10 TV Commercials That I Really Hate

Can I just take this moment to rant about TV ads that I just can NOT stand? Hopefully some of you folks will agree.

1. Glade - all the ads where this compulsive liar of a woman tries to impress her friends saying that her Glade air fresheners are spa scents, french, incense, or whatever else - even when she's on the phone and there's no one else actually around to smell it! One, that woman is annoying as hell and has a serious lying habit that she needs to get professional help for. She's not exactly someone I can relate to. Two, all Glade is saying is "we're embarrassing to have in your house, we know, it's okay to lie." I don't wanna buy a brand that considers itself embarrassing, do you?

2. Sinupret - that mom & daughter? POD PEOPLE.

3. Snuggie, the blanket you wear - You know, this really looked like a reasonable product that I might consider getting, until they showed the family wearing it OUTSIDE THE HOUSE. I can't imagine something more humiliating for a 12 year old boy than having his whole family show up for his soccer game IN BLANKETS. "That's my kid!" "Really? I can't see the resemblance. He's wearing actual clothing, after all."

4. Every Kidz Bop commercial ever - This is really more hate for the product than the ads themselves. Okay, let's take all the crappy songs on the radio and remove everything about those tracks that's somewhat listenable - the bad words, the on-key vocals, all that. It'll be a hoot, listening to a bunch of perfunctory vocals by tone-deaf children! It's like karaoke night without the booze, sushi, or fun of any kind! But yeah, the ads just play clips of this crap, so by default, the ads suck too.

5. Bratz - Bratz, Girls Really Rock. The one with the electrified voice going "Bra-a-atz" and then another sorta, well, bratty-sounding voice going like "BRAAATZ". (I should find youtube videos of these.) The music in this ad is completely obnoxious and honestly kinda creepy sounding. The person in charge of this brilliant jingle is a complete idiot and should be forbidden from working in the trade ever again.

6. Jared - No one gives a shit if he went to Jared. If he went to Tiffany, yeah, I can see people murmuring about it in hushed, excited whispers. Jared just doesn't have that reputation yet. I can understand the "dress for the job you want" mentality the ad agency must have had for this, but when it's your entire ad campaign? Makes you guys look like total posers. Sorry Jared, you suck.

7. Mentos - Thank GOD this one's been edited. Have you guys seen the ad where the guy is in an office next to a water cooler and has some Mentos, and the girl comes up and... well. Right now the ad shows the girl "kissing" the dorky guy, and then for some unexplicable reason she pushes his nose down afterwards. And it has one of those arbitrary, poorly thought-out, could-apply-to-anyone tagline about the Mentos being refreshing. This ad's already a piece of crap, but it's WAY less annoying (and gross) than the original, in which the tagline is "mouthwatering", and the girl is not kissing him, but from the sound effects, she's clearly DRINKING FROM HIS MOUTH instead of the water cooler! WHAT THE FREAKING HELL EEEEWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!! So yeah, I'm glad they changed it to kissing and all, but that commercial just makes no sense now and it needs to be pulled completely in my opinion. Those horrible nonsensical ads from the late 90s were WAY better, and that's saying something.

8. Toyota, Saved By Zero - First off, why do commercials always have these horrible covers of decent old songs? If you can't get the rights to just play the original version of the song, just write a new jingle. (And don't just cheat and change the lyrics to a song we know, write something we'll associate with your brand, dumbasses). So yeah, that bugs me, but to be totally honest, mostly it gives me a headache to try to watch the cars drive by. The obviously sped-up footage is nothing short of headache-inducing.

9. Multi-Grain Cheerios - It's just way too obvious that they've Americanized a British ad. The sync is bad on the dub, as we hear the voice say "bahx" while the mouth says "bohx". The colors on the newly-americanized cereal box are so completely different from the rest of the ad's overall look, not to mention Calories being in the ENTIRELY wrong place for an American box, which cracks me up. It's like they tried to fit pieces from two different puzzles together, and the force is obvious. Jeez guys, Commercial Localization 101. If the edits are gonna be THAT OBVIOUS, just... make a new ad. Seriously. Use the same concept if you want, just re-shoot the damn thing. Ugh. UGH.

10. XBox 360 "Head" ads - There are two of these, one for Netflix and one for just gaming. These are the ones where we see very unattractive people's vacant, spacy facial expressions (they don't even look like they're enjoying themselves, they just look spaced out), and the camera slowly pans to the back of their head which we see is HOLLOWED OUT AND FULL OF PARTY. It is CREEPY AS HELL. These are like, freaky robot people!!! There's something very uncanny valley about the whole thing and I just can't stand it.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on these ads? Any other horrible ads you guys can think of?