# Commercials that actually make me want to boycott the product **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340 "2006-07-13T16:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/21 "2006-07-13T22:44:52Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Any commercial that uses the song from hell. That one that goes “Woo-ooo, woo-ooo-ooo”. You’ll know it when you hear it. [/QUOTE] What gets me is that they’re selling a phone service with a song that first accompanied Uma Thurman slicing up a gang of Japanese thugs in _Kill Bill._ After watching **Ted Ferguson, the Bud Light Daredevil** , I think I’m not stupid enough to drink Bud Light. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/22 "2006-07-13T23:17:43Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] I’m beginning to feel fortunate I’ve never seen these commercials. [/QUOTE] Well [you shouldn’t](http://consumerist.com/consumer/top/head-on-182774.php). I’m sorry. It’s like the tape in The Ring. I have to share it to abandon the curse. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/23 "2006-07-14T01:07:21Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] Do not insult The King. You might wake up and find him next to you in bed. And nobody wants that. [/QUOTE] Anyone got some Brillo pads? I need to go scrub my brain out now. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/24 "2006-07-14T03:02:20Z")
Some store that sells window blinds has commercials with this super-model-perfect store manager raving about the store – while staring about 30 degrees to the right of the camera. It creeps me out so much that I’m glancing over my left shoulder to see what the hell she’s staring at. And she doesn’t blink, either, for the entire 30-second spot. It’s just eerie. I really need new window coverings for my living room, but I’m scared to shop there, because those commercials frighten me. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/25 "2006-07-14T04:31:09Z")
[QUOTE=DonutSprinkle] This comes to mind: [Folgers’ “Happy Mornings”](http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/2971/) Damn. That’s…the guy sneaking up on the sleeper at the beginning is just creepy. Hell, the whole commercial feels like an acid flashback to **Willy Wonka** and the Oompa Loompas. Except _they_ had style. Any McDonalds commercial makes me want to vomit up every Big Mac I’ve ever eaten. I hate them. Hate, hate, hate. Oh, and the ones for Erectile Dysfunction pills (I forget which brand) where the couples always end up in adjoining claw foot tubs **outdoors**. Where the hell are all these outdoor tubs, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/26 "2006-07-14T04:46:27Z")
Those soft drink ads with the tag line “drinks like a sports drink, kicks like an energy drink” or whatever. Vault, I think. Am I the only one who thinks they are offensively obnoxious, even by TV commercial standards? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/27 "2006-07-14T04:49:56Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > After watching Ted Ferguson, the Bud Light Daredevil, I think I’m not stupid enough to drink Bud Light. Now, I’m not much into the idea of defining individuals by their gender stereotypes. In fact, it bothers me greatly in every other context. But for some reason, beer commercials about male stereotypes kill me (in a good way). I love those commercials. And I also like the Man Law ones, although I dislike that the Padres broadcasters’ selection for Player of the Game is “approved by the Men of the Square Table”. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/28 "2006-07-14T04:53:21Z")
I don’t get commercials that blatantly rip off other commercials that are still in circulation. I just saw an ad for some cell phone company that took the already borderline-nonsensical racial-insensitivity-themed Jetta commercials and made them even more opaque. Also, that Pringles ad that baldfacedly cribs from the extremely recent M&M commercial-- who do you think you’re fooling with the mellow cover song and kaleidoscope effects, buddy? ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/29 "2006-07-14T06:01:39Z")
Hummer owns this thread. Now, I would never buy a Hummer to begin with, but I hate how they promote their Earth-raping behemoths as the solution to being cut off in traffic, not being in touch with your inner child, or being ugly. Case 1: “Happy Jack” This one has kids making go-karts and one kid is building a mini-Hummer. While the other kids are racing on the track the Hummerito cuts down a hill and beats them all. Yeah, that’s fair. Case 2: Goldilocks Three bears come home to see that G. has broken and entered, stole their food and - the ultimate indignity - stolen baby bear’s little Hummer. Baby bear is an asshole as the others try to console him, while that thieving bitch G drives off, committing grand theft auto. Case 3: Soccer Mom I just saw this once so I might be remembering it wrong. Soccer mom gets cut off in traffic and feels belittled. So to make up for her shallow self esteem she buys a Hummer and is all smiles now. That’s a great reason to buy a car. (I think **Heckxx** alludes to it in an earlier post.) How does one, realizing the environmental impact of a Hummer, and seeing these ads, feel clambering into one of these? ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/30 "2006-07-14T06:07:50Z")
