We have many businesses with many forms of ads that are either in print, on TV, the radio, or even internet. Most are popular with fans, but some are so popular you began to hate them and turn the old dial or flick on something else.
What commercials that are so popular that become annoying to you personally that you cannot watch or even listen to that you simply change the channel or turn the on/ off switch to the off position? For me I have to say certain law ads, especially John Morgan here in Orlando who I think is a man who wants to run for political office in some capacity, but instead uses his annoying commercials to get his ideals heard. Of course, the Bar Associations no more disbar lawyers anymore for advertising as just thirty years ago no lawyer would have a license if he even did what they do now, but because of change in morals we have them now abundantly.
Morgan & Morgan, a typical lawyer in Florida and Georgia, who has commercials that are heard almost everyplace in many Florida cities on every radio station (except Z88 in Orlando only because they are listener supported), TV stations, and even highway billboards with his radio ads directed at his personal feelings against local politicians or lawmakers which makes me conclude he is a flunky politician. However, once in a while his ads can be quite annoying and you can easily turn them off out of weariness especially if you are in bad mood at the time being he has a deep mono tone voice that hits the spot on occasions. Yes, John Morgan himself is the spokesperson for his firm occasionally done by his wife, sons, and even ex Florida governor Charlie Crist a few times, but mostly by Morgan himself.
That is one of mine, but this thread is to any type of business as there are many that we feel are annoying and "played out" or even old before they're a week old. It does not have to be one your turn off either, it could be one that is too played that you gossip about later on to others and bug your friends with you bringing up the contents of the ad to them.
I ignore Xfinity / Verizon / DirecTV / Comcast / FiOS.
Also, whenever I hear a Mucinex commercial, I say this along with it (but I reverse what the commercial says):
"Mucus in. Mucinex out."
every last one of them.
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They make no effort to be creative. Why do we have to wait for the super bowl? Use comedy or something interesting. I hate flo and that gecko but at least they tried something that worked for them. I hate boring commercials so much!!!
I pretty much record everything and FF through commercials. If I have to watch stuff live, the ones that irritate me are the trial lawyers, who are all slime; democrat politicians, who, at least in WV and KY seem to disagree with everything their party believes :-/ ,and cable companies (suddenlink and comcast around here) who have nothing to say but "dishes are bad" without saying why (I guess "more channels, perfect picture, perfect sound, no service calls ever needed" is somehow "bad").
Any TV advertisement promoting a trial lawyer. They must be the last repository of the commercial jingle on television. Unfortunately the BR media market is saturated with them.
We get quite a few medical center, hospital, and health care ads. Seems like most hospital admissions are whichever is closest for the ambulance, or a referral from your physician. So what's the point in spending boocoo bucks on commercials ?
We are also, unfortunately, getting a build up of political ads for the primary. One in particular is especially galling, 49 out of 50 State Attorneys General (I think the 50th was dealing with being indicted for malfeasance) thought one of this bozos legislative proposals was particularly stooopid. (allowing spam calls on cell phones!, and he is still put out his plan was shot down in flames) And this idjit is deemed a viable candidate. And he probably is.
Grrrr.
It's not necessarily popular, but The Weather Channel did a spoof of the DirectTv commercials to try to get DTV subscribers to switch to Dish or a similar satellite tv provider, because DTV cancelled TWC's broadcasting for DTV subscribers.
I don't really have any sense for what commercials are popular or unpopular.
I know I pretty much hate all GEICO and Progressive ads, especially that stupid GEICO pig. I used to hate Luna's annoying jingle, but by now I've heard it so many times I'm kind of immune to it (it's a sad commentary on modern America that I do not know what my wife's work phone number is unless I look it up, but I could tell you Luna's phone number off the top of my head without even thinking about it).
The commercial I like right now (for some inexplicable reason) is the one with the people around the world riding in cars singing along with the radio and someone else in the car changes the channel to stop the singing. For some reason the way the black guy at the end changes it back and starts singing along again always makes us laugh.
^^ So, does Luna have you dialing the 773 area code (Chicago - non-Loop) in the DC area? Interestingly enough, they are owned by Empire of 588-2300 fame.
Quote from: Brandon on February 13, 2014, 02:40:06 PM
^^ So, does Luna have you dialing the 773 area code (Chicago - non-Loop) in the DC area? Interestingly enough, they are owned by Empire of 588-2300 fame.
At least out here in the DC area, the Luna number (burned into my brain, too) is 877-241-LUNA. Not sure where 773 comes in.
I like some of the Geico commercials, at least if they're without the Geico gecko or worse still Maxwell the pig. But I can't stand Flo in the Progressive commercials. And Aaron Rodgers in the "discount daaable-check" State Farm ads has passed his sell-by date (I say that as both a Packers fan and State Farm policyholder).
