# Latest stupid commercial thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102 "2012-07-23T02:40:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/241 "2014-01-23T04:38:58Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > “Do either of you have a sticker price that is the exact same as your fuel mileage?” > > What the hell does that mean? I’m glad I’m not the only one not paying attention. (Psssst, see posts 172, 173, and 206.) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/242 "2014-01-23T04:41:02Z")
The one that’s annoying me right now - a guy at a phone store asking about their phone deals, then whining “what’s the catch?” “There is no catch.” So he goes back and forth with the lady a couple times, then asks for a manager, and she replies “I am a manager.” So he then says, “Ah, finally someone I can talk to.” Grrrrr. Message received, your customers are morons. ---
**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 23, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/243 "2014-01-23T05:17:35Z")
My current fave is H&R Block’s commercial about “Get your Billion back, America” or something like that. If there are 100 million taxpayers in America (probably a lot more than that) then that’s an average of $10 per taxpayer. Not much of an incentive to pay them to do your taxes. Oh, yeah, and dropping $500 on each stadium seat? Maybe there are only 2 million stadium seats in America. So what? Actually, it’s diabolical. If you can’t do the simple math outlined above, you’re the perfect customer for H&R Block! Roddy ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/244 "2014-01-23T21:24:25Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > … > Speaking of car commercials, how about the Nissan Rogue with the smarmy chick jumping the car on top of a train to get to work faster (“Oh, are we early?” Punch her in the face, passenger guy!)? Not a terribly awful ad, per se, but it’s EVERYWHERE and on CONSTANTLY. Heck, our local movie theatre plays it TWICE before every feature. This one annoys me because of the constant “FANTASY! DO NOT ATTEMPT!” warnings. How about showing me something positive about the car that it can **actually do** :mad::mad::mad:😕:mad::rolleyes: ^This is the most smilies I’ve ever used ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/245 "2014-01-23T21:41:45Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > The one that’s annoying me right now - a guy at a phone store asking about their phone deals, then whining “what’s the catch?” “There is no catch.” So he goes back and forth with the lady a couple times, then asks for a manager, and she replies “I am a manager.” So he then says, > > “Ah, finally someone I can talk to.” > Grrrrr. Message received, your customers are morons. But the manager girl is very cute and I want to have her babies. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/246 "2014-01-23T21:43:38Z")
The one I’m currently muting these days is the new Toaster Streudal ads. The kid is obnoxious and creepy and the voice shrieking “Toaster STREUdel” - it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard. It just - ewww - I just got shivers thinking about it. I truly hate them. The only other one that bugs me is the pillsbury commercial with the family eating the cinnamon rolls. They’re all explaining why they deserve the last cinnamon bun (I drove Grandmpa to speed dating/I practiced my bassoon/etc.) and the kid says “I can do this” and does some moronic robot dance. Good Lord - that one gets the mute button EVERY TIME too. That is one idiotic commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/247 "2014-01-24T00:58:28Z")
Not so much stupid as confusing, but the Eliquis commercial. A man and woman, who look like they’re in their late 50s/early 60s are looking at photographs of him as a young man. Then he starts telling her about his medical condition as if it’s the first she’s hearing of it. So, who the hell is the woman? I’d hope his wife would be aware of his ongoing medical condition before he got put on prescription meds. Same for a sister. Is he telling a new girlfriend about his AFIB? If so, why does he abruptly ditch her to play basketball with (I assume) his adult son? ---
**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 24, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/248 "2014-01-24T01:19:29Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > But the manager girl is very cute and I want to have her babies. Yeah, the way she says, “There is no catch”; that means I’ve got a shot, right? One that’s driving me batty at the moment is a Taco Bell advert for some bizarre nacho-somoza thing, that shows a teenage kid running down the street, being chased by a livid -looking father, with the tag line being that now you can have your nachos on the go maybe because your parents came home early. And the kid, from his expression, is supposedly enjoying the whole thing. Yep, depressing family dramas ending in implied physical assault really make me hungry for some nachos, you bet. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/249 "2014-01-24T02:03:00Z")
Back to the guy who surprised his wife with a trip (to New Zealand?) and some flowers because he’s on new meds- it starts out with him driving, and his GPS tells him to “go left.” He says, “Not today!” So, he uses his GPS to navigate somewhere he goes _every day?_ Like his _home?_ I don’t think he really needs to arrange a trip all the way around the globe. Soon enough, visiting the goddamn _grocery store_ will be a new adventure. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/250 "2014-01-24T02:26:40Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > One that’s driving me batty at the moment is a Taco Bell advert for some bizarre nacho-somoza thing, that shows a teenage kid running down the street, being chased by a livid -looking father, with the tag line being that now you can have your nachos on the go maybe because your parents came home early. > > And the kid, from his expression, is supposedly enjoying the whole thing. > > Yep, depressing family dramas ending in implied physical assault really make me hungry for some nachos, you bet. I think it says when HER parents came home early. ---
