Thanks!

Although I've taken to taping shows simply to avoid annoying commercials, to be honest it's tedious, and besides who watches taped TV shows anyway since people only watch TV because when you're watching a broadcast you can pretend it's not as mediocre as you know it is when you have it on tape; we all know that TV is an excuse to procrastinate from doing anything better and so once you have the show on tape,  you can watch it ANYTIME whereas when it's a live broadcast you have to watch it NOW and run back from the kitchen to make sure you don't miss the season finale of "Frasier" that they're only going to show ONE more time ever again on that network but you don't know when, and then it's off to syndication, i.e. you might never see it again.

So clearly it's not quality people watch for, it's diversion and fantasy that it's better than it's even hyped to be (kinda like sex), and commercials are all about getting people to buy crap they don't want with money they don't have, while the way they insult your intelligence just to grab your attention is just like saying "HEY YOU STUPID MUTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE, HAND OVER THE CASH OR ELSE" without having the courage to admit it; however when someone implies that a certain close blood-related woman dropped me on my head as a baby and then went on to have sex with me, and that he wants my money under threat of disaster, at least the person has the decency to admit that he's my enemy and that he hates me, while the marketing-geniuses who spawn this intellectual torture actually act like they're on  your side and they're doing you some sort of favor by attempting to trigger emotional responses and subconscious correlations akin to Soviet brainwashing in order to hypnotize you into involuntarily forking out money to buy ice cubes to send to your pal in northern Alaska. Somehow I'd prefer that if someone insults my intelligence and wants my money under threat, I just ask that they do it directly and not resort to covert PSY-OPS propaganda to commandeer my private brain-activity under the guise of honest information about a product that I would perceive, on my own, to be worth more to me than the money asked in exchange for it, and so all the money which goes to manipulative hoop-la and huckster-hawking backed by buildings full of PhD's in advertising psychology is just for the sheer fun of it-- just like they would have us believe that they go through thousands of models to find the perfect "Maybelline Girl" for the hell of it, since any person could achieve that look simply by using their product, and that women who use 47 different products to attract men don't REALLY want male attention.

I was really impressed with your  handling of dreamweavercatcher@msn.com, since I for one DON'T believe he can reach the morning light, or that he's ever flown an F-15 that doesn't have a multi-player function on the internet. I also get sick of the slackers who think that changing the channel will do anything but encourage the evil ones in the advertising industry for whom no hell could ever burn too long or too hot, and would just as soon turn off Adolph Hitler preaching anti-Semitic hatemongering (we all see how well THAT turned out-- Qui Tacit Consentire)-- with apologies to Tim Robbins and the Dixie Chicks, free speech applies just as much to my right to expressing disapproval to some message that I find abhorrent, as much as it does to their right to originally say it; however, "Fighting Words" like those used by Mr. Weaver are NOT protected by the First Amendment (OR the Second), and it's interesting how those who speak most loudly about Free Speech are the first ones to engage in coercive and abusive conduct in order to suppress the Free Speech of those who criticize anything at all (of course this doesn't apply to their criticism of your criticism, since they're obviously on a mission from God to protect free speech and you've broken God's law by daring to criticize).

 All in all, I have to say you're the one on a mission from God, if there is one.

Tulkas

To Nathan thank you

Nathan I just wanted to thank you for your web site.I love reading what others have to say about those annoying comercials that drive us all crazy.If it was not for your brilliant idea we would probably be going crazy and wishing we could just shoot ourselfs so we did not have to endure another bad commercial.Please keep up the good work!!! Thank you again.
NightFillysStar

Parents: The Anti-Drug

This commercial has been played TO DEATH.  I've heard that some people can recite every line, verbatem.  I'm am so tired of seeing it.  Granted, drug use is a serious problem.  But the commercial encourages parents to make accusations without foundation.  The only thing this commercial has done for me is to remind me of how crummy my childhood was.  I have never been remotely interested in drugs, and so are many other people, and I hate being falsely accused.  That aside, the commercial is so overexposed, it's overkill. 

