Commercials you can't stand!

[InglewoodFan]

Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc

The BDC commercial with the fake Johnny Cash sounding song that plays relentlessly makes me crazy. It’s actually a Sam Cooke song that is a lot better than that junk version.

Holy eff that commercial is terrible. I am not a terribly musical person, but that singer sounds horribly off-key.

[Inferno]

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[troutman]

The one with the woman who can’t tolerate family commotion and has to hide in her car on the driveway.

[dirk diggler]

the Lazy Boy commercial. "Wow you offer your design services for free". then she snaps her finger and her design services are clearly overpriced even when free. Hideous, i could do better.

[calgarygeologist]

What the hell is that garbage song/noise on the new Aeroplan commercial? Good lord!

[Yamer]

How the hell did Scotiabank get the rights to use Ahead by a Century in their commercial?

[timun]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Just a horrendous shoddy local marketing attempt. The worst part is they got rid of their quality COOP Gold products in favour of this **** when they decided to stop producing their own local product, instead outsourcing to Overwaitea (Save on Foods).

So they gave up excellent local product for outsourced crappier product and then leaned heavily on "local" marketing. Unbelievably ironic, but right in line with crappy cooperations.

Originally Posted by jayswin

And unless anyone actually noticed the small announcement of closing fed coop production (local) they probably won't even notice that anything changed and think they're still a great locally supporting company.

Couple month old topic bump, and an aside, but did Federated Co-op actually produce anything locally? They closed their distribution centre, sure, but I honestly don't know what if any of the "Co-op Gold", "centsibles", etc. products were actually made locally.

[Superflyer]

I hate these commercials that sound like someone is just hammering on a sound board.
I subscribed to NHL live and every commercial break they play a sports select commercial that is endless 1 second sound bites. Vroom, screech, ding, swoosh, blub etc. The worst part is that they will usually play it twice in a row. I have started just muting my TV.

[Slava]

The Big Mac bacon commercials. I don't care, and that guy who won't call it a Big Mac is just plain annoying.

[Yamer]

Tim Hortons: Hey, we know our ####ty dark roast coffee has always been ####ty, but we swear it's less ####ty now!

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Tim Hortons: Hey, we know our ####ty dark roast coffee has always been ####ty, but we swear it's less ####ty now!

Was just going to post this. What a way to market your product

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Cappy

Was just going to post this. What a way to market your product

Didn’t Domino’s or Papa John go that route?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Didn’t Domino’s or Papa John go that route?

I believe Dominos went through a similar campaign 10 or so years ago when they overhauled their product. I think the biggest change was the pizza sauce. I remember them shutting all over their old sauce and saying how good the new sauce is.

[jayswin]

Yep, and it was very successful. Not surprised another major chain is going that route, if they in fact have improved it.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Dominos just did it recently with their crust. They had a huge campaign a couple years ago.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Tim Hortons: Hey, we know our ####ty dark roast coffee has always been ####ty, but we swear it's less ####ty now!

This commercial is dumb even by Tim's standards. What advertising agent thought it was a good idea to put out a commercial centered around taste testers confirming your new dark roast doesn't suck as much as the old one?

[Superflyer]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

This commercial is dumb even by Tim's standards. What advertising agent thought it was a good idea to put out a commercial centered around taste testers confirming your new dark roast doesn't suck as much as the old one?

A&W? That seems to be their schtick. Give your product to "Real People" and get them to gush over free food, then lay down that now there are no antibiotics or steroids or the beef is only grass fed. Now film them having their minds blown.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

A&W? That seems to be their schtick. Give your product to "Real People" and get them to gush over free food, then lay down that now there are no antibiotics or steroids or the beef is only grass fed. Now film them having their minds blown.

Yeah, but in fairness A&W did finally change their coffee. Sometimes I wonder to myself, do the C-suite people at these companies never eat/drink/use their actual product? Like that coffee was absolute swill. There is no way that anyone could drink that and think "that's not too bad", never mind make that part of your daily routine. But they kept plodding along with great breakfast sandwiches and a horrible coffee to go with it.

I just can't imagine being the CEO of A&W, and you've literally never stopped for breakfast at one of your restaurants...but it's the only logical explanation?

[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by Slava

The Big Mac bacon commercials. I don't care, and that guy who won't call it a Big Mac is just plain annoying.

This commercial gets exponentially worse every time it is shown.

By the end of a Flames game or a NFL game I am ready to kill someone. And everyone I watch with feels the same way.

It makes me never want to eat at McD's again.

I wake up screaming in the middle of the night because of this monstrosity

I want to punch the "Not a big Mac" guy in the face. He is worst then Joffrey Baratheon

It may be the worst commercial of all time.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Jason14h

This commercial gets exponentially worse every time it is shown.

By the end of a Flames game or a NFL game I am ready to kill someone. And everyone I watch with feels the same way.

It makes me never want to eat at McD's again.

I wake up screaming in the middle of the night because of this monstrosity

I want to punch the "Not a big Mac" guy in the face. He is worst then Joffrey Baratheon

It may be the worst commercial of all time.

Ugh, you make it so hard to be your friend, sometimes.