**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 24, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/251 "2014-01-24T02:55:32Z")
> [@Tess](#): > > Not so much stupid as confusing, but the Eliquis commercial. > A man and woman, who look like they’re in their late 50s/early 60s are looking at photographs of him as a young man. Then he starts telling her about his medical condition as if it’s the first she’s hearing of it. > > So, who the hell is the woman? > > I’d hope his wife would be aware of his ongoing medical condition before he got put on prescription meds. Same for a sister. Is he telling a new girlfriend about his AFIB? If so, why does he abruptly ditch her to play basketball with (I assume) his adult son? Yes! That one bugs me too. The old guy is at his dining room table explaining how this new drug is so great for him, better than warfarin. He even has visual aids on his laptop. But WHO IS HE EXPLAINING THIS TO? AND WHY? I half expect to see a Jehovah’s Witness or Girl Scout cookie seller who had innocently knocked on the wrong door and is now trapped in this old dude’s dining room being forced to listen to his medication rants. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/252 "2014-01-24T04:09:17Z")
Plus she spends the entire commercial giving him that adoring, vacuous gaze that politicians’ wives do so well (usually while their husband is holding a press conference explaining that he thought the sheep was of legal age, or suchlike). Then, when he goes out to play basketball with the younger guy, she’s got nothing better to do with her time than sit in the doorway and wave her arms enthusiastically every time the old guy makes a basket. Sheesh lady, get a life already. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/253 "2014-01-24T04:31:08Z")
I wish y’all would look up these commercials on YouTube and provide links so I’d know which commercials you’re on about. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/254 "2014-01-24T04:42:54Z")
Yeah! 'Cause I ain’ts even gots no TV, man! 😉 (j/k) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/255 "2014-01-24T05:32:59Z")
The one with the kid peeling the layers off her Grands biscuit saying “he loves me” “he loves me not” and when it ends on “not” she gets all sad so the Dough Boy pushes the bowl of biscuits toward her and everyone smiles and laughs. I just want to yell “eat the damn biscuit before you take another one!” ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/256 "2014-01-24T05:34:51Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Yeah! 'Cause I ain’ts even gots no TV, man! > > 😉 (j/k) LOL, no, you’re correct. [I _don’t_ have a TV](http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20140115). I watch all of my television on Netflix, with no commercials. But I have to endure a lot of commercials on YouTube, and there are quite a few I hate, but since those commercials are so “targeted” at me, I’m probably not seeing all of the same commercials that regular TV viewers see. There have been several posts in this thread that have described the commercials well enough that I’ve been able to track them down myself on YouTube, but some posts have been written in a way that assumes everybody knows which commercial they’re talking about, but not enough information that I can find it for myself. I love mocking advertisements, but most of those I want to mock are on radio. Commercials I used to love to mock were those that depicted models/actresses playing musical instruments. Usually commercials for hair products. I’ve been a multi-instrumentalist, and a commercial was guaranteed to make me want to scream when it showed pretty girls with musical instruments … AND NOBODY COULD APPARENTLY BE BOTHERED TO SHOW THEM HOW TO AT LEAST HOLD THE INSTRUMENT CORRECTLY! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/257 "2014-01-24T11:46:47Z")
[http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7fb1/miralax-love-my-lax](http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7fb1/miralax-love-my-lax) I love my lax, and I just noticed the poop traveling through the chute part. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/258 "2014-01-24T15:29:40Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > My current fave is H&R Block’s commercial about “Get your Billion back, America” or something like that. I don’t even make a Billion dollars, nevermind get taxed a Billion dollars. How can I get a Billion dollars _back_? > [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > So, he uses his GPS to navigate somewhere he goes _every day?_ Like his _home?_ To be fair, the newest generation has real time traffic updating, and can direct you to avoid traffic jams and such. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/259 "2014-01-24T17:26:04Z")
A bunch of well dressed guys meet a private jet at the airport, and a well dressed black guy and his well dressed entourage hit Las Vegas, where scores of beautiful women moisten their panties at the sight of them. You know they’re cool because one of them is wearing a Frank Sinatra hat. I guess it’s assumed that everybody knows who these people are, but like the commercial featuring zoom zoom racecar drivers, I haven’t a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/260 "2014-01-24T18:57:53Z")
Is it advertising Ciroc vodka? If so, the black guy would be Sean ‘Diddy’ (or whatever the hell he’s going by now) Combs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=14)