# This commercial gives me an aneurysm. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704 "2003-04-28T16:28:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/81 "2003-05-01T22:47:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > **Cervaise, the product is Wrigley’s Extra chewing gum.** Thank you very much. I shall now endeavor to forget this as quickly as possible. > [@](#): > > \*\*Even though you might not remember the product, I think this one works for the _type_ of product it’s selling. Who wants a stale old gumball when you can have a nice, soft piece of chewing gum? I can see why the gumball’s so upset. \*\* Please do not attempt to identify with the angry gumball. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/82 "2003-05-02T04:19:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*And you can’t the medication without a prescription in the first place, so you have to take the dog to the vet anyway. The vet writes the script and you mail it off to PetMeds, rather than just buying it from the vet. It may be cheaper, but it’s certainly not anymore convenient. > > And you have to see the vet on a regular basis, too, for other reasons. > I **hate** that one. \*\* Also, what kind of animal does she have? At the vet’s office (remember, she hates dragging her pet there) she has a cat. At home, when the drugs arrive, she has a dog. Cut back to the vet’s, and she has neither cat nor dog! Are the drugs for her? Irritating ad. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/83 "2003-05-02T04:20:42Z")
Those Dr. Scholls “gellin’” commercials. ARG!!! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/84 "2003-05-02T04:22:25Z")
Oh, and also - haven’t seen it lately - it’s a Levi’s commercial, I think, and it first aired during the Super Bowl. The one with the empty city and the idiots and the buffalo. When I saw that one, even though I was at a party with dozens of people, I just started yelling and cursing at the TV for subjecting me to its stupid incomprehensibility. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/85 "2003-05-02T05:04:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MegaDave \* > \*\*“Marijuana, its more dangerous than we all thought”. So what the hell was it before this commercial? and was there some sort of astounding breakthrough recently that would prompt them to update us on there retarded opinons? (and did anyone else think the “pregnant” teenager in that commercial was hot?) \*\* That kid looks like she’s maybe a year older than my older daughter (I have a shotgun and I’m not afraid to use it). The commercial therefore makes me curl up into a little ball. Of course, my kids have seen my reaction to it enough times that their automatic reaction is, “It’s not the marijuana, it’s the sex! And alcohol is more dangerous in that situation! We wouldn’t smoke pot or drink anyway! And we promise neither of us will have sex till we’re married, Mom. Now come out from under the couch.” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*And you can’t the medication without a prescription in the first place, so you have to take the dog to the vet anyway. \*\* I’m really relieved to hear that. My immediate reaction to the commercial, when the second lady says, “I just call Pet Meds and my dog’s medications are delivered to my door!” is to add, “And then he dies from heartworm because I was too stupid and cheap to get a blood test before I gave him prescription medications.” I don’t see what’s so hard about getting a pet to the vet’s office, either. If you can’t get the average Golden Retriever to happily go for a ride in the car, you’re not living your life right. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/86 "2003-05-02T05:22:38Z")
A while back some radio announcer swept through the area, imparting his version of idiocy to a variety of ads. He started small with forklifts and generators. Later on he started doing car ads. His catch: _mispronounciation_. Every one of his sentences had the accents on the wrong parts of words, like a drunk stumbling to the end of a sidewalk, throwing his weight wherever his flailing legs end up. “How’d YOU like to own a new CAR? Come to the big B, BrOWNing Toyota. Or buy a new MitsuBISSHI! For one hunDRED dollars DOWN, two-FIFTY a month, you can GET air conDITIONING, am/fm steREO, anti-LOCK brakes, shoot ME in THE throat so I can’t make more comMERCIALS!” I don’t hear him much anymore. I’m glad. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/87 "2003-05-02T07:06:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AntaresJB \* > \*\*I was always annoyed by the herpes medication ad for Valtrex(?), where the one girl says “Five pills a day? For five days?! Who has time for that?!” I’m just sitting there thinking, “Well, you had time to _get herpes_…” \*\* I think I saw a commercial like that with someone that said “with my active life style, I don’t have time for 5 pills a day.” Of course, it made me think “Yeah, I bet it’s your ‘active’ lifestyle that got you into this mess.” ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/88 "2003-05-02T07:09:28Z")
