# More very hate-able commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663 "2015-04-14T17:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/181 "2015-04-22T14:37:21Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > Quit after 22 seconds. it is bad(at least to that point) I went ahead and finished it. You missed the guy explaining the ad. There’s been a change in America, and now both parents often work, leaving no time to make food. So Sizzler is there to pick up the slack. Then you get a second verse about how Americans love Sizzler while watching people make the most ridiculous faces and otherwise horrible acting. Then there’s another long voiceover explaining the concept of a buffet and saying it’s “the freedom of choice that American want.” Then a final verse of “Sizzler is the choice, of America,” again pushing the angle that Sizzler means freedom, while showing a bunch of Americana images. Then it ends with them whispering “Sizzler” where you almost expect them to say “Mentos, the freshmaker.” Thanks for the post, Chefguy. That was a treat of so bad it’s good. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/182 "2015-04-22T17:08:10Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I went ahead and finished it. You missed the guy explaining the ad. There’s been a change in America, and now both parents often work, leaving no time to make food. So Sizzler is there to pick up the slack. Then you get a second verse about how Americans love Sizzler while watching people make the most ridiculous faces and otherwise horrible acting. Then there’s another long voiceover explaining the concept of a buffet and saying it’s “the freedom of choice that American want.” Then a final verse of “Sizzler is the choice, of America,” again pushing the angle that Sizzler means freedom, while showing a bunch of Americana images. Then it ends with them whispering “Sizzler” where you almost expect them to say “Mentos, the freshmaker.” > > . What’s amazing is how Evil Sizzler is. The declared bankruptcy just to get out of a couple bad leases, no one but managers got any severance pay, leaving all their waitstaff & cook staff on the street with no money, no warning , nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/183 "2015-04-22T17:23:34Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’m not sure it’s a winning strategy. Hell, they had Tiger Woods driving one in ads about a decade ago, and that apparently didn’t convince people that Buicks were hip and edgy. Heh. All it did was convince me that Tiger Woods is unhip and dull. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/184 "2015-04-23T00:40:37Z")
A ten-second commercial on Hulu where a guy in a suit is stuffing everything from toilet paper rolls to stuffed animals down a toilet, splashing water everywhere including on himself. He declares “I’m the kid in 6-B who’s making it rain in 5-B!” and goes back to stuffing the toilet with a maniacal grin, all to sell renter’s insurance. 1. I want to brain this guy with a toaster oven. 2. If my kid did something this stupid, I’d shake his teeth loose. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/185 "2015-04-23T01:21:53Z")
George Foreman: “Call my friends at Invenniep.” If I owned a company, I’d check to make sure my spokesperson knew how to pronounce the company’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/186 "2015-04-23T09:29:57Z")
> [@Orwell](#): > > I can’t say I hate that commercial, but it IS weird. Are we supposed to believe that Arnold Palmer, Kevin Nealon and Brian Vickers are golfing buddies? I guess the intention is that everyone will identify or like at least one of them, but it just comes off as strange. And, yes, Palmer sounds odd. Like they told him to act jovial, but he comes off like a deranged cartoon character. Speaking of golfers, Rory Mcilroy is currently shilling for UK bank Santander (yes, I know it’s Spanish-based but he’s doing ads for the UK company). The campaign also features racing driver Jensen Button and Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, both of whom do a tolerable job of saying their lines and interacting with the other people in the ads, but Mcilroy has this dead-eyed stare and flat delivery that creeps me out - all he needs is a bit of underlighting and he’d look like something from Lovecraft. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/187 "2015-04-23T18:18:19Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I can’t stand the little girl who lectures us about some babysitting website. The babysitter has to love “fashion” (ie, dress-up), and her cat, Mr. Tickles, who looks like he’d rather be anywhere else. The kid has a really annoying voice, and an attitude that will have people quitting the service in droves. I completely agree! I can’t even understand that kid. I believe it’s for [care.com](http://care.com). I can’t stand the Les Schwab kit-tens commercial. Most of us say “kitns”, but this lady says “kit-tens”. At least in the end we learn the kit-ten is spoiled rot-ten. Drives me bonkers. For your viewing pleasure, since I believe this is mostly a northwest/northern, CA company: ---
