# Your monthly commercial thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771 "2012-09-05T18:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/41 "2012-09-11T05:50:05Z")
Since this Axe commercial uses a Daniel Johnston song that makes me cry, I get to weep 3-4 times an hour now. I’d change the channel, but I don’t think any of us will hear too much Daniel Johnston before we die. I apparently haven’t. Thanks for using a great song, jackasses. [Yep, I couldn’t stop myself from listening to it again when looking up the link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvX71ZbTk-E) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/42 "2012-09-11T06:02:00Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Since this Axe commercial uses a Daniel Johnston song that makes me cry, I get to weep 3-4 times an hour now. I’d change the channel, but I don’t think any of us will hear too much Daniel Johnston before we die. I apparently haven’t. Thanks for using a great song, jackasses. > > [Yep, I couldn’t stop myself from listening to it again when looking up the link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvX71ZbTk-E) Seriously, your biggest issue with that commercial is the music? ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/43 "2012-09-11T06:15:25Z")
One of mine is this one: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I) “Uuuhhhh, Bonjour.” ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/44 "2012-09-11T06:31:20Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Seriously, your biggest issue with that commercial is the music? Yep. Axe commercials are stupid. I’ve learned to live with that. Stupid commercials making me cry? Yeah, that bugs me. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/45 "2012-09-11T12:55:03Z")
I like this here one (stumbled across it on the Information Superhighway): [Commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_uafuWfTh8) mmm ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/46 "2012-09-11T15:38:12Z")
I wanted to mention the commercial with the most god awful, homicide inducing, stabby making song I’ve ever had the displeasure to hear, but couldn’t remember what it was for, mostly because when it comes on I make a beeline for the mute button. Lo and behold, [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=665128) provided me with the unholy answer. Thank heaven for _this_ thread, so I’m not forced to defecate copiously in that one. On a similar but unrelated note, someone started a thread about the movie _Rashomon_, which to me is undoubtedly the most overrated piece of cinematic dreck that I’ve seen (not the worst movie ever made, just the most overrated). It’s like I’m on a contrary, psychic wave with my fellow dopers! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/47 "2012-09-12T06:53:11Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I also laugh every time I see the Vontage commercial where the creepy stepford neighbors come with a bundle and a puppy. I love how she says “puppy!” and the look the dog has is also quite funny. That darn Vonage commercial! Every time I talk to my dog now, I call him “Puppy” in that same creepy tone of voice. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/48 "2012-09-12T15:38:04Z")
The Ricky Gervais commercial that starts out with someone, for some reason, throwing a hand-grenade at him. It’s such a busy, big budget commercial that they apparently have to play it fifty times a day in order to get their money’s worth out of it. And for some reason, I detest the zombie girl who appears about half way through it. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/49 "2012-09-12T16:07:26Z")
Progressive and Flo and getting a little old, but I still snicker at “[Flobot is broken!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvnMnMYDloE)”. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/50 "2012-09-12T17:27:27Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Obscure complaint it may be, but there’s a current advert for McDonald’s that has a nerdy guy on a park bench, trying to impress a lady by faking knowledge of a French sculptor, that bugs the hell out of me. > > OK, so men are habitual liars whenever they speak to women, that’s a bog-standard commercial meme. What really bugs me is that during the whole commercial, he’s holding his cup of McDonald’s coffee _like no one in real life has ever held a cup of coffee anywhere_. Ever. I’m not sure how to explain it, but the hand is in a very odd and unnatural position. It’s clear the Director was instructed to make sure the logo was visible on the cup, but the result somehow just looks…disturbing. The McDonald’s commercial that is currently driving me crazy is the one where the whiney-ass guy in a hotel calls down to the concierge and wants him to go fetch breakfast for him at the McDonald’s across the street. Uh, dude, the concierge is not your personal gofer. Get off your lazy ass and walk across the street for your own damn breakfast. (Which is what I would tell the guy if _ **I** _ was the concierge!) ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/51 "2012-09-13T02:55:46Z")
Usually I bitch about commercials, but there is one I absolutely love right now for [Ruffles Potato Chips](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaXiclTXeQA). You have to watch it: fairly dowdy GF tags along with BF’s poker game. She has a Ruffles chip… then she has headphones and sunglasses, and so on. I love the headphones. She’s also cute, but it’s not selling sex… just coolness magically coming from Ruffles. And I am adding “ba-ZING!” to my vocabulary. This other one… I think I hate it in the short version, but I’m intrigued by the long version. It’s for Heineken, [“The Switch.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZtDqpdvy7s) Dudes go into a dive bar, and magically, by pulling a giant gear shifter, it turns into the most happening spot in town. Replete with a Amy Winehouse look- and sound-alike. The long version has some funny bits, like the piano player hanging on for dear life. The short version, IMO, is badly edited, and the barkeep comes across as spasmodic and creepy. The Winehouse clone is also a little WTF. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/52 "2012-09-13T15:47:38Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Usually I bitch about commercials, but there is one I absolutely love right now for [Ruffles Potato Chips](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaXiclTXeQA). You have to watch it: fairly dowdy GF tags along with BF’s poker game. She has a Ruffles chip… then she has headphones and sunglasses, and so on. I love the headphones. She’s also cute, but it’s not selling sex… just coolness magically coming from Ruffles. And I am adding “ba-ZING!” to my vocabulary. I think she is an actual professional poker player. I’m actually on the opposite end of this and I don’t like the commercial because it makes no real sense, eating ruffles chips and the dip makes you cool? I guess? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/53 "2012-09-13T15:57:30Z")