I don't know what Luna is. google was not helpful.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 13, 2014, 03:34:29 PM
I don't know what Luna is. google was not helpful.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=877+241+luna
huh. never heard of 'em.
then again I haven't watched a TV commercial in years.
I think a thread on "commercials you actually don't ignore" would be more fruitful.
Quote from: oscar on February 13, 2014, 02:55:44 PM
Quote from: Brandon on February 13, 2014, 02:40:06 PM
^^ So, does Luna have you dialing the 773 area code (Chicago - non-Loop) in the DC area? Interestingly enough, they are owned by Empire of 588-2300 fame.
At least out here in the DC area, the Luna number (burned into my brain, too) is 877-241-LUNA. Not sure where 773 comes in.
Here, Luna is 773-202-LUNA with a jingle to boot.
The Chicagoland commercial (with jingle at end):
Never heard of the 877 number for them. Must be their national number.
I pay for cable, but I don't watch cable TV.
I like the one with the kid who gets his team together with the kid wrestling the bear and the kids weightlifting. The State Farm commercials with the new boyfriend and girlfriend were pretty good too.
The ones in the phone book with the line drawing of your grandmother that read, "Show them you care -- visit them by telephone."
On the radio there was Heritage for the Blind, which wanted you to donate your car via the number/jingle "1-800-DONATECARS". In fact, I heard it so often I have the entire jingle memorized.
Some of these don't exist anymore.
Internet:
"Learn how to have your language professor hate you in 10 days!"
"1 weird tip to cut down on belly fat [picture of banana]"
"Congratulations, you are the 8675309th visitor! Click here for a FREE* iPad!"
"Your flash player is not working" (that one is a virus)
"Are you getting SCROOGLED?"
DO NOT click the fake flash player ads. They are viruses.
TV:
Only $20 for a huge gold Buffalo nickel. (Real ones exist and are worth around $1337. This one is fake and only has 13 milligrams of gold.)
Radio:
How many of you hate this one:
1-877-KARS-4-KIDS
*if you pay $10000
1-877-Kars-4-Kids.
I must change the radio channel whenever I hear the jingle intro, prior to the actual singing.
Maybe I'm living in the apocryphal Pauline Kael quote ("I don't know how Nixon won..." ), but how many people are still watching TV? Personally, I haven't had TV service in a decade. And the only people I know who do watch regular, scheduled broadcast or cable TV are in or approaching the Medicare age bracket–and usually Pat Sajak or Alex Trebek is involved.
Quote from: andrewkbrown on February 13, 2014, 07:48:51 PM
1-877-Kars-4-Kids.
Now I won't be able to get that jingle out of my head! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
The geico ones with the annoying camel.
Quote from: Brandon on February 13, 2014, 04:21:11 PM
Quote from: oscar on February 13, 2014, 02:55:44 PM
Quote from: Brandon on February 13, 2014, 02:40:06 PM
^^ So, does Luna have you dialing the 773 area code (Chicago - non-Loop) in the DC area? Interestingly enough, they are owned by Empire of 588-2300 fame.
At least out here in the DC area, the Luna number (burned into my brain, too) is 877-241-LUNA. Not sure where 773 comes in.
Here, Luna is 773-202-LUNA with a jingle to boot.
The Chicagoland commercial (with jingle at end):
Never heard of the 877 number for them. Must be their national number.
That one is by far the worst, though here it airs with the 877-241-LUNA number. I'd comment on that particular ad except I'm not sure how the moderators would react to what I'd call the "husband" (another term for a bundle of sticks).
The 877- jingle is exactly the same as the 773- one.
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 13, 2014, 09:08:20 PM
That one is by far the worst, though here it airs with the 877-241-LUNA number. I'd comment on that particular ad except I'm not sure how the moderators would react to what I'd call the "husband" (another term for a bundle of sticks).
A lot of local ads are not good. Ever see Eagleman?
Can't say as I have. When I said "the worst," I meant "the worst of the Luna ads." The worst ads I ever saw were the Joe Jacoby ads for Theatervision (cpzilliacus likely recalls those). Unfortunately, nobody I know can find any of them anywhere online. Hard to believe how bad they were!
BTW....the following ad is totally fake, but totally best ever. It fits Maryland perfectly, too.
Posting solely as a link because there is a lot of NWS language.....you have been warned....
http://youtu.be/4sZuN0xXWLc
I guess we all need to go to Spatula City.
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 13, 2014, 09:08:20 PMThat one is by far the worst, though here it airs with the 877-241-LUNA number. I'd comment on that particular ad except I'm not sure how the moderators would react to what I'd call the "husband" (another term for a bundle of sticks).
not well. the fact that you have the desire to call anyone at all a bundle-of-sticks speaks worse of you than of any cartoon character in any ad.
