# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/461 "2015-07-15T11:51:05Z")
Go Daddy…the new ad with everyone doing the jerk or humping the air or whatever in the hell it is those fucking people are doing, is not a significant improvement on the STICK IT ads. I can’t imagine who is in charge of your marketing. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/462 "2015-07-15T23:42:37Z")
These cluckin’ chicken fry commercials are getting old. Whatever happened to the [new Subservient Chicken campaign](http://adage.com/article/news/burger-king-resurrects-subservient-chicken/292902/)? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/463 "2015-07-20T20:37:53Z")
Speaking of chicken … Perdue has a couple new commercials. In one Jim Perdue is slowly taking a bite of some grilled chicken using the grill fork which he sticks in his mouth in slow motion. He has a whole bunch of other chicken on the grill that he is now going to poke with his slobbered on grill fork. Yum.☹ This does not make me want to eat his chicken. There is also the mystery of how the perfectly cut piece of chicken got on his fork when he doesn’t have a knife and there is no cut piece of chicken on the grill. Then there’s another one where a guy is sitting in front of a fake looking roast chicken and holding a massive chicken leg which he then takes a slow motion fake bite off and makes a yum face and proceeds to fake chew. It is so obvious that he did not actually bite the chicken and that he has nothing in his mouth and the chicken looks very fake. So a guy badly pantomiming eating what is probably a paper mache chicken does not make me want to buy your chicken. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/464 "2015-07-30T14:09:32Z")
Breyers Vanilla Ice Cream with adorable widdle kids. There is something about the girl’s voice the way she says “Breyers is made with FRESH cream, sugar, and milk!” that annoys me to an unnerving degree. Like, nothing but the very best for you, precious! Why don’t you just stuff the cheap corn syrup, artificial flavors, and carrageenan stuff into your maw like the vast majority of kids already do. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/465 "2015-08-01T03:47:53Z")
“2 million blah blah blah people in this city and only one me. I’ll take the odds.” What’s that supposed to mean? Are we betting on a giant game of assassin? Snapple, why should I care what New Yorkers think? Maybe this would make sense if Snapple were newly available, but it’s been nationwide forever. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2015, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/466 "2015-08-01T07:32:19Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Breyers Vanilla Ice Cream with adorable widdle kids. There is something about the girl’s voice the way she says “Breyers is made with FRESH cream, sugar, and milk!” that annoys me to an unnerving degree. Like, nothing but the very best for you, precious! Why don’t you just stuff the cheap corn syrup, artificial flavors, and carrageenan stuff into your maw like the vast majority of kids already do. Maybe because of the taste. Taste should be a major criterion of appeal of food anyway. Or hadn’t you **thought** of that? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/467 "2015-08-01T15:25:19Z")
KIDS don’t CARE. They eat any crappy ice cream from the ice cream truck. The commercial is aimed at helicopter parents who want nothing but the very best for Madison or Ethan. (If it was organic, even better.) There’s something smug and precious about the kid’s delivery of her lines that bugs. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/468 "2015-08-01T15:44:24Z")
No specific commercial, but why, in 2015, do so many radio commercial jingles sound like they’re straight out of the 1960s/-70s? It’s as if the writers remember the jingles they heard when they were kids, and decide, “This is what a jingle sounds like”. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/469 "2015-08-01T16:04:10Z")
Perhaps because only old people listen to the radio? Just kidding. Mostly. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/470 "2015-08-01T16:18:42Z")
“Crappy ice cream,” salinqmind? Sounds to me like you reject any ice cream that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, or you are a gastronomic snob, or both. I have eaten expensive varieties of ice cream and the cheap brands sold in trucks and carts and rarely found anything wrong with any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/471 "2015-08-02T02:02:49Z")
I think you’re reading in too much. I think he’s saying “the cheap stuff tastes just as good”. That’s all he means. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/472 "2015-08-02T02:05:42Z")
