# 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:** 39
**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:** [October 24, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/761 "2015-10-24T03:48:06Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I’ll take repetitive baseball themed car commercials any day over those super creepy Acura commercials with the realistic crash test dummies. D: > > (I had never heard Rembrandt used in that context before…is it an actual baseball term?) I am not convinced those crash test dummies aren’t really people. Yeah, a pitcher who “paints the corners” is a Rembrandt. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/762 "2015-10-24T04:51:42Z")
I did find “paint the corners” in [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_baseball_(P)). There is an article from January 2014 calling Greg Maddux “[Baseball’s Rembrandt](http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/01/08/baseball-hall-of-fame-greg-maddux/4372955/)”. [This page](http://michiganstate.247sports.com/Board/93/Contents/A-pitcher-who-can-paint-the-corners-is-known-as-a-Rembrandt-37494495) has people claiming it used to be common way back in the days of radio. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/763 "2015-10-24T16:17:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Yeah, a pitcher who “paints the corners” is a Rembrandt. Calling him a “[Mondrian](https://www.google.com/search?q=mondrian&rlz=1C5MACD_enUS535US535&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMI7NfxzsDbyAIVSyoeCh2QLwQ_&biw=1109&bih=595)” would seem more appropriate … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/764 "2015-10-25T00:17:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Yeah, a pitcher who “paints the corners” is a Rembrandt. > [@Irishman](#): > > I did find “paint the corners” in [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_baseball_(P)). I would have sworn it was something made up by the ad people. :o Shows how much I know about baseball… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/765 "2015-10-25T21:00:31Z")
There’s a Landrover ad, with a rained out wedding. Anyway, the Groom runs out to the LR, dragging the party with him. They have to serve to miss a pile of rocks (the shot where several part fall off the LR has been cut), and one of the groomsmen steady one of the Maid’s arm next to him. She peels it off with a look of disgust like it’s a long dead squid. MY SO sez the guy is being “creepy” I say the maid is being a bitch. We both ask; why include that scene? What say the SDMB? Creep or Bitch? And why? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/766 "2015-10-25T22:29:45Z")
Could be as simple as the bride’s friend not liking the groom’s friend one iota. Speaking of Land Rover, how about the one with the magical disappearing/reappearing dog sled? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/767 "2015-10-25T23:26:25Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > What say the SDMB? Creep or Bitch? And why? Is the maid of honor in that commercial the one who says, “They say rain’s bad luck for a wedding.” If she’s not a bitch, she’s at the least not very supportive of her friend’s wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/768 "2015-10-26T05:55:37Z")
The girl’s a bit of a bitch. The guy had no real reason to put his hand on her, he kinda lost his balance I guess when they drive over the rocks, but he’s got a handle above him. Anyway, that part isn’t necessarily bad on the girl. If her arm weren’t up, he’d have grabbed her boob. Dude, you lose man points for being scared by that. And they don’t swerve around rocks, they drive over some rocks that have fallen into the road. Because it’s a 4x4. ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/769 "2015-10-27T04:05:37Z")
There is this MSNBC commercial for Rachel Maddow where she’s walking on a treadmill with American scenes projected behind her while the voice over talks about all the American stories she covers. It seems to be on automatic play on Dish, sometimes repeating consecutively. She’s a rich white woman on a major corporation’s network. Why doesn’t she just go to the scenes for B roll about the stories the voice over is talking about? Maybe I’m just tired of the repetition. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/770 "2015-10-27T18:19:31Z")
“PC does whaaaat?” ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/771 "2015-10-28T04:42:29Z")
That car commercial in which the crash test dummies are thought of by guy as his family. I get it and it’s a good message but still it’s unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/772 "2015-10-28T05:59:57Z")
Skittles stuck on a kids face like warts and his friend picking them off and eating them. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/773 "2015-10-28T11:11:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I am not convinced those crash test dummies aren’t really people. I think from an ease of making the commercial, they made up people to look like dummies. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/774 "2015-10-28T13:32:27Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > MY SO sez the guy is being “creepy” I say the maid is being a bitch. We both ask; why include that scene? > > What say the SDMB? Creep or Bitch? And why? I don’t think it’s either, really. I mean, the guy is obviously making a pass at her and she is obviously turning him down but I don’t think that makes the guy a creep or her a bitch. We don’t know if rejected guy will politely keep to himself now and it’s not as though she started screaming at him in the car or something. I guess we were supposed to find the scene funny? It’s not, really, but I think that’s why it’s there. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/775 "2015-11-01T19:15:43Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I think from an ease of making the commercial, they made up people to look like dummies. If so, those are people who really ARE dummies.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/776 "2015-11-01T21:04:41Z")
Ick. Now there’s some sort of probiotic commercial with a cartoon pile o’ pink squishy guts walking around to show us how healthy the product is. Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/777 "2015-11-01T21:43:01Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Do you know what they call a pitcher who can paint the corners? > > A Rembrant. No, they don’t! No one does that. Some might have in the past, but I have never heard that saying in relation to a pitcher outside of this ad campaign. It drives me insane! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/778 "2015-11-01T23:43:01Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > No, they don’t! No one does that. Some might have in the past, but I have never heard that saying in relation to a pitcher outside of this ad campaign. It drives me insane! The best part of that ad campaign is the music. I never change the channel because I love that song. For those who don’t know, it’s The Who-Eminence Front ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/779 "2015-11-02T01:04:21Z")
Anti-tobacco ads be all like ANNOYING AS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/780 "2015-11-02T04:58:05Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > The best part of that ad campaign is the music. I never change the channel because I love that song. > > For those who don’t know, it’s The Who-Eminence Front And all I think of when I see that ad are the lyrics: “It’s a put on. It’s a put on.” Not a good thought to put in my head when I watch your commercial. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=40)