# Commercials you hate...it's been a while ya know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208 "2012-06-25T02:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Earthman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@Earthman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/41 "2012-06-26T11:52:42Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Meanwhile I also hate the Kentucky Fried Chicken advert with the Grandad and grandson wrestling over what side dishes they’re going to get. The spot make no freakin’ sense whatever. As they’re arguing, the parents come in the door with their meal of Kentucky Fried Sadness, meaning maybe they should have started arguing their choices before Mom and Dad left to get the food, eh? In one sad interpretation, this does make sense. Grandpa is confused – he knows that the rest of the family has gone to pick up the food, but he can’t remember what he asked for. Grandson, who has been left behind to keep an eye on Gramps (who has been acting stranger and stranger lately), tries to explain that he asked for macaroni & cheese, but Grandpa doesn’t like this, since he has started thinking about mashed potatoes. The teenaged grandson doesn’t have much experience dealing with confused older people, so he begins to argue with Grandpa instead of gently reminding him about ordering the other side. The commercial that we see begins at this point. This provides an explanation for the grandson’s “What are you doing?” surprise at the headlock; they aren’t used to wrestling around this way, or the grandson wouldn’t have reacted with such surprise. Grandpa needs a medical evaluation – he’s forgetful, confused, agitated, and growing violent. The KFC ad execs seem to have forgotten the [Alzheimer’s Association](http://www.alz.org/) contact information which belongs at the end of the commercial. The Colonel is probably spinning like a yardbird on a rotisserie in his grave. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/42 "2012-06-27T00:27:55Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > I think it’s Just for Men where every guy on the planet stops what he’s doing because gray hair has been completely eradicated. Every guy has the “hell yeah!” expression on his face as if all men have now bonded over this. > > The only redeeming thing about this commercial is the stupid way the guy on the island yells “yeah!” at the end. And where does that box of Just for Men come from, falling out of the sky on that desert island? You would think rescuers would have something much more useful for that poor guy. I also enjoy the football players in that spot - all the elderly quarterbacks who have to worry about gray hair … > [@Rhaegar](#): > > I think it was State Farm that had the usual cast of misfit insurance agents dressed up as the Avengers though, and that one was hilarious. > [@Morgyn](#): > > I thought that was Liberty Mutual? No!! It’s Farmers Insurance! University of Farmers? With the great J. K. Simmons as the professor? Those commercials are pretty good, although I got tired of the one with the giant jack-in-the-box crushed by the falling space capsule. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/43 "2012-06-27T00:33:03Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > The Geico kool-aid taste test +1000000 That commercial is STUPID! Makes no GAWDDAMN sense! ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/44 "2012-06-27T02:39:35Z")
I have to admit that I watch a lot less TV nowadays and I’m less likely to see annoying commercials. I am pretty tired of the un-Flo Progressive commercials, with the 70s guy looking like one of the Dukes of Hazzard. He now stalks people and awards them cash for not killing each other on the road. The baby with the goatee driving the sports car is horrible. I’m not repulsed, but curious about the production values on the local ambulance chaser commercials. Is there a science behind their ads? They are incredibly cheesy and seem to strive to keep the low production values. Are the eternally hard on their luck attracted to those ads or something? ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/45 "2012-06-27T02:42:49Z")
This one: [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzTy9_xS1yA) (AT&T 4G) I so want to give that couple the Dexter treatment. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/46 "2012-06-27T03:25:07Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > I’m not repulsed, but curious about the production values on the local ambulance chaser commercials. Is there a science behind their ads? They are incredibly cheesy and seem to strive to keep the low production values. Are the eternally hard on their luck attracted to those ads or something? Because they are cheap bastards, and unwilling to spend one more penny than absolutely necessary. Them, and local car dealers. I actually edited some Kansas City “Boots Williams” car commercials for legendarily awful producer Colonel Billy. He was so cheap that he would shoot his footage MOS (silent), with the featured people just flapping their lips. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/47 "2012-06-27T04:00:58Z")
There is a recent ad for Wal-mart steak, it goes like so: Man:We invited real people to this steak dinner, now we will tell them the truth! Man:You all just had steaks from Wal-mart. Crowd:GASP! Woman:But it was so good I ate all of mine! 😕WTF is the point of these ads? Super WMs have carried a full grocery selection forever, including meats. Why this sudden effort to convince me WM has edible cheap steaks? Why would anyone assume WM steaks were terrible? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/48 "2012-06-27T04:12:25Z")
Wal-Marts are just departemnts stores in much of the US. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/49 "2012-06-27T04:24:51Z")
