# Commercials Worth Pissing On, May 2011 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406 "2011-05-19T03:14:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/41 "2011-05-19T21:02:59Z")
I hate these Swiffer ads - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPn7FntWUmU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPn7FntWUmU) I think it’s because the costumes gross me out, and the use of the Heart song is quite annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/42 "2011-05-19T21:03:49Z")
I hate most of the insurance commercials, but which ever company has “the world’s greatest spokes person” currently is high on my hate list. And that car commercial with that kid who is too cool to ride in his parent’s car. It is wrong to have a commercial that makes me want to punch a child. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/43 "2011-05-19T21:16:13Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > That ridiculously idiosyncratic old weirdo who does the Boar’s head radio commercials. His voice grates like a nuclear-powered Mouli. I know! He sort of sounds like Burgess Meredith if he was on oxycodone and had illfitting dentures. There’s a commercial for some prescription drug or another that starts with some super genious woman saying something about how she just discovered that our muscles have nerve endings and that leads to pain. Really? I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/44 "2011-05-19T21:18:57Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > The McDonald’s Lemon. That lemon with no eyes TERRIFIES me. My wife is unperturbed; I don’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/45 "2011-05-19T21:44:23Z")
> [@corbomite](#): > > the dr. Pepper commercial with paul “senior” teutel from american chopper. > > Here he’s seen asking some waiter “what does dr. Pepper taste like?” > the waiter replies, “it takes like, uhh, dr. Pepper.” and then after replying likewise once or twice more he (apparently) gets a beatdown by sr. And some tough guys he’s with **does doctor pepper taste like a bitch?!** ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/46 "2011-05-19T21:53:05Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I swear that the Subway commercials with the adult actors talking in the dubbed “child” voices makes me want to throw a brick thru the plate-glass window of the nearest Subway franchise, but of course it’s not their fault, so I guess I should just burn down the corporate headquarters instead. (obviously with the department heads who approved the ad campaign locked inside, screaming in terror, knowing that dread Satan has prepared a special place in hell for them for inflicting those fucking ads on the unsuspecting world) On the flip side of that, that other commercial series Whose Product I Don’t Remember (really effective advertising there) still has the talking babies in adult voices discussing their investment portfolios. Ugh-I hate it when they don’t let kids be kids. As I already said I loathe Geico, but they’ve been pumping out ad after ad for that General Insurance lately-on that one which mimics a seminar, I have to chuckle at all the people in the room which are having a shared hallucination of this cartoon general guy pontificating on why they should buy his insurance. Anybody who buys from them is even more brain-dead than the Geico zombie hordes (yes my sister has them-ugh again). The one I want to kick in the nads tho is that Dos Equus guy-no I don’t give a flying fuck why everybody seems to think he’s so “interesting”, but I’m sure he would crumple like a house of cards if I did, which I would definitely find infinitely satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/47 "2011-05-19T22:55:45Z")
Heh, I think “the most interesting man in the world” commercials are awesome. They’re so over-the-top in their tongue-in-cheekness that it works for me. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/48 "2011-05-20T00:45:23Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Heh, I think “the most interesting man in the world” commercials are awesome. They’re so over-the-top in their tongue-in-cheekness that it works for me. Except the tagline makes no fucking sense. Why would anyone want a beer that makes them stay thirsty? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/49 "2011-05-20T00:49:50Z")
> [@Corbomite](#): > > The Dr. Pepper commercial with Paul “Senior” Teutel from American Chopper. > > Here he’s seen asking some waiter “What does Dr. Pepper taste like?” > The waiter replies, “It takes like, uhh, Dr. Pepper.” and then after replying likewise once or twice more he (apparently) gets a beatdown by Sr. and some tough guys he’s with Haven’t seen it yet, but that will likely make me boycott Dr. Pepper. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/50 "2011-05-20T01:13:41Z")
