Bad commercials

eplovejoy · #1 06-06-2002, 03:53 PM

The Aflac duck isn't cute any longer, and the "Can you hear me now? Good" guy for Verizon has overstayed his welcome, but the worst commercials on television have to be those with the egocentric chairman of Ford.

He tell us that his dream car is a Mustang, he won't stay in a hotel if he can't open the windows and he loves to hear people tell him they like Ford trucks. Wouldn't it be more effective to hear from people who own Ford vehicles than from some guy who has his job only because his great-grandfather invented the assembly line? If it were me, I'd keep my mouth shut because I wouldn't want people remembering that my forebear was one of the nation's most notorious anti-Semites.

So, am I wrong? Is there a less effective or more annoying commercial spokesperson on the tube these days?

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #2 06-06-2002, 04:27 PM

i actually still like the duck

I can't stand the one with the guy at the bar telling his friends about his experience being picked up by the truck driver/ventriloquist. "NNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

AAARRRGG!!

**amykhar** · #3 06-06-2002, 04:31 PM

I am getting really sick of Steve the Dell poster boy for stupidity.

Amy

phoenixx · #4 06-06-2002, 04:35 PM

DUUDE you got a DELL >>gack<<

poseidon · #5 06-06-2002, 05:49 PM

Carrot Top for 1-800-CALL-ATT is on my short list of people who shouldn't be allowed in front of the camera for a LONG time.

*emeleel* · #6 06-06-2002, 05:57 PM

7 Up's commercials have been really bad for a long time. Starting with the "Make 7...Up Yours" ones, and still with the newer ones. Yuck!

At least the Energizer Bunny is mostly gone these days. Or at least, the "Keeps Going...and going...." etc. They were cute to start with, but they went on *forever*.

My husband nearly had a fit over a recent Orkin commercial. The one that starts out looking like a laundry product commercial, and then it looks like a roach is crawling across the screen? It startled him the first time he saw it (I wasn't there, but I did see it later) and he was afraid it might give some little ol' lady somewhere a heart attack or something! I know it would my grandmother - she is almost-but-not-quite obsessive/compulsive about cleanliness and can't stand bugs!