1) The obnoxious commercials from Toyota about their minivan, the Siena. I'm not sure if you've seen it, but basically the parents talk about how cool they are and how their minivan matches their awesomeness. There are actually a series of these commercials, including one in which the father in the family gets angry because somebody else dared to buy a Siena. Frankly, whenever I see a Siena on the highway now, I seriously consider smashing into it. Rather than buy, I kinda dislike anyone who WOULD buy it.
2) Pretty much any Walmart commercial will anger me, but have you seen the one where the woman is going through the store counting the rollbacks?! By the end of the commercial, she's counting into the thousands and I'm considering this representative of Walmart's incredibly well known employee relations. Eek. I'm not sure what it would take in an advertisement for Walmart for me to actually go to one of their stores, but this is definitely not it.
3) 5 Gum commercials that try to make the "taste sensation" of the gum comparable to some experience I would never want to live through. Clearly I am not the target demographic for this gum. If this happens when you chew their gum, count me back with my Trident!!
4) Do you guys remember that Mountain Dew commercial that was all World of Warcraft-y during which two women in the grocery store checkout late turn into warriors (?) and start attacking each other? I'm totally not this demographic. If something I buy is going to turn me into a rager, I think I'll opt to, umm, not buy it.
5) Those commercials for the Kia Soul with the hamsters. I just...don't want to live in that world.
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I agree with everything (ughh WalMart) except the hamsters- they make me laugh ;-)
ReplyDeleteTotally with you except that I'm sorry I love those hamsters!
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SO true. Gotta 'fess, the hamsters do make me laugh.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to see an advertising cliche turned on it's head ("Avoid cute animals")
I have never seen that Mountain Dew commercial before.
ReplyDeleteI like the guy in the Toyota commercial- some of the Sonic commercials he is in are funny.
I HATE those Kia commercials. They are ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteBut I think some of the non-rollback Wal-Mart commercials are pretty smart advertising - the ones where they talk about how you can save $XXX on food costs if you shop there, or whatever.
But man, there are some STUPID commercials on TV these days!
There are so many commercials that make me less likely to buy...most of them, in fact.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is I can't recall a single one because we very rarely watch TV and, when we do, we watch online where the commercials are minimal. :)
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