Commercials. The Best and Worse

I know I'm old and not very bright, but I feel even dumber when I see a commercial and don't know what they are advertising,

I ask my wife, "What are they trying to sell?

She replies, "I have no idea."

Like I said, "old and not very bright".
 
Ruthanne said:
For me the worst commercial has become the Joe Namath Medicare commercial because I'm very tired of it. I don't believe there are any commercials that I enjoy anymore.
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Even his teeth annoy me. lol

There are a couple of other commercials that I could live without:



Progressive

Liberty Mutual

Geico
 
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RB-TX said:
I know I'm old and not very bright, but I feel even dumber when I see a commercial and don't know what they are advertising,

I ask my wife, "What are they trying to sell?

She replies, "I have no idea."

Like I said, "old and not very bright".
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More like they do not get it, so wrapped up in themselves they missed the boat.
Plain narcissistic...
 
I hate the ugly broad dressed in white, and the bird, selling insurance, as well as every other insurance company selling ..... every damn commercial break.

Must be a huge profit in insurance !!!

Not to mention Sellick , selling reverse mortgages , and I agree about Namath as well.
 
The ads I don't like are those Medicare Advantage plan ones. The hint that they can weasel out some "benefits" that ordinary people on Medicare don't get. But the "benefits' are just provisions of their extra Medicare insurance plan. I used the word "hint" because while they don't actually say all the "benefits" are provisions of their own insurance plans, the wording strongly sounds as if the " benefits" were provisions of the Medicare Act. Also I have a 4 foot wide TV screen, there's tiny print that comes up during the ad, and even with that size TV screen, the tiny print is just dots and mostly unreadable. There's a big "Disclaimer" paragraph that is on screen for less than a second, also in print that's mostly unreadable. If you need a disclaimer in your ad, then it should be at least readable. To me, it's a legally sleazy ad, it should not be aired.
 
Lewkat said:
I haven't seen a commercial in over a year since I no longer watch TV.
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Good for you! I cut the cable over 18 years ago. Sometimes I see a bit of cable TV in a motel & shake my head at the crap at the subscribers to cable pay to watch. To watch some of the shows it helps to be brain dead. However, there are some good news, nature and other shows but they are few and far in between all the garbage. I suppose that black box where you can record your shows helps. Summary, don't miss & will never get cable again.
 
There is one commercial I with I could find.

It's of a man retiring... putting in his last days work. The camera walks with the man as he makes his way down a long office hall, and as he passes each office, you can hear the workers talking in the individual offices, problem solving, and then the man reaches the last office, a man in the office says, "have you tried turning it off and restarting it", or something along those lines, and then the commercial ends with Fidelity Investments, or some other insurance/investment advertisement.

Does this commercial ring a bell for anyone?
 
rgp said:
I hate the ugly broad dressed in white, and the bird, selling insurance, as well as every other insurance company selling ..... every damn commercial break.

Must be a huge profit in insurance !!!

Not to mention Sellick , selling reverse mortgages , and I agree about Namath as well.
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Remember insurance covers you falling out of the window, just not hitting the ground...
 
fuzzybuddy said:
The ads I don't like are those Medicare Advantage plan ones. The hint that they can weasel out some "benefits" that ordinary people on Medicare don't get. But the "benefits' are just provisions of their extra Medicare insurance plan. I used the word "hint" because while they don't actually say all the "benefits" are provisions of their own insurance plans, the wording strongly sounds as if the " benefits" were provisions of the Medicare Act. Also I have a 4 foot wide TV screen, there's tiny print that comes up during the ad, and even with that size TV screen, the tiny print is just dots and mostly unreadable. There's a big "Disclaimer" paragraph that is on screen for less than a second, also in print that's mostly unreadable. If you need a disclaimer in your ad, then it should be at least readable. To me, it's a legally sleazy ad, it should not be aired.
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Trying so hard to convince every one...Not even on medicare
 
SetWave said:
My lady friend laughs when an obnoxious ad comes on and I immediately mute the volume and say, "Stop yelling at me!"
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Laughs? I'm with you and hit the mute as well and find I end up missing a lot of the show, no great lost...
 

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