# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/81 "2013-01-22T16:55:17Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Come on now, they didn’t say that. They said they’d tape a cheetah to her back. And he HAD been giving it a lot of thought… ---
**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:** [January 22, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/82 "2013-01-22T16:59:37Z")
The latest on the top of my annoying commercials list is webuyanycar dot com. It’s not particularly heinous, but it annoys me. Purely visceral reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/83 "2013-01-22T17:04:48Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I despise ads that use interviews with allegedly cute kiddies who want (or don’t want) more money or faster cellphones. I like the “two things at once” ad though. Just for the way he shuts down that little girl. _Watching a boy shake his head and arm simultaneously_ “I can do…” “Hang on, I’m watching this.” ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/84 "2013-01-22T18:57:14Z")
Well, the new American Airline ads are pretty stupid. Various people in various activities suddenly stop and gawk slack jawed into the sky while a pale miraculous glow lights up their features. And eventually we see a shot of an American Airlines jet with a brand new paint job (and presumably logo, as if we remembered what the old one looked like). Yep, typical corporate bullshit. Your company has been bleeding money for many quarters, so why not piss away millions of dollars re-painting logos and buying new stationery? ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/85 "2013-01-22T23:14:32Z")
This GEICO ad featuring Eddie Money is ear-splittingly horrendous and just sad. I can’t imagine the direction going on: “Eddie, bug your eyes out like Igor.” ?? “Eddie, we need more of a deranged, homeless guy feel.” ?? “Eddie, sustain that note off key longer. And louder.” ??? Worst commercial ever. Poor Eddie. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/86 "2013-01-22T23:16:49Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I really have nothing to say about this ad except that after they dismiss the idea of taking a cruise they see a travel poster of an arch bridge in front of a waterfall and decide to go there. … > > Anyway, the message from that commercial and the second one (where the couple end up driving up the Pacific Coast on Highway 1 near Big Sur) is that taking a vacation on a cruise or an island in the South Pacific would not give them the opportunity to take a scenic drive in the automobile that’s being advertised. And it’s a direct response to the cruise line ad where the couple remembers last year, where they are mysteriously camping in the woods and trapped in their car by both a bear and a cougar, simultaneously trying to get their food. Now a couple says “cruise no” and instead goes for a long drive in the country, and presumably camping. > [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Here it is: [Miller lite pop can top ad.](http://m.youtube.com/?reload=9&rdm=m7f5ak1z8#/watch?v=d4ZzSziH8Io) Interestingly, you say it’s the Miller commercial with the extra vent, but the David Cross gag says it’s Coors that has that feature. > [@sitchensis](#): > > You have never heard of shotgunning a beer? Shotgunning needs the extra vent at the other end of the can (toward the bottom) so the air flows in to allow the beer a smooth departure. Putting that little vent on top puts it right next to the drain opening, which is just effectively making the drain opening a bit bigger. Works okay if pouring slowly, but for shotgunning it’s just going to make a leak down your shirt. > [@Rick](#): > > Well let’s talk about this. One story on a building is about 12 feet. a 300 foot deep hole is 25 stories in the ground. You are building a hotel with 25 levels of underground parking, or are you such a moron that you are building the entire project upside down? Maybe they’re making an “environmentally friendly” hotel, i.e. it doesn’t obscure the local view? Or maybe they’re catering to the apocalypse bunker crowd. > [@AuntiePam](#): > > The one that’s driving my husband nuts is a car ad where a dad is teaching his son how to throw a ball. Guess dad wants his son to be picked last too. > [@Snooooopy](#): > > That’s amazing. I didn’t take that meaning from the ad at all. As far as I could tell, the father is intentionally teaching his son to throw like a wimp because if he taught him to throw correctly, the kid might dent his precious, precious car with an errant throw. (I will admit, my scenario doesn’t explain why the father doesn’t just move the car to a safer spot or choose to go into the backyard to toss the ol’ ball around, but commercials are meant to make a point, not be rigorously logical in how that point ends up being made.) I like that commercial. At first, it looks like your typical “kid is bad and dad is teaching him how to play catch”. Then you see that dad is also horrible at catch. Then comes the punchline about passing on the car along with the bad ball-playing skills. If you listen, the dad is saying everything right. His instructions are correct. he just isn’t much better at execution than his son. > [@Rucksinator](#): > > I think the latest crop of Arby’s commercials are bad. (Not annoying, just that they are pretty weak if you think about it for a second. > > The gist is that they are better than Subway because they slice their meat at the store. (No mention of when and where the bread is baked.) Of all of the steps involved in turning grain, plants and animals into sandwiches, when and where the meat is sliced is pretty far down the list in terms of importance, IMHO. Yeah, their “Guess where Subway cuts it’s meat? Way across the country in this plant, and then they ship the processed sandwich meat to their stores. Arbys is better because we slice our meat in the stores.” You know who else slices their sandwich meat in plants prior to shipping them to stores? Oscar Meyer, and pretty much any grocery store brand sandwich meat. And they act like it’s some giant surprise they’re revealing. You know, I never thought about it, but it’s not like I’m shocked – SHOCKED!, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/87 "2013-01-22T23:19:51Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > This GEICO ad featuring Eddie Money is ear-splittingly horrendous and just sad. I can’t imagine the direction going on: > > “Eddie, bug your eyes out like Igor.” ?? > > “Eddie, we need more of a deranged, homeless guy feel.” ?? > > “Eddie, sustain that note off key longer. And louder.” ??? > Worst commercial ever. Poor Eddie. I actually like this commercial because he looks crazy. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/88 "2013-01-23T15:00:38Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I think it was the tax code. > Anyway they said she read it, not that she understood it. Big difference. Nope… it was the Obamacare bill. While I understand your point, you have to understand it to apply it to your clients which she says she will do. The next observation is there probably isn’t much that applies to the Average Joe anyway. All she has to do is tell him that if he currently has insurance to expect the premium to increase big time. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/89 "2013-01-23T15:26:31Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I actually like this commercial because he looks crazy. Yeah, I get that he’s supposed to be a little crazy for the joke to work. It just seems to me like he needed to be \<—\> this crazy, but got \<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\> this crazy instead. He looks like Igor on crack. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/90 "2013-01-23T16:45:24Z")
