There are rotten or foolish kids in commercials who make me wonder about the future of society. The kids in the homework help program ad who break into song and dance featuring Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" are inviting ridicule from other kids, but since it appears to be the whole school, they need to import some rival school's kids who can kick their asses. There's also the whiny Pediasure brat who doesn't like anything, who should either starve or face the chicken like Joan Crawford made Christina face the meat.

Ooooh! Hate that Pediasure kid. My response to her litany of "I don't like broccoli" "I don't like chicken" blah blah would be "Sucks to be you then, because that's what's for dinner." I sure as hell wouldn't be buying her Pediasure unless she was ill or something. What's wrong with that mom? She just looks amused at her daughter's constant whining, then watches adoringly while she drinks the Pediasure instead of eating real food.

Is it so wrong of me to want Burger King to jump out from behind a stack of canned peas and scar that horrid little child for life?

I hate every child who has ever appeared in those "Kidz Bop" commercials. I hate the product. I hate their shrill little voices massacring songs, most of which were terrible to begin with. I wish they would all just go away.

My favorite commercial with a kid actor was one for Ikea, many years ago. It's about a boy who has just moved and isn't looking forward to making new friends. He says something about how his mom says to go across the street and introduce himself, and he mocks the idea, saying, "Hi, I'm Billy, can I be your friend?" in a deliberately pitiful voice. Kid cracked me up.

I actually think the new Pampers commercials are funny. That little black boy and girl are both really cute and not annoying like most other Pampers kids.

The Welches grape juice kids make me not want to buy grape juice.

I really like the Pediasure kid. Not the brat so much, but the little actress who plays her is just so goddamn cute.

Anakerie, if that's wrong then I don't wanna be right.

"My parents want me to go across the street and introduce myself -- 'Hi, I'm Zach, the new dork across the street. Do you have any kids my age?'" Followed with a sidelong glance off camera and sticking his tongue out.

I remember it well, apparently.

I saw a commercial with some cute kids in it during the Amazing Race yesterday. There was a kid sitting at a lunch table and he had nothing to eat, so the boy sitting across from him slipped him some milk and an orange under the table. I thought that it was a nice ad.

I really loathe the Ovaltine kids. All of them. Are they coached to be as obnoxious and unnatural as possible? It's unsettling.

*shudder* It's not the kids fault....it's the ignorant idiots who decided it would be a good idea to make bad songs even worse.
Plus....some of those songs aren't even appropriate for children to be singing if you get right down to it....

Heh. Rob Thomas' Lonely No More comes to mind; also This Love, by Maroon 5: "I tried so hard to feed her appetite/ to keep her coming every night/ So hard to keep her satisfied..."
Uh, yeah. A complete list of Kidz Bop songs can be found here, alot of them innappropriate for young kids, IMO.
Topic? I find pretty much ALL children in commercials to be annoying.

HOT IN HERE?

I do NOT want my children singing or listening to a song about taking their clothes off...

Thanks, Etain! The complete version is better than I remembered.

Wow, that's a frightening list of Kidz Bop songs. And how do they cover Axel F, exactly?

Maybe they replace some of the lyrics, like they used to do on The Mickey Mouse Club. I remember the kids singing "Opposites Attract", and they replaced the lines "I hate cigarettes/I like to smoke" with "I like red/I like blue". I shit you not. I will now go crawl into a hole and die of shame that I still remember this.

Topic? That Shake and Bake girl from a few years ago creeped me out to no end. Total children of the corn vibe from her. And I actually like children

I don't remember that one, but back in the 60s and 70s, there was a series of commercials with what was supposed to be a southern US family having chicken for dinner. It ends with Mama telling Daddy that's it's not fried chicken, it's Shake-N-Bake, and the little daughter says, "And Ah hay-yulped!" in an accent not found on this planet. Loathing. Sheer and utter loathing.

I don't appreciate being lectured by the Welch's brats, either.

And in that vein, I completely detest the little girl in the Kraft Singles commercial that is asking her dad "Did you know that Kraft Singles contains as much calcium as a glass of milk and helps develop strong bones and teeth that a growing girl like me needs?"(Paraphrasing)
Her voice manages to be both patronizing and monotone and the same time and her dufus dad says "Yeah, I totally knew that" No you didn't, you dork.

ETA:Proper spelling rocks

There was one commercial, not unlike Kid's Bop, but for some religous rock, that haad the most annoying kids ever. They were all blond and precocious, and singing about Jesus, but while doing dance moves that would put Kid's Bop to shame. It was completely innapproriate, and just weird.

