Has anyone else noticed that advertiser's are beating us to death with the same stupid commercials over and over? It gets really bad when you see the exact same ad 3 times during a 1/2 hour News broadcast.

And all the stupid drug commercials lately. Just about every pill has side effects like diarrhea or abdominal pain. Can't they get the medicine right with out causing other problems. I think the drugs would be cheaper too, if they'd quit advertising so much.

Sorry...Rant Off!

Mark

Ah, thats why I use pot for all my ailments! The only side effects are hunger, thirst and occassional paranoia! ;)

Tivo= commercial killer!!!!!! [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img]

Pot! The greatest use for hemp? [img]graemlins/bonghit.gif[/img]

Mark

[EDIT] Yow! Just made my 2000th post!

[ 08-25-2002, 07:04 PM: Message edited by: skywalker ]

alot of those drugs side effects are the same as the disease sometimes worse

I dont watch much tv but I have to agree. And on radio. That annoying Mitsubishi guy really gets on my nerves. I do remember a tv ad for Masingil (or however its spelled) where a daughter says "Mom, do you douche?" WAYYYYYY too much information lol
And I completely agree about your drug rant. Just last week I was prescribed some anti-inflammatories for a foot problem. After a couple days my stomach was in knots and...well guess the rest. And the doctor didnt warn me of this. After squandering $165 to see the idiot, $69 for the pills, and $60 for a follow-up visit. For nothing.

That's mostly why I avoid going to the doctor..don't trust them. I guess I'll have to start trusting soon, once you're over 40 you have to watch your health more closely.

Mark

<font color = lightgreen>re: pharmaceutical ads. During the testing phase and after a drug is released for public use they keep track of any/all side effects. If even one person has "stomach pains" while taking the drug and other causes are ruled out, then the manufacturer has to put "possible side effects include stomach pain"; this is an FDA regulation. They probably wouldn't have to put this in the TV commercial if people would read the fact sheet about the medication, which they probably don't. If you haven't, then read one sometime. Very interesting.
Anyway, advertising is a relatively small portion of a drug manufacturer's budget. Research & Development can be astronomical, though, especially once the testing phase begins--this requires medical liability insurance because someone might die or be injured. Medical liability insurance is really expensive.</font>

Well, I have noticed that the amount of prescription medicine advertising has increased exponentially for the last few years.

I'm not too keen on them, but I especially think the Viagra commercial where this guy's coworkers are trying to guess what is different about him is pretty stupid! Celebrex is annoying with the use of the Three Dog Night song "Celebrate", too!

Look...more ranting!!! :D

Mark

I don't know if you guys in the States have this one, it's this annoying (i think it's Italian) Lady in a blue worksuit who dances around in the bathroom untill it's all shiny and looks like new. I believe it's an antikal commercial, and it's the most irritating thing i've ever seen in my life. Because of this commercial i'm pretty positive i'll never use the damn stuff. :D

What advertisers don't seem to understand, is that if they keep showing the same commercials more than once in a 1/2 hour slot, they will lose the buyer. It's just plain aggravating.

Mark

I'm the same way Johnny. If a commercial annoys me so much I'll go out of my way NOT to buy it lol

Skywalker I know what you mean. In twenties I never went to the doctor. Even most of the thirties. But one thing I figured out is it costs more not to see a doc from missing work sometimes. So I grit my teeth and do it. My wallet hates it though lol Some doctors are very good about people without insurance and have a bit of mercy on the bill. The exception would be the foot doctor I went to,$60 for a five minute follow-up made me think I went to the proctologist

What gets me is that the ABC soaps have the same announcer ("Brought to you by...") for over twenty years!

I learned to tune out commercials a long time ago...so much so that Rex will ask "Did you see/hear that?" and I'll honestly admit I didn't when I sit closer to the TV than he does LOL.
I stopped to listen to some of the drug commercials when he pointed out what great side effects I was missing out on lol. I think I'd rather die than take any of them. :D

Yeah LOA! I never used to go to the doctor unless I got hurt at work. Like the time I squished my finger during a sledge hammer accident! Ouch! :D

Mark

What really bugs me are the drug ads that don't tell you what the drug is for ..they just say ask your doctor to perscribe it for you,,,,,Then of course theres the new liquid viagra,,,,,so you can pour yourself a stiff one!!

