# Commercials you absolutely hate. (lame) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066 "2004-07-27T07:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/21 "2004-07-27T15:37:18Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > **A** station. Actually, there is more than one ABC radio station. [ol] [li]Triple J[/li][li]ABC Classic FM[/li][li]Radio National[/li][li]Radio Australia[/li][li]Various local ABC stations[/li][/ol] They are all part of the ABC, but i don’t think it’s correct to call it a single radio station. And none of these stations have advertising. It’s excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Ginkgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3bc359/32.png) [@Ginkgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ginkgo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/22 "2004-07-27T16:27:03Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > I hate the the new (or at least, I _think_ they’re new) Johnsonville Brats commercials. Please. Tell me you haven’t been subjected to the self-aggrandizing, pompous, pitchman horror known as Jim Traber (Sorry, but for some reason I’m unable to link to his anemic lifetime stats…). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/23 "2004-07-27T16:39:22Z")
> [@jttm80](#): > > And you can see his grey-chest hairs peeking out of the tutu. That’s got to be some uncomfortably hiked-up tutu! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/24 "2004-07-27T16:46:06Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > That’s got to be some uncomfortably hiked-up tutu! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/25 "2004-07-27T16:51:08Z")
Two words: Enzyte Bob. Plus, all those ads for Cortislim, and Get Rich Quick by Buying Your Own ATM! ---
**Author:** ![Andros\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Andros\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andros_X)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/26 "2004-07-27T17:03:05Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Two words: > > Enzyte Bob. A-fucking-men. (No pun intended.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/27 "2004-07-27T17:31:12Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > The most annoying current commercial for me is the car series with stupid “We’ve created a monster” and “We have x-ray vision” shit. That ad makes me wonder why the surfing school teacher is wearing red “Fuck-Me Shoes” in the classroom! 😕 Another ad series that gets me is on PBS. Some insurance company that sponsors a program has ads that claim “they do all they can” for safety or some stupid claim like that. The ads show some moron walking down the street, and seeing a banana peel on the sidewalk, he puts out a traffic cone. In another one, he sees a roller-skate left on a stairway and puts yellow “caution” tape up. Goddammit! Pick them up, asshole! Maybe I need medication. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/28 "2004-07-27T17:44:43Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > Maybe I need medication. No, you don’t. The modern tendency to draw attention to the problem instead of fixing the problem makes lots of people crazy. Medicate us, and nobody will fix anything again, and then where will we be? ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/29 "2004-07-27T18:29:46Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > but I think the one I hate the most right now is a commercial for some Post cereal (the name of it escapes me right now). Anyway, the ad plays out like you’re watching a cooking show. A guy with a fake, overly excited (and therefore extremely annoying) British accent claims how wonderful cranberries are in this cereal and harps about “the tartness of the crans”. What an idiotic premise for a commercial. If this guy were an actual cook with his own show I’d like to stuff a fistful of “crans” in his gob just to shut him up. I do believe this one is based off of a real cooking show called ‘The Naked Chef’ > [@](#): > > There’s a Tampax one where 3 girls are trapped on a desert island. Suddenly, they realize: They might not have enough tampons!!! So they take whatever boxes of them they have and spell out “Send Tampax” in the sand with tampons in huge letters. A plane drops a box off and they are saved. > > Send Tampax??? How about send FOOD? How about RESCUE US??? They can’t be rescued. They’re supposed to be on Survivor. That’s why they are talking about ‘I was prepared to go without bathing and manicures, but this!?’ > [@Meros](#): > > Forget the SpongeMonkeys. As annoying as they can be, the worst commercial BY FAR, is the “raised by wolves” guy. There’s also a car commercial having to do with being raised by wolves. This lady is out camping with her husband and kids and talking to the camera about how her and her family get away as much as they can because her husband needs to be with his family. It shows clips of him chasing after a cat, being all twitchy in the city, and running with a pack of wolves. Yes I watch way to much TV when I know some of the meaning behind the commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/30 "2004-07-27T20:22:12Z")
Truth out commercial. I hate those smug, self-rightous little pircks. Do I know smoking’s bad for me? Yes. That’s one reason I quit. Is it the tobacco companies’ fault I started 18 years ago? No. No, I already knew it was bad for me, but it would drive my mother batty. (I was 16.) Did I know they were bad then? Yes, the tobacco companies sure as hell weren’t running around in the mid 80 claiming they had vitamin c in them. Will I sue the tobacco companies if I end up getting lung cancer? No. It was my decision to begin in the first place. I wonder how many of them want to outlaw cigarettes but legalize pot. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/31 "2004-07-27T20:29:02Z")
:dubious: In general, I hate all commercials that feature parents being helpless when dealing with uncontrollable kids. :wally :wally :wally ---
