# Latest Most Irritating Commercial on TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926 "2016-01-12T14:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/41 "2016-01-16T04:58:33Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Yeah, that one gets me, too. However, it he is trying to be annoying, as opposed to some of these other examples, like the lumbersexual on the Chevy ads, who is unintentionally irritating. Heh, lumbersexual. I’m so going to use that. But yeah, that guy just may be the single most irritating thing on TV at the moment. In the one where he throws the raw eggs at people, I find myself hoping there’s a deleted scene where one of them flipped out and started beating him with a brick. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/42 "2016-01-16T05:08:35Z")
There’s a [Mazda commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyV4POCnmAQ) that annoys me because they seem to think I’m stupid. Starts with a young man happily driving through some hills on a 2-lane road. Note: 2 lanes, one in each direction, double yellow stripe down the middle. Then a cop comes up behind him, and he gets a sort of “uh oh” expression. The cop starts to pull around on the kid’s left side (and suddenly the double yellow center stripe has turned into a dotted white line). Then the cop starts to go by him and looks at him from his own driver’s window, and we see from the cop’s POV the right side of the Mazda. Then the cop nods and goes by. Then the kid is magically driving again on a 2-lane road. Really, did Escher make this ad? First on the left, then on the right, first a 2-lane road, then a freeway, then back to a 2-lane road. (I fully admit this commercial is only annoying because I was guilty of paying enough attention to notice these discrepancies. Can’t help it, made that way.) ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/43 "2016-01-16T05:55:54Z")
A Netflix add that uses the term “eye guzzling”. One of the worst words ever. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/44 "2016-01-16T15:38:25Z")
Flo from Progressive. Not only are ALL her commercials annoying, but she sent me a letter. I have no car, no insurance, and not even a driver’s license. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/45 "2016-01-16T15:42:20Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > A Netflix add that uses the term “eye guzzling”. One of the worst words ever. Oh, yeah - and the very point of that ad leaves me simply gobsmacked. You’ve finished bingeing this show, now you have nothing to watch? Oh, woe is you … Good grief, there’s so many things I’d like to re-watch or watch in the first place or catch up on, I cannot imagine a time where I might say, huh, guess I’ve seen everything there is worthwhile as far as television entertainment. Guess my life is over now. Sheesh - if falling into “the showhole” is your biggest problem, I don’t even want to know you. Myself, I’m currently in the middle of a rewatch of “The West Wing” (so good, yet so sad when you compare it to today’s political landscape) and there’s more than a dozen shows yet on my list I’d like to see or just revisit. Or you could, you know, open a book. Or a magazine. Or a freaking newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/46 "2016-01-16T15:56:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Flo from Progressive. Not only are ALL her commercials annoying, but she sent me a letter. I have no car, no insurance, and not even a driver’s license. I commented the other day while one of those commercials came on that it made me want to just take all of the animals home with me. My brother replied that he has the same thought when a Victoria’s Secret ad airs. > [@puddleglum](#): > > [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQR8rj2BO-8) All State Ad where a woman humiliates her presumed boyfriend with a safe driver bonus check because he thinks that men are better drivers than women. > It is not just that she bullys him, it is that her argument is totally wrong. Her talent as a driver has nothing at all to do with what sex has the better drivers. She is totally ignorant and totally arrogant. You leave the future [Girl Wonder](https://www.google.com/search?q=amanda+troop&biw=1920&bih=963&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqlPuL2a7KAhXEbSYKHU74CxAQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=_) out of this. She’s too cute to be annoying. Annie, I’ve said before that those Progressive commercials really aren’t even selling the insurance anymore. Flo is now coming across as a raving lunatic who can’t shut the hell up about insurance, even during holidays, or playing Pictionary. ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/47 "2016-01-16T16:07:47Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Payton Manning whisper-breath singing the Nationwide jingle. Agreed, they really annoy me also for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/48 "2016-01-16T22:19:28Z")
> [@davida03801](#): > > Agreed, they ♫ really annoy me also for some reason ♫. Fixed that for you. 😃 On the “eye-guzzling”, showhole, binge-watch thing, at lest for me, I cant imagine the mindset required to do that even once. I guess I am not the target audience for that one, either. That woman looks kinda pathetic and vacuous already, and she is about to fill that void by wasting even more of her life in front of the boob-toob. My most irritating word is “mouth-watering”, as in “When you come to Jim-bob’s casino, you are in for a mouth-watering treat!”. Let’s just list other bodily functions along with salivation shall we? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/49 "2016-01-16T23:46:48Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > It’s especially annoying to us, since we live in Gardena and the closest Sonic place is in Duarte\*, at least 20 miles away. > \*Duarte is known as the home of the City of Hope hospital. There’s one in Fullerton, just off the 91. Take the Lemon Avenue exit, turn left, and it’s about half a mile up, on the right, in the Wal\*Mart lot. The service isn’t very fast, though, and you can’t just walk up to the window and order without involving the car hop. So it’s really not worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/50 "2016-01-17T04:22:48Z")
