# The New Improved Re-release of Commercials I Hate! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788 "2009-11-24T16:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/61 "2009-11-26T18:13:21Z")
Luke Wilson talking about the coverage maps some other cell company shows and how the company he is shilling for has great coverage too, like in Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago, NYC,… Well no shit they have great coverage in major urban areas–surely that’s the company’s first priority. I need a company that covers Buttfuck, VT, so I can rely on it and get rid of my landline. I’m not impressed that NYC has coverage, and he isn’t really proving his company has better coverage. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/62 "2009-11-26T18:59:03Z")
There’s one for some sort of brauts Hillshire? I think that’s it. That one gets to me. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/63 "2009-11-26T20:56:33Z")
I said ah BEEF HOT LINKS! GO MEAT! ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/64 "2009-11-27T04:00:22Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > There’s the one where this presumptive coed sings (obviously lip-synched) about this online college or somesuch in a hopelessly outdated song style which would make Mariah Carey look cutting edge. I find her voice and melody to be eyeball-gougingly painful. “Get connected for free, with Education Connection!” It looks and sounds like a bad high school AV project. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/65 "2009-11-27T04:20:02Z")
Yes! Yes there is a God!! > **[Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The Star](https://www.thestar.com/)** > > thestar.com is Canada’s largest online news site. Live news, investigations, politics, sports and the heartbeat of Toronto, Canada's largest city. Long story short: this commercial [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdPDmz5vKfY) …is GONE!! It’s the “Grey Power” insurance one with the woman road-raging. Her voice makes my ears bleed. I have to mute it every time. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/66 "2009-11-27T04:26:43Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I always go to sleep with the TV or a fan on (need white noise), and there is nothing worse than being awakened by that shit. If it got late, I would make a point of turning to a non-local channel so that there was no chance of me having to hear it accidentally, or worst of all, it infiltrating my dreams. Your fan must be a lot fancier than mine 😛 I hate the Sylvania commercial where they say that it’s a lot easier to replace your headlights than your daughter. First of all, it’s pretty distasteful to say that you are effectively killing your daughter if you use a different brand of headlight, and second, you _can_ always make a new daughter. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/67 "2009-11-27T18:04:47Z")
Ooo, in the same vein as the Sylvania commercial…those GM commercials that assume you’re going to have a catastrophic single-vehicle wreck in one of their new cars. Wouldn’t most people prefer to buy a car with adequate safety systems for avoiding collisions? I have a cousin who relies almost exclusively on the built-in system on a GM car for her mobile phone needs; the conversations I have with her are always dropped, and when we stay connected I can’t understand half of what she’s saying. What’s that kind of system going to do for you when your car hits a deer, flips a dozen times, and/or ends up at the bottom of a ravine (as the commercials imply)? ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/68 "2009-11-27T18:10:45Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Yes! Yes there is a God!! > > [Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The Star](http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/731053--menon-good-riddance-to-miss-road-rage#article) > > Long story short: this commercial > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdPDmz5vKfY&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdPDmz5vKfY&feature=related) > …is GONE!! > > It’s the “Grey Power” insurance one with the woman road-raging. Her voice makes my ears bleed. I have to mute it every time. Migod, was I happy to read this post! I’ve been wanting to nominate that commercial. Best part is where she’s banging her head repeatedly on the headrest. Yah, that actually happens all the time. I’ll nominate the ad for, what is it, the Canadian Home Mortgage Plan or something. With that god-awful jingle “Wouldn’t it be nice…” If only because they play it so often and it’s, like, 90 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/69 "2009-11-27T22:39:15Z")
Another nomination: the AT&T (I think) commercial where hotel lackey has to chase all over town to get just the right flowers, a dog bed (what?!?) and other demands for Mariah Carey, who then simperingly blows him a kiss for busting his hump all over town to make her suite look pretty for her and her stupid purse dog for a night. Extra loser points to that ad because, according to a friend who manages a hotel, it’s inspiring losers to karate kick his elevator call buttons, because that’s what the loser in the ad does. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/70 "2009-11-27T22:52:57Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I said ah BEEF HOT LINKS! GO MEAT! That’s the one. God I hate those. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/71 "2009-11-27T23:40:02Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 800-588-2300 Empire > > Today! > > I get all stabby. AAAAAH! I hate that too! What REALLY irks me is the late bass note at the end! Flah-bum! ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/72 "2009-11-27T23:44:43Z")
