# Commercials You Hate, circa March 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079 "2010-03-28T03:08:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/21 "2010-03-28T15:52:04Z")
The Starkist tuna commercial where everyone is making “fishy lips”. It creeps me out beyond words. I actually have to change the channel. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/22 "2010-03-28T16:02:40Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > The Volkswagen ad where the wife keeps punching the salesman in the arm. I find myself rooting for him to turn around and clock that bitch in the throat. Yes! Although we men should be pleased, the tide is finally turning and women can finally be portrayed in commercials as gibbering idiots without the PC police having a hissy fit. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/23 "2010-03-28T16:23:35Z")
The McDonalds singing fish commercial is the absolute worse commercial ever. As soon as I see it come on, I have to start saying “lalalalalala” as loud as I can until I can get my hands on the remote to mute it. Every time I hear that damn thing, the song gets stuck in my head as an earworm for three days. If it happens again I may be forced to shoot myself. ---
**Author:** ![Countrypolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/858c86/32.png) [@Countrypolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Countrypolitan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/24 "2010-03-28T17:01:26Z")
Another cell phone ad, for AT&T this time–two parents, one kid at restaurant. Mom leaves, kid immediately begins to shriek. Dad’s clueless, until “hooray!”–busybody at next table sedates kid with TV VIA CELL PHONE! TV is not an acceptable parental subsitute, dipwads. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/25 "2010-03-28T17:37:40Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > The McDonalds singing fish commercial is the absolute worse commercial ever. As soon as I see it come on, I have to start saying “lalalalalala” as loud as I can until I can get my hands on the remote to mute it. Every time I hear that damn thing, the song gets stuck in my head as an earworm for three days. If it happens again I may be forced to shoot myself. Gimme back that Filet-o-Fish! Gimme that fish! Gimme back that Filet-o-Fish! Gimme that fish! What if it were you Hanging up on this wall? If it were you in that sandwich You wouldn’t be laughing at all! No need to thank me.😛 ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/26 "2010-03-28T18:00:48Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > The Volkswagen ad where the wife keeps punching the salesman in the arm. I find myself rooting for him to turn around and clock that bitch in the throat. What irks me about this commercial is the game is Slug (or Punch) Bug, not Slug (or Punch) any random VW. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/27 "2010-03-28T18:02:34Z")
Any Olive Garden ad. It’s like they’re pod people from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” They’re imitating human banter, but there’s something soulless and vapid about it. There’s something so … inhuman … underlying it that it actually disturbs me a little. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/28 "2010-03-28T19:16:25Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [This showcase](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQCn8KT1fk) of irresponsible behaviour and excruciating singing. > > Even though it’s probably irrational of me for what’s ostensibly supposed to be an amusing advertisement, I find their dismissive attitude towards risking their and other people’s lives to be repellent. 😕 You’re supposed to be repelled; they’re bad drivers… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/29 "2010-03-28T19:36:22Z")
There’s an Outback Steakhouse [commercial](http://www.youtube.com/user/OutbackSteakhouse1#p/u/4/U_5iNAF_jLc) that encourages the viewer to visit the restaurant and order off the special menu so that the company can donate a million dollars to some military-related charity. [Another](http://www.youtube.com/user/OutbackSteakhouse1#p/u/1/GaBA5euEQO4) of their commercials offers a free “Bloomin’ Onion” to veterans and active duty military personnel. So in the first commercial, the company is spending more than a million dollars to advertise the fact that they’re going to donate a million dollars and in the second commercial, they’re offering a free heart attack on a plate to military personnel. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/30 "2010-03-28T20:08:25Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Gimme back that Filet-o-Fish! > Gimme that fish! > Gimme back that Filet-o-Fish! > Gimme that fish! > What if it were you > Hanging up on this wall? > If it were you in that sandwich > You wouldn’t be laughing at all! > > No need to thank me.😛 First of all, I can’t hear ‘‘Gimme back that filet-o-fish.’’ I hear something like, ‘‘Give me that pepperjack fish,’’ which makes no sense. Also, I don’t understand… what is hanging up on a wall? Ostensibly the fish is in the sandwich, right? Why is a wall involved at all? I keep thinking of a Big Mouth Billy Bass or something. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/31 "2010-03-28T21:33:59Z")