Okay, i just now saw [this commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1CEwiNR76o) for the very first time, but I already hate it. As my sixteen-year old daughter so aptly put it: _“Resealable wrapper???!!!??? **EEEWWWW**!!!”_ ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/50 "2012-06-27T20:05:39Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Wal-Marts are just departemnts stores in much of the US. Walmart has opened a Walmart Express right by the Chicago stop of the Brown Line here in Chicago, and it’s _mostly_ a food store. On the other hand, assuming reasonable processing, handling and shipping beef is beef. The grades are almost entirely about marbling which is determined via visual inspection. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/51 "2012-06-27T20:09:52Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Walmart has opened a Walmart Express right by the Chicago stop of the Brown Line here in Chicago, and it’s _mostly_ a food store. > > On the other hand, assuming reasonable processing, handling and shipping beef is beef. The grades are almost entirely about marbling which is determined via visual inspection. And Wal-Mart has apparently come up with their own grading system and is marketing the new beef as “Choice Premium”. No doubt it is still Choice in USDA terms. I’m sure that if it were USDA Prime, it would be labeled as such. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/52 "2012-06-27T22:41:39Z")
The ones I can’t stand recently are the Toyota ads where the salesman comes on like a college sports recruiter. It doesn’t help that the guy looks just like Jerry Sandusky. What were they thinking? ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/53 "2012-06-28T08:31:00Z")
The animated Abilify commercial with the woman and her depression (which for some reason is an umbrella with eyes). FIRST they have the woman struggling with her depression, at one point doing the classic “the wind is blowing my umbrella away” struggle - if the umbrella is your depression, wouldn’t you WANT to have it blown away by the wind? Why struggle to KEEP it? .Then they have the obligatory “Talk to your doctor” note, so the animated doctor comes out, starts talking, then shows depressed woman a film, which is a film - of herself talking. What the fuck? TALK TO YOUR PATIENT! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/54 "2012-06-28T14:31:19Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > The ones I can’t stand recently are the Toyota ads where the salesman comes on like a college sports recruiter. It doesn’t help that the guy looks just like Jerry Sandusky. > > What were they thinking? IIRC in one of the commercials a kid actually says who the person is. I believe he is an old (presumably famous) basketball coach who is recruiting kids to Toyota. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/55 "2012-06-28T16:11:41Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > IIRC in one of the commercials a kid actually says who the person is. > > I believe he is an old (presumably famous) basketball coach who is recruiting kids to Toyota. [“Coach T”](http://eppsteingroup.com/tag/toyota/) is entirely fictional. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/56 "2012-06-28T16:52:34Z")
Current Capital One ads combine two revolting aspects - the leering, smirking pitchman and cutesy cute widdle kids. I’m not surprised that the infants keep trying to do him physical harm. I’d try to brain the nimrod myself if given a chance. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/57 "2012-06-28T17:46:52Z")
I just saw one the other night that I really hate: the commercial for BMW’s free maintenance service where the service guy tells the women there’s no cost and she assumes he’s not charging her because he wants to sleep with her or date her or something. Yes, let’s please have more car related commercials where the women are really, really stupid and clueless. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/58 "2012-06-28T18:03:33Z")
Two words: “Depot Time”. > [@grude](#): > > 😕WTF is the point of these ads? Super WMs have carried a full grocery selection forever, including meats. Why this sudden effort to convince me WM has edible cheap steaks? > > Why would anyone assume WM steaks were terrible? The premise is that they are serving WM steaks where someone would expect premium quality steaks. Like the Folgers “we secretly switched their expensive coffee for Folgers crystals, let’s see if anyone notices.” It’s trying to say that WM steaks are not the cheap, gristly, tough, tasteless block of chewy tough meat you expect, but an actual steak you can eat and enjoy. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > As my sixteen-year old daughter so aptly put it: _“Resealable wrapper???!!!??? **EEEWWWW**!!!”_ Uh, it’s not like you swap out the used tampon and put a new fresh one in the package for later. The point is you can put the used tampon in the resealable wrapper, so that you contain the mess so you leave a cleaner package for the trash bin. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/59 "2012-06-28T18:09:04Z")
> [@aktep](#): > > [“Coach T”](http://eppsteingroup.com/tag/toyota/) is entirely fictional. Ewww! I haven’t seen the commercial but that photo is super-creepy! :eek: WM Steaks were featured on Masterchef the other night. I though if they mentioned that the steaks were from WM one more time I’d have to start punching some walls. I had a moment of hope when they switched to commercial but - no relief to be found. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/60 "2012-06-28T18:29:39Z")
> [@amaguri](#): > > I have an intense hatred for pretty much every State Farm commercial. > > The one where random people make wishes come true by singing State Farm tagline? Awful and absurd. Most are, but the one where the Girl in 4E or whatever pops in on the couch, sign me up! You can even keep the hot tub. The DVR has to rate as one of the all time great inventions. I hardly ever watch TV in real time anymore, I’ll make every effort to record the show and zap through commercials. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208.md?page=4)