As we announced earlier this week, Consumerist is out to find the worst commercials currently airing on TV. So far, the response has been overwhelming, but there’s still time to get your least-favorite ads nominated.
We’ll be taking nominations via e-mail through 11:59 p.m. ET Friday, Aug. 20, so get your poison pen out now before it’s too late.
To reiterate, there are only two qualifications that all nominees must meet (aside from being grating, overplayed and obnoxious):
1. The ad must be for a national brand. As funny as it is to watch craptastic local ads, we’re looking for commercials that annoy TV watchers nationwide.
2. The ad must have aired in 2010. Preference will be given to nominees that are still on the air, but if there’s a commercial that has only recently gone out of rotation that merits a demerit, we’ll consider it.
Once again, while the topic is open for debate and discussion in the comments, only those nominees mailed to tips@consumerist.com with the subject “bad ad nominee” will be considered.
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Have a new contender. Do you get bombarded with those “Get back in school” commercials? There is one where the guy says “how many times can you change your life with just one phone call.” Then he goes on to say “Make the call” about 10 times in different video captures ending with one more of him popping out saying “Did you call yet?”
This commercials plays a countless number of times throughout the day and sometimes several times within the same tv show spot. Please…end it..naow!
THAT’S A GOOD PRICE!
I KNOW!
ugh. Staples ftw.
The “Your Baby Can Read” commercials that air every night on every channel on every commercial break. I want that commercial to die in a huge fiery explosion, revive, and then die again. >
1) Activia yogurt guy in the park… “This is really good!” WHAT ARE YOU CHEWING ON??! IT’S F’N YOGURT!
2) Cox communications…. a better way to watch TV
3) Game show network promo for some show… TWENTY FIVE…THOUSAND DOLLARS!
4) Every senior citizen should have a life alert
Do you want a brand name wireless laptop??
Not sure if it’s still on the air, but there was an American Express ad recently with a testimonial from a guy named Tom Traindouche (not sure of the spelling but that’s how it was pronounced). You’d think they could find a happy cardmember who didn’t have “douche” in his name.
The “beer and wine and cupcakes” lady from Chase is very annoying. She doesn’t even sound too convinced that she even likes the card. It’s like she’s trying to talk herself into it.
The Progressive lady (Flo). She’s made up a bit too much like a blow-up doll for my tastes. Makes me wonder about the guys who think she’s hot.
Any overpriced or unnecessary financial product (“free” credit report, credit card relief, payday loans, overpriced life insurance pitched to seniors). Although in all fairness to the commercial producers, in those cases, it’s the product itself that annoys me.
Boner pills, whether true pharmaceuticals or the snake oil “supplements.” How do those of you with small children explain what those are about?
JG Wentworth, every commercial that uses cartoons to sell something to adults. Charmin bears come to mind.
Absolutely the “techie” moron of Time Warner Cable (the white guy in his 40s wearing still clothing that would not have been so out of place in 1990).
Those Liberty Medical commercials with the old dude who can’t pronounce Diabetes. “If you have Dye-uh-bee-tiss, and you’re on Medicare…” UGH.
The McDonald’s commercial about Spaceman Stu. The song has nothing to do with burgers and the guy’s voice seriously makes me want to punch the person next to me.