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Topic: Spectrum "What happens on Maple Street..." crap.
Posted By: Jimbo
Subject: Spectrum "What happens on Maple Street..." crap.
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 5:47pm
Another POS fresh from the rectrum of Spectrum.

This one is TRULY sickening.

The pale, skinny, mousy faced know-it-all beotch treats her fat, dimwitted husband like something she stepped in then had to scrape off the bottom of her shoe.

First, she just decides on her own that they're switching to Spectrum without any input from el dork-o whatsoever.

Then, at one point, she snarks "Shouldn't you get ready for work...?" after which he hangs his head and slunks away like a whipped puppy.

Then she takes a superior attitude over not having a contract.



I think she's hot to trot for the young, stud cable boy and wants her fat dork husband to get the hell out of the house so she can give cable boy his "bonus".





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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States



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Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 6:03pm
God, I've been looking for this one.  Angry

That woman?  I've never hit a woman but she comes a close second to the last woman I wanted to smack upside her noggin.






And!  I think the asshat husband works for one of the satellite companies.  That's just how Sharter Rectum operates.




Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 6:12pm
I have difficulty figuring out which one of those two disgust me the most.

Her for being such a bitchy little snot rag or him for being such a d'wimp (dork wimp).

I hope their TV gets fried by a massive power surge.

Right in the middle of "her show".


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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 7:32pm
To further emasculate him, they have him wearing pink. 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 7:52pm
Thor is home early today.


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 7:56pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

To further emasculate him, they have him wearing pink.


He doesn't look like he was ever very masculated to begin with.


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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Amish-Selfie
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 11:01pm
Thanks, Jimbo! Logged in for the first time in months planning just to complain about this offal. Tickled Spectrum (or would that be speculum?) pink that you started the thread.

Yep, not sure which is worse...whipped hubby or bug-eyed wifey who dry-humps the young cable guy at every turn.

Actually what is worst of all is the fact they air this stinker about every break in prime time. It took about 20 times though before I could understand what Whipped Hubby mumbles about Maple Street.

"Mood=Funny," according to iSpot. No, no it isn't. Not the first time and not after 325,678 airings.






Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2017 at 11:15pm
Originally posted by Amish-Selfie Amish-Selfie wrote:

Thanks, Jimbo! Logged in for the first time in months planning just to complain about this offal. Tickled Spectrum (or would that be speculum?) pink that you started the thread.

Yep, not sure which is worse...whipped hubby or bug-eyed wifey who dry-humps the young cable guy at every turn.

Actually what is worst of all is the fact they air this stinker about every break in prime time. It took about 20 times though before I could understand what Whipped Hubby mumbles about Maple Street.

"Mood=Funny," according to iSpot. No, no it isn't. Not the first time and not after 325,678 airings.


Thanks!!!

Glad you liked my rant and were able to get your own rant out too!!

This place is cathartic that way, isn't it?

Hope you come around more often now!!!





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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Anduril
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 1:56am
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

To further emasculate him, they have him wearing pink.


He doesn't look like he was ever very masculated to begin with.
 
Well, to his credit - at least he knows enough to be HIGHLY SKEPTICAL of any service Charter Spectrum claims to offer.
 
 


Posted By: DarkRealmStar
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 4:44am
So it's $89.97 for ALL THREE and you can't get just one or two for $29.99 each because it all has to be bundled.  Why don't they just say it's 90 bucks for all three!

Are men wearing long sweaters now?  I thought it was a lab coat in the still shot.

Yeah, honey, get your ass outta here and get to work so I can watch my soaps all day for $29.99 a month!  LOL


Posted By: DarkRealmStar
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 4:48am
Yeah, the Cable Guy is setting himself up for What Happens on Maple Street Stays on Maple Street when the hardworking hubby takes off!!!  ROFLMAO Wink  LOL


Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 5:44pm
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Amish-Selfie Amish-Selfie wrote:

Thanks, Jimbo! Logged in for the first time in months planning just to complain about this offal. Tickled Spectrum (or would that be speculum?) pink that you started the thread.

Yep, not sure which is worse...whipped hubby or bug-eyed wifey who dry-humps the young cable guy at every turn.

