Your most hated advertisments/commercials

[Trinket to Ride]

SHING

NO ONE CAN STOP DEATH

DOOOOMPH

DOOOOMPH

DOOOOMPH

You should all run!

Aaaaaaaah!

DOOOOMPH

DIABLO III: WE FIXED IT, BUY IT NOW PLEASE


It seems like this ad has been playing for a year. First for Reaper of Souls pre-orders, then for the expansion on its own, then for Ultimate Evil Edition. It's here, it's on blip, it's on youtube, it's on TV. It's everywhere.
One might say that NO ONE CAN STOP DEATH.

Spoiler: Another contender for my current most-hated ad are the newest super-dark ones for Life Alert. Like, seriously, they make me want to cry.

Be they annoying, persistent, or creepy, what commercials or other ads do you hate?

 

[Vault101]

there was this one on TV...years ago, directed at women

basically everyone is judging your toilet

your friends

your inlaws

whoever comes to your house is judging the SHIT out of your toilet and if its not clean enough you have failed as both a woman, a mother and a human being

I kid you not...

 

[Fsyco]

The worst ad I ever saw was this one for Jack in the Box that they used to run on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses a few years ago. It looked like a relatively innocuous ad banner, but if your mouse cursor touched it, the ad would get bigger, block the video you were watching, and play sound (rather loudly I might add). And on top of that, the ad itself was some comedy sketch that's mildly amusing the first time, and exponentially more grating on all repeated viewings. It's like an unholy amalgamation of all the sins of web advertisers.

 

[Vault101]

The worst ad I ever saw was this one for Jack in the Box that they used to run on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses a few years ago. It looked like a relatively innocuous ad banner, but if your mouse cursor touched it, the ad would get bigger, block the video you were watching, and play sound (rather loudly I might add). And on top of that, the ad itself was some comedy sketch that's mildly amusing the first time, and exponentially more grating on all repeated viewings. It's like an unholy amalgamation of all the sins of web advertisers.

a couple of times on cracked I've had side adds that were videos

I can hear them but can't see them, untill I realised they were on the side

there's be 2 or 3 of them starting up at the same time because I'd have tabs open

can't mute them and I'm even sure they'd play more than once

 

[ElMinotoro]

there was this one on TV...years ago, directed at women

basically everyone is judging your toilet

your friends

your inlaws

whoever comes to your house is judging the SHIT out of your toilet and if its not clean enough you have failed as both a woman, a mother and a human being

I kid you not...

This is every cleaning product ever. Watch spray and wipe commercials.

Anyway, the new Australian Old Spice ad with the Bondi Hipsters is painful.

 

[Vault101]

This is every cleaning product ever. Watch spray and wipe commercials.

true...but the thing is this one outright states it

[quote/]Anyway, the new Australian Old Spice ad with the Bondi Hipsters is painful.[/quote]
I haven't seen it...whats so awful about it?

 

[DragonFae]

The Lynx adds always really get on my nerves. They depict women in a bad light. They basically say 'Spray this on yourself and women will loose all inhibitions and taste and let you screw them all day long.'

 

[maveric112]

The ones I hate the most are the DOE's Road Safety Campaigns They are not ad campaigns or anything but they can be rather brutal, especially when they used to be aired on prime time when I was a kid. I have included a few of them for you.

Spoiler: Sorry for the bad quality of some of these

 

[an annoyed writer]

I used to watch a lot of TV when I was a teenager, and no matter what there was one ad that would always put me in a seething, boiling rage that prompted me to repeatedly shoot my old CRT TV with an airsoft gun. It was... a Lectricshave commercial. IT WAS JUST SO DAMN ANNOYING. And when you see that same damn thing over and over and over again, day after day, year after year, it gets even more grating. I'm not even going to find it because I don't want to put my fist through my monitor.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Easy answer is those fucking unmutable video ads with sound that sometimes play in the corner of the page on this very website.

On TV, over here we have an ad for Trivago that's not exactly bad by itself, it's actually quite tame and boring, but it's been playing on virtually every commercial break on all the major networks for over a month. That makes it absolutely insufferable.

And I'll throw in my favorite ones, because why not:

*snip*
There.

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[Hoplon]

All of them.

ALL OF THEM.

seriously, like I'm a fucking child that can't find out the things i want to purchase and so must have whom ever has the most money ramming their brand down my throat? No, fuck off, never buying from you ever again you screaming bag of shite.

