# This is the worst fucking commercial ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604 "2016-07-10T20:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/41 "2016-07-11T19:10:40Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Remember the Levitra commercial where a guy threw a football through a tire swing? > > :rolleyes: I have to admit, that commercial went right over my head. I had no idea it was for a penis pill, I thought it was for something like Celebrex for muscle or joint pain. Get back in the game! ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/42 "2016-07-11T19:37:15Z")
That is the worst commercial ever HANDS DOWN. I know, because I have the privileged of seeing it 5-10 times a day. I would like to meet the guy, and I bet it is a guy, who green-lighted that piece of crap. I will never purchase anything from Spectrum ever. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/43 "2016-07-11T20:33:43Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > It’s interesting that most of the worst ads I know of I can’t call the company or in many cases even the product. Let me add the reverse. There are certain ads I like a lot. I even have a small collection. Like the Miller Lite Man Law ads, and the VW Unpimp my ride. I know them, like them, watch them every so often. I’m never going to drink Lite or buy a VW. But I would call them successful ads. They don’t make random viewers hate the product! ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/44 "2016-07-11T20:39:54Z")
Is the OP referring only to TV advertisements? Because that doesn’t come close to the worst ad I’ve seen on line, which has been the looping in-your-face audio about SOFT AND CHUNKY COOKIES! (And let’s not derail this thread by recommending ad-blockers - that’s great advice, but we’re just discussing the commercials themselves here.) ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/45 "2016-07-11T20:59:12Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > So I was watching TV today when [this](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AD2K/charter-spectrum-triple-play-beatbox-featuring-80fitz) Charter Communications commercial came on. Wow. It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Just…_why_? Someone earns a living coming up with ideas like this?? Charter seems to prefer extremely annoying commercials. This is the third in a row that I have hurt myself trying to get to the mute button. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/46 "2016-07-11T21:20:04Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > So I was watching TV today when [this](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AD2K/charter-spectrum-triple-play-beatbox-featuring-80fitz) Charter Communications commercial came on. Wow. It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Just…_why_? Someone earns a living coming up with ideas like this?? Aw shucks. It isn’t even [the worst Charter commercial ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6GLHTdcVo&list=PLmmwdzmAIyTJ_XP3xuO7zzmRA0zf-oI3Y&index=54) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/47 "2016-07-11T21:33:50Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Aw shucks. It isn’t even [the worst Charter commercial ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6GLHTdcVo&list=PLmmwdzmAIyTJ_XP3xuO7zzmRA0zf-oI3Y&index=54) But the redhead’s cute! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/48 "2016-07-11T21:54:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > We watched an episode of _Daria_ on MTV Sunday morning. It’s interesting - you see a completely different series of ads. Talk about a completely different target demographic! I’m in California, and I watch The Daily Show on satellite, so I get to see it at 8 pm our time. The commercials for the 8 pm showing and the later 11 pm I think showing are way different - the later one having a lot more meet hot girls phone sex ads. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/49 "2016-07-11T23:02:31Z")
Here’s one that’s played all the time here in Connecticut. It’s over-the-top bad: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nyn1YZ1k0Y4/hqdefault.jpg "bedding barn.... the WORST .. but funny as hell .. commercial EVER!! XD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyn1YZ1k0Y4) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/50 "2016-07-11T23:15:24Z")
In Portland we are blessed with the [Outrageous Audio](https://youtu.be/3iyUhFM_Sbg) guy. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/51 "2016-07-12T00:05:21Z")
Here is what makes those Charter commercials so bad. They have a HOT chick they could be [showing us instead.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9cjlRUJ9LY) I don’t even care what she is saying. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/52 "2016-07-12T00:15:23Z")
You people that just put up a link to youtube and then say “Oh no THIS is the worst” aren’t really making me want to click on that link. It reminds me of that old SNL skit, “Boy this cat box STINKS, here smell!” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/53 "2016-07-12T00:21:23Z")
Due respect, **Ambi** , but you threw out a “somethingest something ever” to a bunch of Dopers, and expected taciturn nods? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/54 "2016-07-12T00:30:08Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I miss Smilin’ Ed and his Enzyte boner pills. total fraud, but he and Mrs. Smilin’ Ed were hilarious. This new crop of floozies looking all cute holding a football or lolling around in a wood treehouse and giving all those fake ‘meaningful’ looks at their men (praying for boners?) make me a bit queasy. As do those stupid lube commercials shown a million times a night on certain channels, not that I mind lube commercials, but a million times a night? I miss Smilin’ Ed too. And I certainly agree about the lube commercials. I was watching some stupid show at 10 in the MORNING and they were showing two people in bed gazing into each other’s eyes and touching each other and talking about how this stuff makes you tingle all over or something. Ick. 10 at night, ok. Mornings are for game shows and shit. Not lube. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/55 "2016-07-12T00:39:50Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > That is the worst commercial ever HANDS DOWN. Finally, some sense. 😃 > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Due respect, **Ambi** , but you threw out a “somethingest something ever” to a bunch of Dopers, and expected taciturn nods? Yes. After all, errbody around here is smart, right? Well then they should _know_ Im correct. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/56 "2016-07-12T02:19:39Z")
In my humble view, the marketing geniuses in Japan have the market cornered on annoying commercials: Exhibit #1:[Lotte Fit’s gum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STqFXr5N5AI) Exhibit #2:[pIZZA-LA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tSyDHXViM) Exhibit #3:[Gummy Sours](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPegBgq1iIY) Your mileage may vary, of course. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/57 "2016-07-14T20:35:04Z")
When I was a kid playing television, we would say, “Let’s pause now for station identification” (remember that?) I could envision kids nowadays sitting in the wading pool holding hands and saying, “We’re playing Cialis commercial.” 😛 :smack: BTW, the launch of Cialis was delayed by some months because some people with the surname Cialis found out about it and sued the drug company (unsuccessfully) to have its name changed. TRUE STORY ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/58 "2016-07-14T20:51:38Z")
Hey, I was actually IN a TV commercial that bore a certain resemblance to the one linked in the OP - mainly in that it featured an irritatingly cheerful jingle with rather plodding lyrics about how much customers would like the product. I didn’t have to sing or lip-sync, though. In my case, “cheap” was the order of the day (the day being 1993), so a bunch of us employees had to be in the commercial, rather than hiring professional actors. The product was a job hotline that used a 900 number to let people hear job advertisements, which they could select by going through a voice-mail process to select type of job, location, etc. It wasn’t a bad idea at the time, but it was poorly implemented and was only even remotely viable in the pre-Internet era. Anyway, to the tune of “call 1-976-JAY-OH-BEE-ESS!”, we had to stand around looking “professional” or something. I believe I was dressed in nice clothes but not a business suit, and I was consulting a clipboard. So I don’t know what job I was supposed to represent. Door-to-door fundraiser for an advocacy group, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/59 "2016-07-14T21:01:42Z")
> [@Enlightening\_Meditation](#): > > In my humble view, the marketing geniuses in Japan have the market cornered on annoying commercials: > > Exhibit #1:[Lotte Fit’s gum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STqFXr5N5AI) > > Exhibit #2:[pIZZA-LA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tSyDHXViM) > > Exhibit #3:[Gummy Sours](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPegBgq1iIY) > > Your mileage may vary, of course. I like these. Especially the Pizza-La one. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-worst-fucking-commercial-ever/759604/60 "2016-07-14T22:25:35Z")
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