Commercials that I hate

[Beveridge]

The Target Circle Week commercial.

[tifosi77]

Not sure if any of you in here have Roku, but my hate for them is that they run the same ten commercials in the same order. My sister watches a lot of Bones, CSI, NCIS, etc and it's the same ads over and over and over on whatever channel that is.

Emeril gets two ads for his channel.
Martha Stewart get an ad for her channel. According to her ad, apparently she's a bit of a multi-tasker.
There's an CSI ad where Doug is a delivery guy on ho island and ends up getting choked out while getting back into his truck. That one is on so much that even when my mom sees that it's on, she's like "don't do it, Doug!"
And I can't forget The Marriage Pact, The Lincoln Logs show, and the ads for the Kevin Hart movie and the Weird Al movie, both of which have been out for almost a year now.

Had I typed this out over the weekend, I could have told you the order that they are always being run.

When you see repetitive commercials - especially one for the service/platform you're on or using - it's usually a sign the carrier hasn't been able to sell the ad space in the normal way. Instead of having 30s or whatever of dead time in an ad break, they backfill with low-dollar advertisers that allow them to plug the gap with repeat ads, but usually the service/platform will thrown in its own advertising in those instances rather than give a partner discounted (or free) air time. Martha Stewart and Lincoln Logs, for example, I think are actually on the Roku Channel, right? So they're advertising without having to buy the time.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

there's a Hulu commercial/bumper thing that is absolutely terrifyingly bizarre. A family of "tvs" (like their heads are screens) sit down on the sofa and watch a feral human sit in a box as a sitcom audience laughs

just **** weird as ****

[iamjs]

Not sure if any of you in here have Roku, but my hate for them is that they run the same ten commercials in the same order. My sister watches a lot of Bones, CSI, NCIS, etc and it's the same ads over and over and over on whatever channel that is.

Emeril gets two ads for his channel.
Martha Stewart get an ad for her channel. According to her ad, apparently she's a bit of a multi-tasker.
There's an CSI ad where Doug is a delivery guy on ho island and ends up getting choked out while getting back into his truck. That one is on so much that even when my mom sees that it's on, she's like "don't do it, Doug!"
And I can't forget The Marriage Pact, The Lincoln Logs show, and the ads for the Kevin Hart movie and the Weird Al movie, both of which have been out for almost a year now.

Had I typed this out over the weekend, I could have told you the order that they are always being run.

When you see repetitive commercials - especially one for the service/platform you're on or using - it's usually a sign the carrier hasn't been able to sell the ad space in the normal way. Instead of having 30s or whatever of dead time in an ad break, they backfill with low-dollar advertisers that allow them to plug the gap with repeat ads, but usually the service/platform will thrown in its own advertising in those instances rather than give a partner discounted (or free) air time. Martha Stewart and Lincoln Logs, for example, I think are actually on the Roku Channel, right? So they're advertising without having to buy the time.

They're all Roku stations that are being advertised and I kinda figured it was dead commercial space that wasn't being filled. But it's weird that it's only one specific channel (in this case, Ion Network) that has this repetitive loop of Roku channel promotions and that they haven't changed anything about it in months. If I go onto Buzzr, The Price Is Right channel, or the MST3K channel, they all have different ads. Actually the MST3K might just promote itself during the breaks so that might not be the best example.

But the point being is that they not only have the same ad rotation, it's in the same order. At least change the order to show that you're trying I guess.

[Kaiser]

It's not that I hate it, but it seems like the new Nissan Sentra commercial was written by AI. A couple is in their Sentra, and get a video alert or something that their dogs are destroying their home. The woman says "Time for sport mode" like terminator arnold, then doesn't speed up. They get home, she opens the door smiling and says "Party's over boys." No cut to the dogs' reactions because they're still eating the family's document shelf.

Lady your house is f*cking trashed. The car didn't get you there fast enough to prevent anything.

