# 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:** 53
**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:** [September 28, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1041 "2016-09-28T19:07:29Z")
Don’t you think that they’re either compensating people for the loss of their phones or, more likely, not really destroying people’s phones? Did you think in that magic trick in which the magician smashes the audience member’s watch that the watch really is being smashed? (Or that the woman really is being cut in half?) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1042 "2016-09-28T19:09:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Don’t you think that they’re either compensating people for the loss of their phones or, more likely, not really destroying people’s phones? Did you think in that magic trick in which the magician smashes the audience member’s watch that the watch really is being smashed? (Or that the woman really is being cut in half?) If it’s for real, then even a top of the line new phone would not compensate me for the loss of data, etc. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1043 "2016-09-28T19:20:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Don’t you think that they’re either compensating people for the loss of their phones or, more likely, not really destroying people’s phones? Did you think in that magic trick in which the magician smashes the audience member’s watch that the watch really is being smashed? (Or that the woman really is being cut in half?) Yeah, the commercial is 30 seconds long. At about second 15 he spends a few seconds giving the phones back while saying “Let me give you your phones back.” ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1044 "2016-09-28T20:33:53Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Don’t you think that they’re either compensating people for the loss of their phones or, more likely, not really destroying people’s phones? Did you think in that magic trick in which the magician smashes the audience member’s watch that the watch really is being smashed? (Or that the woman really is being cut in half?) I guess I wasn’t clear enough or it could be that I remember the commercial wrong (and I’m too lazy to look it up though that would take less time than typing this out would). As I remember it the commercial was: Obnoxious commercial guy: Hand me your phones _the Not-Actors hand him their phones_ _Obnoxious commercial guy “destroys” their phones_ _Not-Actors have reaction shots showing that they’re “upset”_ Obnoxious commercial guy: See how it feels to be not connected? To me, their reaction (hell, even what would be my similar reaction were I one of the Not-Actors) has fuck all to do with not being connected. It would be about the property loss. “I can’t reach the internet” is not what would be going through my head during that second between when I saw something the woodchipper & when my rational self caught up and realized it was a trick. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1045 "2016-09-28T21:40:53Z")
> [@jerseymule](#): > > The commercial where eating a Milky Way makes you so stupid you mess up your work, like misspelling a tattoo. Other way around. It’s hunger that makes you stupid, the Milky Way takes care of your hunger. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1046 "2016-09-28T21:42:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Other way around. It’s hunger that makes you stupid, the Milky Way takes care of your hunger. No, I am pretty sure Milky Way makes you stupid, or else how else to explain the ads? ---
**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 28, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1047 "2016-09-28T21:51:30Z")
Could be they’re simply stupid by nature and incapable of doing two things at once. Like eating and whatever else. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1048 "2016-09-29T14:37:01Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Could be they’re simply stupid by nature and incapable of doing two things at once. Like eating and whatever else. 😃 I think that’s it-- they’re so consumed with the pleasure of eating a milky way that they can’t do anything else. The Snickers commercials OTOH are more about hunger causing dumbness/irritability/temporary insanity. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1049 "2016-09-29T14:38:12Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > This Nationwide Commercial > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C\_6VNiVtDHU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_6VNiVtDHU) > > and this one > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USny2lbvrkI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USny2lbvrkI) I don’t like Rachel Platten to begin with but isn’t it a little early in her career to sell out to an insurance commercial? Or maybe it’s just the right time because she doesn’t expect to have much of a long-term career… ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1050 "2016-09-30T01:31:16Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > The new Pizza Hut commercial with the whiny homesick alien. The Pizza Hut commercial with the guy in a full body cast. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_R5AS5Dr9U) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1051 "2016-09-30T15:46:17Z")
Hyundai is running a couple now that just don’t make sense to me. In one, they compare the Elantra to the Civic as a forklift takes the Civic, with the driver still inside, to a car crusher. The other shows a woman sitting in a Sonata while a man in a Camry (I think) is drawn into a machine that is about to chew up the Camry - he leaps out and runs to the back seat of the Sonata. WTF??? 😕 I drive a Sonata and I really like my car, but I’m not sure how this commercial is supposed to make me want to buy a Sonata. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1052 "2016-09-30T15:48:39Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Hyundai is running a couple now that just don’t make sense to me. In one, they compare the Elantra to the Civic as a forklift takes the Civic, with the driver still inside, to a car crusher. The other shows a woman sitting in a Sonata while a man in a Camry (I think) is drawn into a machine that is about to chew up the Camry - he leaps out and runs to the back seat of the Sonata. > > WTF??? 😕 > > I drive a Sonata and I really like my car, but I’m not sure how this commercial is supposed to make me want to buy a Sonata. While the Hyundais are still running, other cars are ready for the scrap heap? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1053 "2016-09-30T15:52:26Z")
Dunno - all of the cars were nice and shiny. But you could be right. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1054 "2016-09-30T15:52:28Z")
Or possibly Hyundai is running an assassination campaign against Civic drivers? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1055 "2016-09-30T19:17:14Z")
There’s a series of Papa John’s ads playing now. At the end, it cuts to John and a woman in a pizza kitchen. John says something, then the woman says something. Her voice was pretty poorly overdubbed and I don’t even need to be watching to tell. It booms in. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1056 "2016-09-30T19:24:36Z")
> [@amaguri](#): > > I don’t like Rachel Platten to begin with but isn’t it a little early in her career to sell out to an insurance commercial? Or maybe it’s just the right time because she doesn’t expect to have much of a long-term career… Her VERY FIRST single was used in a car ad before it ever became ubiquitous on radio. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1057 "2016-09-30T21:45:10Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > There’s a series of Papa John’s ads playing now. At the end, it cuts to John and a woman in a pizza kitchen. John says something, then the woman says something. Her voice was pretty poorly overdubbed and I don’t even need to be watching to tell. It booms in. But I’m hoping so much that maybe they are getting a new spokesperson so that the creepy, lizardy, dead eyes of that dude will stop peering at me out of the TV. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1058 "2016-10-17T11:09:15Z")
The same annoying song used in _three_ different commercials [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcXrV6PYsZE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcXrV6PYsZE) [https://abancommercials.com/vid/6956/det/dannon-light-and-fit-greek-style-yogurt-commercial](https://abancommercials.com/vid/6956/det/dannon-light-and-fit-greek-style-yogurt-commercial) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQk41w638Nc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQk41w638Nc) And then there is this annoying assault on the ears [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vf8\_ZDYrBA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vf8_ZDYrBA) And walmart wtf - cut the bullshit. You’re a suck ass employer. Take care of the employees you already have before you hire new ones. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Go\_UmX-ZM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Go_UmX-ZM) ---
**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:** [October 17, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1059 "2016-10-17T12:34:28Z")
There’s an Amazon commercial with a crying teenager and her dad does something silly to cheer her up. Then you see the boyfriend outside with flowers and he’s all “C’mon Amanda!”, or whatever her name is. Then the dad turns on the sprinklers and lol boys are terrible. Stupid commercial because if he’s there with flowers trying to get her back, then she broke up with him…why is she crying? ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1060 "2016-10-17T13:02:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Stupid commercial because if he’s there with flowers trying to get her back, then she broke up with him…why is she crying? Haven’t seen the commercial, but he could be there to win her back with flowers after he did something bad? Like “I cheated, but I love you and came with flowers to show you” or something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=54)