# Commercials that BUG you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505 "2002-05-11T15:52:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/61 "2002-05-18T02:40:17Z")
The **Coors Light** _Why do we party?_ ad. Bad camera work (really shaky), bad music and bad images of obnoxious, sweaty drunks (including a guy with “Coors Light” PAINTED IN HIS CHEST! You know, if I was looking for someone ‘cool’ to party with, the guy with his torso painted blue would be at the bottom of the list). Basically, I hate this commercial because it glorifies all the BAD things about getting drunk (except one - thankfully they left out the ‘driving home afterwards’ section out) as being POSITIVES. Makes me remember why I don’t drink more than about a beer a year. ---
**Author:** ![hillbillycavewoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc8723/32.png) [@hillbillycavewoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hillbillycavewoman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/62 "2002-05-18T07:38:23Z")
I am annoyed by all Victoria’s Secret commercials, but what irritates me more than anything else is not a particular commercial, but the PART of those medicine commercials, where they have someone read a disclaimer at the end, usually warning of side effects, or that it doesn’t work, or that herpes can still be transmitted (ew!) or that the side effects are "similar to sugar pill (a placebo) (why even mention it then?) I mean, the disclaimer often seems to go on longer than the main part of the commercial, which defeats the whole purpose, plus the voice is always reading so rapidly, and with a false, or no, expression! Something about their tone of voice just sets my teeth on edge. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Diff\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Diff\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diff_T)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/63 "2002-05-18T07:46:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hillbillycavewoman \* > \*\*I am annoyed by all Victoria’s Secret commercials, but > what irritates me more than anything else is not a particular commercial, but > > the PART of those medicine commercials, where they have someone read a disclaimer at the end, usually warning of side effects, or that it doesn’t work, or that herpes can still be transmitted (ew!) or that the side effects are "similar to sugar pill (a placebo) (why even mention it then?) > > I mean, the disclaimer often seems to go on longer than the main part of the commercial, which defeats the whole purpose, > plus the voice is always reading so rapidly, and with a false, or no, expression! > > Something about their tone of voice just sets my teeth on edge. > > :mad: \*\* I think they HAVE to mention them. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/64 "2002-05-18T10:58:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by airdisc \* > \*\*… I also hate the commercial on Comedy Central that shows some fat old black guy walking out of a grocery and then these idiot kids honk the horn and make him drop his groceries. Then this annoying little midget pops out of the newspaper stand and tells the kids to do it again. WAY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE OBNOXIOUS ASSHOLES! … \*\* Ummm, I’d always suspected that “ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE OBNOXIOUS ASSHOLES” was engraved in Comedy Central’s Mission Statement. My vote is for the Arby’s dweeb who has an orgasm while holding (stroking?) a fishing pole because Barry White’s voice is murmuring to him about a sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/65 "2002-05-18T11:51:28Z")
There’s a particularly icky beer commercial playing in my area these days: Man holds party. Partygoers are inside, but for some reason, the stereo equipment is outside. Obviously, the host is an idiot, but that will become evident on other grounds presently. To let indoor partygoers hear blaring outdoor dance music, IdiotHost props open window with beer bottle. Partygoer 1 promptly takes beer bottle from window and window slams shut, cutting off music. Why Partygoer 1 chose to take the window beer instead of one from the nearby and highly visible ice bucket remains unclear. IdiotHost props open window again, with another beer. Partygoer 2 takes window beer. IdiotHost reprops window with, wait for it, another beer! At this stage, I wonder why IdiotHost doesn’t prop the window open with something less tempting to his alcohol-dazed friends, like a book. I conclude that IdiotHost probably doesn’t even _own_ a book, and his well-used back issues of _Maxim_ and _Hustler_ are probably too flimsy for the job, despite their stuck-together pages. An accelerated cycle of IdiotHost/Partygoer is shown, with at least six beer bottles taken from the window before a very dim light bulb flashes over IdiotHost’s head and he props open the window with an _empty_ beer bottle. The upshot of this ad: _I don’t want to buy a product in which the advertiser’s assumption is that I will identify with and emulate a complete fucking idiot!_ Trouble is, I can’t remember what brand it was. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/66 "2002-05-19T00:48:23Z")
