Another McDonald’s commercial makes the list! This time it’s for the New England Coffee and while there are a couple ads that do this type of thing, this one is definitely the worst (but this one is pretty annoying too!) Let’s cut to the chase though. The last part of the ad, where the guy tells the girl, “Your hair smells like sunshine”…creepy. Is the girl his friend and he’s trying to make it “more than just friends”? Is she some girl he just met and is thinking this is a way to pick up girls? Is it his girlfriend/wife? In that case, it’s just stupid, since the girl obviously wouldn’t be offended. Any way you slice it, it’s annoying.
On another related topic, one of my pet peeves is when an ad/song/movie comes off as elitist (is that the right word?) It might be weird, but for some reason I’m not a fan of nearly every country song that talks about a small town, screen door, barbecue stains, six-packs on the porch, dead end roads, etc. It seems that every one of those songs comes off as “If you’re not drinking a six pack on your porch on a Friday night listening to blue grass country…you’re not as good as us. You’re just some kind of low-life city dweller not enjoying life to the fullest!” Maybe that’s just me, but anyways, these McDonald’s ads come across with the same type of message. If you’re not a REAL New Englander (which I am, even though I don’t know all the trivia they ask in the commercials) then you’re not good enough for McDonald’s New England coffee. Annoying.
Annoying Ads 