History DethroningMoment / Advertising

** jmac9345: To make matters worse the same [[SarcasmMode genius]] (considering the ArtShift, it might not be the same group making the ad, but they still retain the same themes) who came up with that gem also made three (or more, [[FridgeHorror maybe?)]] Lucky Charms commercials that don't even focus on the misadventures of the kids trying to get [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Lucky's Lucky Charms.]] Both literally amount to "Lucky and his Marshmallow-shaped friends are bored, they get involved in some shenanigans with an outside force, [[SuddenlyShouting BUY OUR CEREAL!!!]]". [[OutOfCharacterMoment Lucky's not the smart, clever leprechaun we all know and love]], and like before, he's not even voiced by his usual actor. I'm all for a [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover between all of these beloved mascots]], but only if it's done it the style of General Mills regular commercials and don't [[WereStillRelevantDammit try to shoehorn in pop culture references]].

** Tropers/TheFarmboy: Their most recent commercial in regards to everyone's reactions for eating a burger, [[TotallyRadical while glaringly trying to]] [[WereStillRelevantDammit interject web culture in it.]] They had one reaction a "memer", resembling an ImageMacro (down to using the same font while saying "Like a Boss!" which was popular in 2009.) Then there were two girls taking selfies (one of them one-ups another by taking a picture while taking it.) However it comes to one say saying it was the bomb just for his peers to look at him annoyingly. [[SarcasmMode So using 90's slang makes you an outdated loser while having memes and selfies would make it timeless.]]

** Tropers/MightyMewtron: Progressive ads have been pretty tolerable for me. They're pretty stupid and loosely connected to the product, but I never fully hated them. But they aired a radio commercial in 2020 that genuinely upset me. It's called "Sounds From the Old World," and the joke is that they play audio from things that couldn't be done during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The one I heard was a scene of people sitting in a movie theater eating popcorn. Essentially, it's mocking the audience for no longer being able to do things that used to be commonplace. The intention is probably just to be "relatable" and appeal to people who miss public activities (they had some TV ads about Zoom calls that I found funny), but all it did was remind me of how much I and so many others had to give up in the past year, all while implying this was an "old world" we can never get back, which is a pretty pessimistic idea to promote even ironically. There's barely any connection to the insurance either - their tagline is something meaningless like "Deals so good, you'll feel like it's 2019 again." It's a particularly cruel case of WereStillRelevantDammit, only instead of a harmless meme, it's "staying relevant" by going, "Sucks that your entire year was ruined. Anyway, buy our insurance!" Newsflash, companies: when you talk about the pandemic, try not to take such a defeatist tone.

* Tropers/{{AxMachina}}: Honestly, when it comes to [[PublicServiceAnnouncement public service announcements]], there's not a lot of bad ones that come to my mind. But then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4srWvLXZRw this anti-smoking campaign from Truth]]. The gist of it is that when someone starts to make an excuse to smoke, a [[MemeticMutation meme comes on and says]] [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi "It's a trap."]] It just comes off as a really bad attempt to [[WereStillRelevantDammit "connect" with the younger demographic.]] [[SarcasmMode Obviously it's going to be seen as a timeless work of art and not]] [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece as something that future generations will see as dated and behind the times.]]

** Tropers/{{Pgj1997}}: I couldn't have said it better myself. That commercial is the very definition of WereStillRelevantDammit. The only problem is that most of those trends died out ages ago, or aren't as popular as they used to be. That and [[EveryoneOwnsAMac iPhones are severely underpowered compared to the competition, so very few people own them anymore]]. This is why I hate most marketing firms nowadays.

** jmac9345: To make matters worse the same [[SarcasmMode genius]] (considering the ArtShift, it might not be the same group making the ad, but they still retain [[WereStillRelevantDammit the same themes]]) who came up with that gem also made three (or more, [[FridgeHorror maybe?)]] Lucky Charms commercials that don't even focus on the misadventures of the kids trying to get [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Lucky's Lucky Charms.]] Both literally amount to "Lucky and his Marshmallow-shaped friends are bored, they get involved in some shenanigans with an outside force, [[SuddenlyShouting BUY OUR CEREAL!!!]]". [[OutOfCharacterMoment Lucky's not the smart, clever leprechaun we all know and love]], and like before, he's not even voiced by his usual actor. I'm all for a [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover between all of these beloved mascots]], but only if it's done it the style of General Mills regular commercials and don't [[WereStillRelevantDammit try to shoehorn in pop culture references]].

* [=BlackBaroness=]: The Masterclass trailer for ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' was bad enough to turn much of its core demographic away from the game, but what single-handedly ruined it is when the narrator states that the player can "make the bad guys cry [[AcceptableHobbyTargets like an anime fan on prom night]]." [[ThisLoserIsYou Even though a large chunk of potential buyers were anime fans]].
** SenorCornholio: [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Hey, you. Editing this page.]] Let me ask you a question: do you like [[Main/DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment awesome things that are awesome]]? Then don't watch this trailer, dude; it's anything but, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and it's super lame]]. Like, VideoGame/MegaManX7 lame. Believe me when I say that the above line about anime fans is simply the icing on this crud cake. Check out this TotallyRadical dialogue that makes the 90s facepalm in embarrassment; this is supposed to be a parody, but it's so over the top in your face that it might as well have a baseball cap and shades on. The point is, [[HypocriticalHumor it's dated and thinks it's being creative]]. Oh, and look at this: it wants to show you what you should look forward to in this game, but all we see are [[MemeticMutation pizza explosions]], gameplay that's more bare bones than your average Disney knockoff, and graphics so disappointingly low-res that they belong on the [=PS2=]. But I've saved the worst for last: "[[CringeComedy comedy]]" that tries to be funny, but really isn't even trying that hard. You could literally train a brain-dead donkey to write a better script, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint and they don't have any hands]]! Makes you wonder if the voice actor was being forced to read these lines, but what would he be forced to do? [[TakeThat Play Mighty No. 9?]]\\
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Okay, enough of that shtick. In a shellnut, this trailer made people weep like the game devs on opening night. This was such a terrible trailer that it turned backers away from the game altogether, the higher ups apparently hated it, and you'd have to wonder if the people behind the trailer were secretly working for Capcom.

* Tropers/AjWargo: Alright. I’ll level with you: I’m not really a big Bob Ross fan. I never watched much of The Joy of Painting, but I can still appreciate the kind and caring nature Bob brought to this world, and I can see why he has a thriving fandom who adore him. So seeing Mountain Dew disrespect him by using him for a commercial is just utterly disgusting. When Burger King began mocking Fred Rogers, he was quick to ask them to stop, and they complied easily. But Bob Ross is no longer with us, so no one has any grounds to stop Mountain Dew from disrespecting his legacy. What were these guys thinking?

* Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi: I can easily let Truth slide with their cat ad because I like cats, but I will not do the same for a certain ad from The Real Cost. Which one? [[NightmareFuel The one where anyone who smokes get their mouths replaced with USB ports]]. It's one thing to ScareEmStraight, but [[UncannyValley this ad makes my eyes bleed!]] The worst part is that it's plastered over sites such as Website/DeviantART, which I have been going to more often in the past few months. (Honestly, this ad should be restricted to TV only as that version gets a little more leeway with the woman stomping out a USB drive)

* Tropers/MisterToodleoo: One night in December 2018, a Canadian TV channel (either The History Channel or OLN) was airing a very short (10 seconds or less in length) PSA during many commercial breaks, and it extremely pissed me off due to it being blatant cancel culture propaganda/fearmongering. It starts with a man in an office workplace talking on a phone, but all we hear of his conversation is the line “That’s so retarded.” (I will admit, this is [[PrecisionFStrike a good way of getting people’s attention]].) This catches the attention of a female coworker, and we then see the man from her perspective. What is this perspective, you ask? Well, the man has turned into a demon! (And he’s heard speaking in some kind of demonic language; I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be.) We then cut to a young girl telling the camera that “When you use the R-word, people see you differently,” followed by a closing screen that includes a slogan. Okay, there are so many problems with this PSA! First of all, it doesn’t say what is wrong with the word, other than it supposedly ruining your reputation. Second of all, the onscreen slogan at the end (which I don’t want to type because it’s my BerserkButton) means that the people who made this PSA think that the word is completely irredeemable, which proves that they are unaware of the Italian word “ritardando”, which is used to tell musicians to slow down, as well as road signs in my home city telling truckers not to use “engine retarder breaks”. Third of all, “wordfighting” campaigns such as this can be psychologically harmful to people with my kind of OCD. For example, it would cause the supposedly “uncivilized” words to pop into our heads at certain times, such as when we hear incomplete sentences that begin with “That’s so ...”. I think that living in fear of these words is a waste of stress. Also, as ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' once showed, when you label and discriminate against people because of individual words they have said (like this PSA is doing), you are doing the same thing that caused the words to become taboo in the first place! Speaking of ''South Park'', modern airings of the show on Creator/MuchMusic bleep out the word “retarded/retard” but not “fuck”! Let me just finish by saying that when I was young, I used to be offended by words like “stupid” and “shut up” because I had been told they are “bad”. One time in fourth grade, I was having trouble forgiving a girl for telling some boys to “shut up”, and I never want to go back to that unforgiving mindset again, no matter how much PC culture wants me to.

** Silvermoon424: That commercial was pure NightmareFuel. To make matters even worse, not only was the commercial ridiculously long by the end of August, it was played constantly (usually at least once per show). It got to the point where I ended up just changing the channel whenever it ca
me on and switching back a couple of minutes later.

* Darkton: There was a commercial for... [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain something, I can't remember what]], but the way they advertised it was "You're a whole new you!" How do they demonstrate this? Well, the man tries to talk to his child, the child 'realizes' he's not the real dad. He tries to talk to his wife, his wife turns him down, too. He tries to get attention from the dog, the dog starts growling at him. For a moment, I thought this was going to be a commercial for identity theft protection, but it wasn't. While what they attempted was "Use our product and you'll be a changed man," what they managed was "Use our product and you'll be mistrusted by your loved ones."
** EmperorOshron: For those wondering, the product in question was Dr. Scholl's, if I remember correctly, suggesting that having the right footwear will improve your health/posture and make you feel physically better. It still doesn't justify the over-the-top reactions that the man's family have towards him.
** @/LadyNorbert: Right - the idea was that now that Dad's shoes fit properly and he feels great even after being on his feet all day, he's no longer a grouch to his family... and as a result, they don't recognize him. It was dumb and pointless.
** Tropers/StarTropes: So if I use Dr. Scholl's, people will think I've been replaced by a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod person]]? Remind me to never use Dr. Scholl's.

* fluffything: Credit Karma has one of the most offensively stupid commercials to come out in recent years. Long story short, the commercial features a woman looking up her credit online. When her sister asks why she's doing that, the other sister responds by asking if she wants to live with her parents for the rest of her life. Cue annoying clips of the sister being miserable while her mother is an obnoxious asshole for no reason whatsoever. Seriously, where do I start with how obnoxiously bad this is? Well, how about the fact that they make it seem like someone's credit score is the only reason why people might still live with their parents? Y'know, instead of all the other, more legitimate reasons. Second, nothing that shows the sister being miserable living with her parents has anything to do with her credit score. Instead, like I mentioned earlier, they just show her mother being a loud obnoxious asshole for absolutely no reason. So, the message of the commercial is "Have good credit or you'll be a miserable loser living with your asshole parents"? What kind of message is that? I'm sorry, but that doesn't make me want to check my credit score. It just makes me want to check the sanity of whoever thought this commercial was a good idea.
** StarTropes: Then I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that they made another one like it, this one featuring a young man whose annoying father is obsessed with the word "Bazang!" (At least, I think that's how it's spelled.)
** @/LadyNorbert: I hate every single Credit Karma commercial. The one that really made me roll my eyes is/was the one where the woman had her credit score tattooed on her arm, and when her friend pointed out that "Those things change," she replied, "Tattoos don't change!" as though her friend was the stupid one.

* batmany: Pop culture references are a staple of commercials. When done right, they're entertaining. When done wrong, well, that's where this DMOS comes in. The commercial in question is an ad for VSP (a company that sells glasses and contacts). Throughout the commercial, the spokesman (a guy named "Ken") talks about VSP while people constantly mistake him for Superman ([[DontExplainTheJoke Get it? Ken sounds a lot like "Kent".]]). Not only that, but the commercial constantly throws in references to the Superman franchise such as when two ladies are looking out a window and saying "It's a bird." "No. I think it's a plane.". The problem? The whole thing comes off forced and unfunny. There's no reason for the other people in the commercial to mistake Ken for Clark Kent other than the similar-sounding name and that both wear glasses. Likewise, the references have nothing to do with the product or company in question. Instead, they're just there to essentially go "Hey! We just referenced Superman! Get it?". It's not funny, and it's far from clever. All VSP has succeeded in doing is producing a terrible commercial.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVr0tcBZqGg This ad]] for the video game ''VideoGame/{{Blur}}'':
** Samuel: It is a ShallowParody of the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' franchise. The SickeninglySweet imagery is an exaggeration and unlike the break-neck speeds from Mario Kart the karts shown in the parody are driven at a sluggish pace. This ad finishes with the pink monster saying "Racing's not about winning, it's about making friends," followed by a punch in the stomach by a Toad lookalike. The message the advertisers were trying to send is condescending and the ad itself looked like a huge middle finger to Nintendo.
** Tropers/MathsAngelicVersion: The blatant research failure is what really gets me. ''Mario Kart'' is a series of {{Driving Game}}s with [[NoPlotNoProblem no plot]]. It has never been about promoting friendship (if you believe that, try throwing a blue shell at someone). Heck, the ''Mario'' [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros franchise]] in general uses ThePowerOfFriendship pretty rarely. The whole ad comes across as nothing but pandering to people who believe the "Nintendo games are for babies" stereotype and think you have to play realistic and edgy games to be "cool". The awful slogan "''Blur'' -- race like a big boy" was at least a fitting way to end this terrible ad.
* legomaniac90: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHOaQviq5I Turbo Tax's 2015 SuperBowl commercial]]. ArtisticLicenseHistory and UnfortunateImplications combine to drive this commercial into the red zone (no, Turbo Tax, we didn't fight the American Revolution merely because of tax problems).

