# Advertising that has the reverse effect and actively discourages you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360 "2006-04-12T13:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/41 "2006-04-12T18:39:08Z")
ANY commercial (most common on radio, but you see them on TV as well) that features a jingle that’s just new words slapped onto a popular or classic song. “I’d like to buy the world a Coke…” :mad: ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/42 "2006-04-12T18:39:29Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > Those Quizno’s commercials from a couple of years ago with those ugly spongemonkeys definitely did not make me hungry. They looked like rats, and they had really bad teeth. Rats with bad teeth do not make me think, mmmm … Quizno’s! I’m glad I’m not the only one who hated those commericals. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/43 "2006-04-12T18:40:48Z")
I’ve got Tivo so most ads bother me at this point. -The creepy Burger King guy. That soulless grin definitely wouldn’t make me want to eat at Burger King. -The Gatorade commercials with the green/orange/whatever sweat. What’s wrong with those people? -McDonalds commercials. All of them. So cute, so ethnically diverse, so politically correct about crappy fried food. -Local car commercials. In Charlottesville VA they have a dealership called Jim Price Chevrolet that runs annoying commercials throughout the day on just about every radio station, and some on TV too. I turn the station every time they come on. I drove down to NC a couple years ago and that SAME GUY was doing commercials for dealerships down there. How far has this spread???!? -Feminine hygeine commercials. We don’t need to hear about this stuff. -Any online ad that pops up, makes noise, or otherwise grabs attention. I could go on. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/44 "2006-04-12T18:43:00Z")
That creepy plastic Burger King King. I’ve sworn that I won’t eat there until they take those commericals off the air. Luckily, a Carls Jr. is closer anyway, and tastes better as well. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/45 "2006-04-12T18:43:03Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > **This one’s definitely regional** , but the Warriors NBA team has a series of ads telling people that they should get on “Warriors time,” which apparently means finishing things before the shot clock expires. The ads feature people doing normal jobs (the three I’ve seen have been a barber shaving a guy with a straight razor, some window washers on a scaffold washing skyscraper windows, and some movers) in an incredibly fast and slipshod way (for example, the movers shove a piano out of their truck and let it crash to the street, toss boxes of breakables into the yard, etc., while the barber is literally cutting his customer because he’s working so fast). Not that I like basketball in the first place, but this campaign is a serious turnoff. (bolding mine) Nope, there’s an NBA commercial on here (Houston) with the exact same tag line and activities, only it’s urging us all to get on “Rockets time.” I smell a conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/46 "2006-04-12T18:46:56Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > -Feminine hygeine commercials. We don’t need to hear about this stuff. Who decided it was a good idea to demonstrate the absorbency of their tampon or maxi by pouring that obligatory blue liquid into it? I’d love to see an ad where they poured a cup of gazpacho into the Always with Wings, then wrung it out to show how it doesn’t leak even on heavy days. > [@control-z](#): > > -Any online ad that pops up, makes noise, or otherwise grabs attention. …or covers half the fucking screen, and you have to hunt to find the tiny because if you click anywhere else, it redirects you to Fox or [Singles.com](http://Singles.com) or Miller Lite. ---
**Author:** ![samm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@samm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/47 "2006-04-12T18:52:24Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > That creepy plastic Burger King King. > > I’ve sworn that I won’t eat there until they take those commericals off the air. Luckily, a Carls Jr. is closer anyway, and tastes better as well. Except, HPL, you’ve just reminded me of the one thing that is worse in all ways than the Burger King, it is the Carl’s Jr. fetus! > [@](#): > > Carl’s Jr., the fast food chain, launched an ad featuring a fetus, yes a fetus, talking to his Mother about the Spicy BBQ Six Dollar hamburger with jalapenos she’s been eating. At one point, the fetus yanks on his umbilical chord to get his Mother’s attention like it was a butler’s bell. The fetus warns his Mother to go easy on the spicy stuff or he’ll come out early. “It Aint For Babies,” the voiceover of the ad concludes. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/48 "2006-04-12T18:55:59Z")
There’s a commercial for an SUV. The dad has spent 4 weekends building a treehouse and the bratty child asks, “does it have leather seats? does it have a DVD player?” I want to say, “get the \*#^% out of my car kid”, but the dad walks away -defeated by a 6 year old. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/49 "2006-04-12T18:57:21Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Add my dad to the list of people who can’t stand that campaign. > > As for me, three words: [The Snuggle Bear.](http://www.tvacres.com/adanimals_snuggles.htm) [In this advert, the Snuggle bear gets his come-uppance…](http://www.visit4info.com/static/advert_pages/6249.cfm?) this ad was actually banned in the US shortly after being aired, apparently the makers of the fabric softener didn’t take kindy to it… ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/50 "2006-04-12T19:05:17Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 1. In general, the type of commercial that uses as its selling point “You need our product to save you from yourself because you, as a mid-30’s white guy with a wife and kids, are a total moron.” > > 2. Specifically: Gatorade! It turns your sweat fluorescent green, like anti-freeze! Is it in you? > > I don’t think it will be, actually… You ought to take a look at the [Gatorade Conspiracy](http://basketbawful.blogspot.com/2006/03/gatorade-conspiracy.html). You’ll never look at those ads the same way again. :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/51 "2006-04-12T19:12:36Z")
