# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/81 "2011-05-23T16:19:55Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > .. 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. Sounds similar to the one I’m seeing lately for Cici’s Pizza, with the cheap buffet. “Everyone wants something different but I’m not a short order cook so I take them to Cici’s!!”. Urgh. My kids may not be perfect, but they know that sometimes dinner at home isn’t exactly what they want to eat. We take them out to eat when _we_ don’t feel like cooking, not because they don’t like what we’re planning to serve. ---
**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 23, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/82 "2011-05-23T16:33:44Z")
Oh, god, that “pudding face” commercial! Grade A nightmare fuel. And I can’t stand that Arby’s “good mood food” guy. Whoever greenlighted that campaign should be sacked with extreme prejudice. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/83 "2011-05-23T17:21:33Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > See, “bar exam” ia a really really clever reference to the temperature-activated bars on the bottle that tell you how cold the beer is. (This is a great way to choose which beer to buy, by the way. Not how it tastes or anything. Sometimes when you’re looking for superlatives, [cold is all you’ve got.](http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=video&cd=3&ved=0CD0QtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_9jIsXp8sQQ&ei=aZbaTaKXM4zSsAOJ5NCMDA&usg=AFQjCNEsIeOnZIIWg6mjyKlf2-nNVZtbEA) ---
**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:** [May 23, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/84 "2011-05-23T17:48:27Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Are flight attendants even allowed to give medicine to passengers? Even something as seemingly trivial as aspirin could be viewed as a liability issue in this litigation-happy world. I’m guessing because it’s OTC stuff and people have to request it that may lessen any liability. What bugs me most is she hands him a giant sized bottle. If they do hand out meds I’m pretty sure they would give you a small trial-sized package not a years supply. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/85 "2011-05-23T18:12:17Z")
Pudding face is way deep down in the uncanny valley. They need pack mules to get down that far. The other creepy ones that are getting me lately are the Ortega Taco ads with the masochistic talking piñata that drops in from the sky and encourages women to beat it until the tacos come out. Who thought that this was a good idea? > [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Oh, and how could I forget the new Esurance commercials? They’ve ditched the Erin Esurance cartoon character in favor of these rather pig-headed male techies who lounge around their cubes and belittle the female techie. What the hell? Why would I want to do business with a place like that? There’s a whole series, it’s not techie vs. techie, it’s website customer support vs. telephone customer support. They’ve got a kind of cute little interoffice rivalry going on. [This one is my favorite, I’m not sure if “nts nts nts” is funnier, or the face of the techie at the very end](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iyXwfkwzWM). ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/86 "2011-05-23T18:32:59Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Speaking of, it angers me that I had to wait through a seeming eternity of those damn commercials just to have them finally end… > > …and have T-Mobile use the same exact schtick for their current run of commercials. But at least she’s hot, and not nearly as annoying as the Mac guy. The Mac/PC commercials had the downside that the PC guy seemed more sympathetic than the Mac hipster. > [@Wheelz](#): > > She’s not ugly… But I always assumed they tried to get Anne Hathaway and couldn’t, so they cast the closest look-alike they could find. I don’t know why, but somehow I find that distracting. She does resemble Anne a bit. In a good way. > [@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 ’ He should say “Dr Pepper has a unique taste that does not have a good description. It’s sweet, similar to cola but with an edge, and I really can’t describe it better. You’ll just have to try it.” But who really believes that old biker guy is 80 or whatever and has never tried a Dr Pepper? > [@An\_Arky](#): > > That ridiculously idiosyncratic old weirdo who does the Boar’s head radio commercials. His voice grates like a nuclear-powered Mouli. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I know! He sort of sounds like Burgess Meredith if he was on oxycodone and had illfitting dentures. To me, he sounds like [Hector Elizondo](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001185) with a bad case of congestion. > [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Except the tagline makes no fucking sense. Why would anyone want a beer that makes them stay thirsty? Yeah, who drinks beer to stay thirsty? > [@Voyager](#): > > There were articles about this when it happened. It seemed that Erin was getting photo-shopped into situations a little too sexy for the company to like. Now I searched for these images, just for the purposes of research, mind you, and found them not all that risque, but my mind has been in the gutter for so long I’m not a good judge. I’m sure if you look there’s outright porn with her in it. > [@runner pat](#): > > Bayer commercial. > Doofus asks the flight attendant for something for a backache and she brings him some Bayer aspirin. > He tells her he’s not having a heart attack and is amazed when she tells him it works for pain also. Yeah, Tylenol, ibuprofen, and Aleve have taken over the market in OTC painkillers. For a long time Bayer has been emphasizing the heart benefits, so now they want to shift focus and try to recapture some of the pain killer market - because it’s much bigger. So they want to remind viewers that their primary function is pain relief. My recommendation: Axe hair styling products. Specifically, the one with the guy walking by on the beach, and the chick visibly recoils from his hairdo because he uses gel and it’s all spiky. Then he jumps in the water, and comes up with fish stuck on the spikes. So he tries the Axe, and it gives him the style without the stiffness or whatever. Except, it doesn’t give him spiky points. But maybe he wanted spiky points. Why else would he have them with the gel? Oh, and gel doesn’t hold up well to water. Immerse his head, he’s not spear-fishing with his hair. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/87 "2011-05-23T19:02:38Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Except the tagline makes no fucking sense. Why would anyone want a beer that makes them stay thirsty? I think it might just mean that you should stay thirsty for life and adventures and all that. Another possibility that occurred to me is that it means you should go out and do lots of exciting, manly things that will make you thirsty, so you can then quench it with this particular brand of beer. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/88 "2011-05-23T19:07:52Z")