The Highlander commercials are so far off the mark… It seems like everyone hates them. Why did Toyota go with this campaign? Talk about seriously misreading the American public. There’s a thin line between precocious/cute and annoying/bratty. This kid and the whole campaign seriously miss the mark. Speaking of annoying kids, there’s another one out there with a little girl that reminds me of the twins from _The Shining_. She’s all morose because her mom won’t buy her Kraft Mac and cheese. She shoots the camera all these pissy looks… instead of thinking “how funny!” I want to slap the crap out of her. Hey toolbox, how about helping mom out instead of bitching about what your poor mom puts in front of you every night, you spoiled brat? This is going to sound vague as shit but I recall a commercial for Pedialyte, I think, when the kid refuses to drink water so the dumbass mom goes to the fridge and hands whiny brat a Pedialyte instead. And another where the kids whinge about dinner so she buys them a pizza. Seriously, I don’t know what I hate more… whiny assed kids or weak spined parents. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/51 "2011-05-20T01:31:23Z")
“Halloo! I’m Patrick Cox, founder of TaxMasters!” ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/52 "2011-05-20T01:36:25Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > “Halloo! I’m Patrick Cox, founder of TaxMasters!” Win. This guy’s been parodied on SNL and he appears to be a fraud… Still see his monkey ass on TV. Did anyone not tell him, “Dude, you look like a tool. Let’s just hire an attractive spokesperson?” For that matter, that special genre of ambulance chaser lawyer commercial that always feature the socially awkward principal telling you how he will win you a lot of money. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/53 "2011-05-20T01:44:26Z")
The “pudding face” commercials are seriously disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/54 "2011-05-20T01:57:35Z")
Those Sprint commercials that put someone’s number up so you can call them because they have free everything: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7WPwLdG5M4) Especially because it’s been done before: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sooxgzvdf_A/hqdefault.jpg "U.S. Cellular Commercial: Monte Finds the Best Sandwich in Chicago") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooxgzvdf_A) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/55 "2011-05-20T05:03:59Z")
> [@astro](#): > > The ones where the cartoon bears are taking huge, basketball sized bear dumps, but instead of squatting on their haunches like regular bears and grunting out an ursine loaf filled with nuts, berries, and the buttons from that hiker’s shirt, they are sitting human style on some woodsy toilet seat, and because their cheeks are not spread wide enough in this position they have a horrible problem with their feces matting into the fur surrounding their anus. This problem can only be cured with high grade toilet paper. Yes. I get especially repulsed when the announcer says "You can’t pass mother’s inspection with, blah, blah, blah…) Really guys, I don’t want to be thinking about my mother when I’m wiping my ass. Jeez! ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/56 "2011-05-20T07:29:34Z")
The Bud Light “I’m in and I’m out” commercials drive me insane. Basically they follow two guys - ‘I’m in’, who is all cool and agrees to go out drinking with his friends every night, and ‘I’m out’, who stays home instead and is clearly a big giant loser because of that. The end of the commercial shows ‘I’m out’ going to work in the morning, while ‘I’m in’ is still out partying his ass off at some skeevy hotel. Seriously, Budweiser, does this work for you? “Ha ha, look at that dork who is gainfully employed! How dare he not want to get wasted every night!” I’m not sure why this bothers me more than other beer commercials, but it really does. ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/57 "2011-05-20T08:03:46Z")
Robin the pack a day smoker from the Chantix commericals. She just SCREAMS " I’m a Hetrosexual Family Values Woman Who Feeds My Family Hot Pockets and Reads Danielle Steele!" The Reclast nana "To my grandkids, I’m Nana. Friend, secret keeper and playmate. What secrets do your grandkids tell you? " I have a “special place where I like to “play” with animals? or " I have an invisble friend who tells me to kill my siblings” ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/58 "2011-05-20T08:20:53Z")
There’s a Wheat Thins commercial that shows some poor bastard under a rock with his dog and some asshole in a helicopter swoops in, taking the Wheat Thins and leaving this guy and his dog. I like Wheat thins but this commercial blows. ---
**Author:** ![PalJuicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@PalJuicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PalJuicy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/59 "2011-05-20T10:03:57Z")
> [@](#): > > The new Toyota Highlander commercial with the kid we all love to hate. If you hadn’t noticed, they’ve cut out his line, “Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean you have to be lame.” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/60 "2011-05-20T11:12:59Z")
The Robert Goldwater law firm commercials for Tardive Dyskynesia that play every 15 minutes on cable channels. Are there really that many ambulances to chase over Tardive Dyskinesia? Plus, I wouldn’t hire that slimeball to take out my trash. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406.md?page=4)