# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/221 "2011-11-22T19:54:54Z")
That 60’s-esque animated commercial for Grand Marnier with the 2 bathing-suit clad cartoon-women at a ski chalet. Not only is the music and faux-french voiceovers irritating as hell, bathing suits in a ski chalet? WTF?? I just realized that this might happen somewhere, but the commercial airs on a Canadian network and you can bet your thermal-underwear covered ass that we don’t wear bathing suits to go skiing. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/222 "2011-11-22T22:01:01Z")
> [@azraiel](#): > > Imma just leave this here. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGiQzPi0f\_E&feature=player\_embedded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGiQzPi0f_E&feature=player_embedded) Is this supposed to get me in the store? Because I don’t want to spend my Friday running into some materialistic, psychotic version of Rebecca Black. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/223 "2011-11-22T22:29:23Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > “You got a weather balloon with _points_!” > “Yes I did!” I am SO glad I am not alone in this. I remember when the real dad did this and saw the video of it, and it was awesome. But this commercial just feels like a horrible, horrible commercialization of it, and the lines you quoted make me cringe every single time. It just sounds so…so FAKE. Like being taken out of a novel when the author decides to dump unnecessary expository on you. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/224 "2011-11-23T04:28:30Z")
> [@Doody\_Pants](#): > > Oh joy! Psychotic Target Christmas Shopping lady is back! She previously existed? How did I manage to avoid her before? That woman needs to get a life, and then drop dead. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/225 "2011-11-23T04:40:49Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > She previously existed? How did I manage to avoid her before? > > That woman needs to get a life, and then drop dead. I think the writers are fully aware of that. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/226 "2011-11-23T04:44:23Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > She previously existed? How did I manage to avoid her before? > > That woman needs to get a life, and then drop dead. Heh. If you know her back story, your post seems a bit morbidly mean… She is very neurotic, and her anxiety is very wrapped up in her audience liking her comedy. I think she has had a nervous breakdown about it. Anyway, she’s an aquired taste. If you like her weird brand of comedy, which I do, then you can tolerate those commercials a bit more. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/227 "2011-11-23T04:56:29Z")
The slob extolling the virtues of his Chicken McNuggets to his friends needs to choke on one. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/228 "2011-11-23T05:10:00Z")
Vote 42 for Greenhouse Bitch. This is SUCH a hateful commercial that even if the product were something I wanted, I’d boycott it. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/229 "2011-11-23T05:13:23Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Yes, it’s real. > > I wonder who’s creepier, those two kids in the giant lady costume or the Burger King. I think she’s supposed to be Julia Child? ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/230 "2011-11-23T05:24:59Z")
I absolutely detest the current holiday Target commercial with the hysterical woman. Last year I thought that Target had one of the best holiday commercials with a very catchy tune. This year, whenever I see the Target commercial coming on I just mute the TV. Too bad Target wasn’t smart enough to just reuse last year’s commercial. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/231 "2011-11-23T05:35:17Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Toaster Strudel.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfHCsuI_ZCQ) > Big sister is nice enough to split her Toaster Strudel and share rather than let her little brother eat a PopTart and he steals her half and leaves her with the PopTart. These commercials bug me for a slightly different reason. Presumably the parent knows that toaster strudels are better, so why are there even poptarts in the house in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/232 "2011-11-24T15:42:56Z")
Okay, Bieber’s Black Friday spot is getting old. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/233 "2011-11-24T18:08:04Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Okay, Bieber’s Black Friday spot is getting old. I just saw it for the first time today. I can see how it can get old. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/234 "2011-11-27T21:26:33Z")
The obnoxious girl on the eBay commercial who begins by singing “five golden rings…” and then makes demands on her family members for specific gifts and insults their gifts from previous years. Horrible child. She should get socks. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/235 "2011-11-27T22:33:21Z")
The horrid Walmart ad where the woman asks the clerk to read her list but it’s all scratched out, and she says she found everything “BOOM”. What a bitch, what a stupid thing to brag about, what an obnoxious way to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/236 "2011-11-27T22:56:12Z")
I hate any commercial that plays Christmas music of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/237 "2011-11-27T23:11:09Z")
What about Best Buy’s horrible “[Game on, Santa](http://www.thedenveregotist.com/news/local/2011/november/18/game-santa)” ads? I mean, really, you have a woman being bitchy and superior to **Santa**? That’s supposed to be in keeping with the holiday spirit? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/238 "2011-11-27T23:22:21Z")
Santa is a dick. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/239 "2011-11-28T00:37:29Z")
It’s a relatively new commercial but it’s already gotten under my skin; I believe it’s a Verizon commerical in which you see a bunch of random people passing by, saying “Congratulations!” to the person who is supposed to be represented by the camera’s POV. I don’t get it. I don’t _want_ to get it. And I keep seeing it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/240 "2011-11-28T01:01:21Z")
The Florida Anti-Smoking commercials. They are extremely graphic, and are always shown during the 5, 5.30, and 6 pm news broadcasts…we do not need to see someone’s chest cavity wide open and surgeons operating on the patient…extremely nasty…way to ruin dinner… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=13)