This one gives me the creeps. Not that I buy chemical air fresheners, but even if I was their target customer, this ad wouldn't make me want to buy the product.

All of them? (~_^)

I hate, hate the Denis Leary Ford commercials that run like fifty times during every football game here. The explicit assumption that you, the viewer, are an idiot who can't understand science or engineering seems an odd way to sell trucks. "We know that you're a drooling idiot but our engineers are real smart, so buy our truck".

ha! Poo at Paul's is completely bizarre and disgusting! And I totally agree on the truck commercial, octo. "Math is crazy hard, amirite? So buy our truck, stupid stupid dumbhead!"

Reebok's been keeping it classy lately.

Who the hell is Paul?

Ummm... I am Paul.

Moving on.... +1 on Denis Leary.

And I'll throw into the mix: Howie Long's Chevy commercials. This one is the worst: Ford has clearly out-innovated Chevy with the features on their pickup trucks. What can Chevy do to counter that but make fun of them? They got nuthin' else, so they just sneer at the other guys.

I still remember a commercial from maybe 10 or 20 years ago. It was advertising "Washington State Peaches" and showed this old guy with a beard munching on ripe, juicy peaches and making slurping noises. Most definitely turned me off buying any peaches.

The commerical for Ocean Spray cranberries, where the guys are standing hip deep in their cranberry bogs while wearing grungy waders.

The Mac vs pc commercials. Smug Mac needs smacks (not trying to open a can of mac vs pc worms, I just can't stand the commercials).

Tangentially-related to the cranberry one, I used to be so grossed out by the beginning of the show Petticoat Junction, where the three hotties are naked and bathing in the tower that holds the town's freaking goddamn water supply. No thanks, I don't want to drink water that's touched your asshole, lady! No matter how pretty you are. I'll pass. Thank you!

There is a PSA running now that shows a guy recommmending that you get your woman a gift this season that shows you really care "about her inside": schedule her PAP smear. For real. Funniest thing I ever saw.

I buy Charmin because at Costco it's either that or generic. But I buy it in spite of those unspeakably creepy ads with the animated bears picking scraps of toilet paper off their asses.

Yarg, those Charmin ads are still around? So unpleasant!

Note to the advertising department: when you're selling me toilet paper, I don't need oh-so-subtle visual clues to phrases including the word "shit." I understand what the stuff is for. I hadn't pondered it, but those ads may well be responsible for us switching to the creepy baby-angel brand.

And again: baby angels? This may be a triggering remark for grieving parents, here goes: why are we so taken with dead babies (baby angels) as marketing devices?

Unrelated: there used to be a series of Quiznos ads that seemed intentionally off-putting. The only one I can remember is a well-dressed woman walking down a city street, spying an unfinished Quizno's sandwich in a public garbage can, picking it up, and eating it.

Advertising goal: firmly associate our food product with GARBAGE.

I hate the "tests" in toilet paper commercials that are supposed to prove how excellent the paper in question will be at wiping your ass.

One of the Charmin ones airing recently has them placing a few sheets down on the carpet, spraying it with water, placing a 3 lb weight on them, then dragging it on the carpet.

what

I've always thought that spreading some peanut butter on a peach, then wiping it off with the toilet paper would be a much better indicator of what you can expect.

I hate the "tests" in toilet paper commercials that are supposed to prove how excellent the paper in question will be at wiping your ass.

Wait, what?

We don't get any broadcast tv, and I only occasionally watch Hulu, so we see very little tv advertising these days. When I do see it, e.g., at my mother's house, it often takes me a beat to figure out that it's not parodic entertainment, because it often seem so incredibly over the top.

But. Still.

I have not seen these "tests." Is this a fairly recent innovation in toilet paper advertising? Or is my memory just mercifully short?

And I'll throw into the mix: Howie Long's Chevy commercials

Is that that guy's name? I loathe that series of ads. I loathe that guy's smirking flat-topped head, too. Every time I see the one where he mocks Honda's lawnmowers, I want to run him over with a Honda F1 racecar. The only Grand Prix Chevy can claim is a shitty midsize.

Petticoat Junction, where the three hotties are naked and bathing in the tower that holds the town's freaking goddamn water supply

I believe that tower holds the water for the train's steam locomotive.

Some of the Howie Long commercials are really bad, but I like the one where he pays the informant to give him car info.

The Mac commercials are a turn off for me too.

Axe body spray will never be on my shopping list.

Hey Elsa!

what? is right.

This one for Dannon yogurt makes me gag. Mainly, it's the pathetic attempt at the end to make it "sexy" that really turns me off.

The Howie Long ads are indeed crap. And since, if you watch football at all, you're guaranteed to see them at leat 50 times a game, they really get annoying in a hurry.