# Commercials you hate #31,686 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325 "2011-10-02T03:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/201 "2011-11-20T03:48:01Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > Fiber bars do not taste anything like candy bars. I hate all of those lying Fiber One ads that try to make us believe those things taste good. I haven’t tried their bars, but their yoghurt is actually pretty good. > [@Sampiro](#): > > There’s also one for a clear ball that can be used in contact juggling. It irks me because it’s so staged and such a lie in its implied/never stated claim. The commercial implies that people can pick that up and instantly look like [David Bowie in Labrynth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_IcWf8EVjU). In truth David Bowie couldn’t even look like David Bowie in Labrynth, those weren’t his hands and you’re no more going to instantly use this thing expertly than you’re going to instantly juggle three rubber balls you just bought. That’s [Michael Moschen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OTb8tga-yg) doubling for David Bowie’s hands. There’s a PBS special he did a long, long time ago that is just amazing. Get it if you can! ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/202 "2011-11-20T05:44:23Z")
I don’t know about anyone else, but the print ads for the Hunger Games movie are driving me batty. Everyone is stunningly gorgeous. It’s not even bad photoshop, it’s good photoshop. But it’s so utterly unreal it makes me want to grab a red marker and start drawing zits on everyone. When did movie posters for supposedly sympathetic every-day characters start looking like Abercrombie & Fitch ads? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/203 "2011-11-20T22:15:46Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Heh. I thought the hamsters were cute except for their diaper-blowout pants. I think they would have been better off going with the cartoon standard of just having them wear no pants. They’re _hamsters_–who’s gonna care? But then they couldn’t be hip Hamsters wearing their baggy pants down to their knees. Come on! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/204 "2011-11-20T23:25:17Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > The Greenhouse Bitch. Seldom have a hated someone more. > > And it’s not on anymore but there was a McDonalds commercial with these two “hand dancers” who sit at a table and do this stupid syncronized “hand dance” thingy while staring straight ahead with this smug grin on their faces. Red hot hatred. I had to skip ahead to bring this one back in the game. Not only is the hand-dancing thing totally “bwuh?”, but after seeing it for the third time, I noticed that the “whipped cream” on top of their drinks is some sort of hollow plastic whipped cream replica, and there’s no drink or any other substance in those cups. Which makes sense. Even the most skilled hand-dancing artist would be spilling mocha left and right if they’d filled the cup, but _still_! My brain tracks the cup motions and registers a loud “Lack Of Inertia Does Not Compute!”, and to make it worse, now I notice it in television shows and movies where a character goes to sip something from a coffee cup, and it’s obviously empty, and I can’t NOT notice it. Totally takes me out of the story. Damn you, McDonalds! DAMN YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Gabing\_Gaboing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b38774/32.png) [@Gabing\_Gaboing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gabing_Gaboing)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/205 "2011-11-21T00:07:53Z")
Another Geico commercial I hate is the one with the mom who takes her child to a day care center which employs only robots, because “robots work for free.” Of course the robots fail miserably, but as a day care worker, I take particular offense. I make barely above poverty level, bitch. The sad thing is, many of the parents I have met through the years would leave their kids with RoboTeacher if they could. :smack: I also hate the McDonalds commercial in which Ronald and kids are up in the big sign looking up at the night sky. There are no stars so Ronald flings up his fairy clowndust or whatever and suddenly he cosmos decorate the sky. Because we all know that Ronald McDonald made the world. On the topic of McD’s I cannot stand their Happy Meal commericals that state “joy is a gift. This is the box it comes in.” Meaning a Happy Meal box, that is. Equating eating fast food with happiness is not a message I want my son to get. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/206 "2011-11-21T08:32:00Z")
> [@Gabing\_Gaboing](#): > > Another Geico commercial I hate is the one with the mom who takes her child to a day care center which employs only robots, because “robots work for free.” Of course the robots fail miserably, but as a day care worker, I take particular offense. I make barely above poverty level, bitch. The sad thing is, many of the parents I have met through the years would leave their kids with RoboTeacher if they could. :smack: I like the commercial well enough, but it does make me wonder about how you go about shooting something with crying children in it. Do you just tell the parents that you’re going to frighten their little angels until some tears start flowing? ---
**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:** [November 21, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/207 "2011-11-21T17:18:58Z")
Based on my experience, some children will simply cry nonstop for hours with little to no provocation. (I was stuck in a car for a very, very long trip with one.) ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/208 "2011-11-21T17:39:06Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Oh hell yeah. > The Wife and I looked at each other during that commercial and said “You know what she gets this year? She gets NOTHING. Ungrateful little snot.” I’d give her a lovely card with a note in it saying that I had donated a cow to a village in Africa in her name, because this is the time of year to think of those less fortunate than us. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/209 "2011-11-22T07:34:18Z")
There’s one playing recently for a store where a woman is able to buy so many great gifts for her family that she stuffs all their stockings to overflowing. Then she waits up on Christmas Eve and when Santa Claus shows up and finds that there’s no room in their stockings to leave his gifts, the woman taunts him. She acts like a real asshole to him and suggests he leave his gifts in her vicious little dog’s stocking. That’s right, the fucking woman is bullying Santa Claus! This does not make me want to shop in your store, morons. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/210 "2011-11-22T07:51:52Z")
