# "Gellin' like a felon" or stupid commercial catch phrases. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081 "2003-02-14T16:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/41 "2003-02-16T15:22:15Z")
the girl who “doesn’t want to get anyone in trouble but everyone just seems to be chit-chatting” is bad enough, but the suck-up bozo who nods his head & flaps his hand chit-chat style and LATER makes fun of her for her comment- I’d kick his friggin @ss from here to HQ! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/42 "2003-02-16T15:47:33Z")
**Governor Quinn** , Avis’s campaign has always meant to infer Hertz. They’re number two, Avis is, but they try harder. And **panamajack** , you’re taking your vendetta out on the wrong company. A quick check shows us Stouffer’s (Stouffer’s’s?) parent company is Nestlé. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/43 "2003-02-16T16:41:39Z")
There’s a series of radio commercials for Southern comfort that I hate. It’s always a group of friends chit-chatting about personal anecdotes and constantly working in the phrase “So-Co” (for Southern Comfort). It sounds like an amteur actors workshop improv exercise in which they were told “Ok, you’re all old friends, remembering good times. Be spontaneous, be funny, work the product into the conversation and make sure you say ‘So-Co’ a lot.” It’s like they really think that people are going start going around saying “So-Co” now to make it more hip. Another phrase I hate is the Taco Bell commercial for a quesadilla or something in which one guy in a staff meeting says “they’re calling it the hot new handheld.” Really, who outside of an advertising campaign calls it “the hot new handheld?” Commercials are stupid. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/44 "2003-02-16T16:53:59Z")
There’s no annoying catch phrase, but I really, really hate those Turning Leaf wine commericals with the man preparing dinner for his wife. There are two slightly different versions; one with the guy fixing a dinner at home, while his wife is out shopping, and the other is the guy fixing dinner on the roof and leaves a cute little note with an “up” arrow for her to find when she comes home. When the woman comes home and finds him making dinner they exchange these deep meaningful looks. Of course, the dinner is ready and the wine is chilled at the exact moment she arrives home. They’re chock full of loud, annoying sound effects: chopping onions, pouring vinegar, uncorking the wine. I don’t know what it is, but they just annoy the crap out of me. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/45 "2003-02-16T22:15:37Z")
The Washington Post newspaper used to run print and television ads with the slogan “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it”. Don’t get what? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/46 "2003-02-16T22:51:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 2trew \* > \*\*It’s Dr. Scholls? Oh, just bloody lovely. One company in the whole world makes shoes I can buy at WalMart and actually have fit my mutant feet from day one and now I have to boycott them because purchasing any of their products will simply result in more commercials like that. > > I hate being responsible. \*\* Hooray! I’m not the only one who boycotts companies because of their stupid comercials. And I’m with you, I will not be buying Dr. Scholls because of this one. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/47 "2003-02-16T22:59:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*There’s no annoying catch phrase, but I really, really hate those Turning Leaf wine commericals with the man preparing dinner for his wife. > \*\* Boy, they piss me off too! I thought I was the only one… So this is what it feels like when doves cry. hrh ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/48 "2003-02-16T23:04:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by medstar \* > \*\*The Washington Post newspaper used to run print and television ads with the slogan “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it”. Don’t get what? \*\* Simple. If you don’t get it (the Washington Post), you don’t get it (“unbiased” information that lets you make informed decisions, and obviously you’re ignorant because you don’t understand that getting the Post lets you be intellectual and informed and superiour). Heaven help me, I’m interpreting MARCOM. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/49 "2003-02-16T23:37:08Z")
I hate hate hate that gellin’ commercial, and all the smug gellin’ looks on those smugly gellin’ people. This isn’t exactly a catchphrase, but I also really can’t stand the commercial for the new Tums where the guy describes it by saying, “It’s like…whoosh”. 2 second later, a woman at the table says the same thing, and makes the same ‘whooshing’ gesture with her arms. Descriptive. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/50 "2003-02-17T01:23:57Z")
