New most hated Commercial

[cindyluvsbrady]

I saw a Hummer commercial recently that was along the same theme as the one you saw. Kids are playing on a playground, and one kid butts in front of another one to get to the slide. The kid's mom looks at the butting-in-front kid's mom, then runs off to buy a Hummer.

WTF-ever.

FWIW -- my boyfriend despises the Dr. Z commercials, and has to mute them. I, OTOH, despise the Red Roof Inn commercials, and have to mute them. Sometimes, we forget to turn the sound back on once the commercials finish and the O's game comes back on.


Witchy

The Hummer one upsets me. Are we supposed to think she drives back to the park and runs over the boy and the mom?

[J.D.]

You all haven't seen bad TV commercials until you spend some time out in Alaska.

There are a couple of commercials out here that put some of the more irritating nation-wide ones (the Coors Light "coldest tasting" beer, the Red Roof Inn one, the Dr. Z commercials, and ANY AFLAC commercial) to shame.

To give you an idea, there's a store called "Mattress Ranch," and the guy that does the commercial is about 60, a little tubby... wears a Spongebob Squarepants tie, something that resembles an engineer's hat, and suspenders... all of which make him look like the most frightening pedofile in history.

It's not ridiculous enough that he's ON my television, however. Oh no, someone thought that it might be a good idea to get this human being to SING AND DANCE. *shudder* Add onto it that the jingle is one of the more annoying ones that I've ever heard. It may actually be the most painful 30 seconds of television ever recorded. Oh, and for some reason he thought it would be a good idea to make BOBBLEHEADS of himself. At least they're not Brian Roberts Blue.

You know what? As cruely sterotypical as those commercials were, I actually miss the VW "Unpimp Your Auto" ads. VW doesn't do a half-bad job all the way around, actually.

[Cornbread]

You all haven't seen bad TV commercials until you spend some time out in Alaska.

There are a couple of commercials out here that put some of the more irritating nation-wide ones (the Coors Light "coldest tasting" beer, the Red Roof Inn one, the Dr. Z commercials, and ANY AFLAC commercial) to shame.

To give you an idea, there's a store called "Mattress Ranch," and the guy that does the commercial is about 60, a little tubby... wears a Spongebob Squarepants tie, something that resembles an engineer's hat, and suspenders... all of which make him look like the most frightening pedofile in history.

It's not ridiculous enough that he's ON my television, however. Oh no, someone thought that it might be a good idea to get this human being to SING AND DANCE. *shudder* Add onto it that the jingle is one of the more annoying ones that I've ever heard. It may actually be the most painful 30 seconds of television ever recorded. Oh, and for some reason he thought it would be a good idea to make BOBBLEHEADS of himself. At least they're not Brian Roberts Blue.

You know what? As cruely sterotypical as those commercials were, I actually miss the VW "Unpimp Your Auto" ads. VW doesn't do a half-bad job all the way around, actually.

True, a lot of the local commericals are much worse than any national commercial you'll see, such as any local checking cashing place commerical. The "Mattress Ranch" sounds like "Mattress Max." Max is a guy (in Spartanburg...if you ever have the chance to go to Spartanburg, please pass on it) in his 60's and usually he's wearing a hollowed out mattress, holding dollar bills and his catch phrase is "Come to Matress Max and we'll save you MON-NEEEEEEE!" Sometimes he'll wear other gidd-ups like a chicken suit, Uncle Sam, etc but Your guy sounds much much more worse.

[DuffMan]

I'm surprised no body has mentioned the horrible Pepto Bismo commericial. Where it's a sort of stupid rap/dance song taling about hearburn, indigestion, nausuea, upset stomach and diarrhea!

[glenn__davis]

Just thought of another one. How about the Matthew Lesko guy who sells the book on GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS? You can get $10000 for STARTING A BUSINESS!!! Or $5000 for WORKING AT HOME!!!

[J.D.]

Just thought of another one. How about the Matthew Lesko guy who sells the book on GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS? You can get $10000 for STARTING A BUSINESS!!! Or $5000 for WORKING AT HOME!!!

But that guy's an 8 on the unintentional comedy scale. The world needs more of him.

Oh, the crazy Mattress Ranch guy up here now has a mascot that looks exactly like him.

I forgot to mention other details, like the hat he wears is leather, and he usually wears a leather vest.

It's scaaaary.

Oh, and the Pepto commercial is beyond awful as well.

[rolliefingers]

Just thought of another one. How about the Matthew Lesko guy who sells the book on GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS? You can get $10000 for STARTING A BUSINESS!!! Or $5000 for WORKING AT HOME!!!

His son drives a car with magnetized question marks all over it. Hell, I guess if your dad buys you a car, the least you can do is advertise for his company, right?

I can't believe nobody has *****ed about local car commercials. Scott Donahoo? Antwerpen? Bob Bell? I can't think of one local car dealership whose ads are even mediocre. They're all horrendous.

Oh, almost forgot - those Comcast ads where the chubby Italian-looking guy is clearly reading off a teleprompter to the side of the camera and smiles like a douche after every shot. I wish I could remember more about it, but I just gave myself a lobotomy to make the scary fat man stop swimming around my brain.