The newest Altoid ones where the people are supposed to be doing blind taste tests. In one the guy giving the test gets up, wearing underwear covered with fruit, and bump and grinds next to the head of the person that is blindfolded. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/31 "2006-07-14T06:12:35Z")
This is one of them. [Altoids sour.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2z46fJu9c&search=altoids%20commercials) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/32 "2006-07-14T10:26:15Z")
The Subway Dinner Theatre ads with Jon Lovitz aggravate me to no end. You see I am in fact boycotting Subway until they stop running these ads, and I’m craving Subway subs. I really do want to buy delicious subs from Subway, but I refuse to as long as they run these ads. They irritate me as a viewer, and offend me as an actor. And they keep making new ones. I was dismayed to see new batch of these ads earlier this week; my boycott will be that much longer. Damn you Subway, with your delicious subs and your mind-numbingly stupid advertising! ---
**Author:** ![DrunkOnion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DrunkOnion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrunkOnion)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/33 "2006-07-14T10:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=World Eater] Big HUCKIN’ chicken… nuff said. [/QUOTE] Almost nuff said..That and Big Buckin chicken makes me want to smack every adman out there. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/34 "2006-07-14T12:20:30Z")
Taco Bell and their “good to go” hand motion. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/35 "2006-07-14T12:38:44Z")
I feel bad. I like the Big Buckin’ Chicken and the Subway Dinner Theatre ads. But that “good to go” hand motion makes me irrationally crazy. I’ll actually mute that commercial. That one and the Pepto Bismol ad where everyone is dancing to a song about various GI ailments. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/36 "2006-07-14T14:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=DrunkOnion] Almost nuff said..That and Big Buckin chicken makes me want to smack every adman out there. [/QUOTE] Hey, hey! Some of us admen retch when this crap goes out, too! ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/37 "2006-07-14T14:58:03Z")
The Gatorade commercials with athletes dripping technicolor sweat. They really want people to associate their product with drinking _sweat_? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/38 "2006-07-14T15:08:16Z")
[QUOTE=Smeghead] Oh, good. Allow me to help: HEAD ON! APPLY IT DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!! HEAD ON! APPLY IT DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!! HEAD ON! APPLY IT DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!! HEAD ON! APPLY IT DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!! [/QUOTE] What it is, is something about the way they chop the v/o track up to remove almost all the pauses and make it sound like some sort of hopped-up cyborg slave with a malfunctioning hard drive. Glock 9. Apply directly to the forehead. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![justcallmeDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@justcallmeDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justcallmeDave)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/39 "2006-07-14T15:09:29Z")
[QUOTE=World Eater] Big HUCKIN’ chicken… nuff said. [/QUOTE] yuck. Whatever BK is doing, it’s a waste of money. SOmeone told me that the ad agency is making a movie with the King? ---
**Author:** ![justcallmeDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@justcallmeDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justcallmeDave)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/40 "2006-07-14T15:11:14Z")
[QUOTE=Dante] I feel bad. I like the Big Buckin’ Chicken and the Subway Dinner Theatre ads. But that “good to go” hand motion makes me irrationally crazy. I’ll actually mute that commercial. That one and the Pepto Bismol ad where everyone is dancing to a song about various GI ailments. [/QUOTE] What’s with Taco Bell trying to create pop-culture phrases? “good to go”? “fourth meal?” they oughtta just go back to what they do best. Making cheap mexican food to feed drunk college students. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340.md?page=3)