Well, for starters,

1. That ridiculous Toyota meteor-proof truck ad. Its plethora of mistakes and absurdities is discussed in another thread somewhere.

2. The car ad that states that the particular vehicle is the "most appealing" of any cars. What the heck does "most appealing" mean? It's never defined in the ad. BTW, this ad failed one of the basics: I really don't recall the actual product.

3. The Viagra (Cialis?) ad with the idiot running around with the apparently permanent ear-to-ear grin. Makes Alfred E. Neumann look positively intelligent and handsome. Glad I don't need that product.

4. The Coors Light (AKA "Cowboy Koolaid") "beer" commercial that is supposedly located at Foxboro, Massachusetts. It shows the temperature as being 100 F. Can't remember the last time it got that hot in Gillette stadium during football season, if ever. But now during the regular season in December it is pathetically hilarious to see the commercial's Patriots fans sweating in the heat while the actual game is being played during a snowstorm.

5. Any and all ads for 4-wheelers that are shown ripping the wilderness to shreds, kicking up rocks, and creating future erosion channels.

6. Any and all ads for SUVs that are shown ripping the wilderness to shreds, kicking up rocks, and creating future erosion channels.

7. Ads for SUVs that show yuppies on mountaintops celebrating their wonderful achievement, i.e., driving their SUV to the mountaintop.

8. Ads for alcoholic beverages where the protagonists appear to be young enough to still be in high school.

9. The Domino's pizza ad where the father allows his children to turn on the light for a few seconds to look at the pizza, and then shut it off, because they're trying to save money. Meanwhile he's ordering delivered pizza, one of the world's great bargains.

Anyone have some other candidates?

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Any Jeep ad that uses the phrase "most capable". Most capable of what? Breaking down? That's what mine did - I was wrenching on that thing on a regular basis.

My wife's all-time hurler is the nail fungus ad showing a little demon lifting a toenail and digging away at the flesh underneath. Of course, if you take the "medicine" being advertised, your doctor will have to monitor you for possible liver damage...a liver is a small price to pay for pretty toenails, though.

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It's a tie between all prescription drug ads. They say a doctor who self-prescribes has a fool for a patient. How much more so when the "doctor" has no credentials whatsoever?

A close second is the white terrier eating peanut butter. Geh. I couldn't so much as look at the stuff for close to a year after seeing that ad.

I generally think poorly of commercials that involve blue liquid euphamisms and/or baby backsides.

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I hate that Hummer commercial where the kid builds his own Hummer-like wooden vehicle and then cheats his way to winning the soapbox derby by going off the track. It fits in nicely with my idea of the type of person who would buy a Hummer for personal use in the first place.

Oh, I just remembered that Ford Focus commercial where this woman is "above" waiting in line by sneaking into the men's restroom and driving on the sidewalk while rolling her eyes at the poor deluded souls who, you know, follow road laws and don't run people down in their haste to get where they're going.

She could have at least pulled out a roll of Mentos to show she was a harmless scamp doing harmless scampy things. That would have made it all right.

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There's this hair-regroth add
This really busty guy is going on about how he lost his hair(hes like 28 and looks likes hes never lost a hair on his head) and it's scientifficly proven etc...

EVIL

And theirs another one for hair- shampoo or something...
At the end a guy asks "honney wheres my socks" "in your draw" WT..?
It has no relation to the actuall add- it's just thrown in their for the "men are hopeless" girlpower buy our product... it just makes no sence....

Those crazyfrog and sms adds

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Any commercial that has an annoying theme song that I CANNOT GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

All of them!

I record everything and skip through the adds

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You mean you've never seen any of the Geico commercials?

You poor poor boy you.

I was going to mention all of the Geico commercials as being particularly annoying.

Also, there is a new car commercial where the family is out for a drive in the ocean, and the kids are watching sharks through the sunroof. Ugh.

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Any and all commercials that involve phone operators intentionally making your life harder.

Any and all commercials for prescription drugs.

Any and all commercials that say their claims are not proven by the FDA.

Any and all commercials wherein someone comes home from a long day at work and has to make dinner for people sitting around the house.

Any and all commercials for alcoholic beverages.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Man. I love the Geico commercials.

I'll nominate the ad for toilet paper that features animated, cutsey bears. Makes my stomach churn every time.