Oh, hee! My friend and I say this all the time. Never fails to crack us up. Apparently, we're easily amused.

The Mederma kids. I'm not sure if they belong here or in the Horrors thread, but -- ughhh.

There are two Jiff commercials that I snark on:

The one with the sleepover. The first girl ask her friend if she wants to play cards. The friend goes, "No," then she asks to watch a video. The friend says, "Maybe a sleepover was a bad idea." Then the first girl decides to make them a snack and all is well. I couldn't help but think that the friend was a picky guest.

The other one is where a dad is making a sandwich and his little girl asks why he fold his over. He says his dad did the same thing and he wants to do what his dad did. She then says, "That's silly.". But then procedes to fold her sandwich the same way. Huh? Something about that little girl rubbed me the wrong way.

What bugs me about that ad is that she seems embarassed to be copying her dad. What kind of humiliation has he wrought on her previously that she's ashamed to be like him?

I have a feeling she's going to grow up to be like that shrew on the Century 21 commercial.

There was an ad a few years ago, I forget for what. Possibly some headache pill. Anyways, the mom was on the phone and her daughter was drawing all over the walls, and I thought that this was one of the cutest little kids ever.

I seriously HAAATE the little girl in that commercial. What a little bitch. When I was a little kid, I would have loved to play crazy eights or watch a princess video. I know some folks think she's just being shy, or is scared to be away from home or something, but I think she's just the brattiest brat that ever bratted. Or something like that.

This is an Old Skool commercial but I love it: anyone remember the Verison ad with the interacial family? The little boy was so cute! In one they have him talking to his grandma on the phone. He's lying on his back tellling her about his day while wearing plastic flippers on his feet. I'm fully convinced that they just filmed him as he was actually on the phone, it was all so natural. Recently I saw him in an ad for Disneyland and I squeeled like a proud aunt. He's so grown up now!

I totally agree with this. This ad sets my teeth on edge. But what annoys me the most is the last bit, where the Dad asks for a bite, and the little girl smirks and says, "You're not the one that's growing, Dad." In other words, "Get your own food." Nice.

I agree, but why does he just give in and let her be a brat? Are today's parents of young children really such pushovers? My old man helps himself to my food when we're at restaurants. His logic is that he paid for it and he's going to have a bite if he wants a bite. That father needs to teach that little snotburger a lesson in finances. He should tell her that he's getting old and he needs calcium to keep his bones strong so he can keep working until he's 85 just so he can put her through college, and then take her damn sandwich.

What gets me, is no matter what race or coloring they all have that same "look" about them...like some one just dreamed them up from a computer program.


Of course, no kids in commercials would be complete without Life cereals' Mikey. In "feed it to Mikey, he'll eat anything!" Now maybe it's because I'm the youngest in my family, but I always kept thinking, "just what else are they giving him, since he eats anything?" I mean, like worms, bugs, etc?

Now that I've been corrected, maybe I should move this over to the other thread what I thought I heard.

Nonono...that wouldn't even make sense in the context of the commercial, which is their surprise at Mikey enjoying the Life cereal and subsequent desire to eat it themselves! The group of kids has been given a bowl of Life which they are all eyeing suspiciously, and one of them suggests that Mikey try it first. "Mikey? He won't eat it...he won't eat anything!" Mikey gingerly tries cereal & then begins to eat it happily -- "He likes it! Hey, Mikey!"

I think the "give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything" myth of sorts was started by the film Urban Legend - I remember Rebecca Gayheart's character quoting it as such and thinking, "Wait, that isn't right, is it?"

OK, I think I see the problem. In the original, Older Brother says, "He won't eat it; he hates everything." The way he pronounces "hates" sounds kinda like "eats".

Yeah, but if you look you see she gets even with the little brat - she licks her fingers than puts them right back on the sandwich with her nasty saliva all over them. Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!
Her bitchy little guest deserved it but she also contaminated the peanut butter jar unfortunately.

Ha! I guess you're right!

She could also have a peanut allergy.

Yes! I saw him too! And I admit: I immediately thought, Awww. That kid was cute I think preceisely because he was so natural.

Oohh! The bratty little Geno's Pizza squares (or whatever the heck they are) kids. It looks like they wiped out the entire family supply of.. (wait, I've got it!) Pizza Rolls! In the middle of the night, no less! Now what will they have for breakfast??

