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The worst commercials in TV history..

We have a new stinker from Allstate: Mr. Mayhem as a bird in the attic, being swatted at by Larry Bird while he destroys his house, including falling through the attic floor. I can't believe Larry stooped so low as to agree to do this. He certainly doesn't need the money. If I want to watch an NBA Hall-of-Famer make a fool of himself, I'll watch Charles Barkley.
 
KeithE4 said:
We have a new stinker from Allstate: Mr. Mayhem as a bird in the attic, being swatted at by Larry Bird while he destroys his house, including falling through the attic floor. I can't believe Larry stooped so low as to agree to do this. He certainly doesn't need the money. If I want to watch an NBA Hall-of-Famer make a fool of himself, I'll watch Charles Barkley.
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What about Mr. Mayhem battling his brother in basketball and destroying the house?
 
At 44:00 there is a Wendy's commercial where a customer asks for a bowl of chili at a fast food restauranr and the worker leaves to take him to Wendy's. You are not supposed to do that. He is betraying his own workplace and biting the hand that feeds him.

 
valvashon said:
My family actually likes the Limu and Doug series of commercials. Doug is so earnest about it all, his replacement has a head as empty as he is attractive and an emu just walking around an office being Doug's assistant/sidekick is amusing. Simple concept, well executed.

Maybe I'm just as empty headed as I am attractive.

Val
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I have to admit that those are good points. I have noted that, for now, Doug’s “replacement” is MIA.
 
There is a current commercal for Allegra featuring a young woman in yellow clothing with purple headphones, Allegra's signature colors. She's walking about with a somewhat angry look on her face, singing an apparently random song which we hear at times. Most of the rest of the time the audio is a voiceover about Allegra, yet we still see her walking toward the camera in closeup singing.
This combination of voiceover and a person saying (singing) different words is jarring and violates every rule I ever learned about good editing and good video storytelling. While it's good to play with ideas and see what breaking the rules looks like, I can't believe that this ad made it out of whatever review process it went through. When watching it on screen in a commercial break it really does look like a terrible error in the edit bay made it out to air.

I searched for a link to this ad and found this and also one on youboob. The comments on that one are universally negative and many share my confusion about why she is yelling at the camera while a different voice is on the audio track.


Allegra AD on iSpot TV
 
valvashon said:
There is a current commercal for Allegra featuring a young woman in yellow clothing with purple headphones, Allegra's signature colors. She's walking about with a somewhat angry look on her face, singing an apparently random song which we hear at times. Most of the rest of the time the audio is a voiceover about Allegra, yet we still see her walking toward the camera in closeup singing.
This combination of voiceover and a person saying (singing) different words is jarring and violates every rule I ever learned about good editing and good video storytelling. While it's good to play with ideas and see what breaking the rules looks like, I can't believe that this ad made it out of whatever review process it went through. When watching it on screen in a commercial break it really does look like a terrible error in the edit bay made it out to air.

I searched for a link to this ad and found this and also one on youboob. The comments on that one are universally negative and many share my confusion about why she is yelling at the camera while a different voice is on the audio track.


Allegra AD on iSpot TV
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I swear that originally, the commercial was more her singing than anything else, and any voiceover was just at the end of the commercial. Unless I'm mixing it up with another commercial, it feels to me like it was different at first and then they changed it, not for the better.
 
valvashon said:
There is a current commercal for Allegra featuring a young woman in yellow clothing with purple headphones, Allegra's signature colors. She's walking about with a somewhat angry look on her face, singing an apparently random song which we hear at times. Most of the rest of the time the audio is a voiceover about Allegra, yet we still see her walking toward the camera in closeup singing.
This combination of voiceover and a person saying (singing) different words is jarring and violates every rule I ever learned about good editing and good video storytelling. While it's good to play with ideas and see what breaking the rules looks like, I can't believe that this ad made it out of whatever review process it went through. When watching it on screen in a commercial break it really does look like a terrible error in the edit bay made it out to air.

I searched for a link to this ad and found this and also one on youboob. The comments on that one are universally negative and many share my confusion about why she is yelling at the camera while a different voice is on the audio track.


Allegra AD on iSpot TV
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That ad gets a mute every time I hear it. Slightly worse than Jardiance.
 
valvashon said:
There is a current commercal for Allegra featuring a young woman in yellow clothing with purple headphones, Allegra's signature colors. She's walking about with a somewhat angry look on her face, singing an apparently random song which we hear at times. Most of the rest of the time the audio is a voiceover about Allegra, yet we still see her walking toward the camera in closeup singing.
This combination of voiceover and a person saying (singing) different words is jarring and violates every rule I ever learned about good editing and good video storytelling. While it's good to play with ideas and see what breaking the rules looks like, I can't believe that this ad made it out of whatever review process it went through. When watching it on screen in a commercial break it really does look like a terrible error in the edit bay made it out to air.

I searched for a link to this ad and found this and also one on youboob. The comments on that one are universally negative and many share my confusion about why she is yelling at the camera while a different voice is on the audio track.


Allegra AD on iSpot TV
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Wonder if her wearing yellow and blue was meant to evoke the Ukrainian flag?

I noticed something similar in one of the Jardiance commercials.
 
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