The Ad-Schlocks ride again
I think I'm going to bring back the Ad-Schlock Awards again, after another long dormancy. There are too many targets. My goal is to fill the existing categories and add some new ones, and now I think I'll accept video link submissions (but still, American TV only). Here's what we're looking at:
- Most Irritating
- Least Attractive Actor
- Most Monotonous
- Worst Slogan
- Worst Jingle
- Worst Rehash of Old Song
- Most Embarrassing
- Worst Fundamental Style Problems
- Lamest Concept
- Worst Short Version
- Worst Choice of Spokesperson
- Most Pretentious: Car Commercial
- Most Pretentious: General
- Most Boring: Beer Commercial
- Most Boring: General
- Least In-Touch
- Most Annoying Kid
- Scariest Pharmaceutical Commercial
- Dishonorable Mention
And finally, some new categories:
- The Pewter WTF
- Worst Long-Term Campaign
Early contenders in several categories are Volkswagen (of course), McDonald's, and Pepto-Bismol. Shout out your picks, and if you have good links, pass 'em through.
Posted by Lummox JR on Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:02AM
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#46 ACWraith:
Sunday, August 05, 2007 02:52PM
#45 Tiberath:
The new coca-cola advertisement.
Sunday, August 05, 2007 05:12AM
#44 Jtgibson:
Saturday, April 28, 2007 08:39PM
#43 Lummox JR:
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 06:11PM
#42 Jtgibson:
The "three V-Dubs for under 17,000" are also pointless, but thankfully that's all they are. They just fall flat for me.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 01:48PM
#41 Kunark:
As for the most annoying commercial ever, I'd have to go with:
"Crossfire,
you'll get caught up in the,
Crossfire,
Crossfire,
CROSSFIIIYAAAAA!
*whuah!*"
The last time I heard that commercial was when I was like 6, for christ's sake. I even remember the kid's happy face on the commercial. It has been stuck in my head consistently for over 10 years!
As for modern atrocities, I'd have to agree with the new burger king commercial, mac commercials, and voltswagon commercials. There is no possible way you can make a VW cool, so stop trying, please.
Mercury Milan commercials enrage me. The girl especially is such a bad actor.
Oh, and Lipozene. It comes on probably 1000 times a day on comedy central, it's an annoying scam, and the lady who is on the commercials is pure evil; you can see it in her eyes.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:47PM
#40 Lummox JR:
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:25PM
#39 BlackBirdOmega:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOvFIxUz2XY
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 02:58AM
#38 Tiberath:
> Annoying and stupid, yes. Worst ad ever? I dunno.
If it's not the worst, it's high up there.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:44PM
#37 Crispy:
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:42PM
#36 Tiberath:
http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2007/popup.tvad.php
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:34PM
#35 Tiberath:
> Tiberath wrote:
> > If you want to rag on Australian commercials. The one AND only one, is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for 2007 advertisement. I'm not sure if it's advertised there, and I can't find a place it's been put on the Internet, but it's -the- most annoying advert in the world. By far.
>
> Do you realize how high a bar that is?
Consider this: an advertisement of roughly 10 people forcing laughter, and then, said laughter has been cut up to make a tune. Now, being forced laughter, it is annoying enough. But to have 10 odd peoples laughter put into the form of a tune, is just maddening.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:28PM
#34 Lummox JR:
> If you want to rag on Australian commercials. The one AND only one, is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for 2007 advertisement. I'm not sure if it's advertised there, and I can't find a place it's been put on the Internet, but it's -the- most annoying advert in the world. By far.
Do you realize how high a bar that is?
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:15PM
#33 Tiberath:
> The Austrialian travel commercials have a horrible slogan, "So where the bloody hell are you?"
>
> It does play on American TV, but was banned on Brittish TV.
That's not horrible, that's culture =P
"Where the bloody-hell have you been" or "where the bloody-hell are you going?" are actually quite common phrases around here. I hear (and say) them quite often myself.
If you want to rag on Australian commercials. The one AND only one, is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for 2007 advertisement. I'm not sure if it's advertised there, and I can't find a place it's been put on the Internet, but it's -the- most annoying advert in the world. By far.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 09:06PM
#32 Crispy:
Saturday, March 31, 2007 05:26AM
#31 RedWordSmith:
Friday, March 30, 2007 10:26PM
#30 Lummox JR:
Thursday, March 29, 2007 07:48PM
#29 Hedgemistress:
Which I would, but of course, I had to turn it down almost to nothing to get Crazy Shouty Car Guy and Crazy Shouty Government Money Guy and all their Crazy Shouty friends not to be audible upstairs where people were sleeping. when the show came back on I'd have to turn it back up to the reasonable level to hear the dialogue... and then the next commercial break it would just blare again. I had to be really quick on the draw. :P
Thursday, March 29, 2007 06:25PM
#28 Gughunter:
<mama_boucher>Television is the devil!</mama_boucher>
Thursday, March 29, 2007 06:02PM
#27 Jtgibson:
They do target Microsoft-haters-who-use-Windows fairly well... I know I smirked at a couple of them ("You are coming to a sad realisation. Deny or Allow?" "...Allow."). They are somewhat irritating, though it'd get only honourable mention at best, and even then I think there are others.
Which car commercial is it where the police stop in the middle of a police pursuit in order to look at the car? That one is pretty pretentious too. I think it's a KIA commercial, which is strange in its own right because the KIA advertisers usually have more than enough funny at their disposal (that old exploding shopping cart one was hilarious).
Thursday, March 29, 2007 05:39PM