# 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:** 5
**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:** [October 5, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/81 "2011-10-05T15:00:20Z")
“It’s \*good \*you made that giant poop…real good.” ---
**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:** [October 5, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/82 "2011-10-05T15:01:44Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > 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. Another McD’s one that has been pulled had Mommy coming home late, but with Happy Meals. As her young daughter is digging in, Mommy asks “And how was your day?” Little snot nose brat of a daughter responds “I’ll tell you later.” If that was my bad mannered child, she would never see the inside of a McD’s again as long as I was alive. And the commercial that starts out with close-ups of people rolling their eyeballs. I’ll never know what it is for, cause I change the channel as soon as I see it. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/83 "2011-10-05T15:48:21Z")
The “I pick things up and put them down” guy in the advertisement for Planet Fitness. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/84 "2011-10-05T16:42:04Z")
> [@zeldarae](#): > > The falcon ads bug me because they seem to imply that men will spend any extra money they may have on something frivolous. You think a falcon is frivolous?! Seriously, I like that ad. It’s very silly. ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/85 "2011-10-05T17:19:44Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > You think a falcon is frivolous?! > > Seriously, I like that ad. It’s very silly. Point taken. You never know when you will need a hunting partner. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/86 "2011-10-05T17:37:56Z")
> [@zeldarae](#): > > The husband in the FiberOne bar commercial whining about fiber making him sad. . Yes! And then he makes some lame joke about “I might as well just eat this bag.” Dude needs his sad little head shoved in the oven. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/87 "2011-10-05T19:27:35Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > So the commercial is yelling at you in the first place, and then you have these two moronic monotone children screaming “Dinosaur!” “Ball!” at each other…it’s enough to make you want to pop their little heads off. Now imagine if you hear this commercial while you are using their product. It’s bad enough wearing headphones while surfing YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/88 "2011-10-05T19:51:45Z")
The Geico(?) commercial where the parents eat the goldfish to save money. ---
**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, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/89 "2011-10-05T19:59:38Z")
Agghh! I just saw the goldfish one last night! Good Lord… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/90 "2011-10-05T20:43:38Z")
I noticed that **Geico** is still trotting out fucking retarded caveman commercials. Jesus guys, let that one die already. Stick with the gecko and be done with it. You’ve mined the caveman shtick to the point of absurdity and they were pretty fricken annoying to start with. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/91 "2011-10-06T02:15:40Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > The new Prius commercials where people are piled up to make other people. > > If you’re making a commercial that uses a butt to make a nose then your life has gone down a wrong path. That one seriously creeps me out too. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/92 "2011-10-06T02:42:44Z")
reminds me of Clive barker or Stephen King, for some strange ting. I sawn this story. Lots of CGI in their construction and “unraveling”. That;s what triggers my uncanny valley response. They are organic, yet textualized, videographed, and roboticized. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/93 "2011-10-06T03:31:19Z")
I cannot stand the Listerine commercials with people swishing and gargling and spitting. YUK! What next, people cutting their toenails? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/94 "2011-10-06T04:10:57Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > I cannot stand the Listerine commercials with people swishing and gargling and spitting. YUK! What next, people cutting their toenails? A couple years ago, there was a commercial that had a “fungus monster” talk about infecting your toenails. There is then a scene where he _lifts up a toenail from the bed_ and climbs in. [Link, body horror involved](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9J7MoBZbY&feature=related). ---
**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:** [October 6, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/95 "2011-10-06T05:16:27Z")
[Consumerist is holding elections for worst commercials of 2011](http://www.consumerist.com/2011/10/announcing-the-2011-worst-ad-in-america-nominees.html), in various categories. Voting is open until 10/16. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/96 "2011-10-06T05:22:13Z")
The Geico goldfish one is awful. Yeah, the thought of parents eating their little girl’s pet while she is upset he is missing \*really \*makes me want to give that company money. :rolleyes: (Not that I have a car anyway, but still, it’s fucking disturbing.) ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/97 "2011-10-06T05:52:55Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > reminds me of Clive barker or Stephen King, for some strange ting. [Clive Barker “In The Hills, The Cities”](http://www.scribd.com/doc/28687292/Barker-Clive-In-the-Hills-The-Cities) ---
**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:** [October 6, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/98 "2011-10-06T12:28:40Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > The Geico(?) commercial where the parents eat the goldfish to save money. Yeah, the one I ranted about upthread where the wife orders her husband to get the kid down from the basketball hoop is also Geico. ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/99 "2011-10-06T14:45:57Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > A couple years ago, there was a commercial that had a “fungus monster” talk about infecting your toenails. There is then a scene where he _lifts up a toenail from the bed_ and climbs in. > > [Link, body horror involved](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9J7MoBZbY&feature=related). I would have to cover my eyes when the toenail fungus monster (Digger?) came on. If not, I would regurgitate a little in my mouth. HATED IT! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/100 "2011-10-07T01:25:29Z")
I just saw a commercial for Dish TV pushing their Blockbuster service. It’s set in a western-style saloon, with several of the characters sporting larger and larger cowboy hats and mustaches. WTF is the connection that I’m missing? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=6)