# Companies you've grown to hate because of their adverts. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 28, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583 "2004-06-28T18:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/81 "2004-06-30T08:02:29Z")
Twp types of car commercials. the first is a certain European luxury auto. Their ads show their cars merrily driving along- and always splashing gutter water up onto us peons- and then the peons are shown to be thankful for it!!! :mad: Then there is a perfectly normal looking silver car (it’s always silver). It drives down the street- and normally no one would give these cars a second glance- but in the ad everyone is always glomming & staring at these cars. :dubious: Really- dudes- a Ferrari or something- THAT stops traffic and gets looks. Your ordinary upper-middle class silver sedan? BORING! Ancient Armada- once upon a time, they had cool ads- now they are going on the “if they remember us, it’s good, no matter how much they hate us”. Grrrr. I like the Aflac ads. Quinoz & their mutant undead- again- “if they remember the ad we have won”. No dudes- it’s "_if they buy the product_ ". Only the ad agency wins if consumers remember the ad but don’t buy the product. “Cute” kids making huge messes. Blech. And Mom is supposed to think that cute? :dubious: No Mom I have ever seen. Cute kids in General- the Pepsi girl, the welches girl. Daughters of satan. Oh, and enzyte doesn’t work- except to siphon cash out of Bobs pocket. :rolleyes: Note that some herbals can work a little like Viagra- sometimes. But your penis is only bigger when it is erect- just as normal. That gecko insurance company- it is kinda cheap, I admit. But it has the worst service of any company I have ever used. Try and get a settlement out of them. :mad: Oh, and they cancel you without warning and without a legal reason. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/82 "2004-06-30T11:40:24Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > You people are blind to the genius that is the [Spongmonkeys](http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/) . > yes thats how they spell it on the site God I hate that shit. Reminds me of some crappy Cheech and Chong ripoff. As far as commercials that drive me up a wall, we’ve gone 2 pages and no one has mentioned Hemi? Perhaps it’s better that we don’t speak of it. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/83 "2004-06-30T11:52:05Z")
Dr. Scholl’s. That idiotic “Are you gellin’” garbage makes me want to puke, as does the more recent thing about the little knobby shoe insert that makes the wearer issue orgasmic sounds whenever he/she walks. Nothing that is connected with footwear could ever make me orgasmic, although I recognize that some folk do have a special feeling for feet and/or footwear. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/84 "2004-06-30T15:14:37Z")
oh yes, the Dr. Scholl’s ads! I thought those were just a local commercial, but I see they’re North American wide. How those people can honestly stand there and deliver those lines seriously is beyond me. “I’m so gellin’ I’m like Magellan!” WTF? And has anyone ever noticed how furniture stores seem to be perpetually going out of business? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/85 "2004-06-30T15:17:01Z")
> [@Trigonal Planar](#): > > oh yes, the Dr. Scholl’s ads! I thought those were just a local commercial, but I see they’re North American wide. How those people can honestly stand there and deliver those lines seriously is beyond me. “I’m so gellin’ I’m like Magellan!” WTF? > > And has anyone ever noticed how furniture stores seem to be perpetually going out of business? Ugh, those ads are totally repellin’ \ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/86 "2004-06-30T15:31:57Z")
On the subject of furniture stores there are a couple that advertise in the UK ( DFS and Courts ) who are always having a sale where the goods are anything from 50% to 75 % off the original price. If they can afford to sell their products at this low price then they must have been way over-priced in the first place with a ridiculously high mark-up. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/87 "2004-06-30T15:34:29Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > I wish Geico would cease to exist. They’re every-freaking-where! There is not a single cable station I can watch without seeing that damn gecko or some other shmuck announcing at the most inappopriate times that he saved a shitload of money on his car insurance (like, who the hell carea anyway?) And since he always prefaces this information with “I got good news”, every time someone says this in real life the other person will say, “you just switched to Geico and saved a bunch of money, right?!” Yeah, really original and funny :rolleyes:. Oh, and when they say _fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on your car insurance,_ my mind always tacks on, “…but it probably won’t.” > . ``` I HATE those Geico adds. We get them on the TV and the radion arround here. "Hey your life sucks, but I have some great news, I just save a whole bunch of money on my car insurance with Geeko" Just once I would like the other person to reply "Hey I just broke both your kneecaps with a baseball bat, but that's okay, you saved a bunch of money on your car insurance with Crapco". ``` ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/88 "2004-06-30T15:39:35Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > On the subject of furniture stores there are a couple that advertise in the UK ( DFS and Courts ) who are always having a sale where the goods are anything from 50% to 75 % off the original price. If they can afford to sell their products at this low price then they must have been way over-priced in the first place with a ridiculously high mark-up. Here in Murfreesboro, we have a furniture store that has an annual “Going Out of Business” sale. No no. You read it right. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/89 "2004-06-30T15:51:30Z")
I actually liked the first “zoom, zoom” commercial. Very minimalist. But of course, if something works once, it wil work a thousand times. Right? The Pepto-Bismol one almost literally makes me sick. Disgusting. I saw the Dr. Scholl’s “ooh-ah” for the first time last night. I think even they realized how stupid it is, with the clumsy bit of attempted self mockery at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/90 "2004-06-30T15:59:15Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Coke has some pretty bad ads Euro 2004: Rat-child. URG! ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/91 "2004-06-30T16:33:33Z")
