What is the stupidest comercial on TV?

I think that Pepto commercial with those giant monsters doing the Pepto-dance is really dumb. Anyone else have some can didates?
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Head on! Apply directly to the forehead.
Head on! Apply directly to the forehead.
Head on! Apply directly to the forehead.
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They made a new version. The comercial plays reguraly for a few seconds, but then it freezes, someone walks up with a Head-On tube, and they say something like "Head On1 Your commercial is horrible, but I LOVE your product!" so it's actually bareable now.
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Vonage makes stupid commercials. Woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo!

Wow, I'm sure not as dumb as that guy who jumped in the alligator pit with raw steak stuffed in his lederhosen, so I'm going to buy that phone.

?!??!
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At first I couldn't stand the two guys in the Sonic commercials, but they got funnier so they are not too bad now.
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Old Navy commercials. Doesn't matter which one, they are all equally horrible.
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Vontage gets my vote - particularly the one where the blonde runs into the ocean full of sharks yelling "Dolphins!"

Head On is really close, though - both versions

Unlike what they teach about marketing/advertising, I CAN be insulted intellectually enough to NOT buy something on principle!
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Any political one.
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Unlike what they teach about marketing/advertising, I CAN be insulted intellectually enough to NOT buy something on principle!



I totally agree, there are some comercials that are so annoying that even if I wanted the product I wouldn't buy it, becuase doing so would just validate teh money they speant to annoy me.
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Yep...the old Head On commercial was like nails on a chalkboard, it's almost bearable now (maybe they planned it that way with the follow up...hmmm).

All the Mentos commercials with the cute smiling people holding the product up to the camera after performing an oh so clever stunt really rubs me the wrong way.
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Head On... I cringe at the mention of those commercials...
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Head On... I cringe at the mention of those commercials...


I hate those commercials. There is this doctor who sometimes appears on the FOX news channel and gives advice. Someone asked him about the Head On, product and he said it has no medical value. That it just has some herbal ingrediants. He said that is why they can never actually say in the commercials that it releaves your headache, they are not allowed to make that claim.

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I was about to say that head-on commercial, and I hate it even more now with the people that say "I hate your commercial, but I love your product". I think that's even more annoying, they're just so retarded.
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All of them. They all assume that we are mindless little drones who will buy anything they flash on the screen. Unfortunately I guess there are some of those people out there... I buy something because of necessity (or want   )not because someone says I should.
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I also hate any and all car used car lot commercials.
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I think the ones with Joan Cusack selling phones are awful I hate her lol.

You guys are right about being intellilectuasziuallyfsly being so turned off by a commercial as to actual retain a negative image of the product because of that. Marketers need to stop doing these stupid commercials, that keep this in peoples head's. It's great to have a commercial that sticks, cause it's slightly annoying or but it's totally better to have one that sticks because it's clever or catchy or just incredible.

Marketing/Commercials are lame in general.
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intellilectuasziuallyfsly


You know... reading this word really made my head hurt. Owwww  
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You know... reading this word really made my head hurt. Owwww


  Maybe you need a Head on.
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I am scared by the new Microsoft commercials with the people dancing all funky. Those white people scare the crap outta me!! But the claim to most annoying absolutely must be Vonage, hands down, without a down, Vonage has the most idiotic commercials. I wish that company would die a quick, gruesome death.
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Anyone have that not so fresh feeling?
Ghad..

Also I can not stand that new Capital One commercial with millions of scissors running around in the city streets cutting up credit cards people throw at them. That commercial scared the crap out of my kid.

Oh and that stupid Geico commercial where the green lizard dude is talking with a fake Larry King. ( I took a few Minutes and switched from Geico and saved a ton of money on my Car insurance ) About 450 dollars a year. Went with Allstate. That's no joke.
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Hey the Capital One comment got me thinking about some really clever commercials..I kind of like thier commercials with all the out of work barbarians, those were funny
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Oh and that stupid Geico commercial where the green lizard dude is talking with a fake Larry King. ( I took a few Minutes and switched from Geico and saved a ton of money on my Car insurance ) About 450 dollars a year. Went with Allstate. That's no joke.

I hate Geico! April 16, 2000 I moved from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Stafford, Virginia, USA. When I got off the highway 401, speed limit 100km/hr / 62miles/hr, and got on the Bridge to the USA, the speed limit dropped to 50km/hr / 31miles/hr. I was not focusing on my speed but instead worrying that the border agents might find some flaw in my paperwork and deny me my T1-VISA. The OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) setup a speed trap and clocked me going 78km/hr / 49miles/hr on the bridge. The next day I switched my car insurance to Geico but did not tell them about the speeding ticket since I thought they could not check on it since it was in Canada. Two weeks later Geico called to say they were dropping me because they had ruled me a high risk driver! In Virginia, going 20 or more miles/hr over the speed limit is considered reckless. I tried explaining I was 28 km/hr over with is less than 20miles/hr and the officer did not write me up as reckless but to no avail!
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Virginia you say? Me too. Try doing 20 miles an hour over the speed limit in Virginia on I95 north or south bound. You will get run the hell over, that is of course if you are moving. You are either doing MACH 3 or your at a dead stop for 3 hours.
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The population grownth since 2000 is considerable but the road construction has lagged far behind house construction! It takes me as long or longer to commute 60miles/100km to my current job at AOL in Dulles, VA as it did to commute 75miles/120km to Germantown, MD back in 2000! I miss when I was living in Ottawa and was able to cycle to work; the long commute gets old real fast!
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In Arizona, if you are caught going either 20 or 25 over the limit (I don't remember which), you are automatically taken to jail.