# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/61 "2011-10-03T21:48:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/62 "2011-10-03T21:50:46Z")
> [@Alpha\_Male](#): > > Nothing to do with commercials, but I hate when I’m in line at a shop and the guy in front of me pulls out the credit card for \<$5 purchases. Really bro? You don’t keep a couple three dollars on you? That would be me. I never have any cash on hand. I get annoyed when someone digs through their wallet to find cash then has to stand there while change is made. Or worse insists on digging through change so they can give the exact amount. So slow. My card is swiped and processed in half the time it takes to use cash. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/63 "2011-10-03T21:53:13Z")
> [@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. That was one of the biggest WTF? commercials I have seen. There are a lot that I hate, but I that one was bizarre too. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/64 "2011-10-03T23:12:09Z")
There are 2 currently that I can’t stand, other than the Greenhouse bitch one Metro PCS. I don’t know what your product is or what you use it for, but why the fuck would you have a couple of (fake?) Indian guys try to sell it? Not that I’m an “America, fuck yeah!” kind of guy, but it really makes no god damn sense. And its not just one commercial, its a series of commerials starring the same two guys! As far as I can remember, they’ve been on for years! All I know vaguely is that they sell some phone stuff, I tune them out whenever I see it The other commercial seems to have just started running about 2 months ago, so its probably got a few months left. Its the JLo Kia commercial where she’s driving a Kia and all these guys are after her. After she runs over a man in the street, she’s finally cornered by her attackers while two of them drag her out by the moonroof, possibly to rape her, I don’t know. But luckily she does some kung-fu including a delayed double-punch that floors all of the men before she actually throws the punch but probably knocked them out by the sheer force of her inner chi, or some shit ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/65 "2011-10-03T23:20:02Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > A mattress store (I think it’s local, not sure) has bought a LOT of ad time on one of my favorite radio stations. And the owner is always in the commercial. Her voice is incredibly high and annoying, with many irritating features. I think that she writes the commercials, too. > > What I don’t get is the lawyers who narrate their own commercials, and who have obviously written the ads. You’d think that a lawyer would know about people who try to do a professional job when they aren’t a member of that profession. Would that be Debbie Gaby? If so, then no, she’s not local to just Texas, although I wish so much that she were. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/66 "2011-10-04T01:01:51Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > She says that Sundays are **only** for watching football. What if she should --gasp!-- want him to go to church? (Which is usually scheduled at the same time as football, IIRC.) My church usually starts at 9:45 and is usually over by around 11 or a little after. (This is central time.) Football doesn’t start until noon. Plenty of time for both. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/67 "2011-10-04T01:23:46Z")
The Greenhouse Bitch commercial is a given. I will also second the Metro PCS commercials. I think someone earlier in the thread may have been alluding to this, but [this State Farm commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNLPfnTDCsU) that I keep seeing makes me certain I never want to be their customer. Why? Here’s what it teaches me: 1. All State Farm agents are smarmy, spiteful pricks; 2. It is incredibly difficult to get signed up with State Farm, by their own admission; and 3. People who are or want to be insured by State Farm are bewilderingly poor drivers, thus guaranteeing that my rates would go up just by association. If I were Progressive or Geico, I’d be showing that commercial on my own company website. Who thought that was a good idea for _promoting_ State Farm? And yes, all of the commercials about the “cold” and “super cold” beer are idiotic, but particular the one (or are there two of these?) related to passing the “bar exam.” I want every single one of those people to die in a fire. Also, they haven’t risen to hatred yet, but the DirectTV (at least, I think that’s who it is) commercials with Fairy Deion Sanders are really starting to get on my nerves. Are there really that many people out there who are passionate sports fans who can’t figure out how to get the game they want to watch? ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/68 "2011-10-04T01:25:05Z")
Another bad Mom ad: it’s an older one for some company, probably a phone company, where the mom, dressed for some reason like some Burning Man reject, is trying to get her son to fly cheap by having him fly in a pet carrier, the point being that she is so desperate to save money that she’ll try anything, I suppose. Hate for local commercials attempting to spoof national ads or TV shows, for example: [Viking Lounge](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSJj8Impfyc). I hope they get sued. There’s some dipshit local company using the “24” motif to advertise for some kind of air conditioning service. Can’t find it, don’t care to look. I hope they got sued, too. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/69 "2011-10-04T01:29:39Z")
Oh, local commercials are in play, here? I bring you, from Southern California, one of many [Yes, Cerritos!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8TWU_Vsf58) gems. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/70 "2011-10-04T01:37:34Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Along the same line, there was a commercial where Mom is using her laptop (the product being advertised) in the kitchen and finds a recipe for paella which she decides to make for dinner, then uses the computer to send messages to the family letting them know what they’re having for dinner. Teenaged son messages back, “I don’t know what ‘pie-ella’ is, but I’m not eating it”. The mother’s response? She uses the computer to order a pizza for the brat. > > I also saw a commercial where the family is all dressed up to go out for dinner, except for the youngest son who refuses to change out of some weird outfit. So instead of making him get dressed, the family stays home and eats some sort of ready-in-ten-minutes meal. > > When I was a kid, we ate whatever Mom fixed for dinner. Not eating it was not an option, nor was complaining about it. And when Dad said change your clothes, we changed them. I’m guessing that you and I were raised in the same era!