# Current TV ads you despise **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577 "2004-09-08T01:07:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/21 "2004-09-08T04:38:12Z")
The new-ish McD’s ad with the two “strangers” making out with barbeque sauce all over their faces, and then they look at the old man. :gag, puke, retch: Yeah, I wanna run out and eat those right now! Except that I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/22 "2004-09-08T04:46:02Z")
Sorry, meant to preview. Or somethin’. The Old Navy ads, something about denim molecules being absorbed through the skin, especially the “mowing the lawn” one with the crackhead little girl, and the “LET’S STUDY!” one. Ugh, go away! And the idea of anything from Old Navy being absorbed through my skin creeps me out. The (Staples?) ad with the guy who’s talking about the “free” $5 cards for teachers (you have to spend $100 to get it though), and he doesn’t know what 12 times 5 is. Little girl: “Sixty.” Stupid guy: “I don’t think so.” The broken record anti-Bush ad. “Steady and strong. Steady and strong.” I really don’t like any anti-candidate ad. Tell me why I **should** vote for you, not why I _shouldn’t_ vote for The Other Guy. Telling me that George W. eats babies for breakfast tells me very little about your ideas and strategies. Dumbass. (To the DNC, as well as the GOP, and the DEA, FBI, CAT and whoever the hell is responsible for this crap.) I hate commercials in general, really. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/23 "2004-09-08T07:29:42Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > Every McDonald’s commercial, both TV and radio, that I’ve encountered in the last 6 months. > > The Ditech commercials. > > Local lawyer commercials. “I’m lovin’ it!” I presume this refers to eater’s bulbous stomach!! :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/24 "2004-09-08T07:37:07Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > The worst commercials ever made, anywhere, are the Seattle-area Money Tree commercials. I cannot find a clip, but perhaps that’s for the best: it might inspire many of you to destroy your monitor and burn down your house. HANDS-DOWN! I’ve been making fun of those ads for what must be years now. Are people actually receptive to that god damn caterpillar and his ugly ass wife? I mean, come on. There’s another ad too, damnit I can’t remember the name “Vern funk insurance”? I’m close…Perhaps it’s better I don’t remember. Anyways, I hate it too. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/25 "2004-09-08T07:53:24Z")
There’s one for a cash advance “service” that makes no sense. Spliscreen, husband and wife on the phone. “We’re having septuplets.” (maniacally) “Sesseseseptuplets!” Hows a two-week advance gonna help? Unless daddy changes his identity and runs. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/26 "2004-09-08T11:58:54Z")
> [@ITR champion](#): > > The Dairy Queen commercials for their new shakes. There’s one where a woman is at a blindfold taste test and she likes the espresso shake so much that she runs away when the director of the study asks her to put it down. What I find disturbing is not that she didn’t take the blindfold off, but the fact that he asks her to put it down, in essence, to give it back. What’s he going to do, use that same shake for the next 20 taste-testers? The same one she just drank out of? Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/27 "2004-09-08T12:43:15Z")
Two that upset me so much, I almost started a pit thread about them: Coppertone. The ads show people remembering having fun with their friends in the sun and then the mood turns dark. Last year the friends got skin cancer. The message is: you better use Coppertone if you don’t want skin cancer! Oh, thank you, Coppertone! I could have died! Clorox disinfectant wipes. The ads show a ‘germ counter’, telling you how many millions of germs there are everywhere you go. Germs here, germs there, germs everywhere! AAAAAAAAAA! But then with one swipe of a Clorox wipe, all gone! Whew! Thanks, Clorox!!! I guess fear sells. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Pythagras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Pythagras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagras)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/28 "2004-09-08T12:51:09Z")
I personally dislike that other Dairy Queen commercial. The **Brownie Blash** commercial. Its just really uncomfortable to watch that bozo lick the brownie mixer. I like the LETS STUDY! Commercial. Its full of great quotes like “Thank you first guy, for writing history down!” (not sure how the first guy writes down history, but…) ---
**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:** [September 8, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/29 "2004-09-08T13:16:15Z")
Any and all ads that have as their underlying theme “You need our product to protect you from yourself because you, sir, are a _moron._” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/30 "2004-09-08T18:00:17Z")
Did any of you see the new Wal-Mart ad with an employee talking poignantly about his kid’s need for a liver transplant or some such thing? According to the ad, the company’s wonderful benefits program made it possible. Please. It’s great if it’s true, but I have a hard time believing this story. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/31 "2004-09-08T18:06:31Z")
