# 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:** 4
**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:** [April 15, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/61 "2015-04-15T15:22:30Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Yes, I’d made the connection. It’s not the same game, is it? Not that I know of. And while I’d be happier to think otherwise, I’m not convinced that the Upton ads are an intentional tongue-in-cheek play on those rather than just “Boobs sell!” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/62 "2015-04-15T15:24:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Game of War has managed to scrape up enough cash to feature Kate Upton in their TV and internet ads. As far as I can tell their strategy is “Yes, our game is shit but LOOK AT THE BOOBIES game does not actually include boobies”. The first one was hawt. Now it’s gotten uncomfortable, like a hot model walking around a cosplay convention. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/63 "2015-04-15T16:36:32Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > The first one was hawt. Now it’s gotten uncomfortable, like a hot model walking around a cosplay convention. I liked the commercials a lot better when I thought she was just some hot model with no acting talent that they hired at the local agency and squeezed into a chain-mail bodice. Not sure why. Maybe it’s the “you hired the very top person in her profession in the world right now and you got this?” Also, I’m waiting for the day when processors and graphics cards get to the point where they can actually render the 3D graphics so that they look like the commercials. The commercials (especially Clash of Clans) make the games look incredible, but then you end up pushing blurry sprites around a touch screen. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/64 "2015-04-15T16:47:17Z")
Yay! A fresh dumb commercials thread! I’m in! > [@panamajack](#): > > Burger King has been running commercials for their ‘Chicken Fries’ which I think are just chicken strips shaped like French Fries. Most of them seem to be about how most chickens apparently are racist towards French Fries, but there are some chickens who love them. Then I guess they mate with the potato fries to produce Chicken Fries. Or they have themselves killed in order to be more like a chopped-up fried potato. It’s rather off-putting, especially as they use real chickens in the spots (or at least real chickens that are computer-animated). The point of these ads is truly creepy. The teenage chicken to trying to sneak out on a date with the rebel motorcycle-riding … French fries? So they can … mate, and give birth to these tasty chicken strip/tender things? Ewww. Although the teen chicken muttering “I told him not to honk” and then sassing her dad with “Dad! Arrggh!” is kinda funny. > [@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. Do you remember Jan didn’t start out as the Toyota receptionist? She was just a “regular” spokesmodel in some Toyota ads - I specifically recall one promoting one of their vehicles as excellent for families with kids, so there was a kid in the ad (implying Jan was a mother), and she was also wearing like 6-inch spiky heels or something. Rawr. Toyota decided to make her a showroom receptionist worker bee. Not the same. > [@Hockeyshrink](#): > > 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. “Ed-u-ca-tion Connection.” “Get matched for free!” Yeah, disturbing. The guy peering in the window and bursting into song to answer our poor heroine’s lament. Although she is a hottie - especially when she puts her finger beside her cheek as she’s pondering her future … As long as the Toyota ads reminded me, my contribution is the Nissan ads with the young, hip, besuited spokesman talking about their great deals as Nissan models go shooting by, sliding impossibly close to our stock-still young fellow. The CGI blending the man and the vehicles is distractingly awful. It’s all I can see anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/65 "2015-04-15T16:53:50Z")
Some of the worst are commercials with non-stop side effect disclaimers. Shouldn’t the doctor go over that shit with you when he writes the prescription? ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/66 "2015-04-15T16:54:41Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > The non-Experian commercial where the idiot woman has her credit score as a tat on her arm. Not only does the commercial suck, but she can’t act, either. Yes! Thank you! She is TERRIBLE as an actress! Seriously, I do a little community theatre/semiprofessional/instructional video acting, and it pisses me off no end that someone with that little talent got a paying gig in a national commercial. She stinks! “Tattoos don’t change,” with that little pouty face … arrgh! ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/67 "2015-04-15T17:19:25Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Some of the worst are commercials with non-stop side effect disclaimers. Shouldn’t the doctor go over that shit with you when he writes the prescription? The point is for the ads to bypass the doctors and speak directly to the patients. “Sick? Uh oh, better try our new wonder drug or you could be dead within the hour. Ask your doctor about Foomonex!” ---
**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:** [April 15, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/68 "2015-04-15T17:48:32Z")
My current most-hated commercial is that stupid thing for toe fungus meds that has the animated big toe (still attached to the rest of the foot) in a football helmet, somehow holding a football even though it has no hands. And it has a _face_. A stupid, grinning, dudebro face. I want to stomp it every time I see it. ---
