# Commercials may have finally hit rock bottom **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198 "2022-10-13T17:04:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/261 "2023-03-10T00:11:36Z")
I see that now the toilet paper ads with those stupid cartoon bears has taken things one step lower. I guess they don’t think we really understand about being “cleaner back there”, so the ad now has someone smearing what I can only guess is supposed to be shit (although it’s blue, so who the hell knows) on legs on split screen and then wiping with with Charmin and with Product B. And to make sure you really get it, they then wipe the smeared product from Product B a second time and it’s still there! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/262 "2023-03-10T00:15:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > what I can only guess is supposed to be shit (although it’s blue, so who the hell knows) Blue is the default color for bodily excretions in U.S. advertising – it gets used for toilet paper, diapers, and feminine hygiene ads, probably because, since nothing our bodies actually excrete is supposed to be blue, it looks less gross and offensive than the “real” colors. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/263 "2023-03-10T00:16:18Z")
The bears need to learn about baby wipes. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/264 "2023-03-10T00:16:48Z")
You’ll be getting a visit from the Charmin police. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/265 "2023-03-10T00:18:10Z")
There’s a denture ad. Affordable Dentures, I think. An older woman gets her lovely new teeth. Smiles alot and eats. Then at the end, what is presumably her granddaughter leans over her shoulder and smiles. I swear the kid has those ‘Billy Bob’ teeth on. I guess bad teeth run in the family. 😱 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/266 "2023-03-10T00:18:13Z")
What they gonna do, squeeze me? ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/267 "2023-03-10T00:36:23Z")
I can’t remember what product it was, but now there’s an animated commercial with a woman sitting and grunting on the shitter, and the next shot is an X-ray showing her intestines with all the little hard turds lodged therein. I couldn’t change the channel fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/268 "2023-03-10T00:40:28Z")
There’s also the car where the driver’s seat is a toilet, assuming you have any questions about incontinence. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/269 "2023-03-10T01:14:38Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > You’ll be getting a visit from the Charmin police. _“Cheese it, it’s the Whipples!”_ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/270 "2023-03-10T01:59:09Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > The bears need to learn about baby wipes. Oh crap, now you have done it. Prepare for a revised _someone has been using my wipes_ version of the Goldilocks story. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/271 "2023-03-10T03:49:54Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > The bears need to learn about baby wipes. Or maybe they should forget about living in houses and go bak to the woods, which, IIRC, **IS WHERE BEARS ARE SUPPOSED TO SHIT!!!** That whole ad campaign makes me shabby, and always has. Come back, Mr. Whipple, all is forgiven! (Hey, if Gordon Jump can be a Maytag repairman after Jesse White died, Dick Wilson is replaceable, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/272 "2023-03-10T03:54:40Z")
Who replaced Gordon Jump? IIRC, he’s left this mortal coil also. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/273 "2023-03-10T04:09:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Who replaced Gordon Jump? IIRC, he’s left this mortal coiI also. Actually, he got replaced by Cinderella, needing to finish the laundry so she could go to the Ball. j/k, [he’s been replaced a couple of times by other repairmen.](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/the-maytag-man-through-the-years/article16247650/) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/274 "2023-03-10T04:17:05Z")
The current one is Colin Ferguson, former star of SciFy’s “Eureka”. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/275 "2023-03-10T12:24:41Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > The bears need to learn about baby wipes. Yeah, don’t flush those, not even the ‘flushable’ ones. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/276 "2023-03-10T12:43:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That whole ad campaign makes me shabby, and always has. Hey a clean t-shirt and drag a comb through that mop, it’ll spruce you right up. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/277 "2023-03-10T14:08:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > That whole ad campaign makes me shabby, and always has. > > Hey a clean t-shirt and drag a comb through that mop, it’lI spruce you right up. GOD DAMMIT! \*stabby ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/278 "2023-04-06T01:05:42Z")
And now there’s a Jardiance (empagliflozin) commercial that looks like a music video. Earlier today, I contacted Boehringer-Ingelheim, which makes it, and told them what I thought of it. (FWIW) The medication is used for type 2 diabetes. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/279 "2023-04-06T01:07:49Z")
I’m pretty sure I know which commercial you’re talking about. It would have been Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. around the time that they trialed discontinuing their kids’ menu, in favor of a more “adult” theme in their restaurants. As a woman, I personally thought it was amusing, although a fast food restaurant deciding that children shouldn’t be their target audience made little sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/280 "2023-04-06T02:02:42Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’m pretty sure I know which commercial you’re talking about. It would have been Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. around the time that they trialed discontinuing their kids’ menu, in favor of a more “adult” theme in their restaurants. The next couple of posts below the one you quoted have cites to YouTubes of the ads. You’re right it was Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198.md?page=15)