> [@Gabing\_Gaboing](#): > > Another Geico commercial I hate is the one with the mom who takes her child to a day care center which employs only robots, because “robots work for free.” Of course the robots fail miserably, but as a day care worker, I take particular offense. I make barely above poverty level, bitch. The sad thing is, many of the parents I have met through the years would leave their kids with RoboTeacher if they could. :smack: > > I also hate the McDonalds commercial in which Ronald and kids are up in the big sign looking up at the night sky. There are no stars so Ronald flings up his fairy clowndust or whatever and suddenly he cosmos decorate the sky. Because we all know that Ronald McDonald made the world. > > On the topic of McD’s I cannot stand their Happy Meal commericals that state “joy is a gift. This is the box it comes in.” Meaning a Happy Meal box, that is. Equating eating fast food with happiness is not a message I want my son to get. If the Happy Meals have hope in the bottom, does that mean that they’re filled with every evil and foulness in the universe? Because that’s what the last box with hope in the bottom had. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/211 "2011-11-22T14:00:27Z")
A radio commercial came on this morning for some auto insurance company. It said, “It’s 1:00 in the morning, it’s raining, and you’re stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire. Who do you call?” I don’t call anyone, moron, I get out and change the fucking flat tire myself! Obviously they’re selling roadside assistance, but I would think most of the free world can change tires themselves. Even _women_! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/212 "2011-11-22T14:27:32Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > I’m not surprised people don’t like the woman in the greenhouse cell phone commercial, but I am surprised people don’t seem to hate the husband too. I mean, what kind of dillhole just up and makes changes to the family cell phone plan without so much as a “kiss my ass, I’m getting unlimited texts”? Or opens a conversation by making it sound like he’s spent a ton of money they don’t necessarily have? Schmuck. Well, there does seem to some sort of perverted genius in how the ad, in just one brief exchange, manages to convey decades of abject misery in this couple’s lives, but as to why that would give me an incentive to purchase a cell phone service, I have no idear. ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/213 "2011-11-22T14:57:28Z")
Imma just leave this here. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGiQzPi0f_E) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/214 "2011-11-22T15:48:43Z")
Windows 7 commercial with a kid giving a Powerpoint presentation to his parents about why he should get a dog. Next scene the kid has a dog and the husband is starting a presentation about why he should golf on Sundays. Wife gives the husband a “Hell no” wave-off. Take away lesson: Windows 7 is great and useful. If you’re a nine year old kid. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/215 "2011-11-22T16:03:59Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Windows 7 commercial with a kid giving a Powerpoint presentation to his parents about why he should get a dog. Next scene the kid has a dog and the husband is starting a presentation about why he should golf on Sundays. Wife gives the husband a “Hell no” wave-off. > > Take away lesson: Windows 7 is great and useful. If you’re a nine year old kid. Other take away: His wife is a controlling bitch and he needs go grow a pair. I \*hate \*that commercial. ---
**Author:** ![strumtesco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@strumtesco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/strumtesco)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/216 "2011-11-22T16:08:47Z")
If someone aready said this one I apologize… I HATE the “Need Cash” or “short on cash?” commercial with the small person (don’t know and don’t care what his name is) Also there is a Furniture outlet commercial here where they SCREAM at you. Would never go there for that reason only… Also, ANY commercial that uses their kids to sell their crap. Expecially the ones that still speak baby babble!!! ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/217 "2011-11-22T16:36:32Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > There’s one playing recently for a store where a woman is able to buy so many great gifts for her family that she stuffs all their stockings to overflowing. Then she waits up on Christmas Eve and when Santa Claus shows up and finds that there’s no room in their stockings to leave his gifts, the woman taunts him. She acts like a real asshole to him and suggests he leave his gifts in her vicious little dog’s stocking. > > That’s right, the fucking woman is bullying Santa Claus! This does not make me want to shop in your store, morons. I feel the same way about any asshole promoting a product. If you are a hateful, condescending dick, that is the impression I take away, not that your product promotes a fun, happy, fulfilling lifestyle. The [1800 Tequila ads starring Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli](http://www.youtube.com/user/1800tequilaofficial)make me leave the room. Okay, Michael, you go ahead and snarf that top shelf tequila alone at your table in your stuffy suit. Meanwhile Ima intercept your girl on the way back from the powder room, tell her a joke, then offer her a good time and a body shot prepared with a mossy bottom shelf stankelia. Don’t wait up, Douchbag. Are there seriously people who will purchase a product because they think it will make them a jerk? What happened to all the fun parties filled with smiling people, flying frisbees, bikini girls and romping golden retrievers? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/218 "2011-11-22T17:54:19Z")
> [@Doody\_Pants](#): > > Oh joy! Psychotic Target Christmas Shopping lady is back! She’s like Amy Sedaris. Only not funny or sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/219 "2011-11-22T18:18:16Z")
“You got a weather balloon with _points_!” “Yes I did!” I didn’t mind this one at first, but the more times I see it, the more it bugs me for how little sense it makes. First of all, this dude and his buddies just drove out to the middle of friggin’ nowhere to launch the balloon, and the above conversation takes place _as they’re inflating the thing_! So they hadn’t even discussed what the hell they were heading out to do until they got there and unloaded all the equipment? Really? So then they drive all over creation to retrieve the balloon, so that they can… get ready… watch a video of the tops of clouds on a laptop computer! Not much of a payoff, if you ask me. “I used my points to get a whole new perspective.” What’s the matter, can’t find YouTube? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/220 "2011-11-22T18:53:22Z")
The weather balloon commercial is based off [an actual event](http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/) where some dudes did just that and, for a few hundred bucks, got photos NASA was interested in buying. The commercial itself bothers me because I think of these dudes as posers, trying to act innovative for doing what’s been done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=12)