Two things about this ad bug. First of all (and not to be sexist) but since when to boys have sleepovers? I know guys my age never did when I was growing up. One friend over? Yes. A group like what girls would do? No. Second, while not all of them bug me, the loud-ass kid seriously needs to have his vocal chords cut. Either he's deaf as a doorpost or he doesn't know WTF constitutes an inside voice.


Edited because sexist and racist are not one in the same.

Or grew them in a lab.



If you were a little boy named Michael in the late sixties/early seventies, this commercial scarred you for life! No matter where you went, that line followed you. Friends, relatives, teachers all taunted you with it. To this day, people throw it at me at least once a week. And always with this little smirk, because each person thinks he's the very first one to ever think of it.

When I first heard the urban legend that the kid who played Mikey was dead, I laughed. Oh, how I laughed.

And the line actually is "he hates everything", not "he'll eat everything". Trust me on this.

I have a deep, inexplicable love for the little boy in the Disneyland/world commercial who's whispering with his sister about all the stuff they're going to see the next day when they hit the park and then tells his mom "we're too excited to sleep." There's something about the weird tone he uses and the way he's rolling around on the bed that looks completely natural, and it cracks me up.

Brattiest brats evah? The two boys hanging out in the mini van playing "go fish" and watching DVDs. The sweaty Dad opens the door to the van and tells them he finished the treehouse for his kid. The kid snottily asks - does it have stereo and comfy seats and a dvd player? No? Then screw off Dad! Poor deflated Dad closes van door and wanders off.

First of all, unless the van is running, how are the kids staying cool and watching DVDs with the vehicle in the driveway? I'll bet Dad is ecstatic that junior is running down the battery or worse yet eating up the $3/gal gas because he wants to watch DVDs.
Secondly, a Dad that would even TRY to build a treehouse for his kid - coolest Dad ever!

Somebody slap that child!

Oh, and the girls having a sleepover and eating peanut butter sammiches? The daughter looks exactly like the Mom... Spooky!

For me, it's the cruel and dismissive tone of her voice. I can't stand her.


I agree about him being completely natural. His sister freaks me out though... The way she says "Mom says it's even more magical now" in this hushed, robotic, Dakota-Fanning-esque tone while staring him dead in the eye is really creepy.

I don't know if you had this advert over the Pond, but it advertised grape juice, and there was this little girl with long, frizzy, ginger hair, sitting in her tree house, questioning her father about the aforementioned grape juice. The conversation went something like this:

Girl: Daddy, why are the grapes used in this white?
Dad: They were picked earlier
Girl: So if I came out of Mummy's tummy earlier...would I have blonde hair?

It's just the way she says 'blonde hair' which makes me want to strangle the little darling.

The kid's voice sounds exactly like Dakota Fanning's. Kinda creepy.

I really like the Pringles kid. Even if one might predict a successful porno career for her from those ads, I think she's adorable. She's co-starring in a Family Channel original movie with Lacey Chabert that I'll probably try to catch.

Oh, God, is that the one with the horrible boys who scream "MINE tastes like TACOS!" and somesuch crap? Haaaaate.

But I want to give props to some good commercial kids:

I loved the little girl from a few years ago in a cell phone (probably) commercial, where the Mom was able to (through the magic of cell phones or wireless whatevers) take her kids to the beach and still attend a meeting. Not a great commercial, but I love how the little girl popped into the frame at the end and cried, "Quiet everybody, it's time for the meeeeeeeting!"

And I love all the kids from the old Johnson's Baby Shampoo commercial, the ones who sang the "Yes sir, that's my baby" jingle. Sooo cute.

I can't not feel badly for the unhappy little girl at the sleepover in the peanut butter commercial--when I was Little Miss Clare, I was that girl. Playdates and sleepovers just sent me into panic mode. They don't anymore (now that I'm a grown-up alcohol quickly takes care of any panicky "OMG I'm in a place I don't know!!!" feelings) but when I was a kid, a night at a classmate's house was like spending a night in Abu Garaib.

I agree that that little brat who calls folding her peanut butter sandwich like her dad's "silly" is cruel, though.

That is completely different than responding rudely when they're falling all over themselves to please her.

And I think the peanut butter sandwich folder ad, they're trying for the "not cool anymore to admire parents but still young and sweet enough to want to be like them"
BUT the evil little troll destroys it with her obnoxious dismissal.
Here's a thought: fold her bratty little face in half, 'cause that's how daddy used to do it when you were snotty little brat.

edited because I actually do know how to spell

Yeah I didn't sense she was panicky or homesick, but rather bored and indifferent to her host. The line "Maybe a sleepover was a bad idea" to me said, "This is all you got to offer?". It sounded condesending.