# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/381 "2012-02-11T13:41:15Z")
In my neck of the woods, we have these local, made-in-Chgina furniture store chains, that do their own ads (incredibly cheap looking), and try to be funny (whilst really annoying): -“Bob’s”-possibly the worst of the lot-made with cheesy animation, and telling you how his shit is cheaper than anybody else’s -“Bernie & Phils”-these two look like they ought to be retired in “Boca Breeze”-their ads feature their kids (every bit as obnoxious as the parents). their schtick is in "no interest’ loans to buy their crap-miss a payment and yo are paying about 30% interest rates -“Jordans”-old bearded guy with a ponytail explains why his made-in-China junk is “better” than Bob’s made-in-China junk These commercials are on constantly-many repeated immediately. Chinese water torture! ---
**Author:** ![jrbor76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jrbor76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrbor76)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/382 "2012-02-16T23:58:38Z")
There’s one for this website for moms (it may be just a local [central WI] thing, I don’t know and I wouldn’t be caught dead googling it) - there’s a harried, somewhat pasty mom in the grocery’s produce section trying to keep her screaming two-year-old under control. Kid won’t walk along side, kid won’t stay in cart seat, something like that. Along comes the slow motion cam capture of this exotic woman steering her cart down the aisle with two impossibly well-behaved kids walking alongside, looking like she just stepped off a runway. Harried Mom can only stare in disbelief. But two things really bug me about this one. First, Exotic Mom hands Harried Mom a business card with website for moms’ name printed on it - along with a _tomato_ for some reason. Yeah. A tomato. I don’t get it either. Second, the ad ends on a shot of Exotic Mom’s hand handing Harried Mom’s hand this card, and Harried Mom’s forearm has to be at least twice as large as Exotic Mom’s forearm. It’s freaky. And a wee bit offensive to people without perfect bodies, I would think. But, then again, I’m a guy in my 30s who doesn’t have kids and doesn’t want kids. This commercial probably isn’t _supposed_ to appeal to me. ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/383 "2012-02-17T03:28:18Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > She looks like an alien. I look at her and think, “I would take your advice, _why_?” I thought they made a female clone of Kenneth off Thirty Rock and fed her a steady diet of cappuccino and crystal meth. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/384 "2012-02-18T00:04:49Z")
Any commercial where a furniture salesman or car dealer has their kids talking about what a great deal dad gives and why you should buy something from him. The kids always come off as annoying. Make it stop!!! ---
**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:** [February 18, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/385 "2012-02-18T12:28:29Z")
> [@67java89](#): > > Any commercial where a furniture salesman or car dealer has their kids talking about what a great deal dad gives and why you should buy something from him. The kids always come off as annoying. Make it stop!!! My god, the children. There’s [one around here for a hand surgeon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eruabiSHHRA) that has the most irritating child in the history of children on commercials. At the very end, for no explicable reason, the little brat jumps on daddy’s lap and says “Daddy’s baby girl” in a voice so abrasive it would cut through steel. ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/386 "2012-02-18T19:46:53Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > My god, the children. There’s [one around here for a hand surgeon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eruabiSHHRA) that has the most irritating child in the history of children on commercials. At the very end, for no explicable reason, the little brat jumps on daddy’s lap and says “Daddy’s baby girl” in a voice so abrasive it would cut through steel. That’s actually brilliant. Viewers either lunge for the remote and slam into the coffee table or get pissed and punch the wall. The end result is an injured hand, and who better to treat that than a hand surgeon? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/387 "2012-02-18T23:53:01Z")
Ditto on local ads using children. The kids are never as cute as their parents/grandparents think they are, and you usually can’t understand what they say. And they don’t look comfortable. Or if they do look comfortable, it’s because they’re snotty little show-offs. Currently I’m not liking the car commercial where the mom lets his daughter’s boyfriend use her car, presumably because it’s safer. Meanwhile, she’s driving **his** car, which looks like something put together from a kit. So the message is what? Mom’s life isn’t as valuable as the daughter’s? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/388 "2012-02-20T05:11:38Z")
