# Current ads that grate on you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122 "2010-12-22T21:34:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/121 "2010-12-29T14:27:29Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Just saw that before bed last night. Absolutely horrible. Even my hubby was grossed out. Makes the “my diaper is full of chic/shit” one look downright classy. ---
**Author:** ![MizTina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/122 "2010-12-29T20:06:38Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I just saw this horrid one for the diaper Luvs. It shows cartoon babies prancing around in diapers while other babies/kids rate their diaper’s…capabilities. Each baby walks around the stage, turns around, and…uh, poops. We see the diaper expand to indicate they’ve pooped and each judge holds up a score card rating how well the diaper contained the load. Just found it on Youtube. I can only imagine that Luvs is trying to appeal to the Amber Portland kind of moms. Should work well for them. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/123 "2010-12-29T20:18:44Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > 1st of all, the kid who wants a hot tub slays ME TOO!! And about your 2nd nominee- if the agent wasn’t a hottie, that’d annoy the SNOT out of me! You take her, I’ll take hot tub boy. Just as long as he doesn’t try to sing again. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/124 "2010-12-29T21:06:11Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > 1st of all, the kid who wants a hot tub slays ME TOO!! And the girl from 3G they summon is very, very cute. Though I do wonder why the sandwich they ask for looks just like baloney on white. Why not a hoagie with all sorts of meat and cheese? I think the “to the cloud” ads are my least favorite right now, for all the reasons mentioned above. I sort of love the Trojan vibrator commercial because 1.) When did we start advertising sex toys on TV? and 2.) The part where the guy or girl (can’t remember who) says “We got three!” (One for each hole! Yay!) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/125 "2011-02-10T20:43:49Z")
I can do without the boomer rock and classic blues/R&B sound tracks to commercials for drugs that treat ED and incontinence. Mark my words, before long we’ll be listening to “Born To Be Wild” in the background while the pitchman extols Rascal scooters. And stay off my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/126 "2011-02-10T21:19:07Z")
The “I’m T-Mobile and I’m \_\_\_\_\_” ads are horrible. First, it’s a copy of someone else’s ad and second, it’s a really bad copy of someone else’s ad. It’s like they completely failed to understand why the Mac/PC ads worked, but used them anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/127 "2011-02-10T21:30:31Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > The “I’m T-Mobile and I’m \_\_\_\_\_” ads are horrible. First, it’s a copy of someone else’s ad and second, it’s a really bad copy of someone else’s ad. It’s like they completely failed to understand why the Mac/PC ads worked, but used them anyway. But the Mac/PC ads don’t work. And the T-Mobile copies are infinitely better than the original. Your whole post was written in opposite land man! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/128 "2011-02-10T21:35:14Z")
I’ve been giving too much thought lately to the Progresso ad where a soup-eating gal calls the company wanting to speak to her grandma. The soup factory workers answer the call on their dangling soup-can phone and tell her that her grandma is out in the garden gathering herbs. Gal says, “She is so cute! I’ll hold.” Factory workers are nonplussed. Okay, I get that the soup-eater thinks her grandma must work for Progresso now. But why do the factory workers have a phone? Why do they lie? The real irritant in this commercial is this young whippersnapper referring to her grandma as cute. My mom used to use the same word about her grandmother and it’s still just…weird. If my future grandchildren ever get all condescending with _me_, I’m going to whop them upside the head with my herb basket. One more thing: How long’s this ditz willing to stay on hold? ---
**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/129 "2011-02-11T01:31:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I hate the commercial where everyone is CRUNCHING loudly on Kit-Kat bars (although I like Kit-Kat bars). YUCK. I have to kill the volume when that one is on. SO agree with you. It took me a couple of viewing before I even realized the crunching is supposed to be in the rythym of the Kit Kat theme song (gimme a break, gimme a break). I’m sure a million people have already mentioned this in the thread, but Imma cut that bitch Flo from the Progressive Insurance commercials. I hate her so much. I pity the actress who plays her - I bet a lot of people come up to her on the street just to tell her she sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/130 "2011-02-11T03:23:23Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Hey, it’s the holiday season. Let’s take a few words from an 80’s new wave song and turn it into a [Christmas Carol](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpP51j74Iyg) for Hershey’s chocolate. :rolleyes: > > Some people talk about things that make them “feel all stabby”. I never quiet understood that feeling before seeing this commercial. Agghhh! It’s not even a good condensation of the original! Were they trying to fake it after blowing the budget on chocolate-flavoured CGI and then discovering that they couldn’t afford the song’s licence fees? > [@elmwood](#): > > This. Yeah, and I’m gonna’ download a Robitussin app, too. There actually is such an app. I checked. I didn’t download it. > [@bouv](#): > > That’s not the point of the ad at all. The kid is the musician that they are all listening to, and it never went up with the intention to jump, he went up there to “release his music” or something like that. > > Like…he has to drop the music onto people from a high place so they can get it on their phones? It’s a silly metaphor, and I agree it does look like he is about to commit suicide, but that’s not what the makers of the ad were going for at all…they just failed at what they were going for, though. If I’m going up to a high place to release anything upon the world, you can be sure that it isn’t music… ---
**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:** [February 11, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/131 "2011-02-11T04:18:58Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > The “I’m T-Mobile and I’m \_\_\_\_\_” ads are horrible. First, it’s a copy of someone else’s ad and second, it’s a really bad copy of someone else’s ad. It’s like they completely