# Commercials that make you want to change the channel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841 "2008-11-08T20:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/41 "2008-11-10T02:52:11Z")
> [@SharkB8](#): > > Infinitied. Yup, I came in here for this one too. I just want to go into a Toyota dealership and tell them that I just won the lottery and want to buy a new Toyota for each member of my family. Then I’ll see something about the zero percent financing thing and say…“Waaaaait a second, that’s YOU guys? You are Saaaved by Zeeero? Oh fuck that, I’m out of here.” ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/42 "2008-11-10T03:27:22Z")
There’s a new commercial that I can’t watch. It shows people texting with their thumbs but their thumbs are little talking heads! Augghh! It’s freaky and disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/43 "2008-11-10T03:29:26Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > There’s a new commercial that I can’t watch. It shows people texting with their thumbs but their thumbs are little talking heads! Augghh! It’s freaky and disgusting. Yep, see my earlier post (#30) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Armageddon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mister\_Armageddon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Armageddon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/44 "2008-11-10T03:40:57Z")
There’s an ad for Planter’s mixed nuts that has the most repulsive looking woman I’ve ever seen, who apparently attracts men by rubbing nuts under her…okay, maybe I’d better stop there. Anyway, not a favorite of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/45 "2008-11-10T03:54:47Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Yep, see my earlier post (#30) I missed that. I was speed reading through the other posts and only read the first line in your post. But I still find them creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/46 "2008-11-10T04:20:48Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > The progressive commercials with that one woman. You should check out the “Which celebrity crush makes people say WTF?” thread. Flo has a lot of fans (myself included!). The commercials that make me change the channel are the new M&M commercials where the M&Ms are lusting after the green lady M&M. Creepy and wrong on so many levels. Also, I just saw a new Circuit City ad today where a guy is talking to a sexy flat screen tv (who keeps crossing her legs) on the phone and finally decides to purchase her. Is it too much to ask to live in a world where candy has no genitals and people don’t fantasize about fucking their TV? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/47 "2008-11-10T09:44:00Z")
Those ads where they offer you a loan based on settlement payments. The first ones were amusing kooky, but got progressively more and more annoying. The final ones involved random people shouting “I want my money, and I want it NOW!” at the top of their lungs. Normally I’ll let the commercials play out because that’s how free tv is paid for, but whenever one of those comes on, I fast forward through the rest of the commercials guilt free. Sometimes I’ll FF through a commercial if it’s not annoying on it’s own merits but it’s just aired way too many times. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/48 "2008-11-10T12:51:50Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > Is it too much to ask to live in a world where candy has no genitals and people don’t fantasize about fucking their TV? Yes. Next? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/49 "2008-11-10T13:07:22Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Yep, see my earlier post (#30) That’s the one I came here to mention, too. I saw it twice yesterday, and I truly hope I never see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/50 "2008-11-10T13:16:02Z")
Another vote for the thumbs with faces . . . I saw it for the first (and I hope the last) time last night and called my husband’s attention to the horror of it. We both stared in open-mouthed amazement at the grossness. Away with it, please! ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/51 "2008-11-10T16:33:29Z")
“It’s my money, and I want it NOW.” You know, those “structured settlement” people. GOD, that’s an annoying commercial. ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/52 "2008-11-10T17:03:14Z")
[Lubricity](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiuUggm4yWM)… Even as a heterosexual male, this makes my eyes and ears bleed. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/53 "2008-11-10T17:26:29Z")
> [@Garula](#): > > I cannot stand the Alltel commercials. Being a geek myself, those commercials have dissuaded me from considering their services. Watching those commercials makes me annoyed enough that I want to change the channel immediately. Yeah, I hate the “cool” smug guy with the weird hair. Haven’t the geeks figured out yet that there’s four of them and only one of him? They could totally beat the shit out of him. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/54 "2008-11-10T17:42:44Z")
The toilet paper commercial with the animated bears that addresses the “anti-klingon” properties of their TP. Shown last night during dinner. erp. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/55 "2008-11-10T17:44:57Z")
> [@atlantic](#): > > I was freaked out by the Southwest Airlines commercial where the lady behind the ticket counter turns around and has another head!!! :eek: Have you seen the one for the migraine medication where the migraine-sufferers are standing around with their heads in their hands? (Really – the heads are detached from the necks.) I thought it was a Halloween ad the first time I saw it, but it’s still running. > [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > The Wal-Mart ones where the mom is 1) so proud of her role in helping her son achieve in school by shopping at Wal-Mart 2) so proud of her role in helping her daughter make friends in school by shopping at Wal-Mart. I hate these commercials individually, and double in tandem. The antediluvian gender roles are thick as molasses. Wal-Mart has gotten nasty with gender stereotyping lately. They were running one ad a few months ago that showed all these vacantly grinning housewives standing proudly next to uncalled-for amounts of food; the narrator said something to the effect of how Wal-Mart is helping women succeed. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/56 "2008-11-10T20:11:42Z")
The new Geico caveman commercial which I saw for the first time last night. Usually, I get a bang out of the caveman and his attitude, but somehow, this one just pissed me off: The caveman and his girlfriend are walking down the beach with a metal detector (he must have gotten over his snit from last time). They find something and dig it up…a set of keys on a Geico keychain! The caveman just drops his stuff and starts to walk away, leaving his girlfriend to pick it all up and rush after him. If I’d been her, I’d have bounced the damn keys off the back of his head. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/57 "2008-11-10T20:45:51Z")
There is one guy who reads about 80% of the commercials on Sirius Satellite Radio. All I can think of when I hear him talking is (this is gross so I’m going to put it in a spoiler box): it sounds like someone shot a wad of cum up his nose and it’s dripping down the back of his throat. You know how you always hear that people on the radio aren’t supposed to “pop” their Ps? I have no idea how he manages it, but this guy someone pops EVERY LETTER. He has bar none the most annoying voice I’ve ever heard in my life. They must love him, too, because he keeps getting work, and they even found a girl who sounds just like him to read commercials aimed at females. I’ll never buy a single product either one of them reads a commercial for because as soon as I hear their voice I change the channel. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/58 "2008-11-10T20:48:26Z")
the one that starts with the words “male enhancement” (smiling bob I can take, it’s the other one) and any/all of the [freecreditreport.com](http://freecreditreport.com) (curly haired singing guy) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/59 "2008-11-10T20:55:21Z")
There’s a weird new one that features half computer-generated and half real kids doing acrobatics. It scares me. They look like Teletubbies or something equally frightening. Also, the zoom-zoom commercials can blow me. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841/60 "2008-11-10T20:57:50Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#): > > “It’s my money, and I want it NOW.” You know, those “structured settlement” people. GOD, that’s an annoying commercial. I always think two things when that commercial comes on: 1. There are really enough structured settlements out there that not only is there money in negotiating structured settlements, there’s enough money for _multiple companies_ in the business to _advertise nationally_ (yep, there’s more than one company with ads). I had no idea. 2. Apparently, the target audience for these ads are people who watch crime shows. Every other commercial during The Bill Kurtis Hour was for one of those damn “structured settlement” companies. “I’m Bill Kurtis, and I’ve just discovered…scam artists.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-make-you-want-to-change-the-channel/471841.md?page=4)