How much do you hate tv commercials?

[Bossy Monkey]

Edit: Can't leave parentheses open, now can we?

[LeighAnn]

1. Depends on the music eom

[Bossy Monkey]

15. Interesting. I think most of us most hate it when they use a song we like

eg Wrangler and "Fortunate Son" but maybe that's what you meant.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. Tis almost the season I really start to hate 'em.

I usually can't wait until after the holiday when the start airing all the putrid car commercials and take those even worse Xmas onces off.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Almost as much as I hate television in general.

The commercials are frequently better than the programming, sad to say.

[arwalden]

4. This Is The Beauty Of ReplayTV (DVR) And The 30-Second Skip Button

although, with all the new banner ads that run DURING the show, the commercials are still annoying. I'm recording less and less stuff from the commercial networks in favor of the commercial-free and banner-free satellite networks.

-- Allen

[Downtown Hound]

5. Well, I used to make them for a living

so I can't hate them too much. But man, there are a lot of stupid ones out there. Not that I ever made any. :P

[Bossy Monkey]

10. You made of tv commarcials?! I keel you!

Kidding! And remind me not to try to write in silly accents again.:P

[Downtown Hound]

11. Hey I quit didn't I?

Yes, I used to work for ABC, proud propagandists for Disney and censors of Michael Moore. I am a corporate media refugee. But I saw the error of my ways, and told them to take a hike, throwing away my entire journalism education.

And I don't regret it one bit.

BTW, don't write in silly accents again. There, I reminded you. ;-)

[barb162]

6. One in about 200 are good , the rest I tune out

If there are cats or dogs in the commercials or something really funny to me, I watch

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Some other... I appreciate the way they wake me up at 3:30am

after I've fallen asleep in front of the tube.

[OneBlueSky]

8. over the years, I've developed this incredible ability . . .

to simply tune out commercials whenever they appear . . . didn't set out to do it . . . it just happened . . . you could ask me about a commercial that just played, and I wouldn't even be able to tell you what product it was for . . .

[Bossy Monkey]

13. I try to train myself to forget the company names to spite them

Not sure how well it's worked, but it's worth a try.

[welshTerrier2]

9. fastest MUTE in the world

i hate commercials ... i don't listen to them and i don't watch them ... at least not on TV ...

it's been a little tougher since AAR came to Boston last week ... unlike TV, you can't tell when the program starts up again ... with the mute on, you can see when a show returns on TV ...

if someone is interested in developing a new technology, it would be great to have a commercial screener outer for radio ...

[Skittles]

12. a few commercials would not bother me

problem is now THERE ARE SO DAMN MANY OF THEM; they go on and on so long that very often I literally forget what TV show I was watching.

[Kathleen04]

14. Alot of times I don't listen

to the commercials. Normally, I use TiVo to escape them.

Radio commericals are far more annoying to me, I always change the station.