# The most vile, disgusting commercial EVER **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746 "2012-05-22T19:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/41 "2012-05-24T05:13:25Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > In a rational world, people probably _would_ consider a diaperload of babyshit more disgusting than the sole of a pretty woman’s foot. This is not, however, a rational world. Baby shit is supposed to come out of a baby. Skin is not supposed to be shredded off in spraying chunks by a grinding disc. Capiche? ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/42 "2012-05-24T07:34:19Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Wonder if you could use it to grate parmesan cheese? I recommend buying a separate one for that and **clearly labeling them**. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/43 "2012-05-24T11:47:57Z")
> [@ntucker](#): > > I recommend buying a separate one for that and **clearly labeling them**. Why? They’d smell the same anyway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Makeitstop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Makeitstop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Makeitstop)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/44 "2012-05-24T13:05:28Z")
Sorry, the latest anti-smoking ads take the cake. You know, the ones that describe what it’s like to live with a hole in your throat. They’ll scare the ever-loving hell out of some smokers, so they’re effective. Yes, far more disturbing that this. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/45 "2012-05-24T13:07:47Z")
> [@Makeitstop](#): > > Sorry, the latest anti-smoking ads take the cake. You know, the ones that describe what it’s like to live with a hole in your throat. They’ll scare the ever-loving hell out of some smokers, so they’re effective. Yes, far more disturbing that this. God, I hate those!! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/46 "2012-05-24T13:29:02Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Might as well just invest in a Dremel and an appropriate bit. But wouldn’t the fragrant foot-bits fly off in a 360 degree arc? How would you ever get the room to stop smelling like feet-crumbs? But-Wait-There’s-More Dept. : It almost makes me wonder if the cheese would keep raccoons out of the garbage can or slugs off of the garden plants… > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Why do you hate love? I think she was scared once by the smell of athlete’s friction-burn. \*this post may be freely linked to any Doper Weightloss Thread. You know… for inspiration. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/47 "2012-05-24T13:36:57Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > You know, if you sneak the shavings into someones food they’ll fall in love with you. That’s awesome! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/what_do_I_type_here)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/48 "2012-05-24T19:19:42Z")
Still not as disgusting and horrifying as those talking babies from eTrade. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/49 "2012-05-29T16:16:55Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Not only disgusting, but also cuts into the profits of your local [fish spa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doctor_fish2.jpg) (photo not safe for lunch). And won’t someone think of the guppies? When I lived close enough, I used to like going down to the beach, sitting on a rock in shallow water and letting the Hermit crabs nibble the dead skin off my feet. It’s invigorating. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/50 "2012-05-29T17:01:34Z")
Invigorating? In Pyramid Lake, Nevada, where the hot springs bubble up into the lake, people like to have underwater sex while the little fish swarm and nibble all over them. I won’t be judgemental, but it does seem a practice just this side of Japanese live fish enema porn. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/51 "2012-05-29T19:01:20Z")
Off to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/52 "2012-05-30T17:30:50Z")
Nah, I have two contenders for commercials that aren’t even in the dead-skin-removal category: (1) Years ago, there was a commercial for LANACANE, a product I absolutely LOVE, that showed animated letters spelling out the word “ITCHING.” The letters had hair-like projections covering them, and they MOVED. I’d have to close my eyes during the commercial, because the letters creeped me out so much. Didn’t turn me off LANACANE, though, which is the best product in the WORLD for, you guessed it, ITCHING. (2) A recent commercial for a gout medication (I think!) shows a huge clear foot with the bones inside. Little particles in the foot collect around the joint at the base of the big toe. While the description is quite innocuous, it’s another creep-fest to me, and I have to close my eyes for that one. I’m not crazy about watching things that make my skin crawl! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/53 "2012-05-30T17:52:17Z")
I don’t find the foot skin removal so disgusting. Just not bothersome at all. Rather see that than a hemorrhoid or something. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/54 "2012-05-30T17:59:16Z")
I’d say for foot care products the Pedegg is way worse than the one in the OP. As mentioned, it \*is \*essentially a grater and seeing foot particles being dumped out like so much parmesan is distatseful (pun intended) at best. As for the antismoking ads, my vote goes for the one where they show the globby yellow paste that repsresents the placque in your arteries being squeezed out of a tube. I remember sitting in a bar watching a game and all the tough men folk groaned in unison. My number one gross out was for an exterminator, or possibly a bug rellent. It starts off as just another dull commercial, so dull that I don’t recall what was being talked about, and all of a sudden you see a giant roach “crawling” on your TV screen. There was an item in the paper about how someone broke their television because they’d thrown a shoe at it. As I recall, those ads didn’t run for long. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/55 "2012-05-30T18:00:02Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I don’t find the foot skin removal so disgusting. Just not bothersome at all. Rather see that than a hemorrhoid or something. Ok, but do you think an actual hemorrhoid would _ever_ be shown on a hemorrhoid commercial? Much less graphic, up-close shots of a hemorrhoid? I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/56 "2012-05-30T18:56:21Z")
Surprised no one has posted this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PPi2ydcu4N0/hqdefault.jpg "Solution for Camel Toe ~ Cuchini ~ www.Cuchini.com") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPi2ydcu4N0) Cuchini, the “camel toe” solution! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/57 "2012-05-30T19:39:28Z")
I don’t think the commercial’s gross at all. Since I get thick, cracked callouses I would love to see my dead skin flying off of my feet like that. I’m not going to film it for anyone of course. I think I’m going to put some #100 grit paper on my DeWalt random orbital sander and give it a shot though. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/58 "2012-05-31T00:17:23Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Nah, I have two contenders for commercials that aren’t even in the dead-skin-removal category: I’ll see your lanacane and gout commercials and raise you the toenail fungus one with the toenail that lifts entirely from the toe like it’s hinged. _[shudder](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9J7MoBZbY)_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/59 "2012-05-31T04:53:47Z")
Following the naming convention for Pedi-spin and Pedi-egg, we should call emery boards “Pedi-files”. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2012, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746/60 "2012-05-31T11:31:00Z")
Not more disturbing than the commercials with Wendie Malick showing torture porno videos while Sarah McLachlan wails about angel arms. The less busted out eye balls I see, the better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-vile-disgusting-commercial-ever/622746.md?page=4)