# Commercials that are truly annoying as Hell, or, "Orca, Orca!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998 "2005-04-06T04:46:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/21 "2005-04-08T09:03:10Z")
> [@Millit the Frail](#): > > See, I’m wondering whether it might not be the Blur song, because one of my least favorite commercials is for Garnier Fructis products. It features women with angry frizzy hair and a piano riff that repeats over and over like a hyperactive hamster with a sledgehammer in my brain. > > Then again, the sound in that song is more of a “woo-woo” than a “woo-hoo.” Ah, I remember now. The title is _Diamonds and Guns_, still by the Transplants. (Why is it I recognize the songs I hate as much as the songs I like?) ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/22 "2005-04-08T10:24:06Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I absolutely _hate_ that smug bitch in the Levitra ads. I really don’t care that her “man takes Levitra.” SNL lampooned that advertisement rather well, I thought. Their product was, IIRC, “Bonerol”, and the mainstay of the parody was the thinly-veiled innuendo that saturates the commercial as urine would nurture a houseplant. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/23 "2005-04-08T13:11:16Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > So the preponderance of evidence is that my original assertion is correct. Blur may have made a cover of it, but didn’t write it. No, we’re talking about two different songs. The song in the Vonage commercial goes “Woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoooo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoooo.” Blur’s _Song 2_ goes “WOOOO-HOOOOOO, something something something, WOOO-HOOOOOOO, something something something” with a heavy guitar backing. Definitely two different songs. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/24 "2005-04-08T13:39:27Z")
My bad. I never saw the Vonage commercial. but whe I heard a reference to the “woo-hoo song,” I immediately thought it was Blur. U2’s _Vertigo_ seems to be 2005’s X-TREEEM! equivalent of _Song 2_, although it’s featured in as many commercials as the Blur tune. PRESS FOUR FOR THE BLING BLING! PRESS FIVE FOR MONIQUE! ---
**Author:** ![Spree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Spree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spree)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/25 "2005-04-08T14:29:46Z")
I hate that “talking” baby in the Quizno’s commercials. I can’t stand to look at him and must change the channel. Plus his voice is annoying. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/26 "2005-04-08T14:30:43Z")
I went ballistic at the fact that our government could allow a psoriasis drug that can cause cancer out on the market, let alone allow it to be advertised on TV. My wife went through 6 excruciating chemo treatments for an illness that the drug company blew off as something minor like dry mouth or a headache. There are forms of lymphoma that are much more difficult to treat than my wife’s variety. The ad didn’t specify which lymphoma you could get from this drug-Hodgkin’s, non-Hodgkins, large-cell, small-cell, aggressive, non-aggressive; the list of types and subtypes goes on and on. 99% of the ad featured actors beaming ecstatically over being able to wear shorts without embarassment. None of it portrayed hair loss, the look and feel of Death Warmed-Over, nausea, the $6000+ deductibles and co-pays for those with what is considered to be a “good” group plan for my area these days. If uninsured, I’d have been on the hook for 300+ for each of 6 trips to the drugstore and 12,000+ for each of 6 chemo treatments. Hardly equivalent to merely having to drink more water or take some aspirin. Give me “itching, embarassing scales” over lymphoma any day! ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/27 "2005-04-08T15:05:23Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > I would just like to know why, when I am sitting around with a group of friends of both sexes, the minute there is a lag in the conversation: Voila! An ad for a feminine hygiene product! All of the guys sit around looking at each other, or the floor, or the ceiling - anywhere other that at the TV or the females. And we’re not teenagers! Is it just me, or are all the women in ads for feminine hygiene products total hotties? It creates a very disturbing tug-of-war in my head - “Ooo, look at that babe. Oh no, she’s got a yeast infection! Wait, she cured it in only three days!” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/28 "2005-04-08T15:47:33Z")
> [@Neurotik](#): > > No, we’re talking about two different songs. > > The song in the Vonage commercial goes “Woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoooo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoooo.” Blur’s _Song 2_ goes “WOOOO-HOOOOOO, something something something, WOOO-HOOOOOOO, something something something” with a heavy guitar backing. > > Definitely two different songs. I’m still pretty sure I’m right. I say it’s Woo-Hoo by **The 5.6.7.8’s**. Only reason I’ve ever heard of it is because it’s on the _Kill Bill Vol. 1_ soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/29 "2005-04-08T16:26:33Z")
At first I liked the ad about the young couple dancing/stomping in their apt and after a neighbor complains they use they car to buy a bigger stero and move into a house. Then I saw 6 BILLION TIMES and now I HATE THOSE KIDS! ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/30 "2005-04-08T18:20:09Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I’m still pretty sure I’m right. I say it’s Woo-Hoo by **The 5.6.7.8’s**. Only reason I’ve ever heard of it is because it’s on the _Kill Bill Vol. 1_ soundtrack. Yeah, you’re right about the song in the Vonage and Chevy commercials is the 5678s song. But that’s a totally different song from Blur’s _Song 2_. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/31 "2005-04-08T18:25:27Z")
> [@Neurotik](#): > > Yeah, you’re right about the song in the Vonage and Chevy commercials is the 5678s song. But that’s a totally different song from Blur’s _Song 2_. I just wasn’t sure if we’d come to a consensuous on what the original song was. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/32 "2005-04-08T21:00:43Z")
> [@rocking chair](#): > > the one that annoys me is some really strange menopause drug. the list of side effects and people who shouldn’t take it is unbelievable!!! The part I find odd: “If you have a uterus, this may cause uterine cancer.” Why the qualifier? Is it possible to get uterine cancer without a uterus? ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/33 "2005-04-08T21:17:29Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > My bad. I never saw the Vonage commercial. But on the soundrack to kill Bill and watch [this](http://www.supanet.com/images/ladiesroom/fungames/chinese_tree_catching.mpeg) ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998/34 "2005-04-08T21:23:45Z")
[This commercial](http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-video/Media/video/2005/01/27/golfgti.mov) annoys the hell out of me. Not cuz I dislike it, to the contrary in fact. I must watch it at least 5x a week and have been hopelessly addicted to it since someone linked it here a few months ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-are-truly-annoying-as-hell-or-orca-orca/297998.md?page=1)