Woops, looks like someone beat me to it. Teaches me to impulse post. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/89 "2003-05-02T11:04:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Commercials showing kids misbehave isn’t appealing. We don’t think “Awww, isn’t that cute.”. What we are thinking is closer to “beat the shit out of the kid.” Agreed. My current least favorite commercial is the one for some children’s cold medicine. An obnoxious little girl is hosting a sleepover and is pleased that her even-more-obnoxious and extremely hyperactive little brother is too sick to bug her and her obnoxious little friends. Ah, but the mother has given the brother the miracle cold medicine. And a super-soaker. Inside the house. SO, of course, the horrible little brother hoses down the slumber party. At the end, the obnoxious little girl comes out, soaking wet, and gives her mother an obnoxious, attitude-laden, hairy eyeball, to which the mother replies (this is the aneurysm-inducing part): “Sorry, Honey, I _had_ to give it to him.” Well, NO. You didn’t “_have_” to give it to him, you stupid, STUPID bitch. _You’re_ the mother. You could have sent the little shit back to bed. He was sick enough to need cold medication, he was sick enough to keep in bed if you wanted him there. Or, you could have let him get up and play, but _not have the fucking squirt gun in the house!_ God, I hate that commercial. I think that stupid mother must be a advocate of [TCS](http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tcs/). ---
**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 2, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/90 "2003-05-02T16:34:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by InternetLegend \* > \*\*If you can’t get the average Golden Retriever to happily go for a ride in the car, you’re not living your life right. \*\* Amen! Could I borrow that as a sig line? ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/91 "2003-05-02T18:16:28Z")
Thank-you Jess! I can’t stand that commercial. I hate any commercial with spoiled, bratty children. I know my mother never would have let me run through the house with a super soaker. And that older sister should have just clocked the kid. ---
**Author:** ![Liakela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58f4c7/32.png) [@Liakela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liakela)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/92 "2003-05-02T18:45:41Z")
In the DC area, we have: “Hi!” (pronounced Haaiy!) “I’m Tina Gordon, the Sticks n’ Stuff race car driver” And it goes on. And on. And on. And my GOD WOMAN! Get a SPEAKING COACH to ERASE that HORRIBLE southern ACCENT! Ahem. Not that I have anything against southern accents in general. I think most of them are charming. This one, however, makes her sound ridiculously stupid. Not to mention that her voice alone is like nails down a chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/93 "2003-05-02T21:10:11Z")
I guess I’m fortunate that I have no idea what **Liakela** is referring to. Back to the subject of children in commercials, what is it about commercials that need to have the kid mispronounce something? Is this supposed to be cute? It’s not, it _is_ annoying. Like that one for Bob Evans with the kid saying “pasketti”. She’s not auditioning to be the voice of Dolly in some Family Circus special! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/94 "2003-05-03T00:19:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Liakela \* > \*\*In the DC area, we have: > > “Hi!” (pronounced Haaiy!) > > “I’m Tina Gordon, the Sticks n’ Stuff race car driver” > > And it goes on. And on. And on. > > And my GOD WOMAN! Get a SPEAKING COACH to ERASE that HORRIBLE southern ACCENT! \*\* AUGGHH! I hate that one! It’s just awful! I actually change the channel when it comes on. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704/95 "2003-05-03T00:26:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Ketch \* > **How about throwing in a classic? The “Ancient Chinese Secret” ad for Calgon.** I rather liked the SNL Jackie Chan version of this one. “Ancient Chinese secret, huh?” “WHO TELL YOU! I KILL THEM! I KILL YOU!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-commercial-gives-me-an-aneurysm/171704.md?page=4)