# Things that make me want to kick the TV **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-me-want-to-kick-the-tv/229146 "2004-02-14T02:03:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-me-want-to-kick-the-tv/229146/81 "2004-03-19T16:04:56Z")
How about that one for satellite tv that has all these pigs everywhere, with, “Who let the pigs in?” (“Who let the dogs out?”) playing over and over and _over_ and _ **over** _ and _ **OVER** _ in the background (talking about cable rate increases). The people who designed _that_ ad should be stood up against a wall and _shot_. And someone _ **please** _ slap that smarmy woman who does the IDT commercials! ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-me-want-to-kick-the-tv/229146/82 "2004-03-20T09:22:58Z")
There’s another [hotels.com](http://hotels.com) commercial with the guy who gets more and more sunburned because he stands in the middle of pools with no sunscreen writing some stupid shit on a clipboard. It might be acceptable if they showed him getting blisters and oozing pus and turning into a brain eating zombie, but he just gets brighter shades of red. One radio commercial for an arcade/restaurant called Dave & Busters has a bunch of honking car horn noises. This really pisses me off when I’m driving. A while back there were some cheapass commercials for a local chain called The Burrito Shop. Some guy brings a burrito back to work, a woman asks him where he got it, he says where. Then she gets this look like Jeremy the crow from Secret of NIMH when he finds a sparkly, and says, “The BurrEEEETO Shaaaap!!!” like it’s the most fabulous thing that could ever possibly happen to any person ever. This commercial ran like 2 or 3 times at every break for a few months. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-me-want-to-kick-the-tv/229146/83 "2004-03-20T10:49:34Z")
> [@Coulbean](#): > > I > 2) Smoking weed does not get you pregnant. Sex does. And smoking weed is more likely to make you NOT want to have sex. That ad is more pertinent to alcohol, a _legal_ drug. You may have appreciated an anti-drug that used to run on TV here in Norge. Setting: a dark room. Really dark. So dark the whole screen is actually black, but you can hear whispers and giggles. A male voice says, “Just a second…” He rolls on a (very cartoony) glow-in-the-dark banana yellow condom, making his girlfriend giggle. Then he lights up. Aside: is there any way to get your partner _out_ of The Mood faster than lighting up _before_ activities commence? Then a female voice says, “Wait a minute, that’s hashish, isn’t it?” “Relaaaaaax,” he says, and takes a puff. And the glow-in-the-dark yellow condom gets saggier… and saggier… until it falls off with a little _PLOP!_ The girl laughs herself silly. Caption: MARIJUANA MAKES A SQUISHY BANANA. So it’s no more realistic than any other anti-drug ad, but at least they had a sense of humor about it 😃 Ad that makes _me_ want to kick the TV: The product is an anti-bacterial dish washing detergent. They show a man spilling milk on his shirt, wiping it up with the dish rag, and then dropping the dish rag in a heap on the counter without rinsing it. Then a young boy comes in and uses the same dish rag to wipe off his muddy soccer ball, and he drops it on the floor. The dog comes along and chews on the rag. And last, Mother waltzes in, picks the rag **up off the floor,** and uses it to wipe the cutting board. I just frew up in my mouf. :future site of pukey smiley: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-me-want-to-kick-the-tv/229146.md?page=4)