VH1 | December 5, 2014 8:00 am

-Megan Meadows

We can all probably admit that we’ll spend a good amount of the holiday season in front of the tube mindlessly watching lame commercials. Yet something that always makes us do a double take is when we see an awesome celebrity in one of these lame commercials shilling some random product that: 1. You know they’re not using, and 2. They’re way too good for.

Cue those Macy’s holiday commercials which try to squeeze in every celebrity ever like it’s a Valentines Day sequel. Everybody’s gotta put their kids through the high classes, but the following celebrity ad campaigns have us asking ourselves: Why? Just, why?

Amy Poehler for Ancient Navy

She’s our girl. Who’s girl is she not? Her new book is already a New York Times best peddler, Parks and Regeneration is returning for a seventh season, she’s about to host the Golden Globes with Tina Fey again, and…she’s in Ancient Navy commercials? She’s amusing as always in these ads — and seems over them as she’s in them — but what is a woman who was once doing adorable print ads for The Gap doing playing retail characters? She’s so talented we can’t judge, but we DO wish we were a glide on the wall when she accepted this contract.

Matthew McConaughey for Lincoln Motor Co.

Remember when McConaughey’s costars were the likes of Woody Harrelson and Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, his most recent costars in Lincoln Motor Co.’s car commercials are a bull and a smooth riding SUV. Dude, you win an Oscar and go to Disneyland, you don’t win an Oscar and do weird car commercials you’re beyond doubt too good for. He could have at least done a Calvin Klein ad so we could have the full McConaughey treatment, and wouldn’t have to hear those terribly awkward monologues.

Stephen Colbert for Wonderful Pistachios

There’s no denying that amusing commercials rule, so we give Wonderful Pistachios props for a smart campaign, and Colbert even more props for being able to make fun of the fact that he’s in a commercial during the commercial. But, we’re still left wondering why the king of satire is pushing nuts — albeit the BEST kind of nuts — in so many commercials we lost count. Before these commercials, we couldn’t tell you a brand of pistachios — so we guess he’s doing his job. It’s just WAY random.

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Tags: Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johannson, Amy Poehler