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* Tropers/KingLyger: The magazine ads in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' for ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', [[https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/01/earthbounds-marketing-campaign/ archived here]]. The ads make it seem as if the game smells really bad, even including the phrase "because this game stinks!" on it. While the idea of an ad with scratch-and-sniff stickers on it was pretty innovative at the time, outright saying that your product stinks isn't the way to sell it. There was very little about how the game was played or what it was about, just that it was an RPG; the few screenshots included in the ads tell you very little about the combat, the characters, or the setting. It seems to have been going for the sort of "TotallyRadical mid-1990s" obsession with gross-out humor, and fails miserably at it. To this troper, this ad campaign was part of the reason that ''[=EarthBound=]'' eventually became VindicatedByHistory as a classic, since it sold poorly at the time of its release. Who can blame the public for not buying this game when all they had to go on about the game was "it smells bad"?

** Tropers/JadeEyes1: The [[SarcasmMode best part]] is that the ending has Sam ignoring the poster for the science fair because she's too busy applying lipstick in her reflection on the window it's posted in. Clearly, [[RealWomenDontWearDresses it's impossible for a woman to love science]] ''[[RealWomenDontWearDresses and]]'' [[RealWomenDontWearDresses enjoy looking pretty]].
** Mimic1990: Personally, the implication I got from this ad was that all of the stuff the family said wasn't really what they were saying. It was meant to be dramatized - what they were actually saying was some variant of "wow, look how pretty our daughter looks doing this stuff" which she only took as "stop trying to be smart." To be fair, that might just be me reading too much into it, but honestly... even if that wasn't the intention, it still feels less like the moral of the story is "encourage your children" and more like the moral is "girls have no free will." Such a messed up commercial.
* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Gqc5S6t2U This Australian commercial]] for the game ''Jam Sessions''. Apparently, the guy who made the commercial didn't get the memo about it being a game for everyone (or worse, [[FridgeHorror he is aware]]) as the kid throws a massive PrecisionFStrike. I'm sorry but it's not funny, nor endearing, it's outright immature. Though it does allows it to remember the product... for a game who is about playing a guitar with the DS.

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* D YellowMadness: The commercial where a tiny slobbish fat guy keeps making a teenage boy stop hanging out with his friends for unspecified reasons. At the end of the commercial, he drags the kid outside and says "pucker up" with a "this is happening whether you like it or not" tone and the slogan is "cigarettes are bullies." It's like they're comparing being addicted to cigarettes and being bullied to being raped. That's all kinds of messed up and so is the fact that they're showing this commercial on Teen Nick. I wanna be able to watch some channel without hearing the beginning of a metaphorical rape scene.
* Rosiemom112629: There was an ad for Walgreens that promoted healthy eating. A husband and wife were having a powdered doughnut and a health drink, respectively. The wife grows more and more irritated until she rips the doughnut out of her husband's hand, destroys it, flings down the pieces, and then hands him a bottle of her drink. It got so irritating that I wanted to see the husband throw the bottle across the room while yelling "I don't want your drink, you bitch! I wanted my doughnut!".
** Troper/CJCroen1393: The basic idea of that ad sounds like [[BrokenAesop "it's totally okay to force people to eat healthy, 'cause y'know, it's for their health!"]] One of these days we're gonna see a health food advertisement involving someone putting a funnel in some unfortunate person's mouth and cramming as much health food down their throat as they can.
* Tropers/ShiningArmor87: A radio advertisement for the shore store New Balance North Jersey, in which a man tries to get his pet parrot to talk, only for him to recite the amazing features of the store because he listened to the radio and heard commercials for them in the pet store. It just reeks of a lack of creativity and could have been for literally anything else.
* Tropers/KenyaStarflight: The University of Phoenix's solution to revamping its image has been a commercial featuring a reworked version of "If I Only Had a Brain" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. While there's nothing inherently wrong with appropriating a well-known and beloved song for a commercial (even if it's annoying), it feels jarring to have a light-hearted number twisted to fit this condescending commercial, which implies that [[UnfortunateImplications women are inherently superior]] (no mention whatsoever is made of male college graduates) and anyone who doesn't hire a University of Phoenix graduate for their company is brainless. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The fact that the singer is off-key at several points in the song doesn't help things]].

** Silvermoon424: That commercial was pure NightmareFuel. To make matters even worse, not only was the commercial ridiculously long by the end of August, it was played constantly (usually at least once per show). It got to the point where I ended up just changing the channel whenever it came on and switching back a couple of minutes later.

* supernintendo128: [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUwib-rGis Silent Screams ad]] is bar-none the worst PSA I have ever seen. It starts with a shot of a woman being yelled at by her husband while the daughter watches in horror before the husband beats the woman off-screen. We then cut to a couple of muggers robbing an old woman while one is holding her down keeping her from running and then we see a group of bullies kicking a high-school student lying on the floor while he in vain yells for help. Finally, we cut to a chef preparing a fish dinner while the fish on the cutting board opens his mouth silently trying to call for help, implying that if you like to eat meat, you are just as horrible as someone who beats, abuses, and robs other people. This PSA is very disrespectful to victims of domestic abuse, violent muggings and bullying for comparing them to a fish on a cutting board and everyone at PETA should be ashamed of themselves for making this PSA.
** Tropers/{{Maxiboy136}}: It's nice to know that there are plenty of other people who share my seething hatred for this godawful ad. To add to your points, there's also the matter of FridgeLogic. Do the people at PETA think that eating fish is only comparable to abuse when it's people who do it, or does it apply to other fish-eating animals as well, like puffins or crocodiles or, y'know, other fish?
** Tropers/{{James76}}: This also comes off as [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]], considering how not only does PETA support the eco-terrorist groups Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), and Earth Liberation Front (ELF), but also one of its members, Bruce Friedrich, told a convention that "blowing up buildings and smashing windows" is "a great way to bring about animal liberation," adding "hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it." So, technically, PETA are the violent ones, not meat-eaters. You can find out more about PETA and their radical agenda [[https://www.petakillsanimals.com/ at this (NSFW) site.]]

* Yuki-Akuma: I just recently saw an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91nOym5_yE Australian advertisement]] online for staying in school and just had to add it here. It starts off well, with a group of teenagers ditching their school uniforms and driving in a van to a beach where they have the time of their lives, playing in the water, laughing, kissing, all that stuff, and then... [[Main/MoodWhiplash a girl blows up]]. Then, all the other teenagers start blowing up, until one last girl is left and screams before she too is blown up offscreen. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis What. The. Fuck.]] This ad rubbed me the wrong way because of how mean-spirited it is in [[Main/{{Anvilicious}} delivering the message]] [[Main/DisproportionateRetribution of not skipping school]]. Not just that, but it's not even the slightest bit comical, it's horrific and disturbing as all hell. The ad would count as an unfunny excuse of a "joke" but I don't think it was meant to be funny at all. This ad makes me want to leave school and never come back.
** Bengson26: My issue is how [[SarcasmMode intelligent]] they're making the teens look. The reason why they were blowing up is because they were in a fucking [[StuffBlowingUp explosives testing site]]. This would have been fine if weren't for the fact that were shown crossing a fence to the site. In other words, these kids aren't rock stupid, they're dark matter stupid

legomaniac90: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHOaQviq5I Turbo Tax's 2015 SuperBowl commercial]]. ArtisticLicenseHistory and UnfortunateImplications combine to drive this commercial into the red zone (no, Turbo Tax, we didn't fight the American Revolution merely because of tax problems).

* Tropers/{{AxMachina}}: Honestly, when it comes to [[PublicServiceAnnouncement public service announcements]], there's not a lot of bad ones that come to my mind. But then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4srWvLXZRw this anti-smoking campaign from Truth]]. The gist of it is that when someone starts to make an excuse to smoke, a [[MemeticMutation meme comes on and says]] [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi "It's a trap."]] It just comes off as a really bad attempt to [[WereStillRelevantDammit "connect" with the younger demographic.]] [[SarcasmMode Obviously it's going to be seen as a timeless work of art and not]] [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece as something that future generations will see as dated and behind the times.]]
** Tropers/{{Candhfan621}}: What's even worse is the lack of Admiral Ackbar. I mean, you used the phrase, why not just go all the way with it?
** Tropers/{{MoPete}}: On the subject of Truth, one of the ones I'll give the shake my head to is the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obDw6uhvDg #Catmageddon]]" one. They make a valid point about how cigarette smoking can cause cancer in cats as well as in people, but how do they do it? By showing clips of cat videos. It's like they just went on Website/YouTube, did a search for "Cat Videos," slapped them together, put words over it, and called it a commercial. And the only one that's even relevant to the point of the commercial is the one of the cat "burying" an ashtray.
*** Tropers/MightyMewtron: The means of conveying the message also felt somewhat distasteful and even disrespectful to the demographic. [[UnfortunateImplications It reads like they think teenagers only care about cats dying from smoking-induced cancer because we can't watch funny cat videos anymore.]]
* Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi: I can easily let Truth slide with their cat ad because I like cats, but I will not do the same for a certain ad from The Real Cost. Which one? [[NightmareFuel The one where anyone who smokes get their mouths replaced with USB ports]]. It's one thing to ScareEmStraight, but [[UncannyValley this ad makes my eyes bleed!]] The worst part is that it's plastered over sites such as Website/DeviantART, which I have been going to more often in the past few months. (Honestly, this ad should be restricted to TV only as that version gets a little more leeway with the woman stomping out a USB drive)

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* Tropers/StarTropes: Can anything good be said for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtKCJ-7hJQ this Norton Furniture commercial]]? Hey, Mr. Salesman! Stop talking about credit and save that poor girl from being raped!

* DahSupahBloopah: There was a General Mills' [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh54_GAM6zs commercial]] starring some of their mascots, like the Trix rabbit, the Coco Puffs bird and... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers an orange.]] Suddenly, a kid voiced by Jeremy Shada of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' says that he has a problem, which is revealed to be that it's Wednesday. One of the mascots gets angry saying how [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Wednesday stole his car]]. We then have an art shift to an eight bit style ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' joke that goes no where, and smacks of them trying to stay relevant, Oh, and then the Trix rabbit gives him some cereal, saying that he was just served! Breakfast, that is! It all smacks of seventy year olds trying to find out what kids like. Oh, and the Orange has the same voice actor as [[WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa Mr. Gus.]] Kids like Uncle Grandpa, RIGHT!?!
** Tropers/CJCroen1393: For me, it's the fact that [[OutOfCharacterMoment none of those mascots are in character.]] Chip the Cookie Crisps Wolf isn't howling "COOOOOKIE CRISP!". Silly Rabbit isn't scheming for Trix. Sonny the Cocoa Puffs Bird isn't going crazy over Cocoa Puffs. [[InNameOnly None of them are acting like themselves]]. They don't even have the right voice actors!
** jmac9345: To make matters worse the same [[SarcasmMode genius]] (considering the ArtShift, it might not be the same group making the ad, but they still retain [[WereStillRelevantDammit the same themes]]) who came up with that gem also made three (or more, [[FridgeHorror maybe?)]] Lucky Charms commercials that don't even focus on the misadventures of the kids trying to get [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Lucky's Lucky Charms.]] Both literally amount to "Lucky and his Marshmallow-shaped friends are bored, they get involved in some shenanigans with an outside force, [[SuddenlyShouting BUY OUR CEREAL!!!]]". [[OutOfCharacterMoment Lucky's not the smart, clever leprechaun we all know and love]], and like before, he's not even voiced by his usual actor. I'm all for a [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover between all of these beloved mascots]], but only if it's done it the style of General Mills regular commercials and don't [[WereStillRelevantDammit try to shoehorn in pop culture references]].
** fairygirl567: They keep making these videos, too! I don't get it, why would kids enjoy this? And why is a black guy voicing the coyote? Don't get me wrong all of them sound terrible but the voice actor for the coyote is so out of place the other voices pale in comparison.
* legomaniac90: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHOaQviq5I Turbo Tax's 2015 SuperBowl commercial]]. ArtisticLicenseHistory and UnfortunateImplications combine to drive this commercial into the red zone (no, Turbo Tax, we didn't fight the American Revolution merely because of tax problems).

* StarTropes: A new contender for "Worst Commercials Ever" is the Dollar Shave Club. All of their commercials follow the same pattern: some guy goes to the store to buy some razors, but is actively stymied by the store employees, and ends up physically attacked and incapacitated. Then, some other guy (whose name I don't know and don't care about) shows up and says, "It's almost like they don't want you to buy razors." What? Okay, who doesn't want you to buy razors? Certainly not the employees, whose job it is to sell them. (For the record, I've bought razors on several occasions, and I've never suffered any such misfortune while doing so.) Seriously, what is the point of this?

