# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/61 "2010-04-08T08:32:08Z")
The Ikea commercial with the couple shouting " Your timing was clutch in the second course!" (to an oven) and You were a big part of the win tonite! ANNOYING as hell. And of course the Flo commericals. She has a hairstyle that you could ski down! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/62 "2010-04-08T15:07:34Z")
Okay, I’m officially sick to death of that Progressive hag. They’ve overplayed her as a product character and need to dump her back into whatever porn mill she came out of. I’m kind of overwhelmed lately by how kind and friendly all the banks and insurance companies are now. It appears that they all have our best interests at heart and really care about us. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Loisseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Loisseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loisseau)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/63 "2010-04-08T15:29:09Z")
The “Beggin Strips” commerical, where a madhousedog runs amok for a food that is supposed to be bacon for dogs. Smells a bit like bacon, but with all the bacon lovers in the world, someone was destined to make a BLT from this stuff. the result–[Steve Don’t Eat It but Does](http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/) ---
**Author:** ![Dolly\_Madison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dolly\_Madison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dolly_Madison)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/64 "2010-04-08T16:04:23Z")
> [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](#): > > The Ikea commercial with the couple shouting " Your timing was clutch in the second course!" (to an oven) and You were a big part of the win tonite! ANNOYING as hell. I came in here just to mention those effin horrid commercials. Ikea ads have always been terrible and poorly thought out, but this one veers quickly into the obnoxious in the first second, culminating into full douchiness when the guy _chest bumps his fridge_. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/65 "2010-04-08T16:41:56Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > I actually kind of like some of the Burger King ads, but the latest ones have me scratching my head, especially the one I just saw where the King breaks into McDonald’s headquarters to steal the formula for a sausage biscuit with egg, and the voice-over says something like, “OK, it’s not original but we add blah blah blah,” or whatever. […] It’s considered a good strategy to admit you can’t come up with something good yourself now? I used to avoid BK for breakfast because I wasn’t especially fond of their breakfast sandwich selection (they had some croissant thing?) Now I know I can get a standard egg-sausage-muffin sandwich there. So I guess the commercial works on that level: “Like McDonald’s for breakfast? Get the same thing here.” I’m more amused by the fact that the building doesn’t actually look like McDonald’s HQ which I guess no one outside the Oakbrook, IL area would notice (and fewer still care about). ---
**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:** [April 8, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/66 "2010-04-08T22:06:54Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > 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 … Just in case you seriously want to know, [neurogenic bladder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenic_bladder) ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/67 "2010-04-08T22:27:00Z")
> [@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. I really hate this commercial! Very annoying song! ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/68 "2010-04-08T22:40:59Z")
> [@Dolly\_Madison](#): > > I came in here just to mention those effin horrid commercials. Ikea ads have always been terrible and poorly thought out, but this one veers quickly into the obnoxious in the first second, culminating into full douchiness when the guy _chest bumps his fridge_. That commercial annoys me too, but the Ikea commercial I really despise is the one for the double oven with the creepy twins: “We can do two things at once.” My suggestion for two things they can do at once? FOAD! ETA: for everyone who says annoying ads are effective because it gets you to remember the product, I actually had to look up who that damn commercial was for before posting this. I’ve seen it a dozen times, and I had to Google it to find out it was an Ikea ad. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/69 "2010-04-08T23:21:14Z")
> [@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. Lent is over, so you probably won’t see it for another year. But here, just to tide you over… GIMME THAT FILET-O-FISH, GIMME THAT FISH! My wife and daughter love the singing fish, btw. To each his own. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/70 "2010-04-09T05:04:27Z")
