Bad commercials

Nathan:
I haven't hit the website for a while so forgive me if these are old news but there are currently two more commercials on the air that really make me want to run out screaming in the night.

1) Charmin Bathroom Tissue: This is one where an older bear is lecturing, in song no less, a younger bear about not using too much toilet tissue. As bad and corny as that is, it proceeds to show the younger bear hunker down and lean against a tree, tissue in hand, apparently to take a dump. Answers the old question though.

2) Cinamon Toast Crunch Cereal: Husband and wife at breakfast table. He is doing a (bad) Barry White imitation, extoling the virtues of the cereal. It goes on and on. Shows the wife eating. Eventually we get to hear my favorite anachronism . . . the record needle scratch, whereupon the wife tells the husband to "Zip It". Rude, stupid, tasteless and IRRITATING.

Dishonorable mention.
Tampax Pearl Tampons: Girl uses tampon to plug hole in bottom of leaky canoe. AARRRrrrGGGHhhhhh. Makes it even worse if you think of the "little boat" analogy. . . They couldn't have done that intentionally, could they? Naaaaaa

I'd say, keep on plugging, but somewhow that now seems kind of crude.

so,
Best Regards,
Randy Kimball
Sandy, Utah

Commercials I hate

I hate the Intel Centrino commercials that feature the Blue Man Group..... beyond stupid.

Steve Lewis

Jeep Painting Class

Hi Nathan--

I came across your website while doing research for an ad critique I happen to be doing about a commercial you happened to write about -- the Jeep Painting Class. My critique of the commercial is very similar to yours, so it was nice to know I wasn't the only one annoyed with it. However, in writing the critique, I need to provide a quite detailed description of the ad. As luck would have it, as soon as I actually want to watch the commercial in more detail, I cannot find it anywhere. Since you have pictures of the ad posted on your site, I was wondering if you have access to the ad or maybe if you know where I could find it.

Thanks
Melissa

ad story that pissed me off...

I found your website-laughed my ass off. Her is a sample of
my hatred towards the corporate world of ads:

I bought a Powerade drink one day and it happened that they
were runnig a contest to win prizes and cash. I opened it
and the lid said something like: You Have Won!-go to
powerade.com -enter the prize number below and claim your
prize! I go to the site and go thru 6-7 pages of disclaimers
& crap asking for personal info like address, email, phone,
etc-takes about ten minutes as thier site was running slow
and when I finally get to my prize-what did I WIN?


A FUCKING POWERADE SCREEN SAVER!

Another fucking scam to add all your personal info to
millions of useless mailing lists.

I have vowed to die of thirst before buying a powerade drink
again.

Keep up the site
Thanks
Ron

hillarious!

I stumbled upon your website, and I’ve been reading it for the past 40 minutes (boss is out of town). It’s ridiculously funny! I was surprised though, not to find the semi new McDonalds “I’m loving it” commercials. Awful! Keep up the amazing work!

Melissa Schwartz

Jos. A. Bank commercial

Nathan,

Is anything more ridiculous than a commercial that does not make sense? I'm talking about a commercial for Jos. A. Bank Clothiers that has been running on cable news shows such as CNN and FOX since Nov. 3. In it, a smarmy guy wearing upscale clothing is depicted in several different types of scenarios, with a voice-over by a Michael York sound-alike (may even be him) pronouncing a single word for each scene, apparently in an attempt to describe both the situation and the clothing. The different scenarios are, for example, helping his daughter with homework, leading a boardroom meeting, on a date with his wife, etc. I don't remember all the words, or even all the scenes, but the one that doesn't make sense is where he is helping his daughter with her homework, and the voice says, "urgency."

In all the other scenes, the spoken word coincides with the scene and makes sense. But, urgency? It's so ridiculous that I cringe every time it comes on. Please review and list this advertisement so those yokels know what a poor excuse for an advertisement they have foisted on us!

John

Dude,

Thank you for this website. I was googling around trying to find a decent forum to at least hear other people rant about the stupid advertisements that so often make my blood boil (the current ones being the jolly old batch of holiday commercials with the absolute worst renditions of the same shitty holiday songs we’ve come to hate from previous years). Have a merry Christmas and keep up the good work.

Regards,
Nate O’Brien

Nathan great website

Hi:
Just stumbled across commericials I Hate.com and really enjoyed your writing, and I must say I agree with almost all of your opinions. I have spent the last couple of hours just reading all of your reviews and links....good stuff. I particularly liked the response to the F-16 guys email. Very well done.

I must say this......
That fucking Lamisil commerical is the sickest thing ever. Glad to hear I was not the only one disgusted by that one. At least now I know how it starts and can usually change the channel before the most grusome parts. Who buys that shit anyway.

So, Nathan. Good luck with the career, and maybe they can just come up with a TV Game show based on your web site and make you rich. Then you could do some promo commericals for the show which will surely get annoying to us quickly and we can write a website about how we hate the commercials for Nathan the Host of commercials I Hate "The Gameshow". Anyway, you are a great writer and very entertaining. Best of Luck.

Dan Ferguson
House of Blues
New Orleans, LA

sugar, sugar, sugar...

Don't forget Sugar Smacks! I don't know what they are called now.

Dan Reddy

wellpatch comm.

Alright, so my wife comes back home from the gym, and tells me about this wellpatch commercial and how stupid it is. I reply with "there are a ton of dumbass spots".... She laughs and makes me watch the TV for 3 days before I finally saw it..... This has to be STUPIDEST fucking spot ever put on the air.

Have you ever seen it, and what are your thoughts?

Dan in Vegas.