# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**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 28, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/61 "2012-06-28T20:46:55Z")
> [@aktep](#): > > [“Coach T”](http://eppsteingroup.com/tag/toyota/) is entirely fictional. I assumed that he was supposed to give a [Bill Snyder](http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0509/ncf_u_snyder_576.jpg) vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/62 "2012-06-28T21:35:55Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Yes, let’s please have more car related commercials where the women are really, really stupid and clueless. Are there other car commercials that depict women as being stupid and/or clueless? Because the only time I see those kinds of commercials are in print ads from the 1960s or earlier. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/63 "2012-06-28T22:37:44Z")
Does anyone on the face of the planet refer to a car’s built-in GPS as “navi” (pronounced “naah-vee”)? That Nissan commercial with the twit flitting around the lot while the salesman trails behind is the first time I’ve heard it. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/64 "2012-06-28T23:06:41Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > The one for the cereal or granola bar with the twangy guy singing "Skippin’ stones and lettin’ go . . . " and that’s the entire song. That’s all he sings. And that’s supposedly an enticement to buy granola or whatever. LOL. I thought I was the only one that noticed something odd about that commercial. I think the producers got your message because recently I think they included one more line of that song. Perhaps there is a full-length commercial that they chopped down due to time/budget constraints. The ones I hate are the ones for the local Indian casinos. Always, Always, they show classy young ladies clinking their cocktail glasses, foxy young ladies winning jackpots and excitely celebrating, cute young ladies luxuriating in the spa. They rarely show any guys. They make it seem like guys are outnumbered 4 or 5 to one! Woo-hoo! I do not patronize these establishments, however, I am quite certain the majority of visitors to these places are the senior set bussed-in from out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/65 "2012-06-29T01:42:53Z")
Huh? You mean that I won’t become one of the beautiful people just by walking into the casino? Sigh. A local Indian casino keeps saying that they’ve got “more ways to win.” If I were slightly cynical, I might suspect that they’ve somehow forgotten to mention that they’ve also got more ways to lose, or at least found some way to at least barely eke out a small, well, profit. …No, I’m more cynical than that. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/66 "2012-06-29T01:46:22Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > Huh? You mean that I won’t become one of the beautiful people just by walking into the casino? Sigh. > > A local Indian casino keeps saying that they’ve got “more ways to win.” If I were slightly cynical, I might suspect that they’ve somehow forgotten to mention that they’ve also got more ways to lose, or at least found some way to at least barely eke out a small, well, profit. …No, I’m more cynical than that. Casinos weren’t build on _ **winners** _. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/67 "2012-06-30T13:22:11Z")
The one that I hate is the Toyota (?) ad where the woman is giving the guy a polygraph and checks whether the machine is working by asking him “Are you uncontrollably attracted to me?” He calmly answers “No” and the machine goes nuts, and she smirks “Yeah, it’s working.” First of all, what an incredibly self-centered bitch. “Yeah, I’m so hot, every guy obviously wants me, so I’ll use that as a test question.” But also, if the guy’s “No” answer was a lie, and he actually _was_ “uncontrollably attracted” to her, he wouldn’t just be calmly sitting there - he’d be all over her, right? Yeah, I’ve spent way too much time analyzing that commercial… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/68 "2012-08-08T04:29:10Z")
A commercial currently airing for the 5-hour energy drinks claims that of the doctors who responded to their survey, 72% would recommend a sugar-free energy drink for people who consume energy drinks. Later the commercial mentions that 3000 doctors were surveyed. By my math, it’s possible that 18 doctors responded to the survey and 13 said they were okay with the sugar-free version if you’re going to drink the stuff anyway. It’s a sleazy commercial that will probably have people gulping down even more $5 energy drinks because doctors recommend they do so. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/69 "2012-08-08T13:55:38Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Why would anyone assume WM steaks were terrible? Because they assume everything at WM is terrible? “I don’t want none of that beef imported from China that Wally World sells. I go to my supermarket to get good ole fashioned American! beef raised right here in… Australia?!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/70 "2012-08-08T20:20:28Z")
Beef? Think smaller. Think more legs. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/71 "2012-08-09T00:27:59Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > A commercial currently airing for the 5-hour energy drinks claims that of the doctors who responded to their survey, 72% would recommend a sugar-free energy drink for people who consume energy drinks. Which, of course, means precisely nothing. They don’t recommend that people drink any of them, let alone the brand advertised–just that if you’re going to do so, go sugarless. Pointless words to make people think that THEIR brand is doctor-recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/72 "2012-08-09T00:46:28Z")
Jimmy Bonds! I am sorry I don’t use their product, because I would gladly stop using it due to this commercial. And of course, it goes without saying: every damn car insurance commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/73 "2012-08-09T17:11:34Z")
There’s a recent commercial for some gas guzzling SUV that has me going “WTF?”. It shows two “wildlife” photographers in a competition to photograph some elusive raptor. They race up the mountain with one taking his, I dunno, Land Rover or something, up a dusty side trail in order to beat the other to the top and take a picture of the rare, exotic…turkey vulture. (For the non-wildlife photographers in the audience, not only is the turkey vulture NOT particularly rare, unusual, or hard to find, but it also manages to be even uglier than the SUV that the guy is driving.) ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/74 "2012-08-10T02:53:45Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > They race up the mountain with one taking his, I dunno, Land Rover or something, up a dusty side trail in order to beat the other to the top and take a picture of the rare, exotic…turkey vulture. I believe it’s also Land Rover that shows a foursome of guys starting out on a camping trip, but three women are suddenly coming along, leaving one of the friends as the “seventh wheel” that the vehicle has room for. What kind of friends would pull that? ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/75 "2012-08-11T02:47:53Z")
“Chevy runs deep.” Somehow that phrase does not leave me with the profound respect for tradition that they ad writers are trying to achieve. Instead, I think I’m subconsciously left with vague puzzlement at just where one goes to get good hipboots for a truck… ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/76 "2012-08-11T03:50:36Z")
There’s a home security company whose radio commercials are read by the president of the company. They begin with “I’m Joel Matlin, president of Alarm Force…” I don’t know how they continue, since that’s the point at which my lunging finger reaches the power button. Just something about that guy’s voice is annoying as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Mdcastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208/77 "2012-11-26T13:32:00Z")
Why create commercials that make me want to throw a brick at the screen? (Subway kid talkers and Quiznos sponge-monkey’s I’m talking about you). Do some people like/respond to these commercials? Is even bad attention good attention? Were the ad agencies smoking crack? As for other commericals I hate: Any where there’s a man and the woman and the man is portrayed as a bumbling idtiot. I thought they’d never dare to do the opposite until I saw that “the internet says” commercial that’s on now for some insurance or other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-hate-its-been-a-while-ya-know/626208.md?page=3)