# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/161 "2014-01-09T20:37:44Z")
Don’t know whether this has been mentioned yet. There’s a promotion for _Golden Girls_ re-runs, about each of them having four friends. Really, four? Wouldn’t that add up to five Golden Girls? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/162 "2014-01-09T20:42:59Z")
There’s a commercial running now for one of those watches that pairs with your smart phone. (I don’t know which brand so I can’t find a link to it.) It shows a woman’s hand holding a cell phone. She gets a call. Did I mention she is _holding the cell phone_? So when the phone rings, she turns her wrist, revealing the watch she is wearing on _the same hand in which she is holding her phone_, and uses the watch to answer the call, instead of using the phone that she is _holding in her hand_. Drives me nuts. ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/163 "2014-01-09T21:30:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Don’t know whether this has been mentioned yet. > > There’s a promotion for _Golden Girls_ re-runs, about each of them having four friends. Really, four? Wouldn’t that add up to five Golden Girls? You forget Fonzie. Heeyyy! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/164 "2014-01-09T21:32:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Don’t know whether this has been mentioned yet. > > There’s a promotion for _Golden Girls_ re-runs, about each of them having four friends. Really, four? Wouldn’t that add up to five Golden Girls? Is that where they say something like, why have 1 friend when you can have 4? I always took that to mean that the 4 of them were there to be your friend. (you the viewer being the 5th one) ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/165 "2014-01-09T21:33:53Z")
I like my Fonzie idea better. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/166 "2014-01-09T21:34:42Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I like my Fonzie idea better. 😉 Naturally. My interpretation is clearly inferior to yours. 😉 ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/167 "2014-01-09T21:36:16Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Did anyone see the one for Old Spice with the mothers spying on their sons? \ I did. One of the most WTF ads in recent memory, I think. But it did make me laugh. ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/168 "2014-01-09T21:40:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I saw her first. Back, you jackal, back! Sorry boys. I already stuck a flag in her and claimed her for Glinleyland. ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/169 "2014-01-09T21:41:42Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > The Toyota commercial where the Dad is at the dealership with his son. He talks about how much he loved the new Tundra he bought last year so he is giving it to his son and getting a brand new one this year. The son say something like “cool, do I get the boat too” and the adults laugh at him like he’s an idiot. > > You just gave your son a one year old 40,000 dollar pick-up truck and now your laughing at him for asking for a boat??? All the Toyota commercials with Jan the hot receptionist get on my nerves. Particularly since I remember when they first started using the actress on their commercials, and she wasn’t any kind of receptionist or anything, just a lady talking about how great Toyotas were. Now she’s apparently got a job at the local dealership … BECAUSE SHE LOVES TOYOTAS SO MUCH! Although the one commercial with the other woman who says how she’s lucked out again with the Toyota deal, and her man shows up with a puppy and a mochacchino, and Jan just looks at them … you can practically see her ovaries exploding just from the look on her face. That’s good acting. 😉 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. ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/170 "2014-01-09T21:45:10Z")
I ‘heart’ my LAX printed on a t-shirt drawn in the wet sand at the beach is it for LaCrosse? nooooooo is it for the airport? nooooooo It’s for Miralax, a laxitive I know constipation is a miserable condition but who runs around proclaiming their love for shit pills ---
**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 9, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/171 "2014-01-09T22:00:14Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Naturally. My interpretation is clearly inferior to yours. 😉 You da man! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/172 "2014-01-10T00:41:04Z")
The latest round of Lincoln commercials bug me. Cute couple (on in one case, Santa) interviewing two luxury cars to figure out which one to buy. Nevermind that cars are inanimate objects, we’ll let that go. So they ask, “Which one of you has a starting price exactly the same as your gas model?” Wait, wtf is a gas model? I’ve never heard of a gas model before. Oh, you mean gas mileage. Okay, why is it important that their starting price exactly matches their mileage? Let’s see, either you get a good price and their gas mileage is lousy (18 mpg in the city), or you get great gas mileage and the car costs out the wazoo. Yeah, that’s a great sales strategy. Really, WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/173 "2014-01-10T00:44:45Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > The latest round of Lincoln commercials bug me. Cute couple (on in one case, Santa) interviewing two luxury cars to figure out which one to buy. Nevermind that cars are inanimate objects, we’ll let that go. > > So they ask, “Which one of you has a starting price exactly the same as your gas model?” > > Wait, wtf is a gas model? I’ve never heard of a gas model before. Oh, you mean gas mileage. > > Okay, why is it important that their starting price exactly matches their mileage? > > Let’s see, either you get a good price and their gas mileage is lousy (18 mpg in the city), or you get great gas mileage and the car costs out the wazoo. Yeah, that’s a great sales strategy. > > Really, WTF? Is that the SUV one? I believe they’re comparing their gas/electric hybrid to the gas only model. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/174 "2014-01-10T00:57:00Z")
Just saw one with some girl saying to the camera, “I didn’t know KFC did LUNCH!” And going on about how KFC needs a new advertising department because no one knows that KFC is open for lunch. Really? Every KFC I’ve ever been to for years has been open for lunch. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/175 "2014-01-10T01:00:57Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > but who runs around proclaiming their love for shit pills People with bulimia? ---
**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 10, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/176 "2014-01-10T01:18:28Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > All the Toyota commercials with Jan the hot receptionist get on my nerves. Particularly since I remember when they first started using the actress on their commercials, and she wasn’t any kind of receptionist or anything, just a lady talking about how great Toyotas were. Now she’s apparently got a job at the local dealership … BECAUSE SHE LOVES TOYOTAS SO MUCH! Hell, that lizard was once annoyed by people confusing him with an insurance company and now I think he’s the CEO or something. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/177 "2014-01-10T01:47:02Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > I ‘heart’ my LAX > > printed on a t-shirt > drawn in the wet sand at the beach > > is it for LaCrosse? nooooooo > is it for the airport? nooooooo > > It’s for Miralax, a laxitive > > I know constipation is a miserable condition > but who runs around proclaiming their love for shit pills Even after having seen this commercial dozens of times, my first thought is always _you love Los Angeles airport?_ There is some irony involving shitiness, but I can’t be arsed to come up with it at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/178 "2014-01-10T01:48:51Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Even after having seen this commercial dozens of times, my first thought is always _you love Los Angeles airport?_ There is some irony involving shitiness, but I can’t be arsed to come up with it at the moment. Navigating your way through LAX, the horrific traffic, long lines and everything else. By the time your flight takes off, it’s as big a relief as taking care of week long constipation. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/179 "2014-01-10T02:49:56Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > All the Toyota commercials with Jan the hot receptionist get on my nerves. The commercials aren’t particularly clever, but I do love Jan. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102/180 "2014-01-10T03:31:30Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > I did. One of the most WTF ads in recent memory, I think. > > But it did make me laugh. [here it is](http://www.eonline.com/news/495959/this-old-spice-commercial-is-terrifying-and-it-will-haunt-your-dreams-forever). This was a truly disturbing commercial that makes me want to go to the store and smash anything with their brand on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-stupid-commercial-thread/629102.md?page=10)