Xfinity cable is pimping their voice activation with minions, but minions don’t speak that clearly. I hear the same foul-mouthed critters from McDonalds. “Tough Shit!” “Suck it!” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/473 "2015-08-02T04:01:30Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > “Crappy ice cream,” salinqmind? Sounds to me like you reject any ice cream that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, or you are a gastronomic snob, or both. I have eaten expensive varieties of ice cream and the cheap brands sold in trucks and carts and rarely found anything wrong with any of them. Its NOT THE ICE CREAM! Jesus! It’s the smirky, smug, cutesy delivery of that jerk kid snorfing up that f’ing ice cream. It doesn’t matter whether it’s generic artificial drugstore crap or farmers market top-of-the-line-one-tiny-homemade-batch-at-a-time! It’s the perky way she bleats, “It’s FRESH cream!, sugar, and milk!” Gag me. I want to punch her stupid face right in front of her doting parents. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/474 "2015-08-02T20:27:18Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > “2 million blah blah blah people in this city and only one me. I’ll take the odds.” > What’s that supposed to mean? Are we betting on a giant game of assassin? I’m irritated by that car commercial, too. The “I’ll take those odds” tagline IS meaningless. So, what would happen if she _declined_ to “take those odds”…does that entail suicide? It’s nutty. Obviously, it’s meant to seem like some sort of fist-pumping expression of the confidence that driving a \_\_\_\_ gives you, but it comes off as dimwitted, clue-free bluster. (Not to mention patronizing toward women, one would think.) ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/475 "2015-08-02T20:37:04Z")
There’s a new Marathon Gas commercial that really irks me. It mentions buying a “full tank of freedom.” I hadn’t realized that freedom is sold by the gallon. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/476 "2015-08-02T20:59:35Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Maybe because of the taste. Taste should be a major criterion of appeal of food anyway. Or hadn’t you **thought** of that? > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > “Crappy ice cream,” salinqmind? Sounds to me like you reject any ice cream that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, or you are a gastronomic snob, or both. I have eaten expensive varieties of ice cream and the cheap brands sold in trucks and carts and rarely found anything wrong with any of them. Hey! Dial it back a notch or two. This is an easy going, light topic about commercials you hate. You don’t need to take offense and go off on someone who may dislike a commerical or product you like. Your outrage here is a bit overboard, so calm down and take it to the Pit if you’re **really** hot and bothered. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/477 "2015-08-02T21:14:55Z")
**Dougie** You’ve been cautioned in the past about responding with too much vitroel. You’ll want to dial it back because you’re getting close to personal insults and that’s out of place in this forum. No warning issued. > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > “Crappy ice cream,” salinqmind? Sounds to me like you reject any ice cream that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, or you are a gastronomic snob, or both. I have eaten expensive varieties of ice cream and the cheap brands sold in trucks and carts and rarely found anything wrong with any of them. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/478 "2015-08-02T21:17:45Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Hey! Dial it back a notch or two. This is an easy going, light topic about commercials you hate. You don’t need to take offense and go off on someone who may dislike a commerical or product you like. Your outrage here is a bit overboard, so calm down and take it to the Pit if you’re **really** hot and bothered. All right…but, tell me: Doesn’t it surprise you that so many innocuous products haven been given blunt thumbs-down on this board? On the subject of commercials that one hates, there’s one set in a household whose members overuse the words “rely” and “reliable”; the house starts to fall apart and they pay no attention! ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/479 "2015-08-02T21:42:37Z")
There’s this one commercial (for a car? a phone? I forget) where a guy is out in the desert and talking on his phone with someone. He’s saying he’s driven out there to get the best view of a once-in-a-lifetime comet passing near the Earth. Then he drops something and bends down to pick it up and while he does so, the “comet” streaks across the sky behind him, lasting about 1.5 seconds. That’s not how it works. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/480 "2015-08-03T19:09:53Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > There’s this one commercial (for a car? a phone? I forget) where a guy is out in the desert and talking on his phone with someone. He’s saying he’s driven out there to get the best view of a once-in-a-lifetime comet passing near the Earth. Then he drops something and bends down to pick it up and while he does so, the “comet” streaks across the sky behind him, lasting about 1.5 seconds. > > That’s not how it works. :smack: Right. Comet =/= meteor. Comets are visible for entended periods of time from large areas of the Earth. Meteors are that quick, but not predictable. > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > All right…but, tell me: Doesn’t it surprise you that so many innocuous products haven been given blunt thumbs-down on this board? Is not the products themselves in most cases, it’s the advertiser’s choice in how to present them that is getting the thumbs down. People love ice cream, but hate bleating overly precious kids. People love cars, but hate Dodge guy and his “don’t touch my car”. People love cell phones, but are annoyed by mangling simple science. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=25)