

Now with so many channels/streams targeting specific audiences, you get a smaller selection of commercials on each repeated endlessly.

Here are 10 of the year’s most dispiriting lowlights, listed alphabetically. Instead, the Court adopted the test that an ad is the functional equivalent of express advocacy only if the ad is. It used to be with a smaller selection of broadcast and cable channels you got greater variety in the commercials because of broader audiences. The Top 5 Most Annoying Current TV Commercials Ma Posted by Bryan Kristopowitz The 411mania Dumpster Fire of the Week Hello, everyone, and welcome to a special edition of The 411. Often, that hurts more than mere ineptitude. Between repeated showings and seemingly endless online scrutiny, the Canadian commercials have played before a national panel of judges whose expectations. More often, "worst" can be applied to degrees of frustration, annoyance, and disappointment that come from a show falling from previous heights, failing to live up to the level of its pedigree or badly blundering an interesting concept. This criticism is annoying, because having read Behavioural Economist Daniel Kahnemans Thinking, Fast and Slow and Steve Peters The Chimp Paradox. If you or a loved one has died, one of you shouldn’t be reading this column. Obviously it can refer to sheer ineptitude, but is it really interesting to pick on something like The CW’s utterly amateurish The Outpost over and over again, even if that low-budget acquisition had the feel of a summer-camp arts-and-crafts project? Nah. Commercials that sell common products like rug cleaner with sexual innuendo. It will play for 3-4 min, then the show comes on for 1 min, then back to the trance music playing again. They could play some nice music, crickets, just not that hypnotic jingle. The title sounds way too similar to the Japanese anime 'Lucky Star'. And on top of that, they play FAR MORE then regular commercials. Miao Le Xing's design is very weird and we can't tell if he supposed to be a bull or a goat. It also looked like if MAD made a parody out of TAWOG. It is a rip-off of The Amazing World of Gumball. The daily misadventures of a goat and a frog. In a world of 495 scripted shows, "worst" can mean many things. Miracle Star is a 2014 chinese-language cartoon series and a Gumball Rip-off. Groupon ended up issuing a half-apology and the ad is still considered one of the worst-ever.
