CNBC's Most Annoying Commercials 2

• Joshua M Brown
• March 16th, 2009

Since I posted CNBC's Most Annoying Commercials Volume 1 back on January 12th, CNBC has persisted in its habit of running the same 6 or 7 commercials on a continuous loop every hour of the day. The pain from this torture is as exquisite as before.

That said, we do have a new batch of commercials to drive us up a wall throughout the trading day, and so below is The Reformed Broker's CNBC's Most Annoying Commercials, Volume 2:

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The Video Professor's Ebay Lesson
John Scherer's voice and faux-sincerity could drive a sane man crazy. If there is a hell, the Video Professor will surely end up there selling CD-Roms to the new arrivals...that is until the Devil can't stand to hear the phrase "Try My Product" anymore and impales him with a pitchfork.  Yes, this is the same Video Professor who reminds you 19 times a day that he can't make you rich by teaching you how to sell an attic full of baseball cards.  Well, come back when you can, homeboy.  And lessons on Ebay?  Really?  People still go on Ebay?  Sorry to hear that.

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"Do More" with Sprint Nextel
This schtick with the Teamsters using their Sprint Nextel Direct Connect Blackberries was cute for a minute, but at this point, if I hear that bleep bloop sound from the phone or the phrase "No Callahan" one more time, I may shave my head and move to a leper colony in Hawaii.  Reroute this "No Callahan" commercial straight to detention, before I completely lose my mind.

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John McEnroe for National Car Rental
O M F G!  YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS with this National Car Rental commercial featuring professional crybaby John MacEnroe.  Never liked this guy, not as a player and not now as a spokesman.  He whines and cries more than my wife and 3 year old daughter combined.  And what's up with car rental companies running commercials night and day?  Does anyone care what rental car company they use?  What's the difference?  Whoever has the car I want at a good price, you think I give a s@#$ if its a car from National or Avis or Budget or Alamo or Hertz or...you get the point.

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Honorable Mention:

I probably should have gotten that US Government Gold putz who stands in the vault with the fake security guards talking about turning $50,000 dollars into $166,000 when gold goes to $2000 an ounce.  If I made statements like that I'd be kicked out of the brokerage business.  This guy's commercial is as hard a sell as you get and the regulators say nothing.  His coins are probably chocolate in gold foil.

I'd pick on the Snuggie or the Magic Jack, but apparently and inexplicably, enough of you people are buying them to keep these spots in perpetual rotation.  Maybe its the water supply where you live, I'd have that looked into if you are currently reading this blog with your arms through the sleeves of a blanket.

Read Also:

CNBC's Most Annoying Commercials Vol 1

CNBC Separated at Birth?

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