[scOtt's squEEze]

"Men should act like men. And beer should taste like beer."
So men should act like crotch-scratching, flannel wearing, grunting jerks who drink nasty beer in a can? GAH!

Beer commercial in direct contrast and funny as all get out (Michelob dark, I believe):

Three guys on a golf course, one of whom is talking loudly in his cell during buddy's shot about his love life, his recent massage, yadayadayada. Buddy yanks cell from obnoxious irritant, tees it up, and smacks it as hard as he can with his driver. Cut to advert, cut back to pic of buddy jamming cell phone in the ball washer.

Same beer company:
Girl gets flowers from guy, says to friend: "Wow, what a class thing to do, I didn't expect him to send flowers after I dumped him. Especially after I criticized his technique. And his endowment." Friend looks dubiously at flowers & says: "That's poison oak...."

The idea behind them being dark beer for people with dark humor, I guess.

[Cornbread]

His son drives a car with magnetized question marks all over it. Hell, I guess if your dad buys you a car, the least you can do is advertise for his company, right?

I can't believe nobody has *****ed about local car commercials. Scott Donahoo? Antwerpen? Bob Bell? I can't think of one local car dealership whose ads are even mediocre. They're all horrendous.

Oh, almost forgot - those Comcast ads where the chubby Italian-looking guy is clearly reading off a teleprompter to the side of the camera and smiles like a douche after every shot. I wish I could remember more about it, but I just gave myself a lobotomy to make the scary fat man stop swimming around my brain.

I get a kick out of the Comcast Ads..I think they're for Sportsdesk. I have Extra Innings, so I only get it for O's games and nothing else. The Ad with the guy, I forget his name, but he wears a purple shirt, a black leather hat, and chomps on a big cigar at his desk as he waxes on about his life covering sports in a voiceover.

[rolliefingers]

I get a kick out of the Comcast Ads..I think they're for Sportsdesk. I have Extra Innings, so I only get it for O's games and nothing else. The Ad with the guy, I forget his name, but he wears a purple shirt, a black leather hat, and chomps on a big cigar at his desk as he waxes on about his life covering sports in a voiceover.

I think we're talking about two different ads. The one I referenced was some low-rent ad for Comcast advertising, and this chunky dude was talking about how his business advertised with Comcast, and how happy he is with their performance, etc. He just looks like such an idiot, I cringe every time it comes on.

[BustaJ2632]

Just thought of another one. How about the Matthew Lesko guy who sells the book on GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS? You can get $10000 for STARTING A BUSINESS!!! Or $5000 for WORKING AT HOME!!!

I see him around a lot - never without the question mark car and suit...including once sitting down at dinner in D.C. Matthew Lesko rocks.

[Mashed Potatoes]

I can't believe nobody has *****ed about local car commercials. Scott Donahoo? Antwerpen? Bob Bell? I can't think of one local car dealership whose ads are even mediocre. They're all horrendous.

Scott Donahoo was my little league coach! He was willing to work with all the kids after games, and even had me over his house. I always knew he was intense and strange, but I was still shocked when he got into used cars and put out crazy commercials. Due to my past relationship they don't annoy me, I just kind of smile and nod my head like what the **** happened?!

[rolliefingers]

I see him around a lot - never without the question mark car and suit...including once sitting down at dinner in D.C. Matthew Lesko rocks.

His son went to UMCP.

[ChrisAF79]

I get a kick out of the Comcast Ads..I think they're for Sportsdesk. I have Extra Innings, so I only get it for O's games and nothing else. The Ad with the guy, I forget his name, but he wears a purple shirt, a black leather hat, and chomps on a big cigar at his desk as he waxes on about his life covering sports in a voiceover.

HA! Yeah, that's Chick Hernandez. He looks so silly and stupid in that commercial. When I first saw it, I thought to myself "is he serious?".

[ChrisAF79]

You all haven't seen bad TV commercials until you spend some time out in Alaska.

There are a couple of commercials out here that put some of the more irritating nation-wide ones (the Coors Light "coldest tasting" beer, the Red Roof Inn one, the Dr. Z commercials, and ANY AFLAC commercial) to shame.

To give you an idea, there's a store called "Mattress Ranch," and the guy that does the commercial is about 60, a little tubby... wears a Spongebob Squarepants tie, something that resembles an engineer's hat, and suspenders... all of which make him look like the most frightening pedofile in history.

It's not ridiculous enough that he's ON my television, however. Oh no, someone thought that it might be a good idea to get this human being to SING AND DANCE. *shudder* Add onto it that the jingle is one of the more annoying ones that I've ever heard. It may actually be the most painful 30 seconds of television ever recorded. Oh, and for some reason he thought it would be a good idea to make BOBBLEHEADS of himself. At least they're not Brian Roberts Blue.

You know what? As cruely sterotypical as those commercials were, I actually miss the VW "Unpimp Your Auto" ads. VW doesn't do a half-bad job all the way around, actually.

Dude, how can you not like the Mattress Ranch guy? I just checked out a couple commercials on YouTube, and it's pure comedy GOLD! Granted, I don't have to see them on a regular basis, but cheesey commercials like this are hilarious to me.