More commercials I hate.....

[poltr1]

The one for Lowe's just irritates me to no end. A couple is in the store, he describes a project to the store clerk, the wife gives him The Look, and he immediately changes his story. This happens three times during the commercial.

I'm thinking, "What a wuss. This guy caves in without a single word from her. (She says nothing through the commercial.) I think I know who wears the pants in that family."

Makes me want to smear Head-On all over the forehead. :-)

How about you? What commercials are out there that you absolutely detest?

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

All of them, really.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Commercials? *hits the FF button on his Tivo* They still have those?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I despise the series of ads for Holiday Inn Select ("I'm not a ____, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Select last night"). They cater to the "no need to work, you can do anything highly educated and trained people do" mentality of a significant segment of the population.

Fortunately, the important shows that I watch, I torrent, and the uploaders are so courteous as to extract the ads.

[poltr1]

Yeah, those are dumb, but I like the one with Robbie Knievel.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I don't watch a whole lot of TV, so I don't see any one commercial or set of commercials on a frequent enough basis to be annoyed by them to any great degree. What I despise is the encroachment of advertising matter into times and spaces that previously were free of such--or, even worse, in venues where I have paid an admission fee to watch the entertainment. The one that really makes me see red is screened ads before full-price, first-run movies. We have truly hit the future Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott imagined in Blade Runner, where advertising is omnipresent and inescapable.

[poltr1]

Now they need to hurry up and develop those blipverts.

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

That Lowes commercial bothers me, too. It's demeaning to both genders. The guy is an idiot and the woman... well, if I thought that something needed to be done on the house I'd talk it over with Roper and then arrange for it if he chose not to.
I wouldn't passive/aggressive him into doing it.
That is one sick marriage. And the daughter is being taught to disrespect her father at the same time.
Am I taking it too seriously? Probably, but the behaviors are annoying.

GHR

[poltr1]

That is one sick marriage. And the daughter is being taught to disrespect her father at the same time.

I noticed that too. Thanks for pointing that out.