Least-Favorite Commericals?

[Brentwood]

C'mon, no one's mentioned the Pepto-Bismol ads? With the performers not only chanting "Heartburn, Nausea, Indigestion, Upset Stomach, Diarrhea", but acting the illnesses out in disgusting detail? 

They always seem to come on around mealtime, too.

Yeah - I do think that commercial is gross and over the top.

[Brentwood]

Thank goodness they seem to have pulled the "Orville Redenbacher" (that's in quotes for a reason) commercials...

Good! I didn't mind when they ran ads Orville actually made while he was still alive and just digitally added microwave popcorn to the set, but the Zombie Orville was horrible.

[Brentwood]

I also hate all those Nutri System ads because their idea of weight loss and the perfect size are way too extreme. From a size 10 to a size 2 is their mantra?? Since when is a size 10 fat, and a size 2 normal?

*Maybe* if the person is about 4 foot 4 inches tall (call it a meter and one third meters - I just checked the metric side of my tape measure) then I could see that a size 10 would be a bit much for their frame.  But most of the world has an average height for grown women that is just a bit taller than that.......

Since I am 68 inches tall (call it one and not quite three-quarter meters?) a size 2 would mean that I had bird bones and not much more than skin holding those bones together.  **shudder**

I am 64 inches tall and wear a size 0, 1 or 2 (depending on manufacturer), and I am perfectly normal and healthy.

That said, I think it's ridiculous to use "from a 10 to a 2" for a diet aid commercial. And I cannot STAND that chirpy, perky NutriSystem woman. "Looka me, I'm in a TEW!"

[Brentwood]

How about the smarmy one about the BIG "O"-  Overstock .COM ? The woman who talks in a very arch way about the "BIG O" being a part of your life .... and the XMAS one where they were singing BIG BIG O.

I don't find the double entendre that offensive - just her smug arch super way of saying it.....

I wanted to throw something at the television every time the Christmas one came on.

[kathrynne]

That said, I think it's ridiculous to use "from a 10 to a 2" for a diet aid commercial. And I cannot STAND that chirpy, perky NutriSystem woman. "Looka me, I'm in TEW!"

Thank you. That's about how I wanted to spell "two," but wasn't sure it would come across correctly.

[Brentwood]

That said, I think it's ridiculous to use "from a 10 to a 2" for a diet aid commercial. And I cannot STAND that chirpy, perky NutriSystem woman. "Looka me, I'm in TEW!"

Thank you. That's about how I wanted to spell "two," but wasn't sure it would come across correctly.

No problem.

I did notice when you quoted me, though, that I left the word "a" out of that sentence. I corrected it to read "I'm in a TEW!"

She is the most annoying person on television today, I think.

[kathrynne]

She is the most annoying person on television today, I think.

I really think we should supplement her diet soda with some heavy doses of methimazole, which is a thyroid suppressant med (I took it when my thyroid went berserk with Graves' Disease). She'd be in a twenty-tew in no time!

[Brentwood]

She is the most annoying person on television today, I think.

I really think we should supplement her diet soda with some heavy doses of methimazole, which is a thyroid suppressant med (I took it when my thyroid went berserk with Graves' Disease). She'd be in a twenty-tew in no time!

Off-topic, but my husband had hyperthyroidism caused by Graves Disease. He lost about 50 pounds in short order when I was pregnant in 1999, he lost some muscle function, and he lost a lot of hair. We had no idea what was wrong with him - my MIL insisted it was stress from being sole financial support of our family, I was worried it was something terminal, but my mother suggested he have his thyroid tested. Sure enough, that was it.

[kathrynne]

Off-topic, but my husband had hyperthyroidism caused by Graves Disease. He lost about 50 pounds in short order when I was pregnant in 1999, he lost some muscle function, and he lost a lot of hair. We had no idea what was wrong with him - my MIL insisted it was stress from being sole financial support of our family, I was worried it was something terminal, but my mother suggested he have his thyroid tested. Sure enough, that was it.

I lost about half my hair, total, through bursts of hair loss that accompanied every major change in thyroid levels. It's all growing back, but I have this "halo" of different regrowth lengths, so no matter what I do I look awful!

I was having these dizzy spells that came with garbled speech and loss of motor function that we couldn't diagnose for months. My biggest fear was stroke (I was 43, and Dad was only 48 with his first stroke) but we quickly ruled that out. When a dizzy spell hit while driving to the doctor, though, we finally realized my pulse was racing over 180bpm because my thyroid was running so high. Lucky I didn't pass out at 70mph!

Unfortunately, the 20 pounds I lost in the short time as hyper came back quickly after the RAI treatment. Now I get to lose it all over again, and then some (a lot, really!).

I will never make it to a size tew, though!

[Brentwood]

Off-topic, but my husband had hyperthyroidism caused by Graves Disease. He lost about 50 pounds in short order when I was pregnant in 1999, he lost some muscle function, and he lost a lot of hair. We had no idea what was wrong with him - my MIL insisted it was stress from being sole financial support of our family, I was worried it was something terminal, but my mother suggested he have his thyroid tested. Sure enough, that was it.

