7. Feminine Hygiene Products (specifically kotex) Commercials
6. Totino's pizza
5. All volkswagon commercials
4. PA Lottery Gopher (keep on scratching)
3. Mucinex mucus medication
2. Lamisil (toe-nail fungus)
1. Charmin Toilet paper
Allow me to explain why these bother me. Feminine hygiene product commercials bother because they almost always focus on how absorbent they are, so usually a beaker of blue water is dumped onto the pad. Plain and simple, this is not a visual I need. I think women who are bleeding that much have bigger problems than which brand to chose. Also another tactic is to show how well it fits into the space that it will eventually be in. I don't need to see this either. Finally kotex annoys me the most because their current marketing strategy is to use black chic boxes that look modern and contemporary, like hey these things are in a cool box, so it's probably a cool product. Come marketing people you can put lipstick on a pig...
Next totino's frozen pizza. These commercials always depict kids doing fun typical summer stuff (friends, swimming, music, tv, etc) but what trumps all that is eating cardboard pizza. I have never personally eaten the stuff, but I've seen pictures and I have trouble accepting this junk is better than fresh made pizza from your local pizza joint. I remember my childhood summers, and eating frozen pizza never made the top of my list, not even the top 10 or 25 for that matter. Finally there is a really annoying theme song that I feel that implies eating this pizza is truly american, I can never quite understand what they are saying, however I hear kids and american in the song. I'm sorry, eathing this is NOT an act of patriotism. No.
I have yet to see a good volkswagen commercial. These ad execs should be flogged. These geniuses came up with the "shoot the gap" commercial which was immediately pulled due to legitimate saftey concerns (the ad showed a late 20's/early 30's couple gunning the car to cut off a tractor trailor on a major highway. Now that's off the air, the ads depict good old dad taking his kids out for a drive around the suburban neighborhood in a VW just so the kids can observe their neighbors punching each other due to seeing a VW (it's not even a bug!). And at the end they want to see this all over again, and dad says sure! I mean I don't feel this encourages violence or anything but it's just stupid. Can't dad find a better way to spend time with his kids while not wasting gas?
You need to be a Pennsylva
nian or Delewarian to see these but trust me they are awful. I love animals I really do, and I would never intentionally hurt one, even a ground hog. Now that said, Gus, Pennsylvania's second most famous ground hog (behind punxatawny Phil) is not a real animal. At best it's animatronic, more likely it's a shoddy hand puppet. Either way it looks incredibly fake. This ad campaign has been going on for years, part of the reason it's so high on the list. The thing actually talks about lottery tickets and scratching and I don't know what else, but the voice coupled with the look of the thing makes me seriously want to buy a shot gun and shoot it multiple times at close range. I hate Gus, and honestly I want him dead.Mucinex your ads are gross. I hate your mucus blob spokes cartoon. One is
bad enough, the whole family is beyond awful. When I am congested I am not usually happy, I respect what your product does, but I don't need to see a fat green booger in a hat and wife beater sitting in my nasal cavaties. Look I know there's an unpleasant substance in my body, I don't need your help visualizing what that may look like. Even so, I'm quite sure that's not accurate. I guess at the very least your not showing real footage of snot. But you need new ads. These aren't cutting it.
Lamisil foot f
ungus treatment, please read my message to Mucinex as I feel you might benefit from what I had to say. You're ranked worse because you took it a step further. You named your disgusting mascot "Digger" that spotted little yellow horned creature that wants to make his home in my nail bed. C'mon, let's get real here, you're at odds, on the one hand you try to make the creature kind of cute, but then on the other hand I don't want him anywhere close to me. then on top of all this you have him literally prying up the toe nail to crawl under. You know that feeling when your nail gets bent back, yeah that's the image that comes to me when i see this. I think you can do better than Digger, and what I'd like to see is a fire house stuck in his tiny mouth, turned on full blast and watch his head litterally explode.Charmin toilet paper, you're the worst. I think what makes you the worst is that I see your ads ALL the time because everyone uses toilet paper, so there's no target market. So you're
on in the day, and the night, and cable networks, and basic networks, so quite honestly I can't avoid you and I get that that isn't really your fault, but I don't want to see your red bears with butts encrusted with TP bits. I mean you could only be MORE graphic if you showed actually hairy butts, maybe still shots. I mean I live with this philosophy: pooping = private. You shatter that by making it a beary family affair. I don't want my parents examining my butt after I drop a load. From start to finish I don't like your bears and I don't like their public pooping practices. Maybe you could learn from cottonelle, now that little puppy is cute AND non graphic. I'd buy that stuff everytime just so I don't see your dirty butted bears on the packaging. You see where I'm coming from here?I hope you all can see where I am coming from here. If I am going to be bombarded with what I feel are terrible ads, I am going to let anyone who will listen (read) what I have to say about it. I don't want your companies to go bankrupt as a result of this blog, but please just change your advertising companies. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that these companies are represented by the same ad firm, because there is one commonality to these ads; I don't like them. Well enjoy everyone and thanks for hearing me out!!
