# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/621 "2015-09-08T17:32:41Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Only a Doper would be more concerned with their crossword puzzle than pursuing the hot mystery woman into the stacks. :smack: You added a misplaced ‘r’. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/622 "2015-09-08T17:40:33Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Only a Doper would be more concerned with their crossword puzzle than pursuing the hot mystery woman into the stacks. :smack: …and risking a punch in the nose from an irritated patron you collide with. That’s why they tell you not to run in public places. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/623 "2015-09-08T18:22:41Z")
> [@Orwell](#): > > You added a misplaced ‘r’. You mean “t”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/624 "2015-09-09T00:11:42Z")
I hate all those commercials with that creepy, off putting “Captain Obvious” guy. What an awful spokesperson for a commercial. Hopefully they replace him. I am also getting tired of Flo from the Progressive Insurance commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/625 "2015-09-09T00:36:06Z")
Do by herself isn’t bad, but her family is dreadful. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/626 "2015-09-09T04:18:44Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > I hate all those commercials with that creepy, off putting “Captain Obvious” guy. What an awful spokesperson for a commercial. Hopefully they replace him. I think he’s funny and turn off the mute when he’s on. Different strokes. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/627 "2015-09-09T05:11:16Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I think he’s funny and turn off the mute when he’s on. Different strokes. I like him too. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/628 "2015-09-09T15:08:47Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > I hate all those commercials with that creepy, off putting “Captain Obvious” guy. What an awful spokesperson for a commercial. Hopefully they replace him. I am also getting tired of Flo from the Progressive Insurance commercials. Kiss mah grits! 😃 ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/629 "2015-09-09T16:50:28Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Do by herself isn’t bad, but her family is dreadful. I think the ads with Flo’s family are a hoot! They’re inane, but they always make me giggle. However, they haven’t made me change to Progressive, so I guess they’re not particularly effective. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/630 "2015-09-09T19:30:43Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I think he’s funny and turn off the mute when he’s on. Different strokes. Yeah, me too. I like the writing, and the performer keeps it light. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/631 "2015-09-09T19:31:43Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Kiss mah grits! 😃 I guess no one remembers _that_ Flo. _feels old_ ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/632 "2015-09-09T20:13:26Z")
Well… this is kind of a niche commercial, but if you have small kids who watch Nickelodeon much, you’re probably wishing Silento would fall into a pit of alligators and take his Flip and Nae-Nae with him. That stupid Labor Day Dance Party commercial is starting to make me twitch when I hear it, because I don’t like the song to begin with, and they play it EVERY commercial break. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/633 "2015-09-09T23:05:48Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I think he’s funny and turn off the mute when he’s on. Different strokes. No need for the mute button, his voice is fine, just his appearance lately. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/634 "2015-09-09T23:11:28Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Wait. “Rufaldo Wimmerson” \<=\> Ralph Waldo Emerson? > > But the ad pronounced it Rufaldo Wimmerson? Is that what the poster was complaining about? I guess I just didn’t get what the complaint was, having never heard/seen the ad in question. That was my first thought also. Kind of reminds me of a political commercial about economic issue or something, that aired around late 2010. A man named “Hugh Jidette” would play a candidate or something and would say vote for this or that or vote for him. Then a woman would come on and warn against voting for whatever the commercial was against and the focus was on huge debt. The point I am making is that the name of the fake candidate was “Hugh Jidette”, which was a play on the words “Huge Debt”. So I think the Rufaldo Wimmerson is a play on Ralph Waldo Emerson. Oh and I also hate those three ugly old ladies in those Volkswagon ads. Truly ugly hags. Anyways I’ll be quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/635 "2015-09-09T23:17:20Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > I find the KFC Colonel disturbing on many levels. I get the distinct feeling he’s mocking the very people who are supposed to want the food. 3 chicken finnnggers, taters and graaaavy, I throw in a biscuit and a big ole cookie. > > yeee hawww. And when was the last time anyone filled up their car for $5. when the Colonel opened his first restaurant? Just plain disrespectful of the late, great Colonel Harland Sanders(1890-1980). God bless his soul. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/636 "2015-09-10T00:30:04Z")
He tasted the mashed potatoes and gravy sold at the KFC places and said, “Who can eat this goddamn slop?” ---
**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:** [September 10, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/637 "2015-09-10T00:33:05Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Well… this is kind of a niche commercial, but if you have small kids who watch Nickelodeon much, you’re probably wishing Silento would fall into a pit of alligators and take his Flip and Nae-Nae with him. That stupid Labor Day Dance Party commercial is starting to make me twitch when I hear it, because I don’t like the song to begin with, and they play it EVERY commercial break. Put another nickel in, In the nickelodeon, It won’t work 'cause it just takes A quarter, quarter, quarter. 😃 ---
**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:** [September 10, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/638 "2015-09-10T00:34:22Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I think the ads with Flo’s family are a hoot! They’re inane, but they always make me giggle. However, they haven’t made me change to Progressive, so I guess they’re not particularly effective. I didn’t like them the first time I saw Flo’s family, but after a few (forced) viewings I too think “a hoot” describes them well. I want to see more! What’s up with the softball reference? What happened to her brother’s wife? is that really his baby, or someone else’s? I need to know! ---
**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:** [September 10, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/639 "2015-09-10T11:49:41Z")
And what the heck are “meat sweats”??? 😕 ---
**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:** [September 10, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/640 "2015-09-10T12:30:25Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > And what the heck are “meat sweats”??? 😕 It is an imaginary condition old people get when they eat too much meat. It is intended to be a humorous exaggeration of how odd old people can be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=33)