# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/661 "2015-09-16T23:14:31Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The thing that gets me about this commercial is that the guy has only one eyebrow that goes all the way across his forehead. Why? Are they trying to say something about the character? Is he supposed to remind us of someone else? Does everyone not know that each eye should have its very own eyebrow? Is it a new trend? _Lord, what does it mean?_ It’s a poor mans Leonard from the Big Bang Theory. ---
**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 17, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/662 "2015-09-17T17:51:55Z")
I’m finding myself deeply annoyed by the ball-bouncing “hackers” of the new Cisco Systems campaign. It’s something about the combination of pretty-actors-playing-hackers and the fake-menace of the bouncing balls (EEEEEEK! BOUNCING BALLS!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/663 "2015-09-18T02:16:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > This was outlined in the first one: they’re emphasizing the ability for one to watch TV on one’s phone while on the go and seamlessly send the program from one’s phone to a nearby TV set when one reaches one’s destination. Can you not do that if your connection is via satellite vs via cable? Seems to me if you have your service coming to the box in the house, and you have the service coming to your phone, and you are swapping from phone to box in the house, how you get the service to the box is independent of what the box can do. Now maybe the AT&T/DirectTV box can’t do what he Xfinity box can do. Great. But the commercial in question stresses that the competitor service uses a satellite dish that can be blocked by clouds or rain or tree branches. There’s no transition to “and we allow you to swap between your phone and your TV”. “Branchy” doesn’t have anything to do with “move seamlessly from your phone to your TV and back”. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/664 "2015-09-18T02:32:51Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Can you not do that if your connection is via satellite vs via cable? > > Seems to me if you have your service coming to the box in the house, and you have the service coming to your phone, and you are swapping from phone to box in the house, how you get the service to the box is independent of what the box can do. > > Now maybe the AT&T/DirectTV box can’t do what he Xfinity box can do. Great. But the commercial in question stresses that the competitor service uses a satellite dish that can be blocked by clouds or rain or tree branches. There’s no transition to “and we allow you to swap between your phone and your TV”. “Branchy” doesn’t have anything to do with “move seamlessly from your phone to your TV and back”. I was referring to [this commercial](http://www.ispot.tv/ad/79V9/at-and-t-directv-times-square). :32 in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/665 "2015-09-19T01:37:25Z")
And you posted that as a response to my [del]whine[/del] complaint about cable not being new technology? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/666 "2015-09-19T01:51:02Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > And you posted that as a response to my [del]whine[/del] complaint about cable not being new technology? :smack: Don’t mind me, I thought you were addressing AT&T/DirectTV commercials. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/667 "2015-09-19T02:28:11Z")
I’ve seen this one twice this week - [Cinnamon Toast Crunch’s newest on YouTube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naa34Wk8c2M) Pretty much OMGWTF. Gross! Could’ve been funny maybe, but whoa misses the mark. Just whaaa??? And annoying as hell. And ew. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/668 "2015-09-20T15:24:46Z")
Jordan from Axis of Awesome? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oOlDewpCfZQ/maxresdefault.jpg "4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/669 "2015-09-22T03:51:04Z")
There’s a new series of ads for GE. There are at least two of them, maybe more. A guy announces to his friends or family that he’s obtained a software job with GE and they patronize him as if he just told them that he’s going to be a night clerk at a 7-11 or something. What’s the point of this? Obviously they’re setting up a strawman and knocking it down, but why? How many people think GE is a nothing company that does nothing of importance? ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/670 "2015-09-22T04:12:38Z")
The Flo commercials from Progressive are terrible. I hear one on Sirius XM all the time. Flo is pretending to be someone clueless or with a poor work ethic applying for a job. She has one line where she says something like “I just come in and let my personality shine.” The voice she uses is extremely annoying. ---
**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 22, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/671 "2015-09-22T04:54:07Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > The Flo commercials from Progressive are terrible. I hear one on Sirius XM all the time. Flo is pretending to be someone clueless or with a poor work ethic applying for a job. She has one line where she says something like “I just come in and let my personality shine.” The voice she uses is extremely annoying. Isn’t that the voice she always uses? If so, one wonders how Progressive hired her in the first place! 😛 ---
**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 22, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/672 "2015-09-22T07:49:00Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > The Flo commercials from Progressive are terrible. Not all of them. “Sprinkles are for winners” and “Lactose intolerant” are brilliantly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/673 "2015-09-22T13:27:12Z")
Lady is drinking a protein smoothie, and Davy Crockett sits down. He says he didn’t have fancy shakes, and gives her a package of cheese and nuts. 1. First off, you didn’t just have cheese and nuts for your protein needs, you probably had bacon. 2. We’ve had, what, 180+ years to innovate and come up with other solutions? Just because something was the best option in the past doesn’t make it the best option now. 180 years ago, the best option for personal transport was a horse. Now we have cars. Long distance communication was what, smoke signals? A fast horse? Now we have the internet. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/674 "2015-09-22T14:37:35Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > There’s a new series of ads for GE. There are at least two of them, maybe more. > > A guy announces to his friends or family that he’s obtained a software job with GE and they patronize him as if he just told them that he’s going to be a night clerk at a 7-11 or something. > > What’s the point of this? Obviously they’re setting up a strawman and knocking it down, but why? How many people think GE is a nothing company that does nothing of importance? No kidding. I saw the college one first and I thought maybe they were going for the “you took a job with the military industrial complex? You sellout!”, but nope, no one seems to have heard of GE. hello? Lightbulbs! (at least) ---
**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:** [September 22, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/675 "2015-09-22T15:20:09Z")
I suspect that the GE commercial is one of those corporate PR things (“We’re not just light bulbs and blenders, we also write software for power plants”) that I guess are for… investors? Software writers looking for jobs? Something? But those are usually a bit more stoic and straight and the GE spot seems more goofy and aimed at typical consumer audiences who frankly don’t care who writes power plant software. It’s a weird dissonance. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/676 "2015-09-23T01:16:15Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > There’s a new series of ads for GE. There are at least two of them, maybe more. > > A guy announces to his friends or family that he’s obtained a software job with GE and they patronize him as if he just told them that he’s going to be a night clerk at a 7-11 or something. > > What’s the point of this? Obviously they’re setting up a strawman and knocking it down, but why? How many people think GE is a nothing company that does nothing of importance? I saw one of those, unfortunately. The dad whipped out a sledgehammer and was taunting his son into trying to lift it. What, is the son supposed to be worthy of being Thor or Triple H or something? WHAT THE FUCK, GE? ---
**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:** [September 30, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/677 "2015-09-30T16:20:27Z")
Who’s responsible for the Johnsonville passive-aggressive parents trying to get their man-child to move out? Disney Channel sitcom writers? ---
**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 30, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/678 "2015-09-30T16:51:08Z")
If he’s that upbeat a character he would try to rebuild the burned-down factory all by himself! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/679 "2015-09-30T18:26:37Z")
Maybe this should go in Elections, but the Jeb! ad is making me stabby. I lived in Florida when he was a governor, so I yell back at the ad claiming he created lots and lots of good jobs. Well, most of them were either in the service industry, or were in construction. Both were heavily hit when the housing bubble burst. Thanks, Jeb! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/680 "2015-09-30T18:28:25Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Lady is drinking a protein smoothie, and Davy Crockett sits down. He says he didn’t have fancy shakes, and gives her a package of cheese and nuts. I’d rather have cheese and nuts than any protein smoothie. I’d also enjoy riding a horse to work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=35)