Worst Commercials You’ve Ever Seen

[QueenCobra]

Inspired by the r/commercialsihate subreddit, I thought we could all (respectfully) share some commercials we despise.

Off the top of my head, here are my least favorites:

—The Burger King song. I’m sorry, but I think Arnold Schwarzenegger could sing better than that.

—The Domino’s “Emergency Pizza” bits. They’re not funny and I don’t like the lady’s voice.

—The Real Real. Even the name of this company is annoying. Combine that with this lazy Valley girl voice saying, “The Rill Rill.” Uggh!

—Gain commercials. The guy who does the voiceovers sounds like a Muppet with a cold.

—Blue Chew

—All the Farmer’s Dog ones where they kick someone out for questioning why the dog food is in the refrigerator.

—Pooph. It’s really gross when the guy sprays it in his mouth.

—Librela. I teared up when I first saw it. The dog’s toys say he can’t play with them because he’s in pain “all the time”. Once the dog feels better, he can play again, but it’s sad to me how the dog is aging but still baby-like. (Same thing with my pets, I guess)

—Most Liberty Mutual ones. Especially that one with the guy’s wax figure.

—Pharmaceutical commercials. I’m so sorry.

—Any whole-body deodorant commercial. Just take a shower!

—Capital One ads. They would constantly play one with Jennifer Garner yelling “There’s no crying in baseball!” Maybe it wasn’t that bad, but I used to see it CONSTANTLY.

—Every Dupixent commercial. That whistling annoys the crap out of me.

—The St. Jude’s commercials. I’m not trying to be insensitive, but they make me sad.

—The Huggies one where this guy keeps saying “baby BOT”, “stinky BOT” about babies’ butts. It’s supposed to be funny, but comes off as creepy.

—The commercial where this guy watches The Boys and gets inspired to start drinking coffee. Also a lot of baby crying sounds.

—The T-Mobile commercials with those singing guys from Scrubs. I don’t give a flying fart if you were famous in the 2000s…it doesn’t make your singing any better.

—The Quilted Northern commercial with “We Quilt This City”…of all the ‘80s songs you could have parodied…you chose THAT one?’

 

[Tude]

Inspired by the r/commercialsihate subreddit, I thought we could all (respectfully) share some commercials we despise.

Off the top of my head, here are my least favorites:

—The Burger King song. I’m sorry, but I think Arnold Schwarzenegger could sing better than that.

—The Domino’s “Emergency Pizza” bits. They’re not funny and I don’t like the lady’s voice.

—Any whole-body deodorant commercial. Just take a shower!

—The Huggies one where this guy keeps saying “baby BOT”, “stinky BOT” about babies’ butts. It’s supposed to be funny, but comes off as creepy.

—The Quilted Northern commercial with “We Quilt This City”…of all the ‘80s songs you could have parodied…you chose THAT one?’

I knew I liked you for a reason (besides Drag Race)! You're so real for hating the Dominos lady's voice. It's GRATING.

The male version of her does the voiceover for the Chipotle ads. I full body cringe when either one of them speaks.

Also the Burger King commercials are trash. My bf and I mute the TV.

The Huggies commercials give sex offender. I'm sorry but why else would you have baby butts on your face and talk about their rear ends obnoxiously?

The full body deodorant lady is disgusting! I hate how she puts her face right up to the camera. I'm just glad we can't smell through the TV because I'm sure her breath is stank too.

Those Quilt This City ads are annoying just because they play them non stop!

You're so real for making this thread

 

[QueenCobra]

I knew I liked you for a reason (besides Drag Race)! You're so real for hating the Dominos lady's voice. It's GRATING.

The male version of her does the voiceover for the Chipotle ads. I full body cringe when either one of them speaks.

Also the Burger King commercials are trash. My bf and I mute the TV.

The Huggies commercials give sex offender. I'm sorry but why else would you have baby butts on your face and talk about their rear ends obnoxiously?

The full body deodorant lady is disgusting! I hate how she puts her face right up to the camera. I'm just glad we can't smell through the TV because I'm sure her breath is stank too.

Those Quilt This City ads are annoying just because they play them non stop!

You're so real for making this thread

The Domino’s lady’s voice also reminds me of Better off Red, a makeup YouTube channel I used to watch. I thought she seemed interesting but her voice bothered me. I even wondered if she was the Domino’s lady…but no.

Those psoriasis med commercials that go “Nothing is everything!” are annoying, too. Like…that makes no sense.

Weirdly enough, I used to watch infomercials (long commercials) on YouTube for the humor factor…especially Nads (“I walked in the bathroom…and I said…’YOU have Nads?!’”), Comfort Wipe (“It maintains your dignity!”), and the Redi Set Go Express. The Redi Set Go one is the source of a lot of inside jokes with my family. (“Can you smell that? OH man!”)