Actually what is worst of all is the fact they air this stinker about every break in prime time. It took about 20 times though before I could understand what Whipped Hubby mumbles about Maple Street.

"Mood=Funny," according to iSpot. No, no it isn't. Not the first time and not after 325,678 airings.


Thanks!!!

Glad you liked my rant and were able to get your own rant out too!!

This place is cathartic that way, isn't it?

Hope you come around more often now!!!





This commercials pretty sh*tty!

The only way this ad could have been better is if he said "Elm Street" and they got a visit from Freddy Creugar after she fell asleep while she was watching "her show"

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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 5:57pm
Originally posted by Ad nauseous Ad nauseous wrote:

This commercials pretty sh*tty!

The only way this ad could have been better is if he said "Elm Street" and they got a visit from Freddy Creugar after she fell asleep while she was watching "her show"


"What happens in a Nightmare on Elm Street, stays in a Nightmare on Elm Street!!!"





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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: crainbebo
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2017 at 7:48am
I've had enough with Spectrum, that I'd love for my cable to go out 'in the rain in the middle of my show'. Now my bill is almost $180/month, a $5 increase the past year. This apartment complex sucks you into two choices - Spectrum or rabbit ears. I keep griping about how I want out of Spectrum and switch to Dish. Not an option anymore unfortunately.
My apartment has now banned satellite dishes and my neighbors were forced to take them down. Downstairs they had Dish Network for at least 2 years. They can give you 30 days notice. This place sucks you into Charter Piece-of-Crap and doesn't let go...no other choice! We're considering going down to an antenna. 
EDIT: Also, notice the singing pirate ad from a couple years ago is playing on their TV screen?


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Back after a long absence...still hating those commercials. Go away Limu Emu and Doug!


Posted By: Anduril
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2017 at 11:53am
Originally posted by crainbebo crainbebo wrote:

I've had enough with Spectrum, that I'd love for my cable to go out 'in the rain in the middle of my show'. Now my bill is almost $180/month, a $5 increase the past year. This apartment complex sucks you into two choices - Spectrum or rabbit ears. I keep griping about how I want out of Spectrum and switch to Dish. Not an option anymore unfortunately.
My apartment has now banned satellite dishes and my neighbors were forced to take them down. Downstairs they had Dish Network for at least 2 years. They can give you 30 days notice. This place sucks you into Charter Piece-of-Crap and doesn't let go...no other choice! We're considering going down to an antenna. 
EDIT: Also, notice the singing pirate ad from a couple years ago is playing on their TV screen?
 
It is not legal for your apartment complex to ban the installation of satellite dishes so long as they comply with certain criteria.
 
See:  https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/installing-consumer-owned-antennas-and-satellite-dishes" rel="nofollow - https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/installing-consumer-owned-antennas-and-satellite-dishes
 
If you decide to pursue this course and encounter any roadblocks, PM me and I'll help put you in touch with the Region-3 FCC Enforcement Bureau agents out of the Portland office.  Apartment complexes rarely "win", but it can sour the relationship and they will sometimes try to retaliate in other ways.   If so, that too may be illegal in your area.  Might be time to set them up and try to cash in?
 
I'd be tempted.
Good luck.


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2017 at 12:48pm
Originally posted by Anduril Anduril wrote:

Originally posted by crainbebo crainbebo wrote:

I've had enough with Spectrum, that I'd love for my cable to go out 'in the rain in the middle of my show'. Now my bill is almost $180/month, a $5 increase the past year. This apartment complex sucks you into two choices - Spectrum or rabbit ears. I keep griping about how I want out of Spectrum and switch to Dish. Not an option anymore unfortunately.
My apartment has now banned satellite dishes and my neighbors were forced to take them down. Downstairs they had Dish Network for at least 2 years. They can give you 30 days notice. This place sucks you into Charter Piece-of-Crap and doesn't let go...no other choice! We're considering going down to an antenna. 
EDIT: Also, notice the singing pirate ad from a couple years ago is playing on their TV screen?
 
It is not legal for your apartment complex to ban the installation of satellite dishes so long as they comply with certain criteria.
 
