The Most Annoying Commercial Of All Time

[nuzguy]

> > The Vonage Broadband commercials where while people are
> > doing stupid stunts,this stupid guy starts singing "Whoo
> Hoo
> > Whoo Hoo Hoo Hoo" ad nauseam.
>
> As I have said in the past, when I first saw the Vonage
> commercials, the impression I got was "people do stupid
> things, like sign up for broadband phone service".  It
> wasn't until the fifth or sixth time I saw it that I
> realized they were selling that service; I wonder how many
> of their potential customers get the same wrong impression?
>
>
> Certainly makes you wonder if the creative team at the
> agency did enough testing before releasing the spots for air
> ...
>
> Off-topic, but related:  I have a friend who works at SBC in
> the residential customer service call center.  One day, he
> got a call from a (former) customer who switched to Vonage,
> only to discover that when Vonage ported the phone number
> over  it caused a disconnect order in SBC's system, which
> took out the DSL the customer had used to connect to Vonage!
>  Result:  No dial tone at all, and the customer found out --
> the hard way -- that you can't have DSL from the local phone
> company without having your phone service through them as
> well ...
>
One of many fine print or not even noted points the upstart companies don't reveal when on the hustle for new customers.  People fall for the low rate, then begin to discover the pains of having made the switch.

[David N.]

> The spots for the Six Flags theme parks, with the old bald
> dork acting and looking unnecessarily dorkish.
>
> ixnay
>


Definitely annoying, not to mention a little on the creepy side if you ask me.

[kirjtc2]

> I would like to nominate the following spot for the Most
> Annoying Commercial Of All Time:
>

"800-588-2300...EMPIRE!"

[Seven_Costanza]

I heard an even better comparison & I wish I could take credit for it...

"It has a Jack Benny/Rochester feel to it".

[TXengineer]

> VEHIX.COM competition if I were buying a car.
> VEHIX has to be the worst.

Agreed.

[nuzguy]

> > I would like to nominate the following spot for the Most
> > Annoying Commercial Of All Time:
> >
> >
> > "Freedhem, the One-Application Hemorrhoidal Cream!"
> > "Freedhem, the One-Application Hemorrhoidal Cream!"
> > "Freedhem, the One-Application Hemorrhoidal Cream!"
> >
> >
> > It's a 15-second spot that turns up on CNN and other cable
>
> > channels.  Just a still picture of the product with a
> > voice-over that sounds looped.  I'm sure it's a wonderful
> > and effective product but that commercial is horrid.
> >
> > KL
> >
> > The Last Radio Station
>
> Two more--"More Ovaltine Please" and the Sonic spots with
> the ditzy couples in the car carrying on mindless prattle
> about the various menu items.
> >
> Just saw a new Sonic spot with the two dorks fawning over a new Sonic foot long something or the other.  Anyonw wanting to hear this kind of drivel can go to the food court at the mall.

[ixnay]

> "800-588-2300...EMPIRE!"
>
"...Today." ;-)

ixnay

[Ed Senior]

> ...and the customer found out --
> the hard way -- that you can't have DSL from the local phone
> company without having your phone service through them as
> well ...
>
Actually, you can... It's called dedicated, dry loop or naked DSL.  It used to be the standard for DSL and it's making a comeback now.  just Google on Dry Loop DSL to see what I mean.

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[KMRichards]

> > ...and the customer found out --
> > the hard way -- that you can't have DSL from the local
> phone
> > company without having your phone service through them as
> > well ...
> >
> Actually, you can... It's called dedicated, dry loop or
> naked DSL.  It used to be the standard for DSL and it's
> making a comeback now.  just Google on Dry Loop DSL to see
> what I mean.

Actually, without continuing this off-topic segment too far, SBC doesn't offer that service to residential customers, which is Vonage's target, so it wouldn't help in the example I quoted.

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[BamaWOLF]

> I would like to nominate the following spot for the Most
> Annoying Commercial Of All Time:
>
>
> "Freedhem, the One-Application Hemorrhoidal Cream!"
> "Freedhem, the One-Application Hemorrhoidal Cream!"
> "Freedhem, the One-Application Hemorrhoidal Cream!"
>
>
> It's a 15-second spot that turns up on CNN and other cable
> channels.  Just a still picture of the product with a
> voice-over that sounds looped.  I'm sure it's a wonderful
> and effective product but that commercial is horrid.
>
> KL
>
> The Last Radio Station
>
what annoys me is the goldberg commercial...
call goldberg 800 600 6 0 1 4
call goldberg 800 600 6 0 1 4
call goldberg 800 600 6 0 1 4

and that Ford "more more more" commercial

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