**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:** [July 27, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/32 "2004-07-27T20:40:31Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > I wonder how many of them want to outlaw cigarettes but legalize pot. Didn’t someone link to a site in another “commericals we hate” thread that claimed the kids in those commercials were smoking in between takes? One of the worst commercials out there right now is for M&M’s cookie bars. It shows a kid ripping open one cookie bar after another and carefully lines the bars in a pencil box, while tossing the wrappers on the floor. As the kid puts the box in his bookbag, the camera pulls out to show the pile of wrappers around a labrodor retriever. As he’s walking out of the room the kid yells to his mom, “The dog ate all the M&M’s cookie bars again!” The only disclaimer on the ad states (in very tiny white letters) “Never give chocolate to dogs.” It doesn’t tell you that chocolate can kill a dog. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/33 "2004-07-27T20:44:44Z")
OK, Enzite-Bob and Truth Out come close, but by far the worst are the newer anti-smoking commercials. The ones where a sobbing person reads a letter or diary or whatever wbout how their best friend died from smoking. The blatant attempt at guilt pisses me off so much that the first time I saw it I went out and had my first cigarette for about four months. Screw those pricks. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/34 "2004-07-27T20:52:02Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > No, you don’t. > The modern tendency to draw attention to the problem instead of fixing the problem makes lots of people crazy. Medicate us, and nobody will fix anything again, and then where will we be? _Brazil._ ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/35 "2004-07-27T20:52:10Z")
I hated the recent Burger King ads where the office clique (complete with Resident Office Bitch) picks on the office outcast. They make fun of his tattoo placeholder, they bite into his sandwich even after it’s clearly a mix-up…I think it’s mean and it doesn’t make me want to go and buy an Angus burger. The next one is the guy jogging thru the park in his Adidas. He jumps over a woman, flips over a park bench with a man sitting on it, steps on kids fingers, and jumps on a table of picnickers. WTF? “I wear Adidas so I can be an obnoxious jerk” is a selling point? 😕 It makes me want to kick him in the nuts, that’s what it makes me feel. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MinniePurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MinniePurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinniePurl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/36 "2004-07-27T21:30:19Z")
The commercial I am hating right now is the one for Cooper Tires. Dejected husband sits on the sofa in a dark, depressing house. Grouchy Wife scowls at him. “What is wrong with you?” she says. He cowers. “You’re a moron!” she sneers. “But…” he starts to say. “It’s like talking to a wall,” bitches Grouchy Wife. “A wall in a big brown sweater.” WTF? Are they positioning themselves as the tire store for the emotionally abused? ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/37 "2004-07-27T21:35:00Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > That ad makes me wonder why the surfing school teacher is wearing red “Fuck-Me Shoes” in the classroom! 😕 You obviously didn’t get the memo, **gatopescado**. Didn’t you realize all school teachers are wanton, nympho-sex-kittens in disguise? You have to wait until we get home for us to take off our glasses and take down our hair bun, but we wear the shoes all day long 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/38 "2004-07-27T21:54:00Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > :dubious: > In general, I hate all commercials that feature parents being helpless when dealing with uncontrollable kids. :wally :wally :wally Last time we had a thread like this, someone mentioned a commercial with a little girl slapping bottle of liquid medicine out of her mother’s hand because she didn’t like the taste of it. I’m sure the ad was for a better-tasting medicine. I never saw that one. Anyone know if it’s online somewhere? > [@Ginkgo](#): > > Please. Tell me you haven’t been subjected to the self-aggrandizing, pompous, pitchman horror known as Jim Traber (Sorry, but for some reason I’m unable to link to his anemic lifetime stats…). Never heard of him. Is he local (I ask 'cause you’re in Oklahoma, too)? ---
**Author:** ![Pamflitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@Pamflitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pamflitt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/39 "2004-07-28T00:26:21Z")
There are some awful commercials out there: 1. The kiddie version of Neosporin or somesuch. The mom is making a big deal about how safe his stroller is (it’s got a shoulder harness, etc), and at this point I’m screaming inside: “It’s an Effing kid, it’s hard for normal (ie I don’t want to listen to any of you Bi\*\*\* about how some kids can really hurt themselves) to hurt themselves. All you need to do to keep the kid safe is make sure you do not have bear traps in the living room. You do not need to go to the Effing extream of your ‘enhanced’ stroller to keep that little brat (he may or may not have been a brat, it’s a gud durned commercial for chirst’s sake) safe” 2. Sasktel has a bunch of kids telling us how easy the internet is to use from them. It’s all fine and dandy, none of them have really bad kiddie accents, but Sasktel does not know when to give it’s commercials a break, we’ve have at least a dozen (more like four or five) variants of the kids telling us how good the internet is. And, as if that wasn’t enough it is all delivered in a manner taht is ultra (to use a word I learned right here on the SD) twee (twee ~ cutsy IIRC). 3. Some idiot gov’t agency has a bunch of kids on the radio (not my radio anymore, my car only has AM radio and that doesn’t work, yeah me) telling us how to drive. LISTEN BRATS, I AM YEARS OLDER THAN YOU, EVERY TIME I GET INTO MY EFFING CAR I DO NOT NEED TO BE TOLD TO PUT MY SEAT BELT ON!!! I AM AN ADULT, AND WILL NOT BE TALKED DOWN TO BY A CHILD. 4. Any home made commercial. It makes the product look trashy and/or cheap. 5. Any commercial that uses oversyntesised space music (there is one for computers on the TV now that uses space music) 6. Any commercial with misbehaving kids. The last time (or longer) one of these was posted, I think someone posted a link to Zoogoo’s Condoms, if that person is still around, he/she should repost the link, because I loved that commercial, the best commercial ever (although if it were for anything other than preventing parenthood (and as a consequence, childhood, and misbehaving children), I would hate it (imagine that kid throwing a shit fit to get a kinderegg or some such)). ---
**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:** [July 28, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066/40 "2004-07-28T01:05:05Z")
I hate I repeat absolutely HATE! The new… PEPTO BISMOL! commercial. The one where you got like four office workers standing in a line and they’re doing this stupid little line dance thing… FUCK! that irritates me! And oh yeah Enzyte Bob must die! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-absolutely-hate-lame/257066.md?page=3)