# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/221 "2015-04-27T17:38:26Z")
Toyota seems to be going out of their way to make sure that I never buy one of their cars. I only watch television online, mostly on Netflix. But I have a few shows I watch the day after they air on the network’s web sites, and The CW and NBC no longer let me watch with my adblocker turned on, so … Anybody seen these new “interactive” Toyota commercials? The commercial will start, and then _it interrupts itself with a “popup” ad in the middle of the screen that you have to manually dismiss before the commercial will continue_. So now you can’t even just get up and go to the bathroom or the refrigerator, because if you do, you’re still going to come back to a paused ad that you have to click though. The last time this ad ran, it interrupted itself with popups _three times_. And it doesn’t help that my cursor wants to disappear as soon as it gets anywhere near the popup, and I have to try to painstakingly, blindly, try to find the “close” button. Up yours, Toyota! ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/222 "2015-04-29T16:42:08Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > The creepy German/Austrian kid in the Toaster Strudel ads. > > I almost expect him to _heil hitler_ or some shit. No kidding. We think he’s a SKIT (Serial Killer-In-Training). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/223 "2015-04-29T16:54:46Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > No kidding. We think he’s a SKIT (Serial Killer-In-Training). Or the son of the kid who played Augustus Gloop in _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_. (Not that the two are mutually exclusive or anything.) ---
**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 29, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/224 "2015-04-29T17:41:35Z")
I seriously hate this one: [Cox Gigablast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijNAMpNTim8) Partially because they run it about 10 times per every Diamondbacks game, and we watch, or at least have on for background, every game. I hate the song! Make it stop! (also, we can’t decide if that is a girl or a boy. No insult intended to the actor, but he/she is really ambiguous, in a “It’s Pat!” way.) ---
**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 29, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/225 "2015-04-29T17:46:56Z")
Speaking of overplayed commercials during Diamondbacks games, there is this gem: [I am a complete failure as a parent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBYn8v0T6Yo) On the one hand, the dad is an idiot - would it have been so hard to talk to the woman selling puppies, and ask her to wait while he walks into store _right over there_? And now his kid will need therapy forever. On the other hand, the expression the kid gives is priceless! You can see the exact moment his heart breaks! Plus, cute puppies! ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/226 "2015-04-29T18:28:40Z")
… but don’t take it from me - hear it from … the horses mouth. Oh what a gag! A talking - neigh - singing horse. A vacuous swimwear model. I have no idea what they’re trying to sell me, but if I ever find any of it I’m setting it on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/227 "2015-04-29T18:35:03Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Part 2 of the dream is a bridge abutment in your engine comparment and the engine in your lap as you fiddle with your tablet on the highway. Part 3 - It’s your mother: “Three callers ahead of us, Jimmy” ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/228 "2015-04-29T18:41:42Z")
Suburu commercial I saw last night watching Flash or Agents. It started cute enough with a family of dogs, but then they got the bathroom key and all drank from a gas station toilet bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/229 "2015-05-03T20:19:27Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Speaking of overplayed commercials during Diamondbacks games, there is this gem: > [I am a complete failure as a parent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBYn8v0T6Yo) > On the one hand, the dad is an idiot - would it have been so hard to talk to the woman selling puppies, and ask her to wait while he walks into store _right over there_? And now his kid will need therapy forever. This supports my theory that companies are making ads _expressly_ to appeal to lower-IQ potential customers–presumably because lower-IQ folks are more likely to meekly accept whatever the company dishes out to them, without doing anything alarming such as hiring a lawyer. Get a bunch of dummies as your customer base, and watch the revenues flood in! (See also: Liberty Mutual.) ---