“ahm a pothole!” Someone fill that damn thing in. Yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/71 "2010-04-09T07:38:55Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > 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. ☹ It makes me think they’re packing cat food cans with powerful mega-doses of catnip (or LSD). Incidentally, if it’s the Friskies commercial you’re talking about, it was recently reviewed by [Slate’s Ad Report Card](http://www.slate.com/id/2249121). BTW, I don’t hate it. It just seems with it’s rather elaborate and overblown for a cat food commercial. Cats are color blind so it’s unlikely all the latest CGI effects are going to impress them that much. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/72 "2010-04-09T17:06:08Z")
People are still watching commercials in 2010? Between the internet and Tivo, you have no excuse to watch those damn things! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/73 "2010-04-09T18:12:02Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Cats are color blind so it’s unlikely all the latest CGI effects are going to impress them that much. They’re not selling cat food to cats. They’re selling it to people who feed cats. Note that I didn’t say, “cat owners.” Cats make fine companions, but people don’t own them. Cats don’t take orders well. I have read that experimental psychologists hate using cats as subjects because, as soon as a cat figures out that you’re trying to get it to do something, it will do the opposite. This may be why cat food commercials are so odd - the ad agencies may have figured out that it’s easier to use eye-catching special effects than to train a cat to perform on command. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/74 "2010-04-09T23:44:51Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > People are still watching commercials in 2010? Between the internet and Tivo, you have no excuse to watch those damn things! 😉 I still have a VCR. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/75 "2010-04-10T02:45:52Z")
The \*\*KIA \*\*_How ya like me_ now commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/76 "2010-04-10T18:25:16Z")
> [@Sweetums](#): > > The gamefly “assholes screaming because they got a bad game” adds. The mute button was MADE for these things! Seconded. Word. This. +1. +infinity. I like what you have to say and want to subscribe to your newsletter. Concur. Agree. Yes. Yes. Oh - GAWD YES!! I hate this commercial with the power of a million gamma ray bursters. On Red Bull. And Cartoon Network/Adult Swim plays this ad late at night when my wife is trying to sleep. Being the “Netflix of Games” is a great business model. Even if I were a gamer I would never be a customer of theirs after these ads. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/77 "2010-04-12T23:42:12Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > The \*\*KIA \*\*_How ya like me_ now commercials. I kinda like those, but have to wonder how effective they are because I couldn’t have told you what brand they were for if you hadn’t just said in your post. One I hate, it’s for some anti-depressant (couldn’t tell you which one, again EFFECTIVE!) but for some bizarre reason throughout the whole commercial they’re playing some horrid musak version of “We Didn’t Start The Fire”. What that has to do with depression/anti-depression, I couldn’t tell you, but to me there’s no association, so it causes me some sort of… I dunno… “cognitive dissonance” I guess would be the term. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/78 "2010-04-13T01:52:23Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I kinda like those, but have to wonder how effective they are because I couldn’t have told you what brand they were for if you hadn’t just said in your post. > \ Yeah, I didn’t know either. I turn them off pretty quickly. I wasn’t even sure what they were selling. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/79 "2010-04-13T03:21:35Z")
Any of the many commercials that show a husband being treated like a dumb jerk by his wife. I’m not even a guy but I am sick of seeing men being brow beaten in every commercial. I’d like to see one of the husbands stand up to his wife and tell her to go cook me some dinner. ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079/80 "2010-04-13T06:25:27Z")
Glad somebody mentioned the Progressive commercials! Can’t stand her or her whiny voice… and they play some kind of jingly tone periodically all during the commercial that makes my stomach hurt for some reason. And yes, the Burger King “King” creeps me out, too! His head is HUGE!!! :eek: Nobody mentioned "IT’S MY MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW! IT’S MY MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW!, the JG Wentworth commercial. MUTE!!! Hate it, hate it, hate it!!! And this one is just wrong to me - It’s for some cleaning product - The woman is grocery shopping with her young daughter. Mom’s arm is in a sling. When others in the store look questioningly at her arm, she LIES! Skiiing accident, roller skating, etc. when supposedly she hurt her arm scrubbing the shower and tub. Her little daughter is just standing there innocently watching her Mother tell lies to everybody in the store! Way to go, Mom. Nothing wrong with teaching your daughter to lie about something as stupid as how you hurt your arm cleaning the scum out of the tub. Sweet… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-circa-march-2010/534079.md?page=5)