* Tropers/{{Brittonbubba}}: Fiber One tastes good and all, but the advertisements just annoy me to no end nowadays. (Not sure if they even make commercials anymore, let alone if they even sell it anymore.) The basic gist of the commercials are this: people eat Fiber One. Sounds okay, right? Now, let's have them believe it doesn't have fiber in it due to the fact it tastes good. [[FlatWhat What.]] You declare Fiber One doesn't have fiber in it... because it tastes good? Not only is that logic able to be summed up as "just because it's good, it's going to make you a morbidly obese monster overnight" (Fiber One is usually in the form of cereal bars with chocolate, or just basically anything that's able to have sugar), but it's just... I don't even... Farewell, cruel world. [[DrivenToSuicide I'm going to kill myself]] by banging my head against the wall due to that stupid logic until I fracture my skull.

* Zmister517: Old Spice ran a slew of commercials centering on mothers stalking their sons on dates, ostensibly upset by their growing up, but it just comes off as creepy jealousy.
* dstar95: Is Super Bowl commercials allowed in this page? Because I would like to nominate the infamous Mountain Dew Kickstart commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7uY36-LwA Puppy Monkey Baby]]. Yes, [[ItMakesSenseInContext you read right,]] it's about the [[UncannyValley creepy mascot with a head of a puppy, body of a monkey and legs of a baby with a diaper.]] It started with three friends staying about to watching TV bored when the mascot walk through the small door that came out of nowhere while holding a ice bucket of the aforementioned products. Here it gets weird...it starts dancing while saying its [[PokemonSpeak species name repeatedly]] complete with a rattle and [[NauseaFuel it licked one of the guy's face]] before the music kicks in and they started dancing with it. The slogan? [[BlatantLies "Three Awesome Things Combined".]] [[SarcasmMode That's makes everything better!]] The mascot is in CG [[OffModel so its movements looked forced and stop-motioned,]] [[FromBadToWorse which made it even worse.]] I get that they tried to appeal a lot of customers by combining [[PreciousPuppy a puppy]], a monkey, and [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a baby]] but it just CameBackWrong.
** SpaceHunterDrakeRedcrest: Thank God someone else agrees with me! This was one of the dumbest Super Bowl commercials I've seen. The whole thing feels like a ForcedMeme with the repetition of the name and concept, the concept itself sounds dumb, and there's little build-up for the thing's existence (maybe they could have had one of the guys say "You know who can help us have a good time? Puppy Monkey Baby!"). Also, was I the only one who found it a bit [[DidntThinkThisThrough poorly-thought]] that the [[UnfortunateImplications black guy drank the grape soda first]]?
* batmany: Priceline's current "Whatever's on the line" ad campaign is terrible to the point where either of the two commercials currently airing could qualify for a DMOS. But, the "Family Reunion in Mexico" commercial wins by sheer amounts of how disturbing it is. The commercial features a woman who is torn between going to see her family in Mexico or staying home. It then shows what happens in two "what if" scenarios. In the first scenario, she books a trip via Priceline and goes to see her family and meets her cousin who is moving to the same city she lives in. And, the second scenario is where we get to {{Squick}} levels of "what were they thinking?". The woman decides not to go, ends up in a dance club, meets her cousin (whom neither realize are related), and it implies they're about to....yeah, I'm sure anyone can see where this is going. It's just awful on so many levels. Why the incest jokes? Why the huge lack of logic? Everything about it is just wrong. They were trying to be funny, and they failed spectacularly. Heck, even Creator/WilliamShatner sounds like he'd rather be doing anything else than provide a voice-over for this commercial.
** ScotieRw - As something close to a mature adult my issue with the commercial seems to be the exact opposite of yours. I would not call alerting the parents to their daughter breaking a rule regarding her safety to be a bad thing, the girl was fortunate she got home at all that night. Nor would I call helping her evade punishment a good thing, the girl's parents didn't want their underage daughter dressing in a sexually attractive way, and it's not even the shoulders distract boys controversy, a child has no business wearing an outfit like that. But no teenagers are the target audience so they're always right and their parents are always wrong.
* fairygirl567 - Jamster decided to release an ad for on of their text services. What the user does is0 text their name and that of the person they are dating. The commercial starts out with a man running out on his wedding. The bride, I think her name was Kristy, runs out and starts crying and a voiceover flashes back to when the two were a couple and were relaxing on the couch. Kristy sees the commercial for the service ()makes sense in the context) and texts the number with her name and the boyfriends and it came back with a low rating. Kristy pays no mind to it, but the voiceover says she made a big mistake then it goes back to the aftermath with the bride still crying on the steps with no one to comfort her. The voice over comes back telling people to use the service to see if their relationship is the one. This troper gets it's a joke and everything, but the way the writers went about it was freaking insulting. It's basically taking itself way too seriously and says that this poor woman was an idiot for not following a dumb text service so because of that her relationship is ruined. How exactly? It didn't predict he'd run out on her at the altar and even so it's not like she actually married him, seemed like she still dodged a bullet. She can still find love! And what happened if she dumped him? Would she find the right one with this dumb phone service? It's random! She could put her name and BoBo the clown and get 100%! The commercial makes it look like the service is a 100% guarantee to decide a relationship.

* SamMax: The "Don't Touch My Dart" commercials rub me the wrong way mainly because the owner of the car is a {{Jerkass}} who's obsessed with his car, and doesn't want anyone touching it, not even his neighbor, who tries various things to touch it. What solidified my hatred for them, and in fact gave me the impression in the first place, is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMi1rDIOvd8 this one]]. The neighbor puts a birdhouse over the guy's car. He tries to poorly justify his actions, and then explains that he (the owner of the car) had a bird that he used to hang out with all the time. Then owner says, "You're the bird with hurt feelings, are you?" The guy says yes and dumps birdseed on it. [[FridgeHorror The implication is that the owner of the car viewed his car as more important than his friendship with his neighbor]], [[TheEndingChangesEverything changing the context of the other commercials]] and [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation making the neighbor seem like a]] JerkassWoobie [[UnintentionallySympathetic at worst]]. What's worse was that it was PlayedForLaughs. That wasn't funny at all, [[TearJerker that was depressing]]!

* Tropers/Erin582: A 2021 commercial for Greenies Dental Treats I consider to be awful. In it, an obviously deserted man is sitting on an island next to his wrecked boat waiting for anyone to come by to rescue him and even [[HopeSpot manages to spell out "HELP" in branches to passing-by planes...]] [[YankTheDogsChain only for his dog to grab a stick away, potentially ruining his chances.]] [[FromBadToWorse Even worse,]] two pilots in a plane happens to fly by and see this poor man trying to get their attention, only for the co-pilot to not notice and the pilot to see this bearded, desperate man frantically waving his arms only for him to [[NoSympathy stupidly and condescendingly]] wave back and now interpret his "[=HELo=]" sign as "Hello" and shouts it back at him. First of all, you see this poor guy, obviously in trouble [[TooDumbToLive and you don't put two and two together?]] Second, what kind of moron would think the word "hello" would be spelled like that? Third, the way he was waving both of his arms was not as a friendly gesture like the dumbass pilot was doing, and if it were, it would be like that. And lastly, [[FridgeHorror you're a pilot?]] WTF?! [[DownerEnding The commercial ends with the man still on the island, hoping for someone to rescue him in spite of him realizing he's probably screwed and his "faithful" companion biting into the stupid Greenies stick,]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom unaware of the damage he just caused.]] I get that Madison Avenue firmly believes that [[BlackComedy cynical sells,]] but this is just cruel. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Who is this commercial even for?]] I can tell you who it's not for: it's not for dogs, as it plays up [[DogsAreDumb one of the oldest stereotypes about them.]] It's not for pilots: they're portrayed as [[DrunkWithPower morons in an elevated, undeserved position.]] It's certainly not for disaster survivors: [[UnfortunateImplications the company thinks your plight is funny.]] And I'm gonna go out on a whim and say that it's not for dog owners or lovers either: they may get the underlying message of "feed your dogs regularly", but a more fitting or just plain nasty message could be "don't train your dog to be an idiot" or "feed your dogs our product regularly [[CouldThisHappenToYou or this could happen to you!"]] Just like with the aforementioned Sheba commercial with the thoughtless mother, I may not own a pet, but I at least now know what products not to give them.

* hydrix: If asked what would be my most hated commercial of all time I would reply with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKkKwrfyuj4 "The Theater of The Eye"]]. It admittedly has some decent cinematography, but it implies that the anyone who watches it will think that the advertisers think that TrueArtIsIncomprehensible. If you would see this ad the first time you probably [[DadaAd would not be able to guess what it is about]] (it's about [[spoiler: the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn]]), but upon further inspection you might actually realize that it is indeed advertisement for the product and that it has a message, which can be summed up as this: [[spoiler: "Our system has the best graphics out of any system out there."]] Keep in mind that this is by the same guy who actually likes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuna944dls this]] UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar commercial (for anyone wondering why I bring this up look at the Horrible/{{Advertising}} subpage of the "trope" DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible). As such I would have preferred that this ad was listed on that subpage instead, but alas.
* ilovedededeAGAIN: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqps6SIw1cA This commercial]] for those Fruit-to-Go bars. For starters, the CGI animation is half-assed and so poorly done it doesn't even look like they're trying (either that, or they were trying too hard), making it a case of UncannyValley. Then, there's the kid himself, who for some random reason has an acid trip when he comes across those dumb bars. No, just no. Being excited over Fruit-to-Go bars is okay, but having a random acid trip upon encountering one is just creepy. The kid himself is creepy as well, honestly he looks like he wants to kill someone.

* D YellowMadness: The commercial where a tiny slobbish fat guy keeps making a teenage boy stop hanging out with his friends for unspecified reasons. At the end of the commercial, he drags the kid outside and says "pucker up" with a "this is happening whether you like it or not" tone and the slogan is "cigarettes are bullies." It's like they're comparing being addicted to cigarettes and being bullied to being raped. That's all kinds of messed up and so is the fact that they're showing this commercial on Teen Nick. I wanna be able to watch some channel without hearing the beginning of a metaphorical rape scene

* DarkCyberWolf: For this troper, it's the Cougar Life commercial. A woman goes up and asks the audience "Tired of meeting the same type of women in bars?" Then she tells a random woman that she needs a sandwich, shoves the sandwich in her FACE, and the woman just goes "Ugh! Meat!" The first woman continues talking to the audience with "Immature girls who think that they're 'all that'?" After that, she tells another random woman who asked her date "Oh, so you're a computer geek," that she "folds sweaters for a living, honey." Then she discusses the idea behind the Cougar Life, and how older women want young guys "just like you!" It ends with a third random woman asking a guy, "Buy me a drink?" before this woman shoves her out of the way and asks the guy, "How 'bout I buy you a drink?" Then the guy smiles. Now, here's my issue with it: The first random woman didn't say something like "Ugh, carbs" or "Ugh, food" (neither of which would have been funny anyway). She says "Ugh! Meat!" To me, that implies that Random Woman #1 might've been a vegetarian. Even if otherwise, there was NO reason to just force feed the sandwich to her. Then the second random woman doesn't really seem like she's being rude - computer geeks are getting way more respect these days, but then the woman just goes up to her and says "You fold sweaters for a living." And? What exactly is wrong with that? Now for Random Woman #3, who asked a guy if he'd buy her a drink. Then our "protagonist" shoves her out of the way without the guy answering and asks herself. This was not funny, it does not portray the other women as immature, it just portrays this woman as a total JerkAss.
** Silvermoon424: It also has the UnfortunateImplications that young women are all vapid, petulant airheads and that younger men should be hooking up with "real" women (aka cougars). What sucks is that the older commercials for Cougar Life have been inoffensive and straightforward (and even featured a catchy jingle); it feels like this annoying commercial has been airing forever. At least make a new one!

* fluffything: One commercial by Match.com (a dating site) features a little girl telling her grandfather (supposedly the owner of the site) that her teacher met a lady that he is in love with. She then tells the grandfather that she told the teacher the relationship would never work out. Why? Well, it's because he didn't meet said lady on Match.com. And, then she has the nerve to say that she told the teacher that he should check out the site since there's a lot of single ladies for him. Where do I start with how terrible this is? First of all, who does this kid think she is deciding to tell her own teacher who he can date and who he can't date? Kid, it's none of your business. Second, her reasoning that the relationship won't work out just because he didn't meet her on Match.com? Seriously, that's the only reason the girl gives for the relationship not working. From what I could tell, the teacher seemed rather happy with the lady and there were no implications that she was a bad person either. But, the icing on this cake of awful is that the girl had the gall to suggest that her teacher should hook up with some other ladies just because they were on said website. In other words, she was essentially suggesting that her teacher should either dump his girlfriend for absolutely terrible reasons or cheat on her. Just the sheer shallowness of this commercial is enough to make my blood boil in rage.
** @/LadyNorbert: I'm right there with you. All of that, plus the kid playing the granddaughter (is that his real granddaughter? I wonder) has an obnoxious voice that's like nails on a chalkboard to my ears. They seem to have gotten rid of that one, thankfully.
* Falcon Pain: GEICO ads are hit-or-miss with their attempts at humor, but even when they're not funny, and even when you are aware of the misleading nature of their central message (it's true that people who switch to GEICO save hundreds of dollars on average... but that's mainly because company rates differ based on customers' experiences and needs, and people don't usually switch to a company that will charge higher rates), there's a solid idea that viewers can at least consider comparing rates and seeing if they can get a better deal. So they typically don't offend me... until I saw one installment of their "artwork/motivational poster" campaign. A painting of a man flirts with a painting of two women, until one of them points out that he didn't save hundreds of dollars by switching to GEICO, so they instead take interest in a painting of an ugly geek who did. It's not funny, it's not clever, and the presentation borders on insulting. But worst of all, by changing the message from "people who switch are happy/you could save by switching" to an outright implication that the savings are guaranteed and that there's something wrong with anyone who doesn't switch, the ad is now officially a lie.
* DastardlyDemolition: The Halo mandarin oranges ads. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-9d6YSqZU Here's an example.]] I you can't see the video goes down, the ads go like this; parent is going to eat one of the Halos, child gets mad, parent sheepishly asks for one, kid in a rude tone reveals something [[ManChild childish]] about parent such as playing in the sprinklers in their underwear, parent backs down out of embarrassment, slogan. I don't hate these ads but I feel that they belong here on account of how bratty those kids are behaving to their parents.

