god... I can think of a million. One of my biggest pet peeves. If I'm ever elected president I'm going to create a federal department of curtailing advertising stupidity, and levy enormous fines against certain advertisers. or actually enforce false advertising laws. Is there even such a thing or is this an urban legend?
A few off the top of my head...
"Hi I'm a Mac, Hi I'm a PC" ads. As snooty, irritating, condescending, and misleading/ill-informed as most Mac users.
Free credit report.com commercials. Are they actually implying that checking your fiances credit score would change your mind about marrying her? Or that somehow freecreditreport.com will be able to help you get a better car or a better job? When advertisers just start making up arbitrary reasons for you to use their product you know they have a worthless product. What the hell is their angle anyway? They advertise so damn much they have to be getting something out of this equation, so what is it?
These local radio station ads for refinancing your mortgage played on WMAL AM 630. Not many people would know what I'm talking about, but they're annoying as hell. Particularly the part where the guy says "it's the biggest no brainer in the history 'da earf" He says that in every version of the commercial.
Those car insurance commercials that try to be arty by using that annoying but trendy camerawork that doesn't focus on the speaker's face, uses weird angles, shaky handheld camera moves, extreme close-ups or out-of-focus foreground objectes partially obstructing the shot. The same infuriating bad camerawork these use in the TV show Friday Night Lights.
Commercials that try to be arty by using that squiggle-vision rotoscope animation overtop of live actors. Not even sure what they're for. Obvious sign of a bad commercial when you remember the stupid gimmick but not the actual product.
Any commercial that needlessly uses computer animation to try and look sophisticated or appealing, when the computer animation they use is so low-tech and hideous that it has the exact opposite effect, making them seem extremely cheap and aesthetically retarded.
Most commercials with actors playing doctors*
*including and especially the one for that stupid weight loss product where they say it is guaranteed to work because it's "clinically proven" or some such bullshit.
Ax body spray commercials. As if.
pretty much any and every beer commercial.
every radio advertisment ever made for Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Mark Levin. Most hypocritical, self-deluded, egomanical out-of-touch douche bags in the world.
ads for Paradise Island II. gag.
I could go on literally forever as they make stupid ads faster than I can type about them so I'll stop now.