# 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:** 18
**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:** [January 13, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/341 "2012-01-13T12:17:55Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > There’s a really stupid one out for Abilify right now, the animated one where a woman’s depression is represented by a bathrobe. They used to use some dark blob for the depression, but now it’s a bathrobe for some reason. Whatever. The two maddening events in this commercial for me happen when she visits the doctor. First of all, her depression robe sits in a seat next to her _taking notes along with her_. WTF? Your depression is not like an annoying little brother you have to take along with you; it’s not sentient, and why in the hell would it want to take notes if it were? The second thing is that the doctor sits the woman and the depression robe down to show her a video…of THE SAME DOCTOR TALKING. Instead of just talking to her about Abilify, he had to record himself talking about Abilify and she goes to the trouble of visiting his office only to watch a damn video that she could’ve probably watched at home. I might blow my own head off if my doctor did that. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/342 "2012-01-13T13:31:29Z")
I felt overwhelmed by car commercials this past Christmas, and one of the most obnoxious campaigns was the Infiniti snowball series. I will admit, the first time I saw the guy roll the snowball down the mountain so that it opened up a parking space, I thought it was funny. Since then, however, I’ve come to hate both “Jim” and “Dave” or whatever their names are. Especially the ass in the Infiniti who gets his kid and his friends to bombard the jerk-face neighbor with a bazillion snowballs. _“Head’s up, Jim!”_ Yeah great lesson for the kids… I’m not their target demographic, but if I was in the market for a luxury sedan, I’d be avoiding Infiniti for certain. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/343 "2012-01-13T16:54:15Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > There’s a really stupid one out for Abilify right now, the animated one where a woman’s depression is represented by a bathrobe. They used to use some dark blob for the depression, but now it’s a bathrobe for some reason. Whatever. The two maddening events in this commercial for me happen when she visits the doctor. First of all, her depression robe sits in a seat next to her _taking notes along with her_. WTF? Your depression is not like an annoying little brother you have to take along with you; it’s not sentient, and why in the hell would it want to take notes if it were? The second thing is that the doctor sits the woman and the depression robe down to show her a video…of THE SAME DOCTOR TALKING. Instead of just talking to her about Abilify, he had to record himself talking about Abilify and she goes to the trouble of visiting his office only to watch a damn video that she could’ve probably watched at home. The thing that bothers me about that one is the eyes. It would be better without them. The bathrobe itself is a potent metaphor about depression, you don’t need googly eyes to make it anthropomorphic. And IME depressed people don’t respond well to cutesy things, anyway. I also love the conniptions that the Abilify commercials go through to explain “It’s an [del]antipsychotic[/del] adjunct to unipolar depression meds. Only unipolar! Please don’t read the rest of our website or you’ll be scared away.” ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/344 "2012-01-13T18:07:55Z")
Will I go to hell for saying that I want to do the woman in the Abilify blob commercial? ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/345 "2012-01-13T19:45:22Z")
My wife takes medication similar to abilify (and in fact took it at one point in the past) and she rather likes the commercial, and the representation of depression as a bathrobe. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/346 "2012-01-13T19:51:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Why does this make me think of turning starving children into cat food? Is the solution to feed African kids to cats, or cats to African kids? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/347 "2012-01-13T20:00:20Z")
Obviously the kids are worth less, so they should be fed to the cats. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/348 "2012-01-13T20:19:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Crystal Light, I think. > > Two women are on an airplane. One orders Crystal Light to keep her bikini-ready figure. The other launches into a diatribe about how overworked they are and will never have the opportunity to be on a beach. > > Quick cut to the plane crashed on a island somewhere. Hunky guy asks which of the women wants to help him **collect fresh water**. Miss CL steps up and starts taking off her blouse. Oh, is that what they’re calling it these days? ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/349 "2012-01-13T23:34:39Z")