😛 Except we did have two choices at dinner, “take it or leave it!” That mom should have done what Calvin’s mom did when he said he wouldn’t eat whatever she was cooking(It was stuffed peppers) She told him it was stewed monkey heads, and Calvin, being the little wierdo he was, dove right in. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/71 "2011-10-04T02:23:06Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > “Thanks for the falcon.” I love the falcon commercial. I love the guy who walks by with the other bird (cockatiel?) and says “I could have got a falcon” and all of the other weird things that the people are walking around with. I find it entertaining. Not entertaining enough to switch insurance companies, but entertaining. AT&T wife should be forced to adopt Toyota kid. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/72 "2011-10-04T08:29:08Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Another bad Mom ad: it’s an older one for some company, probably a phone company, where the mom, dressed for some reason like some Burning Man reject, is trying to get her son to fly cheap by having him fly in a pet carrier, the point being that she is so desperate to save money that she’ll try anything, I suppose. https://www.youtube.com/embed/FCR97weqHQY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque This commercial makes me crazy because all the people involved (the woman and the two airline guys) all have massive overbites and look like they’re just coming down from a bender. I don’t need beautiful people in my commercials, but why would you cast actively ugly people? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/73 "2011-10-04T20:51:01Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Would that be Debbie Gaby? If so, then no, she’s not local to just Texas, although I wish so much that she were. No, her name is Christine something or other. And she’s always talking about how her company donates to Dallas charities. However, I don’t live in Dallas, and if I’m going to give to a local charity, it’s gonna be one a bit closer to home. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/74 "2011-10-05T02:01:09Z")
BeenVerified - “Nobody comes around my growing family, without a background check.” Well then let me give pre-natal condolences to the sad and paranoid life your future spawn is about to have to endure. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/75 "2011-10-05T02:51:18Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > There are 2 currently that I can’t stand, other than the Greenhouse bitch one > > Metro PCS. I don’t know what your product is or what you use it for, but why the fuck would you have a couple of (fake?) Indian guys try to sell it? Not that I’m an “America, fuck yeah!” kind of guy, but it really makes no god damn sense. And its not just one commercial, its a series of commerials starring the same two guys! As far as I can remember, they’ve been on for years! All I know vaguely is that they sell some phone stuff, I tune them out whenever I see it MetroPCS is a cell phone service. I’ve been to a few conventions populated by MetroPCS franchisees. If their commercials are featuring Indians, I have to say that, given my experience with their franchisee demographic, that makes a _lot_ of sense. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/76 "2011-10-05T10:56:36Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Sexist: Possibly? > > Full of win? Definitely… > > Kung Fu and Jousting… Hell Yea. > > Remember to keep it clean ladies! > > [All Hail the V!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxW_ZCd64tg) > [@devilsknew](#): > > There is also, the male equivalent to this commercial out there, that is in heavy rotation, or the testosterone enhanced version. It’s a commercial with almost the exact vignette, or premise of this commercial. Problem is, I can’t remember the product or much about it. Something about “empires arising and falling because of it.” … Think it had Christopher Columbus founding the “New World” because of it. I saw the male analogue to the “Hail the V” commercial again. Turns out it is a Gillette deodorant commercial. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/77 "2011-10-05T11:04:29Z")
I’m surprised the “Hail to the V” commercials have made it this far since the message seems to be “a woman’s value is her vagina”. Those knights weren’t fighting for her heart or mind. I can’t say I much care but that seems like exactly the thing select groups get worked up about. ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/78 "2011-10-05T13:17:09Z")
The falcon ads bug me because they seem to imply that men will spend any extra money they may have on something frivolous. The husband in the FiberOne bar commercial whining about fiber making him sad. It wouldn’t be so bad if his wife would just outright tell him the candy bar is fiber-riffic. I just want to punch him, though. The worst one, though, is the parents afraid of their kid’s reaction to there being only their cereal in the house. Do they think he’s going to send them to the fields for their sin of forgetting to get him his brand? What a sad home they must have, having to kowtow to the evil imp that lives with them. What’s even worse is I have quite a few friends that let their children run their house in much the same way. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/79 "2011-10-05T14:00:53Z")
I don’t understand the Venza commercials. Do they want to be the car for people who’ve raised vapid, insufferable self-involved twats? ---
**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:** [October 5, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/80 "2011-10-05T14:55:50Z")
> [@zeldarae](#): > > The falcon ads bug me because they seem to imply that men will spend any extra money they may have on something frivolous. > > The husband in the FiberOne bar commercial whining about fiber making him sad. It wouldn’t be so bad if his wife would just outright tell him the candy bar is fiber-riffic. I just want to punch him, though. > > The worst one, though, is the parents afraid of their kid’s reaction to there being only their cereal in the house. Do they think he’s going to send them to the fields for their sin of forgetting to get him his brand? What a sad home they must have, having to kowtow to the evil imp that lives with them. What’s even worse is I have quite a few friends that let their children run their house in much the same way. Maybe he’s Anthony from “It’s a Good Life.” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=5)