# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/41 "2006-07-14T15:28:19Z")
In a reversal of the OP’s premise, every time I see one of those “self-righteous teenagers perform obnoxious street skit to show how evil tobacco companies are” I want to go light up a cigar the size of a pastrami. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/42 "2006-07-14T15:28:34Z")
[QUOTE=justcallmeDave] 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? [/QUOTE] Oh dear Og no. I’ve never even seen these commercials except on YouTube, and they scare me. I just got basic cable for the first time in 4.5 years and so far I’ve only watched the news. Now I will be living in fear that I see one of these commercials. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/43 "2006-07-14T16:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=justcallmeDave] 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. [/QUOTE] Yeah, those annoy the fuck out of me too. And in the same category, over the last couple of months Southern Comfort have been trying to make their fucking awful disgusting drink seem more hip and cool by referring to it as SoCo. “Make it a SoCo and lime.” Sorry dickheads, but the twelve people who drink that shit are not going to create a new cultural buzzword, and people aren’t going to start trying it just because you give it a “cool” two-syllable nickname. There is another type of ad that really chaps my ass. It the type of ad that shows men acting like total doofuses whenever they try to do any household-related chores. The last one i saw, i think, was for take-out pizza. It starts off talking about being the guys turn to cook, and proceeds to show us what disasters occur when men enter the kitchen. Of course, take-out pizza is the solution! Over the years, i’ve seen similar ads for a whole bunch of products. These ads are really offensive on two levels. First, they make it appear as if every guy in the world is a neanderthal moron who can’t even boil an egg or operate a vaccuum cleaner. Even worse, they reinforce the notion that, if housework needs to be done, then it should be the woman who does it, because men just aren’t very good at it. That shit really annoys the fuck out of me, and i’ll boycott any product that uses the technique. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/44 "2006-07-14T16:59:56Z")
Like **Hippy Hollow** , I detest the Hummer ads because they try and sell their product based on the very traits that make them so offensive, mainly that you can be a road bully. Also, those damn Ford, Chevy and Dodge truck commercials that come on at dinner 8 times the volume of the show you were watching. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/45 "2006-07-14T17:07:04Z")
The State of Michigan. I’m boycotting the state for those “What does the ‘O’ in [Michigan.org](http://Michigan.org) stand for?” ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/46 "2006-07-14T17:17:26Z")
[QUOTE=bup] “What does the ‘O’ in [Michigan.org](http://Michigan.org) stand for?” [/QUOTE] Well? I’m waiting. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/47 "2006-07-14T18:21:36Z")
[QUOTE=bup] “What does the ‘O’ in [Michigan.org](http://Michigan.org) stand for?” [/QUOTE] org? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/48 "2006-07-14T18:32:14Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] Must be the Vonage song. Right? [/QUOTE] Yes. They use it. And they buy wayyy too much airtime. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/49 "2006-07-14T18:50:30Z")
OK, **justcallmeDave** , random question, since when did Taco Bell invent the phrase “Good to go?” That’s been around for a while, I thought :dubious: And **AskNott** , the “Woo-ooo, Woo-ooo-ooo” song by the 5-6-7-8’s predates Kill Bill, though it wasn’t really well known at all until the movie came out. That said, can you think of a better song to go along with the theme of people doing stupid things? **annanate** , the Oxy-Clean guy bugs me too. I rememeber when he was selling a cell phone car kit that would let you talk on the cell phone AND be a safe driver, and 90% of the commercial was him driving down the street, talking to the camera (sitting on the passenger seat). What’s wrong with this picture? How about the fact that his main selling point is that his gidget will make you a better driver, and at the same time he’s NOT WATCHING WHERE HE’S GOING?! :smack: Mostly, the commercials that really annoy me are the radio commercials for cable or satelite TV, especially the ones that repeat the phone number 80 times at the end of the commercial, further depriving me of any music to listen to, and pushing me closer to committing an act of road rage. Also, TV commercials for cable TV have tended to annoy me. I remember a series of commercials talking about all the faults of satelite TV (the big one they liked to parade around being that you have to pay extra for local channels with satelite, which, well, is an outright lie). Most of the anti-satelite commercials I’ve seen have tended to be rather meanspirited and misleading. In general, radio ads for products that aren’t beer annoy me. Beer radio commercials are, by definition, hillarious. Especially the old Heineken ones that played when I was in high school. (Exceptions, of course, are made for commercials for local happenings and such, which are actually relevant to the majority of the people driving around listening to the radio). ---
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/50 "2006-07-14T18:59:14Z")