See:  https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/installing-consumer-owned-antennas-and-satellite-dishes" rel="nofollow - https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/installing-consumer-owned-antennas-and-satellite-dishes
 
If you decide to pursue this course and encounter any roadblocks, PM me and I'll help put you in touch with the Region-3 FCC Enforcement Bureau agents out of the Portland office.  Apartment complexes rarely "win", but it can sour the relationship and they will sometimes try to retaliate in other ways.   If so, that too may be illegal in your area.  Might be time to set them up and try to cash in?
 
I'd be tempted.
Good luck.


There's always the Netflix - Hulu option.


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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2017 at 6:34pm
Or, you could go with the fruity, nanobrew, just below the leather belt, chocolate fag.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!




Posted By: MrTim
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2017 at 6:25am
Quote The pale, skinny, mousy faced know-it-all beotch treats her fat, dimwitted husband like something she stepped in then had to scrape off the bottom of her shoe.

She'll divorce him now that she doesn't have to sleep with him to get free cable, since something "better" came along...  


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Posted By: flychinook
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2017 at 5:43am
This bugs me too... I can't think of any other product that could get away with this crap.

Kidney beans, one cent!*
*each, when bundled


Posted By: Ian16545
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2017 at 6:28am
Add me to the ranks of this growing list of whoever loathes this poor excuse for a cable ad. At least this gives new meaning to "competition's paying the price", if nothing else.

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Posted By: jnoble
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2017 at 4:39am
Yet another example of "smart wife, dumb emasculated husband"


Posted By: crainbebo
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2017 at 6:22pm
This stupid ad is still airing 6-8 times a day. I'd love for her Spectrum to go out 'in the rain in the middle of my show' so she can complain and switch to DirecTV...not after spilling coffee on herself, getting a paper cut and banging her head several times. This stupid apartment and their rules!

OTOH, not only do they not allow dishes, but they don't allow you to spray paint parking spot numbers! My parking spot has both the new '9' and 'VISITOR' showing at the same time. More times than not my parking spot is taken when I come back from the store. This makes me very mad! Sometimes the person sits there for the whole weekend, forcing me to take a visitor spot several doors down. Apartment told me I'm not allowed to spray paint a '9' over the visitor sign. AngryAngry



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Back after a long absence...still hating those commercials. Go away Limu Emu and Doug!


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2017 at 7:37pm
Originally posted by crainbebo crainbebo wrote:

OTOH, not only do they not allow dishes, but they don't allow you to spray paint parking spot numbers! My parking spot has both the new '9' and 'VISITOR' showing at the same time. More times than not my parking spot is taken when I come back from the store. This makes me very mad! Sometimes the person sits there for the whole weekend, forcing me to take a visitor spot several doors down. Apartment told me I'm not allowed to spray paint a '9' over the visitor sign. AngryAngry


Your mistake was in asking permission.

I would've just done it without asking, then denied that I was the one who did it if they said anything to me about it...





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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Anduril
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2017 at 10:38pm
Originally posted by crainbebo crainbebo wrote:

OTOH, not only do they not allow dishes, but they don't allow you to spray paint parking spot numbers! My parking spot has both the new '9' and 'VISITOR' showing at the same time. More times than not my parking spot is taken when I come back from the store. This makes me very mad! Sometimes the person sits there for the whole weekend, forcing me to take a visitor spot several doors down. Apartment told me I'm not allowed to spray paint a '9' over the visitor sign. AngryAngry
 
Did they happen to mention whether you could just paint over the "Visitor" with a square colored to match the background.  Do that, and then claim later that you didn't understand their directions.
 
 


Posted By: Jay
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 9:50pm
I love your depiction but I don’t hate this one. The husband saves it for me. His expression and what he says at the end cracks me up.
Yes the wife cucks her hubby out, doesn’t tell him she called a competitor to buy his product, and finally cuts his balls off by telling him to get ready for work. But like I said, I feel sorry for the husband so that’s how I handle putting up with this ad.

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Jay


Posted By: Anduril
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 1:31am
Originally posted by Jay Jay wrote:

I love your depiction but I don’t hate this one. The husband saves it for me. His expression and what he says at the end cracks me up.
Yes the wife cucks her hubby out, doesn’t tell him she called a competitor to buy his product, and finally cuts his balls off by telling him to get ready for work. But like I said, I feel sorry for the husband so that’s how I handle putting up with this ad.
 
