# 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:** 55
**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:** [October 24, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1081 "2016-10-24T17:00:33Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Because no pizza place has ever sold salad before, right? Frankly, I think it’s weird that it’s taken until 2016 for Domino’s to offer salad. But that’s not the point. The point is the bratty daughter and the parents enabling her bratty behavior annoy the shit out of me. Yes, so much this. You get fiat to pick dinner when you’re paying for dinner, kid. That commercial feels like “Dominos: Enable your shit kids who think they run the place”. ---
**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, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1082 "2016-10-24T17:20:57Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > 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 OK, that actually makes sense! Good luck paying for the car with no job. At least, it will be hard to repossess from the middle of the wilderness. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1083 "2016-10-24T18:03:26Z")
I’m annoyed by the recent Apple commercials that show ultra hip dudes doing crazy things with their phones, like gearing up to ride in a pouring rainstorm with the phone mounted on the handlebars, or skateboarding through the night with the phone running through the sprinklers. Followed, in the last seconds of the ad, with fine print that reads “Warranty does not cover water damage.” I’m sorry, but if you’re going to show people using a phone in diluvian conditions, then you really need to handle the cases in which the waterproofing fails. Not doing so is a real dick move. Also – does a touch phone screen work when it gets wet? I think not. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1084 "2016-10-25T01:14:22Z")
The new Southwest Airlines commercial. That’s not how security works; that’s not how any of this works. ---
**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 25, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1085 "2016-10-25T02:17:42Z")
If this has already been said in this thread apologize for missing it, but it probably bears repeating cuz I’m going on a rant about cleaning skills and cleaning products: Those Febreeze commercials about being “noseblind”? How about just take out the trash and clean your damn house?! Spraying Febreeze around isn’t going to change the fact that you need to mop, vacuum, dust, and wipe things down. The Swiffer commercial with the two little messy girls in the kitchen trying to bake a cake or whatever and they slop batter everywhere? I want to choke the stuffing out of the mom as she just bumps the mop up against the floor molding while saying “I just don’t feel like I am cleaning it”. :smack: I am so irked by it that I usually yell for her to just get a hot rag and get on the floor and wipe that crap up! And the nifty Swiffer isn’t going to change the fact that sometimes you actually have to touch things and wipe things off the floor. I get it, they are selling products, but I refuse to believe our cleaning competencies have fallen to such a low level and I am really insulted at how moronic housekeepers are depicted. These little hand vacuum devices come to mind, showing people vacuuming up things like Cheerios off the floor that have been dumped off the kid’s highchair tray. Isn’t it much more logical to just sweep it up with a small broom & dustpan, or even possibly just…pick them up with your fingers and wash your hands afterwards? Why get out an appliance? I know, I know…they want us to buy the gadget because it is sooooo handy…:rolleyes: And then there’s another product being touted as allowing you to “break up with bleach”. Well, I am here to tell you I take umbrage at that! I will never break up with bleach! Blasphemer! There is nothing like hot water, bleach, and a pile of rags. Give me that and a little vinegar, maybe some furniture polish, a regular vacuum cleaner, and I will whip a house into shape in an afternoon and have it smelling fresh for days. So I wholeheartedly agree with the lady on the Clorox cleaner commercial who is preaching it all day about not wasting money on “liquid doubt” and “Bla Blam” and the glories of cleaners with bleach, she is right! I have 2 sons in college. They know how to clean and do laundry. Their wives will thank me one day. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1086 "2016-10-25T02:26:48Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > The new Southwest Airlines commercial. That’s not how security works; that’s not how any of this works. Linky? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1087 "2016-10-25T02:50:22Z")
I have come to loath this [PSA commercial about optimism](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7I5l/values-com-baseball-optimism-song-by-kool-and-the-gang). If they made a commercial for special snowflake syndrome this would be it. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1088 "2016-10-25T03:10:26Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Linky? Here ya [go.](http://www.networkworld.com/article/3133953/security/does-southwests-new-password-commercial-need-to-get-away.html) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1089 "2016-10-25T05:11:36Z")
I saw, long ago, a commercial or maybe an infomercial for a wet/dry vac, and they showed it in action. They dropped and broke an egg on the floor, and dragged out the wet/dry vac. Wouldn’t it be faster and easier to clean the egg up by hand? ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1090 "2016-10-25T06:24:45Z")
