‘Tis the season to be jolly… Unless you’ve got to sit through hours and hours of the same holiday-themed commercials over and over again.
As an adjunct to our Worst Ad In America Awards, Consumerist is asking readers to get out their end-of-year frustration by nominating the worst holiday ads currently airing on TV.
We’re guessing that we’ll see a number of nominations for car and jewelry ads as both of those industries are making their annual holiday sales push.
In addition to nominating national commercials, we’d also like to hear about any oddball or horrid regional ads running in your area.
Leave your nominations in the comments below or send us an e-mail at tips@consumerist.com with “WAIA” in the subject.
Nominees will be accepted through 5 p.m. ET on Friday, 12/17.
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The North American Title Loan ad where a guy, standing next to a busty blonde, cheerily announces a “special holiday message” of the opportunity to put your car at risk for a few extra bucks for the holidays. Sickening.
The hhgregg bastardization of “12 Days of Christmas” really pisses me off. So do hhgregg’s ripoff prices,
the rolled up advertisement character from H.H. Greg is the most annoying of all to me. I’ll hit the T.v. mute button on my remote as fast as i can to avoid it.the next worse is Cricket wireless’ with people singing the song “respect” it would be on twice before the show came back on. I’m aggravated just thinking about it. Man i love the mute button.
All you Americans complaining about Best Buy’s ads? Be happy you don’t live up here! I guess I’m lucky I can’t find it on YouTube (else my monitor would have a fist-sized hole in it right now)–mom offers to give his Justin Bieber lookalike kid his Christmas present early. Then she, along with the blueshirts and a few assorted others start dancing to C+C Music Factory’s “Everybody Dance Now”. Yes, in 2010, still milking out that song (guess royalties were cheap) before mom hands the boy an Xbox (“with Kinect”) and boy (who definitely needs acting lessons) drops on his knees and faux-sincerely yelps “yes!” Like I said, it’s a good thing I can’t find this ad posted somewhere, since I can’t afford a new monitor right now.
Whoops. Meant “her Justin Bieber lookalike kid.” Must be the rage I’m getting about this ad that’s giving me pronoun trouble.
The worst holiday ad: Best Buy elf.
Runners-up: All the car ads. Jared (especially the one where the GPS does a horrible parody of Hal). The Salvation Army (put money in our kettles so we can pay for these TV ads and use the rest to help only straight Christians). Anything that uses a beat-to-death Christmas song.
The ad that should have been: “I have a Christmas shopping list and I need cash now…”
HAPPY HONDA DAYS – Most overplayed stupid TV commercial of the season
SAFEWAY – Stupid talking Christmas Tree ornaments…
I HATE HATE HATE the Hyundai ads with the creepy hipsters singing Christmas carols. I think they’re supposed to be cute and hip, but they’re just awful.
I hate all of the awful Hyundai Sonata commercials with the hipster singing duo, especially the Up On the Rooftop version. Wishy-washy stuttering vocals; “look we’re having fun acting zany and playing instruments and stuff”; songs that gets stuck in your head because they are cloying and annoying. So I guess if you’re a twentysomething hipster from Seattle or Portland (I wager) that is looking to buy a new car, Hyundai wants you to buy this one.
I’m also sick of the series of commercials about Robosan 4000. I can’t even remember what this campaign is for. All I know is that there’s an imaginary Japanese robot toy that every kid wants, called Robosan 4000, and some douchebags were able to get some for their kids.
And, all commercials where lyrics from traditional holiday songs are replaced with new lyrics about consuming, particularly the TJ Maxx one with the people on the escalator. Is that cliche ever actually funny/amusing/novel/appealing to anyone?
The annoying Hyundai commercials with the annoying hipsters singing Christmas songs in an annoying hipstery voice. aararararrrrrgggggggg!!!
RED HULK SMASH!
Too bad I didn’t see this item earlier but besides the horrid HH Gregg commercial with the singing(?) rolled-up Clippy-inspired whatsis, I also despise the PA Lottery’s holiday-themed ad with Phil (the 2nd-most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania) & his carol-singing relatives.
Awful.
Who in Gods name thought it was appropriate to post Trojan condom and vibrator commercials every 20 minutes on Christmas morning during an airing of the family movie, Star Wars? Spike TV is a major disappointment on this one!