# 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:** 111
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2205 "2021-02-01T15:47:26Z")
Speaking of ‘Jake’ from State Farm, yeah, it’s totally realistic that some dude who works in a call center regularly gets to hang out with Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes, all because he took an order for insurance over the phone one time. Yeah, I know a large proportion of advertising is based on the notion of ‘famous personality interacting with the little people’, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2206 "2021-02-01T15:52:59Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Also, do peoples’ parents regularly tell wait staff their name? A couple/few decades ago, I felt ‘Hi, I’m [server’s name] and I’ll be your server today’ was over-used to the point of parody. So I’d say, ‘Hi, my name is Johnny and I’ll be your customer today.’ I wasn’t trying to be ‘friendly’; just trying to be funny/sarcastic. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2207 "2021-02-01T15:58:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘Hi, my name is Johnny and I’ll be your customer today.’ … Dad? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2208 "2021-02-01T16:04:59Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Speaking of ‘Jake’ from State Farm, yeah, it’s totally realistic that some dude who works in a call center regularly gets to hang out with Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes, all because he took an order for insurance over the phone one time. > > Yeah, I know a large proportion of advertising is based on the notion of ‘famous personality interacting with the little people’, but still… - “Jake” will be remembered long after those two are forgotten. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2209 "2021-02-01T16:05:54Z")
Sub-complaint about annoying prescription drug ads, dealing with drug names. Most of these products have been given upbeat-sounding names (i.e. Lyrica, Trulicity) or at least ones that roll satisfactorily off the tongue (Humira, Eliquis). I have a hard time though with Trelegy, a COPD med which is supposed to connote three-drugs-in-one but instead conjures up elegy, which is a lament for the dead. Nice work there, GlaxoSmithKline. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2210 "2021-02-01T16:43:22Z")
You mean that they will be forgotten like Johnny Unitas or Bart Starr? 😛 Rogers surely and Mahomes likely will be remembered as legendary QBs. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2211 "2021-02-01T17:59:41Z")
But the important question here is, who carries their car insurance? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2212 "2021-02-01T18:15:31Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Speaking of ‘Jake’ from State Farm, yeah, it’s totally realistic that some dude who works in a call center regularly gets to hang out with Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes, all because he took an order for insurance over the phone one time. Does anyone else find Jake from State Farm really bland? ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2213 "2021-02-01T18:29:28Z")
Jake’s appeal is supposed to be subliminal- his mouth looks like a poorly shaven sideways vulva with teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2214 "2021-02-01T18:34:47Z")
I actively resent him. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2215 "2021-02-01T19:24:54Z")
I prefer the old fat schlubby Jake from State Farm. I don’t like the new Jake at all. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2216 "2021-02-01T19:25:20Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Does anyone else find Jake from State Farm really bland? I can’t help but notice his arms. I’m like, dude, do you have bigger bicepts than Rodgers? I miss the original, The One True Jakefromstatefarm. He looked like a call center guy. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2217 "2021-02-01T19:26:21Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Jake’s appeal is supposed to be subliminal- his mouth looks like a poorly shaven sideways vulva with teeth. Whaaaaaaaa? I just wonder what was wrong with the original Jake. Not that he was terribly exciting but the original commercial was at least an attempt at humor(if a little ton deaf). Replacing him with someone equally dull for no apparent reason seems a weird choice. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2218 "2021-02-01T20:24:57Z")
They say the original Jake overestimated his popularity and said he was bigger than the Beatles. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2219 "2021-02-01T20:39:21Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > Jake’s appeal is supposed to be subliminal- his mouth looks like a poorly shaven sideways vulva with teeth. > > Whaaaaaaaa? > > I just wonder what was wrong with the original Jake. Not that he was terribly exciting but the original commercial was at least an attempt at humor(if a little ton deaf). Replacing him with someone equally dull for no apparent reason seems a weird choice. The original Jake was an actual State Farm agent. He wasn’t an actor and making commercials would have taken him away from his day job. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2220 "2021-02-01T21:24:16Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > The original Jake was an actual State Farm agent. He wasn’t an actor and making commercials would have taken him away from his day job I heard he was a sniper in the gulf war. > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > They say the original Jake overestimated his popularity and said he was bigger than the Beatles. And he went on to add that the Beatles had never had a successful ad campaign. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2221 "2021-02-01T21:34:39Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I heard he was a sniper in the gulf war. Personally trained by Eddie Haskell and Alice Cooper. So no way is he going to be able to have some Film School Dropout commercial director tell him “Okay, let’s do it again… for the tenth time, you’re showing too much personality, _‘Jake’…_ at least TRY to focus!”… without taking the punk down to the floor with a _Special Forces Broken Arm Bar._ ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2222 "2021-02-01T22:14:19Z")
Reminds me of the time the spokesman for Sony’s PS3 “Kevin” got too big for his britches and started doing an ad featuring Sony’s competitor Nintendo and he got fired so fast Sony just stopped having spokesmen. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2223 "2021-02-01T22:24:42Z")
There was the “Dude you’re getting a Dell” guy who lost his spokesperson job after getting arrested for marijuana possession. (It was a while back.) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2224 "2021-02-01T22:58:04Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > There was the “Dude you’re getting a Dell” guy who lost his spokesperson job after getting arrested for marijuana possession. (It was a while back) I assume Jack-In-The-Box picked him up as a spokesman? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=112)