Along those lines, any commercial where kids who are old enough to know better make giant messes in the kitchen, bathroom, wherever for no other reason than open displays of brattiness. The parent invariably responds with their best “aw shucks” and reaches for the cleaning product being advertised. Hey, parent, you wouldn’t have to buy so many paper towels if you just raised your kid not to be an inconsiderate slob. ---
**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 25, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1091 "2016-10-25T12:14:36Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > If this has already been said in this thread apologize for missing it, but it probably bears repeating cuz I’m going on a rant about cleaning skills and cleaning products: > > Those Febreeze commercials about being “noseblind”? Going off of this… I think it’s a Febreeze commercial where a mom goes into her son’s bedroom and says something like “Hey you need to clean here before your friends come over to study!” and so they clean and Febreeze and then the friends come in and it’s two teenage girls who love the smell. All I think of is “Good on that Mom giving her son the threesome he deserves” ---
**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 25, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1092 "2016-10-25T14:39:57Z")
Does anyone just let their young children take over the kitchen and slop flour and shit all over the place? I didn’t let mine, and no one let me either. I think it’s one of those things that just happens on TV. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1093 "2016-10-25T16:47:52Z")
> [@Victor\_Charlie](#): > > Along those lines, any commercial where kids who are old enough to know better make giant messes in the kitchen, bathroom, wherever for no other reason than open displays of brattiness. The parent invariably responds with their best “aw shucks” and reaches for the cleaning product being advertised. Hey, parent, you wouldn’t have to buy so many paper towels if you just raised your kid not to be an inconsiderate slob. Yeah, no parent I have known would have thought this was cute. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1094 "2016-10-25T17:38:03Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > The new Southwest Airlines commercial. That’s not how security works; that’s not how any of this works. I especially liked how it displayed the password unmasked. ---
**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 25, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1095 "2016-10-25T19:06:18Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yeah, no parent I have known would have thought this was cute. Yes! Not cute from little kids, and all the way intolerable from grown folk, even if said grown folk are your kids. Example: The one that has the teeny petite mom who has raised 3 (or is it 4?) Bluto brute slobs, who either, a) come to her house and act like a gang of hopped-up preschoolers, or b) their over-grown asses still live at home with her making pre-school level messes, which, either way is certainly nothing to be proud of. And she gives them the gadget special sweeper, while looking at them like, “oh, you rascals”. And the stuff they proceed to suck up in the thing? Ick! As salinqmind pointed out about the egg…why would you suck wet, gross stuff up into a sweeper? You still have to clean it out at some point, it doesn’t just disappear into a parallel dimension or anything! And don’t get me started on Roombas… however, I do think they are useful as cat toys, though! What is with the world of cleaning product marketing? They are seriously trying to sell the idea that cleaning can be made effortless or even unnecessary. Spraying Febreeze around will “wash the room!” No scrubbing necessary! Yeah…nobody’s buying that! I do really like that Mr. Clean has brought back their classic jingle and they do show and sing about people actually scrubbing and wiping and using elbow grease. Back to basics! ---
**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:** [October 25, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1096 "2016-10-25T19:09:12Z")
> [@](#): > > And don’t get me started on Roombas… however, I do think they are useful as cat toys, though! I read something about a person whose cat pooped on the floor and the Roomba came out and smeared the poop over the whole house. ---
**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 25, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1097 "2016-10-25T19:30:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I read something about a person whose cat pooped on the floor and the Roomba came out and smeared the poop over the whole house. I can just picture that person coming home and looking at that damn Roomba, and saying, “Gee, thanks for all the help!” just before throwing it in the trash. And if anyone else in that household questioned that decision, the response would be: What? Like I am going to clean cat poo out of a Roomba? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1098 "2016-10-26T23:04:33Z")
I’m scarred for life. The “V. I. Poo” commercial. Couldn’t find a youtube… didn’t try very hard. ---
**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 26, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1099 "2016-10-26T23:21:22Z")
I wondered how long it would take for knock-offs of Poo Pourri to start showing up…:rolleyes: ---
**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:** [October 27, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1100 "2016-10-27T02:25:38Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I’m scarred for life. The “V. I. Poo” commercial. > > Couldn’t find a youtube… didn’t try very hard. That was a mouth drop. I saw it on daytime TV this morning. Here it is: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L37-3v7DyYs) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=56)