I hate those stupid Niaspan “intervention” commercials where people’s siblings/children talk down to their relatives about their heart disease and taking their prescription. (“What did your doctor call it - duh - coronary artery disease?”) They make want to slap the TV. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/89 "2011-05-23T19:48:15Z")
I don’t want annoying kids telling about what cars they think are cool. Don’t make me stop this car… Pudding face _shudder_ Just horrible. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/90 "2011-05-23T20:12:40Z")
I hate the antismoking commercial on Hulu that is about showing what smoking does to your lungs by showing it on the outside. It make my nauseous and I don’t smoke, never smoke and don’t intend to smoke, so they are wasting their time. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/91 "2011-05-23T20:29:35Z")
Comcast Xfinity comercials. RIght how, the ones with Neil Patrick Harris. If you watch any cable news, they come on about every 5 minutes. They were really, really stupid the first time I saw them. They don’t get any better the 1,000th time. ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/92 "2011-05-24T03:02:07Z")
Truvia (I think that’s the name) with it’s off-key, off-rhythm singer. When I finally listened to the whole jingle it just made it more irritating. The woman’s decided that “Sweetness” is no good for her so she’s found something new. They’re bragging that their sweetener isn’t sweet? The Gerber commercials for their toddler line creep me out. The kids heads are out of proportion to the adult bodies they’ve been superimposed on. The shadowing and color don’t match. It’s like there’s a child’s head floating in front of a dancing adult. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/93 "2011-05-25T16:26:31Z")
The General. Auto insurance commercial flogged on daytime TV. Computer animated Patton-ish “General” barking about the product. It’s short and stupid, just like The General, but I feel an inordinate amount of hatred. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/94 "2011-05-25T16:31:16Z")
The new Best Buy commercial for their buy back program, where everyone is griping about how they no longer have the newest coolest toys. The worst is the scene with the guy who buys the the 3-D TV only to see his neighbor getting a 4-D TV. He slaps himself, calls himself stupid and his daughter runs around in circles screaming, “You got the wrong TV sillyhead.” Annoys the fuck out of me. ---
**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 25, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/95 "2011-05-25T16:34:36Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The General. Auto insurance commercial flogged on daytime TV. Computer animated Patton-ish “General” barking about the product. It’s short and stupid, just like The General, but I feel an inordinate amount of hatred. I hate that just for the crappy 3D animation they use. There seems to be a lot of that lately, including the horrid [Blue Tax](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh67uyFK-R0) commercials. _Toy Story_ they are not. ---
**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 25, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/96 "2011-05-25T16:44:23Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The General. Auto insurance commercial flogged on daytime TV. Computer animated Patton-ish “General” barking about the product. It’s short and stupid, just like The General, but I feel an inordinate amount of hatred. Do you remember the ones with the bimbo running through the office muttering “Just point and click, point and click, point and click” because she was having so much trouble using the website? Several local channels seem to be fixated on the Walmart “match it! match it! match it!” commercial…it’s incredibly annoying when aired several times per hour. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/97 "2011-05-25T16:49:29Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > I hate those stupid Niaspan “intervention” commercials where people’s siblings/children talk down to their relatives about their heart disease and taking their prescription. (“What did your doctor call it - duh - coronary artery disease?”) They make want to slap the TV. This is what I came in here to say. I just want to smack those patronizing jerks with their patronizing messages delivered in their patronizing voices! ---
**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 25, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/98 "2011-05-25T17:16:52Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Several local channels seem to be fixated on the Walmart “match it! match it! match it!” commercial…it’s incredibly annoying when aired several times per hour. I find myself completely powerless against turning to the spouse at some point during that commercial and yelling, “Cat shit!” He’s used to it, just like I’m used to him saying “15% or moron car insurance” every time the Geico commercial comes on. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/99 "2011-05-25T17:19:11Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > There were articles about this when it happened. It seemed that Erin was getting photo-shopped into situations a little too sexy for the company to like. These people never heard of Rule 34? Anyhoo, my current pet peeves are: 1. A commercial for some coterie of ambulance-chasers (I forget the name of the firm – so great job there, ad-writer dude) beginning with a teary “My husband worked at a power plant where the asbestos fell like snow…” In a gesture of absurdist self-defense, my brain then inserts the line “…until the owner torched the place for the insurance money”. 2. The commercials for BeenParanoid – er, BeenVerified – that warn you that anybody you don’t know personally is probably a neo-Nazi al-Qaeda rapist axe murderer. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/100 "2011-05-25T18:09:50Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > This is what I came in here to say. I just want to smack those patronizing jerks with their patronizing messages delivered in their patronizing voices! I wonder about this one. It sounds like they are trying to come across as a very worried, concerned relative who wants you to start taking your health concerns seriously, like a loving big brother or big sister might, sitting down at your kitchen table for a heart to heart. Having no concerned big brothers or sisters who want me to get serious about my health ☹ (or anyone else for that matter :() - I’m still wondering why they think an imaginary relative that I don’t have is going to make me look into getting their magic potion. It just makes me…sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406.md?page=6)