Quote from: 1 on February 13, 2014, 07:45:43 PM
Only $20 for a huge gold Buffalo nickel. (Real ones exist and are worth around $1337. This one is fake and only has 13 milligrams of gold.)
there are no "real" buffalo nickels, in the sense that the US government issued them.
there may be some with real gold in them. I have no idea. I don't think they'd be worth much more than the melt value.
They have the buffalo nickel design on them, and that's why I called them that. I believe the real gold ones (one ounce) say "fifty dollars".
But the ones in the commercial have milligrams, not one ounce.
Most of what I watch is MeTV, Cosi, this™, and the like, so the ads I see are for life insurance, medical aids, lawyers looking to represent sick retirees, and predatory reverse mortgage schemes. I am way too young for any of them, but the caliber of washed-up actors is high so I keep watching.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 13, 2014, 10:11:25 PM
there are no "real" buffalo nickels, in the sense that the US government issued them.
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- Insurance companies* in general -- especially GEICO and Progressive...Flo and the pig can't go off the air soon enough
- Any and all local car dealers
- Any and all bottom-feeders...ahem, trial lawyers
- ASPCA ads around the holidays
- That damned Toaster Strudel commercial with the kid and the horrible German/Swedish/Danish fake accent. :banghead:
* As a Packer fan, I do enjoy the State Farm discount daa-ble checks. :)
how about commercials for the station itself? we're already watching, but you're really risking it.
also, I don't generally care about insurance companies, but I do note how frequent they are. almost as frequent as food and beer. I buy food and beer regularly. I haven't changed my insurance company in years.
The thing I find hard to believe about the Progressive ads is that a friend of mine actually thinks Flo is hot.
I guess there's no accounting for taste....
BTW, regarding agentsteel53's comment about the frequency of insurance ads, I've thought several times recently that GEICO is the new McDonald's. Recall how in the 1970s/1980s McDonald's advertised constantly to the point where some of their jingles were pretty much ubiquitous (e.g., "You deserve a break today" or the Big Mac jingle). I don't see nearly as many McDonald's ads as I used to, and it seems like GEICO ads have taken their place in terms of frequency.
could be worse; apparently there's an entire underground industry depicting the Esurance cartoon woman in less than family-friendly scenarios!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/esurance-axes-erin-after-the-secret-agent-took-on-an-x-rated-life-of-her-own/
(probably work-safe though you may get a "the Hell is wrong with people!?" from your boss.)
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 14, 2014, 10:38:31 AM
The thing I find hard to believe about the Progressive ads is that a friend of mine actually thinks Flo is hot.
I guess there's no accounting for taste....
Does he think that way all the time or only when under the influence? I can find her attractive...until I sober up :cheers:
Quote from: DaBigE on February 14, 2014, 11:03:23 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 14, 2014, 10:38:31 AM
The thing I find hard to believe about the Progressive ads is that a friend of mine actually thinks Flo is hot.
I guess there's no accounting for taste....
Does he think that way all the time or only when under the influence? I can find her attractive...until I sober up :cheers:
Heh. I assume he was sober. Haven't seen him drunk in years, although that time was quite the legendary episode as he was somehow unable to find Scott Stadium for a Thursday night football game due to having consumed so much at our tailgate!
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 14, 2014, 10:38:31 AM
The thing I find hard to believe about the Progressive ads is that a friend of mine actually thinks Flo is hot.
I guess there's no accounting for taste....
If you've seen a picture of Stephanie Courtney without all that makeup . . .
Quote from: elsmere241 on February 14, 2014, 12:18:17 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 14, 2014, 10:38:31 AM
The thing I find hard to believe about the Progressive ads is that a friend of mine actually thinks Flo is hot.
I guess there's no accounting for taste....
If you've seen a picture of Stephanie Courtney without all that makeup . . .
Flo is ungodly ugly. I thought that was her gimmick.
Quote from: texaskdog on February 14, 2014, 03:24:49 PM
ungodly ugly
I think that exaggerates it just a bit. the makeup is a bit over-the-top, yes, but - both with and without makeup - she's basically average looking.
"ungodly ugly" can be reserved for the Brian Peppers types of the world.
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Quote from: texaskdog on February 14, 2014, 03:24:49 PM
ungodly ugly
I think that exaggerates it just a bit. the makeup is a bit over-the-top, yes, but - both with and without makeup - she's basically average looking.
"ungodly ugly" can be reserved for the Brian Peppers types of the world.
She an average looking woman they make look ugly, like Amy on Big Bang Theory.
