# 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:** 59
**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, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1161 "2016-11-15T20:55:35Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > It’s not.\* It’s totally flavorless.\* Not bad, just not yummy at all. Oh, dear. ☹ Still, thank you for saving me from high expectations. ---
**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, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1162 "2016-11-15T21:03:47Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Oh, dear. ☹ > > Still, thank you for saving me from high expectations. And if you use their coupons, you can get a filling meal that’s better than most fast food places for not much $$. But “yummy”? No, sadly. ☹ ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1163 "2016-11-15T21:09:03Z")
There’s a radio station in Portland called “Charlie FM” - not KYCH, not 97.1, just “Charlie FM.” It’s a pretty good station (lots of 80’s and 90’s music). However, constantly during the broadcast they play little sound bites, supposedly from actual listeners, that pretend Charlie is an actual person or something and they’re…leaving voice messages to him, I guess. These are the first three that I transcribed today while listening online: [ul] [li]“Hey Charlie, if you close your eyes and listen to Charlie, you might fall down - I don’t recommend it!”[/li][li]“AHH Charlie! You know how hard it is to listen and drive? I can’t shake my groooove thang!”[/li][li]“Hey Charlie, I was going to invite you to my Birthday party, but you have to bring the cake!”[/ul][/li] Every one of these stupid “Charlie is a person” sound bites is horribly unfunny. I don’t understand any of it. ---
**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 15, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1164 "2016-11-15T21:14:46Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > This comment just gets funnier and funnier to me as time goes by. 🙂 🙂 And I hear it in Will Ferrell’s voice… ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1165 "2016-11-15T21:37:58Z")
[quote=“Morbo, post:1163, topic:717663”] [ul] [li]“Hey Charlie, if you close your eyes and listen to Charlie, you might fall down - I don’t recommend it!”[/li][li]“AHH Charlie! You know how hard it is to listen and drive? I can’t shake my groooove thang!”[/li][li]“Hey Charlie, I was going to invite you to my Birthday party, but you have to bring the cake!”[/ul][/li][/QUOTE] Charlie don’t surf! ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1166 "2016-11-15T21:43:37Z")
> [@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. Really? All this time and NO mention of Username/Post combo? For shame… ---
**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, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1167 "2016-11-15T23:37:16Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Really? All this time and NO mention of Username/Post combo? > > For shame… Heh. The name was picked back when I was in the midst of my Great Diet Project. I ought to change it to “NoLongerStarving” or something. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1168 "2016-11-16T00:18:32Z")
Alright, what is that horrible, repetitive noise on that commercial for where they have ruined a perfectly good Reese’s Cup by jamming those waxy, ick-nast Reese’s Pieces into it and displacing all the salty good peanut butter? Bad noise over a bad idea! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1169 "2016-11-16T17:24:51Z")
Every goddamn commercial where Santa goes into a car dealership looking for a hip new bright red ride. Or where Santa is the car dealer. I now have visions of Santas driving Fiats and BMWs colliding in glorious fiery wrecks. And let’s include any commercials showing ecstatic spouses running outside to find some unexpected new vehicle with a big bow on it in their driveway. Because nothing says mature financial planning like buying someone a car on a whim. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1170 "2016-11-16T18:37:13Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > And let’s include any commercials showing ecstatic spouses running outside to find some unexpected new vehicle with a big bow on it in their driveway. Because nothing says mature financial planning like buying someone a car on a whim. Oh, I dunno. Switch the spouse to the kids + driveway to parking garage and that’s exactly how Colin Powell got his new Corvette. ---
**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 19, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1171 "2016-11-19T19:15:23Z")
Oh, good, the Lexus ads with the giant red bows are back. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1172 "2016-11-20T01:47:01Z")
> [@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? Just saw this. If I had her in my car, you had better believe I’d make _damn sure_ to get lost out there, preferably for a couple day! 😉 It gets cold at night in the desert. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1173 "2016-11-20T21:26:13Z")
Some grandparents somehow come across a nasty tweet or facebook or something where eldest granddaughter likens their lack of cable/internet (how’d they see her post with no internet?) to the gulag (not her words, I forget the actual phrasing but that’s the jist of it.). So what do granny and pawpaw do? THEY CALL COMCAST! Because heaven forbid bratty teen have to interact with family during Thanksgiving/Christmas (it’s ambiguous), instead let’s use our new dumb voice remote and bring up Home Alone on the onDemand! ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1174 "2016-11-21T02:41:29Z")
I actually kind of like the Halos commercials this year. I guess they finally got the point that snotty kids bitching out their parents for eating fruit that said parents bought for said snotty kids wasn’t a great sales tactic. ---
**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 21, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1175 "2016-11-21T02:46:24Z")
I hate any of the Samsung Galaxy phone commercials with the “virtual reality”. Why won’t they shop what it looks like? If it’s that cool, give us a glimpse. The commercials seem like a joke. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1176 "2016-11-21T11:33:59Z")
I haven’t spent time in this thread, but did a search on Recycling and came up empty. Have you all been seeing those ads featuring bottles and combs in a family’s bathroom and the narration about how they want to come back and live a more useful life? Man, we hate those! They are amateurish in execution, always come in sets of two or four, and, and…argh! ---
**Author:** ![PAjoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pajoe/32/58_2.png) [@PAjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PAjoe)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1177 "2016-11-21T15:53:36Z")
I really hate the Verizon guy now that he is the Sprint guy. Was he always that annoying? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1178 "2016-11-21T16:41:45Z")
> [@PAjoe](#): > > I really hate the Verizon guy now that he is the Sprint guy. Was he always that annoying? Yes. Yes, he was. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1179 "2016-11-21T17:02:37Z")
> [@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 My parents had a row of evergreen trees at the edge of the side lawn. A couple were just naturally in a conical shape without being pruned and one year we noticed one missing. Someone came over and cut it down, presumably to use as a Christmas tree. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1180 "2016-11-26T05:38:19Z")
Usually commercials are just white noise but I just saw one that made me laugh out loud. In a bad way. A girl playing with a Barbie imagining she’s a TEACHER! Ha! I bet that has never happened in the history of forever. Unless it was that hot for teacher song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=60)