Think about it...
That makes YOU the target demographic!
 
DIRECT HIT.  Tongue
 
Now, if you'll just opt for the "Triple Play - Gold" package.


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 1:41am
Originally posted by Anduril Anduril wrote:

Originally posted by Jay Jay wrote:

I love your depiction but I don’t hate this one. The husband saves it for me. His expression and what he says at the end cracks me up.
Yes the wife cucks her hubby out, doesn’t tell him she called a competitor to buy his product, and finally cuts his balls off by telling him to get ready for work. But like I said, I feel sorry for the husband so that’s how I handle putting up with this ad.


Think about it...
That makes YOU the target demographic!

DIRECT HIT.  Tongue

Now, if you'll just opt for the "Triple Play - Gold" package.


Ouch!!!!




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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Jay
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 2:05am
Yup,’I’m a spectrum customer already. Good thing I don’t hate that ad or I would have to cancel service

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Jay


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 2:19am
I joined the Free TV Cable Cutter Revolution many years ago.

I get my TV over the airwaves via an antenna.

I get about 50+ channels overall. After deleting all the Spanish and religious and Spanish religious channels, I still get over 30 decent, watchable stations.

Don't miss cable or satellite one bit.


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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 5:12am
Just last night I realized Spectrum was available in this area. Never seen a commercial for it here and if I had seen THIS one, it would have not had any positive impact on my decision on who provides the service, here. I do not understand how anyone could find this commercial humorous in any way.
It isn't funny. 
It is demeaning.
 


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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 5:19am
Originally posted by PaWolf PaWolf wrote:

Just last night I realized Spectrum was available in this area. Never seen a commercial for it here and if I had seen THIS one, it would have not had any positive impact on my decision on who provides the service, here. I do not understand how anyone could find this commercial humorous in any way.
It isn't funny.
It is demeaning.


Especially if you're a tubby bald goofball with a skinny, mousey-looking, snotty, snippy little twit for a wife.


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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 5:42am
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by PaWolf PaWolf wrote:

Just last night I realized Spectrum was available in this area. Never seen a commercial for it here and if I had seen THIS one, it would have not had any positive impact on my decision on who provides the service, here. I do not understand how anyone could find this commercial humorous in any way.
It isn't funny.
It is demeaning.


Especially if you're a tubby bald goofball with a skinny, mousey-looking, snotty, snippy little twit for a wife.
Even the tubby bald goofball could refinish the garage floor, doncha know...it just isn't that hard!
 
"I swear, officer! She took the Greyhound to her sister's compound somewhere around Salt Lake City after I refused to get Spectrum..."


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"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 6:36am
Originally posted by PaWolf PaWolf wrote:

Even the tubby bald goofball could refinish the garage floor, doncha know...it just isn't that hard!


"I swear, officer! She took the Greyhound to her sister's compound somewhere around Salt Lake City after I refused to get Spectrum..."


I dunno. That luminol is pretty sensitive stuff.

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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 6:39am
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by PaWolf PaWolf wrote:

Even the tubby bald goofball could refinish the garage floor, doncha know...it just isn't that hard!


"I swear, officer! She took the Greyhound to her sister's compound somewhere around Salt Lake City after I refused to get Spectrum..."


I dunno. That luminol is pretty sensitive stuff.
Bleeding isn't a pre-requisite, it's simply an option.
 
Always gotta think like a wolf there, Brobo - if it needs to bleed, remember there are more mouths to feed; turn it over to family.


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"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike


Posted By: crainbebo
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2018 at 4:24am
I've seen this commercial 25 times this week, at least. I still hope Charter's crappy cable goes out in the rain in the middle of 'her show' so she can b***h and go back to Dish or DirecTV. $179 a month my a$$.

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Back after a long absence...still hating those commercials. Go away Limu Emu and Doug!


Posted By: crunchycon
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2018 at 2:16pm
Words cannot express how much I hate this commercial. I hate this woman with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. Turns me right off Spectrum.



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