# Commercials That Don't Repulse You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426 "2009-05-05T15:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/1 "2009-05-05T15:33:26Z")
Spinoff of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=491963) thread. Are there any commercials out there at the moment that make you smile? I like [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mXUC0cUPg) [ads](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0AKC3wZdw4) [from](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hnoVqwkGo) U.K. insurance-comparison website Compare the Market, which feature a meerkat named Aleksandr who explains that the site shouldn’t be confused with his Compare the Meerkat website. There’s even a [blooper](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvnsJ0Zfw4k) reel. For anyone in the mood for something a bit more classic, [here’s](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=rowan+atkinson+barclaycard&aq=f) a link to a directory of Rowan Atkinson’s Barclaycard commercials, in which he played an inept spy. They were sufficiently well-received that he was able to milk the gag for an entire movie, 2003’s [Johnny English](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_English). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/2 "2009-05-05T15:57:38Z")
Funny you should bring this up. I had yet to see a Burger King commercial that _didn’t_ completely repulse me…until the other day. The new one that’s a cross-promotion with the new _Star Trek_ movie, with the “Kingons”–honestly, it was the first one with the creepy King that didn’t make me throw up a little in my mouth. Well, I guess even a stopped clock is right twice a day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/3 "2009-05-05T15:59:59Z")
The Dos Equis commercial with “the most interesting man alive.” Cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/4 "2009-05-05T16:10:37Z")
Liberty Mutual Insurance had a series of commercials a while ago in which a series of people see someone doing something helpful to perfect strangers and are inspired to be helpful to someone else in turn, with a very nice song whose lyrics I can’t recall this moment. I liked those. Budweiser’s “Real Men of Genius” commercials were hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/5 "2009-05-05T16:13:12Z")
I’m still in love with the Hillshire Farms “Go Meat” commercial. Especially the new one on the airplane. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/6 "2009-05-05T16:14:57Z")
The E-Trade baby. Kills me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/7 "2009-05-05T16:15:23Z")
This goes back a ways but I used to love that commercial for Sonic Drivethru with Seth Green as the cashier ringing up the total. Cha-ching! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/8 "2009-05-05T16:24:50Z")
My husband thinks the [FreeCreditReport.com](http://FreeCreditReport.com) guys should cut an album. :rolleyes: I can’t think of anything I like at the moment, but as a rule, the worst beers have the best commercials. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/9 "2009-05-05T16:26:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Liberty Mutual Insurance had a series of commercials a while ago in which a series of people see someone doing something helpful to perfect strangers and are inspired to be helpful to someone else in turn, with a very nice song whose lyrics I can’t recall this moment. I liked those. > > **Budweiser’s “Real Men of Genius” commercials were hilarious.** And the companion “Real American Heroes” [Listen.](http://www.contemporaryinsanity.org/audio-video/bud-light-real-men-of-genius.html) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/10 "2009-05-05T16:27:32Z")
I always like to look at the Corona beer commercials, even if I find their beer to be peewater. I’m still liking Flo the insurance girl. I liked the old “unpimp your ride” Volkswagen commercials with Peter Stomare so much that I still occasionally look them up on youtube to laugh all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/11 "2009-05-05T16:46:59Z")
I still love the Weight Watchers ads with the “Hungry” mascot! ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/12 "2009-05-05T19:12:25Z")
Heineken usually has good ads and their recent ones are great: Kids singing along to Biz Markee in the back seat…cut to a hand cranking up the volume on the car stereo who turns out to be the “old guy” cabbie belting out “You…you got what I neeeeeeeeeed!!!” Funny!!! and Group of yuppie girls being shown around one of the girls fabulous new house: “And this…is the closet!!” and she flings open the door to a super duper walk in closet, all the girls start screaming and hugging each other. Then all of a sudden they hear a manly scream…cut to the men in the new-house guy’s walk-in Beer Closet!!! They are skipping and screaming and jumping up and down, it is just hilarious and definitely the best commercial on TV right now. Sorry can’t link to YouTube right now or would just show 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/13 "2009-05-05T21:15:09Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I liked the old “unpimp your ride” Volkswagen commercials with Peter Stomare so much that I still occasionally look them up on youtube to laugh all over again. A similar theme shows up in a new commercial I like for Nivea men’s body wash. It begins with obnoxious frat-boy types with their usual attitudes, hairdos, etc. like on those stupid Axe or Tag body spray commercials. Then they cut away from those losers, and the narrator says, “finally a body wash for grownups.” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/14 "2009-05-05T22:18:57Z")
I’m a big old sap, so I like the ATT commercial where the guy sends a pic of himself from all around the world, then a pic of her sitting waiting for him. Of course, it hasn’t made me get an ATT phone, but since it \*has \*made me remember it, it has done its job. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/15 "2009-05-05T22:27:36Z")
I like: - The one that’s on currently with the hamsters driving the red car past all the other hamsters driving hamster wheels. - The one where they’re herding cats across the plains (showed a few years ago during the Super Bowl)–forget what it was advertising - The Esurance commercials with the pink-haired Kim-Possible-like character - The Quiznos “Spongmonkeys” - Several of the old Budweiser Clydesdale commercials (playing football, the one with the foal who wants to grow up to drive the wagon, and the one with the Dalmatian) ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/16 "2009-05-05T22:30:48Z")
Not a TV commercial, but an internet ad campaign. Quiz: If a site that often comments on your work has a user that often will post comments to the main articles about how much you suck, when you make a new product do you: A. Ignore him. B. Politely ask him to cease slamming you. or C. [Pay the site, whose owners are fans of your to acquire the rights to the comments posted there and use them to advertise your product?](http://www.brandflakesforbreakfast.com/images/pennyarcade.jpg) If you answered A or B, my apologies, you’re just not as awesome as the guys over at Penny Arcade. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/17 "2009-05-05T22:54:32Z")
My favorite commercial recently has been [State Farm’s "Young Driver](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_dkyByzD-Y). Just for the last couple seconds. But my favorite commercial ever is [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yuvZthN6yE) for a local casino. It’s hilarious. **Khadaji** , the sap level of that AT&T commercial is so high, it’s unbearable. At least you admit you’re a sap. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/18 "2009-05-06T00:49:08Z")
The Sun Chips [T-Shirt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz0D2baEvDc) commercial makes me happy. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/19 "2009-05-06T02:17:17Z")
I love the commercial for [flat-bottom tacos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3KXaF2_UzU). Makes me smile every time. Seconding the “Go meat!” and the new Dos Equis ads. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426/20 "2009-05-06T03:43:56Z")
Not the whole commerical, but there’s this ad, I think it’s for a phone, and in the middle, there’s a clip of “Hymie the talking boxer” (dog, not pugilist) that just cracks me up every time. Ahrooroorooro. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-dont-repulse-you/495426.md?page=2)