# Commercials that you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419 "2010-08-25T17:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/41 "2010-08-26T15:07:13Z")
Mr. & Mrs. Toyota Sienna. No, I am not going to watch your stupid YouTube videos; I get too much of you weirdos on my TV! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/42 "2010-08-26T15:07:44Z")
The Mentos commercials always seem pretty lame. If they’d quit suggesting unrealistic personality benefits and instead just show what happens when you put them in Diet Coke I’d probably buy some. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/43 "2010-08-26T15:08:58Z")
I’m just excited that we’re 40 posts into this thread, and no one has mentioned a single ad from my agency. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/44 "2010-08-26T15:10:28Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Any commercial with slurping, chomping, and other foul eating noises. > > I’m looking at you, stupid ass new Blizzard ad with the parents stealing ice cream out of their kids’ cups. The Carl’s Jr ads where the tagline is “Don’t bother me, I’m eating” and it sounds like they stuck the microphone \*inside \*the person’s mouth as they crunch, slurp and chew their way through a giant hamburger… _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/45 "2010-08-26T15:22:58Z")
I hate the HH Gregg mascot. What the hell is he supposed to be, an upside down exclamation point? I hate it when he sings disco songs announcing sales. I hate it when he sings Christmas carols announcing sales. I hate it when he talks with store employees and asks them stupid questions. I just hate him period. I will never shop there because of him. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/46 "2010-08-26T15:32:27Z")
Someone mentioned anything with slurping and I would like to point out my hate for the yogurt where people slurp on the container and wipe up any extra with their fingers but they never get in on their face. You could probably get as much using a spoon but it’s better to be disgusting. Anyway, the worst of these us the one with Heidi Klum. I watched an old movie late at night and every other commercial break showed that commercial after every other commercial, 6 or 7 times! My head almost exploded. I had to mute during commercials and look away. Not only do I hate this commercial now, but I absolutely loathe it and the product it sells. They have guaranteed that I will never ever buy their product. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/47 "2010-08-26T15:37:13Z")
1-877-KARS-4-KIDS! K-A-R-S KARS-4-KIDS! At some point before deciding to buy 50% of the commercial time on WFAN, you maybe should have thought twice about going ahead with the initial demo recording featuring 2 people who can’t sing and a 1975 Wurlitzer home organ on “demonstration” mode. 30% of the remaining time of WFAN has been bought by [NYAutoGiant.com](http://NYAutoGiant.com), whose theme song slogan is still not quite comprehensible to me, although on the fifth listen I manged to ascertain that it’s not “[NYAutoGiant.com](http://NYAutoGiant.com) … Comin’ back from the DEAD!” Although it still kind of sounds like that. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/48 "2010-08-26T16:00:10Z")
How do we feel about the Quiznos ads? The spongmonkeys are creepy for sure but how about these 5, 4, 3 kitties? They’re annoying but I can’t help finding them cute. [Here they are.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3y6DAeK_A) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/49 "2010-08-26T16:12:39Z")
The Lowe’s commercial with the strange-headed chick who looks like she should have psychic powers coming out of that giant lobe bother me as well. Not really “hate” but there’s a Subaru commercial where the guy pulls up to his smashed Subaru in a junkyard, takes his day planner out of the back and then unscrews the head of the shift stick as some sort of reminder. Each time I see it, I think “That guy is totally stealing from the junkyard. The car is their property now and they could have gotten $15 for that knob.” I suppose he could be paying for it on the way out but somehow I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/50 "2010-08-26T17:07:54Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > > [@txtumbleweed](#): > > > > Direct TV’s NFL Sunday Ticket campaign. > > > > Apparently, if you have the temerity to cheer a team other than the local one, your neighbors will: > > > > 1. Let their dog tear up your stuff and pee on your carpet. > > 2. Send over a meat and cheese tray calling you a jerk. > > 3. Serve you iced tea made from dirty dishwater. > > 4. Try to break your storm-door by throwing shovels of snow at it. > > \*\*5. Set you up with a horny old woman. \*\* > > > > What are they selling? Order our programming and get attacked neigbors? NFL Fans are asshats? What? Where’s the joy of “I’ve got the Sunday Ticket”? > > How old? Actually, number 5 doesn’t seem so bad. I only included it for completeness. Of course, it is set in a retirement/nursing home and I think its the old give the old guy too much to handle type thing. Frankly, if I make 80 and one of my contemporaries wanted to grab my butt and jump my bones, I’ll be thankful for Viagra. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/51 "2010-08-26T17:08:56Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Someone mentioned anything with slurping and I would like to point out my hate for the yogurt where people slurp on the container and wipe up any extra with their fingers but they never get in on their face. You could probably get as much using a spoon but it’s better to be disgusting. > > Anyway, the worst of these us the one with Heidi Klum. I watched an old movie late at night and every other commercial break showed that commercial after every other commercial, 6 or 7 times! My head almost exploded. I had to mute during commercials and look away. Not only do I hate this commercial now, but I absolutely loathe it and the product it sells. They have guaranteed that I will never ever buy their product. This one bothers me not for the slurping, but for the horrible dubbing (either that or Heidi’s a ventriloquist). Watch when she says “I just love (name of product)”. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/52 "2010-08-26T17:14:45Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I hate the HH Gregg mascot. What the hell is he supposed to be, an upside down exclamation point? I hate it when he sings disco songs announcing sales. I hate it when he sings Christmas carols announcing sales. I hate it when he talks with store employees and asks them stupid questions. I just hate him period. I will never shop there because of him. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/53 "2010-08-26T17:25:53Z")
