# 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:** 54
**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:** [October 17, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1061 "2016-10-17T14:51:46Z")
The current target of my commercial hate is the MAACO ad that starts with Mom telling one kid to stop eating his brother’s sock, then the snotty sullen teen saying “Green means go” which, naturally, causes Mom to rear-end the car in front of her. Not only is it an annoying and obnoxious ad, but during certain programs, it plays over and over and over again!! _HATE!!!_ ---
**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 17, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1062 "2016-10-17T16:20:04Z")
I’ve seen an anti-smoking ad, aimed at young people, that is annoying the crap out of me. It references some study that shows that smokers earn 20% less money than non-smokers. This seems to me like a deliberate mixing up of “correlation vs. causation”. The commercial implies that employers pay smokers less, when it seems to me that it’s a simple matter of people with college degrees (giving them the ability to find higher-paying jobs) are the same people who are less likely to take up smoking in the first place. I also getting really sick of that Toyota Corolla ad where everybody is singing that _You Don’t Own Me_ song. I can’t figure out what the connection is supposed be being made between the activities of the people in the ad and driving a Corolla. It also drives me nuts because the music drops beats between lines of lyrics so that you constantly hear singing without gaps, and those dropped beats are very jarring to a musician like me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1063 "2016-10-17T19:53:21Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I also getting really sick of that Toyota Corolla ad where everybody is singing that _You Don’t Own Me_ song. I can’t figure out what the connection is supposed be being made between the activities of the people in the ad and driving a Corolla. It also drives me nuts because the music drops beats between lines of lyrics so that you constantly hear singing without gaps, and those dropped beats are very jarring to a musician like me. YES. What the hell does the song have to do with anything happening in the ad? The woman appears to be taking a cooking class from a Gordon-Ramsey-esque meanie who dumps her food in the trash. Then bikers I think? Then some other woman caterwauling along? Perhaps a dream sequence, who knows? Big finish: cooking school drop-out has a food truck. Buy a Corolla? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1064 "2016-10-17T19:57:20Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > YES. What the hell does the song have to do with anything happening in the ad? The woman appears to be taking a cooking class from a Gordon-Ramsey-esque meanie who dumps her food in the trash. Then bikers I think? Then some other woman caterwauling along? Perhaps a dream sequence, who knows? Big finish: cooking school drop-out has a food truck. Buy a Corolla? I get the woman cook story. I dont get the cyclists, wtf do they have to do with cars? 😕 Cool song, too chopped. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1065 "2016-10-17T20:09:22Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > Around here, and I’m guessing it’s not unique, there’s been a huge uptick in billboards triumphantly toting ER wait times at this or that local hospital. > > This CAN’T be effective advertising, can it? Does anyone, when they need emergency care, give ANY consideration to a billboard with electronic wait time indicators? > > Or do you go to the hospital that’s CLOSEST, the one you have some direct experience with, the one your doc is at, etc? We have those here, too (somehow we have 3 hospitals in Scranton). And they all frequently display times in excess of 60 minutes, as if that’s something to be proud of. Unrelated, just when I thought the two dudes lamenting the imminent [job loss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU5z6s-VY_c) of a BK employee was stupid, along come two frat bros, one of whom gives the douchiest [tour of a damn hamburger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX4n7fEo-mY) this side of Dane Cook. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1066 "2016-10-17T21:10:34Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > 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) How ripe with irony that they picked “Dream On” as the song. I literally laughed out loud when I first saw it. Walmart cares about American manufacturing jobs? :dubious: Dream on, indeed. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1067 "2016-10-18T05:42:20Z")
The latest GEICO ad has three clueless white people refusing to read a big LEMONADE sign in the yard and asking if they can buy iced tea from the kids running the stand. A black man reclining on the lawn in a chase lounge badmouths them. Yes, they are clueless, but so what? Can I use the words "racist ad"here? ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1068 "2016-10-18T06:25:28Z")
You do realize they are asking for iced tea and that _ **is** _ Ice-T (the rapper) in the chaise lounge? Dennis ---
