Commercials that need to be shot into the sun

The f*cking Melissa McCarthy ad for Booking.com. Please just make it stop. With most of these sh*tty ads it's not even that the ad itself is all that bad, it's the fact that you see and hear it playing 12 times every motherf*cking hour.

Yea, it was hilarious that the Super Bowl ad with her was widely panned as one of the worst, but now they keep issuing additional terrible spots. I guess they had no choice since they probably shot them all at the same time and are stuck with this crap.
 
Also if you’re a true 80s WGN-watching kid there was no “800” … that was added later
I actually recall that one fondly. Way better than the carpet place now with the blonde lady who feels the need to stick her face in every ad singing the phone jingle and making all the 4's with her fingers.
Shoot her into the sun.
 
The commercial for Vabysmo (wet AMD) drives me insane. First, it's an eye injection which makes me cringe. Secondly and most importantly, there's a risk of retinal detachment. I've had retinal detachment and it required emergency laser surgery (twice) to literally weld it back in place. There isn't an optometrist anywhere that would ever prescribe something that may cause retinal detachment, ever. If they do, you need to run in the other direction.
 
The commercial for Vabysmo (wet AMD) drives me insane. First, it's an eye injection which makes me cringe. Secondly and most importantly, there's a risk of retinal detachment. I've had retinal detachment and it required emergency laser surgery (twice) to literally weld it back in place. There isn't an optometrist anywhere that would ever prescribe something that may cause retinal detachment, ever. If they do, you need to run in the other direction.
Hearing that it requires a needle being inserted into your eyeball is all kinds of nope from me.
 
...ad nauseum, until each of these is mentioned:

Rybelsus, Astepro, Biktarvy, Zeposia, Tepezza, Qulipta, Trelegy, Keytruda, Dupixent, Otezla , Sotyktu, Linzess, Rexulti, Ubrelvy, Ocrevus, Tezspire, Nurtec, Nucala, Farxiga, Dovato, Vraylar, Entyvio, Ingrezza, Shingrix, Rinvoq, Cabenuva, Leqvio...

and none of which would be allowed by insurance over the appropriate generic. [end rant]
I honestly don't know if you copied and pasted or if you're some kind of prescription naming savant.
 
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For me it was a radio add as a kid in south eastern Iowa. The add did its job though I even remember it to this day.

Car dead call Fred's 391-9666

The add was basically this repeated over and over. As a kid I just wanted to beat whomever wrote that commercial senseless.
But when my car broke down at 2:30am driving home from the bar in Davenport, guess which number I called . . . . . and they weren't overpriced which was a bonus. This was pre-cell phones so I still had to walk to closest phone to call Fred (in winter).
 
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In honor of Budweiser, lights free Wrigley Field, and The Hawk Andre Dawson...


It's 2023.

Eric Show wakes up in a cold sweat and peers outward in the darkness. Nothing. Only silence.

He reaches and flips the lamp on the nightstand on. Again, listens intently, hearing only the sound of his heart racing. He gets up and goes to his closet, sliding the door quietly as to not wake his wife. He reaches inside and pulls out the knapsack and checks it. Cash, passport, emergency supplies.

He won't need them this night, but he knows one night he will.

Andre Dawson is coming.
 
Hearing that it requires a needle being inserted into your eyeball is all kinds of nope from me.
I know of four older people who get this treatment. It's very common.

I thought the shots in the eye sounded pretty unbearable also, but it isn't painful unless you experience side effects like an increase in pressure on the eye, and it beats going blind.
 

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