# Most Hated Commercials, Holiday Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101 "2015-11-20T17:58:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/221 "2015-12-04T18:32:15Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > ANY GEICO commercial. I hate every one of them. Though the caveman thing is meh. I mostly agree. But I kinda get a kick out of the Flo ad done in a 1950s style where the announcer person asks Flo where her husband is. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/222 "2015-12-04T20:08:59Z")
[quote=“Drunky\_Smurf, post:153, topic:738101”] I’m torn on this Carls Jr/Hardees Rick and Morty ad. On the one hand I don’t like that they shilled for Carls Jr. but on the other it might provide some exposure. But it probably will only ever air on Adult Swim at night who is already the target demo for the show and on the other hand maybe they got money to help out the show. [/QUOTE] I thought that was pretty great. I do hope they get more exposure, that show is fucking hilarious. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Maybe his dick/cock plays such an insignificant and unobtrusive role in his life that it never occurs to him to think of that as a particularly devastating rejoinder. Might I suggest… > [@TroutMan](#): > > The [most touching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb32Ego033o) gift of the year. Nothing brings a family together like porn. (Link is SFW). ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/223 "2015-12-04T22:50:14Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If, as it appears, you’re not time-shifting your viewing, the obvious question is: why aren’t you muting EVERY commercial and restoring sound when the probram resumes? Time shifting? Usually, I am not sitting watching the TV - it is on while I’m doing housework or whatever. If I’m too far away from the TV to bother with muting it, I just say nasty things to the ads. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/224 "2015-12-05T00:17:54Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Time shifting? > > Usually, I am not sitting watching the TV - it is on while I’m doing housework or whatever. If I’m too far away from the TV to bother with muting it, I just say nasty things to the ads. As in using a DVR. Watch it later and skip through the commercials. That’s what I do. I never see them. The rare time that I watch something real time, like a sporting event, I have the fortunate ability to tune them out. I am only vaguely aware of what is playing. I read email or something until the show is back. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/225 "2015-12-05T00:22:45Z")
I don’t watch TV to see such but really just about anything, a pic, a magazine, a website is just one big advertisement, often for a variety of things including the very subject of it’s purpose. For example, Tech forums are in a way, a large advertisement for tech gadgets, computers and software to where entire threads can be sometimes brand biased. We are onslaughted daily by opinions and visuals that make us want. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/226 "2015-12-05T01:02:07Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I mostly agree. But I kinda get a kick out of the Flo ad done in a 1950s style where the announcer person asks Flo where her husband is. Flo is Progressive, not GEICO. /durp ---
**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 5, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/227 "2015-12-05T01:03:43Z")
I was recently forced to switch from Chrome to an extension-free version of Internet Explorer at work. After years of using browsers with ad-blockers, I have been absolutely appalled at the number of gaudy, random ads on news sites and tech/engineering forums. Do that many people actually click on the things?? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/228 "2015-12-05T01:54:12Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Flo is Progressive, not GEICO. > > /durp One year (12 months) free car insurance for you. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/229 "2015-12-05T01:55:43Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > As in using a DVR. Watch it later and skip through the commercials. That’s what I do. I never see them. Ah. We don’t have one of those. I think that our cable provider lets us start shows over, but that’s about all we have for time shifting. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/230 "2015-12-05T02:23:10Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > One year (12 months) free car insurance for you. With sprinkles? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/231 "2015-12-05T02:24:11Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > With sprinkles? Sprinkles are for winners. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/232 "2015-12-05T02:31:38Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > The [most touching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb32Ego033o) gift of the year. Nothing brings a family together like porn. (Link is SFW). Oh my gerd that video is so touching. It brought a tear to my eye. > [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I was recently forced to switch from Chrome to an extension-free version of Internet Explorer at work. After years of using browsers with ad-blockers, I have been absolutely appalled at the number of gaudy, random ads on news sites and tech/engineering forums. Do that many people actually click on the things?? If anyone cares, South Parks’ current story arc is about how ads are trying to kill people. > [@curlcoat](#): > > Ah. We don’t have one of those. I think that our cable provider lets us start shows over, but that’s about all we have for time shifting. If you’re interested you can rent a DVR from the cable company. From the three companies I’ve had in the last decade they were $10 a month. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/233 "2015-12-05T04:20:40Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Sprinkles are for winners. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![orchidcolors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e8c25b/32.png) [@orchidcolors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orchidcolors)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/234 "2015-12-05T11:49:07Z")
**DrDeth** , I do believe that you started the hijack to complain about how people are hijacking things. So you have become that which you hate. Most fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/235 "2015-12-05T17:58:24Z")
> [@orchidcolors](#): > > **DrDeth** , I do believe that you started the hijack to complain about how people are hijacking things. > > So you have become that which you hate. > > Most fascinating. Well, she is kind of stupid that way. Well it’s official. I knew it was going to happen and it finally did. Disney has sold out Star Wars.\* So ladies what would you rather have, Dark Side lipstick or Light side lipstick? I was watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on MTV this morning and this comes on: \*[spoiler]Actually I think it's really cool that they recognize their female audience and i love the look of the ladies in the commercial. I mostly just wanted to be the first to share the commercial.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/236 "2015-12-05T18:33:18Z")
Disney is merchandising Star Wars?! This is an unprecedented affront to the franchise! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/237 "2015-12-05T18:45:02Z")
> [@orchidcolors](#): > > **DrDeth** , I do believe that you started the hijack to complain about how people are hijacking things. > > So you have become that which you hate. > > Most fascinating. Nope. I responded to the OP’s question about why he put it in the Pit:"Because it seemed appropriate, given the subject. Also to allow anyone who’s seriously annoyed to swear like a drunken sailor with Tourrette’s. My apologies if it isn’t the right location, and mods, feel free to move to a better place." He didnt know you could swear in any forum. Then a bunch of loser Non-members started with the hijacking of the thread with out of context personal attack, culminating with Miller’s personal attack hijack. But I guess it’s probably too much to expect a parasite freeloader to be able to actually read a whole thread. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/238 "2015-12-05T19:23:02Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Nope. I responded to the OP’s question about why he put it in the Pit:"Because it seemed appropriate, given the subject. Also to allow anyone who’s seriously annoyed to swear like a drunken sailor with Tourrette’s. > > My apologies if it isn’t the right location, and mods, feel free to move to a better place." > > He didnt know you could swear in any forum. > > Then a bunch of loser Non-members started with the hijacking of the thread with out of context personal attack, culminating with Miller’s personal attack hijack. > > But I guess it’s probably too much to expect a parasite freeloader to be able to actually read a whole thread. Don’t you have offs to fuck? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/239 "2015-12-05T19:54:12Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Don’t forget the stack of Ferrero Roche! Not really sure why these are advertised as being so fancy…they taste very underwhelming, IMO. Maybe they’re meant to be consumed with lots of alcohol? I have serious trouble managing to see something as classy and high-end that’s sold at the register at [Sheetz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheetz) year-round. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/240 "2015-12-05T20:55:17Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Don’t you have offs to fuck? Here’s my library card. I’d like to borrow that. And renew it every fortnight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101.md?page=13)