What commercials send you running for the mute button?

[lovegrumpy]

I dvr everything so I skipped most of them.

 

[PollyannaMom]

OK, I know the "Jake from State Farm" commercial has been mentioned here, and I agree - but I just saw the ConeHead version. Spoofing you own commercial is just too funny! I like it now.

 

[bcla]

Watching the NBA Playoffs on TNT and ESPN, there have been the rural dating site I mentioned, but also stuff like one for a bovine deworming medication. Something called "Long Range".

 

[aprilgail]

The one at the top of my list right now is for Applegate Farms (which I have no clue what it is for anyway!)- its a guy dressed like a cow with a syringe sticking out of his arm- it is just way over the weirdness line for me.
I hate the anti smoking commercials and also any one for Trojan, KY or Viagra! I recall when my daughter was 4 or 5 her asking me "mommy why do you have to go to the hospital if you have an erection for 4 hours and what is an erection"- yup, I really wanted to have to explain that one!!

 

[NFLDERS]

OMG! I posted earlier about Trivago Guy; now the new commercial has him referring to "Getting Lucky".

Creepy!!

 

[SEA333]

Currently on in the Chicago market: the Cottonelle commercial that says you can now go commando, and the one with the old lady saying "Nobody like Splatter" and goes on to sell you on a specific brand of toilet.

Both of these....seriously??!! Gross.

Other commercial "hates":

1. Any commercial where a human voice is used as a animals voice (like the Bush Baked Beans commercials), or where an adult voice is used for a baby talking (like the "Does anyone think it's strange that a MIME is talking??!!" or the e-trade commercials with the baby in the crib).
2. That creepy Burger King guy with the plastic face. Just....no. Gross.
3. News commercials that come on at 9:18pm saying crazy things like: "Breaking News: Something you have in your house right will kill you before the day is over - stay tuned at 11". REALLY??!! (and then it's the closing story at 11:29pm...thanks jerks, for only giving me 31 minutes to do something about it LOL)
4. Drug commercials where the side effects clearly outweigh any benefit to the original problem. (No, thank you....on second thought, I will deal with my plaque psoriasis if taking the medicine for it will cause me to hemorrhage from my brain!)

I love the "well, did YOU know..." Geico commercials. Especially the "Looketh over there" oldest trick in the book one....cracks my whole family up.

My and DH's current fave is the travel company one (can't remember which one) with the family looking totally worn down as they walk down the hallway of the hotel and the voiceover is talking "...and this one left his shoes on the plane. His Shoes. On The Plane."

LOL This is totally our family. My youngest seriously got into the car once when were taking a 5-hour car trip with no shoes. He never said a word until we stopped for gas halfway there. We had to stop at Target to get him a new pair of shoes. He was about 6-7 at the time.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

commercials? havn't seen many in years. we DVR all the shows we watch and skip through them.

 

[Thumper1066]

ASPCA!!!!!! I.just.can't.

Those first three notes of Sara's song make me turn the channel. I can't either. Every time I hear them the local no kill shelter gets a donation.

 

[mousehockey37]

It's not commercials but any NBC NHL Broadcast that involves Pierre McGuire and then Mike Milbury during the intermission report.

 

[mousehockey37]

A commercial however would be the Wells Fargo commercials... Last year it was the girl getting her first paycheck. This year it's the "what is love" commercial with the guy going to the interview and he'll "send you the money"... "Done."

 

[7165red]

Progressive Insurance " Flo " any of the commercials I can't stand her

I can't stand her and she is always on.

 

[jrmasm]

Subway guacamole. I want to punch the people in the commercial.

 

[BrianL]

Specifically for the audio portion ("running for the mute button") the Wayfair commercials and their stupid songs.

Just a freaky annoying commercial overall, the ones where the dogs have human teeth. Uhh, weird!

 

[7165red]

I'm sure other Upstate NYers can understand this:
ANYTHING Fucillo...

Oh, I do I can't change the channel quick enough. I was in CA and he came on and I couldn't believe it, he's everywhere.

 

[7165red]

I watch most tv via DVR, I seldom see any commercials.

Thank God for DVR and Netflex but every once in a while I may be watching something I didn't record and these commercials come on.

 

[Kitty 34]

Almost all of them but then I use my DVR so as soon as any commercial comes on I fast forward!

 

[gemini2727]

Any commercial that condescends to older people, I hate that, and there are a lot of them. "I'm only in my sixties, I've got big plans!"
Or the one for the hearing aid. "Guess who can't hear at this table - it's not me!" The actor is so smarmy and oh-so good looking, makes being old almost cool, I guess.

I also hate any pharmaceutical commercials. As an admitted hypochondriac who is trying to overcome her worries, they give me needless anxiety! "Do you have a pelvic mesh/sling with erosion into the bladder??" Ugh, I cringe when I hear that one.

And one more...I appreciate the message behind the no-smoking ads, but hearing the poor lung cancer victims struggling for breath is too much, IMO.

 

[SoccerDogWithEars]

Any Sonic commercial. I DESPISE the two guys, because they weren't good to begin with, and now they're just idiotic.

 

[kaytieeldr]

OMG! I posted earlier about Trivago Guy; now the new commercial has him referring to "Getting Lucky".

Creepy!!

Not creepy, amusing. Try watching the whole commercial, just once.

3. News commercials that come on at 9:18pm saying crazy things like: "Breaking News: Something you have in your house right will kill you before the day is over - stay tuned at 11". REALLY??!! (and then it's the closing story at 11:29pm...thanks jerks, for only giving me 31 minutes to do something about it LOL)

yet you survive another day..

 

[leebee]

The fake plastic Burger King king is creepy!
EHarmony.com... can't STAND the little girl who plays the granddaughter
Any of the Liberty Mutual commercials- so self-righteous and self-absorbed...
Period pads for pee pads???
Call the law offices of Joe Bornstein