Let’s all not forget the relentless 877-CASH NOW! 877-CASH NOW! 877 CASH NOW! I hate your commercial and I need cash now! Call AN-Y-ONE ELSE! 877-CASH NOW! 877-CASH NOW! 877-CASH NOW! And that pain in the ass actor who conducts like a fairy on meth at the end! Thanks for destroying opera JG Cuntworth! ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/73 "2009-11-27T23:47:35Z")
One more! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday every daaaaaaaay! NUVARING! The ugliest yellow bathing suits on women with skin the same shade as Casper and the Shmoo! Ladies, you dress like that at the pool, birth control is the LEAST of your worries! And who in the hell wears a bathing cap in 2009? 😃 ---
**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:** [November 27, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/74 "2009-11-27T23:56:45Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > And who in the hell wears a bathing cap in 2009? 😃 That part is actually the whole point of the ad. “Daily birth control pills are SO 1960!” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/75 "2009-11-28T00:06:08Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Ooo, in the same vein as the Sylvania commercial…those GM commercials that assume you’re going to have a catastrophic single-vehicle wreck in one of their new cars. So…will GM re-hire Tiger Woods as their Buick spokesman? “They look like crap, old farts drive them, but you can run into lots of stuff and come out pretty much O.K.\*” in Caddies too, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/76 "2009-11-28T00:24:05Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > The lie is that the HSUS does anything about it. Unless things have changed _very_ recently, they don’t have any shelters and spend their money on things that PETA wants. Those ads are for the [ASPCA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_mclachlan#Philanthropy), not the HSUS. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/77 "2009-11-28T00:53:05Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Those ads are for the [ASPCA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_mclachlan#Philanthropy), not the HSUS. Ah. **Oakminster** said Humane Society, and we do have ads here begging for money for the HSUS, but the woman on those ads isn’t the same one you linked to. ASPCA - they are cool! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/78 "2009-11-28T01:16:00Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Your fan must be a lot fancier than mine 😛 > > I hate the Sylvania commercial where they say that it’s a lot easier to replace your headlights than your daughter. First of all, it’s pretty distasteful to say that you are effectively killing your daughter if you use a different brand of headlight, and second, you _can_ always make a new daughter. Well, it is a pretty badass fan. It is not infrequently that I see a commercial that suggests “You hate your family if you don’t buy our product.” I pointed out one such commercial fairly recently, but cannot remember what it was, or point to any similar examples because the holidays are a time for drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/79 "2009-11-28T01:19:17Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Ah. **Oakminster** said Humane Society, and we do have ads here begging for money for the HSUS, but the woman on those ads isn’t the same one you linked to. ASPCA - they are cool! 🙂 They still have weeeepy and long ads though! _cries_ Actually, I don’t know if the HSUS has long montage-of-abused-critters ads too or not, now that I think of it. I’m used to the Sarah McLachlan ASPCA ads that go for a minute and a half or so, with one of her songs playing in the background, lots of “poor widdle critters” pics, and then her making a statement asking you to donate. And I always have to change the channel. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788/80 "2009-11-28T02:05:24Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > Another nomination: the AT&T (I think) commercial where hotel lackey has to chase all over town to get just the right flowers, a dog bed (what?!?) and other demands for Mariah Carey, who then simperingly blows him a kiss for busting his hump all over town to make her suite look pretty for her and her stupid purse dog for a night. Extra loser points to that ad because, according to a friend who manages a hotel, it’s inspiring losers to karate kick his elevator call buttons, because that’s what the loser in the ad does. Even more annoying (to me) is that before he karate kicks the elevator call button he’s telling a friend that he “made out with Mariah Carey”. Since when does having someone blow you a kiss qualify as “making out” with them? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-re-release-of-commercials-i-hate/518788.md?page=5)