Buffalo Wild Wings has some new [good](http://www.youtube.com/user/buffalowildwings?v=dn_1k9_4Nj8) [ones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WHqpRwGyPU&list=SP9A14C17FB27ABAC1&index=1&feature=plcp&noredirect=1). ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/54 "2012-09-13T16:06:43Z")
There has been this loathsome commercial running, where I live, all summer. I despise it. I believe it’s for allergy medicine of some sort or other. There is a woman on a floating chair in her pool, in a large summery back yard. Then the announcer says something along the lines of, ‘Don’t let your allergies steal your summer…’, and BLING, in a flash, the same yard, covered in several feet of snow, her, freezing on her chair, in the middle of her frozen over pool! They have a second similar ad, with the same drastic climax, that also seems to run endlessly. All summer they’ve been running them! I love the summer and do not, repeat DO NOT, need to be reminded of the brutal winter, that may lay ahead. I am busy basking in the sunshine and heat, sucking in all the heady scents and lush greens. Leave me the hell alone! Another company runs one, this time of the year, that I quite enjoy, I’m not even sure now, what they sell, to be honest. It’s a woman happily walking down a sun dappled street, in summery clothes, under green trees. All of a sudden, right before her, a golden leaf slowly falls gently to the sidewalk. At which point she let’s out a most unholy scream! Yeah, I kind of enjoy that one, when I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/55 "2012-09-13T16:39:30Z")
Now there’s a new Geico commercial with Eddie Money. How happy are Geico customers? Happier than Eddie Money owning a travel agency. And he’s singing “Two Tickets to Paradise.” Have you _seen_ Eddie Money lately? :eek::eek::eek: He looks like Rosemary Clooney in a leather muumuu. The whole thing gives off the desperate reek of they’re using Take 117 but they’re going to have to wrap because there’s just nothing else they can do. His voice is gone and he just . . . he’s a zombie. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/56 "2012-09-13T20:29:21Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Since this Axe commercial uses a Daniel Johnston song that makes me cry, I get to weep 3-4 times an hour now. I’d change the channel, but I don’t think any of us will hear too much Daniel Johnston before we die. I apparently haven’t. Thanks for using a great song, jackasses. > > [Yep, I couldn’t stop myself from listening to it again when looking up the link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvX71ZbTk-E) That one. So the premise is that the first thing women notice about men is their hair, like the first thing men notice about women is their cleavage. Thus one person is all hair, the other all cleavage. Great. So, why did you pick such a godaweful haircut for your “use axe to make a good impression”? Maybe you should pick someone who actually brushes his hair, or something? Not a shaggy dirty old mop. > [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Now there’s a new Geico commercial with Eddie Money. How happy are Geico customers? Happier than Eddie Money owning a travel agency. And he’s singing “Two Tickets to Paradise.” The one with “happier than Gallagher at a farmer’s market”, with Gallagher running around with his giant mallet, smashing watermelons at a roadside fruitstand. Hey Gallagher, you gonna pay for that watermelon you’re smashing all over the place? And I’m not sure why a bodybuilder would like to direct traffic. Maybe because it gives him high visibility, and an excuse for all the posing? ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/57 "2012-09-14T02:40:51Z")
Does Aaron Rodgers live in hell? Check out this video on YouTube: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmF1NuFDes) That’s just one of three ads that I’ve seen that are overly red. And it’s not just his man cave. One of them is an all red locker room. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/58 "2012-09-14T03:08:55Z")
> [@](#): > > I DO NOT get the one that I think is for a refrigerator or something. The family has pulled into the garage with groceries, but instead of carrying them into the house in bags like normal people, they’re passing each item hand over hand “bucket brigade” style to mom, who puts each thing in the fridge. Milk, watermelon, orange juice. Can’t figure that one out for the life of me. God, I hate that one too. Hello, your reefer is full to the brim, go ahead, find that thing you want in the back, go ahead, pull out every damn thing and stack it somewhere while the thing heats up. Besides, a refridgerator runs better when there’s some space. Freezer run better full. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/59 "2012-09-14T03:23:14Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I think she is an actual professional poker player. > > I’m actually on the opposite end of this and I don’t like the commercial because it makes no real sense, eating ruffles chips and the dip makes you cool? I guess? But that’s what I love about it. It’s so… random. Ruffles has the ability to de-nerdify. Also, her contented sigh. Them’s some good chips! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771/60 "2012-09-14T05:18:37Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > But that’s what I love about it. It’s so… random. Ruffles has the ability to de-nerdify. > > Also, her contented sigh. Them’s some good chips! On a personal note…that dip is yummy as hell [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-monthly-commercial-thread/633771.md?page=4)