The Lincoln Motor Company has been [running this sort of surrealistic ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5_xFBcAab0)filled with feel-good imagery about their cars and process. But it’s all very perplexing and filled with examples of bizarre engineering practices. a. Pretty girls opening up suicide doors on a car. They call them suicide doors for a reason. None of Lincoln’s current cars appear to have suicide doors. b. A manta ray swimming through the same luxury car. Just let it be said that if you’re ever in a situation where a manta ray is swimming through your car, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong. c. A manual gear shifter that disappears. Does it retract into the console? Or are they advertising that they have automatic transmissions? Because I’d sort of expect that. (Actually, they apparently moved the shifter buttons to somewhere near the radio. Sounds like an engaging driving experience.) d. Someone probably famous drumming on their factory floor. I bet OSHA is 100% behind that. e. Later on, there’s a rain of jackhammers. There’s probably a reason for that. Apparently it’s quiet inside the car. Up until a jackhammer falls through that panoramic moon roof. f. Then there’s a crash test where the air bag comes out of the driver’s chest. This sounds only slightly safer than a Ridley Scott alien. Maybe it’s coming out of the seat belt? Better hope you haven’t twisted it, then. So, does the commercial make me want to buy one of their cars? Nope. Hire the guy that films their commercials for my next avant-garde sci-fi flick? Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/91 "2013-01-23T16:50:05Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > That’s amazing. I didn’t take that meaning from the ad at all. As far as I could tell, the father is intentionally teaching his son to throw like a wimp because if he taught him to throw correctly, the kid might dent his precious, precious car with an errant throw. (I will admit, my scenario doesn’t explain why the father doesn’t just move the car to a safer spot or choose to go into the backyard to toss the ol’ ball around, but commercials are meant to make a point, not be rigorously logical in how that point ends up being made.) Thats how I took the commercail - he was teaching the kid to throw horribly to prevent any possible injury to the car that he can’t stand to be away from. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/92 "2013-01-23T16:55:38Z")
I don’t get why they are ‘introducing’ The Lincoln Motor Company when it’s been around for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/93 "2013-01-23T17:00:15Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I would guess you’re talking about a guy named [Pitbull](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitbull_%28entertainer%29). I can’t say why exactly, but he creeps me out. The first time I saw that ad, I pointed to the screen and said to my wife “That is why you do not invite your recently divorced dad to your party” 😃 Would not have guessed he was a Pop singer/rapper/something. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/94 "2013-01-23T17:58:07Z")
I’m neither a Christian nor a Satanist, so I have no dog in this hunt, but I was still rather bemused to see that Mercedes Benz has apparently come to the conclusion that it’s time to start using [Satan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjycKOsI2o) to sell cars in America. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/95 "2013-01-23T19:24:25Z")
This commercial guarantees that I will never buy a Hyundai. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FgfchvQJPbw/maxresdefault.jpg "Oklahoma City Hyundai #1 Dealer Commercial -- Edmond Hyundai") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfchvQJPbw) ---
**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 23, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/96 "2013-01-23T21:13:13Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > This commercial guarantees that I will never buy a Hyundai. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfchvQJPbw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfchvQJPbw) There have been a whole series of these (and other stupid spots) for a couple of years now. Interestingly, the guy behind those commercials is otherwise fairly normal. (at least in business settings) ---
**Author:** ![Gabing\_Gaboing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b38774/32.png) [@Gabing\_Gaboing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gabing_Gaboing)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/97 "2013-01-23T22:30:29Z")
The commercial that I currently can’t stand is the one for the Comfy Pillow or whatchacallit. It’s a pillow with memory foam and gel beads and makes all your back problems go away. First I can’t see why anyone would sit in her kitchen “for hours” as the woman claims. I like sitting as much as the next guy, but I can’t see sitting in the kitchen unless they put a Lazy Boy and a big screen in there. The worst, though, is a man who speaks to us next to the cab of his “truck” which seems to basically be a pickup. He claims to have driven it for something like 30 years, then tells us that thanks to this pillow, “my back feels great, and my bottom feels great!” _Bottom_…really? It turns him into a soccer mom or a four-year-old. Next he will tell us all how he goes potty all by himself. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/98 "2013-01-23T23:38:43Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Come on now, they didn’t say that. They said they’d tape a cheetah to her back. I don’t understand how that would work. Wouldn’t it make more sense to tape Grandma to the back of a cheetah? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/99 "2013-01-24T16:41:54Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > I don’t understand how that would work. Wouldn’t it make more sense to tape Grandma to the back of a cheetah? I’m certain that if someone taped a (presumably angry) cheetah to your back, you’d be moving as fast as the laws of physics and biology would let you. Right up to the point where the cheetah succeeded in ripping out your spine. Something tells me that kid doesn’t really like Nana – she probably stiffed him last Xmas. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/100 "2013-01-24T17:19:49Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > I don’t understand how that would work. Wouldn’t it make more sense to tape Grandma to the back of a cheetah? Drat! I knew there had to be some subtle flaw in the plan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=6)