# Maytag: would you \*please\* drop the disgusting commercial? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162 "2003-08-14T15:57:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/1 "2003-08-14T15:57:49Z")
Maytag is coming out with a new washer, the [Neptune](http://www.maytagneptune.com/?banner=NeptuneTLHome), which uses some sort of super-duper stain remover technology. Fine. Their radio ad campaign features a couple of kids having a grape jelly fight. Fine again. What is _not_ fine is the sound effects used for the jelly. It sounds like some old guy snorking his snot! I mean _really_ snorking his snot! _snooooooooooork_ _snooooooooooork_ _snooooooooooork_ _snooooooooooork_ Damn, that’s disgusting. Somebody thought that effect was a _good_ idea? Unbelievable. Coming from me, that means somthing. I’m used to snorking old guys, my dad is one and I’ll be one too in about 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/2 "2003-08-14T16:01:21Z")
Well they look cool, that’s got to be worth something. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/3 "2003-08-14T16:09:06Z")
I think if my brother and I had a grape jelly fight, those wouldn’t be the only stains that washer would have to get out when my mom caught us. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/4 "2003-08-14T16:24:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*I’m used to snorking old guys, my dad is one and I’ll be one too in about 30 years. \*\* You do realize this sentence can be read a couple of different ways. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/5 "2003-08-14T16:24:55Z")
With that sound I’m glad they didn’t use mint jelly. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/6 "2003-08-14T21:11:26Z")
That’s almost as bad as the public service “clean air” radio campaign running on Raleigh, NC radio stations right now. It starts out nice–a father and his son headed outside for a fun game of catch. Before they get very far, however, junior starts coughing, evidently due to the bad Raleigh air. Unfortunately, the noise comes across as **WHOOOOORK WHOOOOOORK** , over and over. It doesn’t even sound human. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/7 "2003-08-14T21:14:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BrightNShiny \* > \*\*You do realize this sentence can be read a couple of different ways. \*\* Well, yeah, but I couldn’t think what else to do with it an not have it come out cumbersome. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/8 "2003-08-14T21:22:21Z")
“I’m used to the ‘old guy snork’ sound … my dad does it and I’ll be joining him in about 30 years” looks better. I think. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/9 "2003-08-14T22:00:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*“I’m used to the ‘old guy snork’ sound … my dad does it and I’ll be joining him in about 30 years” looks better. I think. \*\* Snork you! Haj ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/10 "2003-08-14T22:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*Snork you! > > Haj \*\* Aw, get smurfed in your smurf, you mothersmurfer! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MrSarcasticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MrSarcasticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSarcasticus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/11 "2003-08-14T23:11:32Z")
But if they drop the Maytag spots, that will only make room for (even) more Geico ads. And for the love of Christ, we do NOT need that. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/12 "2003-08-14T23:55:33Z")
I think EVERY commercial should have an old guy snorking his snot. More power to you, Maytag! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/13 "2003-08-15T00:57:50Z")
I haven’t seen this atrocity. Did their legal department advise them that they weren’t in a strong position to continue to imply that the Maytag Man never had any service calls and that they’d better make up some alternative explanation for his loneliness? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/14 "2003-08-15T00:59:02Z")
Oh, and I didn’t read the OP, obviously. Wheee. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/15 "2003-08-15T01:12:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*I haven’t seen this atrocity. Did their legal department advise them that they weren’t in a strong position to continue to imply that the Maytag Man never had any service calls and that they’d better make up some alternative explanation for his loneliness? \*\* It’s only on the radio, AFIK. This would explain who they got to do the snorking, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/16 "2003-08-15T01:48:04Z")
So…how much snot would a snot-snorker snork, if a snot-snorker could snork snot? ---
**Author:** ![Grasshopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Grasshopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grasshopper)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/17 "2003-08-15T04:10:02Z")
Hey, it’s the same company that’s airing that horrible back to school commercial with that little boy who has a lot of crappy things happen to him on the first day of school. Sure, it’s kind of cute, but what are they trying to do, create as much anxiety as possible for kids going back to school? It’s madness. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/18 "2003-08-15T12:37:30Z")
> [@](#): > > But if they drop the Maytag spots, that will only make room for (even) more Geico ads. I LOVE that little gecko. When he wins employee of the month and drives up in his Stuart Little convertible…hee hee hee! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/19 "2003-08-15T14:52:45Z")
FWIW my neighbor has a set of Neptunes and said they pretty much suck, or ummm… it s’not all it’s cracked up to be. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162/20 "2003-08-15T18:23:26Z")
I’m jellin’ like a felon…:dubious: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maytag-would-you-please-drop-the-disgusting-commercial/195162.md?page=2)