Pepto Bismol has this market cornered:

 

 

 

 

Thinking of commercials I hate is easy, I'm struggling to think of one I like. I watch as little commercial tv as possible and when I do I always change the channel or do something else during the commercials.

Avoiding commercials is one of the two main reasons I almost never watch live TV. I cannot stand the constant breaks. I make sure to catch up online (where I GLADLY pay extra not to have ads) or I DVR and naturally fast-forward through ads.

 

They stopped showing this one, but it's forever etched into my brain.

 

 

Oh and this.

 

 

Edited December 13, 20177 yr by Faulkner

10 hours ago, YRBB said:

Avoiding commercials is one of the two main reasons I almost never watch live TV. I cannot stand the constant breaks. I make sure to catch up online (where I GLADLY pay extra not to have ads) or I DVR and naturally fast-forward through ads.

 

You and me both!! As a caregiver, I am in places with live TV so I do have to catch the commercials while on the clock, as it were.

Celebrity perfume commercials are always goofy, but for some reason they seem more embarrassing than usual. Keira Knightley's the only one that doesn't make me cringe, but Natalie Portman's ("I LOVE YOU/PROVE IT!!") and Julia Roberts's (with that big horse-teeth smile at the end) are bloody awful. The Charlize one is just silly.

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking of perfume ads, am I the only one who feels funny seeing Liz Taylor's White Diamonds commercials every Christmas season? She's been gone for several years now, but the commercials still air every holiday season.

Anything with Flo. She irks the bleep out of me.

 

I too love my DVR for just this reason.

Flo wore out her welcome a loooooong time ago. It's worse in Cleveland because they renamed the ballpark where the Indians play after Progressive, so if you go to a Tribe game you are also "treated" to more of her on the Jumbotron!!! 😨😠

I take it that you won't be rushing to Cleveland to take in an Indians game once baseball season starts. 😂😂😂😂😂

The V.I.Poo commercials are disgusting, too. ICK.

The current KFC commercial with Reba McEntire dressed as Colonel Sanders is just creepy. 😨😨😨😨😨

It seems like in my area all I see is CAR INSURANCE, web sites, prescription drugs and cell phone service. I rarely see anything else advertised. It's those 4 things the vast majority of the time. 

 

Geico is the biggest offender to me. They are constantly cranking out new ads and they show them at least 8-10 times in an hour, sometimes 2 per break. They are also on radio, in magazines, billboards, internet, sports events etc.... and they have begun sticking ads in my mail. I have a feeling a big scandal will come out about them soon. If they are advertising that hard, they have to be ripping off their customers and padding their executives pockets. 

Geico and Progressive. And to a lesser extent, Allstate. I don’t remember insurance companies being this aggressive years ago.

 

Just be glad Liberty Mutual has seemingly dialed back its campaigns.

2 hours ago, Faulkner said:

Geico and Progressive. And to a lesser extent, Allstate. I don’t remember insurance companies being this aggressive years ago.

 

Just be glad Liberty Mutual has seemingly dialed back its campaigns.

Me either. When I was growing it up it was mostly grocery items like food, gum, soda, dish detergent, laundry soap, furniture polish etc...now it's mostly car insurance 24/7. I read that after it was mandated that every driver by law had to have insurance, Geico amped it up doing their stupid little comedy ads and all other insurance agencies jumped on the bandwagon to compete with them. I hate how Geico claims they will save people 15% or more on their insurance. All insurance companies follow a set rate and they will not cut their own throat just to get you as a customer. I still say Geico will have a scandal at some point. 

 

I also hate now in every commercial they have some dork looking at and swiping their phone showing a downloadable app or saying hashtag this and hashtag that. Most of the time spokes person doesn't even look up. It's just a camera pointed at them looking down at their phone.  People are too connected to that thing. No wonder there are so many car accidents. I have almost been killed several times because people are playing with their phone while driving.