# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/141 "2011-06-01T15:51:48Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > 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? The point is that the phone has a super-realistic (I assume high-pixel) screen. The tarantula wallpaper looked so real that the girl and shoe-man thought it was. Thus the screaming and pounding. I agree, though, that the commercial is annoying and stupid. ---
**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/142 "2011-06-01T18:31:15Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > 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. OMG. I just watched as much of an episode as I could stomach, and the weenie-ass douchiness was thicker than a wall cloud. I’ll bet the locals love all these city slickers running around in their batmobiles on their farm roads. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/143 "2011-06-01T20:48:00Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > The point is that the phone has a super-realistic (I assume high-pixel) screen. The tarantula wallpaper looked so real that the girl and shoe-man thought it was. Thus the screaming and pounding. I agree, though, that the commercial is annoying and stupid. Yeah, but you have to appreciate the disclaimer - “Screen Images Simulated” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/144 "2011-06-01T22:05:59Z")
My new irritating one is the woman who’s at the breakfast table with her family, and some workman shows up to tell her that the elevator is out at her building. She says “So I have to walk up 20 flights of stairs in heels? I guess I’d better drink my orange juice!” Uh, she’s still at home - does she _have_ to put heels on? Where does she work - Madison Avenue…in 1978? And why can’t she just take her damn heels off to go up the stairs? ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/145 "2011-06-02T14:55:20Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > My new irritating one is the woman who’s at the breakfast table with her family, and some workman shows up to tell her that the elevator is out at her building. She says “So I have to walk up 20 flights of stairs in heels? I guess I’d better drink my orange juice!” > > Uh, she’s still at home - does she _have_ to put heels on? Where does she work - Madison Avenue…in 1978? And why can’t she just take her damn heels off to go up the stairs? Yeah, that bugs me about that whole series. If you find out at breakfast all the events that will make your day purgatory on earth, don’t sit there and chug some OJ. Put on flats, leave early to avoid the traffic that will make you late for your meeting, study a few minutes for the math pop quiz etc. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/146 "2011-06-02T18:06:44Z")
> [@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. I agree with a lot of these but I cannot DISagree with you more. I think this commercial is downright hilarious. The way that actress just screams her ever-lovin’ head off makes me laugh. I hate the “Jello Temptations” commercials because all I see in those commercials is horrible parenting. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/147 "2011-06-02T18:37:46Z")
Kohler. From the farting tuba soundtrack to the marching singing manly-men in their group-poop parade, it’s basically just being all cutesy-cutesy about shit. Awful. Some prescription ad with a shlubby guy who has acid(?) He has to carry a giant beaker of green piss everywhere. Why? ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/148 "2011-06-02T19:26:46Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Some prescription ad with a shlubby guy who has acid(?) He has to carry a giant beaker of green piss everywhere. Why? It represents his case of gout. The commercial that annoys me is the AT&T one where the wife calls her husband at work as a reminder that today is their anniversary, and of course he, being a shlumpy white male, has forgotten all about it - but, thanks to his iPhone, he can pretend that he hasn’t forgotten. Except his tone of voice and constant stammering makes it completely obvious that he HAS forgotten it. Super annoying commercial. Who does AT&T think is dumber - the guy for forgetting and trying to cover up; the wife, for not noticing his obvious hemming and hawing; or the viewers, for not instantly hitting mute? ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/149 "2011-12-26T14:51:07Z")
Re: TaxMasters > [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > 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. Pat Cox doesn’t “appear” to be a fraud. I can assure you from personal knowledge that he is a much bigger fraud than anything you will hear. But to get back to the topic, here is a parody of his awful ads. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wzDQjpHCC6E/hqdefault.jpg "Fat Bastards - Pat Cox TaxMasters parody") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzDQjpHCC6E) ---
**Author:** ![UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/46a35a/32.png) [@UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UFC_Is_Sux)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406/150 "2011-12-26T15:31:34Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3IhBf1rWx8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3IhBf1rWx8) There’s a local commercial with some ambulance chaser calling himself the “Texas Hammer”. He’s loud, annoying, and compares himself to a bull terrier dog. I strongly suspect that if he actually pulled some of those didoes in court in front of a judge, he would be in a holding cell for contempt faster than you could say “Cal Worthington”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-worth-pissing-on-may-2011-edition/582406.md?page=7)