# 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:** 58
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1141 "2016-11-14T00:12:23Z")
> [@Azeotrope](#): > > Given the weight of the rootball compared to the rest of the tree, it seems like a really bad idea to have that kind of unbalanced weight on top of a large SUV… Just envision trying to get a 150 rootball on top of a seven foot SUV. Without scratching the crap out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1142 "2016-11-14T01:53:21Z")
Commercial with some girl driving down the highway singing along to Arianna (who’s in the car) when her data starts running out. So she has to ditch the singer for navigation. On a one lane highway through the desert for miles and miles. Just what navigation is she having trouble with? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1143 "2016-11-14T02:25:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I know, but anything’s better than khakis! well, they are hideous. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1144 "2016-11-14T15:57:34Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Commercial with some girl driving down the highway singing along to Arianna (who’s in the car) when her data starts running out. So she has to ditch the singer for navigation. On a one lane highway through the desert for miles and miles. Just what navigation is she having trouble with? I was going to mention that one, too. “Go that way.” Well, duh! That’s the only way you can go (other than the way you came.) I’ll mention the Paul Giamatti CenturyLink “Hollywood Insider” series. “[Acting is about the economy of words.](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ABGA/centurylink-prism-hollywood-insider-featuring-paul-giamatti#)” “[When was this headshot taken?](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/A1Uf/centurylink-prism-hollywood-insider-headshot-ft-paul-giamatti)” I’m not sure how having a rude, insufferable, non-supportive family makes you a “Hollywood insider”, but I do know I want to punch that young brat in the teeth. And then Giamatti, too, for thinking this was a good idea. You can’t make self-deprecating humor work if no one likes you in the first place! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1145 "2016-11-14T20:55:08Z")
> [@Azeotrope](#): > > That one drives me bonkers every time I see it, not just because of the hard frozen ground issue, but because after they’ve “planted” the tree it has the same even, clean blanket of snow underneath it as the open ground. anyone dumb enough to try digging a hole would turn the ground into muddy slush in no time. Ooooh, one more, just because I hate this commercial so much. It looks to me like they planted the damn tree right in the middle of a trail. Tough noogies for the next snowmobiler or XC skier to come down the path, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1146 "2016-11-14T21:26:33Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm;19770553Plus, the burly woodsman who says “good mornin’” sounds too much like a radio DJ.[/QUOTE] It took me a long time to figure out which one was saying it. > [@Finagle](#): > > Commercial with some girl driving down the highway singing along to Arianna (who’s in the car) when her data starts running out. So she has to ditch the singer for navigation. On a one lane highway through the desert for miles and miles. Just what navigation is she having trouble with? What I don’t understand about that one is: Navigation was in the back seat, why couldn’t Ariana (one ‘n’) just switch places with him? Why does she get booted out of the car? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1147 "2016-11-14T21:31:51Z")
If you had Ariana Grande singing in your ear, wouldn’t you boot her out of the car, too? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1148 "2016-11-14T21:36:01Z")
I kind of have a grudging respect for her after watching her to the music spin game (I don’t know what they call it) on Fallon one night. She was really pretty good at the imitations. She also did it on SNL once during the Pandora sketch. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1149 "2016-11-14T21:54:43Z")
my new one is the new Ashley Madison commericals the couple is affectionate but seemingly bored with each other … the guy communicates being bored better as he rolls his eyes ect when shes not looking … they go through this sub ride where they try to be affectionate but it looks like their hearts not into it then there at the party where they see a hot girl and either she gives him a go for it look or they give each other a glance for a threesome … and then you hear “find your moment at [am.com](http://am.com)” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1150 "2016-11-14T22:35:22Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > my new one is the new Ashley Madison commericals > > the couple is affectionate but seemingly bored with each other … the guy communicates being bored better as he rolls his eyes ect when shes not looking … they go through this sub ride where they try to be affectionate but it looks like their hearts not into it > > then there at the party where they see a hot girl and either she gives him a go for it look or they give each other a glance for a threesome … and then you hear “find your moment at [am.com](http://am.com)” Wow, after they were debunked as being all scam? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1151 "2016-11-14T22:36:54Z")
yeah there stil lhere … even have new owners I think ---
**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:** [November 14, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1152 "2016-11-14T22:55:48Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Anyone see any problems with this? Ever try to dig in frozen ground? It’s like concrete. Also, a rootball for an eight foot tree probably weighs 150 pounds. So Dad isn’t gonna be standing there with a garden shovel, smiling at the newly planted tree. He’d be completely exhausted, pissed off, and that would be the very last year of this new tradition. It can be done, though. Here is my friend’s house and the results of 20 years of replanting their live Xmas trees around the pond: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.3244731,-82.1970724&z=20&output=embed&dg=ntvb Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1153 "2016-11-14T23:28:39Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > It can be done, though. Here is my friend’s house and the results of 20 years of replanting their live Xmas trees around the pond: > > [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3244731,-82.1970724,75m/data=!3m1!1e3) > > Dennis Well, I have to admit that we’ve seen a lot of sixty degree days during Xmas week in the past decade; winter doesn’t really seem to get going until mid-January some years. And you could always pre-dig the hole sometime around Thanksgiving. But in the picture perfect world of the commercial, with the snowfall and the driving out into the forest and digging a hole with a garden shovel? Color me skeptical. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1154 "2016-11-15T16:32:53Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The song that sounds like Buddy Elf wrote it on the fly. (I love you I love you I love you). This comment just gets funnier and funnier to me as time goes by. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1155 "2016-11-15T17:46:07Z")
“Dump Cakes!!!” This is a made-for-tv product that – I guess – lets us dump some cake batter in a cheapass pan and BAKE IT! OMG, the bestest invention ever! Kathy, the spokeswoman with a nasally Midwest accent, looks like Mrs. Garrett on _The Facts of Life_. Besides the fact that people have been baking cakes in pans since fire was invented and we’ve had access to Betty Crocker mixes for 75 years, what an awful, awful product name. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1156 "2016-11-15T18:01:01Z")
Panera’s “or something” commercials. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1157 "2016-11-15T19:02:59Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > “Dump Cakes!!!” This is a made-for-tv product that – I guess – lets us dump some cake batter in a cheapass pan and BAKE IT! OMG, the bestest invention ever! > > Kathy, the spokeswoman with a nasally Midwest accent, looks like Mrs. Garrett on _The Facts of Life_. > > Besides the fact that people have been baking cakes in pans since fire was invented and we’ve had access to Betty Crocker mixes for 75 years, what an awful, awful product name. Dump cakes were not made for tv, they are a well known thing that have been around for a long time. It is not a product name, it is a thing. Like trying to say that “pound cake” is a product, it’s not. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1158 "2016-11-15T19:07:52Z")
The Subway Autumn Carved Turkey commercial: Watch the cheese carefully. Drives me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1159 "2016-11-15T19:16:00Z")
Yeah, the cheese teleports to the other side of the turkey or something. Still, my main reaction to the commercial is A) it looks yummy and B) I’m definitely going to try one for lunch tomorrow. 🙂 So I’d say the commercial is a success. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1160 "2016-11-15T19:24:58Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Yeah, the cheese teleports to the other side of the turkey or something. > > Still, my main reaction to the commercial is A) it looks yummy and B) I’m definitely going to try one for lunch tomorrow. 🙂 > > So I’d say the commercial is a success. It’s not.\* It’s totally flavorless.\* Not bad, just not yummy at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=59)