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Aspects of ads that irk you
Let's face it, most Ads on TV are annoying. Yet every now and then there is one that contains a complete logic fail that you can't help but pick on and leaves you vexed every time you see it.
There's currently an overall bland and banal cleaning product AD where the guy is initially standing next to a Top Fuel drag car painted like the product. He then starts blah blahing about how the product has "Turbo Power". The whole ad is about the wondrous "Turbo power". That's the point of the ad - "Turbo Power".
But the total logic fail and the especially irritating point for me is that the drag car clearly has a supercharger - not a turbo. In an ad about "Turbo Power" - either use a prop with an actual turbo in it, or don't use one at all. It may be a pedantic observation, but it irks me every time I see it.
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Those funeral/life insurance ads that have "Couples or friends" in them when they are clearly neither actual couples or friends. They are wooden and scripted actors who're absolutely irritating to the point I find myself actually disagreeing with every line, every time. They say "I did this or I did that" and I say "No, you didn't. You're an actor. A bad one. And you are just lying; stop lying". Pointless of course, but it does make me feel better.
Who else has a particular ad/ads that just gets under their skin?