If you’re Geico, your commercials get stupider with each one. It’s what they do. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/51 "2016-01-17T10:15:49Z")
[QUOTE=dougie\_monty] It’s especially annoying to us, since we live in Gardena and the closest Sonic place is in Duarte\*, at least 20 miles away. \*Duarte is known as the home of the City of Hope hospital. [/QUOTE] > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > There’s one in Fullerton, just off the 91. Take the Lemon Avenue exit, turn left, and it’s about half a mile up, on the right, in the Wal\*Mart lot. > > The service isn’t very fast, though, and you can’t just walk up to the window and order without involving the car hop. So it’s really not worth it. I know we’re getting off-topic in this thread but in terms of fast-food burgers in the LA Basin, aren’t there a lot of better choices than Sonic? For example, what about In-N-Out, Tommy’s, or Fatburger? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/52 "2016-01-17T14:35:00Z")
> [@lalaith](#): > > The [Farmers Only dating site commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBrEZ5LJXlM). > > Going by them, farmers in the US only come in one color — White. > > Seriously, those commercials are all white. All farmers are white. All country people, male and female, are white. > > I call total BS on that. Is that a real commercial? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/53 "2016-01-17T15:43:01Z")
There’s an IN-N-OUT just about to open in the small shopping center a block away, where there are also an Albertsons, a Starbucks, a Papa Johns, a Panda Express, a Baskin Robbins, a Flame Broiler, a Chipotle, and a Panda Express. Who needs to drive from Gardena to Duarte or Fullerton, with this?😛 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/54 "2016-01-17T16:20:55Z")
I just saw a really nauseating commercial for Namenda, a pill that ‘MAY hold off Alzheimers for a while’. Old lady slobbering all over her old man as they spend their final lucid days strolling hand in hand, kiss kiss, smooch smooch - ‘he’s my EVERYTHING’. So touching and romantic! Enjoy, old lady, pretty soon you’ll be changing his diaper and enduring all the other fun stuff that goes with Alzheimers. You’ll never be able to leave the house and will be praying for a quick merciful death - for either or both of you. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/55 "2016-01-17T22:00:28Z")
There’s a new “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercial that features a slow-motion, extreme close-up of an elderly woman flailing on the floor. The scene goes on and on with no noise…very odd. (It’s possible that the old woman’s impressively large hair would indeed prevent her from rolling over and getting up.) ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/56 "2016-01-18T00:11:06Z")
One of those monster truck shows is going to be in town soon. For a month, at least, we’ve been treated to a commercial that tells us that, “It’s the sport where _every_ athlete is in it to win it!” Um, what athlete in any moneymaking sport isn’t trying to win? Couldn’t the ad agency come up with anything better than that? ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/57 "2016-01-18T00:31:17Z")
The Comcast commercials where the guy calls all his friends to help him move and finds that they are all busy doing other things and don’t want to drop what they’re doing and come help him move right this moment. Jeez did the moron not think to call his friends a week before he’s moving and line up some help? That plus it looks like he’s got 4 or 5 boxes and a few pieces of furniture to move. I want to say dude it would take you about 5 minutes to throw that stuff in the back of a Honda Fit all by yourself. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/58 "2016-01-18T21:21:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > All of the Liberty Mutual ads with people who don’t understand how insurance works. Not just insurance - life. For instance, you’re **supposed** to pay your bills on time! That’s not you doing your insurance company a favor. Those ads seem to be saying Liberty Mutual wants the most clueless people in the country to be their customers. And yeah, the Sonics guys. There’s one a quarter mile from the house I’ve never been to because of those ads. Not only the spokesmen, but they don’t make the food look appealing, and if the pros on set can’t make it look good, what hope do the high schoolers working there have? ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/59 "2016-01-18T22:12:30Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > That stupid smug Chevy trick question asshole. > > “I want you to decide which of these three cars won a dumb award.” > “I think it’s B.” > “WRONG, it’s all three of them!” > > “…no, asshole, I’m not wrong. In fact it was impossible for me to be wrong, they were all correct answers, and now I never want to buy any of your cars because you’re a complete muppet.” > > Stupid premise for a humblebrag. The [newest one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLFREsAZo8I) for the Chevy Malibu is equally infuriating. They bring out a car with the branding removed, show off the features, then ask people what they think it costs and what brand it is. The answers are stuff like “oh it seems like a Lexus” “feels like a BMW” and “costs about $50-65k” “$80,000 bracket.” Then the guy tells them it’s a Chevy Malibu and starts at $22,500. Bottom of screen disclaimer: “As shown, $36,550” THEN WHY DON’T YOU SHOW THEM THE $22500 MODEL AND SEE WHAT THEY THINK THAT ONE COSTS ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926/60 "2016-01-18T22:53:16Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > Bottom of screen disclaimer: “As shown, $36,550” > > THEN WHY DON’T YOU SHOW THEM THE $22500 MODEL AND SEE WHAT THEY THINK THAT ONE COSTS Ha! I missed that. When my car was in the body shoppe, the insurance company gave me a rental for more than a month. That car? A Malibu. Biggest POS I’d ever driven. No power, no room, no features, noisy, uncomfortable. I thought, “who but rental companies would buy this?” Could someone go through the dealer lot and see on and say, “yep, that is the car for me! It speaks to me!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-most-irritating-commercial-on-tv/742926.md?page=4)