# 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:** 33
**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, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/641 "2014-11-25T03:37:39Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > No she doesn’t. Which isn’t knocking Judy Greer. They’re just that atrocious. No, I think they’re well done. They have a whimsical, Wes Anderson-ish vibe. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/642 "2014-11-25T03:40:11Z")
The ad for Grand Theft Auto 5, with the obnoxious guy going, “I’m a Darwinist” and other deep-sounding bullshit. I want to shoot him. He sounds like every douchey dudebro I’ve ever had the misfortune to run into. And the Big Lots commercial that seems to play every 7.5 minutes, with the overdressed manic woman singing, “Check out my house, check out my tree! Who’s nailing Christmas this year, it’s ME!” Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/643 "2014-11-25T04:41:18Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Stupid car commercial for some cheap import: he’s riding thru the street, playing _Mony Mony_ at eardrum blasting levels. This is super rude, and even illegal in some places. And it says nothing about the car. The thing that gets me about this commercial is that there is NO FUCKING WAY a bus full of 8 year-olds would know (or be excited about) that song. Also, the blonde in the car is kind of a hottie. Re other posts: 1. Judy Greer is, in fact, sexy as hell - regardless of what commercial she’s in. 2. The Rob Lowe commercials are funny as shit (except for the hairy RL one). 3. The Dart commercials are pure genius. Don’t know whether they sell any Darts are not, but damn they are good (especially the hands-free phone one). ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/644 "2014-11-25T15:21:27Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > If that’s what he got just for patching Santa’s suit, imagine what he would have got if he gave Santa a handie. Shhh! That’s the next commercial in the series! ---
**Author:** ![Audiotron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@Audiotron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audiotron)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/645 "2014-12-04T21:11:41Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nom6o2mMDUo) This commercial is more dishonest looking than most metlife ads. The two actors (pretending to be mother and daughter) unconciously shake their heads “no” almost every time they make a false statement!! I don’t think honest, everyday people make for even the worst of actors. To be any kind of actor, you have to be a very convincing liar and not give yourself away with your body language! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/646 "2014-12-04T21:50:47Z")
There’s an ad for a local florist. It’s pretty much just a banner saying > [@](#): > > Joe’s Flowers > > 123-1234 Where’s the stupidity? Eighteen months ago, our area code split, so 7 digit numbers don’t work :smack: ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/647 "2014-12-06T18:56:04Z")
Have to pop in here to rant about the recent Game of War commercials featuring Kate Upton in which she, for no apparent reason, sort of wanders around a fantasy battlefield showing off her enormous bewbs saying “come play with me” a bunch of times. Look, I get it, sex sells, but could you at least try to come up with a pitch other than BEWWWWWBSalso we have a gameBEWBS BEWBS BEWBS!! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/648 "2014-12-06T19:12:30Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > BEWWWWWBS Sold! ---
**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:** [December 6, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/649 "2014-12-06T19:45:53Z")
I’m sick of the seizure inducing cell phone commercials- especially the one that’s predominately pink (T-mobile?)- kids running this way, kids running that way, kids making faces at the camera, kids doing random inane things. Ooh, that kid flips his skateboard around its longitudinal axis! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/650 "2014-12-06T22:56:00Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > And the Big Lots commercial that seems to play every 7.5 minutes, with the overdressed manic woman singing, “Check out my house, check out my tree! Who’s nailing Christmas this year, it’s ME!” Ugh. How dare you judge her for being a holidaysexual. Oh, that’s not what she means by “nailing Christmas”? Nevermind… > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > That marshmallow song has gotten on my last nerve, and it isn’t even Christmas yet! Yeah, I was already sick of it about three weeks before thanksgiving. They aren’t awful commercials, but when you see them during EVERY FUCKING AD BREAK for weeks on end, well before there should even be Christmas ads yet, and it really PISSES ME OFF! In the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving show, he laments that the stores have already started selling Christmas stuff. On Thanksgiving. If only they could show such restraint today. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/651 "2015-06-06T19:43:57Z")
