# That screaming woman cell phone commercial. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098 "2011-07-23T18:40:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/61 "2011-07-25T14:02:45Z")
I hate the spider commercial just for the scream; there had to be another way to show shock and fear that’s just as funny, no? I don’t find it sexist, a man and a woman both react strongly to the spider. Any yelling or screaming makes me change the channel, happy, angry or sad; it almost makes me nauseated if I can’t turn it off fast enough. The Kit Kat commercial makes me dive for the remote as it sounds to me like bones breaking. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/62 "2011-07-25T17:32:54Z")
Wouldn’t lifting the lid shut off the washer? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/63 "2011-07-25T17:34:04Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Wouldn’t lifting the lid shut off the washer? Not if there’s a giant spider on it. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/64 "2011-07-25T17:39:15Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Not if there’s a giant spider on it. Just in the interests of full disclosure, if a giant hairy insect suddenly appeared either on the table, or on the washer, I too would scream like a little girl, loudly (while wacking it with my shoe). ---
**Author:** ![meanoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@meanoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meanoldman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/65 "2011-07-25T18:06:06Z")
Maybe this should be in a thread by itself…but it seems slightly related. The commercial for one of those energy drinks, where the guy is not a morning person. His wife or girlfriend likes to exercise in the morning, he didn’t join her until he started drinking said energy drink. And now that he has, she shoots him a look like she is royally pissed at him for joining her. WTF? Is this a negative stereotype or what? Why on earth would she be pissed at him? Why would the ad makers assume she’d be pissed and show her to be so? So we come away from the ad learning that if we drink the energy drink in the morning, our wife/girlfriend will be pissed at us all day. Sign me up for that relationship.:rolleyes: ---
**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:** [July 25, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/66 "2011-07-25T18:19:21Z")
I hate the phone commercial, one, because it’s stupid, and two, because I think it’s trying to ride the coattails of this [other, much better commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMVMzzWPDSk). ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/67 "2011-07-25T18:24:39Z")
The wife is pissed because that was her ‘alone’ time, and (IIRC) the husband was completely taking over the (designed for one person) exercise space. If he wants to get up early, that’s fine - but he’s messing with exercise equipment schedule, not so fine. But the wife shouldn’t be so passive-aggressive - just tell him to exercise some other time. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/68 "2011-07-25T19:06:56Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > The wife is pissed because that was her ‘alone’ time, and (IIRC) the husband was completely taking over the (designed for one person) exercise space. > > If he wants to get up early, that’s fine - but he’s messing with exercise equipment schedule, not so fine. > > But the wife shouldn’t be so passive-aggressive - just tell him to exercise some other time. Yeah, too passive-aggressive for me. The minute he snatched the remote out of my hand, all the passive would have been drained from my aggressive and I’d have warned him to stop snorting coke so early in the fucking morning if he didn’t want his nuts squashed. Like that goddamned kid who took his sister’s toaster strudel. She was nice enough to share it with you, why you gotta snatch it all and tell her to eat the nasty poptart you were going to eat in the first place? The screaming spider-phone doesn’t bother me at all. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/69 "2011-07-25T21:39:08Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Wouldn’t lifting the lid shut off the washer? My old ones would not stop. I have a front loader now which locks, so that isn’t an option. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/70 "2011-07-26T01:57:26Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > One of the YouTube comments points out an editing mistake - a plate that disappears from the table during the cut from 0:14 to 0:18, and I noted another one - a wine glass that suddenly appears in the woman’s hands, but on further examination it’s even stranger because the table _never had any wine glasses on it_ - just the water glasses and the vase. The only wine glasses in the scene are on a cabinet several feet behind the woman, and they’re of a different style. On further review, and prompted by another YouTube commenter, I’m wrong. At the beginning of the ad, there’s a shrimp cocktail on the table near the woman. At the end, that glass is in the woman’s hands, now empty, as though she grabbed it and dumped the contents. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/71 "2011-07-26T02:11:51Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Snerk - men! I bet you don’t even know any of the dialog. There’s dialogue? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/72 "2011-07-26T06:05:51Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Girls in their early 20’s are very young? Sigh, I feel so old… The ad I saw didn’t state their age, and they look and act as if they’re in their late teens (at the oldest) to me. > [@](#): > > Anyway, what I get from the first couple of lines is the girl at the computer just reading stuff off the screen, stuff she hasn’t a clue about which the other girl shows. Have you seen the long version? After computer girl says something, other girl says “I don’t even know what that is”, which I think is true of both. Well duh, that’s what I do when I google stuff. That is, type in “how to…” and then read what it says on the screen. People don’t have to be “stooopid” to slightly panic and try to make the solution too complicated. > [@](#): > > Since it’s a ad for Time Warner high speed wireless, I’d say they wouldn’t want to discourage being too technological…😉 Right yes, I GET that. My point was that sometimes people (for real, and not just in ads) try to make a fix too complicated or technological, just because some people tend to go for the complex, rather than because the ad company was trying to play on stereotypes of ditsy women. Hell, that’s a bad habit of mine, come to think of it. Of course, I probably AM ditsy, but that’s a different story. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Oh, and I don’t think anyone thought the spider ad was sexist - all I remember is people complaining about the screaming. I hadn’t yet gotten to the TimeWarner commercial posts when I saw comments about sexist. You know, as in, “only girls would scream at a spider”? May have been, maybe not. I’m too lazy to go back and look. ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098/73 "2011-08-01T04:05:06Z")
> [@black\_rabbit](#): > > Dear T-Mobile: > > Please make more commercials with that brunette in the pink dress. Except you should show her boobies. > > Sincerely, > > B. Rabbit …and she’s making out with Ms Righty Tighty from [this commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DucgYOMq0). And somehow they live next door to the washing machine girls. Seriously. My credit card would be maxed before I even realized what the hell they were selling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098.md?page=3)