As mentioned by **Rico** , the VONAGE ads. I’ve become insanely gifted at identifying the remote control location and pressing buttons so fast that I don’t have to hear the song from hell for more that probably 1.5 seconds. And yes, the eHarmony guy is pretty bad, indeed. I’d throw in most prescription ads too, if they didn’t make me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/51 "2006-07-14T19:09:02Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] And in the same category, over the last couple of months Southern Comfort have been trying to make their fucking awful disgusting drink seem more hip and cool by referring to it as SoCo. “Make it a SoCo and lime.” Sorry dickheads, but the twelve people who drink that shit are not going to create a new cultural buzzword, and people aren’t going to start trying it just because you give it a “cool” two-syllable nickname. [/QUOTE] Everyone I know who refers to it almost always refers to it as SoCo, and did so for years before that ad campagin started. Not to be “cool,” but because we had no time to spare, and thouse two syllables wasted precious tenths of seconds! Tenths of seconds we could be using to get drunk! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/52 "2006-07-14T19:28:03Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Everyone I know who refers to it almost always refers to it as SoCo, and did so for years before that ad campagin started. Not to be “cool,” but because we had no time to spare, and thouse two syllables wasted precious tenths of seconds! Tenths of seconds we could be using to get drunk! 😃 [/QUOTE] Well, live and learn! I guess i don’t hang out with “SoCo” drinkers. Still think it sounds stupid, though, and the ads are annoying as fuck. Of course, as i said, the ads have nothing to do with my decision not to drink the product. The flavour is a perfect deterrent. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/53 "2006-07-14T19:37:33Z")
I don’t have a sweet tooth, but the new Snickers billboard ads arlready put a knot in my craw. They’re everywhere. Nugatlicios, etc., etc. etc. Who the hell wants to saturate the market with chocolate ads in the middle of a heat wave – And who buys candy bars this time of year anyway? It’s all but guaranteed you’ll look like you fell face first into a dirty diaper. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/54 "2006-07-14T19:40:28Z")
Not that I would be eating these anyway, but the McDonald’s Chicken Fries (do they even still makes those? I’ve actually never seen them) commercial is asinine. “One nation under chicken fries!” What does that even mean?! ---
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/55 "2006-07-14T20:02:00Z")
Oh, how about “I visit mo every night. Sometimes twice a night” or whatever the hell those idiots are saying? It’s a website for Missouri tourism, stupid! You go there once or twice if you’re already planning a trip to Hannibal or wherever, then never again. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/56 "2006-07-14T20:02:24Z")
[QUOTE=Licentious Ectomorph] The Gatorade commercials with athletes dripping technicolor sweat. They really want people to associate their product with drinking _sweat_? 😕 [/QUOTE] What about the one where the woman hatches from a volleyball, and yellow rain pours down on her? It’s apparently for some flavor of Gator-Ade that is yellow, but it looks like a big ol’ golden shower. I can’t imagine the market for people who like to get peed on is that big. ---
**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, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/57 "2006-07-14T20:17:06Z")
[QUOTE=Excalibre] What about the one where the woman hatches from a volleyball, and yellow rain pours down on her? It’s apparently for some flavor of Gator-Ade that is yellow, but it looks like a big ol’ golden shower. I can’t imagine the market for people who like to get peed on is that big. [/QUOTE] Never mind the fact that her emergence from the ball looks like a scene from **Alien**. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/58 "2006-07-14T23:51:31Z")
[QUOTE=flurb] In a reversal of the OP’s premise, every time I see one of those “self-righteous teenagers perform obnoxious street skit to show how evil tobacco companies are” I want to go light up a cigar the size of a pastrami. [/QUOTE] Damn! Beat me to it! And I can’t stand cigarette smoke, either. ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/59 "2006-07-14T23:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=Hey you!] Hey, hey! Some of us admen retch when this crap goes out, too! [/QUOTE] Present company may duck 😃 ---
**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 15, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/60 "2006-07-15T00:59:00Z")
> [@Licentious Ectomorph](#): > > The Gatorade commercials with athletes dripping technicolor sweat. They really want people to associate their product with drinking sweat? Have you ever drank Gatorade? They’re trying to associate their product with truth-in-advertising principles. _Call 1800 901 1102, Corky’s Pest Control is right here waiting for you. We’ll take all your ants, and get them out your plants Call 1800 901 1102 Call 1800 901 1102 1800 901 1102 Corky’s!_ I have that commercial committed to memory. I don’t want to. There are only three reasons I don’t hate this company and don’t want to boycott it: (1) They use all-organic pest control methods. (2) The guy who sings the song is a local musician who used to sing fantastic filk songs (and play guitar) on a radio show I listened to a lot at the time. (3) They use pest-related puns in those commercial which, though groan-worthy, I secretly love. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340.md?page=4)