# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/101 "2010-08-30T04:00:36Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > Liked the commercial, but the end tag of “…experts since 1986…” for the company just made me feel old. Heh. I’m never that impressed by claims of “we’ve been in business since the '80s!” The 80’s weren’t all that long ago, really. And I say this as someone who was born in '87. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/102 "2010-08-30T11:15:46Z")
The insurance ad where the guy “gags a little” - and all their other ads with that guy. That is one annoying sumbitch. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/103 "2010-08-30T13:49:37Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I think they want Keystone to be the beer of choice for trailer trash. As it stands, it’s the beer for broke college students. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/104 "2010-08-30T22:15:19Z")
[Miller Lite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iawDvGfDBc) First off, what bartender asks, “do you care how it tastes?”, when someone orders a beer? How about asking, “What beer would you like?” Second, he says he doesn’t care how it tastes. I guess he’s just looking to get shit-faced. Third, I hate the way the woman mocks the male CUSTEMER about his “purse”. I don’t have a purse or “carry-all”, but my pants pockets get pretty bulgy. I can see why a dude would have something like that. WTF business is it of hers to judge the guy? finally, I’m not a beer drinker, (I DO like wine coolers, guess I’m a pussy), but doesn’t Miller Lite suck? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/105 "2010-08-30T22:30:17Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > [Miller Lite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iawDvGfDBc) > > First off, what bartender asks, “do you care how it tastes?”, when someone orders a beer? How about asking, “What beer would you like?” Second, he says he doesn’t care how it tastes. I guess he’s just looking to get shit-faced. Third, I hate the way the woman mocks the male CUSTEMER about his “purse”. I don’t have a purse or “carry-all”, but my pants pockets get pretty bulgy. I can see why a dude would have something like that. WTF business is it of hers to judge the guy? > > finally, I’m not a beer drinker, (I DO like wine coolers, guess I’m a pussy), but doesn’t Miller Lite suck? I don’t know how it tastes, but yeah, I find these Miller Lite commercials really offensive. There’s at least two or three, all suggesting people who don’t like THEIR beer are crossdressers, or maybe gay, not real men. Come to think of it, “pussy” is just the perfect term. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/106 "2010-08-30T23:13:04Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > > [@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.** > > 2. Serve you iced tea made from dirty dishwater. > > 3. Try to break your storm-door by throwing shovels of snow at it. > > 4. 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”? > > I haven’t seen all of them but the second one you mentioned bothers me because it doesn’t make any sense. Why should a Packer fan hate her neighbor because he’s a _49er_ fan? There’s no long-standing rivalry between the two teams (unlike, for example, the Cowboys and the Redskins). They’re not even in the same division. If the “ad wizards behind this one” knew anything about the NFL, they would’ve made her neighbor a Viking or Bear fan. That way her conduct would’ve been understandable. I actually really like those commercials, especially the Packer fans. But I thought about this very same point, and it occurred to me that what they’re selling is the ability to watch your team _even when you live across the country from it._ A Viking fan living in Green Bay, or a Browns fan living in Pittsburgh, is not going to have as much difficulty seeing his team as a Miami fan in Boston or a Redskin fan in Dallas. That’s why the only real actual rivalry that they’ve portrayed in the ads is Washington-Dallas. Or so it seems to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/107 "2010-08-31T00:34:48Z")
Gonna give a huge third (fourth?) about the annoying AT&T commercials with that stupid song and the stupid orange whatever. The commercial itself I guess isn’t bad, but I’ve seen it 2.6 million times for the past 3 years it seems. Just keeps going on and on and on. The Mcdonalds “not til I’ve had my coffee” commercial is ok til the end where he tells the cashier to be quiet. Why else are you there but for coffee? Shut up. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/108 "2010-09-02T17:25:08Z")
I just saw another one I hate. The Bounce dryer bar. “It’s just one less thing I have to worry about in my busy life”. Really? You worry about the 2 seconds it takes to grab a dryer sheet and fling it into the dryer with your clothes? Maybe you do a couple loads of laundry a day, so that’s 4 seconds. Ooh, you could be using all that time for something more important! Couldn’t they find a better selling point than how much time it saves? Like all those used dryer sheets ending up everywhere or going to landfills. Show someone wandering around with a dryer sheet stuck to their back. Show birds tangled up in dryer sheets. Show the savings of buying the bar as opposed to a box of sheets but stop telling me how much time it saves in their busy lives! It’s bullshit! ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/109 "2010-09-02T17:32:46Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I just saw another one I hate. The Bounce dryer bar. “It’s just one less thing I have to worry about in my busy life”. Really? You worry about the 2 seconds it takes to grab a dryer sheet and fling it into the dryer with your clothes? Maybe you do a couple loads of laundry a day, so that’s 4 seconds. Ooh, you could be using all that time for something more important! > > Couldn’t they find a better selling point than how much time it saves? Like all those used dryer sheets ending up everywhere or going to landfills. Show someone wandering around with a dryer sheet stuck to their back. Show birds tangled up in dryer sheets. Show the savings of buying the bar as opposed to a box of sheets but stop telling me how much time it saves in their busy lives! It’s bullshit! I work in marketing and this is exactly what I’d say to the client. Bad selling point. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/110 "2010-09-02T17:33:10Z")
Another vote for Miller Lite. Their current ad strategy is that you must be gay if you don’t drink their beer. Are they selling beer to twelve year olds? ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/111 "2010-09-02T18:22:56Z")
I’m gonna pull the plug on that little F\*cker “Space man Stu” and watch his head explode in space as he’s looking at the stars. God McDonald’s how much money have you spent to air this commercial during every commercial break for a month. ---
**Author:** ![pyromyte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@pyromyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyromyte)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/112 "2010-09-02T19:06:03Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > > ALL of the Volkswagon “punch your friends and family” commercials. > > > > \ > > Good one! VW has convinced me that I don’t need their cars. Amen! Even back when I was 7 and played this game, it was punch-buggies.. as in Beetles.. you can’t go punching someone over a GD Jetta! Of course there weren’t ‘New’ Beetles back then, but I doubt we would have allowed punches for the New Beetle. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/113 "2010-09-02T19:19:11Z")
The AT&T one I hate is with the “Dumb Dad” ™ who can’t find his “internet cord” so the daughter tells him it’s invisible, then when they’re out at a cafe they tell him “It’s a really long cord” and the dad goes “AAAAH!” like “I am so hip to that!” Should that guy be walking around without a safety helmet? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/114 "2010-09-02T22:57:59Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > The AT&T one I hate is with the “Dumb Dad” ™ who can’t find his “internet cord” so the daughter tells him it’s invisible, then when they’re out at a cafe they tell him “It’s a really long cord” and the dad goes “AAAAH!” like “I am so hip to that!” Should that guy be walking around without a safety helmet? I haven’t seen that one, but it does sound terrible! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/115 "2010-09-02T23:12:51Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > The AT&T one I hate is with the “Dumb Dad” ™ who can’t find his “internet cord” so the daughter tells him it’s invisible, then when they’re out at a cafe they tell him “It’s a really long cord” and the dad goes “AAAAH!” like “I am so hip to that!” Should that guy be walking around without a safety helmet? Yes, he should be, and then it should rain hammers. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/116 "2010-09-02T23:15:07Z")
> [@Alan\_Bird](#): > > > [@Wile\_E](#): > > > > I just saw another one I hate. The Bounce dryer bar. “It’s just one less thing I have to worry about in my busy life”. Really? You worry about the 2 seconds it takes to grab a dryer sheet and fling it into the dryer with your clothes? Maybe you do a couple loads of laundry a day, so that’s 4 seconds. Ooh, you could be using all that time for something more important! > > > > Couldn’t they find a better selling point than how much time it saves? Like all those used dryer sheets ending up everywhere or going to landfills. Show someone wandering around with a dryer sheet stuck to their back. Show birds tangled up in dryer sheets. Show the savings of buying the bar as opposed to a box of sheets but stop telling me how much time it saves in their busy lives! It’s bullshit! > > I work in marketing and this is exactly what I’d say to the client. Bad selling point. I think it’s actually because you’re a bird who got tangled up in a dryer sheet. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/117 "2010-09-02T23:20:43Z")
> [@El\_Nene](#): > > Pretty much every Geico commercial ever. The only exception is this [one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y85JQEAFGMo). Really? This [one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEbzM2FUP9s) is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/118 "2010-09-02T23:30:46Z")
Boniva by Sally Fields ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/119 "2010-09-02T23:38:00Z")
Taco Bell commercials are usually a ton o’ hate. Like the one where the guy asks for the special cashier to give him some sort of special deal, that is on the menu for everyone. It is the dumb white guy epitomized. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419/120 "2010-09-02T23:44:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Another vote for Miller Lite. Their current ad strategy is that you must be gay if you don’t drink their beer. Are they selling beer to twelve year olds? That’s the plan, but their lobbyists haven’t closed the deal yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-you-hate/551419.md?page=7)