# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/301 "2015-05-26T04:06:35Z")
Those cannibalistic cereals aren’t frosted mini wheats, they’re cinnamon toast crunch. And they’re not Kellogg’s, they’re General Mills. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2cl57urqb9E/hqdefault.jpg "Adelphoi : Cinnamon Toast Crunch 'Lick' Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cl57urqb9E) ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/302 "2015-05-27T04:48:48Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > St. Jude Children’s Hospital has a donation commercial that starts out with a narrator asking, “How would you feel if your doctor told you your child had cancer?” The first time my son heard this he asked, “How the hell does my doctor know my kid has cancer? 'Your prostrate is fine, Mr. Bigboy, but I can feel your son has leukemia.” BRAVO! Now **that** was funny! ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/303 "2015-05-27T14:27:32Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > […] > > Artificial butter popcorn smells like pee to me… I knew a girl in high school–a lovely lady, a knockout even in her sixties–who once told me that sake tastes like dishwater. Durned if I can figure out how she knew… ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/304 "2015-05-27T15:30:12Z")
This Subway guacamole commercial. No, people don’t just love saying the word guacamole. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/305 "2015-05-29T03:45:23Z")
I have to confess that I’m really enjoying the Snicker’s commercial with the Brady Bunch, Danny Trejo, and Steve Buscemi. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/306 "2015-05-29T06:12:02Z")
The new McDonald’s spokesman makes me want to punch my TV screen. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/307 "2015-05-29T14:04:40Z")
I don’t know if we could come up with enough _good_ commercials to support a new thread, but I love this Sherwin Williams ad: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XznR_UIpyB4) ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/308 "2015-05-29T14:51:07Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I knew a girl in high school–a lovely lady, a knockout even in her sixties–who once told me that sake tastes like dishwater. Durned if I can figure out how she knew… Probably ate a [spaghetti dinner](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=717757) with you. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/309 "2015-05-29T14:58:41Z")
Haha haha haha haha… 😃 No, she didn’t, but her mother did… but that’s another story, and a very unhappy one… ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/310 "2015-05-29T16:12:41Z")
[This horribly sexist commercial for AT&T](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyWm-kHkEQ). The husband is too stupid to take care of his kids and his house, so his wife has to use some AT&T thing to clean up after him while she’s on a business trip. The whole commercial could have been fine if they’d had him handle things himself using the app (armed the alarm from bed, closed the garage from work, etc.) But this is an annoyingly lazy stereotype. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/311 "2015-05-29T17:58:06Z")
Also, the current KFC commercials with Colonel Sanders are creepy. I know I’m not their target audience, but those are deeply offputting. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/312 "2015-05-29T18:12:47Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > [This horribly sexist commercial for AT&T](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyWm-kHkEQ). I hadn’t seen that one, but I agree - it’s awful. I really hate the ads that make men look like morons. Are they supposed to be payback for “My wife, I think I’ll keep her…” ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/313 "2015-05-29T18:16:03Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I have to confess that I’m really enjoying the Snicker’s commercial with the Brady Bunch, Danny Trejo, and Steve Buscemi. The one they are showing now is a shortened version that cuts out what, imho, was the best part. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/314 "2015-05-29T18:20:46Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Also, the current KFC commercials with Colonel Sanders are creepy. I know I’m not their target audience, but those are deeply offputting. The new colonel is played by Darrell Hammond of SNL fame and, apparently, you are not [alone](http://www.businessinsider.com/tons-of-kfc-customers-hate-the-new-tv-ad-2015-5) in finding them distasteful. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/315 "2015-05-29T19:43:37Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Also, the current KFC commercials with Colonel Sanders are creepy. I know I’m not their target audience, but those are deeply offputting. When I first saw that I thought it was a joke, like an SNL parody of Colonel Sanders or something. It’s absolutely awful. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/316 "2015-05-29T19:46:19Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > The new colonel is played by Darrell Hammond of SNL fame and, apparently, you are not [alone](http://www.businessinsider.com/tons-of-kfc-customers-hate-the-new-tv-ad-2015-5) in finding them distasteful. Oh, no wonder he looked familiar! .:smack: It’s still horrible though. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/317 "2015-05-29T19:58:57Z")
nm, ninja’d ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/318 "2015-05-29T20:06:39Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > The new colonel is played by Darrell Hammond of SNL fame and, apparently, you are not [alone](http://www.businessinsider.com/tons-of-kfc-customers-hate-the-new-tv-ad-2015-5) in finding them distasteful. > [@](#): > > “So far the response has been about 80% positive, 20% hate it,” Creed said at a conference in New York on Wednesday, according to industry journal [Food Business News](http://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/news_home/Food-Service-Retail/2015/05/The_revival_of_KFC.aspx?ID=%7B0A507C0D-D0F3-4D50-B20A-9A945ABCAE18%7D). “And I am actually quite happy that 20% hate it, because now they at least have an opinion. They’re actually talking about KFC, and you can market to love and hate; you cannot market to indifference.” Market all you want, dude, I hate the ad and I’m _still_ not gonna eat there. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/319 "2015-05-30T00:42:18Z")
From the latest round of Aleve commercials: > [@](#): > > **Commercial:** Tylenol was okay, but it was six tablets… > **Me:** …and if I have to count that high I’ll have a backache _and_ a headache! I mean, really, is putting the same strength of medication into fewer capsules supposed to be some revolutionary new breakthrough? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/320 "2015-05-30T00:49:44Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > I mean, really, is putting the same strength of medication into fewer capsules supposed to be some revolutionary new breakthrough? Well, it is a different medication. Tylenol has to be taken every four hours, Aleve, every six. Taking more Tylenol won’t make it last six hours, and could be dangerous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=17)