well at least you don’t get the sizzle &stir advert with the lapdancers, the mechanic and the broken van. in a word, sexist. i’m quite fond of the Pot Noodle adverts with “you know you want to”. they had to change it from “slag of all snacks” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/51 "2003-02-17T01:25:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*There’s no annoying catch phrase, but I really, really hate those Turning Leaf wine commericals with the man preparing dinner for his wife. > \*\* I think these commercials cry out for a parody, where the wife comes in from shopping to find the kitchen in shambles and something in flames on the stove. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/52 "2003-02-17T01:50:16Z")
Uh, guys, I think the gellin’ commercial is a parody. I think they are making fun of silly hip slang. I mean, really, if they were serious about the slang, would they make it so funny and have a bunch of square white people say it? Besides, Scholl’s isn’t exactly a hip company. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/53 "2003-02-17T16:00:57Z")
There’s this line of herbal teas or something that I hear on the radio a lot. They all have someone in some sort of horrible situation, and a “What to do,” like getting bit by a rattle snake. You support your leg, drink an ice tea, and wait to die, because pretty soon the venom’s going to send your body into shock and there’s no way you’ll be able to enjoy the tea then, so you might as well drink it now. They’re lame as they are, but what’s worse is the tagline: _Nature’s a mother. Drink to it._ Just really lame. And When UPN came out, they used to have Sunday morning cartoons, with a bunch of kids in neon and black light running around screaming “Oopin’!” and “Are you Ooopin?”, or “Get Ooopin’!” Trying to make UPN into a synonym with “Cool” just doesn’t work no matter how you push it. Especially considering their lineup. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/54 "2003-02-17T16:18:10Z")
To be honest, I thought the "gellin’ " spots were for some sort of cellular phone service. Just goes to show it doesn’t take long before I hit the mute buttom on the remote. I think the “Mentos” ads deserve a special mention. And what’s up with all the car ads blaring obnoxious music about 3000 db louder than the human ear can take? I do like the Chevy truck ads with James Garner narrating, particularly the one with the “and nobody knows it but me” poem. That sounds like something from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses”. StG ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/55 "2003-02-17T16:30:19Z")
Maybe they should’ve gone with “Gellin’ like Magellan”? (I feel like Chandler Bing) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/56 "2003-02-17T18:04:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brynda \* > \*\*Uh, guys, I think the gellin’ commercial is a parody. I think they are making fun of silly hip slang. I mean, really, if they were serious about the slang, would they make it so funny and have a bunch of square white people say it? Besides, Scholl’s isn’t exactly a hip company. \*\* To me, that’s irrelevant. I just hate the commercial. hrh ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/57 "2003-02-17T18:41:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*And When UPN came out, they used to have Sunday morning cartoons, with a bunch of kids in neon and black light running around screaming “Oopin’!” and “Are you Ooopin?”, or “Get Ooopin’!” Trying to make UPN into a synonym with “Cool” just doesn’t work no matter how you push it. Especially considering their lineup. \*\* UPN also happens to be pronouncable if you turn it into a word. “Upn” is a lot easier to pronounce than, say, “Wb” or “Cbs.” So we’re lucky that one failed. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/58 "2003-02-18T01:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*UPN also happens to be pronouncable if you turn it into a word. “Upn” is a lot easier to pronounce than, say, “Wb” or “Cbs.” So we’re lucky that one failed. \*\* Hey, some of my favorite shows are on Wub and Cabbis 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/59 "2003-02-18T01:59:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fionn \* > \*\*I think these commercials cry out for a parody, where the wife comes in from shopping to find the kitchen in shambles and something in flames on the stove. \*\* and a half empty bottle of cheap wine in the hand of the unconscious husband. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081/60 "2003-02-18T02:13:15Z")
Okay, it’s not a catch phrase, but this annoying commercial for some ISP. At the end, this little kid who tries his hardest to look like he’s mentally handicapped, says, really slowly… “Yeah, and then I can do my homework WAAAAAAAY fyaster!!!” Grr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gellin-like-a-felon-or-stupid-commercial-catch-phrases/155081.md?page=4)