*Joan Lunden and her assisted-living spots. Maybe she should have a tryst with David Hartman.
*Kars-for-Kids: This is too easy and convenient, but truly this radio excrement has got to stop someday.
*Alison Janney and her Kaiser "happy endings." Yeah, I have an idea: Let's strive to rid the world of this nauseating" campaign lest we're all forced to actually join Kaiser.
*Pacific Coast Termites: I'm rooting for the termites.
*ALL solar commercials: I never thought I'd hate the sun.
*ALL Gold commercials: It dawned on me these self-righteous dickheads seem to run spots on right-wing has-beens programs. There's a certain symmetry there.
*1-866-24-7-499999999999999999999995-4995: The jingle is irritating enough but the 7867th time they play it, you still don't know what the hell they're pitching--I finally figured out it was some alarm company. I'm rooting for the burglars.
*Every KNBR promo: "KNBR, knbr, KNBR, knbr, KNBR...." Very creative, Cumulus creative dept. Maybe they should steal your money.
*Sleeptrain: I got your temperpedic right here, pal.
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Those "9/24" are so bad that it's actually non 24.
ReplyDeleteNice job cutting the spots.
Stevie Wonder said, "I see what you did there."
DeleteDoes anyone know? Who is this Janelle Marie on KRON commercials? or better yet Why is Janelle Marie? She's terrible. Who pays her?
ReplyDeleteI kinda have a thing for her. I won't bore you with the details.
DeleteShe was a traffic reporter many years ago. How that translated to info-mercials, no idea. Weird outfits, weird woman.
DeleteShe looks like she does a couple of lines before she goes on air.
DeletePeople who will have you reaching for the Dramamine:
ReplyDeleteThe sickly sounding kid in the Kars-for-Kids ads.
The nauseating Allison Janney.
The downright emetic Amy G.
System Pavers. Barf.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't call these people for anything because of their overplayed and obnoxious commercial. When it comes on, I change the station immediately. It's become Pavlovian to me.
The Cars for Kids is an IMMEDIATE tune-out. I recognize that 'bom bom bom' opening, and they're gone before the singing.
ReplyDeleteAlong with the "Cars for kids", they need "Drivers licenses for kids."
DeleteAnyone know if CAL Sports is going to replace KGO Talk Radio again today?
ReplyDeleteIs there some CAL schedule?
It kills me that they have chosen to preempt Pat Thurston every time.
Yet, Karel's show always goes on!
Um, it's live play by play. Preempt either one, same/same to me. No loss. Talk to CAL, maybe they can arrange to have the games during karel's show.
DeleteYes, Cal basketball is preempting KGO's dreary line-up of talk show hosts today. Karel was preempted many times this past fall when Cal played their games on Saturday nights followed by two hours of post-game rehash. Check the Cal game schedule (calbears.com) to see when they play.
DeleteAmmco..what you would expect from a sheister transmission repair company then people acting and making noise like they broke out of the insane asylum?.
ReplyDeleteOr whats that commercial where the woman sings like a little girl? That just screams Lilith Fair type music at its WORST.
I hope this topic lasts..I have more later as it comes to me..
Dignity health. Sung like a 5 year old woman.
DeleteIt makes Whitney Houston roll in her grave.
DeleteShhhh! Stan, it's not meant to be public knowledge, but rumor is Whitney Houstons' 'body'' is indeed rolling in the grave, because she is still going through withdrawl from meth, heroin and what not. Didn't you wonder why they encased the coffin under a three foot thick slab of granite? It wasn't to protect that engagement ring on her finger made of zirconium.
DeleteI did some investigative work and found that the singer is a super hot chick in a ALT. band called..get this..Kye-Kye. How fitting, Kye-Kye-pee-pee-poo poo?
DeleteCouldn't resist.
My Nomination for The Greatest of the Grating; Some little lady with a big voice on TrueCar.com. I like being spoken to but not yelled at, punctuation free, as is her style. Sounds like she's trying to fillibuster or debate somebody. GET RID OF HER.
ReplyDeleteMy Nomination for a cute commercial something where a woman speaks and says "It's satisfying! More satisfying than taking pens from work. Somebody has to replace those pens!" Most of us are involuntary (?) pen thieves. My older sister has a hugh collection in one of her designer purses. She even has some Schaffer Fountain Pens buried in there. No, I dont remember the product the Pen Lady is selling.