* Drkay: Game console adverts have been controversial before, but the PSP advert Sony did for Australia was benign to the point that I almost wish I didn't buy one. So it takes place in an airport. Enter the young, hip and sexy lad with blonde surfer hair, he places his bag through the x-ray scanner thing. The alarm goes off! Not just at this scanner but throughout the airport, all in relation to this sexy young man's bag! Now enter the old, over-weight security guard. He bravely takes charge of the situation, grabbing the bag and slowly opening it... and out he pulls a PSP. The alarms stop, everyone looks at the security guard with sheer anger and annoyance. How dare he care about everyone's safety! How dare he put himself in danger for the sake of the airport! How dare he do his job! Our dashing young hero rolls his eyes and snatches his PSP back, giving a pitiful glare to his fat and ugly elder. He packs his PSP giving the security guard one last glare.
* Exxolon: The latest Subway commercial [[http://vimeo.com/94041533 "Reverse Restraining Order"]] just makes me want to beat the living crap out of the writer/director. If you haven't seen it, essentially it's a colossal douchebag of a guy explaining to reporters why and how he has four gorgeous women flanking him - he took out "reverse restraining orders" requiring them to stay within 1 foot of him at all times (a reference to the 'footlong' sub) followed by a cutaway shot of an older female judge flanked by two muscular guys implying that he got them by pointing out the advantages of them to the judge. Right Subway - so we have what is essentially chattel slavery and belittling the very serious nature of restraining orders which are taken out by people undergoing serious criminal harassment or stalking. The whole thing comes across as misogynistic and sexist in the extreme with the female judge & male models tacked on as a fig leaf to deflect any accusations of that.

* Larkmarn: The Allstate ads that have someone just talking about what could happen to "you" are pretty bad in general, with the second person sounding just condescending. But the worst is one where a woman is talking about how "you" are a bad parallel parker... so "it's only a matter of time before you rip someone's bumper off." She then says the only possible way to avoid it is to just take the bus. So buy Allstate! Putting aside the insulting nature of the second person, is it really that hard to parallel park? Even people who are bad at it usually wind up not ripping anyone's bumper off, but just being far away from the curb or at worst bumping the other car. Boiling it down to "you will destroy someone's car or you can't drive" is just nonsensical.
** Scsigs: Now that you bring up Allstate, the one that pisses me off when I actually think about it is the one where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy34Xkb0k4k there's a couple eating a meal]] & the woman starts the commercial saying to the guy, "You know how you said men are superior drivers?", he agrees, & she goes on to talk about how she got the "safe-driving bonus check" & when he tries to defend, or maybe take back, what he said, or say, "you know you need to wait a while with something to see if you can keep up with it so your track record is pretty spotless," she says, "silence." Both times with the usual dude, Dennis is what the subtitles say, as that's his actor's name, dubs over her voice like in several other ads they've done in the same/a similar style. Where to even begin with this...First off, I've become incredibly salty towards the idea of gender politics in media in the last year or so. It's why I'll never have an inkling to see ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'', since the controversy around that movie overshadowed what was more or less a meh-to-bad comedy from what I've heard from reviews. Second, we have no idea how long they've been at the restaurant. It could've been a few minutes, or 20 (the amount of food on her plate makes it look like they've been there for a bit). So, to have this be the start of the commercial is ''really'' making the woman look stuck up & pretentious, if not downright petty, especially since it's her first check. Third, you don't give the guy a second to retract his claims? Fourth, what was this guy's reasonings for saying such a thing like that? Was it based in logic & facts, or was he just being an idiot? I've been driven by female drivers plenty of times & they were good drivers. To be honest, I've been more questionable of some ''male'' drivers I've gotten rides from. This isn't the 50s, or a terrible sitcom, girls drive as much as guys do & can be pretty damn good at it. So, why was this guy being like that? This is what I hate about the whole "2010s identity/gender/sexism" politics. No one who makes things that get shown on TV, for the most part, knows how to portray these things rationally, so we get baiting things like ''this''. I get that the whole point of the ad was that she was standing up to a sexist asshole, but why does ''that'' have to be the focus of the commercial? The slogan says that the point was supposed to be that Allstate can give you the confidence to be a good driver, or something like that, but what does ''sexism'' have to do with confidence other than standing up to the asshole who's sexist (and even then, in this day & age, you're ''more'' likely to find someone who'll call someone out on sexist bullshit than not, so it's not exactly what needs confidence boosting if more people do it)? Here's an idea, Allstate, free of charge, have a few to several different commercials of people being nervous to drive because of either poor car insurance, or none whatsoever. Dennis, or someone, comes to them at work or something, asks why they seem like a nervous wreck, they explain, then the other person tells them about Allstate & the confidence they can get from knowing they're fully covered, they sign up, then are seen driving with the full knowledge they'll be all right if they get into an accident on the car side of things. Maybe throw in the check at the end as a bonus. There, done. If that's what they ''used'' to do, which I don't think they have, but I don't really remember either, then I don't see why they thought ''this'' was such a good idea. You can even have a lot of people from all walks of life; Whites, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc. Maybe they speak a different language & have to be subtitled, I don't know, just something better than ''this'' piece of gender-baiting garbage. Who was the commercial supposed to appeal to besides 2010s man-hating feminists & SJWs anyways? Seriously, read the comments on that video. More people are calling it out than not.

* ZehMonsieur: A few of my other alternatives were already listed, so let me nominate a certain Allstate commercial; in it, a man and a woman are in a cafe, with the latter bragging about how, despite her friend's statement of men being better drivers, Allstate rewarded her with a check for safe driving, going so far as to almost literally rub the check in the man's face and generally act like an smug, insufferable bitch while the man feebly attempts to defend his statement. The commercial relies on nothing but an overplayed stereotype and almost seems like it was made just to offend people of both genders.
* StarTropes: Let us also include those Sonic commercials (a fast-food chain, for those of you who don't know) featuring ThoseTwoGuys having the most inane conversations ever, such as one of them acting like he's training his hot dog to do tricks or some other such nonsense. And they just keep getting worse...

Tropers/KingLyger: The magazine ads in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' for ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', [[https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/01/earthbounds-marketing-campaign/ archived here]]. The ads make it seem as if the game smells really bad, even including the phrase "because this game stinks!" on it. While the idea of an ad with scratch-and-sniff stickers on it was pretty innovative at the time, outright saying that your product stinks isn't the way to sell it. There was very little about how the game was played or what it was about, just that it was an RPG; the few screenshots included in the ads tell you very little about the combat, the characters, or the setting. It seems to have been going for the sort of "TotallyRadical mid-1990s" obsession with gross-out humor, and fails miserably at it. To this troper, this ad campaign was part of the reason that ''[=EarthBound=]'' eventually became VindicatedByHistory as a classic, since it sold poorly at the time of its release. Who can blame the public for not buying this game when all they had to go on about the game was "it smells bad"?
* Tropers/MysticEclectic: In June 2014, a Verizon ad was posted on blip.tv promoting the "Inspire Her Mind" campaign, further promoting women having careers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (abbreviated STEM). It's a solid campaign with good examples to further its aims, but the commercial is quite suspect. In Time-Lapse, a girl named Sam is told time and again by her parents not to do certain things, such as "don't get your dress dirty," while rock climbing, "don't mess with that" when picking up a starfish on a beach, or even telling her a project is becoming too much to handle, said project being an impressive Solar System Mobile in her bedroom. The most egregious example comes in the form of this remark: "why don't you hand [the drill] to your brother" in the midst of building a model rocket. With all this together, the message can be misread as an attack against parents as promoting inadvertently androgynous ideals, limiting the feminine opportunity to just one that's saccharine and confining to [[GirlyGirl certain]] archetypes, as well as their insecurities. Before it's over, this can be seen as less girl-power oriented and more of a cry of "don't let your stubborn, obsolete family get in the way of your ambitions." A silver lining arrives at the end, where Sam notices a Science Fair poster in school and a narrator says that "it's time to tell her she's brilliant." Consider the commercial's structure: this young woman has had at least 15 years of this overshadowing, as well as the divine patience to deal with it, only to still be isolated to showing brilliance when the family is out of sight. Even for how inadvertently it's been delivered, the commercial's unintentional attack seems just as prominent when taking all of these happenings into account. In short, the campaign has great points and makes for another great display of Equality in Occupation [[http://www.verizon.com/powerfulanswers/inspirehermind/?cmp=BAC-VI-7976931_683343_105624869_58336121]], but this commercial only takes into account the {{Fridge Horror}} of how any child's insecurities can be formed, especially in regards to the female psyche, in addition to the imposed superiority of parental ambitions and the inferiority complex in general.
** Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi: While not the worst commercial ever, it was good in theory and poor in execution at worst. However, I don't understand why Sam's mother reacted to her science project so negatively. [[{{Anvilicious}} We get it, poor Sam is being suppressed, we didn't need that]].
** Tropers/JadeEyes1: The [[SarcasmMode best part]] is that the ending has Sam ignoring the poster for the science fair because she's too busy applying lipstick in her reflection on the window it's posted in. Clearly, [[RealWomenDontWearDresses it's impossible for a woman to love science]] ''[[RealWomenDontWearDresses and]]'' [[RealWomenDontWearDresses enjoy looking pretty]].
** Mimic1990: Personally, the implication I got from this ad was that all of the stuff the family said wasn't really what they were saying. It was meant to be dramatized - what they were actually saying was some variant of "wow, look how pretty our daughter looks doing this stuff" which she only took as "stop trying to be smart." To be fair, that might just be me reading too much into it, but honestly... even if that wasn't the intention, it still feels less like the moral of the story is "encourage your children" and more like the moral is "girls have no free will." Such a messed up commercial.
* D YellowMadness: The commercial where a tiny slobbish fat guy keeps making a teenage boy stop hanging out with his friends for unspecified reasons. At the end of the commercial, he drags the kid outside and says "pucker up" with a "this is happening whether you like it or not" tone and the slogan is "cigarettes are bullies." It's like they're comparing being addicted to cigarettes and being bullied to being raped. That's all kinds of messed up and so is the fact that they're showing this commercial on Teen Nick. I wanna be able to watch some channel without hearing the beginning of a metaphorical rape scene.

* Tropers/MosquitoMan: The Christmastime adverts where the phone that belonged to the rival company was sent to live on the Island of Misfit Toys. That's just arrogant.
* FoxFleet: Another series of phone commercials (maybe Sprint? I can’t remember) involved people receiving bad news by text. In one of them, a football player who has suffered a knee injury receives a text from the team doctor (who is in the same room!) saying he is out for the season. Dismayed, he asks the doctor about it, and the doctor tells him not to worry about it because he sent the text using his unlimited phone plan, so he doesn’t have to pay any more for it (as though that’s what the player was worrying about). These commercials felt really mean-spirited to me, as they showed their customers as being extremely self absorbed and uncaring towards others as though that was supposed to be a good thing.

* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Gqc5S6t2U This Australian commercial]] for the game ''Jam Sessions''. Apparently, the guy who made the commercial didn't get the memo about it being a game for everyone (or worse, [[FridgeHorror he is aware]]) as the kid throws a massive PrecisionFStrike. I'm sorry but it's not funny, nor endearing, it's outright immature. Though it does allows it to remember the product... for a game who is about playing a guitar with the DS.

* Kellor: Adobe put out a web commercial in which a CEO-type guy calls his "digital media consultant" into his office and keeps slapping him across the face until he says what the CEO wants to hear (which is, "You can definitely measure ROI on social media"). Adobe, and supposedly the viewer, is on the CEO's side. It raises a few questions, such as: If the CEO knows more about social media than his consultant, why does he hire one? Why doesn't the consultant go straight to HR (or quit) after the first slap? And finally, who would ever think this is funny?
* Troper/TheDogSage: Those Allstate "Mayhem" commercials which have the 'Mayhem' guy basically trying to scare you into buying their insurance by showing possible "mayhem". Why don't they scream "Danger! Danger! Booga! Booga! Booga!" at the audience instead?
* Rosiemom112629: There was an ad for Walgreens that promoted healthy eating. A husband and wife were having a powdered doughnut and a health drink, respectively. The wife grows more and more irritated until she rips the doughnut out of her husband's hand, destroys it, flings down the pieces, and then hands him a bottle of her drink. It got so irritating that I wanted to see the husband throw the bottle across the room while yelling "I don't want your drink, you bitch! I wanted my doughnut!".
** Troper/CJCroen1393: The basic idea of that ad sounds like [[BrokenAesop "it's totally okay to force people to eat healthy, 'cause y'know, it's for their health!"]] One of these days we're gonna see a health food advertisement involving someone putting a funnel in some unfortunate person's mouth and cramming as much health food down their throat as they can.

