Here is that commercial.
Rock Auto parts must have very good prices, as I am sure they did not spend more than fifteen dollars on the wretched “animation” in their TV commercials.
Not so much hated, more WTF…
It’s an ad for T-shirts - random various T-shirts, worn by random various people, dancing and strutting around and generally being goofy. Except several of the models are SNL alums, notably Jay Pharoah and Nasim Pedrad.
What makes it more confusing is I first saw this commercial while watching an episode of Saturday Night Live. So it comes on, it looks dumb, it has Jay Pharoah, but it’s a real commercial? 
There’s another newly-revived commercial for an elder care agency that ends with, “Dad made us promise that we’d always keep Mom at home.”
Wait a minute. What? That sounds like a “promise” made by someone who’s determined to keep someone out of a nursing home, as long as they’ve pawned all the work off on the nearest female relative.
I’m not understanding your point. We (my wife and I ) used at-home nursing care (a few hours a day) for both her mom and mine, in our house. It was substantially cheaper and more comfortable for our mothers than sending them to nursing homes.
That statement is not the same as, for instance, “We promised Dad that we would always keep Mom at home.”
And besides, saying “I will never put Relative X in a nursing home” should not be said, because there are situations where that is best for everyone involved. That also includes younger people with severe mental disabilities. I know that it is not an easy decision, and you can’t just drop someone off at a facility and walk away.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I agree that making a promise like that is not the best idea. Conditions and situations can change for all involved over time.
I used at-home care for a couple of years for my mother, but it was very expensive, $25 an hour, and ‘a few hours a day’ not nearly enough as she declined in health and mental faculties. I also had to do the shopping, cooking, arrange for lawn care, snowplowing, doctors appointments, and deal with broken appliances and a furnace that stopped working. It was nice having a companion/aide for mom a few hours a day to get her cleaned up and do light housework, but it wasn’t sustainable after a while, she needed a lot more care. We used up almost all her savings about the time I got her on Medicaid and into a nursing home…So, elder care agencies are a big thing and their services badly needed, but only for a while until the situation calls for a nursing home.
There are very few businesses that I have wished bankruptcy on based on their advertising practices.
One was a car repair place on my route to and from work, that decided to promote its opening by flashing a bright strobe light into the faces of oncoming drivers.*
The other is Liberty Mutual insurance.
*the business is now defunct, yee-ha.
Anyone had enough of the ad with the guitar folk rock feel “I’ve been a pauper, I’ve been a king…and I’m so far from dooohhhnn” like some freakin epic philosophic statment, and the voice sounds like a constipated baby?
I’m surprised that’s even legal. Strobe lights can precipitate seizures in some people, and are very distracting.
Not a strobe light, but there is a business near me that put up one of those garishly bright electronic signs - probably LED. It’s about the proper brightness in the daytime, but it is blinding at night. You actually have to avert your gaze or hold your hand up in front of it at night so you don’t lose all night vision. I’m thinking there must be a day/night setting that they are overlooking.
I think the point is that Dad wants Mom to get to stay in her own house even after he dies.
I’m another non-fan. I’m not sure what they’re advertising, but the song and/or the performance hits my ear as gratingly self-absorbed.
Which is a terrible thing to make his kids promise. Conditions change. What if Mom becomes deathly ill? No hospice? No end of life care? Forcing his kids to have to take care of Mom is a horrible thing to do.
While we’re on the subject, there was a commercial I haven’t seen in a while for a drug “for moderate to severe Alzheimer’s” and Mom, who we presume is the Alzheimer’s patient, is sitting at a table, with perfect hairdo, makeup, and clothing, and is eating off a plate with utensils.
Not only do I loathe direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising, a person with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s is not going to look or act like that, even with any medication we have nowadays. 
Or the wife with her adorable old husband, her ‘knight in shining armour’, the one she is smooching and hugging and kissing, and walking around hand in hand - wait till he walks outside without pants, leaving a dirty diaper on the kitchen table, screaming at the mailman for ‘stealing my wallet’ and setting the kitchen on fire… That one in the commercial is, like Mom above, maybe one step ahead of the moderate to severe Alzheimers - still just a little ‘confused’.
Aside:
‘This American Life’ episode #583:“It’ll make sense when you’re older” has an early Alzheimer’s patient in the last act.
He is a physicist dealing with the fact that he can’t draw or read a clock. It’s heartbreaking to hear him go through the effort of figuring out why he can’t do it, and he develops a keen and intelligent analysis of the problem, but he still gets lost in the actual process of trying to read a clock face.
Amen. Who the hell goes from pauper to king, anyway?
I hate the one where there’s a woman suffering from irritable bowel and she has this evil twin bossing her around in some costume with a graphic of the intestines on the front. Such an evil look on intestine lady- eew.
Arby’s deep voiced guy makes me switch channels.