The Worst Commercial

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What, in your opinion, is the worst commercial you've ever seen? This should be interesting since not every country gets the same commercials (obviously). For me and anyone in Canada I'm sure, it's gotta be the series of Canadian Tire commercials with the most sickeningly perfect family and their exploits.
 
Hey Anderton, worst ones are the "Brand Power" commercials with that annoying chick just talking at the camera......also the Sleep Country Canada commercials, with Chritine McGee and that annoying jingle....
 
Those are all really annoying commercials. Those tools on the Canadian Tire commercials just need to go away and never come back, plain and simple. Why does Canada get such craptacular ads?

But the most annoying one for me atm is on the radio for some vacation web site. They are advertising some deal where you get a resort package for $10 a day (yeah, right...) but the voice of the advertiser pisses me off so much! I honestly nearly threw an eraser at my radio the first time I heard it!

Those bell commercials with the synthesized voices are real annoying too. I wonder why annoying ads work? Anyone with marketing experience please explain this to me.
 
TwinTurboJay
Hey Anderton, worst ones are the "Brand Power" commercials with that annoying chick just talking at the camera......also the Sleep Country Canada commercials, with Chritine McGee and that annoying jingle....
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Why buy a matress anywhere else? Heh heh.

Have you seen this Ultramatic commercial, not the ones with Barlowe and the black&white noir detective fiction spoofs, and not the ones with that guy with the huge nose and the moustache. This one's much worse, if you can believe it. It's just a black screen with white words to the most annoying jingle of all time, and a yellow ball bounces on each syllable and turns it yellow as it's sung. The commercial's like 5 minutes long too! The chorus is something like, "Call 1-877 Lay Down" and I would like to shoot my TV when it comes on, but I don't own a gun (sorry 87chevy, low blow).
 
Hey EvO what's your favourite of all those Canadian Tire attrocities? By favourite I of course mean which one is the absolute worst in your opinion? Mine is for something called the Eliminator or something, which the father explains to the kid (sappiest, ugliest, and most idiotic kid ever, btw) how they can use the A/C outlet in their van (Ford Windstar of course) to have a working electrical outlet when they go CAMPING! The worst part is not that, as the father exclaims, "We can use it to watch DVDs like Jack Storm vs. The Mummy!" but that this family actually needs electricity so they can plug their TV in when the go camping.

Isn't Canada supposed to be a bunch of rugged outdoorsmen who enjoy the wilderness? When I go camping I need a tent, a fire, and a hole in the ground. And this from Canadian Tire of all stores!
 
Loud, those kill ! I laugh almost everytime....and there is a new gum / mint commercial with the guy in a cab freezes and his head falls off....thatsa nice-a
 
I don't really have a worst Canadian Tire commercial. They've done so many of them and they are all of such poor quality that they all seem to blend together for me.

Ugh, and I forgot about that Ultramatic commercial. Terrible.
 
I hate screaming car dealer commericals. I hate them! I have to change the channel, otherwise I find myself in a bad mood afterwards. I am sure everyone has the same type of commerical in their area.
 
Yeah like those guys from Lockport Gambino Ford, with their "Hi Mom!" signs. Horrible!

Some companies can never seem to get it right with TV advertising. Werther's Originals comes to mind. They used to have that old grandfather guy giving one to his grandson, but it was so make-you-puke that they stopped using it. Then they had one where it was a POV of some interviewer asking people why they were buying Werthers at the supermarket. It was so stupid!
 
The worst commercial is the one for those Oral B things you put on your finger to brush your teeth with. All these idiots dancing around a Subway going "Ahhh..." and jerking their heads back. It's downright embarassing, not to mention the fact that a toothbrush is already very portable so the product is wasteful and superfluous.

I also hate that GAP commercial with Lenny Kravitz and Sara Jessica Parker mostly because I can't stand her, not so much him.
 
SO I'm not the only one who think Sarah Jessica Parker is ugly and annoying? Not to mention she has three names. An immediate disqualification.

Sean William Scott.
Jada Pinkett-Smith
Paul Thomas Anderson (okay, he's pretty cool).
 
If you think the Canadian Tire ads are dumb, you should see them in French. The actors are even more pathetic.

