Things I hate in TV commercials.

Underock1 said:
Oh absolutely! So many of our problems can be traced back to the legal profession pushing the idea of "You can get money for that". Years ago my wife and I were climbing over a mound of ice in a mall parking lot and she fell and cut her head. We went to the nearest store for medical attention. It happened to be Macys. They fixed her up, asked a few questions, and had us sign a few papers. No way was it Macy's fault. We were dumb not take the long way around the ice. We asked for nothing. Months later, we got a check for a few hundred dollars. Of course we need the lawyers to protect us from the greedy corporations. Its a conundrum.
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I'm with you on this.

Satan is the president of the Worldwide Bar Association.
 

I so hate...yes hate...commercials that have telephones ringing. My hearing is not that good anyway....and to try and rush to the phone...and find it is only a tv commercial. One of the reasons I rarely turn my tv on. I used to have it on just for the background sound. No longer.
 
AZ Jim said:
I hate the woman who after grabbing the phone from her husband screeches into it "whose this?" "Jake, from State Farm."
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+1. This, and the whole myriad of negative stereotypes that commercials cast people in. Particularly insurance commercials. With one exception that I find amusing:

 
In my neck of the woods we have three large, competing furniture chains and their commercials run frequently. The ones for "Bob's Furniture" and "Bernie & Phyll's" drive me nuts and I can't hit the mute button fast enough.
 
A fairly new one that I take exception to, for Arby's (a fast-food chain):

They're advertising their "Loaded Italian" sandwich and the VO goes on to say "What part of Arby's didn't you understand, Giuseppe?"

 
Triple A has been running a commercial for awhile that I don't quite "get". Driver sits in car listening to loud opera music, then Triple A guy taps on window and says "We'll have you running in no time".
HUH? :confused:
 
jujube said:
Have you seen the new version of that one with Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtin reprising their "Conehead" roles? Pretty funny.
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Yes, I have and I wondered at the time what happened to Loraine Newman who played the daughter on SNL. She is now 63 and still alive, I guess either she didn't want the commercial or they didn't want her. I always like her.
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ndynt said:
I so hate...yes hate...commercials that have telephones ringing. My hearing is not that good anyway....and to try and rush to the phone...and find it is only a tv commercial. One of the reasons I rarely turn my tv on. I used to have it on just for the background sound. No longer.
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Yes! Its amazing how real phones can sound over the TV, even for some one hard of hearing like myself.
 
We had a commercial on TV about a year ago ,the add was promoting "Cup a Soup" it showed a woman coming home from shopping about 3 in the aftenoon , putting the groceries down on the kitchen bench...Picking up the cat from the same bench and putting the cat in the freezer instead of the frozen foods ......the add indicated she made the mistake .....Beacuse she needed a pick me up .......I was so outraged at the add I phoned the TV station and calmly told them of my disgust.... I don't really care if the cat ONLY spent A few seconds in the freezer, as I was told it did , when I phoned ....in my personal opinion it's NOT an acceptable thing to do, under any circumstances .. .
 

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