tv commercials
 

Let's try a new survey about something totally unrelated to quilting, but which we are all familiar with.
What tv commercial currently airing do you like and which one affects you like nails on a chalkboard?

LIKE--Chewy.com pet supplies with the two dogs talking about a peanut butter delivery

DISLIKE--The Insurance Helpline with JJ Walker

I hate them all and actively avoid them. I think our society is bombarded with waaaaay too many commercials. If one comes on the radio, I change the station. About 10 years ago, we dumped satellite tv and signed up with a couple different streaming providers. Best ever side effect of that was that we no longer get commercials!

Not helpful to your thread, am I? 😜😆 Sorry! 😆

like ... the little insurance "talking lizard"
dislike... (hate! w/a passion)The insurance emu ads..soooo stupid! Also the jj Walker & Joe Namath screams...can't mute them fast enough!

Love the Amazon ad with Medusa buying sunglasses!
Dislike : The insurance Emu
I have been known to mute the commercials and make up my own dialogue!!

I only watch commercial TV early AM for local news. National news? Avoid like the plague so rarely see the annoying commercials and I think ALL of them are annoying.

We have primary election June 7 so lots of untruths regarding commercials.

I'm streaming shows on Amazon Prime. Commercials there are usually business focus and last for 10-15 seconds. Much better for my blood pressure...lol

The one I dislike is the one where the mom is waiting for her son to come home and the police show up at the door. It's airing on the radio also. I think it's to remind to wear seatbelts. Can't stand it.

We watch very little regular TV. We stream Amazon, Netflix, Acorn, and BritBox. There are no ads on these channels. But, we watch the local and national news occasionally. I absolutely hate the lawyer ads that appear at that time. We are a lawsuit friendly state and the lawyers are on TV all the time. I like the Geico commercials.

I don't watch a lot of regular TV so not a lot of commercials but i really like the Geico lizard. “How’s your Mum”

I used to love the Budweiser ads with the big horses. Have there been any new ones lately?

I like the one where the wife is looking for money in her house and her husband screams everytime she pops up.
I don't like the Kars for Kids commercials, the song drives me nuts!

There are a couple of recent one I remember I really liked. The guy in the car driving with his family and no one is listening, all focused on their digital devices and the family of dogs driving with their pet cat, Most commercials now are in your face full of look how woke this company/store/corporation is. Turns me against the product.

I’ve already answered this post. But I going to list my all time favorite ads.
Mean Joe Greene and the little boy offering him his Coke, in 1979.
The Budweiser Clydesdales ads.

Classics

We purposely record the select programming that we like to watch so we can fast-forward through the commercials - I'm another who thinks there are far too many commercials and they're designed to influence us but not necessarily in a good way. Advertising is coming at us from every direction so anything that I can avoid or mute - I do.

I not only dislike, I resent the adds for different medicines. I have a doctor for that.

I absolutely hate the seat geek ads with the talking butts!

I'm exactly the same! I hate in your face commercials and since I'm not and don't want to be "woke", I dislike those commercials also. The dogs driving with their pet cat is too cute. I especially like the one with the dachshunds. lol

What does being woke mean?

When several commercials are strung together - I sometimes can't tell when/where one ends and the next one begins.

It seems like all the networks run commercials at the same time!

It's slang for being politically correct.

No favorites, but I can do without Flo and the Emu.

I said "say it ain't so Joe" at a recent gathering and several people got it.
We got rid of tv at least 15 years ago, and our connectivity is poor so no streaming anything here. We are better for it. The news and ads were brain poison.

thanks for answering. I was curious so did a bit of reading and talked to a couple of people. It’s a bit more nuanced than “politically correct” tho. I don’t want to hijack this thread so I’ll go away. I wanted to thank you for your reply.

You are correct, it IS more nuanced than that, but I was trying to be politically correct. Lol.

Iooked at the question and thought to myself -

" No way that I am going to get involved in trying to answer that one!"

A friend ( of over 30 years) informed me that she was tired of trying to wake me up!

I agree wholeheartedly. They are true classics and will always be remembered with a smile by those who saw them. Too bad there aren't any like them today.

I view it as negative way to say that you disagree with/label another person's political opinion without ever explaining why. I will leave it at that.

Almost forgot that there are a number of 'woke' people in every group, and this place is no different. Thanks for the reminder, cathy.

We watch MLB so we can see all the Yankees games. There is a commercial for an AB & B or something like that, maybe a timeshare but I get so annoyed by the constant commercials. A guy sings and sounds like Kermit the Frog. I love the puppet but this guy sends me over the edge lol.
Another one is for those bottles of pills that give you a zillion fruits and veggies for an ungodly amount of money. I've read reviews and people say they spend all their money on advertising and not much on the product.
I love Netflix and Prime- no commercials!!!

You just reminded me of the Gillette ads during the World Series when I was a kid. I wasn’t interested in baseball but loved the singing parrot.”how are you fixed for blades?” Now I’m the opposite; love baseball but not interested in the ads. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Susie.

I just thought it was a put down used by the cons. seriously!

I was serving on a non-profit board a couple years back, and at one meeting where we were discussing repairing something mechanical, I said "I know nothing" with a thick German accent, ala Sgt. Schultz of Hogan's Heroes. One guy laughed and laughed. I was kind of disappointed that no one else got it, we were all of an age that we should have.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Our grandson’s dog thumped his tail on the floor & my husband said it made him think of the old Hamm’s Beer commercial. (From the Land of Clear Blue Waters) We found the old black and white commercial online and showed it to our 30 year old grandson who loved it. We enjoyed it too. Probably one of the best ever.

I never see the AFLAC duck commercials anymore but they were all great.

A local car dealer uses his son and daughter in his radio ads. The daughter has a voice that could cut tin so I just leave the room at that point.

I hate all the medicare commercials. People wanting to get all they are entitled to.

I have seen some really good ones. I don't remember them until I see them as they don't play the good ones as much.

I hate the lawsuit ones. Lawyers come out on that one. All the medicines too. Horrible side effects.

I agree with those Medicare advantage commercials - I wouldn’t tough advantage for anything - and what’s with this entitled thing? No one Is “entitled” !!!! One of my doctors doesn’t even take Medicare advantage. When something sounds to good to be true, it probably is!!!

Thanks for listening,
Sandy in Mooresville, NC. But I’m reality on the road to COLORADO to see our family - middle of Kansas right now!!!!?

Where have all the white people gone? I am definitely not racist, but no white people. Messaging is not good.

Sometimes I remember just parts of a commercial - but have no recollection of the product/service being advertised.

plop plop fizz fizz - for Alka Seltzer

Where's the beef?

Rusco - annoying music/singing?

I think I liked the old "don't squeeze the Charmin " ads better than the current bears.

Liberty liberty liberty - just buy what you need - still ads up!

It seems like it is mostly lawyer/law firms seeking compensation for clients' injuries that advertise.

Medicare advantage plans cover some of what Medicare itself does not. What one can get for x$ varies from provider to provider and state to state and even county to county in a given state. It is worth the time to talk to a broker that specializes in that type of insurance.

That is what the fast forward button is for. Even if we want to watch the rare “live” program, we start it, hit pause, wait 15 minutes and then watch. Usually we don't catch up and can FF through the commercials. Funny side story - the two youngest grands used to say “commerchinals”. Of course they outgrew it.

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