# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/141 "2015-04-17T18:15:36Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Chronic migraineur here. You. Cannot. Imagine. I had between 20 and 25 headache days a month and was in the walk-in-clinic for treatment to break particularly awful ones about twice a month. > > Botox is a life-saver for me. And the only side effect I’ve had is a wrinkle-free forehead, and a bit of a brow lift. However, I’m unable to move my eyebrows and indicates, um, thought. :dubious: > > /hijack I feels ya. Haven’t done the Botox (yet), but my neurologist is considering sending me to something called migraine boot camp. ☹ ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/142 "2015-04-17T19:02:59Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > That’s one of the few ads that will get me to change the channel. Not only is the Giant Toe annoying, but the sequence in the ads makes it clear that the product doesn’t actually cure fungus but just makes it somewhat less obvious. Yeah, I’ll run right out and buy the stuff. Not to mention the fine print in the ad which says you have to use it for 48 weeks, ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/143 "2015-04-17T19:06:26Z")
> [@Kzbre5m](#): > > I hate all that yack yack yacking in between the drug commercial half-hour. **Drugs-Drugs-Drugs** blah blah president **Drugs-Drugs-Drugs** blah blah California dry spell **Drugs-Drugs-Drugs** blah blah … its as if they are trying to force me to hear about world news bits between all those wonderful drug stories. I actually kept track one night. ABC Nightly News ran drug commercials for every ad, except when they were advertising their own shows. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/144 "2015-04-17T19:11:50Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > This will be local to Northern California, but I hate the Toyota commercial where every car is the “Buster Posey” of it’s class. They just keep repeating it. I love the Giants and Posey is a great player, but that commercial is really, really annoying. I’m sure there are a lot of people in the Northern California demographic who would like to take home a Buster Posey. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/145 "2015-04-17T19:13:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m sure there are a lot of people in the Northern California demographic who would like to take home a Buster Posey. What the fuck is a _Buster Posey_?😕 Anything like a _Buster Hymen_? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/146 "2015-04-17T19:41:16Z")
The cannibalist Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. The M&M commercials where they sent off some of them to be eaten, apparently as a juke. Some insurance commercial, I think, where some kind of alien eats a guy’s pet dog. And I think there’s another commercial where a family member eats the pet goldfish. Seems to be a lot of pet eating lately. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/147 "2015-04-17T20:07:26Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The M&M commercials where they sent off some of them to be eaten, apparently as a juke. the old one where the green M&M sends the red one off with the redheaded woman was always good for a “Haha, it’s funny because he mildly annoys her so she’s arranged to have him murdered and eaten!” ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/148 "2015-04-17T20:35:24Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Some insurance commercial, I think, where some kind of alien eats a guy’s pet dog. Was it ALF? 😃 (Actually ALF tried to eat the cat, but close enough.) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/149 "2015-04-17T20:59:22Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Where do they find the guys for the boner meds ads? Is there a specific ad pool for the skeeviest men in America? These guys almost always look like they’d be found cruising your local school playgrounds, or crouched beneath your bedroom window holding a straight razor. My current most hated commercial is the one for the latest drug in the senior sexual arms race - Osphena - for older women whose post-menopausal lady parts just can’t keep up with the constant pounding they are getting from their Cialis laced husbands – “I never thought it would happen to me…” But what makes me stabby is the last warning “Use for the shortest time possible based on goals and risks”. WHAT THE FREAK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN??? Best I can gather is it means - this drug is so dangerous you shouldn’t use it at all, but if you feel you must in order to keep your husband from buying a Porsche and running off with his receptionist, don’t take it for long. > [@Biggirl](#): > > I may have said this in a different thread but-- why take a boner pill and then sit in separate bathtubs? This image has become Cialis’ trademark symbol and it’s so stupid. someday I’m going to draw a parody of that logo, with one empty bathtub and another that is a tangle of 2 heads 4 arms and 4 legs in suggestive positioning. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/150 "2015-04-19T19:54:58Z")