Mom will do anything to protect her daughter. Even let the boyfriend drive the daughter in mom’s safer car, and risk mom’s life instead. It’s really not that complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Rudiger\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rudiger\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rudiger_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/389 "2012-02-20T18:56:40Z")
> [@67java89](#): > > Any commercial where a furniture salesman or car dealer has their kids talking about what a great deal dad gives and why you should buy something from him. The kids always come off as annoying. Make it stop!!! Fucking Pugi! Those commercials are brutal. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/390 "2012-02-21T17:56:25Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Ditto on local ads using children. The kids are never as cute as their parents/grandparents think they are, and you usually can’t understand what they say. And they don’t look comfortable. Or if they do look comfortable, it’s because they’re snotty little show-offs. Ugh. Witness Pawn America’s [Amazing Eggmoe.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywvh3pIj2fo) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/391 "2012-02-21T18:51:08Z")
There is a furniture store commercial here that gets run 67 times a day and has been on for months. It’s pretty forgettable except for the giant letters extolling their “EXTENED WARRANTY”. That typo is like a finger jabbing me in the eye every time! I just can’t understand how someone could produce this commercial, with plans to run it into the ground, and not even glance over the finished product. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/392 "2012-02-21T20:39:59Z")
It may have been mentioned earlier, but as I said in another thread, the Jamie Lee Curtis Poop Yogurt ads. Not only is Jamie Lee so visibly \*smug \*about having torpedoed a once-respected acting career to become the Poop Yogurt Lady, but she asks people to \*make video diaries \*of their Poop Journey and send them to Jamie Lee to show on her commercials! Which they _do!_ I am waiting for someone to send in a video of herself doubled over on the toilet, extolling the virtues of Poop Yogurt. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/393 "2012-02-21T20:52:47Z")
All insurance commercials, of course. But lately the little girl on the Cheerios commercial is annoying the heck out of me. The one that says: That’s for babies. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/394 "2012-02-21T21:10:22Z")
There’s that bank card commercial where the girl and guy are going rock climbing and the new shoes she’s getting are rock climbing shoes, and nylons are rock climbing equipment etc. Not horrible, but apparently the company could only afford one commercial as they are running it endlessly and on the few shows I care about. aargh. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/395 "2012-02-21T21:18:12Z")
There is a car commercial where the car is parked in Times Square and people are pointing at it and peering in the windows. The announcer says, “Even in Times Square, where everything collides for attention…” blah blah blah. It just grates on me. The proper phrase is “_competes_ for attention”, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/396 "2012-02-21T21:23:01Z")
The Grecian Formula commercial where the two cute young girls try to get their dad to cover his gray and start dating again. When they approach him with the box of hair dye and tell him “it’s time”…I alway add…“go slap some shoe polish on your head and go out and get us a new Mommy” ---
**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:** [February 21, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/397 "2012-02-21T21:24:20Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > …But lately the little girl on the Cheerios commercial is annoying the heck out of me. The one that says: That’s for babies. I knew that if I read this thread long enough, I would come across a commercial that I love so much that I can’t bite my tongue. I love this commercial. I love that kid. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/398 "2012-02-21T21:32:54Z")
The computer one with the rolly eyeballs makes me shiver. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/399 "2012-02-21T21:35:22Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > My god, the children. There’s [one around here for a hand surgeon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eruabiSHHRA) that has the most irritating child in the history of children on commercials. At the very end, for no explicable reason, the little brat jumps on daddy’s lap and says “Daddy’s baby girl” in a voice so abrasive it would cut through steel. That one is seriously creepy. Stepford Wife and Stepford Children. Ewww. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/400 "2012-02-21T22:22:31Z")
This [article](http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/08-24-10-brown-hand-center-doc-arrested-for-assaulting-wife-again/)was in the news recently. (Doc Brown beats his wife. Repeatedly.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=21)