**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:** [April 23, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/188 "2015-04-23T23:10:47Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > Drives me bonkers. It makes me _twitch_…as does that animation style. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/189 "2015-04-24T01:33:30Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I didn’t know the word “migraine” when I was a teenager, just that I got these really, really bad headaches. Usually, they’d start around 4pm, and last all evening, but be gone in the morning, although I’d feel slightly hungover. I’d miss dinner, and not get my homework done. Teachers didn’t accept “I had a headache” as a reason for letting you hand in your homework a day late. > > Then I had one that lasted 3 days. I don’t know why I had never tried to explain how really, really awful those headaches were. I got them maybe once every six to eight weeks, so it wasn’t completely disruptive, but my gawd, that one that was still there in the morning-- it made me cry, and I wouldn’t get out of bed. I finally got a trip to the doctor’s after that. Not that there were good medications at the time, but the darvocet took the edge off, and the anti-nausea medicine made a big difference. No kidding. I had a similar experience. I have bad allergies and had what everyone assumed were terrible “sinus headaches” all through my high school years and just suffered through it using coffee and aspirin and sudafed and diet coke. When I was in college, we’d had a solid week of rain and horrible weather. I had the worst headache I could remember. Couldn’t even sleep through it well. So I went to my doctor and said, “Doc, this Tylenol sinus stuff is _crap_! It doesn’t get rid of my headaches at all! And I feel queasy!” Four questions later, I found out I didn’t have “sinus headaches”, they were migraines. And I had a prescription for Fioricet (no triptans yet). Went home, took one, the “sinus headache” went away. I slept like a rock for twelve hours. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/190 "2015-04-24T02:40:26Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > What is it with those Buick commercials where nobody can recognize the Buick even while staring right into the logo on the front grille? Og knows how many gazillions they spent promoting their logo over a hundred years, but it’s all been wasted. Buick spends millions of dollars to make their front grilles instantly recognizable, then they spend millions of dollars making commercials saying that people don’t recognize them. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/191 "2015-04-24T03:11:59Z")
Why is that car being driven off an aircraft carrier? ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/192 "2015-04-24T12:11:40Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > Buick spends millions of dollars to make their front grilles instantly recognizable, then they spend millions of dollars making commercials saying that people don’t recognize them. That’s what I was thinking, too. Most car companies go to great lengths to have a certain style of grill/front end for their vehicles. Each brand has a “look” that should be recognizable - think of Acura, Audi, Cadillac, and, yes, Buick. Buick has had a similar front end look for at least six years, and has had the exact same logo/emblem for 14 years, which isn’t that much different than the one they had for decades. So, Buick is marketing to people who know nothing about cars, don’t care about cars, haven’t thought of Buick in 20 years, think Buicks look the same as they did 20-40 years ago, think Buicks are unappealing, and are obviously clueless. Great marketing campaign. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/193 "2015-04-24T18:12:26Z")
Whenever I see that brewer leaning over the big vats of Sam Adams beer to stir them up, all I can think of is those crinkly beard hairs falling into the beer. Yerk. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/194 "2015-04-24T19:16:17Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > George Foreman: “Call my friends at Invenniep.” > > If I owned a company, I’d check to make sure my spokesperson knew how to pronounce the company’s name. I hear these on the radio, and it sounds like good old George took one too many punches in the head and perhaps lost a few teeth. It’s not that he doesn’t know the name, just that he don’t speak too good anymore. ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/195 "2015-04-25T01:28:14Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > It took me a while to really get a hate on for this one, but I have learned to despise the superior attitude of the red-headed Wendy’s chick who apparently does nothing all day but stuff her face with fast food and act like that makes her better than the rest of us. (and of course, never gains an ounce). > > Yes, thank you, I DO feel better getting that off my chest! lol I hate that bitch! Not just because she’s so smug but because her hair is the color of the tomato sauce in Chef Boyardee ravioli. I call dibs for the right to punch her in the face should I ever actually meet her. ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/196 "2015-04-25T01:44:39Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > I hate that bitch! Not just because she’s so smug but because her hair is the color of the tomato sauce in Chef Boyardee ravioli. > > I call dibs for the right to punch her in the face should I ever actually meet her. I’m thinking this is a gender issue. I think the Wendy’s girl is sexy as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/197 "2015-04-25T01:48:57Z")
> [@Orwell](#): > > I’m thinking this is a gender issue. I think the Wendy’s girl is sexy as hell. Not a gender thing. She’s certainly attractive, but she radiates “smug”. Way too annoying to be sexy. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/198 "2015-04-25T04:35:53Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Not a gender thing. She’s certainly attractive, but she radiates “smug”. Way too annoying to be sexy. I agree here. It’s not her looks, it’s the attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/199 "2015-04-25T14:18:20Z")
I’m really tired of the woman who’s “often” told she has the best legs in the room. I have to wonder what kind of creeps she hangs out with. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/200 "2015-04-25T19:43:38Z")
> [@simster](#): > > yeah - saw a commercial for a car that had “respond to texts while you drive” feature. It’s a button you hit and it sez “Am driving, will respond later” OR you respond by voice. In neither case do you actually input a text. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=11)