Tokyo, Procrastination
I know that there is some adage that any commercial that sticks in your mind is a good commercial. Sticky is good. Or is it? Lately, some sticky commercials have stuck in my mind only to remind me that I'm not going to buy them.

There is a product called Watering Gum in Japan. I suppose it is suppose to generate a lot of saliva. Being a native English speaker, I think that the product name hits me the wrong way from the start. But the nail in the coffin for this product was a commercial with a Harajuku girl standing on a highway bouncing a ball, smacking on her gum then wiping her mouth with her sleeve and a voice saying "Watering Gum." Everytime I go to buy gum, that commercial sticks in my mind and reminds me how irritating I found it and I ALWAYS chose (ha ha I almost typed "chews") another product. In fact, I have never tried the product.

In fact, the most sticky commercials for me have almost always been to encourage me to chose another product. In fact, I often recommend the other product to friends based on how irritating the commercial to the first has been.

I think there must be bad sticky. Maybe I am just a curmudgeon. Am I alone in this? I'm not just talking about disliking a commercial. I'm talking about taking it to the extreme of avoiding it and trying to get others to avoid it also. So, JU. Are there any commercials that drive you to actively avoid a product?

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on Dec 24, 2007
Here in the US any commercial with Beyonce is getting on my last nerves!! She's just in overkill right now and I'm tired of seeing her mug on the telly! There's such a thing as overexposed and she does it for me right now!! My friends and I feel that way, we usually like her but come on! She's hawking, makeup, direct tv, music, American Express, and jewellery!

I love and enjoy commercials that make me laugh, now those are the ones that stick in my mind!
on Dec 24, 2007

So you are well aware of the 'He went to Jared' commercials I take it?

Can't stand those.  Commercials for over priced rocks and shiny baubles from a jewelry store aren't anything I'm impressed with and any woman that would be that impressed with the idea of getting those shiny trinkets for a gift isn't worth having in my not so humble opinion.

There are a few other commercials I don't care for that do turn me off on the products they are advertising.  Also (certainly) political commercials for candidates that tick me off.

 

To disagree a bit with foreverserenity above, I actually like the Beyonce commercials for DirecTV.  She is welcome to UPGRADE ME baby!!!  Anytime she'd like

on Dec 24, 2007
So you are well aware of the 'He went to Jared' commercials I take it?


I don't get American TV so I don't know this commercial.

There are a few other commercials I don't care for that do turn me off on the products they are advertising.


Which products?
on Dec 25, 2007
shouting makes me want to shoot him in the face with a bazooka and I go out of my way NOT to purchase anything he hawks.


What kind of products does he hawk so I can avoid them, too?

Dang there are lots of commercials I don't know about. Most of the American TV commercials I remember come from some videotapes from 1996 of different shows and watching the commercials that show up in between gets really freaky. Also, when those news flashes come on it sometimes gets disorienting.
on Dec 25, 2007
Carl's Jr. hater here.
on Dec 25, 2007
I still won't eat at Wendy's after the "fpoon" commercial.

I'm also getting tired of being offered an upgrade from Beyonce. That stupid little song pops into mine and Adrian's heads at the most ridiculous times.

I have plenty more but I'm so sleepy I can't think straight!
on Dec 25, 2007
Also...is tons of saliva a good thing?
on Dec 26, 2007
I especially love the way jewelry stores advertise as if they are the only jewelry store your significant other would ever want jewelry from, or that they would even know if it wasn't written on the box.
on Dec 26, 2007
on Dec 27, 2007
The "Duh" car comercials are my current winner for most annoying. Good! Insult me into buying a car! That will work... no. Wrong.
on Dec 27, 2007
Ha ha, I love that link. For a hundred million reasons!

Hee heee