How about Wendy? Now that's better! I'd do what tastes right. Tastes great, open late.
(More commercials should use redheads. All of them, really.)
Quote from: Alps on February 14, 2014, 06:07:02 PM
How about Wendy? Now that's better! I'd do what tastes right. Tastes great, open late.
(More commercials should use redheads. All of them, really.)
You're not flying Delta enough.
You know she's not really a redhead, right?
I am a redhead. Does that mean I should appear in a commercial?
Quote from: Takumi on February 14, 2014, 08:25:42 PM
You know she's not really a redhead, right?
Wendy or Deltalina? ...doesn't really matter, honestly.
Never seen these Luna ads; even though I travel, I don't watch much TV. I do tend to pay attention to vehicle ads (oh, the new car/truck/SUV is out) and get a chuckle out of pharmaceutical ads, waiting to see of the side-effect is worse than the ailment.
Quote from: Jardine on February 13, 2014, 01:27:06 PM
We get quite a few medical center, hospital, and health care ads. Seems like most hospital admissions are whichever is closest for the ambulance, or a referral from your physician. So what's the point in spending boocoo bucks on commercials ?
I never thought of that, but that is an excelent point. We got a lot of those, between 10 or 15 hospitals (my TV market is geographically large and lacks a true core city). All the same, more or less. People go where the ambulance takes them or wherever their "gatekeeper" GP tells them to go.
Quote from: formulanone on February 15, 2014, 01:34:14 PM
Quote from: Takumi on February 14, 2014, 08:25:42 PM
You know she's not really a redhead, right?
Wendy or Deltalina? ...doesn't really matter, honestly.
Wendy. The actress who plays her is naturally blonde. (Strawberry blonde, but still...)
Quote from: Takumi on February 15, 2014, 04:13:56 PM
Quote from: formulanone on February 15, 2014, 01:34:14 PM
Quote from: Takumi on February 14, 2014, 08:25:42 PM
You know she's not really a redhead, right?
Wendy or Deltalina? ...doesn't really matter, honestly.
Wendy. The actress who plays her is naturally blonde. (Strawberry blonde, but still...)
And damn, she's hot! Strawberry blonde is a great hair color. :bigass:
Quote from: Brandon on February 13, 2014, 09:55:19 PM
I guess we all need to go to Spatula City.
That was filmed a few miles from me.
All of them. I don't watch TV.
Quote from: Brandon on February 15, 2014, 06:21:08 PM
Quote from: Takumi on February 15, 2014, 04:13:56 PM
Quote from: formulanone on February 15, 2014, 01:34:14 PM
Quote from: Takumi on February 14, 2014, 08:25:42 PM
You know she's not really a redhead, right?
Wendy or Deltalina? ...doesn't really matter, honestly.
Wendy. The actress who plays her is naturally blonde. (Strawberry blonde, but still...)
And damn, she's hot! Strawberry blonde is a great hair color. :bigass:
I had to look this woman up, because the recent "Wendy" commercials I know feature the former Wendy Thomas, the 52-year-old daughter of Dave Thomas and the Wendy for whom the chain is named. The descriptions here do not exactly apply to Wendy.
Having now seen the actress being discussed here, it makes me wonder if anyone believes someone can look like that and eat at Wendy's. I guess it's fun to pretend.
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 13, 2014, 09:43:33 PM
Can't say as I have. When I said "the worst," I meant "the worst of the Luna ads." The worst ads I ever saw were the Joe Jacoby ads for Theatervision (cpzilliacus likely recalls those).
Only vaguely.
Quote from: 1 on February 13, 2014, 10:14:34 PM
But the ones in the commercial have milligrams, not one ounce.
I think part of the strategy is that many U.S. television viewers do not immediately grasp just how tiny a milligram (or 13 milligrams) of gold really is.
Annoying commercials:
- Gerber life insurance for newborn babies and toddlers;
- "If you have a phone, you have a lawyer" for contingent-fee ambulance-chasing law firm Saiontz & Kirk Lawyers (based in Maryland, I think they do business in D.C., Virginia and Pennsylvania as well);
- Commercials for the Michael Slocumb ("call on the hurtline") contingent-fee law firm featuring William Shatner, Captain Kirk (I think this outfit was started in Alabama, but they apparently figured out that ambulance-chasing in the Washington area might be more profitable);
- All law firms trying to locate victims of asbestos-related injury and illnesses;
- All auto and property insurance company commercials; and
- All infomercials (regardless of what is being pitched).
Quote from: DaBigE on February 14, 2014, 12:05:28 AM
- Insurance companies* in general -- especially GEICO and Progressive...Flo and the pig can't go off the air soon enough
A recent Progressive ad, which I saw earlier today, has Flo traveling back in time and getting herself in deep trouble. It ends with Flo about to be burned at the stake.