* Kittens: There's this recent commercial for the [=McDonald's=] shamrock shakes that has this guy come home and his wife comes straight out of nowhere and she acts like the guy slept with another woman but it turns out he had a shamrock shake and the wife gets angry and tells him "I hate you." But then he gives her one too and then she suddenly turns happy and says "I love you." and acts like its the most romantic thing ever. Really, [=McDonald's=]? Do they really think we women are that gullible? I can understand if they're trying to be funny but this was just unfunny and irritating and I thought they should have just stuck with the commercials with ol' Grimace or the one where the people do Irish dances because at least they're less irritating than this.
* Tropers/ShiningArmor87: A radio advertisement for the shore store New Balance North Jersey, in which a man tries to get his pet parrot to talk, only for him to recite the amazing features of the store because he listened to the radio and heard commercials for them in the pet store. It just reeks of a lack of creativity and could have been for literally anything else.


* fluffything: For the longest time, the ''Five Hour Energy Drink'' commercials have been non-entertaining, but not that bad. Their most recent commercial? Pure utter douchiness. It essentially is just this utterly obnoxious guy going on and on about all the "amazing" things he did in five hours thanks to the aforementioned energy drink. Oh, how annoying this guy is. He's every single stereotype, parody, and whatnot of a JerkJock [[JerkAss utter douche annoyance]] completely and utterly played straight. Everything about this commercial from the guy's bragging to the blatant use of AutoTune makes me want to reach into the TV and punch him. The guy makes WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo look like a upper-class gentleman in comparison. Hey, whoever pitched this commercial idea to Five Hour Energy Drink's executives? Try something less annoying next time.
* fluffything: Direct TV's latest advertising campaign (of course dealing with the old Cable VS Satellite debate) is mind-numbingly dumb in-and-of itself to the point where saying it would only appeal to the LowestCommonDenominator would be an insult to the lowest common denominator. But, until recently, they were never outright offensive. That changed in a recent commercial where a woman says "cable is worse than..." and then cuts to her being knocked over by one of those [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy "wacky arm-waving inflatable people" things]] and implying that the thing either molested and/or raped her. Whoever made/approved/directed/was involved in any way with that commercial? There's a little something you need to know. Rape is not funny. Molestation is not funny. Saying that something as petty and insignificant as cable TV is worse than rape is [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Not. Fucking. Funny!]] I have met rape victims. I have met molestation victims. To undermine what those people had to go through isn't just disrespectful, it's downright inhumane.
** JustHereToComment: For me, it was one of the Marionette commercials. The premise is that a guy is married (possibly, it's hard to tell) to a Marionette puppet that is just downright NightmareFuel. In one commercial, the guy is lying in bed and watching Direct TV and the puppet walks in, and they talk about if he still loves her, given that Direct TV has no wires, like the kind holding her up. Where it gets really bad is when she takes off her robe to reveal lingerie and starts 'dancing' in a manner similar to a seizure. It's about as FetishRetardant as you could get and I think it's turned me asexual.
** PrincessTogezo: The "Turn Back Time" commercial started out as decent, with [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] singing about being able to turn back time with Direct TV and retrieve old programs. But then he decided to change different things, and everything went south as he told the couple in the ad that they could "reconsider having that second child". The child in question, who was coloring on a wall, just vanishes from existence, and the parents don't even care; in fact, they almost seem a bit pleased. I bet if the child had been doing anything else, like reading or playing with a toy (or heck, coloring on paper), the parents would have been rightfully upset. However, since he was coloring on a wall, that apparently means [[DisproportionateRetribution he deserves to be]] [[RetGone retroactively erased from existence]]. While I myself am not a second child, I feel bad for any second (or third, etc.) children who see this commercial, especially if their parents have issues with each other like the couple in the commercial apparently did. [[note]]In fact, I'm not ashamed to say that I could think of a better rhyme for "spicy instead of mild": [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim "And make your old wardrobe a little less wild!"]] It's not perfect, but at least then there wouldn't be any FridgeHorror involved.[[/note]]
* Tropers/KenyaStarflight: The University of Phoenix's solution to revamping its image has been a commercial featuring a reworked version of "If I Only Had a Brain" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. While there's nothing inherently wrong with appropriating a well-known and beloved song for a commercial (even if it's annoying), it feels jarring to have a light-hearted number twisted to fit this condescending commercial, which implies that [[UnfortunateImplications women are inherently superior]] (no mention whatsoever is made of male college graduates) and anyone who doesn't hire a University of Phoenix graduate for their company is brainless. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The fact that the singer is off-key at several points in the song doesn't help things]].
* fluffything: Shark (a vacuum company) has a commercial in which they compare their product to Dyson (another vacuum company). So, how do they do this? Do they compare the quality of how the two products clean floors? Nope. Instead, they portray the Dyson salesperson as a stereotypical Cockney-accented British person wearing cliched clothing from the 1920s-1940s (in other words, he looks like an extra out of Mary Poppins). Really, Shark? This is how you decide to portray your competition? By portraying them as a stereotype? Oh, but it gets more ridiculous. Their reasoning why their product is better? Dyson vacuums cost $600, while Shark vacuums are cheaper. You know what? I'd rather spend the $600 than buy a vacuum from someone who resorts to stereotyping other nations.

* {{Tropers/heartauthor}}: My original DMOS was the "Snuffy the Seal" Shark Week ad, but then I remembered a Quaker Chewy commercial from when I was younger that I never liked, even back then. The selling point of the Quaker Chewy bars was that it would keep kids' mouths full so they wouldn't talk as much; they demonstrated this by showing different kids saying a goofy or embarrassing secret about their parents. The last child they show is a giggling little girl, and what's her secret? "My daddy cries." ...[[FlatWhat Uh huh.]] Because as we all know, [[SarcasmMode men are emotionless robots]] who should [[TheStoic never express themselves]] in front of others, lest they be perceived as [[UnfortunateImplications "un-manly."]] Even the child me could tell how stupid and unfair that was.

* IthoughtyouwereLuigi: In the Advertising/{{Progressive}} commercials, there is Flo; usually she's annoying, but the recent commercial takes the cake for her. First a man scoffs at the bored in the "shop," asking "What else can it do, zero gravity, remove particles?" Cue Flo making the room zero gravity, probably scarring the customers, but then she hits one of her own employees with the particle remover! She's not just annoying, but she's also pure evil!
** StarTropes: That might explain one of their newest commercials, where Flo is helping to insure a woman's home and the Kool-Aid Man bursts in because...um...because...okay, what the hell is Kool-Aid Man doing in this commercial?
** fluffything: Oh, boy, is the ad campaign involving Flo and her family one major train wreck. Ok, Flo is considered TheScrappy by many people. And, while I don't find her as bad as other people do, I can see why people find her annoying. But, good lord, is her family worse. They're just a bunch of miserable, unlikeable, complete assholes who serve no other purpose than to make Flo look better. And, as one can guess, they fail miserably. It doesn't help that Flo seems to be able to only talk about Progressive even when she's at home. The whole thing just comes off as painfully awkward. Hey, Progressive? Little hint? If you want to make your spokeslady look better, maybe try improving her character instead of just adding a bunch of pointless unlikeable family members.
** CLCN: I'm not sure if this counts as contesting because I'm still talking about Progressive, but I think Jamie and the weird sentient Progressive box man thing (At least I think he's a box. I can't really figure out what exactly he's supposed to be. It's never specified, but he sounds like Chris Parnell.) are a million times more annoying than Flo.
** Tropers/MightyMewtron: Progressive ads have been pretty tolerable for me. They're pretty stupid and loosely connected to the product, but I never fully hated them. But they aired a radio commercial in 2020 that genuinely upset me. It's called "Sounds From the Old World," and the joke is that they play audio from things that couldn't be done during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The one I heard was a scene of people sitting in a movie theater eating popcorn. Essentially, it's mocking the audience for no longer being able to do things that used to be commonplace. The intention is probably just to be "relatable" and appeal to people who miss public activities (they had some TV ads about Zoom calls that I found funny), but all it did was remind me of how much I and so many others had to give up in the past year, all while implying this was an "old world" we can never get back, which is a pretty pessimistic idea to promote even ironically. There's barely any connection to the insurance either - their tagline is something meaningless like "Deals so good, you'll feel like it's 2019 again." It's a particularly cruel case of WereStillRelevantDammit, only instead of a harmless meme, it's "staying relevant" by going, "Sucks that your entire year was ruined. Anyway, buy our insurance!" Newsflash, companies: when you talk about the pandemic, try not to take such a defeatist tone.
** {{Tropers/KoopaKid17}}: One Progressive ad that featured Flo was completely insensitive. It was a mobile one that advertised the "Name Your Own Price" gimmick, and it depicted Flo [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou holding a scanner like a gun towards the audience]]. On top of the ad using what looks like a threat to sell insurance, [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents it was also introduced not too long after the Sandy Hook school shooting]]. You'd think Progressive would have known better than to treat gun violence as tomfoolery, especially in the face of tragedy.

* Tropers/KingLyger: The magazine ads in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' for ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', [[https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/01/earthbounds-marketing-campaign/ archived here]]. The ads make it seem as if the game smells really bad, even including the phrase "because this game stinks!" on it. While the idea of an ad with scratch-and-sniff stickers on it was pretty innovative at the time, outright saying that your product stinks isn't the way to sell it. There was very little about how the game was played or what it was about, just that it was an RPG; the few screenshots included in the ads tell you very little about the combat, the characters, or the setting. It seems to have been going for the sort of "TotallyRadical mid-1990s" obsession with gross-out humor, and fails miserably at it. To this troper, this ad campaign was part of the reason that ''[=EarthBound=]'' eventually became VindicatedByHistory as a classic, since it sold poorly at the time of its release. Who can blame the public for not buying this game when all they had to go on about the game was "it smells bad"?