**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:** [October 18, 2016, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1069 "2016-10-18T06:54:03Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > You do realize they are asking for iced tea and that _ **is** _ Ice-T (the rapper) in the chaise lounge? a) It’s [chaise longue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaise_longue). b) He’s [not](https://youtu.be/EnR9ah0v1o4) in a chaise longue, either. ---
**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 18, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1070 "2016-10-18T12:35:16Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > 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? That’s a good point. I didn’t think of it that way. Upon seeing the commercial again he says his line less apologetic and more annoyed “Why are you mad?”. So that’s probably the reason > [@DrDeth](#): > > I get the woman cook story. > > I dont get the cyclists, wtf do they have to do with cars? Not to mention the cyclists and the basketball players are guys, but the singers (and the stars of the commercial) are all women. So who is it even targeting? I figured it was a “female empowerment” kind of commercial, but then the guys are magically in there and…I dunno…it’s a mess. ---
**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 18, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1071 "2016-10-18T14:56:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > a) It’s [chaise longue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaise_longue). > b) He’s [not](https://youtu.be/EnR9ah0v1o4) in a chaise longue, either. [QUOTE=Wikipedia] In the United States, chaise longue is nearly always written and pronounced as “chaise lounge”, a 19th-century folk-anagrammatic adaptation of the term. [/QUOTE] > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Not to mention the cyclists and the basketball players are guys, but the singers (and the stars of the commercial) are all women. So who is it even targeting? I figured it was a “female empowerment” kind of commercial, but then the guys are magically in there and…I dunno…it’s a mess. And speaking of bicycles, I remembered another one: iPhone commercial depicting a guy mounting his phone on the handlebars of his bike while AC/DC’s _Thunderstruck_ plays in the background … as he prepares to go cycling in the middle of a thunderstorm. Erm, maybe most people wouldn’t notice, but the bike is a road bike like mine, complete with skinny, slick tires. Take that out in a downpour, in the dark no less, and the guy’s gonna end up on his ass in a ditch somewhere (if he’s lucky). ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1072 "2016-10-18T15:56:25Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > You do realize they are asking for iced tea and that _ **is** _ Ice-T (the rapper) in the chaise lounge? > > Dennis They weren’t asking for iced tea, they were asking if that is Ice-T. [/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1073 "2016-10-18T17:29:17Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > They weren’t asking for iced tea, they were asking if that is Ice-T. [/nitpick] Exactly. “Is that Ice-T?” I kind of like this one. Overplayed, of course, but clever. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1074 "2016-10-18T18:07:19Z")
The layers of subtlety, they confuse! Or is this one ironic for once? Dennis ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1075 "2016-10-21T16:54:35Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Exactly. “Is that Ice-T?” > > I kind of like this one. Overplayed, of course, but clever. It works in the original full-length version, b/c it’s done well with a setup and delivery/reveal of the punchline. There’s a shorter cut that is JUST the punchline, and that’s kinda anticlimactic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1076 "2016-10-23T02:13:46Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > The creepy German/Austrian kid in the Toaster Strudel ads. > > I almost expect him to _heil hitler_ or some shit. I expected him to say “Vood you like a bite of my flava vax?” ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1077 "2016-10-23T02:42:51Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > 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) This! A thousand times THIS! For why is this ear bleeder on 3 commercials? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1078 "2016-10-24T15:42:44Z")
I’m not even sure what the point of this one is: [VW Terrarium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZabLB6jDc4) Guy has tree frog in office, is told to get rid of it (it’s wordless, so I assume that’s the message) Guy takes frog out into the wild, can’t let go, takes frog on drive. I guess he isn’t going back to his job any longer? What any of this has to do with cars, I have no idea. What the song has to do with it, I have even less of an idea! And before any wise acre says at least I am talking about the car, i couldn’t even remember the brand until I looked it up. ---
**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 24, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1079 "2016-10-24T16:48:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m not even sure what the point of this one is: > > [VW Terrarium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZabLB6jDc4) > > Guy has tree frog in office, is told to get rid of it (it’s wordless, so I assume that’s the message) > Guy takes frog out into the wild, can’t let go, takes frog on drive. > > I guess he isn’t going back to his job any longer? > > What any of this has to do with cars, I have no idea. What the song has to do with it, I have even less of an idea! > > And before any wise acre says at least I am talking about the car, i couldn’t even remember the brand until I looked it up. My take was that the boss guy tapped on the window and the worker guy realized he was like his frog in a glass box being poked at, so he should be free. So the experience of driving the car is the freedom he feels akin to letting Mr. Froggy go free ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1080 "2016-10-24T16:54:50Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m not even sure what the point of this one is: > > [VW Terrarium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZabLB6jDc4) > > Guy has tree frog in office, is told to get rid of it (it’s wordless, so I assume that’s the message) > Guy takes frog out into the wild, can’t let go, takes frog on drive. > > I guess he isn’t going back to his job any longer? > > What any of this has to do with cars, I have no idea. What the song has to do with it, I have even less of an idea! > > And before any wise acre says at least I am talking about the car, i couldn’t even remember the brand until I looked it up. That frog would die. Not it’s habitat. and it’s a freaken amphibian. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=55)