I doubt this marks the end of the Flo commercials, but one can dream.
As increasingly difficult as it is to do, I largely tend to ignore most commercials and other advertising. Personally, I believe that we really need to reduce the amount of advertising that people are routinely exposed to. Advertising is now largely a wasteful exercise that consumes time, money, and other resources that could go into things actually benefiting society as a whole, instead of lining the pockets of a few.
I don't have video cable service, so I don't ever see TV ads.
I mute all YouTube ads.
I have no idea what ones are popular.
Normally, I am not influenced by commercials on tv, but the ad for a cell phone company featuring Connie and Jack made me look into it further. I found I was able to cut my cell phone bill in half. I am glad I did not ignore that particular commercial.
Anything GEICO
Anything with ugly flo
those stupid tablet commercial at Christmas
Any commercial that has Christmas Trees, Santa, and reindeer but are scared to death to say "Christmas"
Anything Truck Month (is that every month?)
Anything the news shows three times in one night (e.g. the Progresso commercial with the ugly bridesmaid dress)
When the Acura "Drive Like a Boss" ad with the girl singing along to "Rapture" who keeps singing after she answers the phone first came on the air I got a kick out of it. I am now tired of it and tired of getting "Rapture" stuck in my head every time we watch a hockey game (as said ad airs regularly during the broadcasts).
Quote from: oscar on February 06, 2015, 12:05:59 PM
Quote from: DaBigE on February 14, 2014, 12:05:28 AM
- Insurance companies* in general -- especially GEICO and Progressive...Flo and the pig can't go off the air soon enough
A recent Progressive ad, which I saw earlier today, has Flo traveling back in time and getting herself in deep trouble. It ends with Flo about to be burned at the stake.
I doubt this marks the end of the Flo commercials, but one can dream.
I've seen that one too. That one made me simile. I think you're right, it probably won't be the end of her, but it's nice to dream. :biggrin:
There is currently a Chevy Colorado pickup commercial that I actually find offensive. It suggests that your are less of a man if you drive a car instead of a pickup.
I can't believe that they would stoop this low. Don't they also have a line of cars that need to be sold?
To me, not driving a pickup suggests that you have enough education that you do not have to do manual labor. So, to me, a car is a status symbol more than a pickup is.
Also, pickup drivers are way more rude and unsafe than drivers of other vehicle types, in my experience.
To me, this commercial is conveying a very "redneck" mentality.
I'm not hating on pickups, they are utilitarian and have a purpose. However, people that have one have no right to look down on those that don't.
It takes a lot to offend me, but this commercial really did. Chevy can go F itself.
Four words I totally ignore.
He went to Jared
And yet somehow, I've found myself married for nearly 10 years. Amazing, right?
Matthew McConaughey, proudly thinking to himself the he was driving a Lincoln before it was cool to do so. Funniest commercial to see with the sound off, because then it's just (still) dumb footage of him driving a car.
Quote from: Brian556 on February 06, 2015, 03:09:42 PM
Also, pickup drivers are way more rude and unsafe than drivers of other vehicle types, in my experience.
No match for soccer moms in SUVs at the mall parking lot.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 13, 2014, 10:40:08 AM
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I'll drink to that! :clap: :clap: :clap: :wave:
Quote from: cpzilliacus on February 24, 2014, 09:19:45 PM
Annoying commercials:
....
- Commercials for the Michael Slocumb ("call on the hurtline") contingent-fee law firm featuring William Shatner, Captain Kirk (I think this outfit was started in Alabama, but they apparently figured out that ambulance-chasing in the Washington area might be more profitable);
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I think I might prefer those ads to this (picture taken five minutes ago at Verizon Center):
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The spoof commercials posted earlier on this thread remind me of this one for "Passages Malibu"
It's a real place, but every time that commercial comes on and I hear the part where the guy says "I should know, I was an addict for 10 years, now I'm not" I feel like I'm watching some spoof on a comedy show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s96XdnN6bNE
quote form kphoger:
QuoteNo match for soccer moms in SUVs at the mall parking lot.
They, along with a lot of other people, drive way too fast in parking lots. The government really needs to create a set of default speed limits for parking lots that can be enforced.
Quote from: Buck87 on February 06, 2015, 10:40:04 PM
The spoof commercials posted earlier on this thread remind me of this one for "Passages Malibu"
It's a real place, but every time that commercial comes on and I hear the part where the guy says "I should know, I was an addict for 10 years, now I'm not" I feel like I'm watching some spoof on a comedy show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s96XdnN6bNE
Agreed. I find that line funny more than anything...