**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, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/69 "2015-04-15T17:51:32Z")
Where do they find the guys for the boner meds ads? Is there a specific ad pool for the skeeviest men in America? These guys almost always look like they’d be found cruising your local school playgrounds, or crouched beneath your bedroom window holding a straight razor. ---
**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, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/70 "2015-04-15T17:57:56Z")
I may have said this in a different thread but-- why take a boner pill and then sit in separate bathtubs? This image has become Cialis’ trademark symbol and it’s so stupid. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/71 "2015-04-15T18:08:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 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. The New York metropolitan area has 20 million people. You don’t think there are one or two with a car they could donate? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/72 "2015-04-15T18:14:28Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Some of the worst are commercials with non-stop side effect disclaimers. Shouldn’t the doctor go over that shit with you when he writes the prescription? That’s required by the FDA. That’s why most pharma ads are 90 seconds to 2 minutes long…there’s a lot they have to get in. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/73 "2015-04-15T19:28:47Z")
> [@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. The dark haired one? Jane or Janet or similar? I’ll watch her commercials all day and night. Especially the one where the customer brings in a lizard and loses it. She gets up on a table and screams. ---
**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, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/74 "2015-04-15T21:29:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Where do they find the guys for the boner meds ads? Is there a specific ad pool for the skeeviest men in America? These guys almost always look like they’d be found cruising your local school playgrounds, or crouched beneath your bedroom window holding a straight razor. They are the guys who failed the “Trivago” audition. Seriously, that Trivago guy has got to be the skeeviest guy on TV. They even tried to clean him up, but he still looks skeevy. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/75 "2015-04-15T21:55:23Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > These are the ones I came to mention. WHO the HELL thought vomiting is a good advertising hook? > > The other series I hate is Liberty Mutual and the Stupid People Whining About Insurance. It’s as if none of them have heard of deductibles or personal responsibility and they all think the purpose of auto insurance is to replace what they’ve lost at no cost to them. Hey, stupid insurance customers, news flash - it’s a business and their business is to make money, not buy you a new car! I want to smack every single one of the people in those ads - repeatedly!! And since they never talk about the premiums, you \*know \*you’re not going to save 15% in 15 minutes… 😉 I am completely with you and Catfish on this one. I HAVE to change the channel/mute when these come on…and they come on so very often. Clearly Liberty Mutual thinks they’ll maximize profits by attracting eternal-adolescents-who-are-none-too-bright—apparently a coveted customer demo in the car insurance biz. (It probably IS more profitable to deal with customers who are not smart enough to be able to hire a good lawyer in the case of disputes, and that sort of thing, I suppose.) But when those dimbulbs stand there in front of the Statue of Liberty, all petulant and cross-armed and _"I am going to SCHOOL you, insurance companies, on what is owed to ME!!_"…I vow never, ever, ever to do so much as even get a _quote_ from Liberty Mutual. ---
**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, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/76 "2015-04-15T22:00:26Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > They are the guys who failed the “Trivago” audition. > > Seriously, that Trivago guy has got to be the skeeviest guy on TV. They even tried to clean him up, but he still looks skeevy. I, just yesterday, made a FB post about those new commercials where he takes off his SUV perp trench coat but he still looks unsavory. I was trying to figure out what it is about him that creeps me out so much. Was it his crooked posture or his unshaved bumface that did it? ---
**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, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/77 "2015-04-15T23:51:04Z")
Every single one of the “Hail to the V” commercials for various cooter perfumes. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/78 "2015-04-16T00:04:47Z")
Title loan ads – any of them Scam,scam,scam!! ---
**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:** [April 16, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/79 "2015-04-16T00:10:44Z")
I don’t recall the brand name, but there is this hair dye commercial that starts out with a smoking hot redhead … who decides to go blonde. Why? Dear Og, WHYYYYYY?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/80 "2015-04-16T00:16:55Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > They are the guys who failed the “Trivago” audition. > > Seriously, that Trivago guy has got to be the skeeviest guy on TV. They even tried to clean him up, but he still looks skeevy. The first set of ads in particular, where he’s got his shirt tucked into his belt-less jeans. It’s like his torso is too long or his legs are too short. We called him Johnny Long-Torso. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=5)