worst commercials on television

If I ever have a son and I catch him eating quiche, he's in for a whoopin'. Guaranteed.

Sometimes it seems like the only thing I remember from browsing in bookstores as a kid in the eighties is "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche", "Real Women Don't Pump Gas", "The Preppy Handbook", and "Buns".

Does anybody remember "Buns"??

I like most of these commercials.

http://www.amazon.com/Buns-Woman-Looks-at-Mens/dp/0399505008/ref=sr_1_39/103-0576075-8470233?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189578016&sr=1-39

Urine Gone - with enzymes!

(srsly this ad - the 15 minute infomercial I sat through while watching British Eurosport at half midnight last night - suggested that, if your pet or child pees on your countertops you don't wipe it up, you just spray it with Urine Gone. Piss on your walls? Just spray and it's neutralised!)

DO-ING THINGS IS WHAT I LIKE TO DO! YES!!
DO-ING THINGS IS WHAT I LIKE TO DO!

^^^ turf war

I love that commercial. YES!!

we've seen just the tip of the iceberg with the boomer-retirement-years commercials, rite?

that bk commercial made me laugh. surely they are totally making fun of the whole macho thing... right?

like the carl's jr / hardees commercials? taking it to an extreme for lolz? i mean they throw a mini-van over a bridge!

yes, the bk commercials are the worst commercials on television

worst commercials are EASILY THE MAC COMMERCIALS. absolutely no personality and it just reeks of airs. UGH i hate that campaign.

like, i can't imagine anyone actually laughing at them. that's really unfortunate.

I didn't this ad:

There was just something really creepy about the animals (not just all the sexual shenanigans)

"like"

Wasting your extra hour on ILX: classic or dud?

lol i find tht ad kind of funny :/

i don't know what's wrong with me tho, i'm generally a fan of animal ads

Burger King's sissy troubadours singing about the steakhouse shroom & swiss -- what the FUCK.

Hot Zebras, never thought i'd see that :-/

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww at the orangina ad

Holland & Barrett ad totally absurd

and mention must go to that awful awful AWFUL whatever the fuck 'more minutes / seance' advert. fuck a shit catchphrase.

This commercial makes me want to punch something/one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocuvU1ve5Q

The BMW commercial with Brian Unger (love him) has got to go.

"Americans are always finding ways to be... more responsible".

I keep waiting for the punchline or any clue that he's joking, but it never shows up.

how did Brian Unger go from being the best correspondent on the Daily Show to randomly doing voice overs and commercials?

Anyway, the worst ads right now are the Coors Light ads with the standup comic that are on TBS.

Glad to see there's already a coupla Axe commercials up in here. Absolute fucking worst ads for some years now. I will NEVER buy one of their products! (If I did, I'd be tempted to spray it in my eyes every time another of their commercials aired.)

re that brian unger ad, there's one brief moment in that ad when they do a close-up on his face and he looks absolutely horrifying! i froze the frame and snapped a picture recently. will post to frighten everyone soon.

that one Allstate ad where the president from 24 does the whole sales pitch and some random guy at a mailbox goes "no way" and then 24 guy goes "way" and smiles, my wife thinks i'm insane the way i rant and rave about this commercial, but i mean...that's it? that's all they've got?

yeah but i bet keanu reeves bought it

wtf @ that 'go meat' advert.

double pits to chesty

it hurt to type that

Anyone else noticed there's a lot of red-haired people - children and adults - in TV adverts these days?

YES! but why is this in the "worst" thread? it makes me very happy

Redsploitation

bright'something or other'

two northern lassies on about paying for tv rental or something. the annoying part is at the beginning where the black haired woman makes some fucking stupid facial expressions when she says "mandy loves her weekly spa treatment"

"webuyanycar anyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyany"
FUCK OFF!!!

Brighthouse are evil, basically loan sharks.

webuyanycar is also one of a growing number of commercials where the advertising executives used the fact that it's a World Cup year to shoehorn in a football reference - in webuyanycar's case, the fake newsreader starts playing keepy-up for no reason, and is then joined by loads of other people doing the same.