 

[Tude]

Oh yeah, those Nothing is Everything ads are... something lol. They've recycled the song like twenty times now with different singers.

 

[Midoriya]

Inspired by the r/commercialsihate subreddit, I thought we could all (respectfully) share some commercials we despise.

Off the top of my head, here are my least favorites:

—The Burger King song. I’m sorry, but I think Arnold Schwarzenegger could sing better than that.

Oh gosh, I'm SO glad you listed the Burger King song first. I absolutely hate that commercial and the song makes it 100x worse, lol. Can't get it out of my head no matter how much I try. ;-;

Who even eats at Burger King anyway??? There's around a dozen or two dozen other fast food places all around that serve burgers as well, it's not like they're particularly innovative or anything, LMAO!

 

[QueenCobra]

Oh gosh, I'm SO glad you listed the Burger King song first. I absolutely hate that commercial and the song makes it 100x worse, lol. Can't get it out of my head no matter how much I try. ;-;

Who even eats at Burger King anyway??? There's around a dozen or two dozen other fast food places all around that serve burgers as well, it's not like they're particularly innovative or anything, LMAO!

Honestly I haven’t eaten at Burger King in years. I thought it was OK at the time, but then again I never ate it that much. I do remember finding it weird that they serve hot dogs there….

I mostly remember wearing the crown a lot when I was little. Then there was a time we were waiting in the BK drive-thru, and I yelled, “I want a pizza!”

 

[Midoriya]

Just thought of another one, but that weird "Puppy-Monkey-Baby" commercial from years ago. If you've seen it you know what I'm talking about, but if you haven't you're fortunate this monstrosity has not reached your eyes yet. I remember having nightmares about it at the time, like who even thought that was a good idea for a commercial?

 

[QueenCobra]

Just thought of another one, but that weird "Puppy-Monkey-Baby" commercial from years ago. If you've seen it you know what I'm talking about, but if you haven't you're fortunate this monstrosity has not reached your eyes yet. I remember having nightmares about it at the time, like who even thought that was a good idea for a commercial?

YES that one! I think it was on during the Super Bowl one year?

 

[Midoriya]

YES that one! I think it was on during the Super Bowl one year?

Not entirely sure, but I think so, yeah. I just remember finding it very odd and disgusting. Someone I knew at the time was obsessed with it too, which didn't help. Like why would you combine a puppy, monkey, and a baby???

 

[VernalLapin]

• Any AI generated crap
• Anything with emojis
• That wayfair one where they say wayfair every two seconds trying to make it a verb, thankfully I think that one’s gone
• Hey, it’s me. Your dry skin. I’m craving something we’re missing. The ceramides in-

 

[SkyKnight03]

I have horrible health anxiety.

Commercials about 'heart attack or stroke' or whatever bodily disease will immediately trigger it. Especially with imagery.

 

[Bruscoe]

Oh my god yes. I've been needing a thread like this here on TBT as I cannot seem to get my comment karma up on Reddit. Advertisements are one of the banes of my existence, so there's a ton of 'em that I really don't like, but I'll split 'em in separate posts. Too bad I've got to save my darkest thoughts for elsewhere...

• BK Meeeeaaaaeeeeaaaaeeeelts. Do I really need to explain? My ears bleed every time I hear this come on, and I have literally no time to hit the mute button. Business over at Burger King is on a sharp decline, and it's probably due to poor management and their advertising department deciding to hire Wesley Willis' distant relative or something. Seriously, Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's is better than this shlock, and Willis even said that McDonald's is worse that Burger King!
• Pampers. A lot of their ads make me want to wrech. We really don't need to make autotuned songs about diapers or see Emoji Movie bootleg characters talking about potty training (I can't believe I just said that). Keep this stuff to the preschool TV blocks, because I really don't want to be thinking about toilets when I watch ESPN. I swear, it's like pedophiles curate these ads.
• Medicare Enrollment Ad featuring Al and his lazy housewife, Karen. If you've seen this ad yourself, you'll probably agree that it has some of the absolute worse acting ever. Besides, if this "Karen" knows so much about the benifits of Medicare Part C, why doesn't she call and inquire about it herself? Oh, and make sure you check your zip code every year. You never know when it will change!!!
• Ads that center around ASMR. Keep that stuff to YouTube, PLEASE. I really do not need to hear bodily function sounds turned up to max volume.
• Many insurance ads. Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Biberty Mutual running the same two ads for over three months, Geico trying to change it up every time, Allstate and their lame jokes, Progressive and Flo, State Farm and fake Jake (no rhyme intended). Do you know why they always try to be funny? Because in the real world, insurance companies are evil and do as little as possible to actually help you out. This is also why there's a ton of ads for injury lawyers and stuff.
• Any ad that takes old songs and makes them worse. Currently looking at you, Quilted Northern and Downy.
• Every single pharmaceutical ad. You want to know why prescription drugs cost so much in the US? This is why.
• Political ads during election season. The 2024 election pretty much proves how little faith I have in humanity as a whole. Actual research proves that they do very little to sway the opinions of viewers. This is a big reason why I'm considering taking anger managment classes.