 

[Spanglish Guy]

Most adverts for cars. They don't make sense and most of them only show the actual product at the end.

 

[kasperbbs]

There were a few at gametrailers that made me stop visiting that site. One was a girl with an annoying voice advertising make up, the ad itself was of bad quality and her lines were painful to listen to. And the other one kept advertising the fact that you can visit this site on the xbox. The problem was that each of these ad's kept playing before every video and their length was 30 seconds, most of these trailers don't even last that long..

So basically every unskippable ad that plays before a video.

 

[happyninja42]

I remember seeing a commercial, for Neosporin I believe, and it shows two women sitting at a kitchen table. One woman is elderly, likely in her late 60's to 70's, full silver hair and classic "grandma" look. The other woman is her middle aged daughter, and they're having coffee together. The older woman notices a cut on her daughter's arm, and comments about it. The daughter notices it, apparently having forgotten about it entirely, and just waves a hand dismissively about it, saying it's nothing. And it really is nothing, this is just a superficial cut, nothing major. But the older woman gives her a sad, knowing look of "i know better than you" kind of thing, and point to the back of her hand. "That's what I thought once, and I got this." They zoom the camera in REAAAALLY close to show a teeny tiny little blemish on her skin. The daughter looks at it, gets this really worried expression and says, in a voice heavy with dread. "Oh...a scar..." then looks at her own cut thoughtfully. Then it cuts to the "our product works this well on cuts" stuff.


This drives me SO nuts! Seriously? Seriously?! You're trying to say that women are so superficial and body obsessed that a tiny little scar like that is going to be something they regret for their entire lives???!! It just....gah! So annoys me!

Oh! And that Denny's 4th of July commercial, where the old man is eating breakfast, and another guy sits down next to him, looks at the seasonal menu item of pancakes with bluberries, strawberries and cream, (Red, White and Blue), and asks him "Wonder what that tastes like." And the old guy sits there thoughtfully for a second, and then says...and I shit you not...." 'Murica" The younger guy smiles at him, and nods, mentally saying "FUCK YEAH!" apparently, and then they both enjoy their United States is Awesome food at Denny's. I...just....*headdesk*

 

[Parasondox]

Here is something I MEGALOATHE


This brought joint annoyance to the nation.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Those fucking annoying Fiat commercials that are just gifs on fucking repeat.... gah they just make me want to punch something.

Any & all Slim Jim commercials can burn in hell.

There is also one American Eagle Outfitters commercial that isn't so bad except for the annoying "music", "woman going ooooooo wooooo oooo woooooo" over & over & over & over again. Here I actually found that one. It's been bad about playing before the vids here on the escapist.

Spoiler: AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

 

[AkaDad]

Axe Body Spray commercials.

It's incredibly insulting to think that women would flock to men because they wear it. The infuriating part of Axe is that it didn't work at all for me.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

Any commercial that isn't Old Spice... Basically (the 'The man your man could smell like' one is my favorite)

 

[Strain42]

TC I'm with you about Diablo III, but for me I'm talking about a different commercial. I'm talking about the one where the guy comes home and he sees all the clothes and underwear on the floor and hears moans and cries of pleasure so he goes upstairs to see his (presumably) gf/wife in cosplay with two other dudes in cosplay and they're playing Diablo III and she's like "Hey hun, come join us. We'll make it a foursome."

EVERYTHING about that commercial is just dumb. The worst part is that's the one that was running on Escapist videos when I was trying to get the badge for watching every episode of zero puncutation (I wasn't sure which one I'd missed so I just rewatched them all from start to finish)

No joke, that commercial is what made me consider installing an ad blocker. Everything else I'd ever seen in the forms of ads was fine up until that stupid thing.

There are probably several others I could think of, but that one really stands out to me as just the dumbest and most annoying commercial I've ever seen.

EDIT: Oh, and Geico. I mean some of their stuff is pretty funny, but I hate how they just keep inventing new mascots or gimmicks for their commercial. Seriously, how many do they have? The Gecko, The Caveman (some on this list aren't really used anymore, but still) The Rod Sterling Guy, The Cash with Eyeballs, the "Well did you know..." people, the annoying pig, the annoying camel, and I'm sure I'm missing some.

Jesus Geico, just pick something and stick with it.