# commercials you love, hate or don't get **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046 "2009-02-16T04:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [February 18, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/101 "2009-02-18T02:07:02Z")
Just saw an H&R Block ad with one-eyed people. ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/102 "2009-02-18T03:38:07Z")
I really like the commercial with the father and son that travel to the ‘old country’ only to find out they’re in the wrong country. One of the creepiest ads is the one for ‘male enhancement’ with the guy dressed like Santa with the big smile on his face. Women line up to sit on his lap. Creepy! ---
**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:** [February 18, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/103 "2009-02-18T04:13:32Z")
I’m gonna go ahead and agree with the “Hilshire Farms” ads GO MEAT! ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/104 "2009-02-18T06:28:04Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > I’m currently liking the one where the man is going on a business trip, and his little girl hands him his briefcase. When he opens it, he discovers her stuffed monkey…so he uses his neato phone to send her pictures of the monkey in London, in the conference room, etc, then finally a picture of the monkey at the front door, and the little girl is so happy her Daddy’s home! > > I’m a mush. It’s those squeezed tight eyes of joy as she hugs him that make that one for me. It’s like a fairy tale world where dads really treat their daughters like that. Beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/105 "2009-02-18T11:08:15Z")
It’s pretty old, but [this VW Cabrio commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lSKUL_n6c0) is still my favorite of all time. It also introduced me to Nick Drake, which is a very good thing. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/106 "2009-02-18T11:34:19Z")
I did a quick scan and didn’t see this one mentioned yet, so apologies in advance if it has been, The old spice commercial where the guy is showering and is half man, half horse. I just don’t get it. Other than some sick sexual overtones with an attractive woman who’d have sex with a horse, it makes no real sense. I will by no Old Spice products because of it (not that I was buying any of it anyway) ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/107 "2009-02-18T13:17:39Z")
I think it’s a DirectTv commercial - they have one out that happens inside a bank while it’s being violently robbed. I don’t like that at all - I’m not squeamish, but that setting is too much for me. A little too real; it’s not absurd enough. And, you can’t spell Cthulu without Hulu. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/108 "2009-02-18T13:43:54Z")
I have to toss my hat in for the current run of Walmart commercials that proclaim that they only charge you $3 for cashing your payroll checks rather than $8 that “other companies” charge, and the husband punches all the figures into his calculator and shows they’re saving $200 a year by doing this. In the first case, the math is wrong. In the second place: HOW ABOUT CASHING IT AT THE GODDAMN BANK, YOU ASSHOLES? THEY DO IT FOR FREE! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/109 "2009-02-18T14:03:25Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > I’m currently liking the one where the man is going on a business trip, and his little girl hands him his briefcase. When he opens it, he discovers her stuffed monkey…so he uses his neato phone to send her pictures of the monkey in London, in the conference room, etc, then finally a picture of the monkey at the front door, and the little girl is so happy her Daddy’s home! > > I’m a mush. I like that one because I \*\*must own \*\*the house where those people live. They will be evicted and I will move in. That property Will. Be. Mine. ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/110 "2009-02-18T15:03:43Z")
There’s a Dairy Queen ad for their chicken fingers or somesuch. A guy is sitting outside at a table, eating his chicken fingers. His dog is with him. The dog whines, and the guy gives him a chicken finger. The dog whines again, and we see the dog with the chicken sticking out of his mouth. The guy says, “what?” The dog looks at him, then looks at the little tubs of “dipping sauce”, then back at him. The guy says, “Are you serious?”, picks up the BBQ sauce and holds it down below the dog’s muzzle. The guy says, “HAPPY?” as the dog dunks the chicken finger in the sauce, then tips his head back and chomps the chicken finger down. Cracks me up _every time_ I see it. I LOVE that ad. