Most overplayed commercials on TV right now

[Ash]

It seems there are a few commercials that get played at least 100 times per hour on God knows how many different networks.

The Arby's commercials with the "Oven Mitt" character are driving me INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want to see Oven Mitt thrown into an oven and hear his muffled screams from inside it.

Or maybe I'd put him down the garbage disposal in the sink.  
That would be a fitting end to him.

Another commercial is the Mitsubishi SUV one with the kids in the backseat watching SpongeBob Square Pants.  

It's driving me crazy!!!!!!!

I'm to the point now where I mute the TV whenever a commercial break comes on and force myself to look away.

I used to change the channel but most commercial breaks take place at the same times on different networks so when I do change the channel there's commercials on that network as well!

It seems that I can't get away from TV ads.....maybe I'll just have to stop watching TV.

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know, I never used to mind TV ads.  But now more than ever I'm feeling their constant bombardment upon me and it's really starting to get to me.

Do any of you feel this way?

What are the most overplayed commercials you can think of that are on TV right now?



Post Edited (07-27-03 20:53)

[Scott0]

I like Quiznos commercials in small doses. I think they are funny at times, but when I see them every break, I want to run at the screen with a brick. And often they are played so much that when I change the channel, I see the exact same commercial a few seconds off from each other. That is a bad thing.

[wuggles451]

i remember a Quiznos comercial where a woman ate the sandwitch outta the trash. gross. then another where the chef is making a sandwitch without anypants on... i dont think i am gonna ever eat at a Quiznos ever.

[Apostic]

(1) An ad for WebEx was getting an unsettlingly large amount of airtime on Fox News.  This is the one with Lily Tomlin doirng her old Ernestine the telephone operator character.  I think this commercial was produced by someone who must've either hated that character or didn't understand how or why it worked.  Tomlin's just plain creepy in this.  I mean Freddy Krueger creepy, and I don't mean that in a good way.  Astoundingly annoying, too.  Damn thing used to play about two - three times a half hour.  Haven't seen it recently.  Good riddance.

(2) And then there are these ads for Sprite.  They used to have a good ad campaign saying that image was nothing, but recently they've turned to this image laden series of ads with scratch DJ's and tricked out cars with hydraulic lifts as examples of rebellious individualism.  These might've been a bold and daring images of individuality and rebellion about twenty years ago, but now it's out of touch.  It's rebellion as envisioned by somebody who hasn't rebelled in a looooong time - if ever.  Late night/very early morning, these ads would play maybe three or four times an hour on the Cartoon Network.  Result: I stopped watching the Cartoon Network latenight for a couple of weeks.  I haven't seen those ad's lately, but now they've been playing in commercial sets before movies in theaters.  As if the crap they preview wasn't annoying enough.

regards,

Apostic

[lester1/2jr]

1. Petmeds.  

My favorite ad is the ADT add where the bald smashes the window and the mom and the two kids run upstairs.

[Ash]

I just caught that ADT ad the other night when the guy is trying to break in and the mom rushes her kids upstairs and lock themselves in the bedroom while the cool and professional ADT customer service representative calls the police.

They intended it to be serious but it comes off as funny!
I don't know exactly why I laughed at it but I did.

And the Petmeds ads....AHHH!!!!

They have a new one now but do any of you remember the first one?
There was that lady with the long curly red hair and she gave the most twisted evil look and says, "I saved time and money."

She gave me nightmares.



Post Edited (07-28-03 14:32)

[raj]

that damned singing "Thank you for. . ."  Gaa, I can't stand that ad!

And, of course Carrot-freaking-top is still on the air.

Fortunately Michelin has gotten rid of the "you must want babies to die if you don't use our tires" ads.

[onionhead]

And good riddance to the Comcast ad with the Alfred Molina lookalike  : "What noise?"--"You know , the eeeeeeeee-errrrrrrrrrrh-AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!  God I hate that noise."
About the only character I would personally like to execute.

[Fearless Freep]

I have a standing policy that I do not use companies whose ads annoy me.

This includes commercials that have overtly annoying characters but also commercials the have sill tag lines that sound cool but really make no sense ("CNN...now, more than ever") and *especially commercials that show some idiot getting in trouble that needs a given product or service to get out of the mess they're in.  The implication I take from that is that the company thinks I'm an idiot, too.

[lester1/2jr]

The Onion made fun of those carrot top ads a while ago.  something like no one in the ad department remembered hiring Carrot Top or thinking up that "dial down the middle" business

[lester1/2jr]

that adt ad is nothing but a warped sexual fantasy.  The burgular is obviously the gimp of the so called mother.  The kids were possibly kidnapped

[NightFlight]

I would have to agree that  the Oven Mitt commercials are the most overplayed.  It's pretty sad that Arby's has to resort  to an oven mitt as a mascot to sell their food.  And  it's pretty sad that the people in the commercials are even talking to an oven mitt.  I think they all need a reality check, and a vacation from the job.  Yes, the oven mitt needs to be thrown into the oven so we can all hear him scream, "I have no ears, I have no nose, I have no mouth, I no longer have a contract!"

[Ash]

hahahaha!

That was f**kin' great NightFlight!

Just what I needed to hear...er....read!



Post Edited (07-29-03 02:58)

[Susan]

It's rare I watch commercials, I've flipped or muted them for the past several years. Due to their:

1. Abundancy..there's almost an equal number of minutes for commercials as the actual show your watching.
2. Repetativeness (often they repeat consecutively)
3. The fact that commercials are set to have a higher volume so as to blast in your face and grab your attention.
4. Lastly but not leastly, they are invading my sanctuary (the theater) - a safehaven I always thought I could go to get away from it all

Plus I sometimes hate the fact companies even have to advertise. I mean some products are optional..they're luxeries. Others you are going to buy no matter what - I really don't need anyone to try and sell me toilet paper or tampons...or talk about how good plastic is.

Does anyone have TiVO? does that thing block commercials? :)



Post Edited (07-29-03 18:20)

[Ash]

Go here to read more about Tivo:

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=product-placement.htm&url=http://www.tivo.com/0.0.asp

I'd consider getting it if it weren't so darn expensive.