# Fucking Dove moisturizing commercial (very lame; please share your own infuriating commercials) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476 "2009-09-17T18:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/81 "2009-09-22T20:12:56Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Confirmed - yup, Mom is not moving her mouth when she says, “We’ve got to wash this whole room.” So not only is that Febreeze commercial poorly dubbed, they also add in an extra line of dialogue when no one is actually talking. Was the line “workshed?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/82 "2009-09-22T20:39:09Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > a skankasaurus 😛 > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > It doesn’t matter what is being sold - I absolutely abhor all those ads that show the husband/boyfriend/male person to be a total idiot who needs the smug, competent bitch to rescue him from, well, everything. > > _HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!_ > > _grrrrrrrr_ “You’ve got your kids, pets, husbands!” as if they’re all mess-makers who can’t keep the house clean. :smack: And those commercials that have a mom smiling while the kid makes a horrific mess–an opportunity to use your paper towels! Woot! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/83 "2009-09-22T20:46:41Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > Was the line “workshed?” 😃 Hah! It deserves that kind of dubbing treatment I think. (In **Army of Darkness** , on the commentary track, Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi joke about how loud the word “Workshed!” is due to bad overdubbing or something. It sounds more like Kirk Russell saying it than Campbell. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/84 "2009-09-23T03:46:21Z")
There used to be (or still is?) a commercial for Valtrex which was the same kind of thing. It showed two drawings of human figures and one had a whole bunch of Vs in it, which represented Valtrex, and then the other had just a few of the first letter of some inferier herpes medication, which clearly demonstrated that Valtrex is more effective, what with all those Vs. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/85 "2009-09-23T04:58:56Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > Same with Geico’s “the money you could be saving” ads. Just…gaaaah. Shut UP. And stop playing that stupid song. > > I also dislike that hefty trash bag commercial where the woman in it holds her trash out to her husband (or whoever), saying “it stinks.” She stands around for at least thirty seconds saying this. Lady, if it stinks so badly, WHY ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE? In the time it took to bitch and moan about how much your garbage smells, you could’ve just taken it out and been done with it. Christ. Are you in my head? I was going to start a thread about Geico specifically about this commercial. It makes NO SENSE. First, why is the money looking at you? You have stalker money? And these people look bemused, like “oh neat, it’s looking at me.” Shouldn’t you snatch that shit up? Worse yet they’re now on _radio_. Fucking stupid commercial. And I hate the techno remake of “Somebody’s Watching Me.” It’s like they got the cheapest knock-off artist to cover the song. They couldn’t pay Rockwell for the rights to the original? Cheap bastards. But they can make more caveman ones. Those are brilliant. That bitch with the fucking trash bag… she deserves a good cock punching. Take it out, you daft bint, and stop waiting for “Coach” to rescue your dainty ass. The face she makes is punchable as well. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/86 "2009-09-23T06:08:13Z")
> [@](#): > > I always want to slap the kid who throws away his rollover minutes, because “They’re old.” I’m not so much infuriated as confused by the current one of these set in the family van. Older son is in the backseat and ask Mom for some minutes. Mom asks what happened to the ones he had. Older Son says he threw them out. Mom gets annoyed as she reminds him again that these are rollover minutes and they were still good. Cut to Older Son staring at Mom. Cut to Mom staring at Older Son. Cut back to Older Son staring at Mom. Cut back to Mom staring at Older Son. Cut to Younger Son staring at them both. Uhhh…what’s the point of all this staring? I keep expecting a tagline but the commercial just ends without anyone saying anything more. Did they inadvertently buy fifteen seconds of airtime but only write a ten second script? Was there a director on set saying “…and hold the stare…and hold…and keep holding it…” The blank uncomfortable staring all around probably isn’t supposed to convey the message that dysfunctional families buy this product but that’s the impression I’m left with. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/87 "2009-09-23T10:58:39Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m not so much infuriated as confused by the current one of these set in the family van. Older son is in the backseat and ask Mom for some minutes. Mom asks what happened to the ones he had. Older Son says he threw them out. Mom gets annoyed as she reminds him again that these are rollover minutes and they were still good. > > Cut to Older Son staring at Mom. > > Cut to Mom staring at Older Son. > > Cut back to Older Son staring at Mom. > > Cut back to Mom staring at Older Son. > > Cut to Younger Son staring at them both. > > Uhhh…what’s the point of all this staring? I keep expecting a tagline but the commercial just ends without anyone saying anything more. Did they inadvertently buy fifteen seconds of airtime but only write a ten second script? Was there a director on set saying “…and hold the stare…and hold…and keep holding it…” > > The blank uncomfortable staring all around probably isn’t supposed to convey the message that dysfunctional families buy this product but that’s the impression I’m left with. See, I love it. She snaps at her son, “Saving minutes…” and he interjects with an attitude, “…saves money, I **know**.” She gives him the glare o’ doom like she’s tempted to force-feed him the minute chips in her hand, and he shifts uncomfortably. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/88 "2009-09-23T11:06:39Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m not so much infuriated as confused by the current one of these set in the family van. Older son is in the backseat and ask Mom for some minutes. Mom asks what happened to the ones he had. Older Son says he threw them out. Mom gets annoyed as she reminds him again that these are rollover minutes and they were still good. > > Cut to Older Son staring at Mom. > > Cut to Mom staring at Older Son. > > Cut back to Older Son staring at Mom. > > Cut back to Mom staring at Older Son. > > Cut to Younger Son staring at them both. > > Uhhh…what’s the point of all this staring? I keep expecting a tagline but the commercial just ends without anyone saying anything more. Did they inadvertently buy fifteen seconds of airtime but only write a ten second script? Was there a director on set saying “…and hold the stare…and hold…and keep holding it…” > > The blank uncomfortable staring all around probably isn’t supposed to convey the message that dysfunctional families buy this product but that’s the impression I’m left with. Man, I LOVE the mom-stare and did not know it was a feature of a dysfunctional family. If that’s the case, every mother I know is in a dysfunctional family. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/89 "2009-09-23T15:24:44Z")