Over here, we get our US network feed from either the state of New York or Vermont, so anyone in that region might know what I'm talking about, unless that ad is shown across the States. It's and ad for a portable security system for old people, Life Alert, I believe it's called. It's so disgustingly pathetic it gets funny. The actors are all 75+, so they're all reading a text, and it shows, plus they're all dressed up as if that thing was shot in 1975, ranging from the guy belonging in a sect, to the couple in pyjamas looking a tad mentally ill, all the way to the doctor with immense ears, only to end with a guy in an office which reminds me of Colonel Sanders.

Worst ad ever.
 
Magic069
I hate screaming car dealer commericals. I hate them! I have to change the channel, otherwise I find myself in a bad mood afterwards. I am sure everyone has the same type of commerical in their area.
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Those kind of commericals?

Also ever seen those get rich through government programs commercials? The guy, and his god-awful question mark-laden suit are über-annoying.
 
The DirecTV ads for "MLB Extra Innings". Basically, it's a monologue of a ball player, with very still or slow-moving camera work. That's not the problem, though. The worst part of the ad is the "music" in the background.

That is, if you call the sound of a recently-struck tuning fork emitted into a Fisher-Price "My First Recording Device"...a form of music.
 
That SciFi commercial thing where that little kid shoots fire from his mouth, hate it becuase the kid looks and gesters like my 10.5 year old cousin who still shamelessly ****s his pants and doesn't care.
 
PunkRock
Over here, we get our US network feed from either the state of New York or Vermont, so anyone in that region might know what I'm talking about, unless that ad is shown across the States. It's and ad for a portable security system for old people, Life Alert, I believe it's called. It's so disgustingly pathetic it gets funny. The actors are all 75+, so they're all reading a text, and it shows, plus they're all dressed up as if that thing was shot in 1975, ranging from the guy belonging in a sect, to the couple in pyjamas looking a tad mentally ill, all the way to the doctor with immense ears, only to end with a guy in an office which reminds me of Colonel Sanders.

Worst ad ever.
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Yeah, I see these ads from time to time. Then again, we border Quebec too. But still, pretty funny.

I swear to god I hate the commercials my local cable company puts out. I mean, the quality is kinda lame, but the annoying thing is that they're shown 20,000 times in a day.
 
Channel 5 has the worst selection of ads. Most of them are about debt problems and how if you pay them your money they can "consolidate(sp) all your monthly outgoings into one managable sum." Or one where a bloke is looking at his bills, everything is blue and he's sweating. Then his wife walks in with a leaflet about one of these companies and the screen fills with everyday colours. They all have a big smile on thier dumb faces, then you see them driving off in a nice car. What a load of crap! Oh and I hate those women's tampon ads aswell, don't these people have taste anymore?
 
The worst commercials in my opinion are the ones that avertise Enzyte. The stupid music is extremely annoying as is the whole ad because it's avertising a stupid drug. What's even worse is one is played right after another so you have to sit through the same thing all over again.
 
We get the Life Alert commercials here in SoCal also, and they are that bad. C. Evert Coop wears one, yeah right!

One stupid commercial that I don't like is the Spy Vs. Spy ads for Mountain Dew. Worst ever. But, what really frosts my cupcake are those attorney commercials that run all day long for "injured on the job." It's no wonder SoCal has a serious workers comp fraud problem, eh?
 
I also hate bankruptcy lawyer and accident lawyer ads. They pretty much outrightly encourage dishonesty. It offends me. And the bankruptcy ones, including all the shady debt consolidation schemes, are blatantly predatory.
 
milefile
I also hate bankruptcy lawyer and accident lawyer ads. They pretty much outrightly encourage dishonesty. It offends me. And the bankruptcy ones, including all the shady debt consolidation schemes, are blatantly predatory.
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Do you guys get the one from the firm "Nicholas, Perot & Strauss?" There's another one of those "three name" firms always on Canadian TV but I can't remember the names. Always a hoot; for some reason, they're always quite funny to me!
 
Roo
"i'm lovin' it"

Need I say any more?
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How about the ones with schizophrenic weirdos ranting to imaginary people about stealing their chicken strips.

"Put down the chicken and step slowly away from the deliciousness."

*SMACK*
 

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