I'm so tired of trying to watch a TV show and the greedy ads they advertise during the show. The commercials are bad enough, but, now they've started this greedy thing of putting banners and ads on the bottom and top of the screen during the program. They advertise other shows, inform you of what wonderful channel you are experiencing and new shows they have coming out. It's retarded. Why are they so greedy? Last night one popped up on the bottom right of a show, then on the left..then the channel logo in the middle and to top it off a moving banner on the top. I could only see people's eyeballs and nose for quite awhile. It was just plain weird and stupid and it gives you headaches. You can't even tell what the show is about because your eyeballs don't know where to go. TV is going to put itself out of business with this shit. I hardly use my TV anymore except to watch DVD's. There's too many online sites that have free TV shows and you can watch anything, anytime, with none of that bullshit and you can watch all the episodes in a row. Seriously, how can anyone think this shit is good business? Who the hell do TV networks hire who tell them this bullshit is good? I'd like to find the idiot that originally thought it up and slam a skillet into his nose. Then I'd like to find the executive who okayed it and just set him on fire.
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Ok...this is a big deal. I am with you girl! 110%. MSNBC has recently revamped its screen. It is so congested that we stopped looking. It feaks you out. Top, bottom, both bottom corners and the occasional drive-by ad. It's like advertising vomit. Hate it! Times are tuff so the ads keep coming! It's Ad-Vomit!!!! *blech*!!!
Rox
and how about when there are words on the screen? And you can't see them? Or cant see all of it? Pisses me off! I esp hate the real people sliders that appear on screen and then slide off. It's shitt! cah-cah...obscures my vison & lets me forget what the hell I'm even watching. I cant keep track of this season premier & that season finale' on this channel & that channel. & they all advertise this shit on each others channels now! I can't even keep track of what channel I am on! I'm watching Brav! and then an ad for an E! show comes on. I'm like WTH? Who changed the damn channel. I'm sitting right here! Its insane. You got me started now!
Rox
I think they do it because people DVR shows and fast forward through the commercials so they just advertise during the show. I totally agree though, I hate it.
I don't watch TV. The hallucinations are entertainment enough.
I forgot the one's that glow. They radiate and pulse and glow. It's so fucked up.
lol carbbie- you're stupid
i mean crabbie
They could solve their fast foreward problem by making kick ass commercials. They only make stupid retarded ones. Half the time I don't even know what the ad is for.
I DVR almost everything I watch. It's too much with commercials, I can't handle it. I HATE commercials that are way louder than the show you're watching, and those bottom screen tickers are such bullshit! MSN & CNN always run those. Fuck, no wonder I'm so overstimulated and confused all the time! The DVR is like 6 bucks a month and worth every penny. I'm tired of constant advertising. They treat us like we're stupid and can't figure out how to obtain things we need. I miss creative and fun commercials. I'm also tired of hearing about mortgage refinancing and credit card debt relief shit. I don't need to constantly be reminded how fucked up my finances are. Satellite radio is jam packed with these ads. (in the car) I pause the radio while I go into the store and then FF through the commercials.
Yeah, the volume on commercials is out of control. It makes you jump and search for the mute button. It's too bad they're so mindless. Give me one minute of national air time and I could think up something to make people stop and look. Most of us on here could. So who are these retards that are making big bucks for dumb shit?
that shit is so distracting. i am in love with my dvr.BUT comcast is so jacked up that if you set up a series recording for only new episodes it still records every freaking episode every time it comes on . so irritating.
Anybody outside of Indiana see the Comcast commercials that are all monotone. Some chick or guy inserted into an animated/pastel drawn house or town walking along singing in a monotone sing song way that makes me want to shoot my TV, pull out all my hair, go to town & shoot it up, many other atrocities, anyone else? Does anyone else care or hate those GD f'g commercials like I do? I always mute it. I even wrote to Comcast to bitch. They acknowledged my complaint but why do they care. I watched it didnt I? It works for them. Except it makes me hate Comcast more. I wish those commercials would f'g die!
rox
Guess haven't seen that one. Good thing, sounds like.
Oh yeah, the comcast commercial. Lame!!
I also hate tickers at the bottom of the screen. I don't mind a little transparent ad thingy at the bottom corner, but tickers and banners are awful.
But on the same line, I also hate ads with earworms. HATE them!!! Especially if the song sucks. I have the five dollar foot long stuck in my head. Don't thank me, it was my pleasure to put it in your brain too.
Shelly, I sometimes get overstimulated too. I'll have the TV on, surfing the net, talking, listening, too many windows, bla bla bla, than I want to scream and have everything quiet.
Here's some creepy commercials. I hate the Ensyte guy.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32097
Earworms?
That's a new word for me.
The theme to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" is the worst!!!
I can only tolerate just so many commercials. If there are too many program breaks I'll switch the channel no matter how much I was enjoying the show. Here's one that absolutely drives me nuts: the ShamWow guy. You know... the weird looking guy with one eyebrow lifted almost all the way to his scalp and he's wearing those stupid looking head phones with that thing that wraps around in front of his mouth? I don't know what you call that thing. Looks like something a rock star would wear while giving a performance. I don't know why that guy bugs me so much. I wouldn't have one of those ShamWows in the house even it they gave it to me. Billy Mays used to really bug me. I hate it when they get all hyper and worked up trying to pitch something. It just turns me off.
BUT!!! I have to say my favorite commercials are the PEMCO insurance here in the Pacific Northwest. They are based on Northwest Profiles. They are hilarious, and even funnier if you are a sandals and socks guy, or a coffee shop costumer. They're on youtube, they're worth the time to go look.
Five Dollar, FIVE DOLLAR FOOT LONGS.. YEAHHHHHHHH! Thanks. GArrrrrrrrrrrrr!
>evil grin<
Gawd, guys! Jared the Subway guy was hitting on my daughter in downtown indianapolis. Sh was just having fun, he got her number & kept calling & texting her. She didnt respond to his requests for a date. She told her friends that he told her he had a $5 footlong. It was a pretty good joke at the time. Last summer. He's a douche. I LOOOVE the ESPN commercials that have the athletes in them at the ESPN offices, like the athletes work there. They are FUN to watch & see who is in them. Excellent writing and super clever. They dont suck.
rox
does anyone have the bp gas station commercials? say hey! make the day a little better, say hey!! shut the f- up i hate it.
Everyone and everything on television is greedy. That is why you always hear about insanely rich stars grabbing freebies and swag bags whenever they can. People in show biz are greedy as hell and that's just the way it is.
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