Ads that piss me off
The latest one that makes me want to throw something at the TV is Applebee's latest, pimping its new Italian specialties.
The ad uses a variation on "Mambo Italiano," which started life as a grotesque parody song to begin with, with lyrics like "Try an enchilada with da fish a bacala." Rosemary Clooney and Dean Martin popularized the song; I've heard that Clooney hated it. Doesn't surprise me. I hate the song too.
Then the brilliant ad makers at Applebee's got their paws on it and twisted it even further, so the singer is trilling about their lame new food.
Ugh.