Yes, I like the staring contest and how the son finally has to look away. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/90 "2009-09-24T11:02:12Z")
> [@Gorgon\_Heap](#): > > I really, really do not like being screamed at by ads. This. As in “I want my money and I want it NOW!” ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/91 "2009-09-24T12:38:57Z")
Had cell phones not been toys of people with way more money than we had when I was a kid I can see my mom being a lot like the mom in those ads about the minutes. Heck, if I had a kid I’d be like her! The ad mom is far more like a real mom than any mom I ever saw in an ad before. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/92 "2009-09-24T15:40:50Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > And finally, Brinks Home Security (now Broadview, I think). All but one of their commercials plays on the “helpless little woman home alone” angle. It’s absolutely disgusting, especially since the woman is always shown cornering herself (for example, dashing upstairs) after the break-in. What I want to see is a commercial that starts like one of those and turns into a commercial for a firearms training course as the late burglar is body-bagged and hauled off. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/93 "2009-09-24T16:25:35Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > See, I love it. She snaps at her son, “Saving minutes…” and he interjects with an attitude, “…saves money, I **know**.” She gives him the glare o’ doom like she’s tempted to force-feed him the minute chips in her hand, and he shifts uncomfortably. My problem with these commercials is that they are flat out lying - rollover minutes expire - they become useless/worthless if you dont use them. The commercial should be about how the kid wants to use the rollover minutes but cant until they’;ve used up all of the current new minutes. Saving minutes saves no one but the cell phone company money. But I love the mom stare - the little quiver on the chin is perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/94 "2009-09-24T19:12:06Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > Had cell phones not been toys of people with way more money than we had when I was a kid I can see my mom being a lot like the mom in those ads about the minutes. Heck, if I had a kid I’d be like her! The ad mom is far more like a real mom than any mom I ever saw in an ad before. Especially in [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmIj7_0-1kg)! I laughed my butt off, because I know I’ve done the same kind of thing with my kids, as did my own mom with me and my siblings! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/95 "2009-09-28T22:04:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m not so much infuriated as confused by the current one of these set in the family van. Older son is in the backseat and ask Mom for some minutes. Mom asks what happened to the ones he had. Older Son says he threw them out. Mom gets annoyed as she reminds him again that these are rollover minutes and they were still good. > > Cut to Older Son staring at Mom. > > Cut to Mom staring at Older Son. > > Cut back to Older Son staring at Mom. > > Cut back to Mom staring at Older Son. > > Cut to Younger Son staring at them both. > > Uhhh…what’s the point of all this staring? I keep expecting a tagline but the commercial just ends without anyone saying anything more. Did they inadvertently buy fifteen seconds of airtime but only write a ten second script? Was there a director on set saying “…and hold the stare…and hold…and keep holding it…” > > The blank uncomfortable staring all around probably isn’t supposed to convey the message that dysfunctional families buy this product but that’s the impression I’m left with. It’s pretty clear to me that we’re meant to see this family as dysfunctional, or least tense. The son’s is clearly trying to wind the mom up, and she’s staring at him for three reasons. One, she’s just realized that he’s been deliberately throwing her money away out of adolescent rebellion; two, because she wants him to know that she knows; and three, because she’s just decided this siatuation is best resolved with murderous violence and wants to keep an eye on him till they get home so she can disembowel him in the privacy of her own home. But the mom’s cute, even when she’s angry, so it’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/96 "2009-09-29T02:26:46Z")
> [@lawoot](#): > > Can I throw in a print ad? > > [The Rosetta Stone Farm Boy/Supermodel ad.](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3432352610_60bdbccd0a.jpg) > > And a great response to it, courtesy of The New Yorker: > > [Mi Chiamo Stan](http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/04/13/090413sh_shouts_frazier?currentPage=all) Mi Chiamo Stan is great. It’s especially funny if you’ve lived in the Quad Cities. I mean, there has to be some payback for having lived there. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/97 "2009-09-29T15:30:46Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Any commercial where a little brat is shown making a complete mess, followed by the parent (often the mother) cheerfully cleaning it up. So true. I especially hate the Magic Eraser one where the mother is talking on the phone and doesn’t realize that the kid is drawing on the walls. I would _still_ be in the corner recovering from an ass-paddlin’. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/98 "2009-09-29T15:41:18Z")
I don’t think the AT&T mom/family is meant to be dysfunctional. She’s a mom with teens, though I personally have never had teens I’ve seen enough of my siblings and other people’s teens to know they are an aggravating rebellious lot. Going back to the Febreze one, or pretty much any air freshener, I hate when people spray their air fresheners and the lean in and take a big sniff. You can’t do that, you’ll sneeze. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/99 "2009-09-29T17:03:45Z")
Levi’s - Go Forth. WTF people?! This is the most overwrought commercial I’ve ever seen, using an original recording of Walt Whitman reading “America,” with lots of dark, artsy images. It is at once ridiculously earnest (for selling _jeans_, for Pete’s sake!), and creepily off-putting. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476/100 "2009-09-29T17:55:48Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Going back to the Febreze one, or pretty much any air freshener, I hate when people spray their air fresheners and the lean in and take a big sniff. You can’t do that, you’ll sneeze. I hate the idea of filling my house with chemicals more than I already have to. Anything with chemical air fresheners is icky to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dove-moisturizing-commercial-very-lame-please-share-your-own-infuriating-commercials/510476.md?page=6)