LMAO NO kidding! I had to take medication for nausea a couple of years ago and one of the side effects was; you guessed it! Nausea! I didn't get sick when I took them and they actually helped me hold food down until I felt better and could ditch them but I thought it was pretty funny.

LOL I know! Theres this ad for some drug called Lipitor. They dont tell what its for! And it sounds like a monster movie. Godzilla vs Lipitor! Hey hey there goes Tokyo...errr Lipitor?

That's mostly why I avoid going to the doctor..don't trust them. I guess I'll have to start trusting soon, once you're over 40 you have to watch your health more closely.

Mark</font>[/QUOTE]It's not that I don't trust them, It's just they don't make much money off healthy people. :D

Okay, the most annoying commercials on my list are
Car Commercials
Sprint& all cell phones
Those damn commercials who show 1 commercial, then 2 commercial laters, different commercial but same company. I'd like to shoot the person that thought of that.

Well here in Australia there is an add for a sports club that has someone so UGLY that i cant even watch it without gaging! They are THAT ugly, i never thaught someone with such a horrifying face could exist let alone be video taped without making the camera explode! I really want to put a bomb under the car of whoever put her on that add!

Looks like im ranting too now doesnt it...

Have to agree, both about the commercials and the medicine. Thought I´d bring up a point in this post as well about medicine and diarrhea. Most often its ´s not the substance itself that causes this but the filling (lactose) that causes this by its osmotic potency. [img]smile.gif[/img]

We have here some WERY annoying commercials to like the Hair shampoo from Wella OMG i hate that one and the stupid girl say at the end "I use it because i am worth it" grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr so stupid that i turn of the damn tv and it come 2 or 3 times within an half houer.
And have you noticed that the sound on your tv also beeing a little louder when the commercials coming up? [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img]

Since there are WAY TOOO MANY COMERCIALS on tv and not enough good shows, I've stoped watching tv unless I' watching a movie from a tape.

It's illegal to advertise prescription only medicins in the UK so we are spared the wonders of diarrhoea warnings. And of course there are no ads on the BBC.

LOL I thought of this thread when listening to the news last night and some completely obnoxious Applebee's commercial for "Riblets"
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It played every three minutes followed by another that I forget, even though it was the same two commercials.

I think I have been left permanently damaged by the Riblets ditty sung to the tune of "Rawhide"
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I couldn't tune it out lol, I was trying to fall asleep (at 6 p.m. & a long day at school lol) I am sensitive to noise when trying to crash.

I did ask Rex to turn it down but not until I had heard it at least three times at a volume it just shouldn't be heard at LOL

Sometimes you have funny commercials, like during baseballgames, the beercommercial. Two guys sitting on the couch watching a game, one says: you up for a cold one ? The other says sure. He pulls a string and drops an iglo on his buddy. I can live with those commercials. :D

Hey, the new Cadbury's Chocolate ad was banned. It feattured a picture of Kashmir under the words "too good to share?" :D
Cracked me up, anyway.

Worst of the worst?

How about the Dell spokes-dude? Purely obnoxious!

How about Verizon, "Can you hear me now?"...I wish I couldn't!

The car commercial (is it Toyota?) that uses the tune Mambo #5 to sell their cars...aggravating because they play it so often! (The "We Will Rock You" Ford ads were as bad if not worse.)

The commercial with the hardhat types stirring the yogurt...was funny the first 10 times (maybe).

Mark

Same in Holland - they can only advertise for over-the-counter painkillers and homeopathic stuff, not prescription medicine... thank goodness.

Oh one more!

Actually it is a series of political ads. People in New York and maybe Vermont have seen them. They are ads for Tom Golisano for Governer. They are played a lot and he seems like a pretty aggravating candidate.

How do you New Yorkers feel about him and his campaign?

(Uh, what party is he representing?)