I like to take a Sheet while I’m working. I like to take a Sheet while riding in my car. I like to take a Sheet in my bosses mouth! Or something like that. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/350 "2012-01-14T00:30:15Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > Will I go to hell for saying that I want to do the woman in the Abilify blob commercial? That depends…are you talking about the current representation, or the original version where the characters (including the woman) had no visible teeth when they talked? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/351 "2012-01-14T01:59:37Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Why does this make me think of turning starving children into cat food? Perhaps you’re channeling Jonathon Swift. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/352 "2012-01-15T17:58:16Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > The only difference in his life seems to be that he gets to have nicer stuff. Wife and kids looked just as happy when he was the HVAC technician who didn’t work 90 hours a week. Are you kidding? The techs at my job are far more likely to be working overtime than us salaried punks. And they get time and a half (or double time). Of course, my base salary is a touch better. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/353 "2012-01-19T15:53:42Z")
There’s an ad that shows up in my Yahoo inbox as background whenever I don’t have any mail. It’s for Publishers Clearinghouse, and it has pictures of two douchebags and a bitch. The two douchebags are guys with their arms crossed over their chests and these incredibly stern and smug looks on their faces. The bitch has spike heels, one leg bent at the knee with pointed toe (on spike heels), a thrust out chest, and an equally smug expression. They all seem to be saying I am not worthy of their contest. I want to kill them all!! ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/354 "2012-01-19T15:57:53Z")
That new SeaBond commercial with the hand puppet. It’s essentially a sock puppet with a giant set of dentures on the end, so the overall effect is “giant dildo with teeth” ---
**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:** [January 26, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/355 "2012-01-26T19:47:32Z")
The new JC Penney commercial with the shoppers all screaming NOOOO! when they encounter confusing sales at other retailers. I can’t hit “mute” quickly enough for this one. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/356 "2012-01-26T20:15:20Z")
Not hate, but: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yA4pBAwlSJU/maxresdefault.jpg "Jon Jones UFC Playoff Commercial MMA NFL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA4pBAwlSJU) Ummm… kicking a kid? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/357 "2012-01-27T00:16:21Z")
I wonder if the pathetic special effects were an attempt to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/358 "2012-01-27T03:51:37Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > The new JC Penney commercial with the shoppers all screaming NOOOO! when they encounter confusing sales at other retailers. I can’t hit “mute” quickly enough for this one. I’m emailing JCP and my local station(s) to say that I’m boycotting anyone who screams bloody murder in my house. The poor dogs and wife react with instant anxiety (and, yeah, me, too). How can this be legal? Can you have a commercial with people yelling “Raaaape!” or “Fire”? ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/359 "2012-01-27T07:01:43Z")
> [@Quintas](#): > > The Hispanic scholarship fund commercial. “You WILL go to college” “NooOOoo mom” “Yes” “Nooooooooooo” > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQuR5dMHpPs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQuR5dMHpPs) It irritates me that when he’s a doctor he puts on his lab coat at home and eats breakfast wearing it. Who does that? It’s so weird. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/360 "2012-01-27T07:09:51Z")
I hate the Trojan vibrator commercials with women walking around with their hair blown back (as well as a few guys). I’m not a prude, but I find it very strange that they are basically selling a masturbation machine to the public, and I’ve not heard much complaining. I guess that’s because women can actually achieve orgasm with the little buzz toy, therefore why would they complain? And guys can get off with it too, I guess by shoving it up their ass, or having their wife massage their balls with it. All I know is that after a wedding shower, three women gave this gift to the bride to be, and looked like they all used it before giving it away, as their hair was in the “blow back” position. And what does the loser husband say when his wife announces they received 3 vibrators for gifts? Not the normal “WTF have you been telling your friends about our sex life”, or “WTF? how much do your friends think you jerk off?” or a thousand other appropriate responses… no he screams out “SWEET!”, like he’s glad he’s finally getting some help down there; I can’t wait for the Ronco “Pocket Pussy” to be sold on those infomercials. Or the anal beads, or something just for the guys, like a “trojan blowjob!” (although that sounds a bit gay.) How about something like the “Blowjob Girlfriend”, for the couple who’s woman’s jaw gets too tired, or she can’t get her teeth out of the way. The guy will be thrilled, and she’ll yell “Sweet” when he gets a few at his bachelor party! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=19)