I had a sneaking fondness for an old Ocean Finance one (not the new ones with the people with light bulbs strapped to their heads, which I find vaguely disturbing); it was a vox-pop one where a woman said, 'I like Ocean Finance, they don't try and babble you with science.'

I assume these were genuine vox pops on this occasion, as the thought of a scriptwriter coming up with that is almost as disturbing as the light bulbs.

confused.com - "The Internet is the most important invention of the 21st century."
FUCK. OFF.

T Mobile, seriously get 2 fook

anyone else notice how that car commercial where the kid is getting chased home by bullies is now about a kid being challenged to race home? of course he still leaps into the safety of the minivan and all the other kids were also racing to his house for some reason. an effort to be sensitive to the whole bullying issue thing.

i've noticed an increasing number of commercials which are shot in reality show style, complete with sit-down interviews of some random person who owns a toyota or w/e, mixed in with shots of them in their car, and they're actually copying the shitty audio edits heard in reality shows (frankenbiting.) considering the budget companies have for such national ads, it has to be intentional.

can we talk about these state farm commercials?

ugggh the miller lite "man up" ads are so awful in just about every respect

THE FUCKING TACO BELL TWO SHRIMP CRASHING DUDES. FUCKING DIE.

i dunno, tbell's always had really stupid commercials

ha kind of like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWeOhezlwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6bT8_ji2k&feature=related

Liberty Mutual was bad enough when it was just Liberty Liberty Liberty Liiiiberty etc
the limu emu shit though is a plague

all the AT&T commercials with Lily make me want to die

I feel like the intolerability quotient of advertising would drop by like 90% if it was illegal for insurance companies to make commercials.

the Dean Winters commercials as "Mayhem" are pretty good. or maybe I just think they're good because they actually have something to do with insurance? like every other company is just doing "you can save a lot on insurance!" and "oh my god, I can't shut the fuck up about insurance!"

i think commercials in general are getting more annoying and desperate for attention. maybe they have to now that they're competing with "switching to a different tab" and "looking at phone"

WHY are these BIRDS so ANGRY???

also wanna mention the USAA ad where Gronk is trying and failing to buy insurance?? one because he fucking sucks as an actor (surprising!!), two because why are we supposed to believe superstar athletes give a fuck about their home and auto insurance? what is this contrived Trix and the rabbit situation

What... what year did you just post this from?

The Geico angry birds commercial still airs all the time!! The game is well over a decade old!! As old as Mario 64 was when it first came out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjFdaRxoo0

This Ben Moore commercial is just a farce. NOT how you paint.

The Russian meerkat characters getting cancelled is objectively absurd and somewhat indicative of ugly xenophobia that is already having worse consequences, but can't say I'll miss the little fuckers.

dunno why they didn't just go "oh Sergei is ukranian of course" tho unless there's some deeper meerkat lore I'm not privy to.

uhhh the Uber Eats commercial where celebrities drink soap and eat candles?

the youtube tv commercial (i think that's what it's for, some streaming alternative to cable) where the woman keeps moaning and groaning. physical pain to hear it

I do not understand these AT&T Lily commercials at all, every single one comes off like half the dialogue has been removed

"I'm Cologuard and I detect altered DNA in your stool"

I know this falls into the rather wide category of ads that are really just trying to get you to pester your doctor or whatever but jesus the ubiquity of this one on any show streaming on Paramount+

also yeah the Lily commercials are very very strange

feel like Rule #1 of writing/directing commercials is knowing that the vast majority of your audience isn't really paying attention. so all this intricately produced stuff that's paced like an Avengers movie is just kinda falling on deaf ears, particularly those which have very little to do with the product itself. back in my day a commercial was just two dude yelling "ZESTY!" at each other

Geico doing a bunch of "TV dad" commercials who I presume from the sweaters is trying to resemble Bill Cosby

Think he's supposed to resemble the character he played on Family Matters (the Urkel show)?

Me, I could live without the Cologuard (place that sends you a box you shit in and return to be tested for cancer) commercials that feature a rewritten version of My Way.

lol ok, didn't watch it so I didn't realize it was the same actor