# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/161 "2011-11-15T17:40:29Z")
[Toaster Strudel.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfHCsuI_ZCQ) Big sister is nice enough to split her Toaster Strudel and share rather than let her little brother eat a PopTart and he steals her half and leaves her with the PopTart. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/162 "2011-11-15T19:20:21Z")
McDonalds has a few bad ads lately. The McRib one and the one where the girlfriend is calling her guy by some cutesy nickname and he responds by calling her Sweat Tea. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/163 "2011-11-15T19:30:43Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I can’t say I hate it exactly, but it irritates me - The one on TCM with Robert Osborne, in khakies and a blue sweater, looking…awkward, saying “Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to work I go…” about coming back to host TCM after his “vacation”. He’s been gone for months and months, don’t tell me it’s a “vacation”. He either had some illness or surgery they aren’t telling the viewers about (and of course the viewers don’t have to know any details). Far as I can tell he didn’t have a facelift or sex change operation, and far as I can tell, he’s hopefully recovered from whatever it was. But don’t tell me he was “on vacation”. On hiatus, taking personal time off sounds more likely. I haven’t seen that commercial, but I hate it already. They announced at the start he was having some minor surgery followed by a vacation, but the vacation lasted longer than it was supposed to. He is 79, after all. But that commercial sounds awful. ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/164 "2011-11-15T19:52:32Z")
Any commercial from J.G.Wentworth! All of em! That has got to be the most obnoxious ad agency in the world. It’s bad enough that they are in the business of cheating people. They have to make us all hate them before we even think to do business with them! ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/165 "2011-11-15T22:27:43Z")
Oh yes, the Dr. Pepper commercial where they say that this diet soda is not for women. ---
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/166 "2011-11-16T00:26:16Z")
There’s a commercial for some car lot where the guy is taking his friend for a ride in his new car and the friend says “did you get the GPS” and he says he couldn’t afford it but got an older model. What he really has though is a MAN in the back seat, reading a map and telling him when to turn. Now you can’t tell me that, even at minimum wage, having a full-time employee in the backseat is going to be cheaper than a basic GPS unit! Heck even one with quite a few features shouldn’t be more than $250 or so! ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/167 "2011-11-16T00:29:49Z")
I’m not surprised people don’t like the woman in the greenhouse cell phone commercial, but I am surprised people don’t seem to hate the husband too. I mean, what kind of dillhole just up and makes changes to the family cell phone plan without so much as a “kiss my ass, I’m getting unlimited texts”? Or opens a conversation by making it sound like he’s spent a ton of money they don’t necessarily have? Schmuck. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/168 "2011-11-16T06:09:08Z")
I’m not sure if it’s on TV, but I’ve been seeing the Olympus commercial where people get free cameras a lot on Youtube. I haven’t seen one all the way through, but it grates horribly on me. Something about the combination of the kind of “unbelievable free offer” prevalent in so many terrible car commercials and the woman that sounds legitimately angry when she gets the camera. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2011, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/169 "2011-11-16T06:48:35Z")
I don’t know about “hate” but I get a good internal chuckle each time I see Jennifer Lopez toodlin’ around the “block” in her car talking about how this is “her world” as she drives past pick-up basketball games and young girls playing jump rope in the hood. On the bottom of the screen: “Dramatization. Closed Course.” 😛 Closer to “hate” are the Comcast/Xfinity commercials where someone pauses a fight scene in the living room, goes into the kitchen, unpauses, watches three seconds, pauses, goes into the living room, unpauses, watches three seconds, pauses, goes into the bedroom, unpauses… …Hey, buddy, you can’t go five seconds without being entertained while you grab your soda or what? And another not-really-hate, but the T-Mobile commercials with T-Mobile Girl wandering amongst the pink & white elves – when they sing “Walkin’ in a 4G wonderland”, it sounds like “orgy wonderland”. Which makes me wonder about T-Mobile Girl. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/170 "2011-11-16T07:08:10Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > And another not-really-hate, but the T-Mobile commercials with T-Mobile Girl wandering amongst the pink & white elves – when they sing “Walkin’ in a 4G wonderland”, it sounds like “orgy wonderland”. Which makes me wonder about T-Mobile Girl. That reminds me of that car commercial that has “I’m a ninja, I’m a hoodie ninja” all over the place. It sure sounds like “horny ninja” to me. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/171 "2011-11-16T08:12:01Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Closer to “hate” are the Comcast/Xfinity commercials where someone pauses a fight scene in the living room, goes into the kitchen, unpauses, watches three seconds, pauses, goes into the living room, unpauses, watches three seconds, pauses, goes into the bedroom, unpauses… UGGGGGGGGGGG - and that one seems to go on FOREVER!!! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/172 "2011-11-16T12:50:28Z")