Reviving thread for another good one. First, the AT&T one with the horrible parents\* and the two teenage girls. Dad is buying the older one a phone for her birthday. Okay, I get that the older girl is 16 now and gets a new iphone, and the younger girl gets the hand-me-down phone. That’s normal. I get that the younger girl, who might be 13, doesn’t get a hip smart phone. I get that she gets hand-me-down clothing, that’s fairly normal. But why would she get hand-me-down a personalized bedazzled sweatshirt? That’s not the kind of thing that gets passed down, that gets kept in the back of the closet or boxed up as a trophy or souvenir of life. ## But what makes the parents suck is not only do they give the younger daughter the older daughter’s personalized bedazzled sweatshirt, _they make her wear it in public_. Why else would she do that if not being forced? - Probably not the worst parents in the world, but definitely pretty lousy. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/652 "2015-06-06T19:59:22Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > ## But what makes the parents suck is not only do they give the younger daughter the older daughter’s personalized bedazzled sweatshirt, _they make her wear it in public_. Why else would she do that if not being forced? > > - Probably not the worst parents in the world, but definitely pretty lousy. Add to that, they make go to the ATT store to _watch_ her older sister get a new phone. And older sister is rubbing her face in it. On the plus side, Lily is still adorable and I like the bedazzled logo on her back. Almost saves the ad. Almost. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/653 "2015-06-06T20:17:49Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Reviving thread for another good one. > > ## First, the AT&T one with the horrible parents\* and the two teenage girls. Dad is buying the older one a phone for her birthday. : : : But what makes the parents suck is not only do they give the younger daughter the older daughter’s personalized bedazzled sweatshirt, _they make her wear it in public_. Why else would she do that if not being forced? > > - Probably not the worst parents in the world, but definitely pretty lousy. On the other hand, they do seem to be nailing it if their message is “AT&T, the phone plan for socially inept losers. You don’t need a _good_ plan, because no one wants to talk to you anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/654 "2015-06-06T20:34:57Z")
I hope I’m not the only one that finds the new Colonel Sanders creepy as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/655 "2015-06-07T01:46:40Z")
I think he looks pretty good for someone who’s been dead for 35 years. No decaying bits falling off. Ok, I get that they’re transforming him from owner and proprietor to company mascot. The last time they tried that was with a cartoon Colonel. I suppose much of their target demograghic wasn’t even alive when the Colonel was. Nevertheless, it’s odd to me. At least Wendy’s had avoided calling their chipper redheaded girl “Wendy”. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/656 "2015-06-07T02:28:21Z")
I don’t know which ad infuriates me the most, the one where the kids decide they want their parents to buy a car based on which one has the best internet connection, or the Sea World ads telling us how much they love their orcas. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/657 "2015-06-09T02:36:27Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > I hope I’m not the only one that finds the new Colonel Sanders creepy as hell. Yep. The dumbest impersonator they could have found. Cringeworthy. The ad agency should have to pay KFC big time. Certainly they could have found someone that could mimic the original. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/658 "2015-06-12T01:08:50Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Yep. The dumbest impersonator they could have found. Cringeworthy. Is like he’s wearing a “Colonel Sanders” costume, but doing a bad Bush impersonation. My next bad commercial: the Allstate one “you might be covered for this” - snowballs thrown against car - “but not this” - giant ball of snow crushes car, thrown by a Yeti. Gee, I \*hope \* I’m not coded for Yeti attacks, or I’m overpaying. Unless it’s under a general “act of God” caveat that covers hurricanes, floods, tornados, earthquakes, foreign invasions, SWAT raids to my house by mistake, crazy ant infestations, and visits from the in-laws. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/659 "2015-06-12T04:43:28Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Stupid car commercial for some cheap import: he’s riding thru the street, playing _Mony Mony_ at eardrum blasting levels. This is super rude, and even illegal in some places. And it says nothing about the car. > > Now, the Lincoln ad with Matthew McConaughey is kinda cool, especially if you notice he’s\* actually watching the road!\* If it’s a 2014 spot with a Nissan Sentra, it’s supposed to be calling attention to the Bose stereo, which makes it considerbly more plausible as a marketing ploy. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/660 "2015-06-12T04:52:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Now, the Lincoln ad with Matthew McConaughey is kinda cool, especially if you notice he’s\* actually watching the road!\* McConaughey did star as Mickey Haller, title character in _The Lincoln Lawyer_, a lawyer who works out of his Lincoln Continental instead of an ordinary law office. I enjoyed the novel and the movie, so I would like to see this commercial. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=34)