Horrible local commercials

The DC area has Eastern Motors.  HALP!


They air during my mom's judge-show marathons EVERY DAY--helllllllp!
AND they have the nerve to have set up a YouTube channel, too!
https://www.youtube.com/user/EasternMotors

Sorry to bring this one back from the dead.

Everybody always wants to jump on the bandwagon.

Whichever bandwagon happens to be around at the time.

ALE515 wrote: Jimbo wrote: I think Orlando is the horrible local commercial capital of the US. We regularly suffer through a new series of these ads for a rinky-dink local amusement park called "Fun Spot". The most recent incarnation was inspired by, well you watch it & see if you can guess: Haven't seen these for quite awhile, thank God... CAN'T STAND THE FUN SPOT COMMERCIALS!!!! I hate them sooo much, and his stupid "It's HUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE!" No it's not...

AT&T U-verse in Orange County, CA is atrocious because none of the ads are local. For almost a year I was bombarded with horrible ads from a Malibu Greek restaurant voiced by some clown who sounded more like Pepe LePew than a Greek. There was a seriously hot dancer in the commercial but the rest was so awful I wanted to throw heavy objects at my TV. Plus, Malibu is a good 70-80 miles from where I am, so the ad was pointless. If I DO want Greek, I got places within 5-10 miles.

^  I say, go for it, Miseryg.  We'll be kind.  We promise.

Thor wrote: ^  I say, go for it, Miseryg.  We'll be kind.  We promise.

Just like the president promised me I could keep my doctor.

Seattle's favorite car dealer - Ken Phillips! "Car Pros Kia Tacoma, Come See Us, You'll LIKE What You See!" When I lived in Seattle Q13 Fox (KCPQ) would air these ads constantly. New ones every couple of weeks. Muted them after a while. This is just from a week ago.

SweaterRock wrote: Here's one that drives me up the wall.  The 30-second spot wasn't posted on YouTube, but it's basically 30 seconds of this spliced together. Granted, it looks well-produced, and I like the whole driving around Austin theme, but the singing/rapping drives me nuts.  I'm not sure what it is about it, but I can't take it after five seconds.  Maybe it's the fact that it's a mom rapping about domestic duties, and she's apparently trying to make driving in a Fiat cool.  I didn't know those little munchkin cars started taking the place of luxury cars in rap videos.

Harrisburg and York PA local stations have a long tradition of bad TV ads for various businesses in the area. Can't find video of some of the classics from the early 70s through the 80s, but the local home improvement contractors--siding and window guys, mostly--insisted on reading their own ad copy in single-camera ads shot in the local station's studio. Terrible.

In the 80s and 90s, several of the local car dealers bought ads made by roaming promoters who'd roll into town in their motor home and shoot several ads for one or the other of the dealers. They were the pioneers of yelling in ads, and mindless repitition of the dealer's name and phone number.

One of those guys was a tall paunchy Texan who usually wore a cowboy hat and went by the name of "T. Buff." His real name was Tommy Buffington. He somewhat resembled Boss Hogg from "Dukes of Hazzard," only taller. He always opened his ads saying, "T. Buff hee-yuh..." I remember one of his truly bizarre ads where, instead of his cowboy outfit, he appeared wearing only a very large diaper and a baby bonnet. He talked in a falsetto voice in that one, which be opened with  "Baby Buff hee-yuh..."

In the late 90s one local Ford dealer thought it would be cute to have his two young sons star in his commercials. One was 6 or 7, and did most of the talking. It wasn't nearly as cute as Dad thought.

Now, by far, our worst local commercials are by personal injury law firms. I'll try to find some of those and post.