'Don't leave you family holding the bag'

'Too much for your phone?'

'Health insurance too much, call us!'

'Your wife will LEAVE you if you aren't 'big enough'

'Were you or someone you know harmed or KILLED from this drug/disease/operation?'

'Is your credit bad?'

'Are your teeth white enough?'

'Is your home properly secured?'

'Where are your children?'

'Is your hearing going bad?'

STOP SCARING US, PLEASE!!!!!!

I am sooo tired of infomercials

The Sham towel guy can shove his headset up the Hercules hooks guys' chocolate whiz way, maybe that will shut them both up. Maybe when they're done they can violate that damn Verizon guy!

Susan Lucci's old ass can keep whatever over priced cream she's hocking this week.

Penis pills? The fact that these are sold on infomercials should tell you how reliable they are. Anyone who took basic biology should know that pills for "that certian part of the male body" don't work. Guys just learn to like what you have, stop wasting your money.

Is it just me or does it seem like there is a new ab machine every week? Get that $&@t outta here!!

ANOTHER onion chopper, AGHH! They just put a new desgin to an old product and call it new. 

All infomercials from Richard Simmons need to banned by law! The last thing I wanna see is a some 500lb woman sweating to the oldies, flying fat is not fun to watch. *rkinne shudders at the thought*

The worst part about these sales pitches is that they show the same 5 minute clip on loop for 30 to 60 minutes.  Please excuse me while I beat my head against the wall….ok that was much funner than watching Susan Lucci, Towel Guy, Or the Shouting guy!

All you infomercial producers can just bite me.

All right, I haven't seen this movie as of yet and, until this morning, hadn't planned to see it. But now, I was just informed that this movie is NOT 'politically correct'!! Well THAT MAKES me want to see this movie for sure now! It isn't like they NEVER let on that there would be some VERY non PC moments in this film! And NOW some are in an uproar about it? GET A LIFE! THIS movie is what it is, and, last I checked, it can say whatever it wants to and, since they have told us upfront, that some people might be offeneded by the content, SHOULD NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!! 

It probably won't win an Oscar or anything, so what?!?! It is a comedy that is poking fun at Hollywood and the whole PC machine we have seemingly become, I say BRAVO!!!

Maybe I will go see this movie next week, of course, with MY training schedule, I have barely enough time to post HERE!!!

I am truly not saying people that are not affected by this horrid disease (which disease ISN'T 'horrid'), but to 'push' people to going to a lawyer to 'have your case examined' which is, I believe, lawyerese for, 'If WE can't make big bucks from your case, you don't HAVE a case!' 

BTW, this is what SJS is - Stevens-Johnson Syndrome is a potentially deadly skin disease that usually results from a drug reaction. Another form of the disease is called Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, and again this usually results from a drug-related reaction. Drugs that have been linked to Stevens-Johnson Syndrome include NSAIDS (non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs), Allopurinol, Phenytoin, Carbamazepine, barbiturates, anticonvulsants, and sulfa antibiotics. In some cases, the condition is caused by a bacterial infection, and in many cases there is no known cause for the onset of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis.

I can't STAND seeing someone put a five dollar bill into their mouth as a dig against Subway. That is fine to compete against Subway's $5 menu, but showing someone EATING a (probably dirty) five dollar bill?!?!?!  

Well, it did get even 'worse', now they are showing a man EATING a ROLL of DIMES!!!! (THOSE COME IN $5 packets, if you didn't know)! EEEEWWWW!!! AND HE CRUNCHED THEM!!!!

As a consumer, there’s nothing I hate worse than being made to feel like an idiot.

And that’s exactly how I feel when I arrive at the “scheduled time” for the start of a movie and I’m then forced to first sit there for 20 minutes and watch some of the worst, most lame advertising and promotions I’ve ever seen.  I don’t mean the “coming attractions.”  They’re OK.

The price of movie tickets has doubled in the last 10 years.  Movies are expensive.  I resent being “trapped” in the theatre and being forced to watch this crap.  I resent being “tricked” into devoting 20 minutes of my time to watch advertising.  I think I could find something better to do with those 20 minutes – if I was given the option.

If I’m going to agree to pay for my entertainment (unlike for instance, free TV), then get rid of those lousy ads, and SHOW ME THE MOVIE.

Peeve On!

