# Again with the annoying commercials! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [June 28, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089 "2017-06-28T22:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 105
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2085 "2020-12-18T14:44:49Z")
Many thanks! I’d never have found that. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2086 "2020-12-18T17:15:50Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > NASCAR vehicles aren’t even street legal. There’s no way he could have driven to Domino’s on a public street. He would have had to be towed. I suppose but I did it with my SCCA B Sedan back in the 1970s. Slap on a muffler and license plate and drove it to work one day. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2087 "2020-12-18T17:21:01Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I can’t decide if [this Heineken commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/n_rs/heineken-side-dish) is good for the women being like _WTF are you talking about_ or annoying for making the other guy a bad cook. And I have been trying figure out what the guy could possible have cooked that makes him look like he just threw a fork full of dog shit in his mouth. He knows his way around a kitchen. This not incorrect seasoning, this is _horrid_ food. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2088 "2020-12-18T17:24:06Z")
Clicking on it here was the first I’d seen it, and I love it. I was expecting a run-of-the-mill “cool people being cool together” commercial, and he was so confident and, well, cool… and the twist of the guy (who hadn’t taken a bite yet) being oblivious to the drama and just appreciating the beer… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2089 "2020-12-18T17:25:31Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > And I have been trying figure out what the guy could possible have cooked that makes him look like he just threw a fork full of dog shit in his mouth. The only thing which comes close to making sense is that one of the ingredients was way past its expiration date but any cook worth their salt should have noticed this at some point before the meal got to the table. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2090 "2020-12-18T17:38:12Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > NASCAR vehicles aren’t even street legal. There’s no way he could have driven to Domino’s on a public street. He would have had to be towed. And… NASCAR drivers wear their fire suits everywhere they go. I swear, I once a saw a commercial where the premise involved a driver, in his fire suit, hanging out with John Madden…on a golf course. ---
**Author:** ![Dinoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@Dinoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinoguy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2091 "2020-12-19T14:17:56Z")
In general (and this may be too obvious) I think a lot of these commercials are done by committee. No wonder they are often weird and not really funny. Stan Freeberg may not have been the first to use humor in commercials, but he was certainly influential and I’m not sure he has been often surpassed. Of course, I’ve been around since before D-day and frankly a lot of todays humor leaves me scratching my head. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2092 "2020-12-19T14:58:33Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Completely agree. Hate this ad. And why is the guy getting out of his car??? Doesn’t that defeat the entire premise? I think the point is supposed to be that he doesn’t know about the new curbside delivery, so he’s stuck in the old mode where you have to get out of your car. So of course they need a car that is extra difficult to get in and out of. Ergo, NASCAR. Bonus points for tie in to popular sport and a celebrity participation. There’s just enough logic to get to the idea, not enough to actually make real sense. > [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > The one for a car . . .Rogue? It features Brie Larson stunt driving around and delivering smarmy, condescending lines like " car commercials are supposed to be boring; is _this_ boring?(raises eyebrow). The early version was even worse. She skids in front of a dumpster (or something) that has the APR painted on it and says (provocatively) “oooohhh (something something something)”. Um, yes, that’s boring. The car isn’t even doing stunts, just barely speeding around, and there’s no point to all the car histrionics. > [@Wheelz](#): > > Huh. I didn’t know that was Brie Larson. She’s one of those actresses I could see in 100 different movies and never realize I had seen her before. I agree. I didn’t know that was a celebrity actress, just thought they had hired a pretty face for their ads starting with “drop the taco”. “Oh, I’m supposed to know who that is.” The whole premise of “This car doesn’t compromise, why should you?” is nonsensical. > [@running\_coach](#): > > Maybe if she busted a few heads, there wouldn’t be chaos for her to run away from. I first thought you were talking about Brie Larson in her Nissan ads. I was confused. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2093 "2020-12-19T15:34:42Z")
> [@Dinoguy](#): > > In general (and this may be too obvious) I think a lot of these commercials are done by committee. No wonder they are often weird and not really funny. Stan Freeberg may not have been the first to use humor in commercials, but he was certainly influential and I’m not sure he has been often surpassed. I got to hear Stan Freberg speak (at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival… highly recommended) and he said he got into advertising not as a professional, but as An Outraged Consumer. He then played the commercial (“Boring Doctor Explaining Excess Bile”) that made him realize “something HAD to be done!” ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2094 "2020-12-19T18:10:48Z")
