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Christmas time car commercials where the husband or wife will buy the other a new car. If that was me I'd be fucking pissed, because that's a lot of money to be spending without talking about it first.
 
genjiZERO said:
Christmas time car commercials where the husband or wife will buy the other a new car. If that was me I'd be fucking pissed, because that's a lot of money to be spending without talking about it first.
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The way I figure it is this: The average length of ownership is around 5 years. So 1/5 of car owners are buying a new car each year. Divide that by 12, and that means that 1 out of 60 people are buying a new car each month. Exactly how much varies over the course of the year, but still a large number of people are buying a new car in December. I suppose, might as well make it a gift.

Whether or not this makes any sense depends on the people involved. My mom doesn't really know much about cars, nor does she really care. So, my dad handles all of the car purchasing. As far as I know, my mom usually isn't even there when my dad buys the car. He just buys it, and it's understood that it's her car.
 
The stupid Doritos Taco Bell commercials. "Jimmy drove 900 miles to the closest Taco Bell serving the Doritos taco!" Then they show the idiot running out of the place with the bag of tacos while his friends cheer like he just won the fucking lottery. And the stupid twitter comments about it. "I cried tears of joy!" "It tastes like a unicorn took a dump in my brain!"

Fucking stupid.
 
ascii42 said:
The way I figure it is this: The average length of ownership is around 5 years. So 1/5 of car owners are buying a new car each year. Divide that by 12, and that means that 1 out of 60 people are buying a new car each month. Exactly how much varies over the course of the year, but still a large number of people are buying a new car in December. I suppose, might as well make it a gift.

Whether or not this makes any sense depends on the people involved. My mom doesn't really know much about cars, nor does she really care. So, my dad handles all of the car purchasing. As far as I know, my mom usually isn't even there when my dad buys the car. He just buys it, and it's understood that it's her car.
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Yeah, but wouldn't you dad talk to her about it before hand so it wouldn't be a surprise...
 
Using words that makes their claim seem stronger than it is. "Fights" bad breath, "virtually" spotless, tastes "just like" regular, etc.
 
"You could save up to 50%!"

So you are giving me a cast iron guarantee that I'll save anywhere from 0-50%. Wow, that's, um, tempting.




"Now 85% fat free!"

So, 15% fat then. That's actually pretty poor.




Basically, any time they use really vague, misleading words to try and fool you. It's insulting.
 
The 'good' guy in every commercial is much better looking than than the 'other' guy.
Doesn't matter what it is about. Even if the other guy is good looking he has to be slightly balding or overweight.
 
Using cheesy words to make effeminate products sound masculine. I'm sure there is a L'oreal man cream called something like, "super dynamic, hydro-energetic turbo booster". Like, really guys?
 
For me it's the dvd ad for This Means War with Reese Witherspoon,Tom Hardy, and Chris Pine. This girl is a bitch for letting these two friends fight over this woman. I already can't stand this movie just for that fact alone. And probably by the end of it, she doesn't choose either of them! Makes me wanna rage and pimp slap her across the screen.
 
LakeEarth said:
Using words that makes their claim seem stronger than it is. "Fights" bad breath, "virtually" spotless, tastes "just like" regular, etc.
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-NinjaBoiX- said:
"You could save up to 50%!"

So you are giving me a cast iron guarantee that I'll save anywhere from 0-50%. Wow, that's, um, tempting.




"Now 85% fat free!"

So, 15% fat then. That's actually pretty poor.




Basically, any time they use really vague, misleading words to try and fool you. It's insulting.
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I actually never thought about this. Makes me wonder now.
 
KarmaCow said:
Creams and Shampoo: 'It has <some plant> extract to <change something on the molecular level> *CG bullshit*.'

There was some cream that said it had shiitake mushroom extract and it did something. Does someone knowing that it uses shiitake extract really mean something to anyone?
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What really gets me is that when you actually look at the ingredients, the special gold dust and unicorn farts extract (to smooth and repair the hair shaft!) is dead last on the list. This really shouldn't surprise anyone, but it never fails to make me smh.
 
