What current Christmas TV Commercials Drive You Crazy?

[sonicshoulder]

This year my wife finally opened up to me. Every year I get her a brand new Lexus with a big red bow and put it in our living room for Christmas. Well aparently she was getting bored with it. I was completly lost on gift ideas this year until I saw those Acura commercials so I am very thankful for them.

[kidsmoke]

This year my wife finally opened up to me. Every year I get her a brand new Lexus with a big red bow and put it in our living room for Christmas. Well aparently she was getting bored with it. I was completly lost on gift ideas this year until I saw those Acura commercials so I am very thankful for them.

 

Hahaha Good one.

 

Can I have last year's car?

[Sir Stewart]

I did.

 

Well, used my bonus to put a down payment on his new jeep wrangler last xmas. we needed a new vehicle really bad. and we got a sweet deal. it came with a big red bow.

 

You did, meaning you saw a Christmas ad for Jeep Wrangler and it helped you decide?

[caliber66]

You really are a grinch.

 

Pomplamoose is a really cute, quirky little internet band. I've been following them for a year or so and find them utterly charming.

As usual, you really need to lighten up, Francis.

 

I enjoy their cover of "September" by Earth Wind and Fire, and I'd like to bang the girl. Beyond that, I don't have much use for them. I don't really find them very offensive, although using a deliberate misspelling of the French word for "grapefruit" as their band name seems kind of asinine to me.

[bigshoulders]

As usual, you really need to lighten up, Francis.

then seconds later...

 

... although using a deliberate misspelling of the French word for "grapefruit" as their band name seems kind of asinine to me.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Lighten up. It's just a name.

[caliber66]

then seconds later...

 

 

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Lighten up. It's just a name.

 

 

lighten up, Francis.

 

 

That's probably not the only thing about the band that annoys me, and whether or not I like the band doesn't mean anything anyway.

[jff]

I currently have three Christmas ad campaigns that absoulutely drive me nuts*:

3. The Tommy Hilfigger/Honda commercials that use the Vampire Weekend song "Holiday". Maybe my contempt for these campaigns are more with the fact that the song was licensed to

 

The one commercial that I do like this year has been the Hyundai Christmas commercial with the quirky "Up on the House Top" carrol.

 

 

I KNEW IT! That IS Vampire Weekend. God, they're annoying.

 

I like those Hyundai commercials, too. Enough-so that I researched who that duo is (Pomplamoose) and checked out some of their work. Good stuff. Her version of Queen's Play the Game is very good.

[Moss]

I hate those farfetched ads. Like when someone goes into home depot and is immediately ushered around the store by the helpful staff. That has never happened. All I ever see is tumbleweeds blowing around.

 

 

[bleedorange]

I hate those farfetched ads. Like when someone goes into home depot and is immediately ushered around the store by the helpful staff. That has never happened. All I ever see is tumbleweeds blowing around.

 

Lowe's has always been good about being helpful, but I do have to hand it to Home Depot...they have actually stepped up their game in this department. I am usually asked if I need help shortly after entering the store.

 

Of course, maybe I just look like I need a lot of help in a store like that, which I do.

[austrya]

This one made me cringe every time it was on. Actually any commercial with this lady in it makes me cringe.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-tIu3KVyic

[jff]

 

I used to work at Builder's Square. A loooooong time ago.

 

Never been to one of those, but my dad used to take the whole family to Handy City a lot, right after dinner across the street at the local smorgasbord.

 

 

I remember an old Eckerd Drugstore christmas commercial from the '80s.

 

Christmas is closer than you thii-iink

Soooo's Eckerds

 

I saw that commercial the day after christmas once when I was a kid, back when I liked christmas, and I remember thinking "actually, christmas couldn't possibly be farther away."

[Sir Stewart]

naw -- we had a wrangler, bought a new wrangler. i was generalizing more along the lines of the car buying for christmas, not being convinced by an ad on tv.

 

Well then your reply to my post wasn't warranted. Misguided.

[sonicshoulder]

I hate those farfetched ads. Like when someone goes into home depot and is immediately ushered around the store by the helpful staff. That has never happened. All I ever see is tumbleweeds blowing around.

I wish this was the case at my local Home Depot. I'm in my local HD about 5 times a week and they circle worse than a car lot.

 

"Can I help you, need help finding anything,........looking for something in particular?"

 

"Yeah I am asshole and I know exactly where the fuck its at. Not to mention I remember the day you got hired last month cause I was in here dropping another two hundred fucking dollars. If you don't quit following me around with that apron and those creepy measuring tape suspenders I'm going to ask you a moderately difficult question about your so called expertise at which time you will have to call your 26 year old manager to come over here and show us his level of ignorance. Now please go shut down six aisles with your cones and flashing yellow lights so Dick the retired electrician can grab a box of furnace filters off the top shelf because he's the only guy competent enough to operate the ladder on wheels."