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"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

Seconded, and LOL at #7. [pumps fist] Yeah! I'm a man! I can drive uphill!

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"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

I'll second that. Showing cutesy bears wipe themselves is... weird...

Oh, also: Any tampon commercials. Not just tampon commercials, but tampon commercials on, say, Spike TV.

"TV for men!"
"Buy tampons now!"

Ditto, but I have to say the ones that DON'T TELL YOU IT'S PURPOSE!!! break the tie and take the lead. 30 seconds or a minute of people taking walks in a field or sailing or hugging their children or just generally skipping and happy. BUT WHAT DOES IT TREAT!!! They just tell me I need it, go see your doctor today!! Hey doc I need this pill, but I don’t know why.

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I can't think of any that I particularly hate right now, but one that I really find hilarious is the new Future Shop one (I'm not sure if Future Shop is even in the states, so you guys might not have seen this) where they're spoofing some kind of ridiculous 80s synthpop music video and shoot lasers out of their crotches.

The commercials for Total cereal where people are given multiple bowls of some other cereal in order to get the daily requirement of nutrient X that Total provides with just one bowl. [rant]You're not supposed to get all of the day's nutrition from one bowl of cereal! You should try to eat sensibly all day! Pizza should be the source of your nutrients![/rant]

Of course now they've got an even lamer commerical. In this one, a crew performs an "extreme makeover" of this couple's kitchen by replacing the one box of Total with three different flavors and the couple are just completely overwhelmed by this fabulous "makeover". Count me underwhelmed. In fact, count me Totally underwhelmed. Not by this thread, mind you!

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The Best Buy 'Holiday Carol' commercial, with the family telling the store clerk exactly what they want... To the tune of "The 12 days of Christmas".

The new Canadian Tire commercial with the talking Dog.

Actually, that's about it, I can apparently withstand a fair amount of idiocy from a commercial.

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Or any of the The Bay Christmas commercials which remind me of that Sarah Jessica Parker "I love being a girl" ad.

Government Employee Insurance COmpany
How many of you knew that? ...probably a few I guess... It just seems like must people didn't know it even meant anything.
It's not just for gov't employees anymore though. It's one of the cheaper auto insurance companies here in the US.

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There is an advert on the TV at the moment for orange juice where there are two hippos in bed, and one gives the other a "dutch oven". The juice isn't really mentioned in the ad at all. Talk about lowest common denominator...

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Those let-us-help-you-stop TV commercials by tobacco companies.
By odd (?) coincidence, smoking-in-the-movies is "back up to levels not seen since the 1950s".(And I'd love to hear the justification for TV's 'Becker' chain-smoking title character, portraying a doctor.)

All cerial adds


BLEAH BLEAH

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Probably the most popular of those commercials is when rogaine with minoxidil came out. I can't stand prescription drug commercials either.

or

• life insurance commercials
• phone company commercials for cellular or long distance rates (10-10-321 type included)
• lawyer commercials
• fertalizer commercials (you see a lot of these in the prairies come spring time)
• debt consolidation commercials
• loan commercials
• school diploma from home commercials

There's probably a dozen I've missed, but these are the most common that I can think of at the moment.

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Now I don't want to start a political discussion...but...

I "most dislike" military recruitment commercials...particularly the one where the "appearently" single mom's son says "it's time for me to be the man".

...like he can't be the man unless/until he joins the army...

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Here in the UK, there is a terrible WKD advert. Men running to the fridge in slow motion to get the last bottle of WKD. It is hideously unfunny but always seems to be shown.

I don't know of a single person who doesn't hate it.

Oh, so NOW you tell me!

I love the Happy Cow Commercials but grow weary of the jerk that base jumps off the mountain to his suv. Nice 4 hour climb back to the top at night.

And the commercial that was just on. Some stupid sausage with syrup in it. O wow, real Searop. The way she pronounces it, the long line of people just dyin to try it, the running away with the hotplate of them.

But those Cows, they take all the pain away. Say Cheese.

I dislike the coca cola commercials with the penguins and polar bears together at some mythical polar area.

Polar bears are at the north pole.

Penguins are at the south pole.

They don't coexist.

Coca Cola is spreading ecological misperceptions, oh the humanity.