Ad campaigns that make me want to punch random passers-by in the throat

[Zevico]

You guys need a little love. Here:

[Flubber]

Yeah... that's the problem with live sports. Almost everything else I watch is commercial free or I can zap/zip the commercials. But live sports... If I have to see the Toyota commercial when they are looking for the dog one more time, I'm going to go blow up the nearest Toyota dealer.

A PVR could be your friend.Start 5-8 minutes after the game starts. On the inning/quarter/period end go do something with the game paused. See the end of the game the same time as anyone else without watching commercials

I have small children and this works for me even if I start when the game starts. I end up pausing often enough that I can skip all commercials

[Drake Tungsten]

[Darius871]

I don't know if I want to punch them or invest in them:

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This is the only one so bad I routinely have to flip the tube off:

[Darius871]

And how did anyone leave out the gradually disrobing Evony banners over the past year? Does anything in that game even involve an actual queen?

The progression for anyone who's been living under a rock: http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/0...ideo-game-ads/

[Boris Godunov]

This is the only one so bad I routinely have to flip the tube off:

What irritates me most about that one is that the music is vaguely Baroque/early classical in style, but the costumes/sets are stereotypically Wagnerian. Completely out of place.

Any of the "Free Credit Report" commercials bother the **** out of me, because they're scams. They are trying to get people to pay to use their website to access the free reports, which they can EASILY get genuinely for free elsewhere.

[Drake Tungsten]

Any of the "Free Credit Report" commercials bother the **** out of me, because they're scams.

I also dislike the scam nature of these commercials, but the catchiness of some of the songs prevents me from hating them outright.

[Drake Tungsten]

[SlowwHand]

Medicinal ads. "Here, go ask your doctor if you should take this med." The guy went to school for a lot of years, but you're going to suggest something you saw on a commercial?
"Athlete's foot? Rub some Fungus B Gone on it. Side effects may include toes falling off, bone cancer and a need for amputation. Ask your doctor if this is right for you."

There's an eye lash product. Makes a woman's lashes longer and fuller. It may turn your pupils to a permanent brown.
No big deal if your eyes are already brown. Could be disconcerting for a person with blue eyes.

[Darius871]

[Ming]

Well... today is Super Bowl Sunday. It is the biggest day of the year in the Advertising Community. Sponsers spend a ton of money and supposedly, we see the best commercials of the year.

All I can say after last year is... hopefully the ads will be better this year, because last year, they sucked.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I've already seen the Google one that'll air in the 3rd Q... it's pretty awesome (though not a funny ad).

[Ming]

I've seen a few on the corporate web sites... and some were ok. Haven't seen the google one yet. I just hope there are some really good ones this year.

[Guynemer]

The Google ad was clearly the best ad of the night. It's not even close. Everything else was too juvenile to be funny, or too misogynistic to be funny, or trying too hard to weird to be funny, or wasn't trying to be funny at all but wasn't interesting at all.

The only other ads that were even a bit enjoyable were the Intel robot, the Doritos samurai, and the Miller High Life small business people.

[Elok]

I saw the robot and the samurai. Both pretty stupid IMO. But nowhere near as terrible as that halftime show. Damn, The Who are OLD.