Az said:
The 'good' guy in every commercial is much better looking than than the 'other' guy.
Doesn't matter what it is about. Even if the other guy is good looking he has to be slightly balding or overweight.
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Yeah this is pretty horrible. I never noticed it until a couple of years ago, but now I see it everywhere.
 
BankaiZaraki said:
I actually never thought about this. Makes me wonder now.
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That's what they're counting on. A good rule of thumb, flip their claims on their head, and see if it still sounds like a good deal.

Pro tip: up to 99% of the time, it won't.

Edit: that wasn't meant to come off as condescending to you by the the way! Just spitting vitriol.
 
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One of the things I hate most about commercials is when they try to be "real." Take, for example, the Colonial Penn (a life insurance company for the elderly) commercials. It almost always involves two or more people meeting up after the untimely demise of a loved one, and they proceed to go on about how Colonial Penn is making everything better. The tone these commercials produce is incredibly off-putting, to say the least.

And I totally agree with the children ruining things and the dumb woman/man act.
 
-NinjaBoiX- said:
Using cheesy words to make effeminate products sound masculine. I'm sure there is a L'oreal man cream called something like, "super dynamic, hydro-energetic turbo booster". Like, really guys?
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Other man creams are available.
 
LakeEarth said:
Using words that makes their claim seem stronger than it is. "Fights" bad breath, "virtually" spotless, tastes "just like" regular, etc.
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"Virtually" is an advertising weasel-word -- it means "almost, but not quite". So if new Fizz gets your dishes virtually spotless, it means that they'll be almost, but not quite, spotless.
 
When they claim most people preferred something, and back it up with some small print like "63% of 187 people asked...". It just smacks of doctored stats. Why such specific numbers?
 
-NinjaBoiX- said:
When they claim most people preferred something, and back it up with some small print like "63% of 187 people asked...". It just smacks of doctored stats. Why such specific numbers?
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On the contrary, I think that's part of the recent movement to provide citations and disclaimers for everything. It's only started being like that in the past couple of years.
 
sexiest commercials

some products I feel like I shouldn't use them because they weren't meant for men...like flavored water shots.

axe commercials, spray this, get laid! haven't meet anyone girl who liked the smell
 
Any commercial for a cleaning product where the males are made out to be complete fucking morons. Real talk, as a guy, any product that makes my gender look stupid does not come into my house. It is just so insulting I mean if the gender's were reversed, that shit would be off the air so fast it would make your head spin
 
Jingles. Fuck jingles to hell.
Also, if the commercial is noticeably louder than the main program. Fuck you, I'm never buying your product.
 
racial stereotypes. Bugs me so fucking much. There's a commercial that I know plays in Houston (not sure where else it is). But it's for Safe Auto insurance. It has a fat black lady whose whole point in the commercial is to be loud. They don't even try to hide it. They pause everything else and up the volume and her talking making everyone else be quiet "Just pick up the phone" and then some fat nerd that pisses me off says "Gracie has a way with words"

I hate it so much. I want to rage when I see it.
 
Zoe said:
On the contrary, I think that's part of the recent movement to provide citations and disclaimers for everything. It's only started being like that in the past couple of years.
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Yeah, I know it's required now, but the stats always seem curiously specific. I mean, the % will usually be specific anyway, but why is the field always so specific and minimal? It's usually a hundred and odd, but nearly always a very specific number like 157 or whatever. Why not just ask 500? Or even 200? It's the fact that it's never a round number that raises suspicions for me, more like they are bending the rules that flat out breaking them.
 
I have noticed in Commercials for kid stuff like beyblade or Nerf guns that they use guys who are in their late teens when the target audience has to be no older than 12. I guess its to trick kids to thinking its cooler or something.

I HATE Pepsi commercials that are centered around bashing Coke. It seems really petty.
 
