# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/621 "2014-10-17T22:05:11Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Okay, maybe if she was the love of your life, and you left on a business trip and got hijacked by Somali Pirates and everyone thought you were dead, but you finally escaped and returned home after years missing to find your girlfriend was just about to marry some other dude, and it was your one chance to get there before the wedding and let her know you are really alive, so you borrowed someone’s Camry and drove over there like a maniac. Hilarious! Ok, I’d buy that. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/622 "2014-10-17T23:06:11Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Ooo, just remembered another one – I’m really surprised that the one with the women shrieking over the new iPhones hasn’t been pulled due to complaints. This is the one I came to mention. What an obnoxious, annoying, stupid ad!! Who thought it was a good idea? idiots… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/623 "2014-10-17T23:19:23Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > This is the one I came to mention. What an obnoxious, annoying, stupid ad!! Who thought it was a good idea? idiots… What bothers me about that is, shouldn’t they be squealing teenage girls, not forty-something MILFS? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/624 "2014-11-24T07:11:22Z")
The latest series of ads with Rob Lowe hawking Direct TV. On the one hand, we have movie star Rob Lowe who has Direct TV. On the other hand, we have alternate universe Rob Lowes with cable. All the alternate universe Rob Lowes are creepy and weird. They’re also not movie stars. Apparently you have to be a movie star to afford Direct TV, but even creepy guys with CRT TVs can afford cable. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/625 "2014-11-24T18:48:12Z")
I’m sorry, but “Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe” reminds me of Stephen King. I hope Mr. King would not be offended by that, because I think the world of him, but…yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/626 "2014-11-24T18:52:31Z")
You’re both nuts. The Rob Lowe DirecTV commercials are genius. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/627 "2014-11-24T18:55:38Z")
Click the link if you dare: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DP9ek2Yuu5c/hqdefault.jpg "Title Max Commercial 2014") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9ek2Yuu5c) This is an ad for Title Max where you can trade in your car title for a quick loan. Not only is the accompanying song terrible but it’s annoyingly obvious that the girl lip syncing in it is not really the singer. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/628 "2014-11-24T19:02:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > What bothers me about that is, shouldn’t they be squealing teenage girls, not forty-something MILFS? MILFs? Hardly. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/629 "2014-11-24T19:10:26Z")
Hey! Don’t you be knockin’ Judy Greer. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/630 "2014-11-24T19:11:10Z")
Can someone explain the Infiniti commercial where the guy picks up a streetcorner Santa, takes him upstairs, then Santa gives him a car? And what kind of house does the guy come out of in the end, a fucking mansion? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/631 "2014-11-24T19:15:38Z")
If that’s what he got just for patching Santa’s suit, imagine what he would have got if he gave Santa a handie. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/632 "2014-11-24T20:28:05Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Okay, maybe if she was the love of your life, and you left on a business trip and got hijacked by Somali Pirates and everyone thought you were dead, but you finally escaped and returned home after years missing to find your girlfriend was just about to marry some other dude, and it was your one chance to get there before the wedding and let her know you are really alive, so you borrowed someone’s Camry and drove over there like a maniac. It would be okay if your dog recognized you, you could shoot the bow, and you killed all the suitors. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/633 "2014-11-24T20:37:26Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > It would be okay if your dog recognized you, you could shoot the bow, and you killed all the suitors. 😃 I think that would work better with the Honda Odyssey. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/634 "2014-11-24T20:56:39Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > The latest series of ads with Rob Lowe hawking Direct TV. On the one hand, we have movie star Rob Lowe who has Direct TV. On the other hand, we have alternate universe Rob Lowes with cable. All the alternate universe Rob Lowes are creepy and weird. They’re also not movie stars. > > Apparently you have to be a movie star to afford Direct TV, but even creepy guys with CRT TVs can afford cable. I like those commercials (particularly the one Dung Beetle mentioned). But if most viewers are drawing the conclusion you suggest (here in red), then I suspect the series will be ending soon.☹ Also: hurrah for Homeric references! ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/635 "2014-11-24T21:03:23Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Also: hurrah for Homeric references! Yup, I watch _The Simpsons_ every week. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/636 "2014-11-25T00:08:47Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Yup, I watch _The Simpsons_ every week. D’oh! What a gamut of references have been evoked by this one Camry commercial: we began with _The Graduate_, segued into \*Captain Phillips \*(with that Somali pirates conjecture), slid into the return to Ithaca, and finally lurched into the works of Matt Groening. I, for one, am exhausted! …but I’ll never buy a Camry due to my loathing of their _other_ ad campaign: the _'are we getting a Camry or a Camry?_’ idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/637 "2014-11-25T00:17:34Z")
I hate the Amy Poeler Old Navy ads. All of them. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/638 "2014-11-25T00:23:25Z")
That marshmallow song has gotten on my last nerve, and it isn’t even Christmas yet! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/639 "2014-11-25T01:46:28Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You’re both nuts. The Rob Lowe DirecTV commercials are genius. I think they’re pretty funny. “My cable’s out so I’m down at the rec center watching folks swim.” > [@Kimballkid](#): > > Hey! Don’t you be knockin’ Judy Greer. Exactly. Judy Greer makes those commercials worth watching. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/640 "2014-11-25T03:31:22Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Exactly. Judy Greer makes those commercials worth watching. No she doesn’t. Which isn’t knocking Judy Greer. They’re just that atrocious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=33)