# Commercials that bug you

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/179632>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 4, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/179632 "2003-06-04T16:32:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/179632/21 "2003-06-05T18:11:32Z")

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The History Channel ads. It seems like the damn channel has four ads a day and they repeat them OVER and OVER and OVER!

That Subway commercial with the “nice and spicy” girl with the abnormally long neck. I saw it at least ten times last night.

Any commercial with the stereotypical “goofy guy.”

The Cedric the Entertainer Show had a hysterical sketch on the Herbal Essence commercials. It was “Herbal Essence: For Men” and showed the guy making all the usual “guy faces”, then sound asleep in the shower.

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**Author:** ![Amethyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Amethyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amethyst)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-bug-you/179632/22 "2003-06-05T18:48:50Z")

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I’m not sure if you get all of the same ads as I am in Canada but here goes:

I hate the Mazda ‘zoom zoom’ kid … it sounded like Zub Zub to me when I first saw it and made no sense to me. So now I call him zub zub.

I also dislike the Honda commercial with a rap song which is along the lines of ‘calling all my brothers from the north and south’ etc. The song is okay but they show a bunch of Hondas driving at night with all kinds of aftermarket accessories that I despise (such as the purple lights under the car and the really big and ugly rear wings).

I hate all feminine hygience commercials that use pretty blue ink to make their point about absorbency (if they were to use red ink I could respect them more).

And I have yet to turn to any female friends (except for in jest) and say ‘Sometimes I don’t feel fresh’

And ditto to all those Old Navy ads … what’s up with Morgan Fairchild? Is she bankrupt or something? That’s the only excuse I can see to be in those ads.

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