GekigangerV said:
I have noticed in Commercials for kid stuff like beyblade or Nerf guns that they use guys who are in their late teens when the target audience has to be no older than 12. I guess its to trick kids to thinking its cooler or something.
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Yeah I think it comes down to the same reasoning why mid 20's stars usually play teenagers in shows/movies. Except in that case it works from both ends. The adults watching the show can relate because they look more like them and so it's easier to get into it. Younger generations watch and think that's how they'll be when they're in high school. And high schoolers affirm the assumption in their head that they are in fact adults.
 
Speaking of ___-free

Apparently the marketing trick is...

Sugar-free implies that the food is still full of fat, and fat-free implies that the food is still full of sugar
 
According to commercials, every fucking medical product ever is "recommended by health experts/professionals/doctors/dentists/etc".
 
Over-sentimentalized commercials. The insurance company does not love me and want me to be happy. Stop it.

Local news ads. We've already heard about it before 11, thanks.

Also hate the side-effect lists spoken while people wistfully play sports outside together at the park, or go canoeing, or any number of other smiling happy things on prescription drug ads.
 
has anyone noticed how ugly kids are in commercials? like they can't find better looking kid actors? lol


also, this commercial makes me rage harder than anything. i have suddenlink and the service is garbage so it makes it even worse.
 
Commercials that use alarm clock sounds as a trick to startle you and grab your attention. I will never buy any product that is advertised this way.
 
Urgh, the person they're using to pitch 'Maxwell House' coffee in the commercials...

Thank you for being a 'coffee elitist' in a restaurant where they're using a French Press instead of 'letting gravity do all the work'. I may not be a true coffee connoisseur but I'll be dammed if someone was pitching freeze-dried coffee over something freshly ground and brewed for me.
 
Black people singing
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or dancing
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about Chicken

Black people or latino people with accents in those payday loan commercials

Black people with heavy southern accents talking sounding like slaves, talking about (Maid Slave stuff including) cleaning, cooking, gardening, etc
 
I pretty much can't stand credit card commercials. In most commercials the person slides his/her card the wrong way. I know that the company is trying to show the logo on the card, but the barcode on credit cards isn't on the bottom of the card! where the numbers are!!

commercial: "you will save money every time you swipe your card"

me: no shit, because you won't be spending any money!!
 
Khold said:
I used to cliff jump and take a lot of risks...But I don't take risks when it come to [something completely different solved by product X)

You know how winning a relay requires a team effort?...so that's why I trust my [some issue] with the hard working team of [business or firm Y]

...sigh...
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Listening to baseball on the radio is nearly unbearable because of this.

Buy from our HOME TEAM with our ALL STAR selection of products and hit a HOME RUN with savings! ITS OUTTA HERE!

It's nearly every commercial, too. About 80% of them.
 
I hate those damn McDonalds commercials that are more 'urban'. Never hated a commercial before they made that commercial about their smoothie, with a black dude saying "when I say mango, you say banana" or some bullshit like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEIhYQsxmKc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

That, and the New Geico commercial where people are trying out some random juice samples, and the competition's juice is nasty. Can someone PLEASE explain what the fuck JUICE has to do with how good insurance companies are?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2gu4wUpqYg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
Kreios said:
How about car commercials? I never understood those. Like I go out every day and buy a $20,000 car with a payment plan, simply because they parade something shiny in front of my face. There's no way to put a "buy now" sign on $20,000.
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While true that a car is a major financial investment, we have over 300 million people and we don't all need a car at the same time. For someone whose car has broken down or someone who would like a new car, an ad could be the thing that pushes them in that maker's direction.
 
Keavy_Rain said:
While true that a car is a major financial investment, we have over 300 million people and we don't all need a car at the same time. For someone whose car has broken down or someone who would like a new car, an ad could be the thing that pushes them in that maker's direction.
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Plus they want to keep the brand in people's minds.
 
Anything with golf where the actor clearly is not a golfer and/or the producers have no idea how golf is played. Two things I always see:

1) Horrible swing mechanics
2) Teeing the ball up in long grass - this would never happen

It irritates the shit out of my wife when I point this out.
 
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