How the heck do you ban an ad? I could argue some sort of copyright/trademark infringement (that bear dropping into the basket of towels is too reminiscent of another company) but not an outright ban. My daughter, who turns one this weekend, has decided she hates ads _of all kinds_. She’s taken to going through magazines, ripping out the ads, crumpling up the pages and throwing them away. She leaves the articles though. _I’m so proud 🙂_ ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/52 "2006-04-12T19:23:01Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > How the heck do you ban an ad? I could argue some sort of copyright/trademark infringement (that bear dropping into the basket of towels is too reminiscent of another company) but not an outright ban. > > My daughter, who turns one this weekend, has decided she hates ads _of all kinds_. She’s taken to going through magazines, ripping out the ads, crumpling up the pages and throwing them away. She leaves the articles though. > > _I’m so proud 🙂_ Smart little girl you have there, Barbarian 🙂 as far as the Battletanx ad goes, somehow the Snuggle company was able to get it pulled, not sure how, but it lasted a couple weeks at best… ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/53 "2006-04-12T19:25:22Z")
I absolutely loathe this a local car commercial for Carolina Ford with the goofy trying-to-hard-to-look-hip band featuring an annoying blonde female singer belting out an even more annoying jingle with the obnoxious line, “BEEP! BEEP!” Sadly, I actually goggled it. Even sadder than that was finding out it is a real band with an actual singing career. Wow. Here, [share my pain](http://www.awfulcommercials.com/archives/2006/03/20/beep-beep/). I. HATE. That. Commercial. Makes the Zoom Zoom kid look positively angelic in comparision. And I’ve always wondered if Digger the Dermataphyte actually managed to decrease sales of Lamisil or not. I’m guessing not since they’ve apparently relaunched that same ad campaign lately. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/54 "2006-04-12T19:26:52Z")
I must admit, I don’t even know what product is being advertised by my current least favorite commercial. However, as soon as I notice what it is, I will make haste not to buy it. There are actually a couple of different versions, but basically it’s a girl in a room full of people, who suddenly turns to one of the others and says, “You. Stick that ham down your pants.” The guy does so, and the girl turns to someone else and says, “You. Go flush your head in the toilet” or something of the sort. She just commands everyone to do these humiliating things and they do. The punchline to the commercial is something about what it would be like if the whole world was just dedicated to your entertainment. I find it very mean-spirited and depressing. Any food commercial where the food gets all over someone’s face or hands just really turns my stomach. Also, any commercial with a lot of flashing lights or rapid cuts. I’m thinking specifically here of the Checkers commercials, which feature some moron chanting, “you gotta eat!” while they fire approximately 600 unrelated images at you plus a couple of pictures of burgers. I don’t fucking “gotta” eat Checkers, I know that much. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/55 "2006-04-12T19:29:14Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Ah, yes, the snuggle bear. The second most feared creature on the planet. The Pillbury Doughboy (“Poppin’ Fresh”) is first, isn’t he? My father has a phobia about him. > [@tiny ham](#): > > Well, I have to say that the new Quizno’s with creepy talking half adult baby is 100 times worse. The one with the guy sucking on the wolf’s teat didn’t do them any favors either. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/56 "2006-04-12T19:32:04Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Any food commercial where the food gets all over someone’s face or hands just really turns my stomach. The Hardee’s commercials take the cake. The girl truck driver one is supposed to be sexy, but it’s just disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/57 "2006-04-12T19:35:37Z")
> [@mindfield](#): > > Gillette commercials. Seriously. I bought a Fusion razor expecting to open the package and find a pocket-sized cyclotron that would shoot lasers at my beard stubble and instantly transform me into a ravishing stud of a man, at which point doting hotties would leap out of the packaging and rub me where it tingles. Instead all I got was an M2 Power with a whole bunch of extra blades welded onto it. It made me afraid to rub it where it tingled. I hate those ads. Actually, I hate any ad that presents its product as a fail-proof way of attracting mindless, shallow women. Every time an ad for razors or after-shave or body spray for men comes on, I tell my son, “It doesn’t matter what you shave with or what after-shave you use, a woman with quality is looking for a good personality and how well you treat her.” He’s nine. He rolls his eyes at me and says, “I _know_, Mom. ::sigh:: You tell me that every time!” > [@samm](#): > > I am also disturbed by the Chips Ahoy cookie commercials where the cookie is invited to a kid’s birthday party and then he asks, “What’s for dessert?” and all the creepy kids turn and leer at him. One of my favorites ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/58 "2006-04-12T19:44:52Z")
2 words I have come to hate… **ZANTREX THREE!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/59 "2006-04-12T19:51:16Z")
Q: When are diet pills worth $150 a bottle? A: When they really work. BZZZZZZZ!! Wrong answer. A: When there are suckers out there that will spend $150 a bottle and when there is someone with balls big enough to charge $150 a bottle. DING! DING! DING! ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/60 "2006-04-12T19:54:15Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I must admit, I don’t even know what product is being advertised by my current least favorite commercial. However, as soon as I notice what it is, I will make haste not to buy it. There are actually a couple of different versions, but basically it’s a girl in a room full of people, who suddenly turns to one of the others and says, “You. Stick that ham down your pants.” The guy does so, and the girl turns to someone else and says, “You. Go flush your head in the toilet” or something of the sort. She just commands everyone to do these humiliating things and they do. The punchline to the commercial is something about what it would be like if the whole world was just dedicated to your entertainment. I find it very mean-spirited and depressing. It sounds like a another very similar commercial with a guy doing the same thing. It has this one funny part when the guy says, ‘You. Shake your junk.’ This lady–who, trust me, you do NOT want shaking her junk–gets up and starts, well, shaking her junk. I believe the commercial’s for a video game or maybe just a console. . .Nintendo, maybe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360.md?page=4)