  Orange_barrel Member Username: Orange_barrel Post Number: 22 Registered: 02-2008 |
For me, it's those Beaumont ads with the synthesizer going DUNN DUNN DUNN DUNN DUNN... I used to like the voice of the guy from Nature on PBS, but now he fills me with dread and foreboding. Can you imagine having dinner with this guy? "It's your life. Do you.. really want to eat that cheeseburger? DUNN DUNN DUNN DUNN DUNN..." | ||
Drankin21 Member Username: Drankin21 Post Number: 229 Registered: 12-2003 |
Just dial diamond D-I-A-M-O-N-D my dad got ripped off by these a-holes in the mid-80's | ||
Umbound Member Username: Umbound Post Number: 100 Registered: 02-2008 |
You guys should just get Sirius. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 22 Registered: 02-2008 |
i can't stand "FREEEEEEEE credit report dot com"! On the same note, speaking of ANNOYING, has anyone seen the terrible local WB commercial that is a total ripoff of the "F-R-E-E that spells free" commercial?? It makes me cringe | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2235 Registered: 01-2006 |
THANK YOU Orange_barrel! You know good & well that those ads are consciously crafted to have PRECISELY the effect which you so aptly described. DEAATHHHH... | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2236 Registered: 01-2006 |
Oh, and I forgot to mention those fuckin' annoying ABC Warehouse ads with "Gordy." They'd be enough to make me stop shopping there, if I shopped there in the first place. | ||
Cozmikdebris Member Username: Cozmikdebris Post Number: 112 Registered: 10-2003 |
"It's wicked awesome!" | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 220 Registered: 04-2005 |
I hate the glurgy ones from the Karmanos Cancer center. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1499 Registered: 12-2003 |
"It's time to LIIIIIIVE....yeah!" | ||
Zrx_doug Member Username: Zrx_doug Post Number: 115 Registered: 03-2008 |
Ravine, you shock me..Gordy is THE MAN! Don't get me started on the old D.O.C. "sexy specs" chump, though.. | ||
Drankin21 Member Username: Drankin21 Post Number: 239 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetrich furs from the Dieeeeeeetrich family... I can still see that 70's era-pornstar-looking-broad spinning in that fur in some random Bloomfield-esque Park I think that they still run this commercial actually | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1500 Registered: 12-2003 |
That Discount Tires ad with the granny throwing a tire through the plate glass window -- that dates from the '70s. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 23 Registered: 02-2008 |
800 3 3 3 R-O-C-KAY AY. | ||
Drankin21 Member Username: Drankin21 Post Number: 241 Registered: 12-2003 |
I take it all back....the thread was about RADIO ads...... | ||
Ja1mz Member Username: Ja1mz Post Number: 110 Registered: 02-2007 |
There is one playing on wwj950, its just a monotone voice saying "Get up, go to work, go home, pay bills, go to sleep," "Get up, go to work, go home, pay bills, go to sleep,"..its pretty funny but I don't know company its from... | ||
Spitty Member Username: Spitty Post Number: 681 Registered: 07-2004 |
I hate the one for sunsetter retractable awnings where that annoying woman just keeps saying, "Tell them about the discount Harry." Now I turn the station before she even gets to her line. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 2196 Registered: 12-2005 |
"This is Charles from the collection agency, PICK UP!, we're going to sue you!" The few times I have gone over to AM radio (I don't consider myself old enough for that yet) I'm amazed at the ads aimed at one or two executives "X company can cold roll form steel to astm procedures within Y tolerance, an ISO 9001 tier one supplier". | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 175 Registered: 05-2007 |
I don't think the PBS Nature guy, George Page, is the same guy from the Beaumont ads. They sure sound similar, though. George Page retired in 1998 and died and 2006. I would like to think that a classy guy like Page would not have done those melodramatic Beaumont ads. Several family members have had bad experiences at Beaumont, and the family joke is that we are not to be taken to Beaumont unless we are actually bleeding out on the corner of Thirteen and Woodward. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 6223 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Those Dittrich Furs ads were made in the 70's by Yessian Music for a dime. Some of the shots are from Cranbrooke or Kirk in the Woods. They actually had a little spot on this in the news a few months back on an anniversary of the company. | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 226 Registered: 11-2007 |
"April in the D" Hands down the most annoying TV or radio commercial running right now. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1501 Registered: 12-2003 |
Spitty, thanks for reminding me. The winner is "Tell them about the discount, Harry" ... Whatever radio ad writing lamebrain thought a whining woman and a totally oblivious male was funny and not excruciatingly irritating, is an idiot. I too can't get to the dial fast enough to turn it off WWJ. I was even thinking of emailing them; I wonder if they care that they lose listeners with obnoxious ads like that... | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2278 Registered: 11-2003 |
Not the most annoying , but the two OLDEST radio commercials I remember were Detroit landmarks. 1. Kahn's Clothes--Ralph Binge and Jo Gentile, on CKLW radio, opening boxes and boxes of Kahn's Clothes (on Broadway I believe near Gratiot), the sound of the crowbar prying open the crates of clothes as they sang"Kahn's Clothes, Kahn's Clothes, They're Neat and Thrifty". 2. Benjamin Rich-local Detroit realator-- "Cash for your property in 48 hours, from the little store that looks like a bank" was his theme song. Have not thought of these two commercials in years. Anyone out there remember them? Come on Forum, Ask your parents/grandparents. Ask Ray36,Tponetom, maybe even jjaba, | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 6225 Registered: 10-2003 |
Any of those divorce attorneys for men commercials, like ADAM. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 1097 Registered: 08-2007 |
Jl- Yessian did the music and UltraMedia, which had their offices at Long Lake and Woodward did the filming. Back in the 1930's there was an office park built on that corner. It resembled an old English village with the whole slate roof, half-timbered work/live places. There were little arch ways that led to secluded court yards all just north of the Kingsley Inn and across the street from the Fox and Hounds. --- For me, any commercial on WCHB - esspecially their station ID - sounds like it was produced by Marlee Matlin. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 6227 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gnome, the fact that you know about that makes me wonder how many degrees of separation there are between us.  | ||
Qdaddy77 Member Username: Qdaddy77 Post Number: 124 Registered: 05-2007 |
tv commercials... Hanson's Windows...i cant stand that guy smiling telling me i have to buy his windows to keep him from laying off his workers... Victory Honda! i hate seeing this girl 8 times every half hour on channel 4 in the morning. I was in Charlotte, NC a few moths back and they run the same commercials... also, has anyone seen the commercial the State of Virginia is running telling manufacturers and businesses to move to THEIR state! WTF! | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 964 Registered: 10-2003 |
The Rock, http://detroitkidshow.com/Bing e_and_Gentile.htm | ||
Tk65 Member Username: Tk65 Post Number: 64 Registered: 12-2007 |
Carl and Richard Maruczak from Ace Diamond Jewelers. Friggin hate those douchebags. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 14 Registered: 04-2008 |
Those sappy Jeffrey Feiger TV ads trying to convince us what a nice guy he is. He must have practiced that dippy smile for months. If I didn't already despise him, those ads would do it. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 2198 Registered: 12-2005 |
Jeff needs those commercials right now, his campaign finance lawsuit case is heating up. He fights for the rights of the little guy..... and the 33% and up he gets from the fight. |
