# TV commercials you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 4, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780 "2002-04-04T14:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![alibey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alibey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alibey)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780/121 "2002-04-26T23:07:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AlaItalia \* > \*\* > Well, I can’t remember any specifically right now. I’ve heard it on car commercials and credit card commercials and I think one for Ireland or something. It’s this “yada yada la la” singing with no words which sounds like maybe it’s a foreign language but I don’t think it is. It’s just kind of a melodic sound-making. I don’t know why it bugs me so badly. > \*\* I think that it is a comercial from the Irish Tourism Board, with “Linger” by the Cranberries playing in the background. Except for the part of the song in the comercial, it is in English. ---
**Author:** ![alibey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alibey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alibey)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780/122 "2002-04-26T23:13:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AlaItalia \* > \*\* > Well, I can’t remember any specifically right now. I’ve heard it on car commercials and credit card commercials and I think one for Ireland or something. It’s this “yada yada la la” singing with no words which sounds like maybe it’s a foreign language but I don’t think it is. It’s just kind of a melodic sound-making. I don’t know why it bugs me so badly. > \*\* I think that it is a comercial from the Irish Tourism Board, with “Linger” by the Cranberries playing in the background. Except for the part of the song in the comercial, it is in English. ---
**Author:** ![alibey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alibey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alibey)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780/123 "2002-04-26T23:18:02Z")
bloddy connection, I didn’t mean to post twice. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780/124 "2002-04-27T01:37:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\* > > This is actually for Sears. Trivial, I know, but I have a good memory of what company uses what ads. \*\* Okay, you caught me with my guard down. It _is_ JCPenney. I was getting confused remembering another thread that said Sears was using the slogan “It’s all inside” in their commercials (Which is wrong. JCPenney is). I got the two confused. ;j\ **Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780/125 "2002-04-27T05:18:40Z") Judging by the amount of Dell, Red Dot, etc. complaints I’m seeing, something tells me that a lot of us watch Buffy on F/X. Am I right? 🆒 I can’t stand it when F/X is over-hyping their new movie/TV series… and they start 3 months in advance. Two months before the show premiered, Laura and I were already mocking “The Shield” commercials to much merryment. The worst commercials are those Pepsi spots with that “cute” brown-haired little girl who does the “voices.” MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE, MAKE IT STO-O-O-O-P! I also hate commercials that make men look like total idiots when it comes to their homes/children/sock drawer, etc. For once I’d like to see a commercial where the guy says something like: " ‘No, you stupid bint. Press “menu” then “clock set” then make your changes. How much easier can Samsung make their VCR’s?’ _voiceover as the joy of discovery breaks over a womans face as she sets clock on VCR_ ‘Samsung: so easy, your wife can program it’ " or "You know honey, all you had to do was press this button here, grab this and swing it this way, and viola! Instant 8-foot ladder. Think you can swing it from now on, or are we going to have to go over this 5 or 6 more times like we did ‘how to fix a jammed up printer’? _voiceover, as camera peers over womans shoulder as she uses a darning needle to pry paper bits from a printer_ ‘Ace Hardware: The right tools for the right people.’ " ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780/126 "2002-04-27T06:01:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*Oh, I gotta add that commercial they inflicted upon me after tonights wretched episode of the Simpsons, where the kid’s stand in front of the store gargling milk and Hershey’s syrup. Yeah, don’t think I’ll be buying any of their shit any time soon. \*\* The really stupid thing about that commercial is that all the kid had to do was pour some chocolate into the milk container, close the lid, _shake it up_, and voila! Chocolate milk! :rolleyes: Otoh, I like the ad where the kid bangs his fists on the chocolate bars in the Fine Chocolate store. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-commercials-you-hate/101780.md?page=6)