# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/21 "2015-04-15T00:11:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > That nasty-ass woman who does the Toyota commercials. I can’t stand looking at her, let alone listening to her talk. And then there is the equally noxious Honda “hashtag” commercial. I want to hunt them down and #huntingknifeinthecrotch. While I don’t hate her with anywhere near your enthusiasm, she’s just a Flo-AT&T Girl wannabe. Flo and Girl have their own personalities. Toyota Woman is just a spokeswoman wishing she had a personality. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/22 "2015-04-15T00:28:08Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Experian credit scores. I want to smack that woman who puts her feet up on the guy’s desk because she has a good credit score; I want to smack her in the puss and that wimpy assed husband of hers as well. And WTF is that stuff she’s doing at the end? Pointing and waving? I think she’s telling useless husband that he’s following to close and where to go. Dumb as it is, at least it’s better than the guy walking off with the potted tree. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/23 "2015-04-15T00:44:23Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > While I don’t hate her with anywhere near your enthusiasm, she’s just a Flo-AT&T Girl wannabe. Flo and Girl have their own personalities. Toyota Woman is just a spokeswoman wishing she had a personality. Every time I see Jan from Toyota, I tell my wife “I think she’s a robot.” Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks she has zero personality. The ad that bugs me lately is the Enterprise rental car ad with the woman who has them pick her up at the family reunion so everyone will think she has a boyfriend. There are just so many things wrong in that 30 second spot, I don’t even know where to start. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/24 "2015-04-15T01:06:33Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The ad that bugs me lately is the Enterprise rental car ad with the woman who has them pick her up at the family reunion so everyone will think she has a boyfriend. There are just so many things wrong in that 30 second spot, I don’t even know where to start. Could be worse. National Car Rental recently swapped Patrick Stewart for Patrick Warburton in their commercials. I hope the trade included cash and a shitload of future draft picks. ETA: Oh, I would watch Wendy’s Red if she was selling swampland in Florida, and I already owned some. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/25 "2015-04-15T01:26:49Z")
I don’t know if this is on TV but Burger King has some Cross’anwich commercials on the radio that are awful. Someone pulls up to the drivethru and wants a Cross’anwich. The guy taking the order is like “A what?” “A Cross’anwich.” “What? What is that?” “You’ve got a poster right here…” “Oh, a CROSS’AAAAANWIIIICH!” and it just gets stupider from there. I hate “gotcha” humor and this isn’t even well-done “gotcha” humor. ---
**Author:** ![Hockeyshrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4491bb/32.png) [@Hockeyshrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockeyshrink)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/26 "2015-04-15T02:10:04Z")
Education Connection has this super creepy commercial that features a young (presumably high school age) girl is dancing around her bedroom while a older (let’s say 30ish) man cleans the windows for her _second story bedroom_, while a small crowd of ethnically diverse people sway and sing on the sidewalk below. I find it disturbing on many levels, but damn if the jingle isn’t catchy. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/27 "2015-04-15T02:15:33Z")
From 1991, [this Sizzler commercial](http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/recipes/a34211/sizzler-promo-reel/) is the Mac Daddy of all obnoxious, over-the-top, make you homicidal commercials. Think John Ashcroft lyrics bad. Watch it all the way through, if you can. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/28 "2015-04-15T02:18:25Z")
“1-8-7-7 Cars for Kids…1-8-7-7 Cars for Kids” Repeat until you shoot the tv or radio. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/29 "2015-04-15T02:22:34Z")
Can’t remember what it’s for, but the one with Mindy Kaling where she thinks she’s invisible. She starts perving on some guys playing basketball and then gets pissy when they don’t want her touching them. Groping someone without consent is still sexual assault even if you are a pretty girl doing the assaulting. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/30 "2015-04-15T02:53:33Z")