* Tropers/MysticEclectic: In June 2014, a Verizon ad was posted on blip.tv promoting the "Inspire Her Mind" campaign, further promoting women having careers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (abbreviated STEM). It's a solid campaign with good examples to further its aims, but the commercial is quite suspect. In Time-Lapse, a girl named Sam is told time and again by her parents not to do certain things, such as "don't get your dress dirty," while rock climbing, "don't mess with that" when picking up a starfish on a beach, or even telling her a project is becoming too much to handle, said project being an impressive Solar System Mobile in her bedroom. The most egregious example comes in the form of this remark: "why don't you hand [the drill] to your brother" in the midst of building a model rocket. With all this together, the message can be misread as an attack against parents as promoting inadvertently androgynous ideals, limiting the feminine opportunity to just one that's saccharine and confining to [[GirlyGirl certain]] archetypes, as well as their insecurities. Before it's over, this can be seen as less girl-power oriented and more of a cry of "don't let your stubborn, obsolete family get in the way of your ambitions." A silver lining arrives at the end, where Sam notices a Science Fair poster in school and a narrator says that "it's time to tell her she's brilliant." Consider the commercial's structure: this young woman has had at least 15 years of this overshadowing, as well as the divine patience to deal with it, only to still be isolated to showing brilliance when the family is out of sight. Even for how inadvertently it's been delivered, the commercial's unintentional attack seems just as prominent when taking all of these happenings into account. In short, the campaign has great points and makes for another great display of Equality in Occupation [[http://www.verizon.com/powerfulanswers/inspirehermind/?cmp=BAC-VI-7976931_683343_105624869_58336121]], but this commercial only takes into account the {{Fridge Horror}} of how any child's insecurities can be formed, especially in regards to the female psyche, in addition to the imposed superiority of parental ambitions and the inferiority complex in general.
** Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi: While not the worst commercial ever, it was good in theory and poor in execution at worst. However, I don't understand why Sam's mother reacted to her science project so negatively. [[{{Anvilicious}} We get it, poor Sam is being suppressed, we didn't need that]].
** Tropers/JadeEyes1: The [[SarcasmMode best part]] is that the ending has Sam ignoring the poster for the science fair because she's too busy applying lipstick in her reflection on the window it's posted in. Clearly, [[RealWomenDontWearDresses it's impossible for a woman to love science]] ''[[RealWomenDontWearDresses and]]'' [[RealWomenDontWearDresses enjoy looking pretty]].
** Mimic1990: Personally, the implication I got from this ad was that all of the stuff the family said wasn't really what they were saying. It was meant to be dramatized - what they were actually saying was some variant of "wow, look how pretty our daughter looks doing this stuff" which she only took as "stop trying to be smart." To be fair, that might just be me reading too much into it, but honestly... even if that wasn't the intention, it still feels less like the moral of the story is "encourage your children" and more like the moral is "girls have no free will." Such a messed up commercial.
* D YellowMadness: The commercial where a tiny slobbish fat guy keeps making a teenage boy stop hanging out with his friends for unspecified reasons. At the end of the commercial, he drags the kid outside and says "pucker up" with a "this is happening whether you like it or not" tone and the slogan is "cigarettes are bullies." It's like they're comparing being addicted to cigarettes and being bullied to being raped. That's all kinds of messed up and so is the fact that they're showing this commercial on Teen Nick. I wanna be able to watch some channel without hearing the beginning of a metaphorical rape scene.
* Trix commercials:
** Blackjack254: All Trix commercials are infuriating (that poor rabbit), but I specifically remember a commercial where the rabbit encounters aliens, and they say something, and the commercial challenges us to find out what they are saying. For those who remember this commercial, who honestly thought for one minute the aliens were saying anything other than "Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids"?
** Tropers/{{ading}}: I think the worst Trix commercial is the one where the rabbit tries to get the Trix from the kids by dressing up as a waiter and... giving the kids Trix. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext It makes even less sense in context.]]
** WRM5: For me, the worst came after the poll. For those who don't remember, in one ad from 1991 the Rabbit entered a race where the prize for winning was a bowl of Trix cereal. He won the race, surprisingly, and just before he got his prize the commercial stopped and asked kids to write in to General Mills and tell them whether they believed the rabbit should get the cereal. The vote was overwhelmingly yes, and so of course in the next commercial they had to keep their word and let him finally have... one bite. Then those horrid brat kids humiliated him yet again (and even worse than usual) and took the cereal away.
* Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi: You may disagree, but their 2016 Super Bowl commercial makes me cringe. A pregnant woman is about due when her husband eats some Doritos. For some reason, the unborn baby wants one, and eventually, the woman takes the Dorito and throws it across the room, and the commercial ends with everyone reacting in fear before the baby possibly gets brain damage on the way out. How can anybody find this funny?
* Cheerios commercials:
** Tropers/{{fluffything}}: One Cheerios commercial makes me seethe with rage whenever I see it; the one where some BrattyHalfPint girl goes around reacting to everything (and I do mean everything) with "That's for babies" except for the aforementioned Cheerios. Now, the commercial is supposed to imply that you never outgrow loving the cereal. But, instead, the little girl comes off as some smug little brat who treats everything that's not Cheerios with such utter snark and disdain. Hey, Cheerios? Next time you want to show us that people will never outgrow your precious cereal, how about you do so by using something other than some whiny brat?
*** Tropers/CrazyLuigi: Even I could've done something better for this kind of message. Show a young kid enjoying the Cheerios, then go into an adult version of that same kid still liking it, and then move to that adult going into their grandparent stage still having some enjoyment out of the Cheerios. I admit, it's not a masterpiece myself, but at least it wouldn't be so damn annoying.
*** Tropers/GonzoLink: For me, the real [=DMoS=] isn't so much the commercial itself (which is terrible, to be sure) but the fact that Cheerios keeps reusing the damn thing. Every time I boot up a video on blip and this abomination resurfaces after months of being dormant, it takes just about all the effort in the world to keep from putting my fist through the screen of my laptop.
*** Tropers/{{lilpurplebird}}: Oh gosh, yes, all the way. It doesn't help that her voice is very jarring. Why they chose this specific girl is beyond me. Just because it may be her first time in front of the camera doesn't mean she's commercial material. And you can tell the mother isn't very happy with her as a whole, that laugh at the end was obviously forced.
** Tropers/{{jccw227}}: Another Cheerios commercial that particularly bugs me is is one where a dad pours a bowl for his infant son, and as soon as his back is turned, the older brother comes in and steals the cereal and runs off. As soon as he leaves the dad turns around, laughs and says, "The Cheerios bandit got you again?" Implying that this isn't the first time this has happened. So in other words, he knows his older son is stealing, [[KarmaHoudini but does nothing to discourage it.]] The fact that the family is African American [[UnfortunateImplications doesn't help matters.]]

* BlackbirdMizu: The commercials for Dr Pepper 10. It's one thing to try and pass off your product as manly, but they do this by directly saying "This product is not for women!". They imply that women don't like action movies, and overall the whole thing seems like an immature "No Girls Allowed!" type of thing that a 9-year old boy would do.
** t3hdow: Honestly, when I first watched the commercial, I thought it came off as great satire on the immature "manly" ads that have been all too common at the time. It was so insipid, over-the-top and ridiculous - the guy trying to pour Dr Pepper into a cup while driving and partly spilling it was the highlight - there was no way it couldn't have been parody. Too bad that wasn't the case with the commercial's tagline at the end, which ruined an otherwise hilarious commercial. The [=DMoS=] also doubles as a missed opportunity, thanks to the producers not having the hindsight to realize the gem they created. If only they cut out the last few seconds...
** @/LadyNorbert: For some extra [=DMoS=], I actually sent a letter to the company when those ads came out, because they bothered me so much. The response I got was completely condescending and rude, saying that I should be glad they challenge my perceptions or some crap like that. It made me glad I've always disliked Dr Pepper...

* Tropers/MosquitoMan: The Christmastime adverts where the phone that belonged to the rival company was sent to live on the Island of Misfit Toys. That's just arrogant.
* FoxFleet: Another series of phone commercials (maybe Sprint? I can’t remember) involved people receiving bad news by text. In one of them, a football player who has suffered a knee injury receives a text from the team doctor (who is in the same room!) saying he is out for the season. Dismayed, he asks the doctor about it, and the doctor tells him not to worry about it because he sent the text using his unlimited phone plan, so he doesn’t have to pay any more for it (as though that’s what the player was worrying about). These commercials felt really mean-spirited to me, as they showed their customers as being extremely self absorbed and uncaring towards others as though that was supposed to be a good thing.
* Tropers/LargoQuagmire: I cannot be the only person who feels like the Jack in the Box commercial where the young man marries a bacon hamburger is completely ridiculous. Barring that we live in a political environment where trivializing the right to marry is [[BerserkButton bound to piss people off,]] the whole idea is mind-numbingly stupid, and ends with the man eating the bacon burger. So he just... killed his wife? Consummated his marriage? For the love of God, what does it mean?!
** Tropers/{{lilpurplebird}}: I don't get it either, but all I know is this makes those Jack's family life commercials look genuine (and I'm shocked they got away with implying Jack has a bondage fetish in one commercial). It's awkward enough to watch as it is, so I just try to ignore it and keep from laughing at its stupidity.

* Klondike Bars commercials:
** [=SickBoy=]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxC9-PJfyKo This commercial]] for Klondike Bars from last year [[note]] For those of you who are unaware, this is based off of their classic campaign, "What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?" where people do dangerous or humiliating things to get one[[/note]]. First of all, it isn't funny. Second of all, why are we still using stale jokes based on tired gender stereotypes (men are insensitive simpletons, women are boring and only good as eye candy)? It isn't often that you find something that's sexist toward men, but this commercial actually manages to be sexist toward both genders using jokes that were old when they were used 10 years ago on According to Jim. I've never actually had a Klondike Bar, but this commercial certainly doesn't make me want one.
** Wooboo: There's a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYt6IlwP6mE new one]] where a guy stands miserable in an elevator where a couple are giving each other "baby talk". Maybe it is just me, but seeing a couple showing affection for each other in public would make me smile, not stand there like I was forced to hear nails scratching a chalkboard. It makes the guy who wants a Klondike look like a irritable, cynical ass who can't stand to see others happy. It also doesn't help that the couple who are being cute and affectionate are thin and wearing jogging wear, where the guy in question is overweight and alone, much less the fact that he's basically being bribed into doing this with an ice-cream bar. [[UnfortunateImplications What are you trying to say about your customers, Klondike?]]
* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Gqc5S6t2U This Australian commercial]] for the game ''Jam Sessions''. Apparently, the guy who made the commercial didn't get the memo about it being a game for everyone (or worse, [[FridgeHorror he is aware]]) as the kid throws a massive PrecisionFStrike. I'm sorry but it's not funny, nor endearing, it's outright immature. Though it does allows it to remember the product... for a game who is about playing a guitar with the DS.
* Darkton: There was a commercial for... [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain something, I can't remember what]], but the way they advertised it was "You're a whole new you!" How do they demonstrate this? Well, the man tries to talk to his child, the child 'realizes' he's not the real dad. He tries to talk to his wife, his wife turns him down, too. He tries to get attention from the dog, the dog starts growling at him. For a moment, I thought this was going to be a commercial for identity theft protection, but it wasn't. While what they attempted was "Use our product and you'll be a changed man," what they managed was "Use our product and you'll be mistrusted by your loved ones."
** EmperorOshron: For those wondering, the product in question was Dr. Scholl's, if I remember correctly, suggesting that having the right footwear will improve your health/posture and make you feel physically better. It still doesn't justify the over-the-top reactions that the man's family have towards him.
** @/LadyNorbert: Right - the idea was that now that Dad's shoes fit properly and he feels great even after being on his feet all day, he's no longer a grouch to his family... and as a result, they don't recognize him. It was dumb and pointless.
** Tropers/StarTropes: So if I use Dr. Scholl's, people will think I've been replaced by a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod person]]? Remind me to never use Dr. Scholl's.
* Kellor: Adobe put out a web commercial in which a CEO-type guy calls his "digital media consultant" into his office and keeps slapping him across the face until he says what the CEO wants to hear (which is, "You can definitely measure ROI on social media"). Adobe, and supposedly the viewer, is on the CEO's side. It raises a few questions, such as: If the CEO knows more about social media than his consultant, why does he hire one? Why doesn't the consultant go straight to HR (or quit) after the first slap? And finally, who would ever think this is funny?

* Kittens: Those dang Special K commercials; I just noticed that in a lot of commercials they portray foods like donuts, chocolate and ice cream like its the most satanic thing in the world. I do like the cereal and the bars, they are good and all, but is it really necessary for them to make women think that if they ate something like a doughnut or ice cream one day they're gonna turn into grotesque fat monsters the next day? Really there's nothing wrong with eating fattening foods as long as you exercise and eat healthy things along with it but I really think it's ridiculous that they're making sugary fattening foods look evil.
** fluffything: By far, the worst of the Special K commercials, in my opinion at least, features a girl going door to door selling donuts. She rings the doorbell and a lady answers it. Said lady then smugly says "You're cute" and slams the door in the poor girl's face. Really, just really? The commercial with the guy in the cupcake costume was bad enough, but at least you could excuse the lady being rude since that was an adult in a costume. This commercial, however, involves a child (emphasis on child) simply trying to sell donuts for what I can only guess is some sort of Girl Scouts-esque fund raiser. What's worse is that the little girl wasn't being mean, she wasn't being pushy, and she wasn't being forceful. She just politely asked if the lady wanted to buy some donuts for her, and the lady acts like a total bitch towards her and slams the door in her face. What kind of message is Special K sending to its demographic? That the only way to lose weight is to eat their product and act like asses towards anyone who offers you unhealthy food? That it's OK to be rude to children? I'm surprised that lady didn't make that poor little girl cry. The whole thing just comes off as mean-spirited.
** @/LadyNorbert: My least favorite Special K commercial is one they had in the winter; I think it may have since been pulled, perhaps because other people objected to the same thing I did. A mother helps her young daughter build a snowman; Mom is dressed in a heavily quilted white coat. The daughter giggles and says that the snowman looks like her mother, which prompts Mom to take her inside. Once she takes off the coat, she immediately goes for a bowl of Special K, as though she's been shamed into losing weight. Except without the coat, it's easy to see that Mom is trim and fit and has her red turtleneck tucked into her size-six jeans. In other words, the kid was clearly comparing the snowman with the coat, not the mother's figure, but let's make women feel worse about themselves because even someone as slender as the mother obviously needs to lose weight.
* Ecojosh1: There are some commercials for Honda that involve people visiting a competitor, talking about how the Honda is better than what the competitor is selling, and then leaving to buy a Honda. What sort of douche does that? "Let's visit a dealership that doesn't sell what we want, waste the salesman's time, insult him, and then leave."
* Troper/TheDogSage: Those Allstate "Mayhem" commercials which have the 'Mayhem' guy basically trying to scare you into buying their insurance by showing possible "mayhem". Why don't they scream "Danger! Danger! Booga! Booga! Booga!" at the audience instead?
* Rosiemom112629: There was an ad for Walgreens that promoted healthy eating. A husband and wife were having a powdered doughnut and a health drink, respectively. The wife grows more and more irritated until she rips the doughnut out of her husband's hand, destroys it, flings down the pieces, and then hands him a bottle of her drink. It got so irritating that I wanted to see the husband throw the bottle across the room while yelling "I don't want your drink, you bitch! I wanted my doughnut!".
** Troper/CJCroen1393: The basic idea of that ad sounds like [[BrokenAesop "it's totally okay to force people to eat healthy, 'cause y'know, it's for their health!"]] One of these days we're gonna see a health food advertisement involving someone putting a funnel in some unfortunate person's mouth and cramming as much health food down their throat as they can.