I am considering not going to see Michael Moore’s **Fahrenheit 911**. Not because of the political content, or the fairness/unfairness of it, or the controversy, or anything like that. It’s because of this one ad. It goes something like this: “Fahrenheit: The temperature of the atmosphere when it’s about to explode.” WHAT??!! I don’t care what the film says about Bush and Iraq, that’s just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/92 "2004-06-30T16:34:27Z")
> [@Trigonal Planar](#): > > oh yes, the Dr. Scholl’s ads! I thought those were just a local commercial, but I see they’re North American wide. How those people can honestly stand there and deliver those lines seriously is beyond me. “I’m so gellin’ I’m like Magellan!” WTF? IIRC, the ad used to say “Are you gellin’?” to which the reply would be “Like a felon!” Maybe consumers don’t want to think that the best that their feet will feel is in a prison and that’s the reason they changed it to the obtuse “Magellan”?! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/93 "2004-06-30T16:56:22Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > My mom does, it’s a pretty miserable condition. > > But she won’t take the meds, have you listened to the side effects??? > > May cause nausea, constipation, headaches, dry mouth, nosebleeds, coma and possibly death. > > (okay, I made up the last two). Tell your mom to reconsider. I’ve been taking Prilosec for years, and couldn’t be happier with it. I don’t even mind the commercials. Hey, they advertise a product, and it does what they say it does. What I can’t stand is that Pepcid ad that claims that if you take Prilosec OTC, you have to keep taking it for 14 days. No, you dumb fucks! Did you actually bother to read the directions before you decided to tell a bald-faced lie? Furniture commercials are the worst. Boston area Dopers will attest to the generally grating voice of Bob (I doubt it!), and the almost surreal ugliness of Phyl (of Bernie and Phyl’s). Then there are the lawyers. “The client broke his ass right off, and wants fair compensation.” “Tell him to blow. We’re evil, and not paying a cent.” “He got a lawyer.” “Lawyer, schmawyer. We’re not paying. What loser did he get, anyway.” “Dane M. Schyster.” (Evil exec literally shits his pants) “We’d better settle!” This is followed up by that guy from the Man From UNCLE telling you to tell them that You. Mean. Business. ---
**Author:** ![Da\_Cissy\_Pimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Da\_Cissy\_Pimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_Cissy_Pimp)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/94 "2004-06-30T17:18:48Z")
> [@Consumer\_Sovereignty](#): > > (For the Aussies among us): Virgin Mobile. > > 3 words: > > Warren. > > Ming mong. > … If you don’t know what the above are, count yourself lucky. Sadly, I do. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/95 "2004-06-30T17:35:22Z")
> [@aurelian](#): > > Menard’s - you know they actually play that annoying jingle in the store?! Yeah, but you know, you’ll save big money, you’ll save big money when you shop Menard’s. I’m surprised they aren’t all axe murderers. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/96 "2004-06-30T17:39:45Z")
Two words: [Ditech.com](http://Ditech.com) ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/97 "2004-06-30T17:50:21Z")
That’s one word, **John** 😃 Current ad hates: That Tylenol ad that has the headachy woman staring eerily into the camera for what seems like hours, with disturbing, headachy music in the background Anything by Cellino and Barnes, personal injury attorneys (“CALL us. We’d be HONORED to TAKE your case.”) The already-mentioned Fuccillo Chevrolet ads (“It’s HUUUUUUUUU-jeh!”) Current ad loves: [Senor Cardgage Mortgage](http://www.homestarrunner.com/senormortgage.html) (warning: link contains sound) “Get a leg up on the pile…low rates, percent signs, I don’t know…” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/98 "2004-06-30T17:53:34Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > [Senor Cardgage Mortgage](http://www.homestarrunner.com/senormortgage.html) (warning: link contains sound) “Get a leg up on the pile…low rates, percent signs, I don’t know…” Uh, ooooooo-kay. ---
**Author:** ![Imran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Imran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imran)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/99 "2004-06-30T18:09:11Z")
No one’s mentioned the ever-so-annoying Rooms to Go commercials? Maybe they’re just a Georgia thing, but _dear God_ are they brain-rapingly bad. Two people who sort of look like washed up sitcom stars (though I can’t recognize them for the life of me) sit on a couch, pretend to flirt, get hot-and-heavy about furniture, then run off to Rooms To Go. What. The. Fuck? _checks to make sure this is in the Pit_ The worst thing about it is that every advertisement talks about how few sales RTG has, but there’s a commercial about a new “sale” (or markdown, or clearance, or holiday event) every two weeks! If you’re going to lie, at least don’t insult my intelligence! And get a better thesaurus! – Imran ---
**Author:** ![scule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@scule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scule)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583/100 "2004-06-30T19:04:55Z")
So many apt complaints. To the list I add: For Canadians, and Americans close to the border, any of the wretched, insulting tripe put out by Labbat’s or Molson. Like every single Canadian is either a retarded horn-dog guy with no tact or a vapid whore of a woman with facecloths for clothing and all we ever want to do is go to the cottage and listen to shitty music and dance. I hate those fucking commercials _soooooooooo_ much. Also, anything by McCain. It’s like they hired high school students from that “special” class to do their advertising campaign for the last 15 years. And lastly (I think they are only Canadian), any Fido commercial. There was the one around Christmas where the jackass said that family calls are free, so they showed a large family gathering where everyone was talking on the phone to each other even though they were all seated at the same table. Now they have one where they propose to use your phone as a home line, and show the “competition” trying to duplicate this serivce by having phone cords criss-crossing city streets and causing traffic chaos. How fucking stupid do they think I am? Otherwise, I’d truly love to punch the “Can you hear me now?” guy until he can’t talk anymore. And there was an ad for yogurt that featured ballet dancers in the clouds and some ridiculously inspiring music and it was all about fucking yogurt. As an aside, I love the Holiday Inn Express commercials, especially the one with KISS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-youve-grown-to-hate-because-of-their-adverts/252583.md?page=6)