Quote from: kphoger on February 06, 2015, 03:27:52 PM
Quote from: Brian556 on February 06, 2015, 03:09:42 PM
Also, pickup drivers are way more rude and unsafe than drivers of other vehicle types, in my experience.
No match for soccer moms in SUVs at the mall parking lot.
My experience is that the soccer moms are distracted, oblivious and entitled - on the cell-phone and doing stuff to the kids instead of actually driving the vehicle. There is a subgroup of pick-up truck drivers (maybe it's just in TX) who are the really aggressive road rage types. The soccer mom will cut me off because she has no clue I'm there. ("Mirrors? They're for checking my lipstick, right?") Certain pick-up drivers (often with gun racks and 'truck nuts') will cut me off or tailgate dangerously, deliberately, because it's somehow an insult to their manhood if they don't "own the road."
I try to give them both a lot of room.
Agreed.
There's an elementary school on my street and where I live is more or less claimed as as line-up zone for pick-up/drop-off. I see every kind of "soccer mom" and "soccer dad" (lest the near-total gender purity here allow anyone to forget there are plenty of both). And the most clear fact is, you too would be distracted if you had to get a carful of kids to do anything, including just sit there.
I have three children. I still manage to drive like a civilized human being.
You're a champ. Lots of people don't manage as well as you. I'm sure most do.
Lawyer ads, especially the one who dominates all of Florida with his "I am not just a lawyer, I'm your lawyer." in his radio ads.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on February 07, 2015, 11:59:51 AM
There's an elementary school on my street and where I live is more or less claimed as as line-up zone for pick-up/drop-off. I see every kind of "soccer mom" and "soccer dad" (lest the near-total gender purity here allow anyone to forget there are plenty of both). And the most clear fact is, you too would be distracted if you had to get a carful of kids to do anything, including just sit there.
You're right; I should've worded more carefully regarding "soccer moms." I did not mean to malign all mothers who drive, all parents who drive SUVs or indeed all mothers of children who play soccer.
There exists a subgroup of distracted drivers in big SUVs who are often driving several children, and yes children can require attention while the vehicle is in motion. When my children were young I found it necessary, on rare occasions, to find a safe place to stop, then stop and deal with the problem rather than deal with something complex while also driving. I think there are some parental 'chauffeurs' who never consider stopping the vehicle as a safe alternative - perhaps because they are not aware of the degree to which the distraction has impaired their driving performance. They may drift out of their lane or cut someone off not out of malice but out of inattentiveness due to the demands their child passengers are making.
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Quote from: Pete from Boston on February 07, 2015, 11:59:51 AM
There's an elementary school on my street and where I live is more or less claimed as as line-up zone for pick-up/drop-off. I see every kind of "soccer mom" and "soccer dad" (lest the near-total gender purity here allow anyone to forget there are plenty of both). And the most clear fact is, you too would be distracted if you had to get a carful of kids to do anything, including just sit there.
You're right; I should've worded more carefully regarding "soccer moms." I did not mean to malign all mothers who drive, all parents who drive SUVs or indeed all mothers of children who play soccer.
There exists a subgroup of distracted drivers in big SUVs who are often driving several children, and yes children can require attention while the vehicle is in motion. When my children were young I found it necessary, on rare occasions, to find a safe place to stop, then stop and deal with the problem rather than deal with something complex while also driving. I think there are some parental 'chauffeurs' who never consider stopping the vehicle as a safe alternative - perhaps because they are not aware of the degree to which the distraction has impaired their driving performance. They may drift out of their lane or cut someone off not out of malice but out of inattentiveness due to the demands their child passengers are making.
Likewise, I was using "soccer mom" as a very generic term. I've actually encountered more problems with drivers who fit the profile but didn't actually have children in the car. Usually they were running errands while the kids were at school. (I used to work in a parking lot.) I think it's the sense of power that an SUV gives, making this type of driver feel unstoppable.
Quote from: Buck87 on February 06, 2015, 10:40:04 PM
The spoof commercials posted earlier on this thread remind me of this one for "Passages Malibu"
It's a real place, but every time that commercial comes on and I hear the part where the guy says "I should know, I was an addict for 10 years, now I'm not" I feel like I'm watching some spoof on a comedy show.
[snip video]
That guy lies: He's still an addict ... he's addicted to money.
Quote from: renegade on February 07, 2015, 05:29:14 PM
Quote from: Buck87 on February 06, 2015, 10:40:04 PM
The spoof commercials posted earlier on this thread remind me of this one for "Passages Malibu"
It's a real place, but every time that commercial comes on and I hear the part where the guy says "I should know, I was an addict for 10 years, now I'm not" I feel like I'm watching some spoof on a comedy show.
[snip video]
That guy lies: He's still an addict ... he's addicted to money.
