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The skin tag commercial on TV is enough to gag a maggot. It gets my vote for the Worst Ad Of The Year award. Feel free to nominate for your worst ad, present or past…—Not a big fan of TV anyway
This article appears in Apr 1-7, 2010.
31 Comments
Well the ad worked if you are up here posting about it.
That commercial IS a little on the gross side. Negative concepts in advertising have the opposite effect on me, it just makes me avoid that particular product.
i nominate the tooth bugs toothpaste commercial, its bacteria people not bugs
IT’S A HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN THAT STUPID FUCKING RAPPING BABIES ONE FOR THAT EVIAN PISS WATER.
The Philly Man-servant commercial is annoying because I don’t have one of those and he’d sure come in handy around my house:P
Could be worse — could be a commercial for a yeast infection.
Or another fucking “Mother nature” tampon commercial or that “have a happy period!” pad commercial. Yeah, have a happy period…I’ll get right on that. *gag*
I agree, PK. Any commercial for “feminine products” makes me want to hurl things at my television.
I wouldn’t nominate this as the worst, but the one bugging me at the moment is for some rice dinner that’s done in the microwave. This girl comes running into the kitchen in her bra and pantyhose, surprised that dinner is ready so quickly. What? Did she not remember how much time she programmed the microwave for? Or, did she randomly punch in a number with her eyes closed and it just happened to be the correct cooking time? Or, did she think she could get completely dressed in under five minutes? And who the hell yanks their pantyhose up over their navel?
Oh, and PK, I agree about that “happy period” commercial. Geezus, friggin crap, what moron came up with that slogan, and how many other morons sat there and agreed it was a good one?
ah to live without commercials…
how sweet it is.
ahem…evian is naive spelled backwards
TDF… maybe her thermostat is busted.
She can dress like that in my home anytime…
I’m a fan of the new kotex commercials that make fun of all the other period time commercials, they definitely hit the nail right on the head with the dancing and spinning around in slow motion
they should really show a treehouse with booze and dope, yeah have a happy period
TDF: MEN. That’s who.
Also, regarding the rice commercial: if she had REALLY just taken it out of the micro she wouldn’t be able to eat it right away because it’d be too freaking hot. I know, I’ve cooked those damn things and they come out HOT. And where’s the fucking STEAM coming off of the dish? Frig sakes.
zZz, I’m with you there.
Except for the mention of period’s and all the products advertised for that, which I remember from my days of having TV reception & obviously ais still happening. I recognize none of the other mentioned crap !
Life is good & exactly how ‘naive’ does one have to be to buy over priced ‘evian’ water ?
I always got a chuckle out of demonstrations of how absorbant a pad was & they dump blue liquid on it to prove just how wonderfully absorbant it is…blue ??? why blue ? why not be realistic & use red ?
The lawyer of the flasher in South End Halifax is using that ad as his defence. “It wasn’t a penis, it was an enlarged skintag.” That will get the guy off all charges for sure 🙂
conservative blue… nothing that comes out of you is blue…
red yes…
green yes…
blue … you have some bigger fucking issues than which maxi to choose.
There’s a toilet paper commercial on now where they ask some kid if 2 is more than one, and he jumps at the screen and yells “duh” and I REALLY want to punch him every time.
what are you talking about, i love this commercial!
mommy you’re so pretty, BUT WHATS THAT GROSS THING ON YOUR NECK!! it doesn’t get any better then that
Couple radio ads I hear at work everyday are really starting to get on my nerves. The bell aliant one with the guy that keeps saying bundles. Just because you think the bell aliant bundles are awesome doesn’t mean you have to talk like a robotic douchebag.
The second one is the frugal MLA winning call on Q104. Ok, we get it. She won. Now stop reminding us already!
Christmas commercails (tv AND radio) are always annoying but the ones either well before or after the season are particularly loathesome.
Toilet paper bears. Rollerskating babies. Every beer commercial ever.
It could be worse, they could bring back the Canadian Tire family.
Or those squeaky Canadian Tire drop-down aisle signs that were like nails on a chalkboard!
I once saw an ad that wanted people to “Bazooka that verucca”…and they weren’t talking about the annoying brat in Willie Wonka.
My vote goes for “Have a Happy Period”, too. Whoever thought that was a good advertising campaign never had a period, happy or otherwise.
Or the twit who tousled herself softly and suddenly became a rock star.
Or infomercials that over exaggerate the difficulty of normal household chores in order to sell crappy items (like E-Z Cracker).
Or the companies that recycle ads after 6 months, like Scotiabank.
ahhh verucca salt…
oh the memories
i enjoy ads with dogs in them…could give a shit what they’re trying to sell me
The Telus hippos get my vote. Seriously, next by-election. By the way Trevor Zinck, I want my fucking bus pass back.
What about those annoying Pepto Bismal song & dance ads, where people dance to that irritating slogan of theirs?