* TellAll111: Ah, Lynx... dear, dear old Lynx (or Axe as it is known in the US). The "2012: The Final Edition" commercials were eye-rolling at worst, but Lynx Apollo... good God, Lynx Apollo. There is quite a lot that is wrong with them. Astronauts have made a positive contribution to society and risked their lives doing so and if you want to show them as something to aspire to be, fine, but you can do that without making firemen and lifeguards seem like lesser men, especially when their profession is saving lives. Not to mention the portrayal of women as superficial human beings who run to the more macho man. Seriously Lynx, I know your target demographic is primarily men under 30, but as a member of that demographic, even I have to say that if you're going to use gimmicks, you need to go back to the drawing board.
** Tropers/{{ading}}: I completely agree, but there's one thing you're missing. Why is the woman even kissing the fireman/lifeguard in the first place? If they're not in a relationship, then women are apparently expected to just suddenly fall in love with anyone who saves their life. And if they're not in a relationship, then that makes the women bitches for running to the astronaut immediately. Hell, how do they even know it's a real astronaut? I mean, an astronaut doesn't need to wear his space suit on Earth, and someone could dress up as an astronaut without actually being one, so how do they know?
* BumblebeeMagnus: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3FHP0MMrqo The new Denny's commercial that plays on a lot of Blip videos about the dad explaining the good deal he got on their breakfast to his kids]]. This wouldn't be so bad if 1) they weren't freakin' preschoolers (ya know, tiny children that don't even fully comprehend money yet), 2) the dad wanted to explain this to his kids, why didn't he just say to the little people who take everything literally what it actually was (he could have easily said 'I got a good price on our meal today') and 3) the dialogue is so stilted that it doesn't come off as cute but as annoyingly bad as George Lucas' script for Episode I.
* SaiyanWarrior006: The new [=M&Ms=] mascot Brown (is that her name?) Apparently they wanted a new female lead in place of Green. But they failed spectacularly as Brown is pretty much a smug know it all bitch who acts like she's better than everyone. The latest commercial featuring her has her trick Red into getting into a girl who loves chocolate and it's implied at the end she's going to eat him and Brown has a smile on her face when she sends him off. Honestly can't we just have Red and Yellow, or bring back Blue instead of this broad?
*** LawandDisorder: Just [=M&Ms=] commercials in general these days bug me. You're talking about cartoon characters, whose main appeal has historically been (and continues to be) very young children, and pretty well all the commercials now have a heavy focus on their sex lives. Not in the [[ParentalBonus 'nod to the parents' sort of way cartoons use so families will watch shows together,]] but in a way that seems to say the executives didn't consider children might watch at all.
*** TheSnowSquirrel: Your post inspired me to bring something up, check this out: [[http://www.mars.com/global/about-mars/mars-pia/our-brands/communicating-responsibly/marketing-our-brands-responsibly.aspx Mars claims]] they try not to market to kids! [[FlatWhat Um...what?]] I figure the company's trying to discourage little kids' exposure to junk food, but then why on earth do you keep putting characters from the latest Pixar films on the wrappers, still have ads for all your other candy littering Nickelodeon commercial breaks, or still market those candy tubes with the cute little figurine on top every [[UnusualEuphemism burger-flippin']] holiday, which are meant specifically as gifts for small children? It's my personal [=DMoS=] simply because this strategy makes no sense at all. Mars [=M&Ms=]: now in BrokenAesop flavor.
* Kittens: There's this recent commercial for the [=McDonald's=] shamrock shakes that has this guy come home and his wife comes straight out of nowhere and she acts like the guy slept with another woman but it turns out he had a shamrock shake and the wife gets angry and tells him "I hate you." But then he gives her one too and then she suddenly turns happy and says "I love you." and acts like its the most romantic thing ever. Really, [=McDonald's=]? Do they really think we women are that gullible? I can understand if they're trying to be funny but this was just unfunny and irritating and I thought they should have just stuck with the commercials with ol' Grimace or the one where the people do Irish dances because at least they're less irritating than this.
* Tropers/ShiningArmor87: A radio advertisement for the shore store New Balance North Jersey, in which a man tries to get his pet parrot to talk, only for him to recite the amazing features of the store because he listened to the radio and heard commercials for them in the pet store. It just reeks of a lack of creativity and could have been for literally anything else.
* SupaSoap101: For this Troper, it was the Pepsi Next Baby Commercial. The ad shows a mother caring for her newborn child, when suddenly the father comes in with a box of Pepsi Next. The next following scenes show the parents being so excited about the soda, and ignoring their child, who displays amazing talents! This commercial displayed how bad some parents are, to where they care more about a soda over their own child! A. Fucking. Soda. It also angers me, because this troper also was ignored through most of his childhood. If these were real parents, then they would've had their child taken away by Child Services.

* fluffything: For the longest time, the ''Five Hour Energy Drink'' commercials have been non-entertaining, but not that bad. Their most recent commercial? Pure utter douchiness. It essentially is just this utterly obnoxious guy going on and on about all the "amazing" things he did in five hours thanks to the aforementioned energy drink. Oh, how annoying this guy is. He's every single stereotype, parody, and whatnot of a JerkJock [[JerkAss utter douche annoyance]] completely and utterly played straight. Everything about this commercial from the guy's bragging to the blatant use of AutoTune makes me want to reach into the TV and punch him. The guy makes WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo look like a upper-class gentleman in comparison. Hey, whoever pitched this commercial idea to Five Hour Energy Drink's executives? Try something less annoying next time.
* fluffything: Direct TV's latest advertising campaign (of course dealing with the old Cable VS Satellite debate) is mind-numbingly dumb in-and-of itself to the point where saying it would only appeal to the LowestCommonDenominator would be an insult to the lowest common denominator. But, until recently, they were never outright offensive. That changed in a recent commercial where a woman says "cable is worse than..." and then cuts to her being knocked over by one of those [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy "wacky arm-waving inflatable people" things]] and implying that the thing either molested and/or raped her. Whoever made/approved/directed/was involved in any way with that commercial? There's a little something you need to know. Rape is not funny. Molestation is not funny. Saying that something as petty and insignificant as cable TV is worse than rape is [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Not. Fucking. Funny!]] I have met rape victims. I have met molestation victims. To undermine what those people had to go through isn't just disrespectful, it's downright inhumane.
** JustHereToComment: For me, it was one of the Marionette commercials. The premise is that a guy is married (possibly, it's hard to tell) to a Marionette puppet that is just downright NightmareFuel. In one commercial, the guy is lying in bed and watching Direct TV and the puppet walks in, and they talk about if he still loves her, given that Direct TV has no wires, like the kind holding her up. Where it gets really bad is when she takes off her robe to reveal lingerie and starts 'dancing' in a manner similar to a seizure. It's about as FetishRetardant as you could get and I think it's turned me asexual.
** PrincessTogezo: The "Turn Back Time" commercial started out as decent, with [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] singing about being able to turn back time with Direct TV and retrieve old programs. But then he decided to change different things, and everything went south as he told the couple in the ad that they could "reconsider having that second child". The child in question, who was coloring on a wall, just vanishes from existence, and the parents don't even care; in fact, they almost seem a bit pleased. I bet if the child had been doing anything else, like reading or playing with a toy (or heck, coloring on paper), the parents would have been rightfully upset. However, since he was coloring on a wall, that apparently means [[DisproportionateRetribution he deserves to be]] [[RetGone retroactively erased from existence]]. While I myself am not a second child, I feel bad for any second (or third, etc.) children who see this commercial, especially if their parents have issues with each other like the couple in the commercial apparently did. [[note]]In fact, I'm not ashamed to say that I could think of a better rhyme for "spicy instead of mild": [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim "And make your old wardrobe a little less wild!"]] It's not perfect, but at least then there wouldn't be any FridgeHorror involved.[[/note]]
* Tropers/KenyaStarflight: The University of Phoenix's solution to revamping its image has been a commercial featuring a reworked version of "If I Only Had a Brain" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. While there's nothing inherently wrong with appropriating a well-known and beloved song for a commercial (even if it's annoying), it feels jarring to have a light-hearted number twisted to fit this condescending commercial, which implies that [[UnfortunateImplications women are inherently superior]] (no mention whatsoever is made of male college graduates) and anyone who doesn't hire a University of Phoenix graduate for their company is brainless. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The fact that the singer is off-key at several points in the song doesn't help things]].
* fluffything: Shark (a vacuum company) has a commercial in which they compare their product to Dyson (another vacuum company). So, how do they do this? Do they compare the quality of how the two products clean floors? Nope. Instead, they portray the Dyson salesperson as a stereotypical Cockney-accented British person wearing cliched clothing from the 1920s-1940s (in other words, he looks like an extra out of Mary Poppins). Really, Shark? This is how you decide to portray your competition? By portraying them as a stereotype? Oh, but it gets more ridiculous. Their reasoning why their product is better? Dyson vacuums cost $600, while Shark vacuums are cheaper. You know what? I'd rather spend the $600 than buy a vacuum from someone who resorts to stereotyping other nations.
* Mesousa2877: Dear lord, the new Twix commercials are the type of concept that is no doubt DOA. Basically, the Twix company decided to split up to represent each bar, despite, well, both have them tasting the exact same. This gimmick would work if they had the second bar taste completely different as a test run, but instead, they have this "Left Twix" and "Right Twix" crap. Since day 1, I've thought this was inane, and it doesn't seem to want to get away at the moment.
** kablammin45: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Y3dAS-5u8 This ad just makes things even more annoying]]. A guy touring the "Left" factory actually makes the points stated above and basically that this whole debate is pointless several times during the tour and promptly gets packing tape slapped over his mouth. StrawmanHasAPoint, much?
** Axelsonfire: It's exactly the same thing Shreddies did years ago. They brought out Diamond Shreddies. The cereal is square. Tilt it, it becomes a diamond. It's exactly the same thing with the gimmick of being "new". It drove me insane, especially since I knew a lot of people who were convinced they were actually different.
** MythrilMothV3: As of Spring 2017 they've officially taken it too far by releasing "Left Twix/Right Twix packs" to carry the stupid ad campaign over into the product itself. Why do they feel this is necessary or appropriate? This is a candy bar that's been a mainstay for decades, all it needs to do to sell itself is exist. It certainly doesn't need this weird, confusing ad campaign some [[SarcasmMode brilliant]] person came up with.

* DahSupahBloopah: There was a General Mills' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCdn3uXziDE commercial]] starring some of their mascots, like the Trix rabbit, the Coco Puffs bird and... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers an orange.]] Suddenly, a kid voiced by Jeremy Shada of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' says that he has a problem, which is revealed to be that it's Wednesday. One of the mascots gets angry saying how [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Wednesday stole his car]]. We then have an art shift to an eight bit style ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' joke that goes no where, and smacks of them trying to stay relevant, Oh, and then the Trix rabbit gives him some cereal, saying that he was just served! Breakfast, that is! It all smacks of seventy year olds trying to find out what kids like. Oh, and the Orange has the same voice actor as [[WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa Mr. Gus.]] Kids like Uncle Grandpa, RIGHT!?!

* batmany: Recently, there's been an advertisement shown on game apps for a product called "Flex" (a reusable mestrual cup). Now, advertising for a woman's bodily needs isn't a problem. The way this ad goes about advertising it, however, is nothing short of absolutely disgusting. What happens in the ad? Well, a woman (who is on her period) is finishing her job interview. She stands up, and there's a stain of blood on the boss's white chair. That's nasty enough, but it gets worse. The boss and the lady then start shaking hands with increased vigor as the lady starts bleeding profusely from her, well, you know. They then just both start staring awkwardly at each other as blood oozes down the lady's leg. Just, what the hell where these advertisers thinking? Yes, women have accidents during their monthly. Yes, it can lead to some uncomfortable moments. However, that's not how you advertise your product! Nobody wants to see a woman bleeding profusely from her lady parts! Not to mention, no human being bleeds that much out their lady parts unless they've been severely injured or they have some sort of medical condition. It is one of the most appalling things I have seen in a long time. I'm not only offended as a woman, but I'm also offended as a human being in general. To the people who invented Flex, why in the name of Lady Gaga's meat suit would you ever think I would want to try your product after seeing ''that''?

* batmany: Recently, there's been an advertisement shown on game apps for a product called "Flex" (a Diva Cup). Now, advertising for a woman's bodily needs isn't a problem. The way this ad goes about advertising it, however, is nothing short of absolutely disgusting. What happens in the ad? Well, a woman (who is on her period) is finishing her job interview. She stands up, and there's a stain of blood on the boss's white chair. That's nasty enough, but it gets worse. The boss and the lady then start shaking hands with increased vigor as the lady starts bleeding profusely from her, well, you know. They then just both start staring awkwardly at each other as blood oozes down the lady's leg. Just, what the hell where these advertisers thinking? Yes, women have accidents during their monthly. Yes, it can lead to some uncomfortable moments. However, that's not how you advertise your product! Nobody wants to see a woman bleeding profusely from her lady parts! Not to mention, no human being bleeds that much out their lady parts unless they've been severely injured or they have some sort of medical condition. It is one of the most appalling things I have seen in a long time. I'm not only offended as a woman, but I'm also offended as a human being in general. To the people who invented Flex, why in the name of Lady Gaga's meat suit would you ever think I would want to try your product after seeing ''that''?

* batmany: Recently, there's been an advertisement shown on game apps for a product called "Flex" (It's a reusable...erm...cup for women's periods). Now, advertising for a woman's bodily needs isn't a problem. The way this ad goes about advertising it, however, is nothing short of absolutely disgusting. What happens in the ad? Well, a woman (who is on her period) is finishing her job interview. She stands up, and there's a stain of blood on the boss's white chair. That's nasty enough, but it gets worse. The boss and the lady then start shaking hands with increased vigor as the lady starts bleeding profusely from her, well, you know. They then just both start staring awkwardly at each other as blood oozes down the lady's leg. Just, what the hell where these advertisers thinking? Yes, women have accidents during their monthly. Yes, it can lead to some uncomfortable moments. However, that's not how you advertise your product! Nobody wants to see a woman bleeding profusely from her lady parts! Not to mention, no human being bleeds that much out their lady parts unless they've been severely injured or they have some sort of medical condition. It is one of the most appalling things I have seen in a long time. I'm not only offended as a woman, but I'm also offended as a human being in general. To the people who invented Flex, why in the name of Lady Gaga's meat suit would you ever think I would want to try your product after seeing ''that''?

