# 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:** 7
**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 30, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/121 "2011-05-30T15:48:04Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Why are you obsessed with what is on someone else’s plate? It’s not like you have to eat it, or he was double-dipping; the dip IS ON HIS PLATE. I may not like the way you chew your food, or pronounce ‘potato’, but that doesn’t justify pretending like it is a hideous social faux pas. Similarly, I am confused about why people are so put off by [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1lao5UUac). I mean, it’s not like those shoes are on _your_ feet. Get a grip, people. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/122 "2011-05-30T16:11:42Z")
Most of mine have been mentioned, but I’ll that the Hillshire Farms’ commercials make me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/123 "2011-05-30T17:11:48Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > 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. My impression is that they aren’t talking directly to you, like you are their loved one, but rather we are witnessing the video they sent their loved one to convince him/her to take his/her own situation more seriously. Oh, and by the way, if this applies to you, consider the message for yourself. YMMV. > [@Chanteuse](#): > > I really HATE the V8 Fusion ad that says something like, “Do you ever wish vegetables didn’t taste quite so ‘vegetably?’” and shows this guy dipping broccoli into dip and licking it off. He has several florets on his plate that he’s already licked. Grrross! Look, you nasty a-hole, if you don’t like broccoli, DON’T PUT IT ON YOUR PLATE. You ain’t foolin’ anyone with your plateful of soggy, spitty greens–but you ARE certain to remain dateless for the rest of your days, Saliva Boy. What does WHOOOSH sound like? That’s the point. They’re showing someone doing something douchy and telling you it is douchy. You’re supposed to laugh at and hate on the guy, and then realize you’ve done the same thing and look sheepish and by V8. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/124 "2011-05-30T22:43:21Z")
“We now offer phone service for a dollar seventy a month”. I’m sick of listening to that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/125 "2011-05-30T23:53:08Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > What does WHOOOSH sound like? That’s the point. They’re showing someone doing something douchy and telling you it is douchy. You’re supposed to laugh at and hate on the guy, and then realize you’ve done the same thing and look sheepish and by V8. Oh, I got that. Just like all the ads that make people who don’t use Product X look like a spastic monkey on crack, incapable of the simplest functions. 🙂 It’s still gross. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/126 "2011-05-31T01:25:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > This is the one I came in to mention, but I see others have got there first. that kid is such a snot, and the message he’s pushing is “you have to have good stuff to be cool, the more stuff the better” Everyone hates that snotty little brat and his high-class automobile tastes. I feel like that whole series of commercials \*must \*be backfiring on whatever car company made them (I can’t even remember - great advertising!). It reminds me of the long series of Canadian Tire ads featuring ‘The Canadian Tire Guy’, an insufferably smug git who proudly bragged about everything he owned all the time. Everybody seemed to hate that guy and his commercials (upon googling I even found [this](http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20051031_114409_114409&source=srch)rather vicious article about him). And yet they still ran them for _years_. How much does it take for these companies to learn? I know the answer is usually “any publicity is good publicity”, but I find that hard to believe. ---
**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 31, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/127 "2011-05-31T01:32:35Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the Bing ads, with “search overload”. I can’t change the channel fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/128 "2011-05-31T02:25:01Z")
[Gerber Commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UuIt_oT94) with a weird, scary baby juggling. Somehow they managed to take a perfectly cute baby and special effect it deep into the really terrifying part of the uncanny valley. ---
**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 31, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/129 "2011-05-31T22:29:51Z")
The current batch of Aleve commercials – could they at least specify whether Aleve is pre-tailored to people who are _already_ too stupid to count higher than two, or whether the drug causes brain damage as a side effect? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/130 "2011-05-31T23:23:14Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Holy crap in a sidecar, I want to punch the “nobody comes around \*my \*growing family without a background check” bitch right in the throat. And B\*\*nV_rifi_d has been reported on some sites as a scam. Some have suggested Identity theft, but one solid complaint is the fact that they offer a “free 7 day trial” but insist upon a CC number anyway. Even when you cancel- suprise, you get billed anyway. About $100. They make it very hard to cancel and harder to get a refund- according to various on-line reporting. Their data also seems to be either something anyone can get by using Google or unreliable. Reportedly, anyway. ---
**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 31, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/131 "2011-05-31T23:25:38Z")
The Dr. Scholl’s gel commercial featuring the GIANT, WRITHING FOOT being massaged by some woman in a darkened room. It makes me gag. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/132 "2011-05-31T23:34:07Z")
I’m not going to look for any of them, but any of the Keystone Light beer commercials with that mulleted redneck Keith Stone. He’s about as smooth as ten miles of potholes. If I were in the target audience for that brand of beer, I would be ashamed to drink anything that had that ignorant character associated with it. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/133 "2011-06-01T00:19:52Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I’m not going to look for any of them, but any of the Keystone Light beer commercials with that mulleted redneck Keith Stone. He’s about as smooth as ten miles of potholes. If I were in the target audience for that brand of beer, I would be ashamed to drink anything that had that ignorant character associated with it. I was just at the store, picking up some cheap beer for the week, when I saw Keystone Light on sale for $7.99 for an 18-pack (around here at least, that’s pretty fucking cheap!!!) but I couldn’t quite force myself to do it, as there are some things more important than saving a few bucks… (I also haven’t been to Subway since they started running the commercials with the “little kid” voices dubbed on to the office workers) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/134 "2011-06-01T02:37:08Z")
ATT Samsung commercial where a gal and 2 guys sit down for lunch and one of the guys puts his phone down with a picture of a tarantula. Terrified the girl screams and one of the guys swats the phone with his shoe. I don’t care for screaming too much. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/135 "2011-06-01T03:39:52Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > The Steak 'N Shake Hat. > The McDonald’s Lemon. > Also, “don’t suffer in silence.” Actually, please do. They I LOVE that McDonald’s lemon commercial. Especially when I realized the voice was that of the Sopranos guy, Steve Schirripa. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/136 "2011-06-01T13:33:45Z")
The Stormchasers commercial that they run at least 10x per hour on Planet Green/Discovery Channel. The guy is all panicky and shouty, which isn’t so bad in itself, but he’s interjecting himself into emergency situations with his panicky shoutiness, something that is truly unhelpful. Plus the egregious inclusion of a scared little girl going “daddy?” is pure evil, exploitative bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/137 "2011-06-01T14:38:58Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > The Dr. Scholl’s gel commercial featuring the GIANT, WRITHING FOOT being massaged by some woman in a darkened room. It makes me gag. Ugh, yes! I’d forgotten about that one. _Shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/138 "2011-06-01T14:45:29Z")
I have a special hatred for those Stanley Steemer commercials where Mr. Carpet Obsessed is rambling on ecstatically about all the crud he’s had to clean up while his partner just sits and watches in silent horror. In the latest one he’s actually spreadeagled facedown on the floor… wonder if he charges extra to clean up after his own “carpetgasm” ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/139 "2011-06-01T15:06:57Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > Ugh, yes! I’d forgotten about that one. _Shudder_ Ugh! I notice they don’t show the long version anymore, which was even worse (much more of the “masseuse.”) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/140 "2011-06-01T15:47:28Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > ATT Samsung commercial where a gal and 2 guys sit down for lunch and one of the guys puts his phone down with a picture of a tarantula. > > Terrified the girl screams and one of the guys swats the phone with his shoe. > > I don’t care for screaming too much. That’s another one that irritates me. So what are they saying, that they’re phone will cause people to go apeshit and want to break the thing? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406.md?page=8)