# 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:** 46
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/901 "2016-04-28T17:51:15Z")
Feast your eyes on this beauty: [Icebreakers Unicorn Commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUBFkU18Yg). To summarize, woman is talking with hiring manager and asks for three weeks vacation. He replies that ordinarily they only allow two weeks a year. She pops a breath mint into her mouth and a unicorn (dotted with blue, like the mint) breaks into the room and rests its head on her shoulder. She smirks and says “I’m not ordinary”. She gets her three weeks of vacation. Is there _anything_ in this commercial that makes sense? OK, let’s be blunt to the point of crudeness here – in the sordid real world, there’s only one method of obtaining an extra week of vacation that can be aided by taking a breath mint first, and that method is not likely to be employed by a woman who has a unicorn for a companion. Even in the bizarre fantasy world in which this commercial exists, the reaction to a unicorn smashing into the conference room would more likely be “Get that thing the fuck out of here!” than “Here’s your three weeks of vacation.” Unless the subtext is “If I don’t get my three weeks of vacation, my buddy the unicorn will bathe its horn in your entrails.” Which, honestly, is not the best start to a long and productive working relationship. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/902 "2016-04-28T22:56:13Z")
> [@Lucky\_13](#): > > And I’ll throw in some “[Leekspin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnE4vF9CQ4)” just for you, **Jeep’s Phoenix**. 🙂 Yaaaaay! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/903 "2016-04-28T23:51:19Z")
I hate hate hate hate the “spoiled, bossy kid in charge of the parents” trope. The latest offender is a Hyundai commercial where Spoiled Bossy Daughter gestures imperiously for Dad and the salesman to step aside, which they do, while apologizing to a 10-year-old. She then decides they’ll take both and shoots down Dad when he says they can only get one. God, I want to reach into the TV and bitch slap that little snot until she begs to be driven home in a rusted-out Gremlin while her parents belt out “Angel of the Morning.” ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/904 "2016-04-29T03:18:40Z")
Chanel No. 5: You better shape up because you need a man. An insipid male voice singing about how women implicitly need the product to get the man they “need”. Shouldn’t every woman reject the idea that they “need a man” at all? ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/905 "2016-04-29T03:32:55Z")
Hate that Puerto Rico bankruptcy commercial with that investor Teresa. God I hate that last line: “My life savings will be crushed” in her awful, dramatic accent. The commercial against providing chapter 9 bankruptcy for Puerto Rico. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/906 "2016-04-29T03:42:05Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > Chanel No. 5: You better shape up because you need a man. > > An insipid male voice singing about how women implicitly need the product to get the man they “need”. > > Shouldn’t every woman reject the idea that they “need a man” at all? The song is originally sung by a woman, Sandy, in “Grease”, but I do agree that the change to a male singer gives me stalker vibes. ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/907 "2016-04-29T04:01:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The song is originally sung by a woman, Sandy, in “Grease”, but I do agree that the change to a male singer gives me stalker vibes. Yeah. I don’t mind it in Grease. A girl singing to a girl about putting her life together is one thing. But the male singer … yeah, and stalker-ish is a good description. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/908 "2016-04-29T15:17:58Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > Hate that Puerto Rico bankruptcy commercial with that investor Teresa. God I hate that last line: “My life savings will be crushed” in her awful, dramatic accent. The commercial against providing chapter 9 bankruptcy for Puerto Rico. Which makes it more irritating is that (a) that is not even what’s being proposed in the bill and (b) if her savings were in PR securities, they are crushed already anyway. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/909 "2016-04-29T15:34:24Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Notice the bald cat at :52? 😃 Love it! So subtle. ---
**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 29, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/910 "2016-04-29T16:43:20Z")
The Chevy commercials are just. . .stupid. “Pick the best saw to cut a piece of wood”. Wow, what a challenge. Then the guy says “You all picked the best saw for the job.” They don’t show the other saws (that I noticed), so it wouldn’t take a master craftsman to choose between a circular saw, a miter saw and a hacksaw to cut a 2x6. The other ones are equally stupid. I’m also hating the trend to crow about having “real people” in these ads. I’m pretty sure that the disclaimer should be “Real people who are not only carefully selected, but who are also compensated by us to say positive things about our crappy product.” ---