Number 1 on the “smack the ad exec around” hit parade has got to be the “Digger the Dermataphyte” spot. First they show you the thick, discolored nails, then as if that wasn’t bad enough, they lift -up- the nail to show you all the diggers insides. **GROSS!** This is -not- something I want to see. Actually, I have problems with many of the prescription drug ads. The pharmaceutical companies seem determined to … well, peddle their wares and if that means that many hypochondriacs think they’ve got all sorts of physical problems, the better for them if they can convince their MD to prescribe their med. Another one that just really grates on me is the one for the tampon where the girl goes into the bathroom, puts her tampon on the windowsill (the -open- windowsill! come on, who would be -dumb- enough to do that?!), and then when it falls off, proceeds to use up all the (other) tampons (presumably belonging to the hostess of the party) to create a “fishing pole” to retrieve her brand! GEEZE! Some may remember that I’ve also got … issues with the Mattress Warehouse folks, who have run a series of ads in which folks are in danger of getting seriously injured (heck, killed even!), although the current version had me giggling, I’ll confess. It’s the one where “Johnson” has let a typo slip into some big company hand-out ("It’s THANK not SPANK!), then the boss heads up to confront Johnson. When he gets there, Johnson is daydreaming about what a good job he did, everyone congratulating and thanking (!) him, when the boss yells, “Johnson!”, it startles him, and he falls backwards in the chair, iknocking his head (and putting a dent in) the open file cabinet behind him. Need Sleep? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/32 "2004-09-08T22:34:08Z")
> [@tarragon918](#): > > I have problems with many of the prescription drug ads. The pharmaceutical companies seem determined to … well, peddle their wares and if that means that many hypochondriacs think they’ve got all sorts of physical problems, the better for them if they can convince their MD to prescribe their med. And half the conditions seem like they’re made up anyway. Along the same lines, I really dislike the (I think) Glaxo Smith Kline ads where they have “researchers” explaining how expensive it is to develop drugs so we owe them obscenely high profits. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/33 "2004-09-08T23:42:40Z")
I hate the Chcolate Milk commercials with the tagline, I believe, “Shake things up”. Folks go through amazing machinations to shake up a bottle of chocolate milk…pgo sticks… dirt biking,…the post office…the scanner…how hard is to shake your own chocolate milk? ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/34 "2004-09-09T00:05:04Z")
That Verizon commercial that has James Earl Jones amazedly spurts “Tweaking morph nodes on 3d models!” while precocious kid #87 looks up at the viewer. Unless you’re doing it through remote connection there’s no frickin’ difference what your net speed is! He might as well be saying “Word processing!” or “Minesweeper!” for all the effect your connection has. Grraaah. Geeky nitpick powers, activate. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/35 "2004-09-09T00:53:58Z")
Someone recently posted a pit thread about the latest **Gillette razor commercials**. Since then I started to take notice, and boy were they right. The over-the-top copy and special effects they employ to pitch a stupid razor blade makes me want to laugh or vomit or both. The ad agency that makes them – or more likely, the Gillette rep that probably insists that the agency make them – should be forced to eat those razor blades. And yes, those [Ditec.com](http://Ditec.com) (sp?) ads have got to go too. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/36 "2004-09-09T01:01:00Z")
> [@stuyguy](#): > > Someone recently posted a pit thread about the latest **Gillette razor commercials**. [M3Power](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/16/gillette.newrazor.ap/). A freakin’ battery powered razor? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/37 "2004-09-09T01:10:52Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Did any of you see the new Wal-Mart ad with an employee talking poignantly about his kid’s need for a liver transplant or some such thing? According to the ad, the company’s wonderful benefits program made it possible. > Please. It’s great if it’s true, but I have a hard time believing this story. As a former associate, I can assure you that it is not. Wal Mart’s insurance is crap. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/38 "2004-09-09T01:30:41Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > As a former associate, I can assure you that it is not. Wal Mart’s insurance is crap. As someone who processes Walmart’s claims on a regular basis, I can confirm this. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/39 "2004-09-09T02:49:52Z")
> [@](#): > > A freakin’ battery powered razor? I guess that five-bladed razor didn’t test out very well. I’m waiting for them to take the multiple-blades gimmick to its ultimate limit, and create a tiny belt sander that they’ll advertize as “Like infinite microscopic blades.” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577/40 "2004-09-09T06:15:43Z")
Then the next time I see that Wal Mart ad, I might Google that family name just to see what’s up. It’s such an obvious fabrication. Oh, and if I see one more cartoon bear getting ready to wipe its furry butt with Charmin Ultra… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-tv-ads-you-despise/263577.md?page=3)