I agree about the TrueCar spots. That woman sounds like she's 19 and an elementary school dropout. She clearly has the goods on someone at an ad agency and is blackmailing them into allowing her to practice her "art."
DeleteWhatever the back story, she's one of the reasons that I keep my AM radio at arm's length. She gets either the ON/OFF switch, or immediately potted down to zero volume.
I mentally imagine her with about five pounds of face metal and a body with scarcely one square inch of skin that's not inked to the max.
Maybe her adolescent style of delivery is a new trend in professional voice work? God forbid that it might be. Ugh...!
You wonder if 'Shout Out Girl" signals a new trend in professional voice work?
DeleteI sure as hell hope not. I can imagine some company Cumulus saying, :this is called 'Keepin it real'. She pronounces the word car as CORE. Inexcusable! My guess is whoever does the hiring is somebody who does not speak english as their first language. They don't even realize how low-rent and amateurish their hired speaker sounds.
About Truecar.com radio commercials: that woman's sing-songy delivery causes me to dive for the volume control too (wish I had a radio mute!). Why companies think a media blitz is effective is a mystery; it drive most of us nuts hearing the same thing over and over, non-stop. You couldn't pay me (enoug) to go to Truecar.com after weeks (months?) of their unrelenting radio assault. Same thing happened with non-24 - yikes! So glad that's done!! Happy day when Truecar finishes its radio run!!
DeleteI absolutely love her voice. I wish I could meet her.
DeleteI miss Tina, Gina, Staci with an "i" and Stacie with an "ie." Now that was classic!
ReplyDeleteLet's add to the list all of the various finance companies that want to refinance your mortgage. Not only are they all irritating but it almost sounds like the same guy on all of them.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the same guy... repeating the phone number WAY too many times! As if the listeners are total morons, who have to hear the number repeated 4-5 times, to be able to remember it..
DeleteIt isn't "9-24." It's "NON-24." That drove me nuts, too.
ReplyDeleteI finally hit their website. However, to get any REAL information, one has to enter one's e-mail address. No chance!
Although a commercial from the past, I still remember the jingle for Denevi Camera... "Dublin, Berkeley, San Lorenzo, Cupertino, San Jose." A lot better than the Cars for Kids commercial which is so old and tiresome...
ReplyDeleteI liked the Denevi Camera commercials. I recall seeing them when I left the Navy. Two things were going on then media wise, the newspaper; USA Today just started, and the Bill Cosby show just started. The I could tell early on that both would be very successful. Denevi was a good example of local business that was family owned and run. I dont know if there still is a Denevi's at all anymore.
DeleteOld? I miss Ellis Brooks today,in a Chevrolet,corner of Brooks and Van ness. Sung by Dinah Shore.
DeleteCould we please see Ronnn Owennnns on a bed of nails?
ReplyDeleteI may have to turn in my Man Card for this, but Progressive Flo's singing spots on the radio are god-awful!
ReplyDeleteFlo's singing is meant to be over the top, overwrought,and overeager to the point of parody, like everything else about her. What other woman in this day and age walks around extremely giddy about her job, while sporting a beehive hairdo, with exaggerated eye shadow and fire engine red lipstick without expecting to be stared at? Flo is meant to be a walking talking stop sign (with a hidden messge).
DeleteComcast infinity commercials of the kids who talk like adults about the toy bear that winds down? Hate that. Hate the mugging and eye rolls at the end. Adults who sing like kids and kids who talk like adults commenting on toys. TV ad world at work.
ReplyDeleteYes, all of those commercials are disgusting. Comcast's service is just as disgusting.
DeleteKids who talk like adults, and adults who talk like Amy G.
DeleteYou left out any and all commercials for refinancing. Good Grief, I hate those things.
ReplyDeleteDenevi seems to have an office of sorts on Foothill in Hayward.
ReplyDeletethat's the Rich Lieberman commentary I like. Crisp, entertaining, witty and funny, esp. about Kaiser. What a propaganda campaign Kaiser runs, esp. if you visit one of the anti-Kaiser Web sites and read all the things people say about Kaiser. "THRIVE" Unless you belong to a Kaiser health plan. Then, it's "IGNORE" (Born at a Kaiser hospital and was a Kaiser member until I found a real health-care alternative.)
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