The little big-eared kid who looks into the camera and says “zoom zoom” and the voice-over says “Imagin an SUV that …” ---
**Author:** ![Diff\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Diff\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diff_T)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/67 "2002-05-19T01:28:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tpayne \* > \*\* > > Ummm, I’d always suspected that “ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE OBNOXIOUS ASSHOLES” was engraved in Comedy Central’s Mission Statement. > > My vote is for the Arby’s dweeb who has an orgasm while holding (stroking?) a fishing pole because Barry White’s voice is murmuring to him about a sandwich. \*\* THAT WASN’T an ad FOR Comedy Central, it was for a camera. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/68 "2002-05-19T14:05:22Z")
Any ad (and they are mostly car ads) which feature nothing but music, with no dialogue. These are obviously aimed at (and probably _made by_) slack-jawed dimwits who’ve long since burned their brains out watching too many music videos. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/69 "2002-05-27T05:32:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diff T \* > \*\*A while ago there was a commercial where some mother in a business suit was running around because she was about to go on a business trip or something. Her husband (wearing flannel and looking as if he just rolled out of bed), and child were looking in the freezer as she instructs them what to do for dinner the next few nights. > > “The beef is in the container with a BLUE top, ‘blue for beef,’ and the carrots are in the container with ORANGE… ‘orange for carrots’…” > > After she runs out the door, the father… too confused to even figure out where the microwave is, says to his kid: “how about McDonalds?” > > I’ve never been so insulted as a man. > I just can’t understand how such a commercial could exist in the day and age.\*\* **Diff** , I can see your POV, but I interpreted that commercial as poking fun at mom, the micromanager. The woman talks in one run-on sentence, with frenetic gestures at the containers: “I put the beef in the container with the blue top blue starts with B is for beef I put the pork in the pink container P is for pork I put the vegetables in the green container of course I could have put them in violet for vegetables but that would be too much like pink oh honey I’ve got to go you’ll be all right?” Dad, Sis and Junior probably did just get out of bed, and this is too much for them to absorb at the moment. “McDonald’s?” “Yes, whew, after that, anything!” ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/70 "2002-05-27T05:57:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lawoot \* > \*\*The Coors Light _Why do we party?_ ad. Bad camera work (really shaky), bad music and bad images of obnoxious, sweaty drunks (including a guy with “Coors Light” PAINTED IN HIS CHEST! You know, if I was looking for someone ‘cool’ to party with, the guy with his torso painted blue would be at the bottom of the list). > \*\* Is it also Coors Light that does the ad with the “Who needs sleep?” song? I can’t stand that one, mostly because I first saw it while pulling an all-nighter, so of course my immediate reaction was “_I_ NEED SLEEP, STUPID COMMERCIAL!” ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/71 "2002-05-27T14:07:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Katisha \* > \*\* > > Is it also Coors Light that does the ad with the “Who needs sleep?” song? I can’t stand that one, mostly because I first saw it while pulling an all-nighter, so of course my immediate reaction was “_I_ NEED SLEEP, STUPID COMMERCIAL!” \*\* That one bugs me because they are using that cool song from the Barenaked Ladies!!! Are the Ladies selling out?? Yeah, it’s Coors Light. I saw a funny one the other day that actually had MEN talking about cleaning!!! Guys were sitting around watching a game, drinking beer and one of the guys says, “Hey, have you tried those new Clorox wipes?” His pals say no, and he goes on to explain the virtues of them…the other guys listen in awe. Then he says “Now, if I can only get the wife to use 'em”, they all laugh and nod in agreement. Funnier too because they were all twenty something looking guys you would usually see in a beer commercial. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505/72 "2002-05-27T14:58:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HelloKitty \* > **That one bugs me because they are using that cool song from the Barenaked Ladies!!! Are the Ladies selling out??** Um, perhaps yes. _One Week_ has been used in a series of Mitsubishi commericals, and until recently, _If I Had A Million Dollars_ was the theme song of the New York Lottery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/108505.md?page=3)