Saaaved byyy zeeerooo

These commercials were mildly irritating . . . until last night. For whatever reason, it seemed like it was every 3rd commercial during the WS and/or Rockets/Grizzlies game. This is so much worst than any Garth Brooks Dr. Pepper commercial.
 
In addition to the already-excellent list here, I have to add the new Dodge pickup truck commercial featuring some hypermacho dudes driving trucks through houses that explode for no apparent reason.
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And any
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"Our Countrreee"
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type truck ads.
 
Put me in the camp of folks who really enjoy the Brooke Shields/VW commercials. From the waist down, she may still be the hottest woman I've even seen, even at 40+ yrs. old.
 
In advertising stupid sells just about as well as brilliance. The main objective of a commercial is to get people to remember it and start talking about it. These have obviously succeeded in that regard.
 
I dug the Fixx in the 80s.

But that commercial blows.

My brother hated some of the Quizno's commercials that came out a few years ago so much that he swore he'd never buy a sandwich there again, and he never has. Bad ads really do piss people off and make them avoid your products.
 
Yup, I think that was it. He hated it so much that he stopped eating there. And he used to eat there quite a bit because he liked whatever their "healthy" sandwiches were at the time. I think there was some low-fat Tuscan chicken sandwich that he used to get all the time. But after those commercials came out, he's never been back.

Ads can be powerful, and not always in the way intended.
 
Not only is the Saved By Zero commercial annoying and overplayed, but the slogan itself is fatally flawed.The message they’re trying to send is that you, the buyer, will save money by taking advantage of their zero-percent financing. So what they really mean is “save with” zero, which has a completely different meaning than “saved by” zero.

And in the case of “saved by zero”, think about who or what is actually being saved; obviously not you the buyer, because you have nothing to be “saved” from. Which implies that it’s Toyota getting their asses “saved” by this desperate marketing campaign.

Which would certainly make sense, when you consider the auto industry is going through their worst downturn in our lifetimes, with many of their asses needing to be “saved” at this very moment.

So basically what Toyota has done is produce a commercial which was ostensibly intended to advertise their new zero-percent financing, and managed to inadvertently turn it into a public declaration of their desperate financial predicament.

Then again, what else would you expect from the company which used to advertise their cars as being “everyday” (i.e. average, with nothing special about them) when they really meant “every day” (i.e. your car will be there for you every day”)?
 
Roundhouse,

I loved the Quizno's commercial with the Spong Monkeys. But I am also a huge Joel Vietch fan, to the point that we e-mail.
 
I couldn't really tell you any commercials that are out there right now. I love my DVR, I don't think I watch anything live anymore.
 
Among the commercials that have consistently irritated me the most in recent years are those for Jared (the Galleria of Jewelry), e.g., "It can only be Jared!" and "He went to Jared!"

But, I'll be damned if I didn't buy my wife a diamond tennis bracelet from Jared a year or so ago. Sometimes, irritating does work.
 
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