# 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:** 48
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/941 "2016-05-25T21:07:26Z")
Here are a couple of particularly annoying UK adverts: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnRBEspmwg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnRBEspmwg) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n17iZCsLFQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n17iZCsLFQ) ---
**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:** [May 26, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/942 "2016-05-26T14:12:58Z")
There’s a Lincoln Navigator ad that depicts “acrobats” or yoga practitioners or something demonstrating how much interior room this vehicle has. But the actors aren’t what annoys me. It’s the fact that the entire commercial is underlaid by this ultra-deep, droning bass note. And the fact that the sound on the ad is more than twice as loud as whatever show I happen to be watching. My neighbors in the next apartment will probably be grateful when this ad stops airing while I’m trying to watch TV quietly in the middle of the night while they’re trying to sleep. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/943 "2016-05-26T14:24:18Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Arby’s deep voiced guy makes me switch channels. So you never finished movies like Pulp Fiction or the Mission Impossible series, either? 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/944 "2016-05-27T13:09:03Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I’m another non-fan. I’m not sure what they’re advertising, but the song and/or the performance hits my ear as gratingly self-absorbed. Financial planning/investment firm, IIRC. Thus he went from pauper to king and has many roads open to still take. :rolleyes: I’d like to have one advertise along the lines of “AssureVest - we’ll work with you to make sure you save enought to pay for your old-age medications and don’t end up living in a refrigerator box”. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/945 "2016-05-27T14:12:36Z")
This is for the Orlandoans in the audience. I’m sorry everyone else but I have to get this off my chest. If I hear one more droning Morgan and Morgan commercial with John Morgans migrane inducing voice, talking about little boys and little girls imitating mom and dad, or stupid insurance things…I swear I’m going to run my car into a tree. I hear those commercials practically every day because ESPN radio plays them constantly. On the flip side, I love the Hunter Vision commercials ESPN does because they do a new one practically every week and it’s always some ridiculous scenario that somehow comes back to clear vision. They’re so obviously made-up it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/946 "2016-05-27T15:00:22Z")
Not sure what the product is, but just saw a foot skin-grinder commercial that squicked me out. It is some sort of device that grinds thick dry skin off feet, and the commercial shows the device in action much of the time, with gratuitous amounts of dry skin flakes falling off the feet. At least the picked people with reasonably decent looking feet. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/947 "2016-05-27T22:55:06Z")
Does anyone actually “love their lax[ative]”? ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/948 "2016-06-04T22:28:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > So you never finished movies like Pulp Fiction or the Mission Impossible series, either? 🙂 It’s not his voice, it is what he is saying and how he is saying it. Sounds like he is gonna provide us with his own version of horsey sauce. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/949 "2016-06-27T21:55:02Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Not sure what the product is, but just saw a foot skin-grinder commercial that squicked me out. It is some sort of device that grinds thick dry skin off feet, and the commercial shows the device in action much of the time, with gratuitous amounts of dry skin flakes falling off the feet. At least the picked people with reasonably decent looking feet. Those things can be dangerous for people who are diabetic or have other immune or circulatory issues. I know a woman (who is in her 30s, no less) who is a Type 1 diabetic and she ended up in the hospital with an infection after having one of these used on her - at a salon! :eek: I resurrected this thread because there’s a commercial (can’t recall for what) where a group of executives are sitting in a boardroom and the CEO says, “So, are we all on board with this plan?” and one of them tosses a book to the center of the table and says, “No, this is a terrible plan” and the commercial ends with him being escorted out by security. Every time I see it, I wonder if (in this fictional world) that man had the last laugh because the “terrible plan” led to all those other executives being led away in handcuffs on live television some months or years later. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/950 "2016-06-27T22:10:19Z")
The fucking Prius robbers series. Note these guy are _Armed robbers._ They _stole_ that Prius. So why the\* fuck\* would Prius owners come to their rescue and why is that a Good Thing? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/951 "2016-06-27T22:40:51Z")
I’m pretty done with the Direct TV commercials with Jon Bon Jovi being old and serenading a couple in their living room about turning back time. I don’t get what they’re implying in all the details - does the fact that her past boyfriend has the same hairdo as her past husband mean something? And what is the meaning of the meaningful look that Jon gives in the last scene? Could I be overthinking this crapola :smack:? The shitty music has become an earworm now too, dammit. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/952 "2016-06-27T23:20:59Z")
I just saw a commercial for some kind of garbage you take if you have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), and they have the fucking nerve to list \*diarrhea \*as one of the side-effects! Isn’t that exactly what IBS is??? Doctor: “You sick?” Guy: “Yeah. My stomach hurts and I shit myself!” Doctor: “Here. Take this. It will make you better or maybe make your stomach hurt and you may shit yourself.” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/953 "2016-06-27T23:49:51Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > I’m pretty done with the Direct TV commercials with Jon Bon Jovi being old and serenading a couple in their living room about turning back time. I don’t get what they’re implying in all the details - does the fact that her past boyfriend has the same hairdo as her past husband mean something? And what is the meaning of the meaningful look that Jon gives in the last scene? > > Could I be overthinking this crapola :smack:? The shitty music has become an earworm now too, dammit. God, I hate that commercial. Jon’s voice was never beautiful, but he sounds like an old hag now and that look he gives the camera at the end is ultra creepy. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/954 "2016-06-28T02:25:31Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I just saw a commercial for some kind of garbage you take if you have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), and they have the fucking nerve to list \*diarrhea \*as one of the side-effects! Isn’t that exactly what IBS is??? > > Doctor: “You sick?” > Guy: “Yeah. My stomach hurts and I shit myself!” > Doctor: “Here. Take this. It will make you better or maybe make your stomach hurt and you may shit yourself.” Diarrhea is usually a symptom of IBS, but not always. There’s a type characterized by constipation, or alternating between the two. I agree with everyone here about the Jon Bon Jovi commercial. It was funny the first time, but not the 100th. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/955 "2016-06-28T02:33:20Z")
[This Toomgis … thing… is nightmare-inducing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fra_4JLINsM) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/956 "2016-06-28T18:13:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [This Toomgis … thing… is nightmare-inducing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fra_4JLINsM) I never saw that until now, and wish I hadn’t. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/957 "2016-06-28T19:47:43Z")
[That sucked.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKNWES2_4k) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/958 "2016-06-28T19:52:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [This Toomgis … thing… is nightmare-inducing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fra_4JLINsM) It’s like something from a Sid & Marty Krofft nightmare. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/959 "2016-06-28T20:21:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Amen. Who the hell goes from pauper to king, anyway? > > I hate the one where there’s a woman suffering from irritable bowel and she has this evil twin bossing her around in some costume with a graphic of the intestines on the front. Such an evil look on intestine lady- eew. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gK22mfJjm4) I didn’t think it could be possible for a redhead in a skin tight outfit to be a bad thing, but this commercial proves it is! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/960 "2016-07-11T06:02:27Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Those things can be dangerous for people who are diabetic or have other immune or circulatory issues. I know a woman (who is in her 30s, no less) who is a Type 1 diabetic and she ended up in the hospital with an infection after having one of these used on her - at a salon! :eek: It wouldn’t take someone with circulatory issues to get an infection from one of those at a salon, though maybe the ending up in a hospital part. > [@DrDeth](#): > > The fucking Prius robbers series. > > Note these guy are _Armed robbers._ They _stole_ that Prius. So why the\* fuck\* would Prius owners come to their rescue and why is that a Good Thing? Agreed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=49)