The Peeve Meister

P.S. Congrats to Jamfogey, our Rant-of-the-Week winner from last week. And good luck to all you Super Peevers this week. We'll be awarding another set of prizes for the best comment to this week's "Rant of the Week."

So I'm watching this commercial, the one that says, 'My heart is one flight of stairs stronger' next scene, 'one piggy-back stronger' and so on and so forth. But then, one scene show this single lady, with BOTH arms full of shopping bags crossing a parking lot (hardly any cars around) and she says, 'parking furthest from the store stronger'

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't single women NOT supposed to park as far away from possible help as they can? Even more, walk ALONE with both hands full? So, is this cereal commercial truly caring about youor health (I think implying that a woman is safe crossing an empty parking lot with both hands full is not the best idea, perhaps I am wrong).

Anyway, just saw that commercial and it just peeved me off! 

Hi.

Peeve Meister here.

What are some these companies hiding from us – that they don’t want us to see or hear?

I’m referring to the painfully large paragraphs of unreadable text that appears for 1.5 seconds at the end of some TV commercials? 

We all know that it’s simply impossible to read these messages.  We all laugh at the poor announcer who attempts to read the message to us at a rapid-fire pace — that’s still impossible to understand.  And we’re admittedly slightly amused by the laughable litany of side-affect warnings that are recited at the end of prescription drug TV commercials.

However, the bottom line is that none of these (important?) messages are ever communicated to the viewer/listener/reader.  We know the advertiser is required to do this to meet so obscure government regulations.  However, the solution doesn’t seem to accomplish anything. 

What could these geniuses have possibly been thinking when they came up with this arrangement? And how much longer is this charade going to be allowed to continue.  I think it’s stupid.

What do you think?

Peeve On!

P.S. Congrats to thefensk, our Rant-of-the-Week winner from last week. And good luck to all you Super Peevers this week. We'll be awarding another set of prizes for the best comment to this week's "Rant of the Week."

We need to get our Priorities Straight…..

Alright, I normally don't like his commercials, but the one with the YARD SALE was DEAD ON!!!! I HOPE none of YOU are like the people at HIS yard sale!!!

Now I don't mind commercials pushing the virtues of one pregnancy product over another. but to watch a 'demonstration' of how easy it would be to put this under the stream?!?! Come on, give us a break!

Oh it's the 'ClearBlue' pregnancy testing product. 

until I saw that commercial in the laundry room, and the leopard dude suggest that the girl eating Cheeto's put some INTO the other girls WHITES drying in the machine! WTF are we TEACHING today's youths?

I hate the commercial for HughesNet internet service. The spokeswoman isn't attractive, isn't funny, and why do they think it somehow makes their service more appealing via the commerical if they have the woman say "HughesNet is brought to you by (company name)" and then give a stupid look into the camera and say "how cool is that?". It's cool that another company brings HughesNet service? I don't think so. And I'd like to know the rationale behind having this lady walk into view from either side of the camera as she explains the service. Is that supposed to make the commercial cool and hip? And then, the thing that takes the cake is how within the last 3 seconds of the commercial, the woman leans in from one side of the screen, smiles and says "you're welcome" and laughs a little as if her saying that has any trace of humor in it at all.

 Are people really that stupid that this garbage would make that internet service appealing to them? On the flip side would be the horribly conceived commercial for the TaxMasters company with a 500 lb bearded man just standing there with absolutely no expression on his face saying "at TaxMasters, we will solve your tax problems" - Now, I don't want this guy to be doing what the aforementioned HughesNet chick does, but come on……you get two extremes in these commercials. They CAN'T be effective.

for Always feminine products and it was talking about how this girl in Africa would miss one week of school every month because of her period! At first I thought it was a joke but then it went on to say that Always helps her with this "problem" so she can go to school every day. Then at the end of the commercial there appeared this groups of words across the screen that I will NEVER forget for the rest of my life….

"HAVE A HAPPY PERIOD!"

WTF??!! ARE YOU SERIOUS??? ARE THEY FOR REAL??!! WHO THE F*CK TELLS A WOMAN THAT??? I'm sorry to get so angry but I can't believe the stupidity of some ad campaigns. I KNOW that there are women who work for this company…how could they let these MEN, and I know they are MEN, put something like this on TV?? Those two words don't even BELONG in the same sentence, talk about oxymoron to the NTH degree!!