# Another Annoying Commercial Thread (just venting) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 25, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192 "2003-11-25T15:26:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/41 "2003-11-27T15:55:19Z")
Oh, I hate the Carl Jr’s commercial where they have that dessicated mummy Hugh Hefner gobbling some hamburger and then smirking, “Because some guys don’t want the same thing every night.” Acompanied by something to do with Bunnies. Gee, thanks, asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Donovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Donovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donovan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/42 "2003-11-27T18:26:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by congodwarf \* > \*\*Anyway, about the annoying commercials… Those damn Christian Rock music commercials that the Cartoon Network has during Adult Swim. I have nothing against Christian music, I’ve actually been to a Carmen concert and enjoyed it but watching people singing about how wonderful their God is right in the middle of the Oblongs is disturbing. \*\* Hear, hear! I always ponder for the next few minutes what brain trust decided that their target audience watched cartoon network’s adult swim… that is the only place I have ever seen those commercialts. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/43 "2003-11-27T19:21:10Z")
More and more, I am glad I never re-subscribed to cable after I moved. It’s been over two years now, and I feel fine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/44 "2003-11-27T19:52:23Z")
Not so much a grating commercial as a grating line in a commercial. “Hey, Mom’s buying a new car.” “ **SO?** ” That one word basically spits on my entire childhood. Sorry, but my family didn’t buy a new vehicle every other year. From the time of my birth to the time I got my own car, I had only been ported around in, I think, 2 different vehicles, so if Mom was buying a new car IT WAS A BIG FREAKING DEAL. No one in my family said “ **SO!?** ” And on a more subjective note: I don’t find VW Bugs cool or fun. ---
**Author:** ![creamynugget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@creamynugget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/creamynugget)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/45 "2003-11-27T21:10:45Z")
It’s good to be full, I need to pig out on a full pound of chicken, with potatoes and corn to be a real man and not get blown away from the evil/bad/scary hairdryer. water chestnuts are evil ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/46 "2003-11-27T22:44:32Z")
😕 ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/47 "2003-11-27T23:24:49Z")
Hungry Man tv dinners, **Darth**. **creamynugget** isn’t crazy. Yet. 😃 (welcome!) ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/48 "2003-11-28T03:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > **chocolatecoveredboobs** Ok, now I’m hungry **and** horny. You jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/49 "2003-11-28T04:33:13Z")
[hijack] Algorithm, I just wanted to let you know how cruel your user name is. Everytime I see it, I think of programming on my TI-83. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/50 "2003-11-28T06:47:36Z")
[in the spirit of the hijack] Dear Senokot I just want you to know how cruel it is to run your ads during meal time. Every time I see one of your commercials I am immediately siezed by cravings for the small, rectangular button on my TV remote marked “MUTING”. It is mean. It is not fair. It makes me sick, when I still have two thirds of the food on my plate and plans for a bowl of ice cream for dessert. It makes me think dark, evil thoughts of clearing off the table in the dining room with just me, my plate, and a glass of limeade. I beg you to change your time slot, preferably to afternoons when I am not watching TV, or else to the early morning hours when I am sound asleep. Thank you for your consideration in this matter. [/itsoth] ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/51 "2003-11-28T07:01:48Z")
There’s a Hallmark commercial which opens with shots of a woman showing her horrible singing snowman tchotchke to friends, all of whom are completely charmed and laugh uproariously at how cute it is and say “where did you GET that?” and otherwise react completely unbelievably. At this point I was COMPLETELY CERTAIN that it would go back to the woman in the store, and she would shake her head, grin ruefully, and put it back on the shelf, at which point an announcer would say “Buy them something they’ll REALLY enjoy. Come to _Store._” But nope, this is a serious commercial! She smiles and buys the horrible singing snowman tchotchke! You’re supposed to believe it! It’s an ad for Hallmark’s horrible singing snowman tchotchkes! IT’S NOT IRONIC! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/52 "2003-11-28T14:54:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darth Nader \* > \*\*So, is everyone here “gellin’”? \*\* Oh, gawds…Trying to resist…trying to resist…I can’t, I’m too weak… LIKE A FELON!!! Clothahump runs from the room. Sounds of projectile vomiting are heard from the back of the house… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Phouchg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Phouchg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phouchg)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/53 "2003-11-28T16:12:10Z")
Once again the holidays are here, and with that, the return of those annoying Lexus commercials. You know the ones, with the quick 10 second slice-of-life vignettes wherein an impossibly good looking uber-yuppie gives their husband/wife/sullen teenage daughter/goat a gift of a new lexus. Everybody in these commercials is so handsome and so pretty, and hey, if you can’t get your SO a $40,000 car for christmas, what the hell kind of person are you? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/54 "2003-11-28T18:39:21Z")
Oh, Lordy, the Lexus ads. I’ve just started seeing them again. I hate them with a passion that knows no end. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/55 "2003-11-28T20:54:25Z")
I just saw that Triscuit ad a few minutes ago–that exaggerated chewing is **SO** disgusting! Notice that this guy is eating alone–it’s no wonder, since he’s such a nasty bastard he can’t even keep his mouth closed when he chews! ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/56 "2003-11-28T21:01:26Z")
cityboy reminded me that whenever these annoying commercials come on, it is always when your hands are messy and you can’t even mute them! You are always eating something like…hot buttered toast… ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/57 "2003-11-28T22:51:36Z")
I hate that obnoxious commercial for PediaSure with that little kid and the rabbit. I was home sick one day and I swear they played it twice every commercial break. That kid is just BEYOND annoying!! [hijack] I LOVE these hijacks! You guys are cracking me up! [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![LadySybil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LadySybil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadySybil)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/58 "2003-11-28T23:28:11Z")
OK, here’s a fun one that a friend of mine pointed out to me the other night while on IM. > [@](#): > > It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the same six freaking commercials playing every ten minutes. One of them is for a liquor that tells one to enjoy its _warm, sexual taste._ Hmm. Genitalia-flavored rum, anyone?😃 Heheheh. Chat logs are my friiiiends… ---
**Author:** ![Andros\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Andros\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andros_X)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/59 "2003-11-29T08:08:32Z")
Oh, I’ve got a new one now, **LadySybil**. It’s a commercial for Crest whitener where **the girl in the commercial dreams about Riverdancing with a bunch of William Shatners in shiny white bunny suits.** I would seriously like to know what kind of crack that PR agency was smoking, because that image will stay with me to the day I die. The other new bad commercial mention goes to The Enforcer commercial series that the Drug Czar’s been running lately. I merely dislike it because it encourages parental oppression. And now that it’s on, the new Microsoft ads are also getting annoying. But that’s merely because I know how M$ really works. ---
**Author:** ![cedric45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@cedric45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedric45)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192/60 "2003-11-29T08:18:12Z")
Have you seen the one where dozens of various people are sticking their butts out, wiggling them all back and forth? The poses so extreme that you’d think their backs would go out? With some scenes looking like a big movie musical dance number? They are hawking toilet paper. The kind that gets your butthole so clean you’d dance around like that! I can’t help but think what things were like for these poor folks before they discovered this miracle product. Take a shower using lottsa soap and get yer butt outta my face! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-annoying-commercial-thread-just-venting/215192.md?page=4)