mouth... Many people have this weird tendency to talk a lot, so when there's something real in the news, I trust I'll hear it from someone in a relatively timely manner if it's important. As far as favorite shows, I just acquire them on DVD. It's far cheaper than paying for cable as I'm not that big on many shows, and currently, all of my favorites are no longer on the air outside of repeat showings anyway... if they ever aired to begin with. As far as finding new shows, I typically don't look for new ones unless given recommendation... In which I evaluate from people doing that talking thing about the things that they like.

I definitely relate.