> [@Milossarian](#): > > Any Olive Garden ad. > > It’s like they’re pod people from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” They’re imitating human banter, but there’s something soulless and vapid about it. There’s something so … inhuman … underlying it that it actually disturbs me a little. “Please, Grandpa, whatever you want! As much as you want!” I agree, the Olive Garden commercials are saccharine to the point of being utterly soulless, robotic, and creepy. They make me not want to eat there and I actually really like Olive Garden’s food. Also agreed on the jackass McDonald’s coffee guy. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/32 "2010-03-28T21:42:25Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > First of all, I can’t hear ‘‘Gimme back that filet-o-fish.’’ I hear something like, ‘‘Give me that pepperjack fish,’’ which makes no sense. > > Also, I don’t understand… what is hanging up on a wall? Ostensibly the fish is in the sandwich, right? Why is a wall involved at all? I keep thinking of a Big Mouth Billy Bass or something. Yeah, they are pretty much Big Mouth Billy Bass, except they sing the Filet-O-Fish jingle. I was at my local f.y.e. store the other day, in line behind a mom with several kids. While she paid for her purchase, the kids had found a stack of those fish for sale, and were passing the time by activating the fish to sing, over and over again. After they left, I said to the girl behind the counter, “It must be so annoying, having to listen to that all day.” She replied, “Yeah, we keep waiting for the batteries to run down.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/33 "2010-03-28T23:25:00Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > 😕 You’re supposed to be repelled; they’re bad drivers… No, I think we’re supposed to just laugh at how silly and ditzy they are. The consequence seems to be they pay more insurance, but the real consequence ought to be jail. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/34 "2010-03-28T23:29:48Z")
The Geico commercial where the guy with the deep voice says: Can Geico save you 15% in 15 minutes or less? Can Charlie Daniels… or some other stupid thing. I have to turn that one off. And the one they run on MSNBC about the woman who was devastated when she found she had to re-use catheters for the rest of her life. Poor thing, she had to boil catheters in her double wide! ---
**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:** [March 28, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/35 "2010-03-28T23:38:16Z")
> [@Lucky\_13](#): > > Yeah, they are pretty much Big Mouth Billy Bass, except they sing the Filet-O-Fish jingle. Ohh. I’ve only ever heard the jingle on the radio, so I missed the context. That makes a little more sense. A little. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/36 "2010-03-29T00:38:48Z")
I mentioned this in another thread recently, but the ad for **Buffalo Wild Wings** where they’re watching some basketball game on TV and a patron yells “Hey, send it into overtime!” and the bartender hits a button on a secret panel behind the bar, is so freakin’ stupid that it has pretty much guaranteed that I will never ever be eating at one of their restaurants. And yeah, the McDonalds ad with the coffee asshole drives me nuts too. I love the filet-o-fish one, though. ---
**Author:** ![Apricot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Apricot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apricot)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/37 "2010-03-29T01:42:13Z")
The Trex deck commercial where the family is dancing around the fire with marshmallows as the day goes on, the sun sets, the night settles in, still dancing to the same song. It doesn’t look like any fun at all! Seems like they are begin tortured to look happy! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/38 "2010-03-29T01:48:08Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > “Five! > Five dollar! > Five dollar foot looongs! > Any, any, any > Five! > Five dollar! > Five dollar foot looong!” > > Gah! I thought it was “baby baby baby.” But whatev’. Sux. Your right. I hate the cat food ads that visualize a “rainbow of flavors,” with the cat happily nom nom nomming through technicolor kitty heaven. Besides just being sappy-stupid, it makes me think kitty’s gone to the happy hunting grounds. ☹ One of these bills itself as “Indoor Wet Cat Food.” Just the thing for your indoor wet cat. :rolleyes: ---
**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 29, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/39 "2010-03-29T01:58:09Z")
The various AT&T attempts to respond to the Verizon “map” commercials – it’s just so painfully obvious, to the point that it would insult the intelligence of things I have growing in my freezer, that they’re trying to spin away the fact that their competition has beat the crap out of them in a major component of their service. (EDIT: When I did a Google search just to be 100% sure I didn’t get the names bassackwards, I stumbled upon [this gem](http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=27545).) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/40 "2010-03-29T02:05:48Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The Geico commercial where the guy with the deep voice says: Can Geico save you 15% in 15 minutes or less? Can Charlie Daniels… or some other stupid thing. I have to turn that one off. > > And the one they run on MSNBC about the woman who was devastated when she found she had to re-use catheters for the rest of her life. Poor thing, she had to boil catheters in her double wide! I hate that one also … I have to wonder, I can see why the male para needs to be cathed, but why would a woman who is not apparently otherwise handicapped need to cath? And if she is getting infections, she obviously isnt sterilizing it correctly nor maintaining sterile field when cathing herself … hospitals reused catheters for decades before disposables came into use and didnt seem to have problems as frequently as she seems to … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079.md?page=3)