# Worst commercial EVER!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 22, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456 "2009-01-22T14:48:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**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:** [January 22, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456/1 "2009-01-22T14:48:46Z")

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Bad. So very bad on so many levels.

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ZbaY98t74)

Now I know what the audience felt like while they watched “Springtime for Hitler.”

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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456/2 "2009-01-22T15:52:34Z")

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Wait - that’s not a _REAL_ commercial, is it?

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456/3 "2009-01-22T17:19:09Z")

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Local commercials always have a tinge of badness. Case in point: Chicago’s [Eagle Insurance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-e4nlfdRI). Apparently, the ad was intentionally meant to be bad, but still.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456/4 "2009-01-22T18:06:36Z")

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Are they intentionally being insulting? Or is this lily-white boy just not getting it?

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456/5 "2009-01-22T18:11:51Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> Are they intentionally being insulting? Or is this lily-white boy just not getting it?

They’re trying to cash in on the popularity of [Madea](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madea), an outspoken older black woman who is the subject of various plays and movies by Tyler Perry.

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456/6 "2009-01-22T18:21:32Z")

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> [@mobo85](#):
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> They’re trying to cash in on the popularity of [Madea](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madea), an outspoken older black woman who is the subject of various plays and movies by Tyler Perry.

And coming close, but not quite topping the bug-eyed minstrelsy of Perry’s own work. I can’t fathom how the commercial would instill in anyone a sense of confidence in the firm’s professionalism.

But I gather I am outside their target demographic.

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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-commercial-ever/482456/7 "2009-01-22T18:24:55Z")

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I don’t even know what they are selling.