I lost about half my hair, total, through bursts of hair loss that accompanied every major change in thyroid levels. It's all growing back, but I have this "halo" of different regrowth lengths, so no matter what I do I look awful!

I was having these dizzy spells that came with garbled speech and loss of motor function that we couldn't diagnose for months. My biggest fear was stroke (I was 43, and Dad was only 48 with his first stroke) but we quickly ruled that out. When a dizzy spell hit while driving to the doctor, though, we finally realized my pulse was racing over 180bpm because my thyroid was running so high. Lucky I didn't pass out at 70mph!

Unfortunately, the 20 pounds I lost in the short time as hyper came back quickly after the RAI treatment. Now I get to lose it all over again, and then some (a lot, really!).

I will never make it to a size tew, though!

That's so similar to my husband's experience - I remember one time he got up off the couch, and his legs completely buckled underneath him. He was getting panic attacks with the racing heart also. He had the radio-iodine treatment and his weight came back also; he also gained more back as the doctors tinkered with his Synthroid dose. It's been rough for him.

[kathrynne]

That's so similar to my husband's experience - I remember one time he got up off the couch, and his legs completely buckled underneath him. He was getting panic attacks with the racing heart also. He had the radio-iodine treatment and his weight came back also; he also gained more back as the doctors tinkered with his Synthroid dose. It's been rough for him.

Scary stuff. It took my minor OCD tendencies and blew them up to "Monk" proportions. I am finally starting to drive short distances again, because I'd had enough incidents behind the wheel that I now associate driving with dizzy. I lived outside Detroit too long to not be able to drive!

[Brentwood]

That's so similar to my husband's experience - I remember one time he got up off the couch, and his legs completely buckled underneath him. He was getting panic attacks with the racing heart also. He had the radio-iodine treatment and his weight came back also; he also gained more back as the doctors tinkered with his Synthroid dose. It's been rough for him.

Scary stuff. It took my minor OCD tendencies and blew them up to "Monk" proportions. I am finally starting to drive short distances again, because I'd had enough incidents behind the wheel that I now associate driving with dizzy. I lived outside Detroit too long to not be able to drive!

I suppose we should stop the thread drift, but I have OCD tendencies as well (and generalized anxiety). If you ever want to talk or just vent, feel free to PM me.

[FolkRockFan]

I can deal with most ads, but the ones for the "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs?

Worst. Ads. Ever.

The cruddiest part is that they have to show a DISCLAIMER before they air the actual ad. If an advertisement is so explicit that you have to WARN people that it's coming? It doesn't need to be on TV. I don't care if it IS on cable and it IS late at night. It's still...urk.

[Brentwood]

I can deal with most ads, but the ones for the "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs?

Worst. Ads. Ever.

The cruddiest part is that they have to show a DISCLAIMER before they air the actual ad. If an advertisement is so explicit that you have to WARN people that it's coming? It doesn't need to be on TV. I don't care if it IS on cable and it IS late at night. It's still...urk.

I agree. People who want them will know to find them. Surely everyone who would want such a video has already heard of Girls Gone Wild?

[Bijou]

Spare me commercials that create racism and discrimination where none exists, because the "discriminated against group" (think cavemen) doesn't exist!
Heaven help the parent who would dare to spray that smelly odor eliminating stuff on a kid's football uniform, or tennis shoes or clothing.  It smells like perfume, but much worse.  I cannot stand that stuff!  Can you imagine your friend spraying it all over her furniture, you go to visit, sit on her couch and come away reeking of it?
I hate any commericial that comes on five times louder than the program you are watching.  I thought some agency had stopped advertisers from doing this blasting, but it sure is out of hand again. 
I also don't like that orange soda spray commercial mostly because the kid did it as an accidnt and the look on his face when his mother says, "How could you!" or whatever it is.  He looks so intimidated you can feel the flare in his stomach.
And that brings me to the one where the group of thugs walks up the other group of people and the one guy looks so scared...you can almost hear him gulping.  It's too much like our world today.  I wish the timid guy would suddenly turn into the incredible hulk and make short work of that bully.

That's funny. I mostly agree with you, but DH and I love the Geico caveman ads. I know it's more than the guy's perfect expression of disgust, but that's a big part of it.

You can buy a gadget for too much money that's supposed to equalize volume, regardless of how much the characters whisper or commercials blare, but I'm not hearing great reviews for it. Otherwise we'd have one on every TV.

As for the loudly perfumed spray, not only can I imagine picking up that stench from someone's couch, I can imagine bringing the stench with me to the hospital via ambulance as a direct result of it. I had high hopes for that product, based on its initial ads, but there's almost no odor I don't prefer to its perfumes.

What makes them think it smells good or that anyone would want their world to smell that way.  Gads!