# 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:** 22
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/421 "2012-03-07T20:47:08Z")
There is a radio ad playing for [wegrowhair.com](http://wegrowhair.com) but they way they say it makes it sound like [Negrohair.com](http://Negrohair.com). It grates on my nerves! ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/422 "2012-03-07T20:56:59Z")
I have a profound hatred for Yoplait’s “swapportunity” ad, where a judge tries to make some poor kid spell a made-up word at a spelling bee. Fuck you, spelling bee judge, you’re an asshole. And “swapportunity” is not a real word. I like to imagine that the next few seconds involve another judge coming in and barring her from judging any more competitions before giving the kid a new word. And, same company, the newest Greek yogurt ad, which has this exchange: Lady 1: “I love this Greek yogurt.” Lady 2: “I like Yoplait.” Lady 1: “It _is_ Yoplait.” Lady 2: “Well, which is it, Greek or Yoplait??” Lady 1: “Exactly.” Lady 2: “Okaaay…” Lady 1, you’re going to have to say something other than “exactly,” because A) that makes no goddamned sense, B) there is a right way and a wrong way to use “exactly,” and your way is wrong, and C) _your friend is obviously stupid and doesn’t get that Greek yogurt is a type, not a brand_. Just tell her what the fuck Greek yogurt is and put us all out of our misery. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/423 "2012-03-07T21:11:47Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > “It’s MY money, I want it NOW!” > > No, bitch it ain’t _ **your** _ money. You agreed to a PAYMENT SCHEDULE! Or you won THE LOTTERY! If you had wanted a lump sum, you should have taken it from the lottery commission, or settled your court case for a lesser lump sum. It’s only _ **your** _ money when you _ **get paid** _, if you want it now, pay through the nose, moron. > > Joe Those commercials are so god-awful I actually kind of like them. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/424 "2012-03-07T21:41:15Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > …Except, how long does it actually take to do 100 situps?.. Approximately forever. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/425 "2012-03-07T21:50:43Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Those commercials are so god-awful I actually kind of like them. I know what you mean. There is something so zany about the one with the Wagnerian opera singers that tickles me. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/426 "2012-03-07T22:34:13Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Huh? Did you move the car out of the covered carport just so he could change the tire in the pouring rain? That’s kind of a dickish thing to do… No, I didn’t move the car at all. I guess I should have made that clear. The car was a station wagon, with the spare bolted on beneath the rear compartment, and the tire with the bolt in it on a rear wheel, and both accessible without moving the car. The Auto Club tow guy, however, did have to park his truck at the curb, in the pouring rain, thanks to Adelaide. For me to pull the car out into the rain and work on it myself would be foolish and masochistic. For me to pull it out and have the _Auto Club guy_ do it would be foolish and damned inconsiderate. That adequately describes Adelaide. ☹ ---
**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:** [March 8, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/427 "2012-03-08T00:37:53Z")
What about vintage ads? One of my favorite podcasts features old radio shows, often with the ads intact. Despite my online research, I have yet to find a reason why the spokesman for Champagne Velvet beer was incapable of pronouncing the word “smooth”. “It’s just as SMEEEEWWTH!!!” he repeatedly bellows. I wonder if that had people lunging across the room for the radio dial back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/428 "2012-03-08T00:58:22Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > You’re just jealous because you don’t have a structured settlement. No worries, I don’t either. ☹ Are there really that many people out there with structured settlements? That’s what I always wonder. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/429 "2012-03-08T00:58:41Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > What about vintage ads? The worst OTR advertising offense I recall is similar: “It’s the smoooviest!” I have mercifully forgotten the product entirely. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/430 "2012-03-08T05:08:59Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Are there really that many people out there with structured settlements? That’s what I always wonder. Well, my Bro, when he retired from the Govt, had his TSP, a 401K like plan, and one option (since he was under 59) was to have it paid as a annuity, so that’s a sort of structured settlement, and rather common. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/431 "2012-03-08T07:53:20Z")
Then there’s that man seated at an outdoor cafe, talking on his cell phone, who refuses someone something, then gets a hand grenade (live) thrown at him. It explodes. Now what was _that_ for?? And the commercial about the father who wants an “Internet cord,” and his wife and 11-year-old daughter get annoyed and tell him, in the most condescending way possible, that it’s a radio “connection.” Talk about talking down to someone… ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/432 "2012-03-08T09:14:09Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Then there’s that man seated at an outdoor cafe, talking on his cell phone, who refuses someone something, then gets a hand grenade (live) thrown at him. It explodes. Now what was _that_ for?? > > And the commercial about the father who wants an “Internet cord,” and his wife and 11-year-old daughter get annoyed and tell him, in the most condescending way possible, that it’s a radio “connection.” Talk about talking down to someone… I may be remembering wrong, but, to be fair, don’t they explicitly say to him that it’s wireless, and there is no cord, and he plays the dumb male and doesn’t understand? ---
**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:** [March 8, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/433 "2012-03-08T11:42:23Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > I may be remembering wrong, but, to be fair, don’t they explicitly say to him that it’s wireless, and there is no cord, and he plays the dumb male and doesn’t understand? It could be worse – he could be like the “Not Always Right” customer who felt ripped off after being told that the “wireless” router still needed to be plugged in to a power outlet. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/434 "2012-03-09T08:08:34Z")
Wellll, you’re right…especially since early on they say “wireless” and still he doesn’t catch on. They\* could \*say, “We _said,_ ‘wireless.’” :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [March 9, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/435 "2012-03-09T14:19:16Z")
“I use Latisse.” Umm, okay…WTF is “Latisse” for?! (Well \*\*I \*\* know it’s something for eyelashes, but the commercial doesn’t tell you that. At all.) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/436 "2012-03-20T00:15:03Z")
Well, we may have seen the last of Patrick Cox and his TaxMasters commercials: [TaxMasters Files for Bankruptcy](http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/taxmasters-files-bankruptcy/story?id=15932628) > [@](#): > > “A state investigation and nearly 1,000 customer complaints indicate that the defendants routinely misled customers about the nature of their tax resolution service agreements – and worse, attempted to enforce those improper agreements through unlawful debt collection tactics.” ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/437 "2012-03-20T23:33:38Z")
That new Prius Game of Life ad…I mean Christ…I was sure that was going to reveal to be about competitor’s car but no, it’s real. It’s like they asked Fox News to create a Prius ad. And I say that as a Liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/438 "2012-03-21T07:05:57Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > That new Prius Game of Life ad…I mean Christ…I was sure that was going to reveal to be about competitor’s car but no, it’s real. It’s like they asked Fox News to create a Prius ad. > > And I say that as a Liberal. I thought the horrible Prius ads were horrible Old Navy ads at first; I wouldn’t be surprised if the same minds came up with both. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/439 "2012-03-21T11:33:05Z")
Any of the La Quinta “literal play on some figure of speech” commercials is instant cause to change the channel. ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/440 "2012-03-21T16:03:39Z")
Engagement ring ads always drive me straight up the wall. Sure, let’s convince people that you don’t really love someone unless you spend more money than you can afford on a shiny rock! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=23)