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/111 "2009-02-18T15:32:07Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > The old spice commercial where the guy is showering and is half man, half horse. I just don’t get it. Other than some sick sexual overtones with an attractive woman who’d have sex with a horse, it makes no real sense. I will by no Old Spice products because of it (not that I was buying any of it anyway) The ad is how the Old Spice body wash is “two things in one,”, a soap and a moisturizer, and it’s perfect for him, because he’s ALSO too things in one…a provider and a smart shopper. The joke is that you expect the “two things” the guy is to be a man and a horse, but he avoids mentioning that. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/112 "2009-02-18T16:13:39Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > The ad is how the Old Spice body wash is “two things in one,”, a soap and a moisturizer, and it’s perfect for him, because he’s ALSO too things in one…a provider and a smart shopper. The joke is that you expect the “two things” the guy is to be a man and a horse, but he avoids mentioning that. Well, thanks for explaining it to me. I guess I can see where my head is. However, it still skeeves me. But at least it has a meaning. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/113 "2009-02-18T16:56:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > In the second place: HOW ABOUT CASHING IT AT THE GODDAMN BANK, YOU ASSHOLES? THEY DO IT FOR FREE! Umm, no, they don’t. Not unless you have an account there, or maybe if they issued the check. ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/114 "2009-02-18T16:59:23Z")
Yes, but HOW HARD IS IT to open an account?? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/115 "2009-02-18T17:16:15Z")
> [@Seeker of Truth & Beauty](#): > > Yes, but HOW HARD IS IT to open an account?? Often you need a Drivers licence, which most states don’t give to illegal aliens. And, if you have a bank account and are living “underground” the iRS etc can find you and your $$. Next, many bank accounts cost money. ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/116 "2009-02-18T17:20:28Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Often you need a Drivers licence, which most states don’t give to illegal aliens. And, if you have a bank account and are living “underground” the iRS etc can find you and your $$. > > Next, many bank accounts cost money. Well, then, the illegals can just go back where they came from or starve. Or die. Or whatever. Anyway, sorry for the hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/117 "2009-02-18T17:44:46Z")
> [@BlueOhio](#): > > And, you can’t spell Cthulu without Hulu. I’ll do it this time: Cthulhu. I just saw a yogurt ad – Dannon, I think – claiming that the flavors are irresistible. Fine, but they illustrate it by having the female shopper, right there in the supermarket, grab a cup of the yogurt, clamp it to her face, and _suck it empty_ in a second, causing the cup to crumple from the amazing force of her suction. (Then she lets it drop and smiles sheepishly. No hint that she’s going to pay for it.) Anyway, it’s kind of a disgusting image, and doesn’t incline me to buy the yogurt. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/118 "2009-02-18T17:47:53Z")
> [@welby](#): > > I hate with all my heart and sould the Room Store commercials. There’s something about the spokeslady that makes my jaw clench and rage begin to develop. > [Link](http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS271US271&q=room%20store%20commercials%20watch&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#) The first video that comes up with that link is a parody iPhone ad, explaining how useful the iPhone is if a fellow wants to take a break and masturbate in the storeroom before coming back out to manage the Boston Market, shake customers’ hands and serve them food. So, thanks for that. (There’s another one where a prostitute explains how convenient it is to only need the iPhone instead of a separate phone, camera, and pager, thus freeing up space in her purse for Mace.) Domino’s is terrible pizza, but I like [this ad.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptAjD-qTKl0&eurl=http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS271US271&q=room%20store%20commercialsiurl=http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/ptAjD-qTKl0/hqdefault.jpg) “Rubbish!” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/119 "2009-02-18T17:57:31Z")
Everytime I see those stupid California Cow commercials I think I’ll add them to this thread - then I forget. I don’t get it. What would I give a flying leap which cow gets voted the next happy cow? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Composer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Composer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Composer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046/120 "2009-02-18T18:27:52Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The AFLAK commercials are palatable because of the running gag with the black actor, who has a great face. I think this is All State. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-hate-or-dont-get/486046.md?page=7)