** Tropers/TheFarmboy: Their most recent commercial in regards to everyone's reactions for eating a burger, [[TotallyRadical while glaringly trying to]] [[WereStillRelevantDammit interject web culture in it.]] They had one reaction a "memer", resembling an ImageMacro (down to using the same font while saying "Like a Boss!" which was popular in 2009.) Then there were two girls taking selfies ([[UpToEleven one of them one-ups another by taking a picture while taking it.]]) However it comes to one say saying it was the bomb just for his peers to look at him annoyingly. [[SarcasmMode So using 90's slang makes you an outdated loser while having memes and selfies would make it timeless.]]

* Blackjack254: All Trix commercials are infuriating (that poor rabbit), but I specifically remember a commercial where the rabbit encounters aliens, and they say something, and the commercial challenges us to find out what they are saying. For those who remember this commercial, who honestly thought for one minute the aliens were saying anything other than "Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids"?

* Tropers/{{fluffything}}: One Cheerios commercial makes me seethe with rage whenever I see it; the one where some BrattyHalfPint girl goes around reacting to everything (and I do mean everything) with "That's for babies" except for the aforementioned Cheerios. Now, the commercial is supposed to imply that you never outgrow loving the cereal. But, instead, the little girl comes off as some smug little brat who treats everything that's not Cheerios with such utter snark and disdain. Hey, Cheerios? Next time you want to show us that people will never outgrow your precious cereal, how about you do so by using something other than some whiny brat?
** Tropers/CrazyLuigi: Even I could've done something better for this kind of message. Show a young kid enjoying the Cheerios, then go into an adult version of that same kid still liking it, and then move to that adult going into their grandparent stage still having some enjoyment out of the Cheerios. I admit, it's not a masterpiece myself, but at least it wouldn't be so damn annoying.
** Tropers/GonzoLink: For me, the real [=DMoS=] isn't so much the commercial itself (which is terrible, to be sure) but the fact that Cheerios keeps reusing the damn thing. Every time I boot up a video on blip and this abomination resurfaces after months of being dormant, it takes just about all the effort in the world to keep from putting my fist through the screen of my laptop.
** Tropers/{{lilpurplebird}}: Oh gosh, yes, all the way. It doesn't help that her voice is very jarring. Why they chose this specific girl is beyond me. Just because it may be her first time in front of the camera doesn't mean she's commercial material. And you can tell the mother isn't very happy with her as a whole, that laugh at the end was obviously forced.

* [=SickBoy=]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxC9-PJfyKo This commercial]] for Klondike Bars from last year [[note]] For those of you who are unaware, this is based off of their classic campaign, "What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?" where people do dangerous or humiliating things to get one[[/note]]. First of all, it isn't funny. Second of all, why are we still using stale jokes based on tired gender stereotypes (men are insensitive simpletons, women are boring and only good as eye candy)? It isn't often that you find something that's sexist toward men, but this commercial actually manages to be sexist toward both genders using jokes that were old when they were used 10 years ago on According to Jim. I've never actually had a Klondike Bar, but this commercial certainly doesn't make me want one.

* Tropers/Pikachu4Prezident: I remember there being some sort of ad campaign for Advertising/PopTarts that was basically a parody of Series/{{Survivor}}. It started off pretty good and enjoyable, showing every participant slowly get picked off one by one until there was nobody left. Okay, so that's standard issue for the Pop Tarts ads at the time; Pop Tarts exist as sentient beings and meet their ends by getting eaten (and even then, the concept of that [[NightmareFuel is downright terrifying]]). Double Berry, one of the participants [[RedShirt who was supposedly killed off right at the beginning of the event]], [[BigDamnHeroes was revealed to have saved everyone from their fates, and giving everyone a second chance at hope.]] Alright, awesome! So then, it boiled down to a vote to choose which boat the group would use to get off the island (which Wildberry's motorboat won in what I can assume was a landslide vote for the possible practicality of it), and managed to get off the island. Sounds good, right? Well, everything reaches a bullshit climax. [[AssPull The boat breaks down out in the middle of the ocean despite the fact that it seemed like a good idea]], and it looks like they're stranded again. A cruise ship shows up, [[HopeSpot and it looks like all's well that ends well, right?]] Nope! Sorry, [[KillEmAll everyone gets eaten by the patrons on board]], making several weeks and months of waiting and anticipation [[ShootTheShaggyDog completely and utterly fucking pointless.]] They only did that because StatusQuoIsGod and [[DownerEnding the humans are always gonna eat them no matter whether we had any bearings on their fates or not.]] Fuck you guys, too! [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot This story had such good potential and could have ended happily]], [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste but chances are they planned it all in advance anyways]] and it left a bitter taste in my mouth. It didn't make me want to eat Pop Tarts, but it sure as hell made me want to massacre all of those gluttonous bastards, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge all in the name of those Pop Tarts they unceremoniously chowed down on when things looked their best.]]

*** Ajwargo: I agree with both of you. The Great Fruit Escape scenario made me so upset when it ended with such a conclusion, and the PB&J commercial is a sick and cruel joke. But another thing that made me a little upset was an issue of waiting during their "Hide and Seek" campaign. While it made sense to do this for all of the other Pop-Tarts, this was done three times for the last Pop-Tart, Vanilla Milkshake (who was disguised as a ninja). I think making the game longer was a bad move, largely because there wasn't enough content between the second and third wait.

* Capejedi: Do [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSAs]] count here? Because if so I'd like to nominate the recent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lungs_in_a_Great_Big_World Little Lungs in a Great Big World]] series of anti-smoking ads. Look, I'm as against smoking as anyone else, but when your PSA begin to look and play out like rejected WesternAnimation/RobotChicken shorts, I think you may want to go back to the drawing board. All of them are extremely mean spirited, and every time one of these show up, I don't want to not smoke. I feel like I should start smoking out of spite.

** @/Supernintendo128: My old [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck DMoS]] for the Honey Nut Cheerios commercials was the Must Bee The Honey ad campaign until I saw [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAaYsRmXoto this commercial]] where I literally groaned after seeing it. It's basically Buzz talking to Grumpy Cat about how almost everyone loves Honey Nut Cheerios. Shoehorning internet memes into advertisements almost always comes across as forced and this commercial is no exception. The commercial felt like it was not trying at all to be funny and was relying solely on Grumpy Cat for humor.

* Supernintendo128: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSBvPw0h6Qg This]] infamous ad for ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. This commercial is so bad on so many levels. The children in the ad are annoying and the dialogue is childish and cheesy. And one of the children says, "It was just a normal day in the Mushroom Kingdom..." Yes, because [[spoiler: a mystery man selling mushrooms that make people blow up like a balloon]] is totally a normal day in the Mushroom Kingdom. What a terrible ad for a great game!

*** Tropers/{{supernintendo128}}: Agreed, this commercial is painfully dated. But what I hate the most about this commercial other than the cringe-inducingly piss-poor usage of the "Like a Boss!" meme is that the girl taking the selfie is using a selfie stick out of all things, which makes this commercial even more painful to look at considering that many agree that the selfie stick is one of the stupidest inventions ever. On a side note, [[{{Irony}} the irony of all of this is that]] [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece in 5 or so years, taking selfies and saying "like a boss" will be considered "behind the times" as the commercial puts it.]] These commercials need to stop. They are getting even more painful with each one.

** Tropers/{{supernintendo128}}: The worst Progressive commercial in my opinion is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRP9OFx9W8c Meme]]". I said before that trying to shoehorn memes into advertisements in an attempt to appeal to a younger demographic will inevitably come across as forced, but whereas the other commercials I've seen that used memes at least tried to be funny, this commercial did not try to be funny at all. They expect you to laugh at this commercial just because there is an ImageMacro in it, said image macro somehow manages to completely miss the point of an [[RuleOfThree image macro]], and then they throw in a pathetically lame joke about [[ItMakesSenseInContext how Flo should become a mime.]] [[WereStillRelevantDammit To all of those companies trying to put memes into your commercials in a vain attempt to look "hip"]], please stop. You're only embarrassing yourselves.

* Tropers/{{supernintendo128}}: [[http://youtu.be/KjRLu7sgXKU This]] commercial for ''[[VideoGame/JustDance Just Dance 2015]]'' is possibly the worst video game commercial I've ever seen. The commercial is an unenthusiastic singer singing over the chorus of "[[Music/JessieJ Ba]][[Music/ArianaGrande ng Ba]][[Music/NickiMinaj ng]]" without even removing the original vocals. That's it. If I didn't know any better, I would've thought this was homemade because of how amateur it is. If this isn't the biggest example of apathy on Ubisoft's part, then I don't know what is.

* Tropers/{{supernintendo128}}: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4NK68qsxr4 commercial]] for Yoplait yogurt advertising that the cups that the yogurt comes in has cartoon characters on it. It's basically just two kids who are apparently best friends high-fiving each other when suddenly a hawk picks up one of them and carries him away. [[AngstWhatAngst The other kid just shrugs it off]], picks up a yogurt, [[WithFriendsLikeThese and declares the yogurt cup his new best friend while the hawk carries the other kid away in the background,]] [[FridgeHorror probably back to her nest where she will feed the poor kid to her babies.]] [[FlatWhat What.]]

** Tropers/{{supernintendo128}}: Agreed. This commercial was just painfully stupid and tried way too hard to appeal to children. What doesn't help is the bright, seizure-inducing, and overly colorful art style that looks like a hideous blend between WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz and the aforementioned WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa.

*** Tropers/{{CloverGoldngreen}} SickeninglySweethearts is a trope for a reason, Wooboo. You don't need to be aromantic to find such sappy displays of affection between couples annoying.

** Tropers/AlmightyKingPrawn: That ad is for FTX, and "Larry" is actually Creator/LarryDavid. I hate how this ad is actually really funny in the same way most of Larry David's material is until we see what it is selling. Then it is just insulting. Apparently Larry David knows nothing about crypto and the ad was taking advantage of that fact. Hey FTX, can we not make fun of people for not understanding crypto? The making fun of people for disliking crypto that many cryptobros like to do is already beyond obnoxious.

* Tropers/Erin582: While Extra Gum has been around for decades, one of their commercials rubbed me the wrong way. It premiered in the Christmas 2021 season and features a young man with his family at Christmas and opens the "touching" gift from his parents of a book called ''[[HollywoodDateless Don't Worry! You'll Find Love]]'' and then the father gives him a patronizing thumbs-up like this is okay. As bad as this was, while the guy is clearly and understandably hurt and upset over the gift, before he can properly react, he reaches down to put a stick of gum into his mouth and chews it, forcing a shit-eating smile on his face as the "slogan" of the commercial says "Chew It Before You Do It", or in other words, [[BrokenAesop "You Aren't Allowed To React Or Be Offended By Your Terrible Family's Antics Because It's Christmas. Happy Holidays!"]] What an awful message and a grossly unfunny "joke", especially to people who grew up with abusive or otherwise toxic family members. Furthermore, not everyone will find love and others have resolved themselves to this, so to see it in an ad for a company that wants to "appeal" to me (or wants my business rather) is appalling. Shame on you, Extra.

** Tropes/{{Kantonkage}}: This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nvxglYysQ Pop tart commerical]], where a Jelly mom and Peanut butter dad are looking at their newborn PB&J pop tart. Then at the end a nurse plans to eat the pop tart while [[AdultFear the parents]] are ForcedToWatch. Seriously, a nurse's job is to take care of the patient, not to devour them in plain sight.

* Tropers/{{supernintendo128}}: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4NK68qsxr4 commercial]] for Yoplait yogurt advertising that the cups that the yogurt comes in has cartoon characters on it. It's basically just two kids who are apparently best friends high-fiving each other when suddenly a hawk picks up one of them and carries him away. [[AngstWhatAngst The other kid just shrugs it off]], picks up a yogurt, [[WithFriendsLikeThese and declares the yogurt cup his new best friend while]] [[AdultFear the hawk carries the other kid away in the background,]] [[FridgeHorror probably back to her nest where she will feed the poor kid to her babies.]] [[FlatWhat What.]]

** Samuel: It is a ShallowParody of the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' franchise. The TastesLikeDiabetes imagery is an exaggeration and unlike the break-neck speeds from Mario Kart the karts shown in the parody are driven at a sluggish pace. This ad finishes with the pink monster saying "Racing's not about winning, it's about making friends," followed by a punch in the stomach by a Toad lookalike. The message the advertisers were trying to send is condescending and the ad itself looked like a huge middle finger to Nintendo.

* Nightfurywitch: I keep getting this one ad for a crypto app that drives me *insane.* The app is showing tons of monumental inventions, i.e. the wheel, indoor plumbing, the moon launch, etc, and adds in this old guy who mocks them at every single turn. The ad ends with the app, and the guy dismissing it, leading to the slogan "Don't be a Larry". Seriously? Cyrptobros really think they're as important as the wheel? I'm not surprised, but I am irritated to no end.