To definitely be continued.

 

[QueenCobra]

I also want to add, the 4Imprint commercials make no sense. “Are you 4Imprint certain?” And then, “4Imprint, for certain!”

The Wicked Target one…so glad I don’t see that anymore!

Also, the car commercial (that took WAY too long to say it was for cars), where this girl fills up water bottles with shower water (ew!) and gives them to a girls’ soccer team. She wasn’t even on the team, just the water girl. Worst of all, she put a WHOLE ORANGE in a bottle! Yuck.

 

[Yanrima~]

Let me just say that I both hate mobile game ads, temu ads, and drama reel ads, it's basically some copy pasted footage of a streamer on top of the worst looking gameplay of the most bootleg-looking game imaginable. As for drama reel type and temu ads, it had the worst script, show title, and acting imaginable that even comedy videos made by random people on YouTube in 2008 had better acting.

Worst part is that they're everywhere on YouTube unless if I use my PC which has a blocker.

 

[BetsySundrop]

Omg so many -

-Second the asmr opinion above. I can't deal with those, especially if someone is whispering. Some of the asmr makes my teeth hurt. Ugh.

- and the politics, too! I got sooo many of those on youtube i just gave up during election "season". Trying to watch piano stuff? Haha, have a politics ad every minute. Tried blocking them, no difference. And i don't even live where some of the candidates are!

- some of the lume deodorant ads i really, really cannot stand. I think i have managed to finally, successfully block those. So gross. I don't need to know what is leaking out of where or how much sweat you have in odd places and why it smells bad. I'm trying to have lunch and watch a piano tutorial.

- anything where people are eating and it's gross - and so many more.

 

[Metal Scorpion]

Here's some of the worst commercials that I can think of. There's only a few that come up right now, but there's a lot more.

Any commercials with screaming: I don't find screamers funny, but annoying. It gives me horrible sensory issues.
Any NFT/AI commercial: I don't need to explain this, do I?
Any overly depressing commercial, such as that one Nationwide Super Bowl commercial from 2015.

 

[AccfSally]

Any deodorant or makeup/beauty ad, especially the one where the lady has her face all up in the camera. I can't think of the name of the deodorant, but the girl is in the bathroom and she zooms in on her face. My personal space is being violated. Go away.

Commercials that throws in a QR code for you to scan. I am so sick of them.

Commercials that uses AI, not just the ugly, soulless visuals. But also the ones where they tell them to do literally everything for them (summarize a book report or brainstorming, at least try and think of something. Why are you relying on this thing and yet, they told us for decades not to rely on Wikipedia and yet this is okay?!????), Stuff like this is why I fear for the next generation, which are currently being born today as I speak. These kids are going to be dumb and it's going to be all these tech companies fault.

Pharmaceutical commercials. Do I have to say more.

Healthcare ads, or whatever they're supposed to be. There's one I see on Hallmark channel and I cannot stand it. Why does it sound so condescending towards senior citizens or is it just me. I can't think of the name of the company right now, but I really hate those ads when they come on and the acting is atrocious. People deserve better.

 

[rocketspruggs]

Any baby diaper commercials, I think those should stay on preschool channels...

When they would take any old song and butcher it as an attempt to be, "current", and, "relevant" to today's generation, but they badly fail instead. In one commercial, my mom said they were playing a song from the '80s, and I couldn't even recognize it.

Any commercial that promotes N.F.T. and/or A.I., no thanks...

Those Rover company commercials, there are poorly-made drawings and bad grammar that is used as a joke. Also, the singer has a really annoying voice, too. I don't find those commercials funny or humorous at all, they're just so bad.

 

[QueenCobra]

Also…any pandemic commercial. The “we’re all in this together” crap got annoying real fast.

The Chick-fil-A ones...those little guitar picks make my skin crawl!

When I was younger, there used to be ones with this nasty CGI fungus thing that went under people’s toenails. It’s WAY worse than the Mucinex blob.

 

[-Blue-]

Sheba, the canned catfood, has some really bizarre commercials. I could explain it, but just watch them yourself.

It's just who is the audience? First one is parent neglect and the other is the man wants to romance the cat???