failed to understand why the Mac/PC ads worked, but used them anyway. Amen. Well, I hated the Mac/PC ads as well but I’ve no idea why a shallow knockoff is supposed to be better. I suppose the T-Mobile rip-offs have that chick in the dress which is easier on the eyes than Justin Long. There’s a commercial for Beyaz (the repurposed Yaz birth control pills) where some women are wandering a store buying “trip to Paris” and “New house”. A stork with the traditional baby sling in its beak hops down and approaches one of the women who waves the bird off. I always picture the stork thinking “Well, fuck. What am I going to do now with this woman’s baby?” I mean, the stork was offering the baby to _her_ so obviously it was _her_ baby. He can’t just go offering that baby to the next woman who comes in. I know that’s really more just my perception but I can’t help it. ---
**Author:** ![desert29rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@desert29rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desert29rat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/132 "2011-02-11T05:23:56Z")
[Quote=ThelmaLou] I hate the commercial where everyone is CRUNCHING loudly on Kit-Kat bars (although I like Kit-Kat bars). YUCK. I have to kill the volume when that one is on. [/QUOTE] > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > This this this. Any commercial with audible crunch, slurp, slobber sounds. > > Shudders. _YES!_ I will kill the volume, change the channel, or shut the TV off! Anything to kill those disgusting munching, crunching, slurping sounds! I will never, NEVER, _ **NEVER** _ buy those products. Friends have tried to tell me that the advertisers only want you to remember the product, that it doesn’t matter if the ad is annoying. Not so. I _always_ avoid products with offensive ads. ---
**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 11, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/133 "2011-02-11T15:23:44Z")
I really hate the ad for Bayer aspirin that has the guy on the plane ringing for the attendent because his back hurts. She offers him Bayer. He says: “No, I’m not having a heart attack (gesturing to his chest, in case we don’t know where the heart is), my back hurts (indicating his back, in case we thought it was located in his crotch)!” Is there really anybody on the entire planet who thinks that aspirin is only for heart attacks? Oh! Aspirin for pain? Really? I usually just stab myself with a screwdriver. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/134 "2011-02-11T15:39:38Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I really hate the ad for Bayer aspirin that has the guy on the plane ringing for the attendent because his back hurts. She offers him Bayer. He says: “No, I’m not having a heart attack (gesturing to his chest, in case we don’t know where the heart is), my back hurts (indicating his back, in case we thought it was located in his crotch)!” Is there really anybody on the entire planet who thinks that aspirin is only for heart attacks? Oh! Aspirin for pain? Really? I usually just stab myself with a screwdriver. :smack: I agree that the idea that aspirin is only for heart attacks is stupid, but I think he was s p e a k i n g s l o w l y and gesticulating because he thought the flight attendant didn’t speak English (which is stupid in itself, even if he was on a Japan Air flight), because (to me) it sounded like she responded to his ring in Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/135 "2011-02-11T15:49:35Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Mark my words, before long we’ll be listening to “Born To Be Wild” in the background while the pitchman extols Rascal scooters. This is the most depressing, because accurate, thing that I’ve read all day. Or maybe even all century. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/136 "2011-02-11T16:09:36Z")
There’s a 15-second spot for some car company (Toyota?) that says something like, “Maybe the reason why car companies keep making boring cars is because people keep buying them.” Insulting me for buying the other guy’s product doesn’t make me want to switch to yours, you smug jackass. Maybe it’s just me, but that one annoys the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/137 "2011-02-11T16:23:17Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Amen. Well, I hated the Mac/PC ads as well but I’ve no idea why a shallow knockoff is supposed to be better. I suppose the T-Mobile rip-offs have that chick in the dress which is easier on the eyes than Justin Long. > > There’s a commercial for Beyaz (the repurposed Yaz birth control pills) where some women are wandering a store buying “trip to Paris” and “New house”. A stork with the traditional baby sling in its beak hops down and approaches one of the women who waves the bird off. I always picture the stork thinking “Well, fuck. What am I going to do now with this woman’s baby?” I mean, the stork was offering the baby to _her_ so obviously it was _her_ baby. He can’t just go offering that baby to the next woman who comes in. I know that’s really more just my perception but I can’t help it. T-Mobile girl is definitely an upgrade from Justin Long in my opinion. Re: Beyaz…hehe! You know, now I think I’ll like that ad since I can mentally insert the “what the fuck am I supposed to do with this chick’s baby??” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/138 "2011-02-11T16:25:08Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Re: Beyaz…hehe! You know, now I think I’ll like that ad since I can mentally insert the “what the fuck am I supposed to do with this chick’s baby??” Take it home to feed your chicks, obviously. ---
**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 11, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/139 "2011-02-11T17:35:19Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I agree that the idea that aspirin is only for heart attacks is stupid, but I think he was s p e a k i n g s l o w l y and gesticulating because he thought the flight attendant didn’t speak English (which is stupid in itself, even if he was on a Japan Air flight), because (to me) it sounded like she responded to his ring in Japanese. I missed that part, I guess. It’s still stupid. And doesn’t the announcer go on to say that Bayer is not just for heart attacks? I know they think they have to dumb things down for public consumption, but this is a new low. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/140 "2011-02-11T17:36:06Z")
The Steak 'n Shake talking hat nearly sends me through the rough. Also, some scratch off lottery commercial around here features a guy rubbing ranch dressing all over himself. Eeeeeeeeeew! It’s put me off ranch dressing forever! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122.md?page=8)