Mark

The thing that gets me is that I can never remember what is being advertised unless it is blatently obvious! OK, it's an ad for a car. What car's that then? Dunno, it's a car, innit? I can't remember which car! So the ad has done nothing to convince me to buy their product. About the only product I can remember from the ad is Budweiser, you can't miss that one.

The other thing that annoys me greatly is hearing music that I like used for adverts. Although I can't remember what it was advertising, I remember Prince Buster's 'Whine & Grine' being used in one a few years back, annoyed the hell out of me. :(

LOL I thought of this thread when listening to the news last night and some completely obnoxious Applebee's commercial for "Riblets"
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It played every three minutes followed by another that I forget, even though it was the same two commercials.

I think I have been left permanently damaged by the Riblets ditty sung to the tune of "Rawhide"
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I couldn't tune it out lol, I was trying to fall asleep (at 6 p.m. & a long day at school lol) I am sensitive to noise when trying to crash.

I did ask Rex to turn it down but not until I had heard it at least three times at a volume it just shouldn't be heard at LOL</font>[/QUOTE]AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I know the one you mean Moni, and I HATE IT!!!!!! And I swear, if I have to listen to N'Sync caterwaul about Chili's Baby friggin Back ribs one more time, I'm going to do something drastic!

Mark...Right on about the drug adverts. I am so sick of the 'Little Purple Pill' ads, or Nexium, or Prevacid, of Procrid, or Prylosec, or..or..or...AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! *BRAIN MELTING*!!!!!!!

*Wanders off to TV free zone and tries desperately to re-align his brain with a good book* :D

I just moved to NY, and noticed the massive inundation by this Golisano twit. I've gotten to the point of grimacing in pain when I see a new one. Personally, I hate political ads, but, what can you do? Everyone's entitled to spout their opinion, even if it does annoy people. [img]smile.gif[/img] I mean...even *I* get to ramble on, and I KNOW that I irritate people. :D

Good topic Mark. [img]smile.gif[/img]

PS: I have no idea what party he is running on. Although, from the flavor of his ads, I'd guess he's an Independant.

Nachtrafe you just had to do that baby back rib thing didnt you? I truly detest that ad lol
There was a hilarious one from last year for Miller Lite beer where this guys date had to use a portajon and he accidently knocked it down the hill with her in it!

<font color = lightgreen>You have to admit that "can you hear me now?" and "dude, you're gettin' a Dell" are quickly becoming cutural fad icons, much like "where's the beef?" and "I've fallen, and I can't get up" were in years past.

You realize, of course, that commercials are supposed to be annoying, because it makes you pay attention more. Think of the commercial you hate the most. Now name the product. That commercial was a success. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] </font>

Is it "successful" if the customer is so annoyed that they remember the product for years and refuse to purchase it? Brand recognition does not necessarily lead to purchasing behavior. Take it from a consumer behaviorist...irritating advertising tactics do not work over the long run and can actually be far reaching in their damages to company image.

I agree that the "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell" ad is definitely becoming a cultural icon. It will be part of the 2000's time capsule, like "Where's the Beef" and "Spuds McKenzie" was for the 1980's, and the "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" chihuahua was for the 90's. Like all pop cultural icons, it will eventually fade away as well.

Watching TV was a habit I gave up years ago. Somewhere between "American Gladiators", "Full House", and "Married with Children", I decided that TV had degenerated past the lowest common denominator of trash and turned it off. I watch maybe 1 hour of TV for every two weeks; predominantly "Weather Channel" and the "News" (most of which I get from the Internet anyway). I haven't missed it. So most of the ads you are mentioning I've never seen nor heard of.

-Sazerac

<font color = lightgreen>I believe that annoyance is successful, because you remember the product. Not only that, people who remember a product's annoying commercial will talk about the commercial that annoys them--free advertising.

I agree that it may not make much sense, but most advertising doesn't make any sense anyway. [img]graemlins/whome.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] </font>

I think that commercial is hilarious. If you notice, we never see the guy from the waist down, so I have this image in my head that he's walking around all day with a huge tent in his pants. Every time I see the ad I think I'm watching a SNL commercial and keep waiting for the punchline.

Kind of reminds me of pop ads on the web. Glad that stupid X10 cam is gone. I was getting really tired of seeing that one.