[meecrofilm]

I haven't seen that one, but yeah that sounds pretty pretty dumb.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

there’s a slew of really bad commercials right now. The Shai-Chet “what a pro wants”, the wingstop “no flex zone”, Google pixel with people making fake photos to a really annoying Cardi B song…

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Mimh is right. Not a golden age of commercials right now.

[iamjs]

I think the hatred towards the "what a pro wants", the "no flex zone", and "don't let me go" ads might be the one thing that everybody on social media can agree on.

[CBear3]

Wow, so glad I haven't been watching TV lately.

[mikey]

I'm not sure I've ever been in this thread before, so forgive me if it's old news...



Had this one thrown at me on TSN today watching the World Championships.

So, a man and his dog are sitting on the floor staring at a broken washing machine - with no dryer.

The dog talks like Cookie Monster meets...E.T. (?) or something.

When you pause it halfway through, it's clearly going to be about washing machines, or detergent, or washing machine repair or something...

They say "I love you" to one another in a really weird and uncalled for way...

And then it's about credit scores...?!?!

What was the storyboard for this thing...? Just a bizarre 30 seconds even for low-end Canadian television...

[nocera]

[genoscoif]

I think it's Toyota but

Car commercial where two people are sitting on the bench, then the guy says something like 'Crazy story.....' then proceeds to tell the most vanilla story imaginable about how he wanted the car. And they have one for seemingly every make/model with just the type of car switched out...everything else is exactly the same.

If you're gonna say 'crazy story', at least give us something interesting. I actually think the dialogue may have been AI generated with how much it misses the context of what is said. It's just weird and annoying to me.

[DigitalGypsy66]

I think it's for a Nissan Rogue, and it vaguely reminded me of some of Michael Pena's character from Ant-Man retelling stories.

[RonnieFranchise]

Third different person now singing that damn Jardiance song. Please make it stop.

[RonnieFranchise]

Liberty Mutual Wax Figure guy. Punching him in the face would be justified assault. And his dumb ass wax figure. And whatever idea person came up with this idiocy.

[faftorial]

They need to outlaw Pharmaceutical and Insurance commercials.

[meecrofilm]

Liberty Mutual Wax Figure guy. Punching him in the face would be justified assault. And his dumb ass wax figure. And whatever idea person came up with this idiocy.

The other day I said something to the effect of "you know a commercial is bad when it makes you pine for 'Liberty Biberty' in comparison"

[DigitalGypsy66]

I've only had streaming TV for a couple of years now, after ditching cable/satellite back in like 2010 or so. Does it seem like there is less variety in commercials overall? It's like the same 10 or so that get repeated over and over again, ad nauseam.

[Stoosh]

Liberty Mutual Wax Figure guy. Punching him in the face would be justified assault. And his dumb ass wax figure. And whatever idea person came up with this idiocy.

The other day I said something to the effect of "you know a commercial is bad when it makes you pine for 'Liberty Biberty' in comparison"

As dumb commercials go, I loved the "Liberty Biberty" guy. It wasn't even "Liberty Biberty" that was the best part of the "Struggling Actor" ad; it was the part where he looks dead at the camera and goes, "CUT!"

That, and when the brought him back and he put on the mustache. Completely stupid but I thought it was hilarious.

Otherwise, completely agree that the ads suck and Wax Figure Guy is the new gold standard for that.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

whats interesting about Liberty Mutual is how 10 years ago I don’t think I would’ve recognized them as a brand but theyve put so much into advertising since then. Sometimes they’ll have good commercials, sometimes they’ll have annoying ones; but either way their advertising budget seems to be a trillion dollars


overall I just wish insurance companies would disappear from the face of the earth. I can’t think of a more vampiric business model

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Coke with an AI ad



not a great sign for where this **** is going

[meecrofilm]

Omg.

[nocera]

It's completely soulless. So, no different than most commercials.

[meecrofilm]

That song is something else though. And it's weird they only show the Santa's hand. Doesn't really make sense, and it's not like it's trying to be those "random = funny" commercials either.