# Shitty, annoying commercials that annoy the hell out of you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812 "2006-05-07T22:37:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [May 21, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/162 "2006-05-21T16:10:19Z")
I forgot this one: the radio ads for that Tom-Tom navigational device. It features people calling in to various radio shows in search of directions – “Kim-Kim, how do I get to this street?” etc. It’s worn out and stupid. The same goes for Chick-Fil-A’s “eat mor chiken” commercials that have been running for years now. I hate those cows. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/163 "2006-05-22T12:31:30Z")
[QUOTE=Jeep’s Phoenix] The same goes for Chick-Fil-A’s “eat mor chiken” commercials that have been running for years now. I hate those cows. [/QUOTE] I would go on a killing spree if I had to work in a Chick-Fil-A and look at misspelled signs all day long. The cows are fine, but the “cute” misspellings hurt me. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/164 "2006-05-22T12:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=Lissa] The realtor one is actually kind of amusing, because I’ve known realtors who would say things just like that. “_Any_ closet is a walk-in closet if you try hard enough.” “If a celebrity dies in your house, it makes it a landmark.” “It’s a buyer’s market!” One second later: “It’s a seller’s market!” [/QUOTE] I work in real estate. Any REALTOR who made the last two contradictory statements should be reported to the local Board of REALTORS for investigation. REALTORS have a strict code of ethics, and the Board is their enforcing agency. That’s one reason I hate that commercial (statement #1 is also suspect. Statement #2 is correct, if macabre). ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/165 "2006-05-22T15:49:43Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I work in real estate. Any REALTOR who made the last two contradictory statements should be reported to the local Board of REALTORS for investigation. REALTORS have a strict code of ethics, and the Board is their enforcing agency. That’s one reason I hate that commercial (statement #1 is also suspect. Statement #2 is correct, if macabre). [/QUOTE] Correction: REALTORs are SUPPOSED to have ethics. It’s just that they don’t. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![meow\_meow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@meow\_meow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meow_meow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/166 "2006-05-22T15:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] I don’t have to watch commercials anymore because I got rid of TV, but I DO listen to the Indians games on the radio every night. You get to hear the same 3-4 commercials at least 17 times a night (add one for each pitching change and extra inning!) and now a month and a half into the season I am about to shoot the radio every time I hear John Lovitz come on pitching Subway, doing a poor version of “The ACTOR!” Not to mention the other shitty commercials they have, which are probably regional so I won’t go over them. But I happened to see a TV version of the Subway commercials so I know you’ve seen them too. I used to like Lovitz ☹ [/QUOTE] No! It’s MASTER THESPIAN! These commercials make me laugh. These need to be visual, I can imagine it would not be the same without seeing his face. “She makes me anxious!” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/167 "2006-05-27T23:33:55Z")
The Ford Fusion commercials in which they claim the fusion creates energy. Everybody at ford should be denutted. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/168 "2006-05-28T04:09:17Z")
I hate the PowerAde commercial where the guys are drag racing tricycles. They take off and pull wheelies. Yep, the front wheel, that they are pedalling furiously, is off the ground. They just kinda skip over the whole reason you pull a wheelie is because of the torque at the rear wheel, and the the whole only drive wheel is spinning in the air but you are still hauling ass. Just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/169 "2006-05-28T06:58:33Z")
How could this thread get this long, and yet I saw not one mention of my foul nemesis: the Pepto-Bismol diarrhea dance commercial? I thought at last we were free of it and those pink-clad ass-dancers, but, no. There’s a new version out, where they’re once again fanning their poop-chutes and their many other sources of flatulence. Hate. Haaaate. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/170 "2006-05-28T15:10:31Z")
NOT,B notice how the first guy to lipsync “DIARRHEA!” is dressed entirely in brown? ---
**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:** [May 28, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/171 "2006-05-28T18:55:47Z")
There’s a commercial on the radio for a nearby Indian casino that is really starting to piss me off. In jingle singer (incidentally, the same local female country singer who sings the jingle in nearly every local commercial) belts out the line: “Two Rivers Casino Resort/home-spun fun, bar none!” That doesn’t even make any fucking sense. It’s just another feeble attempt by a lameass jingle writer at sounding down-home country. “The most fun, bar none” would make sense. “Home-spun fun, bar none” makes no sense at all. I don’t think the idiot jingle writer had any kind of clue as to what “bar none” means. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812/172 "2006-05-28T18:59:11Z")
Er, that should be “ **The** jingle singer …”, not “ **In** jingle singer …” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-annoying-commercials-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you/355812.md?page=8)