Matthew Posted April 25, 2013 Ah, commercials... They made us pester our parents until they buy what it's advertising. Two weeks later, we would be so excited, we could explode. Then, we saw that package on our porch, and we would be so excited. We would have hours of fun until it broke after a few days... Commercials back when where fun, and inventive, and sometimes funny. Back then, commercials did what they need to do, advertise the product, and show what it does. Now, commercials seem like they're all written by the same asshole. Trying too hard to be funny, rarely actually explains the product, and they're not enjoyable anymore... I'm not saying that they were potentially enjoyable in the 80's - 90's, but they were funnier than this shit. Leave your most hated ad below! Mine is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAIqwTHXjuQ 0 Share this post Link to post
Ribbiks Posted April 26, 2013 not commercial but related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted April 26, 2013 The one where the guy says, "I'm fluent in three sections, actually." I'm not going to link to it. One guy once said of him, "Let's hope one of them is 'nursing a knife wound'." Best commercial: 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 26, 2013 Greek Gay and Vampire trucker ads For the record, trucker associations bitched and moaned and acted all butthurt about the ads, sueing the advertising company to take them down, but the courts ruled that the ads are "obviously humorous and not truly insulting". 0 Share this post Link to post
CorSair Posted April 26, 2013 Heh. One Finnish telecom company made few ads of their quality 3G network (? Don't remember accurately but something like that), where four women dressed as girl scouts and one fat guy as a leader, got "lost" but with laptop one woman had and the company's wireless internet connection, they had schedule. Apparently, some people really took offense about that ad and started to bitch about that, so company cancelled the ad, due to amount of black humor. Start figuring that "lost" part thoroughly, and you might understand. :P Nowadays, I don't watch TV as much as before, so can't say nothing about quality. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kontra Kommando Posted April 26, 2013 This was a classic, I wish they made commercials more like this again. 0 Share this post Link to post
betabox Posted April 26, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzaC3I0lNI This commercial can drive anyone crazy the first time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kontra Kommando Posted April 26, 2013 If not the most annoying, infectious commercial song ever; it's a top contender. 877 393 4 4 4 8!!! 0 Share this post Link to post
188DarkRevived Posted April 26, 2013 Shaikoten said: Best commercial. ^The resemblance between those people and the possessed former humans from DOOM is astonishing. Simply astonishing! 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted April 27, 2013 Kontra Kommando said:If not the most annoying, infectious commercial song ever; it's a top contender. 877 393 4 4 4 8!!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted April 27, 2013 There was this vic's vapour drops commercial based in a hardware store but I can't seem to find it on youtube unfortunately. 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted April 27, 2013 Where I live there is nothing and nobody more annoying than the City Ford Lady. She has been on commercials on TV and radio for decades. Here she is in an ancient commercial, completely blowing apart Matthew's assertion that commercials were somehow less annoying in the 90s. The rest of the commercial is annoying too. The ones that follow are less bad. 0 Share this post Link to post
scalliano Posted April 28, 2013 Rather than annoy people with ads I can't stand (I'd be here all night), here's a few of my favourites: And I can't let a thread like this slide without this spoof one from Crazy People: 0 Share this post Link to post