There’s one where a couple, who are an anthropomorphic jar peanut butter and jelly, are in the hospital nursery admiring their new PB & J baby. Then they watch in horror as a nurse comes along and eats their child. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/31 "2015-04-15T02:54:29Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > “1-8-7-7 Cars for Kids…1-8-7-7 Cars for Kids” Repeat until you shoot the tv or radio. Thank you on behalf of all the rest of us New Yorkers. Most of us don’t even OWN cars. The idea that I would have a few cars sitting around that I would be interested in donating is…fucking WEIRD. So why does this pop up every morning on the radio when I’m trying to get the day’s weather report? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/32 "2015-04-15T03:11:59Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Can’t remember what it’s for, but the one with Mindy Kaling where she thinks she’s invisible. She starts perving on some guys playing basketball and then gets pissy when they don’t want her touching them. Groping someone without consent is still sexual assault even if you are a pretty girl doing the assaulting. Sadly it is for Nationwide, of whom I am a customer. With the insipid Julia Roberts doing the voiceover, and my personal reasons for hating Mindy Kaling - “Having an attractive woman touch you isn’t the worst thing in the world” gets “Let me know when one shows up” from me. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/33 "2015-04-15T03:31:33Z")
I’m not much for Toyota Jan either, but the one that is annoying me right this minute is a Jan-less Toyota ad in which a guy has driven his 'Yota somewhere out in the country and is talking on the phone to someone, explaining how he’s found just the right spot to view a comet. The punch line is that he bends down to look at something on the ground just as a celestial object streaks overhead. Comets and meteors are not the same thing, dipshits. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/34 "2015-04-15T03:42:05Z")
Don’t know if it’s still running, but a couple of times I have heard a radio ad for an erectile dysfunction clinic in which the earnest-voiced male urologist promises “visible results…right there in the office!” Um, euwwwww… ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/35 "2015-04-15T03:47:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > From 1991, [this Sizzler commercial](http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/recipes/a34211/sizzler-promo-reel/) is the Mac Daddy of all obnoxious, over-the-top, make you homicidal commercials. Think John Ashcroft lyrics bad. Watch it all the way through, if you can. Quit after 22 seconds. it is bad(at least to that point) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/36 "2015-04-15T03:50:22Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I would never call my car ‘Brad’. I actually gave MY first car a name, when I was in my 20’s. I regret to say, I would come into the office and say, “Well, we made it in record time today.”:o ---
**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 15, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/37 "2015-04-15T09:17:48Z")
1. Any commercial that goes: “FACT:” blah-blah-blah. “FACT:” blah-blah-blah. “FACT:” blah-blah-blah. Don’t copy writers get paid big bucks for actually writing copy, rather than just regurgitating the “facts” given to them? 2. Any medical-related commercial that contains the phrase “moderate to severe.” And all the ones that list the many ways the medication can maim or kill you. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/38 "2015-04-15T09:26:29Z")
If we can include YouTube ads, any ad that is much longer than the video I was going to watch. Especially if it’s that “five minute abs” asshole. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Thank you on behalf of all the rest of us New Yorkers. > > Most of us don’t even OWN cars. The idea that I would have a few cars sitting around that I would be interested in donating is…fucking WEIRD. So why does this pop up every morning on the radio when I’m trying to get the day’s weather report? Because they operate nationwide and there’s an entire nation of people here who don’t live in New York? I know that must be shocking to you. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/39 "2015-04-15T10:51:18Z")
Any commercial where one of the characters has to barf. Value City Furniture and Maaco Auto Body are the two most prominent at the moment. Toyota Jan, Wendy’s Red, and the AT&T chick all seriously trip my trigger, regardless of any lack of personalities… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/40 "2015-04-15T11:11:42Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > If we can include YouTube ads, any ad that is much longer than the video I was going to watch. Especially if it’s that “five minute abs” asshole. > > Because they operate nationwide and there’s an entire nation of people here who don’t live in New York? I know that must be shocking to you. So, play it for the entire nation and not in the New York area. This can be done. I know that must be shocking to you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=3)