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December 6, 2005

The three worst commercials on TV

1) The whole series of Radio Shack commercials, featuring people who should only get coal (and not the candy kind) begging for expensive gadgets with the vague notion that if they got them, they might behave like slightly less useless human beings. You know the ones I mean...they're lined up on the side, waiting to sit in the red chair, and prove that yes, people really can get worse. How is this good for Radio Shack? I hate these people, and I never want to be where they go to shop.

2) The Nokia breakup lady - "I toss his pictures, and the ticket stubs, and then I delete him from my phone and it's sooo great." Thank goodness for TiVo. If I see this commercial and I don't have future to catch up with, I pause, so I don't have to listen to her.

3) The Capital One people vacationing out of season. Once again, I hate these people. Everyone knows that if you go to a ski resort in the summer, you take mountain bikes. And the dad is sooo annoying. I understand that he's not real, but seriously, is that body cast from hurling yourself down a mountain really worth being a moron for? I think I'll start fast-forwarding/pause-then-skipping these commercials too. They only got on my nerves this week. I've been waiting for something to tip the scales so I could have "three worst" for a week or so.

Note to network execs: I wouldn't be so focused on being able to fly through commercials with my TiVo if you didn't let such annoying commercials on your stations. I tend to forget to fast forward until something annoys me, and then I skip all the commercials in that break. Your revenue model is only as secure as the weakest link in the chain, ie, the firms that created, sold, and show commercials like the ones mentioned here.

Posted by Janice Ryan at December 6, 2005 12:53 AM

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The commercial that annoys me recently is the cell phone commercial (I forget the company) where the family is at the mall. The dad starts going over who is going to call who when they are done. Then all the family members say they don't have cell phones. The dad then realizes and says he doesn't have one. If he doesn't have one, why is he talking and planning like he does? That one really annoys me.

Posted by: Dan at December 13, 2005 2:11 PM

Oh, Janice, Janice, Janice... I so love that Nokia commercial. When I first heard it, I thought: "ha ha ha, everyone has a break up ritual." As I was in the middle of working on my own. I thought that it was humorous as the commercial when finishing up. Then, the cut to the phone and the voiceover: "David who?" I totally related.

Posted by: Casey at January 4, 2006 12:34 AM

The COMMERCIAL THAT MAKES ME CRINGE IS FOR WHISPAS. UNFORTUNATELY ANIMAL CHANNEL IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITES SO I'M CONSTANTLY BANGING ON THE REMOTE BUTTON. THEY ARE SO.......DAMN DUMB, THEY'LL MAKE YOU HATE CATS!!!!!

Posted by: janie at October 26, 2006 9:56 PM

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