The kids in the Lincoln commercial are being destructive little brats – but she is partially responsible for how they’re behaving. Step up and do some parenting, lady. And it’s more baffling than annoying, but who at Burger King decided to resurrect a song from a ~20-year-old Flash animation for their latest commercial? I also find [this Yella Wood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTgS5t13JZY) commercial to be a bit unsettling…someone (presumably in management) bellowing about duty, honor, and country over the building’s loudspeaker system while employees are either standing still with blank expressions or trying to go about their work. ---
**Author:** ![Dinoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@Dinoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinoguy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2095 "2020-12-19T23:23:46Z")
there was one recently, think it was local for some body shop - showed a kid deliberately scratching the paint of his parent’s car. This was horrible - didn’t they think some kid would be likely to “monkey see-monkey do?” He apparently got away with it, as when the parent saw it nothing much happened. Another a latest “Liberty Mutual” one with some kid getting a LM present (?) for Xmas. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2096 "2020-12-20T01:00:33Z")
Mercedes deserves the Stinkiest Ad Campaigns of 2020 award not just for encouraging kids to pick up and cuddle trash, but especially for showing Santa abandoning little Rudolph and the rest of his reindeer to cruise around in a Mercedes sedan. What Wile. E. Coyote Sooper-Genius thought up that one? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2097 "2020-12-20T20:37:01Z")
The new Burger King ad with them singing. Are they trying to be meme aware? There was the old (2003) thing with “I work at Burger King, I wear paper hats. Ding fries are done.” ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2098 "2020-12-20T20:44:18Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sNfNrWRXEZI/hqdefault.jpg "Family Guy - Ding Fries Are Done - Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNfNrWRXEZI) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2099 "2020-12-20T23:48:33Z")
Ford Motor Company is currently running an ad patting itself on the back for supposed environmental awareness. The ad, which includes vintage footage of Model T’s coming off the assembly line, emphasizes the company couldn’t have lasted so long if it was resistant to change. There’s a heaping helping of irony here, seeing that Henry Ford stubbornly resisted making anything but basic black Model T’s for many years, allowing more imaginative competitors to cut into Ford sales until Ford belatedly pulled the Model T in favor of the Model A, introduced in 1928. Ford is also the company that for decades refused to come to terms with its Nazi collaborationist activities before and during WWII, but that’s another kettle of odiferous fish. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2100 "2020-12-21T00:44:32Z")
I came in to complain about a specific ad, sorry if it’s already been covered. A mom driving, 2 kinds in the back seat (older sister, younger brother, I can relate) and the boy is being a brat, and the girl is telling him to stop it. The mom looks in the rearview mirror as if to say “uh-oh, trouble brewing” (like she couldn’t hear them 30 inches away) so she turns around and hands each of them a packet of some crispy salty snack (the sponsor). The kids make the victory arm pump, the boy stops being a brat for a nano-second, while the mom smiles beatifically. Lesson of this commercial: let’s train our kids to be brats so they’ll get a junk-food reward. What’s wrong with this picture? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2101 "2020-12-21T16:48:01Z")
Yeah, I think a lot of commercials are visioned by people who do not have kids. In the real world, kids rarely form a conspiracy to acquire salty snacks from mom, or destroy the kitchen with a bag of flour, or allow their older sister to draw all over their face with markers, or roll around in a mud puddle with their brother, or pick-up and cuddle filthy dolls from snowy parking lots, etc…stereotypes of kids from people who don’t have any (and probably scary for people who want kids in the future). And dogs - there are a couple of car commercials on now with runaway dogs - one where the dog is furiously running around town in the rain, and another where the dog needs a long drive home from some faraway place. Seriously, I doubt an escaped dog will be running furiously all over the place or a lost dog will require a long journey home. These are just creations of people who don’t own a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2102 "2020-12-23T19:42:57Z")
I’m having a hard time watching the Bad-Ass that took a PBR up-river in The Nam to dispatch a mad Col. Kurtz degenerate into a shrieky old Bitch running around pharmacies acting an Ass. Shut The Fuck Up, Martin Sheen! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2103 "2020-12-23T19:47:59Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’m having a hard time watching the Bad-Ass that took a PBR up-river in The Nam to dispatch a mad Col. Kurtz degenerate into a shrieky old Bitch running around pharmacies acting an Ass. Are you saying he’s acting like an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill? ---
**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:** [December 23, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2104 "2020-12-23T20:42:21Z")
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