Has a commercial ever backfired and made you NOT want to buy a product??

Ok...ahs anyone seen the new Burger King commercial for the Angus Burger Diet? They actually have to put a disclaimer on the bottom of the screen stating it is not a real diet...

Give me a break people...
 
Seems like you guys have hit on several I don't care for, especially the Sonic guys. I love Sonic, but change channel everytime those guys come on. They are so obnoxious.

I really dislike those Orbit gum ones too.

I do buy a lot of the products regardless of ads, except for one. I will not buy Energizer batteries. That danged rabbit used to be everywhere and it got me in the habit of buying Duracell. Now just pick those up out of habit.
 
i hate hardees restraunt comm it have a guy looking for bread in agrocry store like they are confused. and a guy eating a agnus beef when it comes on i put it on mute
 
Originally posted by MosMom
Pepto Bismol airhead

Don't you love that you can call someone an airhead and it's NOT an insult?? :smooth:
 

I thought of one I can't stand - the one for Prilosec OTC with Mr and Mrs Ditzy traveling around in a Prilosec bus handing out the medicine to people with heartburn. They are so annoying.

Why is it in a lot of these commercials for medicine the people that receive the medicine yell the name out at the end? It happens in commercials for more than one brand and it isn't driving the name home for me.. it's STUPID!

Another thing that gets on my nerves are the ads for the prescription meds and they don't tell you what it's for. They just say "ask your doctor if it's right for you" I know they do that so they don't have to list the side effects but geesh - I wonder how many men have gone to the doctor asking if a certain medicine was right for them only to find out it's for yeast infections or something..lol
 
i am cracking up.... agreeing to a lot of these...
 
The only one I can think of right now actually turned my mom off a product. They had this Checkers commercial here a while ago... I don't think it was on long. Anyways, it was a cartoon of some guys drag racing (or something along those lines). One of the cars crash and an arm holding a burger "falls" out of the car (still attached and all). Then another guy comes over, picks up the burger, and eats it. Personally I thought it was hilarious (I have a weird sense of humor), but my mom was totally grossed out by it and will NOT eat there. More for me.
 
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the new jcpennys comercial wher the kids dancing in school a cartoon guy doing the music.

a boy bleams the dog eating all the cookie

i think those two are funny
 
I saw a new one this afternoon that immediately made me think of this thread. It's for a new Airwick air freshener. I can't remember what was new and different about the product but the idea was that the woman in the commercial was so in love with the smell of one of those plug in air fresheners that she couldn't get enough of it. So she rips the entire electrical outlet out of the wall and all the internal wiring comes out with it in kind of a zigzag pattern all the way up the wall, ripping out various fixtures along the way. At the end of the ad, her husband is shown fixing all the ridiculous damage she's caused.

This commercial definitely gets my vote for dumbest new commercial of the day.
 
I can't stand the "Dirt Cheap" beer commercials. I HATE that big yellow bird that keeps chanting "CHEAP! CHEAP!" I can't help but wish that bird would end up on menu at KFC.
 
I HATE the Charmin commercials that show the bears taking a dump behind a tree!!
 
I'm annoyed by the Orbitz gum commercials too (dirty mouth, clean it up...bleh!)

And I'm even more annoyed by the Extra gum commercials with that dumb talking stick of gum. I've seen two...one where it jumps out of an airplane and one where it is on a golf course. Oh, that talking piece of gum irritates me!!!!
 
The American Dairy Assoc. milk moustache campaign. Makes me gag every time I see one of those pictures.
 
The Dairy Queen commercial where the guy gets the blender stuck in his mouth. I hate that! I have to flip the channel.

It's for the brownie blizzard, or whatever it's called.:confused:
 
Does anyone else think that the police officers in the On Star Commercials sound annoyed? You get the On Star person talking to the person in the car. Then you get the On Star person calling the cops. Then you get the "Ma'am/Sir, I have the police on the line." and the person in the car talks to the cops and explains what happened. The cops always sound put out and irritated that they have to send someone out.

I used to love Quizno's subs, but haven't eaten there since the little rat things.

I hate that V05, ba boom boom lady.

I hate the commercials for medications. Half the time, you don't even know what they do. I remember those commercials for Crestor. I actually went to the website to see what it did!

But, my favorites, and I have seen them for a while, were the drugs for some irectile dysfuction drug. There was the one with the guy on the golf course that talked about how he discovered the importance of "wood" and that he had a happy partner back at the clubhouse. He had this lame smile on his face and so did his wife. Then there was the one where he was meeting with some Japanese businessmen and, in subtitles at the bottom, they were making dual innudeno comments about his negotiated style...he is "remaining firm" among others. Then the little Japanese lady peeked in at them and got this weird smile on her face. They just give me the creeps.
 
The birth control patch ad where the woman says "it was hard to remember to take the Pill every day." Its makes women look like idiots!
 
Remember the Rally's Hamburger ads where the guy bit into the hamburger, and ketchup squirted out? One version had two construction workers sitting on girders, and the ketchup fell on pedestrians below! Ugh! I'll never eat a Rallys/Checkers hamburger again!!

We have a local eye doctor here in Indy... it's a bunch of "cheerleaders" (they look about 40) chanting:
"Get your eyes checked... get, get your eyes checked"

DH can't grab the mute button fast enough! It's 6am for heaven's sake!
 
Domino's ad for Buffalo Wings with a large snorting Buffalo with tiny little
wings. I don't like big smelly animals associated with something that I eat.
The most recent ad / selling campaign that turns me off, is Burger
Kings Angus Burger. I don't want to think of a cow while I'm eating a burger (maybe I'm weird, but). To make matters worse,
the BK near my work has a guy taking orders with a speech impediment and when he asks if I want to try an Angus Burger,
the "G" gets dropped. Try to strike that image from the brain.
I don't think hot dog manufacturers would call their product "The Vietnamese Potbelly"pirate:
 

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