Most Horrible Commercials

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no more robots!

There was one that showed Digger the toe nail fungus jerking up a toe nail and crawling up under the nail, ugh!! !! !!

That was it!

I knew there was one current commercial that grossed me out in the back of my mind.

Aren't these part of a series by Tom Rubnitz?
Here's the Strawberry Shortcut one:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps-IQi8f3oI[/youtube]

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Amica Insurance commercials. Too much forced smiling and unrealistic acting. They are just grating, and the commercials run quite often. I will never buy their insurance.

@ Blue max, and respondents:

That's the title track of the last album by the Austin Lounge Lizards.

Have the album CD, but never knew there was a video to go with the song.

Learn sumpim' everyday.

I'm tired of commercials about ED,everyone on the planet knows about these drugs,enough already.

All commercials sicken me.

Advertisers prey on peoples' weaknesses to make sure they keep wasting their money on useless s**t instead of saving it. Pharmaceutical commercials in particular are disturbing. 10 seconds about what the product is, and 50 seconds about how it will mess you up worse or kill you. The fact that it is legal to push dangerous drugs through mainstream media - most often to cure superficial non-issues - shows how little the FDA and government actually care about your health.

I also hate the 'ding-y' music in commercials now. I'm sure you know what I mean. it's like a baby's music box, and they're trying to lull you into a complacent state where you will follow along with their nonsense. Yes, you and I are no more than stupid babies with credit cards to these people. And what is really sickening to me is that it seems to be working like a charm, since they all do it.

Advertisers want you to stay depressed and insecure so they can keep selling you phony solutions. Don't fall for it.

Bah, commercials, they are everywhere, even on Youtube as of a couple of years.

There is however 1 dutch radio commercial that I am surprised about that they are even allowing them to broadcast it. It's about a dating site for married people. It went along the lines of "Needing a bit more excitement in your life? Bored of your current fiance? Then try our dating site to find other married people that like to have some fun without their fiance knowing it". Absolutely disgusting.

All yoghurt ads should be banned under the Geneva Convention.

We have them here, too.


I almost want to work out and look all hot just to attract these rotten people so I could inform their husbands of their treachery! SCUM!! !

Worse... My city was found to have the second-highest adultery rate in Canada. I was born & raised here.... but now I want to leave this terrible place.

Haha, a very noble deed! I just honestly don't understand these people. The fact that it's being broadcasted means there is a big interest for it. Yuck.

I hate long commercials and I don't like a bunch of commercials back to back.
Like someone said on the first page; Progressive has very annoying commercials.
It's very rare that I buy anything based on a commercial so it's all wasted on me.

I really hate those furniture commercials with guys yelling. I saw one in the USA and one here a while back. I haven't been the same since.

It's not supposed to be persuasive. The music for the new Prius commercial is very effective at getting my attention. I don't want to buy a car anyway because I don't drive and if I did drive I would look for a competitor out of spite. However, if I wanted something and I didn't know where I could get it I would only find out who the major sellers from the commercial. No I don't like being insulted by commercials featuring talking animals and ding-y music but I still have that want and if I only know about the companies that use 'ding-y' commercials I have no choice. Either I buy from the company that's using these condescending commercials or I don't buy it at all.

In most cases I just boycott companies that use commercials with talking animals, flashy gimmicks, and things that seem insulting to customer intelligence. There's usually one that isn't too flashy.

Obviously if everyone's doing it there's no choice.

I don't have the same attitude towards advertising that I did when I was a little bit younger. I used to see advertising as evil. That was my black and white oversimplified view. I still find certain aspects of commercials to be condescending and almost insulting in some cases but I don't consider advertising to be an absolute evil.

Here, hear.

And while we're at it, how about the Verizon "Can you hear me now?" Or the "Duuude, you're getting a Dell" series from a few years back?