**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:** [April 29, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/911 "2016-04-29T18:47:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The Chevy commercials are just. . .stupid. “Pick the best saw to cut a piece of wood”. Wow, what a challenge. Then the guy says “You all picked the best saw for the job.” They don’t show the other saws (that I noticed), so it wouldn’t take a master craftsman to choose between a circular saw, a miter saw and a hacksaw to cut a 2x6. The other ones are equally stupid. One of the choices was a hand saw. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/912 "2016-04-29T19:32:05Z")
There’s a new McDonald’s commercial that’s supposed to be tugging on your heart strings but thuds futilely against my cynical stone-like circulatory organ . New bride and groom get into the limo and find a little [McDonald’s care package from Dad](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AkDb/mcdonalds-quarter-pounder-wedding-night-song-by-telekinesis)with a note that says “The wedding couple never has time to eat at the reception.” Cue tear trickling down the viewer’s face as the feels course through them – feels that will theoretically translate into sales of Quarter Pounders in the near future. But in the non-fantasy world in which Dad has just sprung for an enormous wedding and McDonald’s meals congeal into unappetizing globs of fat if they are not consumed within five minutes of purchase, wouldn’t it be more likely that Dad would have had the caterers prepare a nice little midnight snack, with prime rib and maybe some wedding cake? And while I enjoy the occasional guilty treat as much as the next person, I always find that McDonald’s fries always leave me smelling just slightly of fryolater oil – possibly the least romantic odor in the known universe. Then again, in Googling the commercial, I discovered that hosting weddings at McDonald’s is all the rage in Hong Kong. So maybe my understanding of romance is faulty. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/913 "2016-04-29T22:56:16Z")
What’s up with the new peanut allergy commercial? It’s a far cry from the Epipen commercial where people confidently go about their lives…this one shows a girl having an immediate reaction to a brownie (because apparently the dumb hostess doesn’t realize that peanuts and peanut butter have something in common???), and ends with her blacking out. I have no idea what they’re supposed to be advertising. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/914 "2016-04-30T01:37:38Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > The one I’m hating right now is for (I think–I keep blocking it out) LG phones? Some Android cell phone. The one with the creepy bearded guy whose face is on everybody in the commercial. It starts out in a subway car, and eventually he ends up standing astride a couple of bulls in a “running of the bulls” thing. I don’t know if I’m supposed to know who he is, but I don’t, so I just find him annoying and the commercial thoroughly moronic. The music’s annoying too. > > Okay, I hunted it down. [Here it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOpsnNf9Wj0). That’s a really bad one I can’t stand. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/915 "2016-04-30T04:48:27Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > How about the State Farm one where the guy is shown saying “I’ll never do that [date, get married, have kids, move to the suburbs, buy a minivan]”, only to be shown doing that exact thing in the next scene. The commercial ends with him looking at his sleeping family and saying, “I’m never letting go.” By the logic of this ad, he’s either about to slaughter them or file for divorce. This ad has been resurrected (again). :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [May 6, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/916 "2016-05-06T17:15:07Z")
I just found a new commercial to hate. They showed it ahead of the Captain America movie last night, and the spouse and I _cringed_ through the whole thing. It was for some Schick razor, and it featured women dressed as “emojis,” singing the stupidest song ever. Patronizing, and smelling of “old people try to be hip for the kids,” this thing just stunk all the way around. [Here it is if you want to suffer too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X72GUu9V0aw) They actually said “on fleek.” Kill me now. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/917 "2016-05-06T17:28:26Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > What’s up with the new peanut allergy commercial? It’s a far cry from the Epipen commercial where people confidently go about their lives…this one shows a girl having an immediate reaction to a brownie (because apparently the dumb hostess doesn’t realize that peanuts and peanut butter have something in common???), and ends with her blacking out. I have no idea what they’re supposed to be advertising. its for an epi pen competitor… same thing but supposedly better medicine ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/918 "2016-05-06T17:31:45Z")
the one I hate is its for one of those security systems that you can monitor your home for your phone via an app but the mom uses it on the kids car and actually either slows down the car or text her to slow down the car with it amoung other things … ---
**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:** [May 6, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/919 "2016-05-06T17:46:41Z")
There’s a newish commercial for Modelo Especial beer (which I can’t find on YouTube), with a theme something like how to be a grown up man. The reason I can’t remember the gist of the commercial is because all I remember from it is this one sentence, “If you want a girl to marry you, you ask her father.” Apparently Modelo drinkers live in a place or an era in which unmarried women are still the property of their fathers until they’re foisted off on husbands. (And I say that as a somewhat conservative guy.) ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/920 "2016-05-13T21:06:17Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > its for an epi pen competitor… same thing but supposedly better medicine It’s a terrible commercial. My takeaway from it is that the hostess nearly killed her friend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=47)