# 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:** 60
**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 26, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1181 "2016-11-26T06:03:34Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > 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. Okay, but how many girls pretend to be a college professor while playing with Barbie? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1182 "2016-11-26T06:48:46Z")
Am I seeing things or is Maserati actually using TV commercials to SELL CARS?? I have always felt Maserati was one of those brands…correction, marques…that needed no advertising. (Some over-capitalized schmuck shows up at the Beverly Hills dealership and humbly begs to be allowed to submit a request to buy a Maserati, and includes his tax returns for the past ten years along with genealogical proof that he is descended from some Italian formula one driver (pre-WW2, of course) and is required to take a three-hour quiz on Italian motor sports history, including just what is a Birdcage Maserati, plus define Targa Florio and Mille Miglia. And then, he will be…considered… for ownership. But no guarantees.) And now, this! ---
**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 26, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1183 "2016-11-26T07:54:05Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Am I seeing things or is Maserati actually using TV commercials to SELL CARS?? I had seen one yet, so I had to search them out. There are a bunch and they vary considerably in their style. I do like this one, not a spoken word, just interesting music and pictures to drool over: I live right around the corner from a Maserati/Aston Martin/Bentley dealer and I get to hear the beasties ripping down the road. Man they sound like they are going 150 when they are just winding out on the on ramp. Lovely. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1184 "2016-11-26T22:01:12Z")
Chevrolet division of GM have to be absolutely the lamest low-budget commercials of any big company up in that high-profit stratosphere. “The lights remind me of Audi lights”. Gimme a break. Sad. ---
**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 26, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1185 "2016-11-26T23:09:13Z")
Oh, man! I just saw “The Hitch-hiker” commercial. Jesus, who wants to see _that?_ :eek: _I’m not buyin’…_ ---
**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 27, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1186 "2016-11-27T00:06:34Z")
It helps if you provide a link to the commercial you’re referring to. For instance, I have no idea what “The Hitch-hiker” commercial is that the previous poster mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1187 "2016-11-27T17:06:44Z")
I really like the new Halo commercials! The Walmart commercial with the frantic, shrieking children can go away. Also, Huggies (or is it Pampers?) can give that breathy little song a rest anytime now. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1188 "2016-11-28T02:55:36Z")
Good heavens, why doesn’t Lincoln just have Matthew McConaughey do a commercial and say: “All right, all right, ALL RIGHT!!” “THIS LINCOLN IS A GREAT CAR!!” And then floor it… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1189 "2016-11-28T03:18:22Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > 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. We have “bob fm” and it says things like " if your teenage daughter likes it bob wont play it" “bob plays music that doesn’t suck” and things like that ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1190 "2016-12-01T02:39:12Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > The Walmart commercial with the frantic, shrieking children can go away. > > Also, Huggies (or is it Pampers?) can give that breathy little song a rest anytime now. I dunno if it’s the same one, but the Walmart one I’m thinking of has helper “elves” running around telling people which lane to use. It ends with one of them giving a child candy (without asking the mother first, great, what if the kid is diabetic?) In any event candy from a stranger isn’t a great message. Anyway Aerosmith’s Walk This Way (or selected lines from it) blare away during it, I guess that’s supposed to make grown adults dressed like walmart elves seem cool. Pampers has been running their annual “annoyingly sappy version of Silent Night with extreme closeups of sleeping babbys” ads. Again, dunno if that’s the one you meant or not, but I hate it every year. It’s not just annoying and sappy, but it also misses the whole religious meaning of the song. At least the Aerosmith one walmart is disgracing is probably just about getting laid or something. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1191 "2016-12-01T03:31:04Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It helps if you provide a link to the commercial you’re referring to. For instance, I have no idea what “The Hitch-hiker” commercial is that the previous poster mentioned. Sorry, Dude! I won’t foist that shit on anybody! I think is was Ally bank, if you want to go look for this abomination. (Allright! I admit it. It was pretty fucking funny! But I have a **DARK** sense of humor and can’t imagine anyone else wanting to see this.) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1192 "2016-12-02T01:03:12Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I dunno if it’s the same one, but the Walmart one I’m thinking of has helper “elves” running around telling people which lane to use. That sounds creepy…I haven’t seen that one yet though. The one that irritates me has “Freak Out” playing while kids are shrieking. The diaper commercial isn’t a holiday one (although I’m familiar with the one you’re describing)…it’s a breathy, meandering song about “we all need a hug in the morning and one at the end of the day.” There are at least two different versions of varying lengths. Sometimes it runs more than once per commercial break. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1193 "2016-12-02T15:50:00Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > \ > > Pampers has been running their annual “annoyingly sappy version of Silent Night with extreme closeups of sleeping babbys” ads. Again, dunno if that’s the one you meant or not, but I hate it every year. It’s not just annoying and sappy, but it also misses the whole religious meaning of the song. At least the Aerosmith one walmart is disgracing is probably just about getting laid or something. I actually like the sappy Silent Night with the sleeping babies. And I am not really a big fan of babies. I don’t agree that it misses the religious meaning of the song. Of course Baby Jesus did not wear a disposable diaper in the manger. The peaceful faces of the babes put me in mind of the song “Some Children See Him” which is definitely a religious song about how the baby Jesus would look different to people depending upon their ethnicity, or something like that. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1194 "2016-12-02T16:00:36Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > 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! I think she calls it “Hell on Earth”. Oh no, bitchy teen girl might be inconvenienced for five hours! Let’s spend hundreds of dollars making sure she can stare at a screen instead of talking to her family! ---
**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:** [December 2, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1195 "2016-12-02T17:22:35Z")
I’ve seen that commercial. What the grandmother actually reads is, “Welcome to hell on Earth, where there’s no shows and no WiFi. AKA grandma’s house.” What bothers me is that the grandparents committed to an expense of $100-200 per month for perhaps a weeklong visit from the grandchildren. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1196 "2016-12-03T09:55:37Z")
Oh look, the USPS found the hippopotamus song. \>.\< The one they did years ago featuring the postman rescuing the family from a scary clown figurine was actually funny. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1197 "2016-12-03T15:26:11Z")
And I haven’t seen the whole commercial, but there’s one for some kind of orange juice that features a white woman sitting on a black man’s back while he does push-ups. I get the feeling that I’m supposed to know who these people are…maybe some kind of fitness celebrities? Regardless, I would love to know who thought that image was a good idea right now. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1198 "2016-12-03T15:29:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’ve seen that commercial. What the grandmother actually reads is, “Welcome to hell on Earth, where there’s no shows and no WiFi. AKA grandma’s house.” > > What bothers me is that the grandparents committed to an expense of $100-200 per month for perhaps a weeklong visit from the grandchildren. OTOH, there’s a commercial for some other company which implies that a grandma is so upset over a visit from some grandkids being blown off yet again that she writes that part of her progeny out of her will. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1199 "2016-12-03T15:30:36Z")
The white woman is Jane Krakowski from 30 Rock. Dunno who the black man is. I thought the commercial was kinda idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/1200 "2016-12-04T02:20:55Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > The white woman is Jane Krakowski from 30 Rock. Dunno who the black man is. I thought the commercial was kinda idiotic. She also used to be on Ally McBeal, but I’m dating myself. The other is Dolvett Quince, from The Biggest Loser. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=61)