**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:** [May 4, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/230 "2015-05-04T03:42:00Z")
The Volkswagen commercial with the destructive little brats in the gas station convenience store…it doesn’t make me want to buy a fuel-efficient car, it makes me want to get a prescription for birth control. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/231 "2015-05-04T11:52:39Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Speaking of overplayed commercials during Diamondbacks games, there is this gem: > > [I am a complete failure as a parent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBYn8v0T6Yo) > > On the one hand, the dad is an idiot - would it have been so hard to talk to the woman selling puppies, and ask her to wait while he walks into store _right over there_? And now his kid will need therapy forever. > > On the other hand, the expression the kid gives is priceless! You can see the exact moment his heart breaks! Plus, cute puppies! Maybe it’s just me because I don’t watch Diamondback games and had never seen the commercial, but I totally laughed out loud at that. It was SO schlocky and over the top, I figured it had to be a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/232 "2015-05-05T21:30:26Z")
I don’t see the Wayfair ads in this thread - could I be the only one who HATES that stupid jingle and HATES those people dancing like complete dorks? They run them 50 times an hour (okay, maybe 5 times), relentlessly. I thought after Christmas they’d go away, but they just switched to the non-holiday version which is equally suckful. I like Wayfair, but those ads are seriously putting me off. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/233 "2015-05-05T21:40:00Z")
I’ve seen this one only late-night on stations like AntennaTV, but this big, burly guy with a full beard comes on and immediately announces that he’s a COWBOY, and he USES CATHETERS. Now, I’m not as generally bugged by the catheter commercials as some people, because I know people who use catheters, and the reasons (MS, Lupus) are no fun whatsoever, and running out of them, or getting stuck somewhere without one is no joke. But the cowboy makes me stabby. I really, really want this commercial to go away. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/234 "2015-05-05T22:09:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a whole series of those ads with a whole variety of people, including kids, whose voices are replaced by Dennis Haysbert. I used to rent a lot of cars and once had the experience of starting one and learning that the previous driver had boosted both the bass and the volume to the maximum level. It came on in the middle of a commercial and Dennis Haysbert’s voice came out of those speakers like the voice of an angry god. Scared the crap out of me. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/235 "2015-05-06T01:29:15Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > … but don’t take it from me - hear it from … the horses mouth. Oh what a gag! > > A talking - neigh - singing horse. A vacuous swimwear model. I have no idea what they’re trying to sell me, but if I ever find any of it I’m setting it on fire. DirecTV, the same company which gives us SuperAssholes every football season. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/236 "2015-05-06T01:45:10Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > DirecTV, the same company which gives us SuperAssholes every football season. Yes they’re annoying, but who is the super model? And have you noticed that in their first round of commercials she’s wearing a wrap, but the later ones that I’ve seen show her in just a bikini. Do they think I’ll keep watching to see how much more undressed she’ll get? (Well, I would!) ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/237 "2015-05-06T01:51:23Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > … but don’t take it from me - hear it from … the horses mouth. Oh what a gag! > > A talking - neigh - singing horse. A vacuous swimwear model. I have no idea what they’re trying to sell me, but if I ever find any of it I’m setting it on fire. Every time I see those, I’m distracted by thinking that it seems cruel to put a bit and bridle on a sentient horse who can talk. What’s he need that chunk of metal in his mouth for if he understands spoken English and can even talk back? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/238 "2015-05-06T20:35:44Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Yes they’re annoying, but who is the super model? I don’t know, but I do know that the horse is voiced by Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame). I thought I recognized it and verified on wikipedia that it’s him. According to that article, he made just the two commercials, so we’re probably not in for any further stripping by the super model. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/239 "2015-05-06T20:49:53Z")
The model’s name is [Hannah Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Davis_%28model%29) and if you do a Google image search you’ll find many pictures of her in various states of undress. Apparently they’ve ditched Rob Lowe for [Hannah and her horse](http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/directv-ditches-rob-lowe-hannah-davis-and-horse-shamelessly-silly-new-ads-163973). ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/240 "2015-05-06T21:00:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a whole series of those ads with a whole variety of people, including kids, whose voices are replaced by Dennis Haysbert. I hate the one about “didn’t you say women are worse drivers? How did I get this check?” Because he was making a general statement that doesn’t apply to your individual case. God that commercial drives me insane [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=13)