# 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:** 116
**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:** [March 3, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2305 "2021-03-03T22:13:11Z")
Bob Ross and the Mountain Dew. Please, just stop it. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2306 "2021-03-03T22:28:53Z")
CNN has a weird promo for their recent Lincoln show: Lincoln is standing in the shadows of the Lincoln Memorial looking up at himself. I’m going to guess they think it’s somehow profound. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2307 "2021-03-04T00:09:16Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Newest most hated commercial is the one where the smug, uncaring woman makes out with her cat while her child lays bleeding and begging for help. How this helps sell Sheba cat food, I don’t know. “Grab a bandage from the cabinet” “I’m bleeding!” “Grab two…” ---
**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:** [March 4, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2308 "2021-03-04T23:16:41Z")
It’s more puzzling than annoying, but why is Bayada Nurses running a decades-old ad for their services? The image of the nurse consulting her paper map in the dimly-lit cabin of her truck doesn’t inspire much confidence. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2309 "2021-03-05T18:45:38Z")
I hate, hate, _ **HATE** _ those fucking Cadbury egg ads. I hate the sound, I hate the look, and what the hell is up with the crippled dog??? We don’t need that! ---
**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:** [March 11, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2310 "2021-03-11T01:28:46Z")
There is a Wendy’s commercial featuring what I assume is a sports figure from yesteryear. He’s wearing a striped suit which, if it were in black & white, would make him appear to be Nazi concentration camp prisoner. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2311 "2021-03-13T08:24:53Z")
And he’s supposedly _living_ in that particular Wendy’s! Does COVID not exist there? ---
**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:** [March 13, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2312 "2021-03-13T22:14:37Z")
That’s Reggie Miller, and yeah I don’t get it either. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2313 "2021-03-14T21:33:44Z")
I really dislike the new Jared commercial, featuring a Melania look-alike. Ick. Won’t these people just go away? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2314 "2021-03-14T21:48:50Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > does elton john not own the rights to his music these days ? and if he does why would le let rakituen kill his most famous song? … If William Shatner couldn’t kill Rocket Man I don’t think this commercial can either. Elton John is in his early 70s and I imagine retirement isn’t too far away for him so he might as well squeeze a few more bucks where he can. And it’s not like Elton John has been above partnering with corporations who use his music to sell their product before now. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2315 "2021-03-14T23:26:46Z")
Isn’t Elton John almost as bad as Willie Nelson when it comes to spending money? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2316 "2021-03-14T23:38:55Z")
Elton John _was_ famous for his spending, on real estate, art, clothes and flowers. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2317 "2021-03-14T23:47:09Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Isn’t Elton John almost as bad as Willie Nelson when it comes to spending money? - > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Elton John _was_ famous for his spending, on real estate, art, clothes and **flowers.** - So was Willie. ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2318 "2021-03-15T00:00:37Z")
There’s a new one out from, I don’t even know who, where the dad is walking around Pompeii eating a sandwich as Vesuvius erupts. He’s asking the citizens running for their lives what year it is until one responds “it’s 79AD!” Every time I see it I want to shout “A Pompeiian would have no idea what AD was! They counted years from the founding of Rome! Argh!” ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2319 "2021-03-15T00:13:48Z")
The latest in the “real people, not actors” where the people roll up their sleeves to show more skin, except they keep picking people who shouldn’t be rolling up their sleeves. First ad, a trombone player in a marching band. Um, that’s a uniform. They are supposed to have their sleeves down. Even in Texas in 100 degree heat. If it is too hot, the whole team will compete in T-shirts. But if the uniforms are worn, they are worn sleeves down. Similarly, the new ad has a cheerleader who rolls up her sleeves. So why is she the only one? And while we are at it, what kind of a routine is that where she just stands there and does nothing? ---
**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:** [March 15, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2320 "2021-03-15T00:16:50Z")
This Downy commercial that recycles a Paul Anka song from a Kodak commercial. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvvvysxz6Kk) ---
**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:** [March 15, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2321 "2021-03-15T01:05:07Z")
Trouble is, antidepressant ads aren’t dark enough. I just read a passage in a Jim Thompson novel that would be perfect, narrated over scenes of mayhem and destruction. “Add three billion to the planet’s mass, subtract kindness and caring, and you were left not with an unkindly, uncaring three billion, but death… There would be no refuge from the coming terror, no place to hide. No familiar thing to cling to. Something would become nothing, robbed of its intrinsic beauty and safety, and all else. There would be only a smoking, steaming, blown-apart, crushed together, mishmash where brother was himself eaten by brother while eating brother, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.” “Trintellix can make this existence bearable, for a time.” (fade to black) Prescriptions would _skyrocket_, I tell you. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2322 "2021-03-15T15:45:48Z")
> [@txtumbleweed](#): > > There’s a new one out from, I don’t even know who, where the dad is walking around Pompeii eating a sandwich as Vesuvius erupts. He’s asking the citizens running for their lives what year it is until one responds “it’s 79AD!” > > Every time I see it I want to shout “A Pompeiian would have no idea what AD was! They counted years from the founding of Rome! Argh!” Yah, and there was another one a while ago featuring Marco Polo, and a llama. I guess we need to double-down on world history in basic education. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2323 "2021-03-15T16:09:13Z")
As I said around the time that GIECO Marco Polo commercial was running: > [@Skywatcher](#): > > You know what would be _really_ surprising? A GEICO commercial that doesn’t insult anyone’s intelligence! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2324 "2021-03-15T17:05:07Z")
I suppose everyone is expected to know the backstory of the old sports guy who runs around batting things out of people’s hands. Can’t get much more obnoxious than that, but I’m sure they’ll try. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=115) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=117)