Those ads piss me off because few addicts I've known are in a position to buy a stay at some luxury feel-better spa. Access to good treatment is so damn hard (addiction and retaining money tend to be exclusive of one another, and with the free options one usually gets what one pays for) and here's this lavish all-it-takes-is-a-bunch-of-money "solution" available to few, playing out like a warm and fuzzy viagra ad.
/me wonders how many of these commercials are actually popular . . . and how one even knows if a commercial is popular or not.
Well in Florida anybody living here can say who are the most advertised lawyers over the one's not so much or even moderate.
When it comes to restaurants its a regional thing in each TV/Radio market. Being we have people from all over the US and Canada here, that one I could see your point.
I know with Lawyers each state and metro area has different firms, so yes the one's in Orlando won't be in Houston. Although Charley Crist's employer shocked me when I saw a billboard of him on US 19 in Atlanta back in 06. However, still I do not think one firm (yet) has licenses in all 50 states.
Quote from: kphoger on February 07, 2015, 06:04:37 PM
/me wonders how many of these commercials are actually popular . . . and how one even knows if a commercial is popular or not.
One thing I remember from a business class in school: We see ads every day. Commercials on TV & Radio. Printed classified in the smallest of weekly newspapers we get via mail. And we wonder...does anyone read this stuff.
To put it simply: If that ad wasn't making money, the company wouldn't be paying to have that ad on TV, Radio, or printed.
So while the commercial may be meaningless to me or you, most likely it's making money for the company.
I know. But the OP asked specifically about popular commercials. For the sake of the thread, I don't think we should consider every commercial to be popular.
What is popular? Each area has its own. Nationally, yes, I guess you can say that Geico Insurance with their cornball ads is quite popular in all areas.
As far as the technique is, the old saying goes "Corn sells." Not the one's that grow on stalks the cliche describes either. We tend to remember the one's that are off beat in our minds and like jeffandnicole said if they were not effective they would not be making money.
Sad to say with annoying telemarketers the same thing. We all ask why they bug the hell out of us with them calling each and every day. Why? Because they are selling to some people and enough to make them a handsome profit and enough to share a commission with the one who sells you directly on the phone. So actually its the idiots who patronize the telemarketers and not the businesses themselves that are to blame for their disturbances in our private lives.
I hate commercials that insist on saying this century as "two thousand", I absolutely can not believe that the gentleman in the Rooms To Go TV commercial is saying the year 2020 as "two thousand twenty!"
I see it in some car commercials. A few notable exceptions are the Toyota corporate commercials where they are now saying "twenty" instead of "two thousand" and I give them Kudos for that.
Ray Brandt auto dealerships commercials here in New Orleans because this announcer insist on using "two thousand."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNG89qZq2o
For a few months when the 2010 models came out he was calling them as "oh ten!"
This has got to stop with people saying this century as "two thousand." People didn't say the previous century as "one thousand nine hundred" (ie. saying the year 1999 as "one thousand nine hundred ninety nine")! If this keeps going on people will be saying "two thousand" all the way to the year 2099! It's just another pet peeve of mine.
Anything selling prescription medications, because I can't watch them without thinking of the side effects. Case in point:
There's so much wrong with that ad it actually makes me laugh, even when I ignore all the others (including several OTC meds, like laxatives and Zantac).
Quote from: apjung on February 14, 2015, 03:22:10 AM
I hate commercials that insist on saying this century as "two thousand", I absolutely can not believe that the gentleman in the Rooms To Go TV commercial is saying the year 2020 as "two thousand twenty!"
I see it in some car commercials. A few notable exceptions are the Toyota corporate commercials where they are now saying "twenty" instead of "two thousand" and I give them Kudos for that.
Ray Brandt auto dealerships commercials here in New Orleans because this announcer insist on using "two thousand."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNG89qZq2o
For a few months when the 2010 models came out he was calling them as "oh ten!"
This has got to stop with people saying this century as "two thousand." People didn't say the previous century as "one thousand nine hundred" (ie. saying the year 1999 as "one thousand nine hundred ninety nine")! If this keeps going on people will be saying "two thousand" all the way to the year 2099! It's just another pet peeve of mine.
I say two thousand. I don't expect to change this. Sorry.
I find my self referring to my Mustang as a twenty fourteen and my wife's as a twenty twelve, yet for the years 2001-2009 I had pretty much been referring to years by the 2 digit number like we did in the 1980's and 1990's. For example I graduated high school in 1988, and we were the class of eighty-eight so the 2004 F-150 I traded in for my Mustang is an oh-four. I just couldn't bring myself to say twenty oh-four, it just didn't sound right. But now that we are well into the teens twenty fifteen just sounds.....right.