 

Thats what I feel like saying but of course I just smile and say "no thanks"

[The High Heat]

Belk's department stores using a soldier's homecoming as an enticement to shop their brand. Perhaps if there was a tie-in donation of some percentage of sales to the Red Cross or Wounded Warriors this might not rub me so wrong, but to fill Belk's coffers by provoking sympathy for military families who receive no apparent benefit?

[theashtraysays]

"Yeah I am asshole and I know exactly where the fuck its at. Not to mention I remember the day you got hired last month cause I was in here dropping another two hundred fucking dollars. If you don't quit following me around with that apron and those creepy measuring tape suspenders I'm going to ask you a moderately difficult question about your so called expertise at which time you will have to call your 26 year old manager to come over here and show us his level of ignorance. Now please go shut down six aisles with your cones and flashing yellow lights so Dick the retired electrician can grab a box of furnace filters off the top shelf because he's the only guy competent enough to operate the ladder on wheels."

You should definitely have your second cup of coffee before you go shopping.

[radiatortunes]

I hate those farfetched ads. Like when someone goes into home depot and is immediately ushered around the store by the helpful staff. That has never happened. All I ever see is tumbleweeds blowing around.

 

Our HD has a Harvey's (burger place) inside it. Who goes to HD to eat burgers?

[stooka]

All of them.

 

yes.... ALL of 'em

[bigshoulders]

Our HD has a Harvey's (burger place) inside it. Who goes to HD to eat burgers?

I imagine they might do a decent business with lunch crowd contractors during the week. If they're already there for lumber, copper tubing, tools n' shit, etc... why not kill the second bird?

The Lowes Home Centers around here have hot dog vendors parked at the Entrance/Exit on most Saturday afternoons.

[jff]

I imagine they might do a decent business with lunch crowd contractors during the week. If they're already there for lumber, copper tubing, tools n' shit, etc... why not kill the second bird?

The Lowes Home Centers around here have hot dog vendors parked at the Entrance/Exit on most Saturday afternoons.

 

Our Home Depot's have those, too. I always forget, then I'm kind of bummed because the hot dogs smell so good and I've already eaten lunch.

 

I think it's a smart idea. The average customer is filthy and smelly, so isn't it likely that they'd prefer to grab something quick from an on-site food vendor rather than going into a restaurant and stinking up the place?

[Wilco Worshipper]

I wish this was the case at my local Home Depot. I'm in my local HD about 5 times a week and they circle worse than a car lot.

 

"Can I help you, need help finding anything,........looking for something in particular?"

 

"Yeah I am asshole and I know exactly where the fuck its at. Not to mention I remember the day you got hired last month cause I was in here dropping another two hundred fucking dollars. If you don't quit following me around with that apron and those creepy measuring tape suspenders I'm going to ask you a moderately difficult question about your so called expertise at which time you will have to call your 26 year old manager to come over here and show us his level of ignorance. Now please go shut down six aisles with your cones and flashing yellow lights so Dick the retired electrician can grab a box of furnace filters off the top shelf because he's the only guy competent enough to operate the ladder on wheels."

 

Thats what I feel like saying but of course I just smile and say "no thanks"

 

This made me

 

 

 

And in response to the thread...TOTALLY AGREE on the Old Navy creep mannequins and ALL jewelry commercials!

[jimtweedy1977]

You really are a grinch.

 

Pomplamoose is a really cute, quirky little internet band. I've been following them for a year or so and find them utterly charming.

I'd say that any group who can make that song 'Telephone' less annoying than the original has my vote.

[uncool2pillow]

Not a Christmas commercial, but there's a men's cologne commercial that makes me want to kick in the TV screen. Some male model is holding a press conferences for no reason and announces "I'm not going to do what people expect anymore." Then the wall of the press room collapse and he walks away.

[caliber66]

I'd say that any group who can make that song 'Telephone' less annoying than the original has my vote.

Yeah, I'm not interested in getting kicked in the balls by a band that makes it hurt a little less either.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

I would like to murder both of those kids, mostly because they chose "Pomplamoose" as their name.

I truly hate that commercial with their version of "Up on The Housetop." Fucking chick sounds like she has a speech impediment.

Great comments about them on youtube:

That flat, lackluster voice and weird gaze she always has is annoying as hell. What pretentious hipsters. Rich mommies and daddies to send them to the University (she has a masters) and an equally annoying group name. "Hey let's call our group Pomplamoose, most people won't bother to find out it means grapefruit in French, and besides, it make us sound even more pretentious"

[radiatortunes]

Our Home Depot's have those, too. I always forget, then I'm kind of bummed because the hot dogs smell so good and I've already eaten lunch.

 

I think it's a smart idea. The average customer is filthy and smelly, so isn't it likely that they'd prefer to grab something quick from an on-site food vendor rather than going into a restaurant and stinking up the place?

 

Yup, good point. Yours too, bigshoulders. I guess we're just different (hopefully re: the "filthy and smelly" part, too!) Cheers.