Was the annoying, nasally, high-pitched singing child Shutterfly featured in their Christmas commercials really popular enough to be featured yet again in Mother’s Day commercials? \>.\< ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/151 "2015-04-19T20:58:28Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > Burger King has been running commercials for their ‘Chicken Fries’ which I think are just chicken strips shaped like French Fries. Most of them seem to be about how most chickens apparently are racist towards French Fries, but there are some chickens who love them. Then I guess they mate with the potato fries to produce Chicken Fries. Or they have themselves killed in order to be more like a chopped-up fried potato. It’s rather off-putting, especially as they use real chickens in the spots (or at least real chickens that are computer-animated). Did you manage to avoid the original Chicken Fries and their “Coq Roq” marketing campaign? BK has always had weird and suggestive commercials, at least since around 2003 or so. I guess they put some of them on hiatus for awhile. Back then you had the “One Nation Under chicken fries” Coq Roq band, The Big Bucking Chicken, and Darius Rucker’s genesis as a country singer schilling the Tendercrsip. I also remember a weird breakfast sandwich commercial with a dwarf farmer and a giant rooster. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/152 "2015-04-20T10:28:10Z")
Latest one on my hate list: it’s for a Chevy and it features the woman saying “That’s the dream, to have wi-fi in your car.” _THAT’S_ the dream? Not a decent job, not a home in a nice area, not healthy children, not world peace, not calorie-free hot fudge sundaes, but wi-fi in the car?? Maybe she and I have a different definition of dream. No matter, I still want to throw something at her. Idiot. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/153 "2015-04-20T12:00:37Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Latest one on my hate list: it’s for a Chevy and it features the woman saying “That’s the dream, to have wi-fi in your car.” > > _THAT’S_ the dream? Not a decent job, not a home in a nice area, not healthy children, not world peace, not calorie-free hot fudge sundaes, but wi-fi in the car?? Maybe she and I have a different definition of dream. No matter, I still want to throw something at her. Idiot. Heh. How would I even use Wi-Fi on my \<10 minutue commute? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/154 "2015-04-20T13:04:02Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Latest one on my hate list: it’s for a Chevy and it features the woman saying “That’s the dream, to have wi-fi in your car.” > > _THAT’S_ the dream? Not a decent job, not a home in a nice area, not healthy children, not world peace, not calorie-free hot fudge sundaes, but wi-fi in the car?? Maybe she and I have a different definition of dream. No matter, I still want to throw something at her. Idiot. Part 2 of the dream is a bridge abutment in your engine comparment and the engine in your lap as you fiddle with your tablet on the highway. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/155 "2015-04-20T13:18:48Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Part 2 of the dream is a bridge abutment in your engine comparment and the engine in your lap as you fiddle with your tablet on the highway. Yeah. My dream is for everyone else to have wifi in their cars for when I’m riding as a passenger. I don’t have any use for it in mine. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/156 "2015-04-20T13:26:19Z")
What is it with those Buick commercials where nobody can recognize the Buick even while staring right into the logo on the front grille? Og knows how many gazillions they spent promoting their logo over a hundred years, but it’s all been wasted. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/157 "2015-04-20T13:39:26Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Latest one on my hate list: it’s for a Chevy and it features the woman saying “That’s the dream, to have wi-fi in your car.” It’s not just Chevy. _All_ of the car commercials are talking about how you can check your email, voice mail or Facebook status in your car. It’s as if they’re selling a smartphone with four wheels and an engine. They barely mention anything about the engine, cargo space or how fast the car can go; all the stuff that was traditionally a part of auto ads. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/158 "2015-04-20T13:47:45Z")
FiOS VOD has an obsession with the “Half Time” lunch kit ad with the kid doing a horrific _Braveheart_ impression in a school cafeteria. I really hate that fucking ad. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/159 "2015-04-20T16:13:56Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s not just Chevy. _All_ of the car commercials are talking about how you can check your email, voice mail or Facebook status in your car. It’s as if they’re selling a smartphone with four wheels and an engine. They barely mention anything about the engine, cargo space or how fast the car can go; all the stuff that was traditionally a part of auto ads. It’s not just TV commercials where they’re pushing that. My local paper has an “Auto” section each week, and the last few have been stupid stories like “Chrysler 300’s New Infotainment” package; they didn’t mention anything else about the car. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/160 "2015-04-20T16:20:41Z")
So I guess the whole “Don’t text and drive” thing doesn’t count if your car has wi-fi, huh? I weep… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=9)