Back to the topic, though, today I was watching Daytona 500 practice while surfing the net at the same time and and that Chrysler commercial came on where the narrator says something in German 3 times about the best cars come from Germany (or something like that) and then says in English with a heavy German accent "I've said it 3 times and its still not true..." That commercial drives me nuts for some reason, although I really don't know why.
Hey, at least they put up a half baked BGS with I-75 Detroit on it, LOL.
A guy who does periodic radio spots here says "two fourteen," "two fifteen."
Quote from: Pete from Boston on February 14, 2015, 12:36:10 PM
Quote from: apjung on February 14, 2015, 03:22:10 AM
I hate commercials that insist on saying this century as "two thousand", I absolutely can not believe that the gentleman in the Rooms To Go TV commercial is saying the year 2020 as "two thousand twenty!"
I see it in some car commercials. A few notable exceptions are the Toyota corporate commercials where they are now saying "twenty" instead of "two thousand" and I give them Kudos for that.
Ray Brandt auto dealerships commercials here in New Orleans because this announcer insist on using "two thousand."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNG89qZq2o
For a few months when the 2010 models came out he was calling them as "oh ten!"
This has got to stop with people saying this century as "two thousand." People didn't say the previous century as "one thousand nine hundred" (ie. saying the year 1999 as "one thousand nine hundred ninety nine")! If this keeps going on people will be saying "two thousand" all the way to the year 2099! It's just another pet peeve of mine.
I say two thousand. I don't expect to change this. Sorry.
There is an old saying. You say tomatoe (two mate toe) and I say (two mot toe).
Quote from: dcbjms on February 14, 2015, 12:24:53 PM
Anything selling prescription medications, because I can't watch them without thinking of the side effects.
I like to watch them, and take side bets to see if the side effects are actually worse than the initial aliment.
In some cases, severe palpitations, temporary paralysis, and in rare cases, death...have been reported.Ah, no thanks, I'll deal with my eczema. (Note: I don't have eczema.)
Drug ads always make me think of this little video;
Quote from: formulanone on February 14, 2015, 03:04:13 PMI like to watch them, and take side bets to see if the side effects are actually worse than the initial aliment.
And a lot of times, they usually are, although there are some weird ones as well, such as in that Farxiga ad, where a common reported side effect is "runny nose".
Yes, I wish prescription drug ads would once again be illegal. I don't need a damn commercial telling me to nag my doctor who should know about what medication I need.
No commercials would mean lower prescription drug costs.
I am really fed up with the car ad for Washington's Birthday (which was over a week ago, yet the ad still airs) with the schoolkids singing the last names of the U.S. presidents to the tune of "Caesar habet unam legionem" (annoying nursery-rhyme type song from first-year Latin class 30 years ago or so, one I had blessedly forgotten until that damn commercial started airing a few weeks ago).
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2015, 10:46:23 PM
I am really fed up with the car ad for Washington's Birthday (which was over a week ago, yet the ad still airs) with the schoolkids singing the last names of the U.S. presidents to the tune of "Caesar habet unam legionem" (annoying nursery-rhyme type song from first-year Latin class 30 years ago or so, one I had blessedly forgotten until that damn commercial started airing a few weeks ago).
^Seconded. I'd also ad the round of car ads (radio and tv) that came out around Valentine's Day (which are also still playing around here), which sexualize the new car buying experience. First, there was Toyota Jan reading a brochure in a seductive tone, then a series of local Kia ads equating starting a car to foreplay.
The one that currently bugs me the most are for Charter's spectrum services...they seem to run about every-other ad spot at times. As if they didn't send enough junk mail already :banghead: ...someone's marketing budget could stand to take a healthy cut. :pan:
Any commercial that gives the phone number more than twice is worth ignoring. J G Wentworth, I'm talkin' 'bout you ...
Sprint is the sponsor of NASCAR's top-level racing series. If you watched the Bud Shootout, the Daytona 500 or any of the other Speedweeks events, you couldn't help but be subjected to this commercial.
There is really a song called "Narwhals." The artist is Mr Weebl
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/narwhals/id923071611?i=923071649
And there really is a video:
Quote from: kphoger on February 07, 2015, 06:04:37 PM
/me wonders how many of these commercials are actually popular . . . and how one even knows if a commercial is popular or not.
I often hear people say how great flo is. Makes me want to gag.
Quote from: DaBigE on February 25, 2015, 12:30:34 AM
^Seconded. I'd also ad the round of car ads (radio and tv) that came out around Valentine's Day (which are also still playing around here), which sexualize the new car buying experience. First, there was Toyota Jan reading a brochure in a seductive tone, then a series of local Kia ads equating starting a car to foreplay.
Got links? Those sound AWESOME.