- Metevault

Commercials I hate

Dear Nathan of Commercials Hate,

I tried, but I just couldn't resist emailing you to inform you of my great enjoyment of your website! It is, in a word, brilliant. I applaud you in your investigation of the Gatorade Mystery Flavors. Possitively hillarious!

I have 1 question though. You said in the letters archive that the shown email was the first obsessive fan letter. Do you get more? That one was really creepy, although funny. Very obsessed.

Well, being I am pretty sure you plenty of emails like this, I just had to put in my 2 cents. Keep doing this! Don't listen to Dreamweavercatcher. He knows nothing. Nothing, I tell you.

Oh, I almost forgot. I totally loved the Taco Bell Dog. I know the whole "Gordita" anthem song thing by heart (very pathetic, but I thought it was adorable...). I am sorry you don't like his cute lil commercials. Oh well, we all can't be fans of small, almost naked, talking dogs.

A Fan, Kristina

The Ebonics Twins

Subject: *EVERYTHING*
10:49:40 03/31/03 Mon (168.184.90.10)
From: "Trice and Cape"
(BlackPrincess59@hotmail.com)
(Cape1986@hotmail.com)
To: nathan @ commercialsihate.com

first of all, the zoom zoom thing was funny as hell. Da thing wit da candy bar was jus a lil DISTURBING u havent gotten any pussy lately have you ? You certainly have absolutely no life if u sit at home and crack on other commercials...it kinda looks like the ONLY WAY you would have sex was if u WERE to give her two diamonds. LOL There are also alot of places where ppl cant write checks...AND ONLY STUPID WHITE PPL WOULD GO SOMEWHERE WITHOUT THEIR ID'S SORRY TO SAY BUT THE TRUTH HURTS... the guy in the tattoo commercial was not ugly. The cingular wireless explanation was GAY if ure gonna crack..crack to where ppl will understand...it might help..and people like OLIVE GARDEN!
well nice talkin to ure sick ass LOL we'll holla or should i put it in white term...WE'll HOLLER at u later
your lovely email senders
cape and tricey
HOLLA=HOLLER (white people)

A little gratitude

Dude, I am a professional voice-over 'artist' (why can't they come up with
a better name for that?) and I have to say that I enjoy this website
tremendously, as well as your sense of humor. Thanks for letting me vent
on your forum from time to time, I really appreciate it. I'll stop there
lest I be labeled an "asskisser".

Have a great day & good luck with your career in creative services.

ann

I bet she lost

Subject: question.
From: Jen
Date:Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:10:15 -0600

Have you ever heard of a commercial for a Chicago insurance agency where a giant chicken lays an egg on the top of a car and the girls get out of the car and say, "Look at those low rates"?  If you have could you send me the name of the company...I'm trying to win a bet!
 
Thanks
Jen

Your Website

Nathan,

Stumbled across your website - I had to leave - my sides hurt from
laughing (my wife thought I was having some kind of attack). Thanks for
brightening my day.

Brian M. Coleman

Tall dark haired DELL boy intern

From: Kristin
Date: Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:52:43 PM US/Pacific
Subject: Tall dark haired DELL boy intern

Well,
I've been watching those DELL commercials, and I must say, that Tall dark haired intern boy is so adorable. I was just curious if anyone knew who he was??? Cmon, id rather watch the commercials with a hot intern, than the DELL commercials with that ugly goofy lookin kid. Sooo..if anyone knows who that cute boy is..lemme know :)
Kristin

Dentyne Ice "subway" commercial

Hi Nathan. My name is Tamara, and I'm curious as to
whether you've seen the newest dentyne ice commercial.
A woman blows her number on the subway window for a
man to read, but he happens to be the only guy without
a pen.

I ask you because I'm a journalist doing a feature on
hairstyles/fashion for spring. A lot of people have
asked me about the woman's haircut, and I can't find a
picture anywhere. Do you have access to a pic, and if
so, would you mind sending it to me? I'd appreciate
anything you could do.
Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,
Tamara Moin