Those KFC commercials with the Colonel…and his weeeee beedy eyes. You’re going to buy my chicken aint you! ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/54 "2010-08-26T17:42:14Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Mr. & Mrs. Toyota Sienna. No, I am not going to watch your stupid YouTube videos; I get too much of you weirdos on my TV! Yes. Yes. YES. These commercials are beyond obnoxious. Like the one where mommy has to abandon her family responsibility to sit in the backseat of the car and watch tv, while chatting on the phone and doing her nails. All so daddy can get his dick sucked later. Yup, they say “Mommy gets less headaches” this way and we all know what that means. Oh, then the kid run towards the car, trying to see its mother, and the dad intercepts her. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/55 "2010-08-26T18:01:49Z")
There is one mentioned in another thread about a kid challenged to a race home by 3 other kids. Has a bullying vibe. Selling a minivan of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/56 "2010-08-26T18:05:31Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > > [@Morbo](#): > > > > I’ll just repost this from a recent thread: > > > > Here’s a new one I don’t understand, which plays on Hulu all the time: 5 Hour Energy drink. “Every get that 2:30 feeling?” Uh, no, I don’t. Who are these people that need a nap in the middle of the afternoon? Sure, maybe you have young kids or didn’t get enough sleep that night. But these ads make it seem like this is some sort of chronic epidemic, with people staggering around at their offices like the walking dead. > > That one pisses me off because, after the first few times I saw it, I started noticing a big-ass disclaimer about how the product technically doesn’t give you a SUGAR crash. It looks like the misleading jerks got a phone call from the government requesting a little clarification. > > But it’s also kind of amusing because MY 2:30 feeling is “It’s almost time for me to go to work.” If you read the small print you see it also says it contains the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, while the spoken ad discounts the employees getting a cup of coffee as a stop-gap maneuver. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/57 "2010-08-26T18:14:06Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > Those KFC commercials with the Colonel…and his weeeee beedy eyes. You’re going to buy my chicken aint you! Speaking of KFC, the one they had about a year ago where the mom and kids were in the grocery store and they were buying a great big bag of flour, big package of chicken, and presumably jars of each of the 11 herbs and spices used in KFC. At the end of she tallies up the bill, and says. “That’s it, we’re going to KFC” and the kids go yayyyyyyyy. This is just one of those commercials that insults your intelligence. Yeah buying all the individual ingredients at once may cost more than a bucket of KFC, but most people are going to have a lot of that stuff in their pantry already. And even if they do have to buy all the stuff at once, you’ll be able to make much more than one batch of chicken with it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/58 "2010-08-26T18:18:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah buying all the individual ingredients at once may cost more than a bucket of KFC, but most people are going to have a lot of that stuff in their pantry already. Especially if William Poundstone really was right about the ingredients in KFC (he claimed, based on analysis of samples of the actual coating mix, that the coating consisted of milk, eggs, flour, salt, pepper, and MSG, and nothing else.) ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/59 "2010-08-26T18:19:29Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > The frosted mini-wheats commercials where apparently the beginning of the school year is exactly like New Year’s Eve. Swear to god, if I hear “full and focused with my fiber” one more time, I’m going to throw something at my TV. > > Really, any ad that shows kids being excited to start school just seems so phony to me. I much prefer [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcYbo7pjto) ad, which is not only more honest in terms of how kids (and parents) feel about back-to-school, but also because the holiday tune is used so brilliantly. Agreed. The commercial you linked to is one of the most brilliant ads ever. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/60 "2010-08-26T18:25:41Z")
I’m really developing a hard hate-on for that Progressive Insurance skank. Her time is over: you’re not cute and you’re completely unfunny. Move the fuck on, already. I also don’t like that guy who does the Ford commercials, wherein he leers at teenaged girls trying to decide which POS they want to buy. The guy is skeevy. The commercial for aspirin that you take in the morning, which includes an “alertness ingredient”, i.e. caffeine. Actually, all drug ads piss me off. Those Jamie Lee Curtis ‘shit your brains out’ ads for yogurt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419.md?page=4)