> [@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.) Well then, maybe that signals that they aren’t compatible, but it doesn’t make him a jerk. > [@Laggard](#): > > McDonalds has a few bad ads lately. The McRib one and the one where the girlfriend is calling her guy by some cutesy nickname and he responds by calling her Sweat Tea. It’s “sweet tea-pie”. He adds “pie” at the end. > [@Jophiel](#): > > Closer to “hate” are the Comcast/Xfinity commercials where someone pauses a fight scene in the living room, goes into the kitchen, unpauses, watches three seconds, pauses, goes into the living room, unpauses, watches three seconds, pauses, goes into the bedroom, unpauses… Yes, what gets me is the action going on in all the other rooms is setting the kitchen on fire, breaking up the furniture, busting through the walls. Um, I might appreciate getting immersed in the action, but not if it destroys my house. And notice the action in all the other rooms can be seen in 3-D from all angles, but the main image is on the TV screen. That’s better? What I hate is the one with the two guys in the ball game parking lot having a tailgate party and bragging about their service being so fast. Guy runs up “Did you know so and so is out with an injury?” Um yes, because he’s walking out of the bus next to us. “Somebody stole the other team’s mascot.” Yes, it was us, see, there it is." I have to wonder how their phone service is supposed to matter. Of course they know things faster than the guy who gets it in a text message. They saw the guy with the injury and stole the mascot. Duh. Now there’s a version with two women at some sort of office party. Same deal. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/173 "2011-11-16T13:55:18Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > It’s “sweet tea-pie”. He adds “pie” at the end. Though it \*would \*have been hilarious if he called her “sweatie.” Is it McDonald’s or one of the other fast-food joints who now offer “expresso?” I keep screaming, “_espresso_–it’s _espresso_, you idiots!” at my screen. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/174 "2011-11-16T14:18:59Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > What I hate is the one with the two guys in the ball game parking lot having a tailgate party and bragging about their service being so fast. There’s a radio version that’s even worse. Two women talking and one says “Did you hear about the big shoe sale?” and the other, “That was SO eight seconds ago! I just bought the last pair of size 7s. Too bad!”. There’s a few other “Didja hear…” “OMG So six seconds ago!” moments in there as well. I just hear it and think “God, I really don’t want a device that drives me to worry about being _seconds_ faster than the next guy.” Who needs that kind of stress? There’s also the question of someone getting word of a sale, going to the site, finding and purchasing a pair of shoes in eight seconds but that’s secondary. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/175 "2011-11-16T14:38:00Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > That reminds me of that car commercial that has “I’m a ninja, I’m a hoodie ninja” all over the place. It sure sounds like “horny ninja” to me. Yikes, I thought it was “bunny ninja.” I actually like the Dr. Pepper 10 commercials if only because it’s a break from the pussy-whipped Steves in all the others. “Catchphrase!!” ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/176 "2011-11-16T16:05:15Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > What I hate is the one with the two guys in the ball game parking lot having a tailgate party and bragging about their service being so fast. Yeah, but when the fella says, “You guys know anything about postin’ videos to.. Facebook?” followed by the two phone guys showing him the Facebook video of him asking the question: That makes me laugh. Every. Single. Time. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/177 "2011-11-16T17:07:02Z")
This commercial during Nascar pisses me off so much: I think it’s for Keystone beer…some guy is in the store and this girl says “Would you like to go to a party…tee hee…with me?” and the guy is all “Yeah!” and the girl turns to him with a bitchy look on her face because she’s actually talking on her Bluetooth. Then she does it again at the cash register. She’s just so RUDE and BITCHY and totally unattractive because of it. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/178 "2011-11-16T17:53:50Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Though it \*would \*have been hilarious if he called her “sweatie.” > > Is it McDonald’s or one of the other fast-food joints who now offer “expresso?” I keep screaming, “_espresso_–it’s _espresso_, you idiots!” at my screen. The word Expresso has been used for over 20 years now. I remember in the late 80’s, early 90’s when, at least around where I live, coffee shops started becoming a big thing. I saw plenty of espressos and expressos. ---
**Author:** ![Bilbo1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bilbo1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bilbo1967)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/179 "2011-11-16T17:58:06Z")
There’s a radio advert on in the UK at the moment for some kind of office/file sharing software where it says something like, “Sharon’s not in the office and not incommunicado”. What they mean, is that she is incommunicado. That really bugs me! I don’t know if it’s the same in the States, but all perfume adverts are pretentious, pseudo-intellectual claptrap. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325/180 "2011-11-16T18:12:49Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > The word Expresso has been used for over 20 years now. Oh, _dear_. I guess it’s one of those things where everyone mispronounced it so often that the language dumbed itself down to the lowest common denominator. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-31-686/598325.md?page=10)